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Olive Sea Snake Olive Sea Snake - Aipysurus laevis, are olive in colour, around 2 meters length. Can be scary to some, but they are generally non-aggressive unless provoke. However, they are venomous. This species is also known as the Golden Sea Snake. The locals called them Sea Cobra.<br /> <br /> Saw lots of them in my dives in South Lombok or Belongas Bay in particular. They were also seen quite deep in the water between 30-40 meters depth, searching/hunting for food. At times when we were holding on to rocks on the reef to wait out the strong current, this Snakes are swimming in between divers and slithering between our legs and hands!<br /> <br /> Picture of the complete Snake can be seen here :<br /> <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/44202/olive_sea_snake_courting.html" title="Olive Sea Snake courting"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2994/44202_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1763596810&Signature=1vaBgCvoN7S7GRTAA9kJl%2BiUCpc%3D" width="200" height="128" alt="Olive Sea Snake courting Olive Sea Snake - Aipysurus laevis, are olive in colour with yellowish bands, up to 2 meters length. Saw this 2 swimming together and around each other, seems like they were courting.<br /> <br /> Close-up picture of this Snake can be seen here :<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/44201/olive_sea_snake.html<br /> Aipysurus laevis,Geotagged,Indonesia,Lombok,Olive Sea Snake,Sea Cobra,Winter" /></a></figure> Aipysurus laevis,Geotagged,Indonesia,Olive Sea Snake,Sea Cobra,Winter Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Olive Sea Snake

Olive Sea Snake - Aipysurus laevis, are olive in colour, around 2 meters length. Can be scary to some, but they are generally non-aggressive unless provoke. However, they are venomous. This species is also known as the Golden Sea Snake. The locals called them Sea Cobra.

Saw lots of them in my dives in South Lombok or Belongas Bay in particular. They were also seen quite deep in the water between 30-40 meters depth, searching/hunting for food. At times when we were holding on to rocks on the reef to wait out the strong current, this Snakes are swimming in between divers and slithering between our legs and hands!

Picture of the complete Snake can be seen here :

Olive Sea Snake courting Olive Sea Snake - Aipysurus laevis, are olive in colour with yellowish bands, up to 2 meters length. Saw this 2 swimming together and around each other, seems like they were courting.<br /> <br /> Close-up picture of this Snake can be seen here :<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/44201/olive_sea_snake.html<br /> Aipysurus laevis,Geotagged,Indonesia,Lombok,Olive Sea Snake,Sea Cobra,Winter

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    Ferdy Christant
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    That description, a bit too much for me, glad it is you in the water in this case :) Posted 9 years ago
    1. View Albert Kang's profile
      Albert Kang
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      What I noticed of most divers, especially serious photographers, we are not 'afraid' of this supposedly 'dangerous' animals. Most of the time when underwater, we go out of the way, to remote places to look for this animals and when we see them, we want to get close up and personal. Of course we do know that this animals, although could be venomous or supposedly dangerous like Sharks, they are so unlikely to cause any harm to scuba divers at all! Posted 9 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        I'm glad that is true. Marine animals also must think we're very strange creatures :) Posted 9 years ago

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The Olive sea snake

''Aipysurus laevis'' is a species of venomous sea snake found in the Indo-Pacific. Its common names include golden sea snake, olive sea snake, and olive-brown sea snake.

The olive sea snake swims using a paddle-like tail. Appearance wise it has brownish and purple scales along the top of its body whilst its underside is a white color. It can grow up to a meter in length, and in some cases up to two meters. While it can be aggressive towards prey, attacks on divers or larger animals are.. more

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Uploaded Aug 28, 2016. Captured Aug 29, 2015 16:33 in Unnamed Road, Buwun Mas, Sekotong Tengah, Kabupaten Lombok Barat, Nusa Tenggara Bar. 83365, Indonesia.
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  • Canon PowerShot S90
  • f/2.0
  • 1/318s
  • ISO160
  • 6mm
Captured in the winter. More winter photos.