Sea snake eating a Moray eel

[LesommeildeMartin]

Amazing !!

[goerizal]

only time i saw a snake swallowing prey tail first. usually it is the head that is done first. thanks.

[LutherJordan]

The Moray Eel already must have been envenomated. The sea snake is one of the most venomous snakes that exist on this planet. The venom paralyzes the victim. I guess that is why the Moray Eel could not place a real harmful bite on the snake anymore.

[wcresponder]

bad enough to get bitten die then eattenbut to get eaten and not be dead yet sheesh how much does that suck.

[Shanbo26]

@wcresponder If the sea snake is as venomous as I've heard, trust me, it's dead.

[wcresponder]

@Shanbo26 well its not dead at time of dinner, maybe a small envenomation or just a really tough snake.

[Balendula]

The sea snake was all like, "GTFO, impostor!"

[marinefish321]

i agree babe4fish13, but there are some good dive story sites on the net too. Try the myscubastory site. They have real life dive stories and dive accident videos. Put myscubastory into google, and its the first result.

[ralutjohn]

mediterranean sea

[Hamlin008]

who is eating who?

[jouc12]

@Hamlin008 The snake is eating but morays also eat sea snakes. It goes both ways.

[mistrsay]

That was pretty cool, too bad I did not see until the end

[lureyourkidsinvan]

From the previous video I just watched the eel needs to aim for the snakes head and then bite it's body. Then the diver needs to laugh the gayest laugh he can. That's the only way it can escape.

[miniyux974]

there are many like that at reunion island , amazing !

[NaiTaiDai]

Moray eels are among the nastiest critters in the sea. Aren't they?

[retardedsnake]

Damn nature, you scary!

[tyconnerlee]

it would be funny if a shark just came and swallowed them whole

[yeahdog23]

it looks like the snake and the eel are one big retarded creature...great video

[bobonnwoof]

reminds me of my ex

[snakeguy76]

Interesting. That eel was envenomated for sometime if the snake had swallowed that much. Moray's may have some degree of resistance to the venom.

[808Hea]

Wow id expect the moray to fight back a lot harder. Iv seen them fight but this moray looks like hes kinda slow to react.

[tehubernessofuber]

@808Hea Mhm. I mean, moray's can bite off a grown man's thumb without much effort. I suppose it was the snake's venom. Little known fact: Most Sea Snake's venom is like a cobra's. A neuro toxin. Could basically paralyze you. Might expliain why the eel isn't fighting back much.

[808Hea]

@tehubernessofuber Yeah back in hawaii I saw this man catch an eel for bait. He tried to instiant kill it. As soon as his hands got close it ripped off his middle finger and my dad drove him to the hospital. Thoese eels are very aggresive. But that snokes toxin prolly did most of the dammage.

[yobro250]

@Aldind2x Yes your right..How ever you must take into account that the venom tests are done on mice and mice and humans may react way differently to different venoms. So while the inland taipan is the most drop for drop venomous to mice we really cant say for sure which is the most venomous to humans

As for the box jellyfish...very painful and very venomous. I dont think its more venomous than the most venomous snakes but theirs no real way to know[ unless tested on humans which is impossible]

[yobro250]

@Aldind2x The most dangerous snakes are Asian land snakes. They havethe nastiest venoms and are really aggressive and their venom causes horrible symptoms. I'm not sure on sea kraits..but I know that land kraits are incredibly potent and have extremely high untreated fatality rates..Imo the land kraits[ bungarus] have the most toxic venom in the world to humans along wit the taipans

As for a spider being able to kill a healthy adult human in 30 minutes..I dont believe it unless its an allergy

[RonaldDubay]

@yobro250 gay

[yobro250]

@Aldind2x Venom takes time to kill... It doesn't kill instantly unless the animal is small. Humans typically die 24 hours of so after a snake bite.... And as I said the moray eels from the pacific are known to be highly resistant to sea krait venom.. Where as moray eels from the Caribbean are extremely weak to the venom and die when injected with even a very small dose of sea krait venom

[Paulmichael9]

That's Belcher's Sea snake (Hydrophis Blecheri)

[d3athKo]

i would think i moray eel would win but thats amazing!

[adape0884frank]

@d3athKo

I can'e believe it either.

[PrimevalHunter300]

@d3athKo i do too, considering it had been injected with venom, and how much of a struggle that things was able to put

[PrimevalHunter300]

sea snakes need air eels dont they breathe in water so i wouldnt be suprised if the the snake choked or gave up because of no air

[tehubernessofuber]

@PrimevalHunter300 I would be very suprised if it choked. Most Sea Snakes can stay underwater for days at a time with the little bits of air they get.

[yobro250]

"Eels of the genus Gymnothorax from the Pacific are selectively preyed upon by banded sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) and have been reported to sustain massive doses of sea krait venom without ill effect. By contrast, the present study found that Gymnothorax moringa from the Caribbean, where no sea snakes occur, are sensitive to sea krait venom, with doses as small as 0.1 mg/kg proving to be lethal." Heres the link... .ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/96434­74

[gusto1978]

i thought eels were electritians?

[eldiablov2]

I thought the venom would kill the eel?

[ja01975]

Keep in mind that the snake has to come up for air very soon.

[Folk4Life100]

Whatever happened to that venom they have that's supposed to be super-toxic? Why was the moray still alive while the snake was eating him?

[yobro250]

@Folk4Life100 Pacific Moray Eels are highly resistant to sea snake venom. Moray eels from the Caribbean are not resistant and are extremely weak to the venom

[Rabbits2Fertilizer]

holy shit!

[urbanangelsince87]

Omg it eating it alive?! and i thought snakes eat things head first..

[cupcakelee]

what happens if the eel swallows the snake's tail while the snake is swallowing the eel?

[silencesoloud12]

@cupcakelee Damn you! You stole my comment.

[migs321]

The universe would explode!!!!

[AndyJibz]

@cupcakelee Then you get a sweet celtic design for your next tattoo :D

[thenastykid123]

@cupcakelee it forms a circle

[StL33T]

@cupcakelee lol they will eat themselves

[squidscape]

@cupcakelee It creates an infinite loop. If another couple decides to join this process, an error may occur, causing a rip in time, which will inevitably create a worm hole.

[spooky00pooky]

@cupcakelee Haha, that was exactly what I was thinking! He shouldn've started eating the snake's tail!

[etniko]

@cupcakelee friday night.

[speedstriker]

@cupcakelee Reality folds in on itself.

[whiteb0ie]

while it's alive. OWNED

[junlao122675]

nice capture!, the fimbriated moray was definitely juvenile...would have been the catch of the year with clearer footage

[biggielsc7]

sea snakes always hunt moray eels for those who dont know a sea snake almost always wins its battle vs an eel

[cateyes221981]

how is the snake gonna survive all those savage attacks do u guys have any idea how powerful a morey eels bite is ? It can take off a human finger w one chomp

[larrdd9]

completley awesome video. that was cool to come across that while diveing.

[melderib]

I couldn't stay long enough (drift dive:)) but the snake probably won, and digested for a looong time. I've read somewhere that sea snakes actually feed on moray eels, even though these images seem against nature.

[cateyes221981]

@melderib can tell me how much of the morey eel was already eaten? The morey eel looks just as thick as the snake but not sure how long it is? It is a baby eel i think?

[Reptopia]

@melderib sea snakes are VERY venomous so odds are the eel died before he fully swallowed

[yobro250]

@melderib Well since the pacific eels are so resistant to the venom, I wouldn't be surprised if the eel won. The moray eels from the Caribbean are a whole different matter through, as they are extremely weak to the venom and are easily killed by sea snake venom.

[cateyes221981]

@yobro250 can u tell me why

[yobro250]

@cateyes221981 I can give u a link that will tell u why if u want.Basically what it says is that eels fromthe pacific were resistant to sea krait venom but eels from the Caribbean were extremely weak to the venom and died when injected with even extremely tiny doses of the sea krait venom. Being that its in the Philippines.the eel likely was pretty resistant to the venom.However even if this was a Caribbean eel the venom doesnt kill instantly it takes time even when the animal is very weak to it

[sinagawab]

Y LUEGO KE PASO?? KIEN PERDIO??

[deefstes]

Agreed with brenkeller, that is a once in a lifetime video. Well done.

Imagine the Moray had started eating the snake from the tail end. I wonder what the snake would have done when it reached the eel's head only to realise that it had swallowed half of itself already!

[GrandTristan]

great video

[brenkeller]

Amazing. I can't believe that Moray survived the initial invenomation from the krait! That's a once in a lifetime video you got there, pal. Well done.