Incredible moment seal slaps kayaker in face with huge octopus

This is the incredible moment a seal leapt out of the sea and slapped a kayaker in the face with a huge octopus.

The extraordinary incident was captured on a GoPro camera off the coast of Kaikoura, on New Zealand's South Island.

Kyle Mulinder was kayaking with a group of colleagues from GoPro, who were testing the company’s latest devices.

And he was stunned when the marine mammal emerged from the water and whipped an octopus across his face.

Mr Mulinder told Yahoo News: “We were just sitting out in the middle of the ocean and then this huge male seal appeared with an octopus and he was thrashing him about for ages.

“He thrashed it in mid fight and my face happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“I was like ‘mate, what just happened?”