I REALLLLY enjoyed this video! I love lobster / cray videos especially Australia ones! I’m a 49 yr old grandmother who loves watching these type videos and I have found a new channel to watch here! A big THANK YOU! Watching from Birmingham Alabama USA ❤😊
Very well summed up mate. Some of the easiest and hardest days out there. Positive attitude goes a long way diving for them critters. Glad you are enjoying yourself bud , look after yourself and most importantly don’t turn your back to N2
You wouldn’t believe some of the fish we see up here! It all depends on the weight of the cray and what the market is doing, but roughly we get around $10/kilo.
I’ll bet you see some great sights underwater I used to spearfish for a living on the reef when I was young. Your vids are great insight on what your doing
Eyyy cool! Doin what you love. Used to sail on giant tall ships in the Pacific Northwest life was pretty much exactly yours minus the diving. I miss it a lot, being on ships.
Great vid Ethan. I use Butchers flexable steel mesh gloves for our mini lobsters here in Florida. Really liked this video young man. Stay safe out there. Trying spearfishing this week if the tides co-operate. ✌
That’s a crazy work Load mate great to get an insight into what you up to. Look after your self and let me know next time you back so we can head out for a spear!
A great Australian lobster diving video. Thanks - good watch to see how its done. It was a feather star/crinoid riding the current and looking for a new home. Mate its a work intensive day - hope it pays well.
I dived out of the straits for 12 years, loved Warrior reef. The prawn guys sometimes would do a shot and come and dump a full load on deck of lobsters when they were marching there. They banned that in the 90’s.
Man, I loved that clip, your best one ever bro! such a good insight into the day. Whats the pay like and how does it work? im gussing per kg or something?
Damn Ethan, that was epic. What's the shelf life for a com cray diver? It must be hard on the body hey? How many weeks a year are you working - is it like a season? Thanks for sharing the video, learnt heaps - Like for Christmas I can buy a razor for you for your chin 🤣🤣Just Joshing, the video was brill. Keep it up, hopefully you will be smashing through 1mill subs over the next 12 months! Dive safe, have fun!👍🤿🙏👍🦞
Thank you Dave! Great question, there are a fair few guys who have been around 10 or so years and still going strong... The season runs for 9 months from January to September and you can really pick and choose how much you wanna work. Last season I did 3 months on, 1 month off and then 3 more months. Hope you've been well and enjoying your orca torch 😂
@@EthanYeo1 Cheers mate, so happy to see you succeeding, just epic stuff. Me and the Torch are off on another adventure next week LOL! Off chasing Blue bone on the Islands again. Then I have to work for the rest of the year to pay off the bills 🤣🤣. I will have to think about some more driving tips for people as I am going up to the boat alone I think LOL! I am really enjoying getting back to editing again, so hopefully I should make you laugh a bit more before the year is out! Go you good thing! 👍🍻🙏
Amazing video. I work on a prawn trawler. I reckon it's time for a change. What are the lobster fisheries like yours (0 bycatch ones). Cooktown and Cairns? Maybe Northern Territory aswell?
Thanks for the tip! Those champagne crays in the video I normally leave and is probably the reason why that cave always reloads haha do you know what the reasoning behind that it?
Great content. Very original. It would be good if you mention the pay side of it eg. pay on a good day vs a bad day? How much the crays sell for vs your cut of that amount?
Thanks Brad! I thought about touching on that but it gets pretty complicated. But pretty much we get a percentage of whatever the market value is at the time and it’s constantly changing. And the more we catch the higher the percentage becomes. The bigger crays tend to have a higher value per kilo than the smaller one too.
Hey mate, 16 yr old diver here. I've recently been pondering options for after school. Just wondering if you think lobster diving is a good job to maximise my dive life for a couple of years? If so, how do you get into lobster diving? Cheers (Great video by the way ;)
Hey bro cheers for your comment, what exactly do you mean when you say maximise your dive life? If you're interested shoot MG Kailis Lobster a message on facebook 👍
Gotcha haha it’s doable if you’re willing to invest your time and energy. The lobster diving here all comes down to experience and time in the water learning the lobsters patterns
Such a sick job! How does the captain/fishery think about sustainability of these epic locations for generations to come? Do you think thsee spots replenish outside of season or are they constantly decreasing?
Great question mate and something I’ve thought about a fair bit. Up where we work and dive is so remote and there’s very few boats that work the areas. Also majority of the reefs up on the Great Barrier Reef are all marine parks and no fish zones, we’re only allowed to fish a small number of those reefs and I’d say a lot of the crays we catch are overspill from the marine parks. I’d love to dive a marine park one day just to have a look, I can imagine it would be flourishing with marine and cray life. Anyway I don’t think the overall population of the crays is taking a massive hit, however there probably are areas that will take longer to replenish due to constantly being fished. Hopefully that makes sense 🙂
@@EthanYeo1 makes sense. Thanks for the response and that’s good to hear there are some no fish preservation zones. But yeah, I imagine it’s an internal struggle when thinking about spearfishing or harvesting for work while wanting to preserve and share the same epic experiences for our kids. Cheers!
No doubt mate, sustainability and conservation is always on my mind! I’m typically not the biggest fan of commercial fishing methods however with hand harvesting fishing I support it 👍
Hey Ethan, Great video, super interesting to learn about the commercial side of the hobby. You mentioned that you are sometimes out for 2 or more weeks getting crays, and at the start you mentioned checking on the cray health every day. Do you find the health of the crays deteriorates over the few weeks? and if you do have concerns about a crayfish what do you do? throw it back to the sea so it can hopefully recover itself? or is there some sort of care you can give it yourself to make sure it lasts the trip? Or maybe just freeze and wrap like you mentioned for the defect crays? Cheers!
Hey Dylan thanks for watching 🙂 The health of the crays I would say don’t typically deteriorate over the trip, as I normally only keep the strong and healthy crays in my tanks. If a cray is looking like it’s not gonna make it I’ll just freeze it. But I do have a seperate tank where I keep my weaker crays eg. Crays that are about to shed or have just shedded and have a soft shell. Hope that answers your question 👍
I will get around to it eventually, hopefully this summer when I’m back in SA. In the meantime watch some of my kangaroo island videos, they feature some less common species 👍
Hey mate it really depends on how much we’re catching. The pay has recently changed, if you search on facebook MG Kailis Lobster they’ve just posted the new salary brackets based on catch!
@@EthanYeo1 no crap hahaha mate had her as my old pearling mothership 20 years ago. Nearly came over with her to do exactly what ya doing!!!!! She’s a good vessel not sure how it’s set up now. Cracking vid man!!!! Make me wish I tried it now!
@sierradelta8920 wow that’s incredible! I can’t imagine the stories the cap lady could tell… I’m pretty sure it’s been done up a fair bit haha glad you enjoyed the video 😁
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Don’t steal people shit and you won’t have a problem. I guess you never made anything worth stealing so you wouldn’t know what it’s like when someone takes it so easily.
I hope you enjoyed the video and learnt something new 🦞 Feel free to leave ask any questions you might have and I’ll answer it 🙂
I REALLLLY enjoyed this video! I love lobster / cray videos especially Australia ones! I’m a 49 yr old grandmother who loves watching these type videos and I have found a new channel to watch here! A big THANK YOU! Watching from Birmingham Alabama USA ❤😊
Thank you for watching, I'm so glad to hear that! Reading your comment made my day 🙂
Very well summed up mate.
Some of the easiest and hardest days out there.
Positive attitude goes a long way diving for them critters.
Glad you are enjoying yourself bud
, look after yourself and most importantly don’t turn your back to N2
Thanks Taylor! Hope you’ve been well too 😁
100k Subs - Well deserved. The vidoes get better and wilder every upload. See ya at 1 milly!!
Thank you Jacob 😁 haha hopefully one day!!
Great video! Great to see a day in the life a cray diver. Never realised you bounced as much as you do. Pretty cool way to cover ground quickly.
Thanks for watching mate! Yeah a very unique style of diving haha
A wonderful underwater world. Thank you for providing knowledge about the various types of fish.🐟🦈
My pleasure, I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊
Sensational video Ethan so good to see you living the dream! Very professional video really enjoyed watching it can’t wait for the next one
Thanks James, so glad to hear that! We still need to do our cray challenge video 😉
Hey Ethan,
Glad to see the growth of your channel.
Thanks for making this clip, super interesting and great story telling!
Thanks mate, I’m glad you enjoyed it 😁
Looks like a hard graft but getting to be in the water so much must be great. Really interesting! How much do you get per kilo as the diver?
You wouldn’t believe some of the fish we see up here! It all depends on the weight of the cray and what the market is doing, but roughly we get around $10/kilo.
@@EthanYeo1 how many kilos do you normally get a day ?
He been getting only 10
Great vid mate. Had no idea how it was all done. Bloody hard work. Well done for sticking at it!
Thanks Matt, glad you enjoyed it 😁
I’ll bet you see some great sights underwater I used to spearfish for a living on the reef when I was young. Your vids are great insight on what your doing
We sure do! Thanks mate 🙂
Great video mate. Super interesting. Digging the two grab method. Keen to try that
Thanks for watching!
I’d be worried putting something spikey between my legs!! 😬😅 Ethan’s got balls of steel! 😂👊
Awesome vid mate. That short clip with the terrible weather made me laugh. I was watching and thinking what the bad weather days are like. Haha
Thanks Chris glad you enjoyed it! Ughh winter time the weather is absolutely horrible everyday 🤮
FINALLY, sick video bro!!!🤩
Thanks forbidden fruit 🍇
Great video
Something definitely different and special from the others keep up the good work and
I wish you the best
Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words 🙂
Another great video Ethan. Love your work!
Cheers Shane, appreciate the support 🙂
Very cool video. Looks hard core for sure. Lots of work in and out of the boat all day.
Thanks Jason, definitely hard on your body but I’d rather be doing this than stuck in an office all day 😂
Way to go Ethan! That's what I call a job !!!
Great episode Ethan, really enjoyed that. Have thought about getting into cray diving. Looks like an awesome job
Thank you Cliff! It is certainly an awesome job, but just like any other job it comes with its cons haha
Eyyy cool! Doin what you love.
Used to sail on giant tall ships in the Pacific Northwest life was pretty much exactly yours minus the diving. I miss it a lot, being on ships.
Very well put together video mate ! Congrats! Looks like a tough job though
Cheers Luke, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Bruh i got zero notifications for ages, then get this sick video dropped on my feed out of nowhere. What a weapon! Got a few vids to catch up on too.
Haha that’s strange, maybe cause I haven’t been uploaded many long form videos lately! Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the support 😁
Love the video Ethan I’m jealous of u livving the dream life
Great vid Ethan. I use Butchers flexable steel mesh gloves for our mini lobsters here in Florida. Really liked this video young man. Stay safe out there. Trying spearfishing this week if the tides co-operate. ✌
Thanks PG! Steel mesh gloves hmmm might have to give that a go. Awesome all the best hopefully the tides are in your favour 😁
Yes, Butchers Gloves is the right name. Take care.@@EthanYeo1
That’s a crazy work
Load mate great to get an insight into what you up to.
Look after your self and let me know next time you back so we can head out for a spear!
Cheers Harry! Sounds good 👍
That swimming flower animal is a Feather Star
Sick video mate!
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
A great Australian lobster diving video. Thanks - good watch to see how its done. It was a feather star/crinoid riding the current and looking for a new home. Mate its a work intensive day - hope it pays well.
Thanks for watching mate 🤙
Brilliant diver life, keep it up !!
Thank you 😁
That was an awesome video! Would love to see more
Thank you! I’ve got a few more similar videos on my channel 🦞
That would be a Red Featherstar, very cool looking. Great video btw, thank you for sharing.
Awesome to know, they are! Thanks for watching Shane 😁
I dived out of the straits for 12 years, loved Warrior reef. The prawn guys sometimes would do a shot and come and dump a full load on deck of lobsters when they were marching there. They banned that in the 90’s.
That would’ve been incredible diving up there! Wow did you ever come across a march? 🦞
Love the videos you should make more free diving for crays
Thanks mate! Got plenty of other videos on my channel free diving for Southern Crays 🦞
That was quite a journey from catching a few squid and crabs out of a rubber boat to this.
Haha how time flies! I wonder what’s gonna be next 🤔
Really enjoyed this video mate well done !!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Man, I loved that clip, your best one ever bro! such a good insight into the day. Whats the pay like and how does it work? im gussing per kg or something?
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Recently the way we get paid changed, we get a standard day rate on top of how many kgs we catch!
sick video mate, super interesting !!!
Thanks for watching Dan 🙂
Damn Ethan, that was epic. What's the shelf life for a com cray diver? It must be hard on the body hey? How many weeks a year are you working - is it like a season? Thanks for sharing the video, learnt heaps - Like for Christmas I can buy a razor for you for your chin 🤣🤣Just Joshing, the video was brill. Keep it up, hopefully you will be smashing through 1mill subs over the next 12 months! Dive safe, have fun!👍🤿🙏👍🦞
Thank you Dave! Great question, there are a fair few guys who have been around 10 or so years and still going strong... The season runs for 9 months from January to September and you can really pick and choose how much you wanna work. Last season I did 3 months on, 1 month off and then 3 more months. Hope you've been well and enjoying your orca torch 😂
@@EthanYeo1 Cheers mate, so happy to see you succeeding, just epic stuff. Me and the Torch are off on another adventure next week LOL! Off chasing Blue bone on the Islands again. Then I have to work for the rest of the year to pay off the bills 🤣🤣. I will have to think about some more driving tips for people as I am going up to the boat alone I think LOL! I am really enjoying getting back to editing again, so hopefully I should make you laugh a bit more before the year is out! Go you good thing! 👍🍻🙏
Let’s gooo!!!! Lobster man to the rescue!! 👊👌🍻😊😎
Super interesting bro! would love to do that one day x
Do it!!
Amazing video. I work on a prawn trawler. I reckon it's time for a change. What are the lobster fisheries like yours (0 bycatch ones). Cooktown and Cairns? Maybe Northern Territory aswell?
Thanks mate! Yep they run em out of Cairns and Cooktown 🦞
Leave the champagne crays where they are, they attract the painted cray back to the holes, works a charm 👍
Thanks for the tip! Those champagne crays in the video I normally leave and is probably the reason why that cave always reloads haha do you know what the reasoning behind that it?
My thinking was they kept the sand cleaned and the painted could smell the fresh shell they fed on.
Great content. Very original. It would be good if you mention the pay side of it eg. pay on a good day vs a bad day? How much the crays sell for vs your cut of that amount?
Thanks Brad! I thought about touching on that but it gets pretty complicated. But pretty much we get a percentage of whatever the market value is at the time and it’s constantly changing. And the more we catch the higher the percentage becomes. The bigger crays tend to have a higher value per kilo than the smaller one too.
Hey mate, 16 yr old diver here. I've recently been pondering options for after school. Just wondering if you think lobster diving is a good job to maximise my dive life for a couple of years? If so, how do you get into lobster diving?
Cheers
(Great video by the way ;)
Hey bro cheers for your comment, what exactly do you mean when you say maximise your dive life? If you're interested shoot MG Kailis Lobster a message on facebook 👍
Sorry, I meant a career to do with diving 😅
Will do, thanks mate
Gotcha haha it’s doable if you’re willing to invest your time and energy. The lobster diving here all comes down to experience and time in the water learning the lobsters patterns
Awesome vid! What kind of diving certifications do you need for the job?
Thanks mate, just up to your wave 3 rescue diver!
Such a sick job! How does the captain/fishery think about sustainability of these epic locations for generations to come? Do you think thsee spots replenish outside of season or are they constantly decreasing?
Great question mate and something I’ve thought about a fair bit. Up where we work and dive is so remote and there’s very few boats that work the areas. Also majority of the reefs up on the Great Barrier Reef are all marine parks and no fish zones, we’re only allowed to fish a small number of those reefs and I’d say a lot of the crays we catch are overspill from the marine parks. I’d love to dive a marine park one day just to have a look, I can imagine it would be flourishing with marine and cray life. Anyway I don’t think the overall population of the crays is taking a massive hit, however there probably are areas that will take longer to replenish due to constantly being fished. Hopefully that makes sense 🙂
@@EthanYeo1 makes sense. Thanks for the response and that’s good to hear there are some no fish preservation zones. But yeah, I imagine it’s an internal struggle when thinking about spearfishing or harvesting for work while wanting to preserve and share the same epic experiences for our kids. Cheers!
No doubt mate, sustainability and conservation is always on my mind! I’m typically not the biggest fan of commercial fishing methods however with hand harvesting fishing I support it 👍
Hey Ethan,
Great video, super interesting to learn about the commercial side of the hobby.
You mentioned that you are sometimes out for 2 or more weeks getting crays, and at the start you mentioned checking on the cray health every day.
Do you find the health of the crays deteriorates over the few weeks? and if you do have concerns about a crayfish what do you do? throw it back to the sea so it can hopefully recover itself? or is there some sort of care you can give it yourself to make sure it lasts the trip? Or maybe just freeze and wrap like you mentioned for the defect crays?
Cheers!
Hey Dylan thanks for watching 🙂 The health of the crays I would say don’t typically deteriorate over the trip, as I normally only keep the strong and healthy crays in my tanks. If a cray is looking like it’s not gonna make it I’ll just freeze it. But I do have a seperate tank where I keep my weaker crays eg. Crays that are about to shed or have just shedded and have a soft shell. Hope that answers your question 👍
awesome video bro 🔥
Thanks mate 🙂
keep up the good content
Thanks mate!
Epic vid man 🤙🏾 is it seasonal mate?
Thanks mate! Yeah runs from January to end of September 👍
It looked like a brittle star or maybe a feather star.
Cool, yep looks more like a feather star 👍
Elite video
Cheers bro 🤙
Cool video 🤙 what's the pay like? Do you get paid by kilo?
Thanks mate! Yep per kilo 🦞
Can you please make another fish identification video about species you see in South Australia?
I will get around to it eventually, hopefully this summer when I’m back in SA. In the meantime watch some of my kangaroo island videos, they feature some less common species 👍
Have watched nearly all of them!
Very interesting
Hey mate where do you get your cray loops? I'd much prefer to loop than shoot
Hey mate I get mine from Old Man Blue, support local 👍
Obviously it’s rude to ask pay related questions but I can’t help but be curious what the average pay is for a job like this
Hey mate it really depends on how much we’re catching. The pay has recently changed, if you search on facebook MG Kailis Lobster they’ve just posted the new salary brackets based on catch!
That was new to me, how to catch those. Nice filming or do we say videoing. Must subscribe for more.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Best footage you've made yet , Have you got your aAS2299 commercial diver ticket?
Thanks mate! Not yet but I’ll get it eventually.
That bounce diving in 10m and under is one of the most dangerous profiles you can do. Do you have a DMT onboard? @@EthanYeo1
One question How did you get your licenses ?
I work for a company that owns the license 👍
Hey mate, where them stinger masks from?
I was given mine, but I think they stock them at Divers World in Cairns 👍
Can you link the cray noose you're using?
Yeah mate I use the old man blue nooses, highly recommend them! oldmanblue.com.au/collections/crayfish-loops
🔥🙌
On average how many kg do you catch a day ?
It can really range depending on where we’re diving, but I’d say on average between 20-80kg.
Do you know Damian Langly ? ...
No I don’t
Mate is this the old Capricorn lady k ex kailis vessel?
Sure is, still is owned by kailis 👍
@@EthanYeo1 no crap hahaha mate had her as my old pearling mothership 20 years ago. Nearly came over with her to do exactly what ya doing!!!!!
She’s a good vessel not sure how it’s set up now.
Cracking vid man!!!! Make me wish I tried it now!
@sierradelta8920 wow that’s incredible! I can’t imagine the stories the cap lady could tell… I’m pretty sure it’s been done up a fair bit haha glad you enjoyed the video 😁
Mean
First try
My ass 😂😂😂😂
Hahaha always first try!! 😉
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Don’t steal people shit and you won’t have a problem. I guess you never made anything worth stealing so you wouldn’t know what it’s like when someone takes it so easily.
Hahaha good job puto!
Thanks Putooo! Does it make you wanna come back? 😂
@@EthanYeo1 not good enough, not clips shooting fish haha
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