Coral reef snakes

It was quite shallow, calm evening, beautiful.

As I get in the water and I'm swimming on the surface to get to the leg, I notice... there's about six sea snakes, yellow and black, and they're bloody big, and they're all there on the surface, just swimming around.

And I spoke to the supervisor, I said, look, there's bloody sea snakes, and we've only got overalls on, haven't got any gloves or anything.

So he said, oh, don't worry about that, they're not poisonous, they won't bite you, da da da.

But I'm literally going through them on the surface.

yeah yeah yeah no no it's

it's when i was going through your work there was a lot that pointed into that direction and i was like oh awesome like this is a great like way to learn how they've evolved how they're different and the importance of like studying them and what we can learn from them so i'm like i've only sort of just briefly uh touched through a lot of your research and so i was like okay this is gonna be great i'm gonna sit down here and and talk to you and learn about a lot more about sea snakes that I never knew before.

And yeah, so once again, also thank you for coming on to the podcast.

Like this is, this is great.

I'm very, very glad that Daniella from O2 Marine has come over and introduced us and got this to happen, which is great.

I've just come back from Karratha, did a lot of free diving up there and just had big sea snakes like swimming around us and they seem so, so curious.

I guess my first question is why were they swimming up to me and sort of like wrapping around? They could have got air.

Like you saw the air come out of their nostrils as they breached.