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Sarah
03-26-2007, 05:37 AM
This diver chose to use food shaped and colored like his thumb and tease a huge moray eel, with tragic results.

A word of caution-this video is graphic and disturbing.

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Zero
03-26-2007, 06:46 AM
Is his next great adventure with Great Whites?

Matt

Sarah
03-26-2007, 06:52 AM
Worse, it is skinny dipping.

seafox
03-26-2007, 03:33 PM
Welcome to the edge of stupidity!
Oh well, some people never learn.

seasnake
03-26-2007, 04:43 PM
I just hope no one blamed the eel! Hopefully he learned his lesson to observe and not interrupt!

BamaCaveDiver
03-26-2007, 06:15 PM
Worse, it is skinny dipping.

Ouch :eek:

jeff98208
03-26-2007, 07:29 PM
well as i said before divechick, "I DON'T SKINNY DIP! I CHUNKY DUNK!! ":D
i hope that cat learned his lesson... man that was brutal.

Diverdaniel
03-29-2007, 09:44 AM
he shouldnt have fed/teased the Moray.
in my eyes, and i do teach this in diving courses "any marine animal swims away from you very fast, is almost harmless, the ones that we should beware of/keep away from are the slow ones and the ones that stay put when you get near."

we teach, not to handle/feed/tease/provoke and bother marine life here.
not a very clever thing to do would be to play with an animal that we are not 1000% farmiliar with in an invironment not our own.
the video, im glad to say served its perpose as we use it to show new divers in courses what happens.
im sorry that the ones that often get hurt are often the "more experianced" ones.
till i saw that vid, a while back, i played with some moreys, after i got to know them personally alittle, not any more.

Zero
03-29-2007, 09:49 AM
Welcome to the edge of stupidity!


I guess when you live life on the edge of the envelope you sometimes get paper cuts.

Matt

Purpleturtle
05-16-2007, 12:07 PM
I've dived at this site!!! Its in the Similan islands off sw Thailand. There are plenty stupid DMs and dive leaders intimidating this creature. Heres a video of the same eel (2 thirds of the way thru @ 2.25mins) The coral that it lives under was knocked over by another idiot diver in 2004.

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jeff98208
05-16-2007, 05:42 PM
either way you look at it, that cat had gotten what he had comming.

santelmo
05-17-2007, 10:49 AM
A word of caution-this video is graphic and disturbing.



:eek:

and to think i actually fed a small one w/ a dead fish (i found underwater due to red tide i think) :eek:

Sarah
09-16-2007, 06:18 PM
I found the original story in the Phuket Gazette. I like how the diver glosses over how he was teasing the eel with food, as the video doesn't lie.

Eel Makes Meal of Diver's Thumb (http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?fromsearch=yes&Id=4232)

fooddude
09-17-2007, 01:06 PM
Well, I wanted to chime in and say I saw the video, so... I saw the video. Everything else was but need not be said.

Have a good day.


FD

seasnake
09-17-2007, 04:10 PM
I took the food – a sausage wrapped in a plastic bag – from the pocket of my BCD vest and threw it to her.

Yeh, that's just what the video showed ... hmmmmm .... At least it says he will never feed eels again ...

shinek
05-28-2008, 06:44 PM
Just taken a look at this thread and I gree with everything said here.

And for those who are interested, here's the Youtube video showing what he finally ended up with after a little more surgery and some rehab.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7byq7R5A4Y0

Okeanos
09-26-2010, 09:30 PM
I've dived at this site!!! Its in the Similan islands off sw Thailand.
I've dived it as well -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvhQzF75-BQ - It used to come out and greet divers. The above video was taken a few weeks before the incident.