I have been told by other divers that they would never attack humans. Although an eel bite is not poisonous to humans, their teeth are. Nicklas said: ' Some think it's cool, some think we are stupid we got that close. A wolf eel is apparently a fish, but you would not guess that if you ever came. With narrow muscular jaws, moray eels can drive their teeth deeply into anything they. Wolf Eels are characterized by their long, snake-like body, small head, and large mouth. They are typically found at depths of 50 to 300 m, and can grow up to 2.1 m in length and 10 kg in weight. It's safe to say the couple had a luckier escape than the octopus and emerged with this incredible footage. The Wolf Eel is a species of eel found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, from central California to Aleutian Islands.
Emerging from a cloud of ink, it turned on the holidaymakers and launched itself, mouth open, at them.
They watched the eel from afar as it tried to breakfast on the unfortunate octopus.Īs the half-munched cephalopod made its frantic getaway, leaving one tentacle in the jaws of its attacker, the pair started to turn their underwater camera away.īut the hungry eel had not finished. Extrapolating from his experience with a small eel, Catania estimates that a human struck on the trunk by a larger, 1.8-meter-long electric eel might endure a current of 0.24 amperes, or 63. The military officer and his girlfriend had set out in Hawaii's famous Hanuama Bay early in the morning and had been in the water for around half an hour before they spotted the scene.
Swedish couple, Nicklas, 29 and Elin, 23, were filming a moray eel which was engaged in an eight-tentacled battle with an octopus when the creature turned tail and started heading directly for them. moray eels easily come into contact with humans and occasional injuries are not. Snorkelers in Hawaii were left reeling after an underwater nature display turned savage. The current study reports one case of moray eel bite and discusses the.
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