How sea sponges are harvested in Greece.
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For those that don't know, sponges grow extremely fast and often outcompete coral reefs. So harvesting sponges by hand won't cause extinction.
That's not what the web says. It says they grow really really slow and can live up to 10,000 years.
@@taffykins2745r u talking about coral reefs? They grow slowly, idk about sponges tho
@@therealDawnBarton I looked sea sponges and read all about it. I don't know anything about coral. Sorry.
Thats why they are becoming rare in greece. Because of thatindset. Florida laws make people cut them off rocks leaving a bud for new growth. Greece pulls the whole sponge which isnt good for conservation.
@@taffykins2745Don't know where you got that from, it only takes 2 years on average for a sea sponge to get to a harvestable size.
"I'm ready. I'm ready."
Diver: "No you ain't." *Yoink*
i get the reference 😂😂
“NO YOU AINT”- Sandy voice
Yoink XD I come from his channel lol
I can't heeeearrr yoooou.... *YOINK*
STOP catching that Stanley SquarePants up, you sorry lot of intelligence deficiency brain!
-Greece Economy going bankruptcy again
We can grow as many sponges as we want by planting Loofah seeds. The young squash is edible used like zucchini and when they get older we can dry and peel them for the sponge.
Exactly- loofahs are friendlier to the environment and they wonder why the ocean gets messed up when you take away their natural filters. Smh
Yep, it’s sad when we’d rather kill a wild animal than grow a plant
@@davidvandenberg6378ehhhh they are much more like a fungus like a mushroom than an regular animal. But I agree it’s much better to grow a loofa or use a washcloth instead of using a sea sponge since even if it’s closer to a mushroom than a regular animal it’s still an animal
For those struggling to understand me I am aware it is still an animal even if it’s one of those strange ones.
@@davidvandenberg6378🤓
Go grow a loofah then if it's so easy
I've never ever thought that SpongeBob was grown in sea. I thought it was a dishwashing Spong dropped in the sea
A dish washing sponge dropped in the sea.....
(SpongeBob SquarePants!)
Absorbant and yellow and porous is he
(SpongeBob SquarePants!)
He is but his grandparents are the real deal
Wait I never knew that
Same here! You learn something new everyday
@@DanielleHenri95 and his parents
RIP SpongeBob 😭
Captain: Are you ready, kids?
All: Aye-aye, captain.
Captain: I can't hear you.
All: Aye-Aye, Captain!
Captain: Ohhhhhhh…
SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: "Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!"
All: "SpongeBob SquarePants!"
Captain: "If nautical nonsense be somethin' you wish!"
All: "SpongeBob SquarePants!"
Captain: "Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!"
HIS NOT DIED
Yeah 😭
Nah bro remember when he got the suds he was praying to clean them toes
@@Saturn_fand0m ☠️☠️☠️
Sea sponge when you're bathing with it: "I'm still alive...."
That song popped in my head after reading this. I’m still alive 😂😂
Wait... is it really still alive?
@@ohdot5443yes and if you dump it back in the sea it'll regrow
@@CalebHansonlets please say sike...
I wash my ass with that sponge...
😂😂😂
Fun fact: if you cut one sponge in palm size pieces and give it some time under water, it'll grow back up again, that's actually one of the ways they reproduce
I also heard that they can be found living in Pineapples, around Jellyfish, and abandoned treasure chests with a Crab.
@@sapphirejynxthe krusty Karan is actually a crab trap
@@loganwilson4625 LMAO The Krusty Karan XD I'm gonna remember THAT the next time I run into a Karen. That's great. I get what ya meant though "The Krusty Krab"
@@sapphirejynx I’m gonna use it too 😭 didn’t even realize that’s what I typed bro
You actually can even smash a sponge through a screen and the pieces will reorganize themselves back together
Knowing that sponges are alive & are technically animals blows my mind!
Why's that?
@DioscuriDualityWait til you hear about placozoans
@@rebeccaspratling2865 if a multicellular oraganism eats food then its probably an animal or a fungus
@DioscuriDuality they are in the inbetween of plants and animals.
not your cheap walmart ones though
I didn't realized sea sponges are…spongy. I always just assumed they are only called sponges because of the holes but they are stiff like corals.
They are made of glass iirc
They are actually animals...
They harden over time not right away.
They are the OG sponges
@@pepperstark8017 no they don't have tissues or organs
“A diver can only pick up, the amount of sponges that he can pick up. This in turn effects how many sponges he can pick up.”
Sounds like Kamala Harris
I think it about resurfacing and the heavier the bag the harder to swim it up.
Smartest and most coherent democrat voter:
Says the braindead conspiracy theorists who beleive in jesus freak fairy tales and flat earth lmfao. Nothing more hypocrite than right wingers
@@H8njimy brother in christ, this is a video about sea sponges. nobody wants to hear your political views
Huh. I had no idea people use sea sponges as ACTUAL sponges.
Edit: Let’s be civilized guys.
Yeah I thought it's just a name
greece is known for sponging ... mainly from the EU
That’s why we use them and where we got the name and idea
Seems so silly since you can grow a plant that is very similar.
@@ndee1472didn’t know that, exciting! What’s it called?
before I ever knew these were living creatures at one point… I purchased one 20 years ago to add texture to a wall. It wasn’t trimmed it was natural. It added a really beautiful effect. And I still have it to this day. If properly kept they last forever.
They are not living creatures.
They are on the same evolutionary level as mushrooms.
No nervous system, no organs.
REALLY!?? WOW!!.. I Wish I could see a picture of it lol I'm curious but for some reason when I try to visualize it in my head I can't picture it
@@Melanie-ro6plI think they mean they dipped it in paint and patted it on the wall which leaves an interesting textured effect. I’ve seen lots of people use that technique with naturally shaped sponges, whether real or not.
Is it alive
if you watch the full video they do actually talk about the dwindling population of sponges and all the factors causing it. they usually leave a bit of sponge left over for it to regenerate, but with climate change it only helps so much.
Not picking them would help even more ❤
@@marcellusfitzgerald-2627exactly
@@marcellusfitzgerald-2627but, why? They’re barely alive or sentient, they’re like a mushroom just without a signalling system. And they can grow using that tiny bit of sponge.
@@apyr34556A lot of plants and animals aren’t sentient but play an important role in our ecosystem. Who cares what level of intelligence they have 😂
@@Ash-dd3kx yeah but these sponges grow ridiculously fast, the divers leave a bit of the sponge so it can regrow, its a sustainable system, we take some and leave some behind, it recuperates its lost mass and the cycle repeats.
Fun fact: it's impossible to cut these sponges into rectangular shape, put it under water inside a pineapple and not have it cook burgers for a living
Oh :(
But you can do 2 of these at least right?
You're not trying hard enough
Says you....
Its also impossible for squirrel to like a sponge
“Oh no, they took SpongeBob, now some human is going to use him to scrub their ass”
xylospongium
Gets rid of The Suds though… he’ll feel way better.
They are so soft. I use mine as a Fleshlight 😩🥴
@@LorainPsychowild
Read that in Patrick's voice🤣
Why do I feel like they should be left alone
Because your uninformed
@@ahgcdjansgub1349Dont try to llol
Because they are destroying nature for profit
Is plastic any better?
Because they should. We already have loofas and plastic sponges we don’t need to rip up more ocean creatures for our personal use
Haha.. ok wait. I didn't know sea sponges were the actual sponges people use at home. I thought they just named them sponges because they look like sponges. 😂
I see a lot of real ones used in my ceramics classes!
Theres also lufas which comes from plants. Crazy stuff
Most people dont use real sponge. I havent seen real sponge since the 90s
most sponges today are plastic
I thought sea sponges were left alone and most of the sponges in the market are synthetically made (except loofah). It never occurred to me some of them are actual sea sponges
Artists everywhere are thanking these divers!
Isn't it cheaper to grow the plant sponges?
Loofa plants right? I’m sure it’s cheaper considering paying for the boat, paying the divers, as well as the environmental cost.
Can’t they farm them? I thought they had to keep going deeper to get them because they ruined their natural habitats… are there rules? I saw a movie about finding treasure, “Twelve mile reef”?…
Loofah?
It also costs cheaper to buy that way
@@kikosawa I believe the loofa plants are also self seeding, like a poppy plant does. And you can pick the seeding beads and drop them elsewhere
I kinda feel thefe must be a whole ecosystem that rely on these sponges for survival and protection
Sponges are filterfeeders so they kinda clean the ocean, there are also animals that feed on sponges so this is a horrible idea to take the out of the ocean.
I kinda feel like you're right.
@WoofyMcDoodle It's safe as long as their done sustainably. There is a Greek settlement in Florida called Tarpon Springs where they do this but they are very careful on the number of sea sponges they harvest at a time
Long as it's not over done, after all it should be fine for the ecosystem as this has been done for thousands of years and the environment has been overall fine
There is
best part is those pieces they cut off can be put in a bowl with a bit of water and they'll fuse together into a bigger (still living) sea sponge
I saw these for sale everywhere when i went on vacation in Greece. It's crazy
I feel like we've already done enough to damage their ecosystem
We need to do more. This place is shit
I feel like you don’t understand how the ecosystem works. Killing animals and taking resources is not inherently bad like here, when it’s OVERDONE it is a problem but not inherently.
@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe1237 this is how it starts tho. Most humans are greedy nowadays. They just don't know when to stop..
@@kaitiejacklin5811nowadays 💀
@@spookydooky4085whats wrong with that?
So, according to Wikipedia, these are basically alive like mushrooms.
They are composed mainly of cells, but do not have the organization trait to be considered an organism: they do not have tissues, or organs. They are a collection of cells that grows in an irregular pattern, like a Mushroom.
They have no nervous system, but it did not describe if they have any type of signaling capabilities, that most plants and mushrooms do.
🤷♂️ So I would say, yes, it is a living thing. But just barely. This object grows & experiences the world just as much as the dust collecting in your house, the mushrooms in the forest, the pink goop in a petri dish, or the black mold in between the walls of your home. 🤷♂️
I wouldn't consider this alive like other things, unless science reveals otherwise one day. - It's less "alive" than the trees we cut down to build the homes we live in. 🏠
This is very confusing. I checked the Wikipedia page and didn’t find where it says sea sponges are basically alive like mushrooms. Maybe you were thinking of slime mold when talking about mushrooms?But that would still be confusing, and the Wikipedia page doesn’t say that they are similarly alive either.
Also Encyclopedia Britannia considers sea sponges organisms, and animals, and mushrooms are more similar to plants, algae, and slime mold than they are sea sponges
@@DrakonBlake @DrakonBlake So, part of my job as a Nurse and a student in physics, is to read things and describe them based on what I know scientifically, and what I've looked into so other people can understand. It's an important part of the job.
The information that I've discerned after reading < 6 minutes on sea sponges is that they are:
1) Cellular systems, not containing tissues, organs or a nervous system
2) Filter feeders, that grow from semi-organic (Carbon containing) materials, and occasionally non-organic materials
3) They reproduce by budding, asexually and their cell structure is basically identical to one another
4) They grow in a regularly irregular pattern, (like a mosaic of tiles) with a generally well supported structure
5) They can be considered a more "archaic" form of life, and are likely one of the oldest living things on Earth
I've studied biology and scientific theories for more than just 10 years as a nurse. Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics were prerequisites to some of the things we had to study in Nursing. Currently I'm switching gears into a career in nuclear physics.
Since Wikipedia is not always the most reliable source, the disclaimer is there to notify people to read up on what I read, and make their own inferences.
I do not think that people were concerned with the taxonomy of the creatures; They were concerned with the violation of 'rights' (i.e.: suffering) of a living animal that has no way to defend itself, that we humans might just "not care" about because we want our little sponges to bathe with!
This is an "insight & depth" check into the concerns of what people were looking for if they had empathy for a helpless living organism. I certainly did. And I've always wondered since I was a kid, "why are we killing them if we are just using them to bathe with?"
So - the description of the animal to people, how it lives, how it is organized & how it grows, what it feels, if it knows about it's surroundings, etc etc, was the important main idea that people wanted to know the answer to.
Obviously, this topic is confusing, because you are right! They are classified scientifically as "animals", which made no sense to me and I don't think it would make sense to most people too.
But the short research confirms: they are only barely a living thing, less "alive" than we would consider a tree. (Because it has less qualifiers like: adaptation, avoiding danger or harm, housing more life inside of it, etc).
Does that make sense? A literal translation here of the information is not helpful. People are obviously confused by the literal facts. So don't confuse people, explain to them what it is. That's what I did.
It is a repeating cellular structure of filter feeding, budding cells that are identical to one another. - (This sounds like a mushroom!) So I explained it as such.
... And more likely, if anything I said here is true, in the future they'll end up making a new taxonomy for these types of creatures. ( Notice I didn't say organism. Because it doesn't have organs. ... Or tissues. Now what type of 'animal' has 0 organs or tissues? None that I can think of. This subject is confusing, and needed a better, relatable public explanation)
@DrakonBlake if sea sponges are considered organisms, how is it confusing that they are living things?
@@MurseSamsondamn youre awesome, really put in the work on these comments lol.
@@MurseSamsongreat stuff, thank you.
Imagine how much deeper the oceans would be if there weren't any sponges to soak up all that water?
Underrated
🏆
Maybe like 0.00000000001 millimeters deeper
@@joaquinleyva6869you cant be serious
This explains why spongebob has no family members left... 😂
*sea sponges* :exists
Fish: *wheres mah home*
Loofah, plant sponges. Alternative
And literally like their only use 😂. The majority of the loofah plant is inedible and made of the “sponge”
@anneke_yep2407 Loofah are eaten when young by millions in Asia and used just like zucchini and other squashes. When they get older and larger they are dried and peeled to make bath sponges.
It is like tofu instead of meat 😂
@@maecarpenter6735 ok that makes sense. I only know of the adult fruit haha
@@maecarpenter6735yeah
For anyone wondering, no, your everyday kitchen sponge probably wasn't alive at some point. Most sponges nowadays are made from synthetic materials or plant cellulose.
This now makes me far more uncomfortable knowing that my shower sponge is the dried up corpse of a sea sponge
Only if you paid a crap ton of money. Otherwise you might have gotten a loofah or synthetic.
If it's a loofa it's just a plant don't worry
Loofa sponges grow on land.
Corpse is not the right word really, they’re like a mushroom except without a nervous system, while yes they’re starting to dwindle from too much harvesting, they do usually leave a bit of the sponge in the ocean to recuperate the lost mass, kinda like how a starfish can regrow a lost leg.
@@Sinyaoit’s not that expensive lol. More than average but still under 15 USD.
I grew up in Florida, and have vivid memories of my folks taking me to Tarpon Springs. I don’t know if they still have the traditional Greek divers as they did in the 60s, but the demonstrations were amazing. They would dive from the boat, and then bring the newly harvested sponges on board for us to see - and touch! (I wasn’t expecting the slimy, but I’ve surely never forgotten it. One of a number of early factors - along with chicken legs & bone-in pork chops - that helped make me a vegetarian as soon as I was able to make my own lifestyle decisions. But that’s another story ….)
They still have the Boats ❤❤❤❤❤ I work out there
Since you care about animals, please consider upgrading to veganism, as dairy and eggs still contribute to farm animals’ use and exploitation. 💚
Appreciate your insight and courage to go vegetarian
Wow this is a nice story. Thank you for sharing.
@@Bbhjdidbsbaut Papa, don’t preach - I ain’t in any trouble, deep or otherwise, on _that_ score … I promise! LOL Been vegan for close to 20 years now, after the initial 15-20 as a strict vegetarian.
Love that you love all our relations, too. Just remember to love the peoples as much and as well. 😉 Because, you know - you catch more flies with agave … 🤣🤣🤣
Same thing in tarpon springs Florida just as few miles north of my hometown Dunedin and near the best beach of America Clearwater beach. Interesting fact many Greeks came to the area and now they still have a prominent role in the cities culture and history. The sponge docks are still hugely popular tourist destination with little shops museums and boat tours as well as authentic greek cuisine. As a younger guy I actually worked for one of the boats that harvested sponges ran by a family that had been in the area doing it for over 100 years. Back in the day the divers wore a metal helmet that had air pumped into it from a compressor on the boat. It was common for the hose to get tangled or crimped and many lost their lives due to this. Also even if you were able to get the helmet off and your lead weights you would be carried far away from the boat if you didnt have a tether because of the strong currents. In the gulf around the areas that are used for sponge harvesting the water can either be crystal clear or so murky you cant see past the end of your nose. Another interesting fact is that sponge harvesting actually helps the sponges. When cut they simply just regrow but it also releases spores that eventually start a new colony. It's the only farming in the world that actually is sustainable.
This all being said if you ever have the chance to visit tarpon springs Florida. Head over to dodecanese Blvd and look for a boat named the Anastasi and take in the culture. Finish up with a trip down to Clearwater beach and check out the palm pavilion for a amazing beach side food and drink with live music and Tampa bay areas amazing sunsets.
Hearing stories like these make me want to drop everything and finally move to Florida like I've always dreamed. I dream of the salt life and one day it will be a reality 🪼🐟✌️
I absolutely loved my time in the Tampa Bay Area and it calls me back every day! 🐚
Clearwater is amazing!!! I saw the best sunset of my life there, it was like it wrapped around the sky in a ring
Watching this video reminded me of Florida! Growing up we would visit tarpon springs every other weekend for food and cool shops
I actually rode around on a boat tour and watched them demonstrate everything. Even how alive they were. We’re bathing with the skeletons the river said. 😅
Did you know they had to dub this video so people wouldn't hear the Goofy Goober choir?
I thought we weren’t supposed to do this from over harvesting or something? Did I make that up? Was it not ever a thing where we were told buying them was unethical? I’m legit asking lol because I feel like that was said a lot for a while.
Yeah, at some point they were almost instinct, but they have recovered, it's just cheaper to make plastic sponges, so there isn't much of a demand for them as before.
Yeah that's what the whole video is about. They cut it off weird
@@Danokhsponges don't have instincts or any mental capacity, no brain
Just buy loofas. They grow on land and are way more, ethical I'll say.
If collected by hand (and some sponge is left behind to regrow) there isn’t really a risk.
I never thought that Sponge Bob is a true sea creature. Now I know.
Yall know sea sponges are animals right?
that can't feel anything. yes.
@@Xxtanorius they can feel pain look it up
@@supermex214 no they can't
@@Xxtanorius they can but go off
@@supermex214 no they can't
They dive for sponges in Tarpon Springs Florida too, the sponge docks are a tourist attraction.
lived close to the high school for 7 years. the town is so beautiful
Yes, many Kalymnian immigrants in the area
I thought it read tampon strings Florida..I do need glasses😅
@@Dawndylion students call the high school that to make fun of it bc everything was always broke idk 😭
Also why Tarpon has a very large population of Greek people
In its biome, it is a living filter. Like a kidney or a liver. And yet it is independent and is multicellular and has specialized cells. Plus it produces sperm. Animal.
It's as "animal" as a mushroom is considired to be an "animal".
Well guess the Mushrooms growing in my garden are animals now lmao.
@vedatbakrcoglu it's an animal no matter what nonsense you type.
We grow em, we hunt em, and I'm still over here with a washcloth
Nature has everything we need ❤
It's also illegal without a license which so many do. They use their fishing license to get away with it, but this is classified as deep sea foraging not fishing and thus you need a different license.
I just found out about Loofahs about a few months ago and that was pretty crazy. I had no idea. This is even more mind blowing 🤯
@Danny_R_ hi Danny I grew up using loofa sponges and my great grandma always used to bring some loofa from Mexico so all the women in my family had used them for a good scrub when taking a shower used any kind of body wash or body soap the other benefits are not scientific but it' really reduced the cellulite of the legs leaving a supple look at the skin and clean feel so now it's been commercialized but it's not the same kind of feel compared to the organic loofah Im glad you mentioned the loofah have a wonderful holiday season 🌲💖💯⛄❄️❄️❄️⛄🎀
@@lizbeskalis6735you are totally right they are not the same as many years ago.
@@carolphillips8382 Hi Carol ty for your comment I tried the one like the loofah the back scrubber it was alright but did you know that you can have it sewn into any shape you want? It's actually pretty good!!! Anyways I think that's enough of sponge talk I hope you had fun during the holidays and enjoy your weekend! I'm having my birthday on the 17th so I'm happy about it, I'll share my cake with my tortoise kitty named Spicy Baby it's a pleasure to hear from you have a blessed and beautiful day 🔥🔥🔥💕💕💕😺
Wait..They're real f'in sponges? Spongebob! Nooooo
SpongeBob makes a lot more sense now 😂
How long does it take to grow ...😢We don't need sea sponges anything to steal from our oceans
Lol what
shaddup, snowflake.
Always gotta be one of y’all huh?
Are you a saint?
@@YungJackTorrance24and what about it. Nature conservation is important whether you like it or not. Without sustainability these things will die out before it would because of time.
We cut them about 1/2 inch from the base so it will regenerate. Pulling them the "old" way doesn't leave enough to grow rapidly.
It's pronounced ka-leem-nos. The main island in the Dodecaneese chain, where most divers cam from
This is how Spongbob feels whenever he is at Sandy’s without a water helmet.
Can’t believe real life sea sponge can look like spongebob if you give them a barber
Out here committing genocide on Spongebob's entire family line
Can't help but feel bad for the people in the comments sympathizing with sponges.
You guys need human friends.
They have the cleanest hands on earth!
loofah sponges grow faster and more economically sound
Planting loofah is a better option
This is why a leading scientist declared humans as the most evasive species.
Y’all need to do research if u think this will cause extinction 💀
Tarpon Springs, Florida, has a big sponge industry also.
I live in Florida and we have a predominantly Greek city here called Tarpon Springs. I love going there for the pita, baklava, tzatziki, and sponges :)
I work near there ❤❤
Never knew "Sponge Bob" was a real thing.
A wise man once said - "Just imagine how deep the sea would be if it wasn't for all the sponges"?
Squeezing an awful lot of blood out of that net.
They do not have blood. It was probably a disinfectant like iodine
It's not blood, sea sponges dont have veins or a heart. My guess is its coloring from algae that was growing on it
@@BeautifulMsPantsnahh its my boy spongebobs blood😔
@@BeautifulMsPantsdisinfectant actually
And all those sea life that used them are now dead or dying, thanks a lot humans
They are not, but go off lmao
So SpongeBob is really from the underwater 🫧 i thought he was a sponge for washing the dishes.
There is a place in Florida where sponges are harvested. Tarpon Springs
sponges are living organisms and you are going to use it to BATHE with…
They are as much living as a mushroom is, which is not much 💀
So is the bacteria in your arm pits, stinky
Sea sponges are considered animals so with that in mind imagine how many people use an animal to clean their genitals
@@katie85705 How is this relevant? People can do whatever they want lol.
It’s environmentally sustainable. You’re going to wash with plastic because you feel uncomfortable otherwise?
Water quality left the chat
I'm not sure what you mean.
@@coalcreekdefense8106I'm not convinced he knows either.
@@coalcreekdefense8106sea sponges clean the water from bacteria and other kind of microorganizmas so taking them like that damages the ecosystem and reduces the quality of the water.
Sea sponges often overpopulate the areas we harvest them from. The water will be ok with less sponges, and if we take too many, we can just sprinkle them back and they'll grow again
@@Cometsarecool oh i didnt know that
Sponges make a cool design when used with paint
So thats why spongebob was yellow and square. He got harvested, cleaned, cut, and he still managed to get back into the sea
"Patrick !!! Patrick help me please!!! HELP !!!"
"sorry spongebob... they offered me minimum wage."
fishes : mom my bed is gone..
hooman : im gonna use ur bed to scrubs my ass.
fish done live in sea sponges
We need to destroy the ocean faster
@@fredmertz1791not like a mushroom
@@fredmertz1791this people dont care, they will just reapeat talking points and virtue signal
If sea sponges doesn't has extra benefit over manufactured sponges then I'll say don't damage our seas and ocean 🙏🏼
I love these! It's hard to find real ones.
So bad for the ocean and the environment
not really
These are one of nature’s absolute luxuries 🙏
No, stop treating what God made as a luxury because then greedy capitalists market it as such and gouge the pricing to enjoy something everyone should have access to if needed. Sponges are a NEED because God gave then to humanity for free.
They're great to bathe with. Kinda rough but soft. Luxurious 🤗
Don't we need that to obsorb the CO2
It's an animal not a plant.
Most primitive animal.
No
They do not use CO2. They do provide food and homes for some organisms but they are filter feeders. We need phytoplankton and seaweed. Coral is also not a plant, but either a single organism or a colony of organisms. But the structures they build provide homes and hiding places for animals.
they produce carbon dioxide
@@blank_3768 lmao for some reason I thought you were commenting to me and my brain just quit 😆 I couldn’t understand what I typed earlier
They’re basically a sack of stem cells
Yes. I was looking for a comment like this
So? They are an extremely valuable sack of stem cells for our oceans and should stay there.
@@naraseth I don't think you get it, stem cells can differentiate into any other kind of cell, this means that sponges can regenerate infinitely as long as they have a food source.
@@vedatbakrcoglu They can regenerate as long as they are alive and regeneration takes time and energy. It also doesn’t make them immune to diseases and other danger. Sponges need to be alive and intact to do their part of filtering the oceans. Harvesting them, even if you leave something intact, you remove the benefits of the sponge for the ecosystem until it grew back and also leaves it vulnerable and more likely to die.
I don't get why it's supposed to be dangerous? It says "at times, divers must grab the sponge with two hands" - uh, yeah, so? How does that make it dangerous? They're not exactly threatening creatures.
.*Vegan teacher crying*.
Never thought a video could make me feel so bad for a sponge...
Bro took Spongebob Whole Family
My best friend son and son in law traveled the world as divers to collect sponges because the local University where I'm a double grad had a Cancer Research Center that was conducting research on the helpful effects of Sea Sponges for cancer treatment.
sponge bob really bleeding-
SpongeBob:hey Patrick your looking thicc
I remember buying some small sponges when i visited Greece on a school trip when i was a teenager. Natural sponges weren't easily bought in the UK back then, so the ones I bought seemed really luxurious.
Somewhere in the ocean, Spongebob is looking for his missing family
Wow! I learned something new today.
These are much preferable to artificial sponges. Eco friendly and biodegradable!
They kidnapped sponge bob’s entire bloodline, not cool
i can heard SpongeBob iconic laughing from here
If u live in Florida over by the Clearwater fl area they have a spot called the “sponge docks”, which they sell different types of sea sponges and all that it’s a pretty nice experience especially with the family.
I thought you could only get these from ocean monuments
They murdered the entire SquarePants family. The lineage is dead
Bro just catches spongebobs entire bloodline
“This makes the sponge easier to bathe with”
Those are the sponges we use for the whiteboard in school😂
I always forget that sea sponges are animals, and the blood coming out of them was quite the visceral reminder.
SpongeBob, is that you!
He just harvested All of spongebob's cousins, that's wild! Lmbo
This has been done in kalymnos since ancient times and the divers become more and more deaf due to the pressure that deep
Did my boy SpongeBob dirty