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Hi everyone,
I am new to the board but have been to Phuket before(October 2001). I am hoping to return in September(have commitments in October, November, and December).
Moray eels have very poor eyesight and primarily find their food with their sense of smell. Once they get close to the food source they can usually see it but not very clearly. The diver's thumb looked like the sausage that it was conditioned to recognise as a piece of food and the diver also made the mistake of holding onto the bag that had contained the sausage and still had juice from the sausage in it so the moray eel went for the diver's thumb because it's conditioned response was that the thumb was just like it's previous meals.
Probably would have been a good idea not to feed it in the first place if it was that big and especially not to feed it something that looked like a part of a human beings anatomy. He is lucky he had shorts on and that he wasn't diving with his BG or thinking about her at the time.
If anyone has some questions about diving send me an e-mail. Hopefully I will be able to answer some questions.
Seafox
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