diver 85
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no idea any of this was/had happened till after the dive.........Here's the story---(took place off Brac week before last--& told to me by the DM then later that evening @ dinner by another diver on the dive).......We were on the 2nd dive of the morning(shallow) & the DM had shot this lionfish-- carrying it around trying to get something to eat it...:
[/URL]image by GEAUXtiger, on Flickr[/IMG]
Well, finally had the grouper 'cornered'(we thought) under a coral ledge & I was thinking it was gunna 'take/eat it'......I was set up waiting to get an 'off the spear pole eating shot' when all of a sudden from behind me came this FAST free swimming green eel from my blind left side...In about a second or less this eel pulled the lionfish off the pole & started doing a 'death roll' with it--straight into the reef.....lol----all I wound up getting was this shot--& look @ the look in that grouper's eyes(you snooze , you lose..)...
[/URL]image by GEAUXtiger, on Flickr[/IMG]
Finished a great little dive & back on the boat the DM came up to me & said 'that eel tried to attack your left strobe'............hmmmmmm......About a minute later, he called me over to the camera table & said 'look @ this'......Lo & behold we could see(see 2 below pics) 3 'nice' teeth marks on the strobe(they are located directly over the 2nd Sea of 'Sea & Sea')........
[/URL]IMG_8292 by GEAUXtiger, on Flickr[/IMG]
[/URL]IMG_8301 by GEAUXtiger, on Flickr[/IMG]
Later on that nite @ dinner, one of the divers present @ 'the ordeal' out of the blue told me 'man, that green eel started toward you & the strobe---stopped-- backed up & lunged very hard @ the strobe'....then said 'I thought he was gunna get more than the strobe'......hmmm--close---but came out OK......
EDIT:.......Maybe this should go under "Near Misses"--or whatever that forum is called....too bad the diver with the GoPro didn't get this down on video(I asked him that nite & he said he didn't)...
Well, finally had the grouper 'cornered'(we thought) under a coral ledge & I was thinking it was gunna 'take/eat it'......I was set up waiting to get an 'off the spear pole eating shot' when all of a sudden from behind me came this FAST free swimming green eel from my blind left side...In about a second or less this eel pulled the lionfish off the pole & started doing a 'death roll' with it--straight into the reef.....lol----all I wound up getting was this shot--& look @ the look in that grouper's eyes(you snooze , you lose..)...
Finished a great little dive & back on the boat the DM came up to me & said 'that eel tried to attack your left strobe'............hmmmmmm......About a minute later, he called me over to the camera table & said 'look @ this'......Lo & behold we could see(see 2 below pics) 3 'nice' teeth marks on the strobe(they are located directly over the 2nd Sea of 'Sea & Sea')........
Later on that nite @ dinner, one of the divers present @ 'the ordeal' out of the blue told me 'man, that green eel started toward you & the strobe---stopped-- backed up & lunged very hard @ the strobe'....then said 'I thought he was gunna get more than the strobe'......hmmm--close---but came out OK......
EDIT:.......Maybe this should go under "Near Misses"--or whatever that forum is called....too bad the diver with the GoPro didn't get this down on video(I asked him that nite & he said he didn't)...