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.
Eel rips diver's thumb off-graphic video
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.
Is his next great adventure with Great Whites?
Matt
Worse, it is skinny dipping.
Welcome to the edge of stupidity!
Oh well, some people never learn.
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I just hope no one blamed the eel! Hopefully he learned his lesson to observe and not interrupt!
OuchOriginally Posted by iDiveChick
well as i said before divechick, "I DON'T SKINNY DIP! I CHUNKY DUNK!! "
i hope that cat learned his lesson... man that was brutal.
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.
Last edited by Diverdaniel; 03-29-2007 at 09:48 AM. Reason: slight revision
I guess when you live life on the edge of the envelope you sometimes get paper cuts.
Matt
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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