Getting close to eels.

[Steve_Dives]

Love the picture!

 

[friscuba]

On the opening the mouth for breathing, just thought I'd mention one thing. The gill opening on eels is tiny so they can crawl in and out, forward and backward through corals. The have to forcibly pump water through their gills, hence the vicious look.

With a little white mouth like the one pictured, you can get pretty darned close before it does the rapid snapping mentioned earlier. I don't usually pay attention to how close I am on these guys, I'm usually zoomed in a bit in macro and maybe 8-10 inches off by my guess.

 

[justleesa]

I'll have to take you along and we'll get real close

 

[bobf]

i've gotten close a couple of times

 

[Cacia]

lol...the trick is a big dome port, like a shield, and learn to tuck those digits.

works with sharks too, even if it's just in "your head". WA lenses help too.

What I love is when you are taking a picture of something else, like a nudi or a tree fern and then you notice a gargantuaus set of jaws right next to your knuckles, lol, love that. woooo

 

[daniel f aleman]

 

[cjames]

Yep, you can get very close...

 

[AUTiger]

Close

and even closer

David

 

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

Oooh. Cool pictures everyone. I was hoping this would happen eventually. keep the pics coming.

Leesa, looking forward to it.

 

[Diver Dennis]

Well since you gave the OK to post more pics, here are a few...