tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post1010338180872290356..comments2024-03-28T18:35:54.237+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: Ave, YouTube!Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-81294651487515761902007-05-05T07:30:00.000+09:002007-05-05T07:30:00.000+09:00This has nothing to do with a moray eel, (but once...This has nothing to do with a moray eel, (but once while scuba-ing in the Bahamas I turned to find a barracuda following me...that was scary!)<BR/>Another time, I was painting a barn with my friend Darren. He was up on a ladder and I was working underneath him. Suddenly he made this awful sound- and just let his feet go off the ladder. He slid all the way down. A bat had squished its way out of a small crack - it seemed less than an inch, right into his face!<BR/>That video was toetastic!Jellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17527405263030519383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-40444380876155731702007-05-05T00:04:00.000+09:002007-05-05T00:04:00.000+09:00I can’t see the video from work, but have seen man...I can’t see the video from work, but have seen many moray eels diving in the Marshal Islands. <BR/><BR/>My old boss was also an avid diver (I saw a date of manufacture on some of his old gear – not in use – that was made in the early 70s) who once had a run-in with an moray. <BR/><BR/>He was diving around an old Japanese shipwreck. As he looked into a hatch/hole of some sort, a large moray eel came right out and bit his mask. Luckily for him, in the old days they used large, metal rimmed masks that made a big circle, with the nose inside that circle (unlike the vastly more prevalent goggle type masks these days with the nose under the rims). <BR/><BR/>The eel’s jaws came down on the metal rim of the mask (top and bottom – mouth covered the whole thing) and it let go. Of course it scared the living sh*t out of my boss. It was a big eel and things look ~25 percent larger underwater. Imagine a big mouth full of teeth coming right for your face. . . <BR/><BR/>As I said, he was very lucky – nose not bitten off, mask didn’t come off, and if you crap your pants in the ocean, well who’s to know?<BR/><BR/>Another thing about those eels is that their bite can make you sick. They feed on, among other things, reef fish, which eat a lot of coral, and toxins build up in them. Much of the fish flesh remains in the eels teeth to putrefy. So a bit transferred toxic, rotted fish meat to the victim. I knew someone who got sick from that. <BR/><BR/>So I’m not so sure knifing a moray eel would get you the best results. <BR/><BR/>I’ve been tempted to do some moronic things underwater, such as spearing (barbed spear from a trigger operated spear gun) a 6 foot grouper (no joke) at ~100 feet. Tempted, but didn’t do it, which may be one of the reasons I’m here to write this. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-48542980497848472992007-05-04T23:06:00.000+09:002007-05-04T23:06:00.000+09:00moray eels are scary. i saw one while snorkeling ...moray eels are scary. i saw one while snorkeling in hawaii and got the hell out of there real quickannikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14631726576945004133noreply@blogger.com