I haven't seen one of these before, he's gorgeous. I've had several small reef eels as pets, long ago, they're such beautiful creatures.

Deathly Hallows music ❤

Fantastic lighting and filming! I dove Puget Sound 35 years ago. New subscriber. ❤

The harry potter music over this is giving me different Vibes to the video

Awesome !

He's like galdolf from Lord of the Rings. Such a beautiful creature wolf eels are one of my favorite animals. 😊

Lovely! I never imagined such color and proliferation of life in cold waters! The eel (moray?) looks like it has lived a hard life, though…

Sweet wolf eel

Mail-cheeked fish are spiny-rayed fish of the order Scorpaeniformes, there are over two-thousand, two-hundred, and ninty-three extant species within fifty families, eighteen superfamilies, and six suborders, the six main groups within the Scorpaeniformes order are the suborders Normanichthyoidei (Bacaladillo, Prettyfin, and Sandfish), Platycephaloidei (Flatheads and Gurnards), Uranoscopoidei (Stargazers, Duckbills, Launces, Sanddivers, and Sandburrowers), Zoarcoidei (Eelpouts, Wolffish, Wolfeel, Pricklebacks, Wrymouths, Gunnels, Goblin Goby, Graveldiver, Ronquils, and Quillfish), Cottoidei (Sculpins, Lumpsuckers, Snailfish, Greenlings, Blackcod, and Combfish), and Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Stonefish, Stingfish, Coral Crouchers, Rockfish, Cofish, Prowfish, Toad Blenny, Horsefish, and Pigfish), Normanichthyoidei is the most basal living suborder of mail-cheeked fish and consists of two superfamilies, Trichodontoidea (Sandfish) with the monotypic families Trichodontidae (American Sandfish) and Arctoscopidae (Asiatic Sandfish) and Normanichthyoidea (Bacaladillo and Prettyfin) with the monotypic families Normanichthyidae (Bacaladillo) and Centrogenyidae (Prettyfin), followed by Platycephaloidei, which consists of two superfamilies, Trigloidea (Gurnards) with the families Triglidae (Common Gurnards), Peristediidae (Armored Gurnards), and Dactylopteridae (Flying Gurnards) and Platycephaloidea (Flatheads) with the families Platycephalidae (True Flatheads), Hoplichthyidae (Ghost Flatheads), and Bembridae (Deepwater Flatheads), then followed by Uranoscopoidei, which consists of four superfamilies, Creedioidea (Sandburrowers and Fossil Relatives) with only the family Creediidae (Sandburrowers), Ammodytoidea (Launces and Sanddivers) with the families Trichonotidae (Sanddivers) and Ammodytidae (Launces), Uranoscopoidea (Stargazers) with the families Leptoscopidae (Southern Stargazers) and Uranoscopidae (Northern Stargazers), and Percophoidea (Duckbills) with the families Percophidae (Brazilian Duckbill), Bembropidae (Gobiine Duckbills), and Hemerocoetidae (Blenniine Duckbills), and then followed by Zoarcoidei, which consists of four superfamilies, Bathymasteroidea (Ronquils and Quillfish) with the families Bathymasteridae (Ronquils) and Ptilichthyidae (Quillfish), Zaproroidea (Goblin Goby and Graveldiver) with the monotypic families Zaproridae (Goblin Goby) and Scytalinidae (Graveldiver), Zoarcoidea (Eelpouts) with the families Eulophiidae (Spinous Eelpouts) and Zoarcidae (True Eelpouts), and Anarhichadoidea (Wolffish, Wolfeel, Pricklebacks, Wrymouths, and Gunnels) with the families Pholidae (Gunnels), Cryptacanthodidae (Wrymouths), Stichaeidae (Pricklebacks), and Anarhichadidae (Wolffish and Wolfeel), the most recent split is between the suborders Cottoidei and Scorpaenoidei, the Cottoidei suborder contains three superfamilies, Hexagrammoidea (Greenlings, Blackcod, and Combfish) with the families Zaniolepididae (Combfish), Anoplopomatidae (Blackcod), and Hexagrammidae (Greenlings), Cyclopteroidea (Lumpsuckers and Snailfish) with the families Liparidae (Snailfish) and Cyclopteridae (Lumpsuckers), and Cottoidea (Sculpins) with the families Jordaniidae (Sailfin Sculpins), Agonidae (Poachers), Rhamphocottidae (Gruntfish), Bathylutichthyidae (Antarctic Sculpins), Ereuniidae (Deepwater Bullhead Sculpins), Psychrolutidae (Fathead Sculpins), Comephoridae (Baikal Sculpins), Hemitripteridae (Sea Ravens), and Cottidae (Common Sculpins), and the Scorpaenoidei suborder is also divided into three superfamilies, Congiopodoidea (Horsefish, Pigfish, and Velvetfish) with the families Aploactinidae (Velvetfish) and Congiopodidae (Horsefish and Pigfish), Pataecoidea (Prowfish and Toad Blenny) with the families Gnathanacanthidae (Toad Blenny) and Pataecidae (Prowfish), and Scorpaenoidea (Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Stonefish, Stingfish, Coral Crouchers, Rockfish, and Cofish) with the families Eschmeyeridae (Cofish), Sebastidae (Rockfish), Pteroidae (Lionfish, Stonefish, Stingfish, and Coral Crouchers), and Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfish).

Great video. Woflies are my fave. Loved hand-feeding them. Over a 1,000 dives in the Sound and not once did I ever find or come across a 6-gill.

Wolf fish are really something.

Pretty wolf eel

eel bud!

That was amazing…!

Learned to dive here in Washington and now getting ready to move away. Leaves me feeling a little bittersweet about my move to another state. I'm sure I'll come back here for the nostalgia.

Awww, the wolf noodle looked so starved for affection. Just after some human contact it looks much happier 😮😊

Oof based on that poor lad’s lip it’s experienced some fights, least he’s gettin some lovin’

Stunningly mesmerizing ❤❤❤❤

WHAT HAPPENED TO DA WOLF EELS LIP :(

Beautiful. He was obviously comforts with you by the way he went so slow.

A preferably nocturnal predator that hides for nighttime, waiting to hunt: instead cuddling with a mammal several times its size! Magnificent!

That was INCREDIBLE to watch!!! Your footage is astounding! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this.

nice video, terrible music

the fact that he chose to come out of his burrow for pets is awesome!

This eel and the music combined make me cry a bit. 😿

the sea is full of free dogs

Столько жизни под водой красота

This is absolutely beautiful. I'm no diver, but just started exploring with my little ROV in the waters around Camano Island where I live. I don't dream of ever capturing anything like what you have done in your videos, but do take heart that Puget Sound does have the more than just murky water. Again, not just technically well done, but artistically presented. Very inspirational and a great motivator to see what little tidbits I can find under the water.

look at all the cuts on him, poor guy

He looks really old, how old wolf eels get?

What is your setup? Great videography!

ES UNA SIRENA 😮

Amazing, beautiful

I like to think the reason Eels and other creatures similar to them enjoy the feeling of being pet and having attention given to them, is because of, for the pets, that all they get to sleep around or in, or near, is rough rocky terrain or coral, or rough course sand, so feeling either the diving suit or simply human hands is like them feeling something new and actually pleasant compared to the terrain they live in. Like how you would sleep on the floor for years only to be suddenly given the worlds comfiest bed for a night. And as for the attention, its likely out of just sheer Boredom, while also mixed with curiosity, since they see you just watching them but you're not doing anything outside of watch them, so as time passes they realize you are not a threat and become curious, which is when they swim up to you, and get a feel for you, where then it goes back to the first part.

dog

Aren’t eels meant to be territorial?

What a nice underwater danger noodle.

Ha has beautiful eyes 😳

A very beautiful eel, but why has somebody punched it's nose?

Sometimes the not so attractive things be the most amazing thing to exist.

😂YOU WAS WRONG FOR THAT ONE. lolllll

Nice video

Terrific work! May I repost it to my video channel in WeChat? No commercial use. Just want to share it to more people.

Unreal video! So good! I’d love to work with you. What’s your email?

Unreal video! So good!

Nevermind! I read the comments! Sweet!

What camera gear are you using for these shots? The clarity is amazing.

Wolf eels rule. 👍🏻

Stumbled upon your change while looking for Seattle area dive spot! This video brings back great memories of Bonaire! Love it there and need to go back!

Amazing footage! Do you have other social media we can follow you at to see your photography?