Welcome back to our channel and the next episode of Ocean Safari.
The footage in this episode was filmed at one of the most spectacular diving sites in the world,
by dive master Brendon Speck and his experience shared with us
at Sodwana bay, north of Durban South Africa. Given that moray eels are nocturnal,
on this dive at bikini Brendon saw an incredible five different species of eels.
Eels are generally not aggressive and only like to bite if you reach
into a cave in which they are hiding. This is a geometric more eel, it's one
of the smaller and more docile eels. It's coming out being inquisitive about the diver's presence.
This eel has a grey or coloured head with geometric dotted patterns on it, hence its name.
This beautiful sleek eel wasn't very long, probably around 50 centimetres,
making it almost fully grown.
As you can see, looking at the reef there is a little bit of a surge in the current.
This yellow mouth eel came out of his hole and wasn't really bothered by the diver being there.
He's rubbing himself up against the carpet and enemy as if scratching himself.
You can clearly see how it got its name. This is a medium-sized eel
Brendon shared with us that seeing this honeycomb eel for the first time was quite scary.
It wasn't aggressive at all but the pure size of it was a shock. He was looking at
all these other little fish because there's so much to see and came across it by chance. the
colour and markings of this eel are beautiful with yellowish background and black spots.
It's difficult to say how long this eel is as it's tucked into various holes throughout its length.
As I mentioned eels are very protective of their little holes and these black cheek
eels were doing their best to defend their territory. This more is easily identifiable
by the large irregular black patch mark between its eye and the corner of its mouth.
They're not very big. As Brendon was filming all these other little crabs and shrimps and beautiful
little fish these eels seem to just pop out of nowhere to defend the holes where they live.
Now this is a giant moire eel an amazing fish.
It has a smaller head than the honeycomb but as you can see those teeth are pretty nasty looking.
As the name suggests, it is the largest eel. 30 kilograms or 66 pounds in weight, a perfect
sighting to end this video. There's loads more footage filmed on this
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