My coolest dive exp so far - Eel vs Octo

[Kimo-Maui]

I'm fairly new to diving, but after 26 dives I finally had what I'd call a rare experience.

I was diving Molokini Crater in HI. My bro and I found an Octopus with the head about the size of canteloup. As we got closer, it was apparent that this creature had lost at least 4 legs, probably recently. I swam in to poke it to see if it was alive, it moved a little when my hand was about 3 inches away, and then a large moray eel sprang out of a hole in the reef right under me, and grabbed the octopus practically out of my hand.

Learned two things on this dive. #1 don't poke at injured animals, and #2, I don't have any problem peeing in my wetsuit :shocked2: .

I'm sure I'll never see something like that again.

 

[Calle Roo]

 

[tc]

Change #1 to don't poke at any animals and you'll be much happier with the long term results.

Poking at wildlife generally annoys the animal and can often result in you getting to show off your new bite marks to your friends.

 

[Teamcasa]

Just keep diving, you will see more crazy stuff.
I've posted this before but it just too good not to re-post.
Look at the last 10 seconds of this. (Yep, that's my wife!)

 

[emcbride81]

Wild story and cool video, did it freak her out or was she excited about it?

 

[emttim]

Change #1 to don't poke at any animals and you'll be much happier with the long term results.

Poking at wildlife generally annoys the animal and can often result in you getting to show off your new bite marks to your friends.

 

[spoolin01]

Just keep diving, you will see more crazy stuff.
I've posted this before but it just too good not to re-post.
Look at the last 10 seconds of this. (Yep, that's my wife!)

At least she didn't lose it!

Hey, was that the Big Island Divers' trip sometime around the 2nd week of December last year? We had a piece in our video that looked very similar, have to go find the DVD.

 

[spoolin01]

You can look forward to lots of amazing things like that. Wild Kingdom lives!

I watched an eel rassle an octopus out in the open on a night dive last month. After about 5 minutes the eel finally figured out how to tear off a mouthful, then lay on the bottom too exhausted to even swallow what he had. That will be hard to beat, you're right!

 

[Teamcasa]

Wild story and cool video, did it freak her out or was she excited about it?

She did no freak out but it startle her a little.

 

[Teamcasa]

At least she didn't lose it!

Hey, was that the Big Island Divers' trip sometime around the 2nd week of December last year? We had a piece in our video that looked very similar, have to go find the DVD.

It was Big Island Divers but I shot the tape and it was last November.