Had an interesting experience on one of my last dive and thought this might make an interesting thread.. Share your close encounters of something under water almost (or successfully) biting/attacking you!
Here's mine:
I saw something on a night dive and didn't know what it was. Like a little tube with rings around it and some fronds on top like feelers or anemone. So i wasn't sure if it was some kind of worm thing or just an anemone on a piece of trash (like a bottle cap or piece of pipe) So I got closer with my flashlight.. and closer.. finally just touched the edge of it with my flashlight and the thing bit my flashlight so hard and fast that it yanked it in my hand then disappeared. Scared me death! I yelled in my reg (thankfully no one was near to hear me LOL) Looked it up and realized it was a Bobbit worm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbit_worm
Thank god I didn't use my finger!!
Here's mine:
I saw something on a night dive and didn't know what it was. Like a little tube with rings around it and some fronds on top like feelers or anemone. So i wasn't sure if it was some kind of worm thing or just an anemone on a piece of trash (like a bottle cap or piece of pipe) So I got closer with my flashlight.. and closer.. finally just touched the edge of it with my flashlight and the thing bit my flashlight so hard and fast that it yanked it in my hand then disappeared. Scared me death! I yelled in my reg (thankfully no one was near to hear me LOL) Looked it up and realized it was a Bobbit worm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbit_worm
Thank god I didn't use my finger!!