I was watching this video, casting it from my tablet to my TV. My daughter happened to pass by on a study break and she hung around. We’re both big nature lovers and try to do our best to help the environment. Thanks to relatives living a significant part of the year in Southeast Asia, we’ve both learned to appreciate the beauty and vulnerability of coral reefs and marine life in general by snorkelling around local reefs. She wants to learn how to dive and to do so responsibly. My SO is a diver (over 25 years of diving experience, thousands of diving hours) and he too, is a big advocate of preserving the marine environment. Thank you for your good work. On another note, if you could do a few videos on how you like to prepare lionfish (recipes including hos to safely process them) I’d love to watch those. It also might help make this fish more acceptable/less scary to eat for some. Other divers with a license for spearfishing in your area might then feel more inclined to spear them for their dinner instead of grouper or other fish.
@@eddavanleemputten9232 very interesting! You actually don’t even need to have a license to hunt these in Florida as long as you were spearfishing only Lionfish
Looks like you found one of the barge cranes that was lost during a hurricane 30+ years ago. Lots of barges used to get washed out to sea. They are usually construction barges of one type or another.
I started diving at 56 and liked it so much I kept training up to cave diver. I love your video's so much. In Jamaïca when I began diving 18 years ago I accompanied a local diver on lionfish hunts. I would serve as a spotter while he came and zapped the pests. I was not allowed to do it myself because a permit was required. In those days they didn't know what it would turn into, a full fledge invasion. The most I have seen was on Exuma in the Bahamas.
Invasive is not even the word there were only eight original fish that were released in the 1980s according to the DNA statistics of the caught lionfish. Beyond that we just found out that they go deeper than we ever thought they go and they can live in desalinated water so that brackish area in the mangroves where all the baby fish like to be yeah that's where they eat and the color of the coral is directly correlated to the lionfish being there that Coral should be vibrant it is dying because there's no tiny fish tending to it because they've all been eaten by something that has been shown to also group hunt and uses their Frills to Corral fish and then just eats them like you eat pizza rolls. 20 at a time.
Man, you said you wanted viewers for this on the other video so: I do like your existing videos and love learning about the animals and your work preserving the ecosystem with the hunting please do the occasional horizontally viewed video and maybe even put some HD on that cam. Shorts and phone aspect ratio is really fine content, not gonna ask you to drop that but put longer dives, horizontal - don't even have to narrate all the vids just put like a "POV Lionfish Ocean hunt diving experience" as the title hook and sure there's people for that content - gets you view time in the algorithm. Like I love dive footage and ocean creatures but I am not the kinda person who isn't comfortable actually diving very deep for medical reasons so this is like the only way I can enjoy that part of the world, so I watch stuff, and sometimes it's more fun to do so to copyright free music or just the cam audio too. Think about it and keep up the good work down there.
Hey your may be 1000% correct about it being a ship wreck, you know way more about that stuff than I do but Do know that the states have dumped old bridge structures and old steel building structures out in the idea to make reefs back in the 80's. Some of that looked like some kind of old steel bridge or building structure.
So cool. Im all about eating invasive species! Makes a lot of sense to me. Hey can you do a video about how you break down / fillet / clean up for eating the lion fish? That would be awesome.
It is truly a blessing to be able to swim and let that fear go. Personally, I can swim but I refuse to do anything other then a pool cause I am too scared. Also I seen a document years ago that a team of "junkers" were taking 1960's school buses, cars and other metal automobiles of that time. The vehicles were stripped down to the frame, then dropped in various oceans. Apparently the mix of the salt water, and the metal produced what was needed to create a reef, sense in certain oceans large amounts of reefs are dying.
@@cocoaboucher8886 lionfish typically live on reef because there are foods for them to eat there such as other little fish is tough for them to live in surf next to shore, but they can occasionally be found there if they’re a structure and food
Think of what's missing from that reef because of all the lionfish, schools and schools of anthias, damsel and small to medium fish. Do you think enough can be removed to make significant changes?
I tend to binge watch a lot of Aaron Young's free dive videos. But it's nice to find a scuba divers spear fishing videos. Thanks for the reef maintenance you do. A kitchen Lionfish preparation video would be nice. Sub'ed and Liked.
For the jellyfish you said it was surprising to see them there because they usually hang out at about “90 to 80 feet” but you earlier said you were at 90 feet I think 😅😇
If I had to guess, it’s either about the type of shark or the area he’s in having mostly sharks that are used to humans. Then again, he also has a lot of gear on that makes him a weird shape and normally human bodies are kinda shaped like food (seals, turtles, etc) so sharks get nosy
Thats actually very abnormal experience. I've dove and snorkel many times and typically sharks leave you alone. Unless it was a tiger, bull, white, hammerhead etc you really don't need to worry about them. The typical sharks seen on most dives are reef and nurse sharks with a sprinkling of lemons. Nothing to be afraid. Just stay calm and enjoy their gracefulness.
I was camping in the keys when a diver reached into a hole to get a lobster, and he got bit badly by a moray eel, and we drove him from grassy key to Miami for the ER.😮
I wonder if the Lionfish will ever evolve to charge predators... instead of just sticking their spines up. That would be kind of terrifying... imagine if they witnessed the aggression of Triggerfish and thought "hmm, that seems like a good idea!".
I've heard stories of groups teaching the reef sharks to eat the lionfish. Weve fed them to the sharks on dives before. Just wondering what you think of this?
I just found ya so I'm sorry ig you've already answered these questions buuutt... I've seen things about the lionfish invasion before and people where trying to encourage sharks to eat them, has that had an effect? Would leaving the little ones (dead ofcourse) encourage other fish to try and eat them?
I know the first sound was a siren… I guess… but all through the first couple mins of video, I heard what sounded like a siren/scream/sumthn.. nobody else hear that? Future me here, you just said you were doing voice over outside.. phew.. those we were hearing lion fish’s souls.. kinda creepy.. 😂
The spines are still venomous, the venom is in grooves under a thin skin. This skin tears open when the spine is pushed into flesh, squeezing out the venom. The fish are also apparently quite delicious.
there are several species that are hazardous to their environments: 1. Humans, 2. Fire Coral, 3. Portuguese Man-of-War, 4. Lionfish, 5. Blue-Ringed Octopus, 6. Box Jellyfish, 7. Cone Snails.
I was watching this video, casting it from my tablet to my TV. My daughter happened to pass by on a study break and she hung around. We’re both big nature lovers and try to do our best to help the environment. Thanks to relatives living a significant part of the year in Southeast Asia, we’ve both learned to appreciate the beauty and vulnerability of coral reefs and marine life in general by snorkelling around local reefs. She wants to learn how to dive and to do so responsibly. My SO is a diver (over 25 years of diving experience, thousands of diving hours) and he too, is a big advocate of preserving the marine environment.
Thank you for your good work.
On another note, if you could do a few videos on how you like to prepare lionfish (recipes including hos to safely process them) I’d love to watch those. It also might help make this fish more acceptable/less scary to eat for some. Other divers with a license for spearfishing in your area might then feel more inclined to spear them for their dinner instead of grouper or other fish.
@@eddavanleemputten9232 very interesting! You actually don’t even need to have a license to hunt these in Florida as long as you were spearfishing only Lionfish
@ - I’ll definitely pass that on! 😊
Looks like you found one of the barge cranes that was lost during a hurricane 30+ years ago. Lots of barges used to get washed out to sea. They are usually construction barges of one type or another.
I started diving at 56 and liked it so much I kept training up to cave diver. I love your video's so much. In Jamaïca when I began diving 18 years ago I accompanied a local diver on lionfish hunts. I would serve as a spotter while he came and zapped the pests. I was not allowed to do it myself because a permit was required. In those days they didn't know what it would turn into, a full fledge invasion. The most I have seen was on Exuma in the Bahamas.
Aw man, the video ended. I love watching you dump the bucket. So satisfying
I never knew the lionfish was so invasive to Florida and the Atlantic Ocean reefs. Spear away👍
Aaahhhh, there you go. I missed that detail.
Invasive is not even the word there were only eight original fish that were released in the 1980s according to the DNA statistics of the caught lionfish. Beyond that we just found out that they go deeper than we ever thought they go and they can live in desalinated water so that brackish area in the mangroves where all the baby fish like to be yeah that's where they eat and the color of the coral is directly correlated to the lionfish being there that Coral should be vibrant it is dying because there's no tiny fish tending to it because they've all been eaten by something that has been shown to also group hunt and uses their Frills to Corral fish and then just eats them like you eat pizza rolls. 20 at a time.
Would be cool to see a few shots of all the lion fish decanted from the catching container
Make a video preparing a lionfish...nice catch!
I want more lionfish cook videos really badly. I'm deeply contemplating whether or not I could start eating lionfish for cheap meat.
What a great dive! Lovely fishies.
Subscribed because of your excellent removal of invasive pokey bois!
Those eels know that you have lionfish snacks-thanks for helping with getting rid of these things
Keep up the great work of saving the Reef from a very invasive fish
Thank you for trying to help the invasive lion fish problem. It's creepy how many of them there are!
Man, you said you wanted viewers for this on the other video so: I do like your existing videos and love learning about the animals and your work preserving the ecosystem with the hunting please do the occasional horizontally viewed video and maybe even put some HD on that cam. Shorts and phone aspect ratio is really fine content, not gonna ask you to drop that but put longer dives, horizontal - don't even have to narrate all the vids just put like a "POV Lionfish Ocean hunt diving experience" as the title hook and sure there's people for that content - gets you view time in the algorithm.
Like I love dive footage and ocean creatures but I am not the kinda person who isn't comfortable actually diving very deep for medical reasons so this is like the only way I can enjoy that part of the world, so I watch stuff, and sometimes it's more fun to do so to copyright free music or just the cam audio too. Think about it and keep up the good work down there.
0:50 Oh no! The underwater police!
Hey your may be 1000% correct about it being a ship wreck, you know way more about that stuff than I do but Do know that the states have dumped old bridge structures and old steel building structures out in the idea to make reefs back in the 80's. Some of that looked like some kind of old steel bridge or building structure.
@@J.McKnigj1612 they also scuttled decommissioned ships that way too. USS Saratoga is out in the Gulf of Mexico
So cool. Im all about eating invasive species! Makes a lot of sense to me.
Hey can you do a video about how you break down / fillet / clean up for eating the lion fish? That would be awesome.
The turtle was so cool. Keep up the good work.
Never ending money maker.
Your tyedye looks awesome! Just like a lion fish!
I never noticed the hooks on the male sea turtles fins! That’s awesome.
Thanks for the great work!!
Awesome dive! Enjoy Indonesia too!
Keep up the incredible, environment/ species saving work 👌👌👌👌
Absolutely amazing work!
Looks so fun! I’m glad they’re not in Hawaii!!!!
It is truly a blessing to be able to swim and let that fear go. Personally, I can swim but I refuse to do anything other then a pool cause I am too scared.
Also I seen a document years ago that a team of "junkers" were taking 1960's school buses, cars and other metal automobiles of that time. The vehicles were stripped down to the frame, then dropped in various oceans. Apparently the mix of the salt water, and the metal produced what was needed to create a reef, sense in certain oceans large amounts of reefs are dying.
Lived in Florida for 15 years and was at the beach throughout middle and high school everyday skimming… never saw a Lyon fish
@@cocoaboucher8886 lionfish typically live on reef because there are foods for them to eat there such as other little fish is tough for them to live in surf next to shore, but they can occasionally be found there if they’re a structure and food
Think of what's missing from that reef because of all the lionfish, schools and schools of anthias, damsel and small to medium fish. Do you think enough can be removed to make significant changes?
I'm from Indonesia, hope you enjoyed your time here!
Love hearing the UMPH in the voice over when you take the shots ❤ keep up the good work, you're amazing for what you do 😊
I tend to binge watch a lot of Aaron Young's free dive videos. But it's nice to find a scuba divers spear fishing videos.
Thanks for the reef maintenance you do. A kitchen Lionfish preparation video would be nice.
Sub'ed and Liked.
I can't visualize a better hunting video. Mesmerizing!
Hard to prepare, but really tasty! Lionfish are very yummy
For the jellyfish you said it was surprising to see them there because they usually hang out at about “90 to 80 feet” but you earlier said you were at 90 feet I think 😅😇
Do you eat your pokey bois? I heard they're delicious but difficult to prep without getting poked.
Not difficult at all you just have to be a little more careful and chop the fins off first to be extra safe.
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How come the sharks leave you alone ? The only shark i ever ran into snorkeling stalked me then chased me. Im scared to go back.
If I had to guess, it’s either about the type of shark or the area he’s in having mostly sharks that are used to humans. Then again, he also has a lot of gear on that makes him a weird shape and normally human bodies are kinda shaped like food (seals, turtles, etc) so sharks get nosy
Thats actually very abnormal experience. I've dove and snorkel many times and typically sharks leave you alone. Unless it was a tiger, bull, white, hammerhead etc you really don't need to worry about them. The typical sharks seen on most dives are reef and nurse sharks with a sprinkling of lemons. Nothing to be afraid. Just stay calm and enjoy their gracefulness.
All sharks have individual personalities they are all different from one another
Sharks are like dogs, they only bite if you touch their private parts.
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I wonder, why not leave the dead fish on the bottom.for the other fish to eat?
Or is there no way to be sure that the lionfish are dead-dead?
@youngVogel Venom, not poison.
He sells the larger ones to restaurants to offset some of the cost of the dives.
Do you get paid per fish? If you do, how much? New subscriber! ❤
The turtle was cool to see
I was camping in the keys when a diver reached into a hole to get a lobster, and he got bit badly by a moray eel, and we drove him from grassy key to Miami for the ER.😮
Awesome lionfish hunt thanks for that
7:17 Oooh Dora ! Did you get her autograph ? :)
2:55 'here comes the aeroplane!-'
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I have to wonder. When you spear the fish, why do you remove the body from the area rather than leave it for local scavengers?
I was wondering the same thing.
@Trashket I looked a bit deeper and it turns out lionfish are edible and he's selling them to a fish market.
Boom! ❤🎉
I wonder if the Lionfish will ever evolve to charge predators... instead of just sticking their spines up. That would be kind of terrifying... imagine if they witnessed the aggression of Triggerfish and thought "hmm, that seems like a good idea!".
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Great job
This is fascinating to watch
I've heard stories of groups teaching the reef sharks to eat the lionfish. Weve fed them to the sharks on dives before. Just wondering what you think of this?
II would love to do this. Looks awesome.
Huge fish in this one 😮!
It’s funny that they look black and white under water but red on the boat
In the Indian Ocean what’s their predator? Like what’s keeps them in check in the Indian Ocean??
What do you do with them all after catching them???
I believe they sell them to restaurants
i love sea turtles!!🐢
I just found ya so I'm sorry ig you've already answered these questions buuutt...
I've seen things about the lionfish invasion before and people where trying to encourage sharks to eat them, has that had an effect?
Would leaving the little ones (dead ofcourse) encourage other fish to try and eat them?
What do you do with these lion fish when you are done?
Sells them
Do you see the numbers decrease you started?
I like that you can hit them inside of a sponge and not damage it.
Lots of sponges?
Is the wreckage really close to reef because it could be a decommissioned ship that was sunk to intentionally become part of reef.
Great video. What propulsion vehicle are you using or can recommend?
Whats the pay per lionfish?
I don't think it's that much, but if you turn it into fish tacos, you can get a bit more for it. I hear they're delicious as fish tacos.
The siren went on when a shark flew past.
is this the most efficient way to get rid of them?
It's the most efficient way I can think of that wouldn't harm any of the native species.
I know the first sound was a siren… I guess… but all through the first couple mins of video, I heard what sounded like a siren/scream/sumthn.. nobody else hear that? Future me here, you just said you were doing voice over outside.. phew.. those we were hearing lion fish’s souls.. kinda creepy.. 😂
9:36 BIG ONE
Please post more!
Do you have some sort of motor that is propelling you around?
when you poke them, doesnt the poison go into the body? I think u sell them to shops dont you? I dont understand
Do you eat the lionfish?
He sells them to restaurants but I'd guess he eats them too
Nex give sone those eel a food like lion😅
Next one you get tell it, Hammbone says hello.
Do you get paid per fish?
Enjoy Indonesia!!!!
Do you see any difference in number?
Why don’t you feed the eels a catch? Just wondering, not criticizing. 🙂💕✌️
Are they edible?
Yes. He sells them to restaurants
I like your voice.
Are the shorts doing their job? Lol. What happened to posting Indonesia stuff..
The coral looks to be all dead at this point. sad.
Native pokey boy kills invasive pokey fish
Me likey.
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Does anybody eat lionfish? (like, i mean, its just fish, remove the poison spiky bits and eat it no?)
They aren't poisonous they have venomous spikes. yes people eat them
Maybe it's a manmade?
So why not leave the dead fish to feed other fish if there dead the spines shouldn't activate right
The spines are still venomous, the venom is in grooves under a thin skin. This skin tears open when the spine is pushed into flesh, squeezing out the venom.
The fish are also apparently quite delicious.
there are several species that are hazardous to their environments: 1. Humans, 2. Fire Coral, 3. Portuguese Man-of-War, 4. Lionfish, 5. Blue-Ringed Octopus, 6. Box Jellyfish, 7. Cone Snails.