Close Up with Moray Eels in Hawaii
Yellow-headed Moray Eel I've never had much fear sticking my camera in the face of moray eels, although lately there have been a couple of things that have given me pause to reconsider this. We saw a massive 7ft green moray in the Atlantic that was so wide and girthy that I didn't know what I was looking at at first. Then there are the stories. a rare Dragon Moray Eel So in all my time underwater I've never been bitten, attacked, or even feinted at by a moray eel. But our friends over at Kona Diving Co. gave us a few stories of friends getting bitten, usually after pointing at the eel or something nearby with an extended finger. I don't take too much stock in stories about friends friends though so it took a little more, and a little more I got. Portrait of a White Mouth Moray Eel A Tiny Dwarf Moray Eel One of the divers at the shop pointed to two small scars on her neck that looked like a vampire bit. Then she turned and showed us other sc...