Sea snake?

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

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.

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?

Do snakes shed skin underwater ??

Diggy

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

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

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

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.

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.