Connaght Tibune - Conger attacks diver

[jd]

http://www.connachttribune.ie/galway-ne ... eel-attack

Jimmy left fighting for life after conger eel attack


It’s a good job city businessman Jimmy Griffin is such a calm person. A freak encounter with a six foot conger eel during a day out scuba diving in Connemara last month took a huge chunk out of the side of his mouth and almost cost the award-winning baker his life.

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“All of a sudden I felt I got hit by a freight train. That’s the only way to describe it. I got hit by this thing, it had me by the face and I was being tossed around like a rag doll. It hit my head really hard. My regulator was knocked out of my mouth. I knew something was after hitting me and biting me, but I didn’t know what it was. I couldn’t get my hands around it, it was so big. I managed to wrestle it off and the pain started to set in on my face.”

[Al]

Jaysis!

[Creep]

Just saw it on my news feed posted it and saw yours and delete mine, hell of an eel attack!

[saving private brian]

read this on fb,terrible

[jw]

id say the eel went for the regulator, probably thought it was a pirk...

[alby]

And there's the reason you don't hand feed wild animals / fish.

Anyone who watched Colin Stafford Johnson’s “Living the wildlife” saw the divers from Scuba dive west hand feeding the congers in Killary.

They knew some of them by name

[Divisadero]

Interesting. That's a rare event. I haven't heard of a conger attack before. Even Moray eel attacks are far from common. It wouldn't put me off scuba diving with them. If only I could scuba dive in the first place that is. Sur at the end of the day a dog could kill you.

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[donal murphy]

Never heard of it myself either. Maybe it was the SHINEY new equipment they were testing. Strange.