Brief Encounters with Hideous Fish

Our good friends Anna and Andre over at Seoulful Adventures just posted a great post and video that more vividly details our encounter with the notorious Hagfish. This is a fish so disgusting “[its] other name is the slime eel because their defense mechanism is to produce a mucus that turns into unbelievable quantities of slime when mixed with water.” This is the fish, you’ll recall, that was impaled and skinned alive before our very eyes and then proceeded to redefine the word “writhe” for all who bore witness.

Hagfish: God’s Grossest Creatures from Seoulful Adventures on Vimeo.

About Greg Boone

Greg is interested in questions about the influence of new technologies and new media on travel. New media make it harder to leave home behind when moving to a new place, but they also have the potential to create citizen diplomats? But are they also blinding us from more authentic experiences abroad? Greg also likes to bike around the Washington, DC area and brews his own beer. Normally these remain separate activities.
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