Sea snake?

[FishFinders 0]

Hi

I saw this snake on my way up from the dive at 2 meters. I wasn´t prepared so the pictures are trully crap, but can somebody ID it?

Thanks

[davephdv 0]

Hi

I saw this snake on my way up from the dive at 2 meters. I wasn´t prepared so the pictures are truly crap, but can somebody ID it?

Thanks

 

Looks like it has a fin on the bottom. I did a little looking. Didn't find any sea snakes with apparent fins. I'm guessing an eel or fish.

[FishFinders 0]

Looks like it has a fin on the bottom. I did a little looking. Didn't find any sea snakes with apparent fins. I'm guessing an eel or fish.

it does look like a eel but has scales, you can see them when you zoom the pic.Is there one eel with scales?

[diggy 54]

Do snakes shed skin underwater ??

 

Diggy

[JKrumsick 3]

It also looks like it has a green hitchiker on its back! I wonder what that is too!

[danielandrewclem 3]

Looks like an olive sea snake that is shedding its skin.

[FishFinders 0]

I think the little fish with him is a golden pilot trevally. It did not look like it was shedding the skin, it looked like like keal. i looked at pic from the olive but the pattern is s different. I don´t find any good web page for sea snakes any suggestion?

Thanks

[danielandrewclem 3]

Younger olives have a more prominent coloration pattern than the adults. I think the skin is beginning to loosen around the keel, making the keel look like a fin.

[Bent C 18]

Do snakes shed skin underwater ??

 

Diggy

 

 

With the exception of the sea kraits, sea snakes have to. The other sea snakes are not able to leave the sea.