Moray eel attacks underwater cameraman
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2015
- Our underwater cameraman manages to keep his fingers intact after a disgruntled moray eel launches a surprise attack.
And there are other amazing sightings in store on this dive off South Africa’s Sodwana Bay: friendly potato bass, vividly coloured paper fish, a shy mantis shrimp, a cruising turtle and a rare encounter with a school of devil rays!
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When you’re down in the sea and an eel bites your knee that’s a moray.
When his jaws open wide but there’s more jaws inside, that’s a moray!
Well done, my friend.
If it sits on a reef and has 2 sets of teeth, that's a moray
Stealen comment
Silver Yeosang ah yes my favorite, a stealen comment
This even made my mom laugh and she’s 80
2:54 That bass was trying to protect the eel from the drivers by blocking them.
"I said no cameras!"
HAHAHA 🤣
1:48 The title
2:41 The thumbnail
ah thanks sm
Nikolai Vutasherkov
2:41 *
2:41 the thumbnail
Doog
amazing, I find the behaviors of the moray eels to be the most fascinating. especially when they cooperate with other species to hunt, or like seen here they have a mutual respect with the potato bass
The two predators that were close to eachother 3:22 are actually communitcating, making a strategy for hunting prey. The big one goes above, scaring the small fishes down in the rocks to the Moray Eel, and the Eel scares them up to the grouper.
I watched it multiple times, if anything it looks like the small fish are attacking the eel. I could be completely wrong, but looks like the bass is intimidating the eel => swimming at it from above and forcing it to back up into the rocks. Also look at the submissive posture of the eel. Interestingly the bass puts itself directly between the human and eel (possibly protective behaviour towards the human, no idea why)
"ARE YOU FILMING ME? WHY ARE YOU FILMING ME? WHY ARE YOU FILMING ME???"
"WHY ARE YOU RUNNING? WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?"
Hahaha
The Karen of the ocean
@@Ranger-sl3qq even wearing a leopard print too lmao
it seemed like the potato was protecting the divers from the eel
and also to let the eel know those are friendly they only want to swim with us u can thrust this situation iit's fascinating how intelligent they are
taffypulller yeah I commented the same but then saw this comment....yeah if definitely looked like that to me knowing the divers were no threat took it upon itself to protect the diver
moja
taffypulller That's what I thought too.
For sure.
3:00
Alastair (Potato Bass) : Hey Jimmy you got the drugs?
Jimmy (Moray Eel) : SHHIT ALLIE, play it cool there's a human in our presence!
I'm probably not the only person who clicked on this to see the eel attack. But there were lots of lovely things in this video. The humble mantis shrimp may not be the most exciting clickbait but it's really beautiful, even with its googly eyes
Potato: dont attack hoomanss kevin.
Moray : the heck they are at my turf so as you kenny.
Hooman narator : They Are at Stand Off.
3:08 fish was like: I AM HERE, CAMERAS POINT AT ME PLS
I've heard and read about potato bass lingering around when divers encounter dangers and in a way seem to be good omens to divers.
Greetings to you from UK, that's really scary I feel not going to the Beach anymore
Beautiful video esp the rays at the end
E Baker Thanks!
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First Lady Dj-XRAYTED DNB JUNGLIST yes
Sumit Writer Chaurasia ftguo
Amazing thank you for capturing this.
by far the best natural-looking footage I've seen :O
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Lol what is going on in this thread
2:41 If that's not a gigantic yawn, I don't know what is.
Comp3630 nah it just seem bigger cuz its closer to the camera
Comp3630
just perspective
Was it trying to eat the divers?
Those potato bass are adorable....
A most pleasant video in every way. Thank you.
Suuuuuuper cool video and great commentary. One of my top 5 nature vids on RUclips including battle at Kruger.Never saw a potatoe bass and eel interaction like that before and wow those rays!!!!
3:15 Bass: "you chill yo chill... he ain't even worth it bro."
That a grouper dumb ass
@@tntbossthrone1062 imagine responding a 3 year old comment lol
@@tntbossthrone1062 its literally stated in the video to be a potato bass
Search up how many species of bass there are. That's a fricken grouper
LeoCurse • 4 years ago. 🤣
When you're down by the see and an eel bites your knee thats a Moray!
L Ruddick haha
genius
When his jaws open wide but there’s more jaws inside that’s a moray!
That’s a mazing! 😂
As long as you don't meet ' stingrays' don't touch them up while filming and you will be safe.
Haha so true, stingray sting is very very dangerous, can be fatal maybe
The grouper wasn’t protecting anyone, he was talking to the eel, telling him that the divers are ok, “see? He says to the eel, they aren’t hurting me, they won’t hurt you, see how close I am to them, and I’m out in the open, not even hiding, you can relax.....” - I have seen dogs speak to each other this way, I recognize the behavior. They give each other an attitude adjustment, they live together, that grouper knows that eel and recognized it was scared of the diver. Smart fish, knew the eel was scared AND knew the diver didn’t recognize that about the eel.
What an incredible video. thanks for sharing
Best diving video i've seen. Thnx for sharing !
Bass :"Human, swim the other way. Noow."
Amazing footage love watching your videos
Creta.S Vid Thanks!
When an eel bites your eye and you're likely to die, that's a moooray!
🤭
Eels have always been my greatest fear in the ocean. I had one scare the ever living shit out of me when I was younger
Having seen barracuda ferocity and their size it's worry about them too. But nothing would be more terrifying than suddenly realizing there is a big white shark on your scent.
It kinda looked like the bass was trying to protect you.
Beautiful footage!
♫ "When an eel bites your thigh, then you bleed out and die - that's a moray." ♫
When you hide behind a bass, then something slips up your ass...... That's a Moray
The devil rays looked so majestic. I wish I could have seen them😩😔
Sodwana Bay! I've dived in these reefs on numerous occasions. Really great dive sites to be had there.
I saw one today on a diving session in Egypt
I went to Cayman Islands and swam with 3 morays, and about 23 rays
Fascinating! Thank you very much.😷👍
Beautiful!
Underwater nobody can hear you scream.💀💀💀
Nice report! Thanks.
ever since mario 64 giant eels scare the hell out of me
Yeah I remember that 🤣
Excellent video. Subbed!
This was a awesome video shoot keep up the good work
3:30 DORY: Hey man, what's up? uhm.. like have you seen nemo? bro? pal? oh c'mon.
WOW! Amazing sightings and camera work. I'm so glad I found this site. Are there any octopus around here?
octopigirl7 Glad you're enjoying our vids! Our crew have encountered octopuses at Sodwana Bay.
AMAZING FOOTAGE!
Excellent work
The bass is like "hey look at me, LOOK AT ME" !!!
would love to dive there - thank you for posting :)
We call them Potato Cod in Australia, I’ve never seen eels without rows of needle sharp teeth. A ray that produces an electric shock is something I’ve not heard of. Thanks for sharing.
WOW MANTIS SHRIMP!!!!!!!
The BASS usually follows the Eel into holes to catch the shrimp that the Morey misses when he goes headfirst into holes.
a natureza e linda !!! incrivel!
Great video and commentary.
Good captures the video..❤️❤️👍👍👍
Morays look derpy when they stay still :T
♫ An eel in the sea,
Looking rather derpy?
That's a moray! ♫
+8dave
Loving that jingle and will probably hear it in my head as I’m trying to sleep.
That was a simple defense of it's mate. Usually, you can pet a moray, if you are carefully patient to make friends with it.
Beautiful footage, I think this a group of about 10 divers, I wonder if they're friends or do it as a job..🤔
thanks
Animal lindíssimo estilo sublime
great video great camera work and interesting!!! ps funny looking moray eel on the title thumbnail looked like potato bass ;) !
What camera + gear did you use to set up these beautiful shots?
Grasias
Don't turn your back on a giant underwater potato omg!
sometimes when a moray eal goes into the rocks fish will try to escape and the grouper will pick it off.
The Potato bass is my favorite fish now.
Just because it’s name has potato in it
@@casperbeavers3569 sports dude ?. .
3:35
Moray: No Dori, im not your dad
That diver was scared. He probably pooped hid pants
Fish are so beautiful.
Mundo lindo das águas 🇧🇷👊
That fish wanted to be the star of the showl, since he swam up and blocked the eel like "you should be filming me instead" lol
Nice video thank you
When you're down by the sea
And an eel bites your knee
That's a morayyyy
Amazing!
Shut up
非常美好的水善世界奇觀攝影錄製！深受喜愛和觀賞。感謝你們，祝福一切萬事大吉。
Eel and bass actually form hunting parts. Eel chase hiding fishes out to the open and bass chase fishes into cracks, while the other pair waiting on the otherside and grab the fish
care full and take care
Amazing footage, keep up the good work! GO EARTH!
well done
Guillermo
? Guillermo Oliver
2:03 Moray eel Having a quickie with the cameraman.
amazing footage =)
So amazing!!!
3:12 I know a suicidal fish when I see one...
potato bass: 'CAMERA?! hooman?!? I BOWAAAAAAA!'
Good quality
Actually looks like the bass is protecting you from the eel by putting itself directly between in the middle.
Maybe the coddie felt he was protecting his dive buddies from those temperamental eels.
let us hope that we are never so unlucky as to be "studied" this way.
Judith Walker maybe aliens have already done this with us? 💁🏻♂️
Amazing video.
Good
Amazing! 😍
That is one brave bass
Big mistake 4: 28 You're missing the point totally, the Leaf scorpion fish are NOT clumsy swimmers, they mimic a leaf in te current when you get close!
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I bet that bass was protecting you
under surface topics are awsome. Cool.
GOOD MORNING WATCHING FROM PORT OF FANAMA🇵🇦😍YOURE NEW FRIEND ON RUclips😃🙏🇨🇿
Just awesome
bass and moray hunt together and even communicate. it wasn't a confrontation.
It’s like the big fish was running interference for you.
The Eel wants to play, they like clinging to human divers.