Connaght Tibune - Conger attacks diver

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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.”

Jaysis!

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

read this on fb,terrible

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

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

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