on camera. when we approached the eel she would swim out every time and she would have a play and she would nestle under her arm and you could stroke her. of course, when she started losing interest the food would come out just to have longer play with the moray eel. 20 minutes into the dive, it is playful emma becomes agitated swimming more quickly and becoming more aggressive about getting fed. this is when the moray eel could smell the food and smelled my thumb and thought it was sausage or food and she latched on to my thumb and i think it took five or seven seconds and there was a loud popping sound and it came clean off. like all moray eels emma has bad eyesight, she can t tell the difference between his thumb and lunch. moray eels have another more deadly weapon than just a fine set of choppers. emma bites down with her first set of jaws and her second jaw buried deep in her throat severs
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she would swim out and have a little play. she would nestle under your arm and you could stroke her. and of course when she started losing interest, that s when the food would come out, just to tempt her back so we could have a little longer time playing with the moray eel. 20 minutes into the dive, the playful emma becomes agitated, swimming more quickly and becoming more aggressive about getting fed. this is when the moray eel swam around the back of me. she could smell the food, saw my thumb and thought it was some sausage or food and she latched onto my thumb. and i guess it took five or six seconds. a large popping sound, it came clean off. like all moray eels, emma has really bad eyesight. matt thinks she simply can t tell the difference between his thumb and lunch. but moray eels have another, more deadly weapon than just a fine set of choppers. emma bites down with her first set of jaws and then the second jaw buried deep in her throat severs his thumb. matt s thumb doesn
the islands of thailand. two divers take off for a day of diving and a bit of fun in the sun. their dive spot is called east of eden, but a hungry eel named emma turns this tropical paradise into a living hell. we want to warn you, what you are about to see is dangerous. don t attempt to duplicate this or any of the situations you re about to see. a giant moray eel mistakes diver matt butcher s thumb for a piece of sausage. when she fist held onto my thumb, i didn t think it was too serious. i thought, okay, she ll let go in a second. after a couple seconds, i realize, wow, i could have a big problem here. matt is out that day with his friend to see one of the most dramatic reefs in the world and to meet a moray eel known as emma. matt s a british ex-pat, who s been leading dive tours in thailand for a decade.