My parents abandoned me at an early age and I was raised by a family of Barracudas. Growing strong off their rich milk I can attest to their gentle near passive nature.
@@lulubelljingles9701 only the big ones because they develop some type of toxin in their system from the shit they eat as they get older it gets worse so when you eat them you get food poisoning so only young ones are safe to eat.
You can tell who the arm chair divers are here. Barracudas are naturally inquisitive and see humans as a larger predator. They aren't sizing you up, they aren't wanting to eat you, but they are looking for scraps that you as the "predator" might leave behind...They are more like a stray dog wanting food, just don't hand feed a cuda ;).
Growing up in Key West SCUBA diving and surface diving you naturally spend a lot of time around around barracudas. They are inquisitive and for the most part not aggressive towards humans. However, on two occasions I have witnessed what appeared to be aggressive, territorial behavior from two extremely large barracudas. In each instance these Barracudas were hanging out by an object that fish schooled around; a coral head and a channel marker. The behavior was the same both times...erratic, aggressive movement then the barracuda turned and swam directly towards me with a WIDE open mouth and flared gills...this 'display' was akin to how other animals flex their muscles so-to-speak. Only once have I seen a barracuda "attack". Like any Barracuda attack on fish, it was so fast that it was over before you knew it happened. It was during a decent on a night dive. A barracuda shot straight towards a diver's mask and by chance was stopped short by running into the lobster net the diver was holding upright while descending...a total fluke...my guess is her mask threw a reflection from a dive light and the barracuda's reflexes just kicked in.
Haha yes! I went to BSA Seabase in my teens. Loved every second of snorkeling in the Keys...The fish would gather in these huge balls around us, while the big barracudas slowly circled like sentinels 15 feet or so away, waiting for a fish to stray. They are definitely an intelligent and curious species. They warned us not to agitate or flash bright things at them because they could trigger a response, but on the whole, barracuda 'attacks' are extremely rare.
I looked up this video because the only time I’ve snorkeled, was in key west and two giant barracuda came right up to me. I could count their teeth. It gave me a scare for my first time snorkeling but it was fun.
They are attracted to shiny things. Anything that’ll reflect light is what will make them charge at you. That’s why you don’t wear jewelry such as silver especially when diving
I haven't gone diving in years, but the one thing I remember is how curious barracudas are. They routinely swim right up to you and look you in the eye. Very inquisitive fish.
I swam and snorkeled with the same barracuda for 10 days at Rolleville on Great Exuma, Bahamas. I know it was the same one because it had some scales missing on its side. It never attacked me, and would never let me get close enough to touch it, though I tried. It just stayed with me the whole time I was in the water. Really cool!
When I was a child in the 1960' my parents would take us to Florida for holidays. We live in Windsor Ontario at the time. One evening I strolled down to a dock to see the rich diversity of sea life visible from the dock. The water was so clear. I saw a school of mullet swimming by when suddenly a big barracuda streaked in a took out a mullet, leaving only it head to float down towards the bottom. It was quite astonishing for a 10 year old. I ran back and told my parents who then accompanied by back to the dock. They brought the 8 mm movie camera with them. So I still have the movie, now transfered to video, of my father wading into the water of the dock and retrieving the bitten off head of the mullet. I will never forget the speed of that Cuda.
That thing is huge. Wow. I learned a lot from comments of experienced divers. I've always found barracuda to be terrifying until I read this. I'm generally of the belief that most animals are more sensitive and intelligent than we've originally given them credit for.
This is our barracuda from Adriatic sea, smaller then her oceanic cousins but with equally sharp teeth ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qy3by0A34g4.html
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking, because these fish have great bursts of speed, the Cuda was barely swimming, and if the Cuda really wanted to charge them, then it would be charging to attack, which "
Roy Patterson Like a Mako Shark they would never see an attack coming until someone lost a limb and was bleeding out. People are such idiots. They pretend fish are stupid and having raised my share of them I can say they are not anywhere near as dumb as people want to think. I honestly think if someone spent the time and raised a Great Barracuda from a Juvenal (about a foot long) and took the time to train it it would follow divers like a guard dog and woe be to any bull shark or group of them trying to molest a diver. They may not be a "cute" as a Dolphin or as smart but they are if anything "Smart enough" and very lethal and on top of that faster than any dolphin. Heck, even sharks are respectful of Great Barracuda.
I love Barracuda's always been my favorite fish. In every footage of a barracuda taken by people diving it's always the only fish seemingly completely unperturbed by the divers' presence! I really think they might be smarter than most other fish. Even in gopro footage of the Barracuda eating a lion fish with over 2.8 million views, one of the divers holds a gopro 4 inches in front of the barracuda's face, and it looks right into the lense for a second, then it moves it's ping pong ball sized eye to look right at the diver holding it. You just don't see fish looking around like that, surveying their surroundings. Part of what makes these guys special in my mind. Plus I mean if a Barracuda isn't the best design in the ocean for an underwater offense I don't know what is! It's got thick white teeth, long slender streamlined body with stiff, upright tail fins designed to bank around corners maintaining as much speed through the water as possible, lending more truth their higher levels of brain activity, they'd need it to coordinate a high speed attack in such a complex environment when their prey is so quick and can dart into an underpass of coral or something, it follows the trail and doesn't stop moving until it's got what it wants or can not detect the prey any longer. Plus, there may be other fish in the ocean that are un intimidated by humans swimming around in their environment, but it takes a level of curiosity and some level of mental capacity to CHOOSE to stick around throughout the whole time the divers are present, which you see barracuda's doing that often.
There was a Dive Captain out of the Keys named Capt Slate and He used to feed a large barracuda by putting a bally hoo on this mouth and the Cuda would swim and take it at lightning speed..The Cuda never came back as rumored to have been caught.
I have the feeling that all 535 dislikes are from people who have never been within 20 feet of a barracuda. A barracuda "chilling" stares motionless with all fins deployed underneath your dive boat. When a barracuda gets within 10 feet of you it is because it is deciding whether or not it can force you to leave its territory. The barracuda in the footage is conduction mock-attacks on the divers to try to scare you away.
ill never forget the time i was in cuba with my family and came face to face with a barracuda. my brother and i were chilling in the ocean and had our scuba goggles on, i went underwater to grab a cool shell and turned around and a barracuda was just vibing and starring at me. i shit my shorts, surfaced and started swimming faster than i ever have. my brother started chasing me yelling at me “where are you going?!?” i told him when we got to the beach and he was like you didnt even say anything! every man for themself in a situation like that. if i start swimming fast to land, just know you should to.
I'm coming back from the Caribbean where a barracuda as big as this one followed me They're impressive but very calm You can see their big black eyes following you and their sharp teeth, and other fishes just sprint away, they're such kings, I love them.
Not true... barracudas dont have the ability to remove a limb. While they will feed on proportionately large fish, they lack the size, jaw strength, and serrated teeth needed to do that kind of damage. Though, I agree that this one is just curious. In fact, she seems especially curious about the bubbles being released by the SCUBA rig.
Been a few feet away from barracudas that big, they’re usually chill. This one wasn’t aggressive and was just playing. They do like shiny flashy things. So watch any jewelry that you wear.
Here's a good? 'fish story'... A friend of my Dad's taught me to dive with tanks when I was 13 in '65. We practiced in the enclosed atoll area of Matheson Hammock Park near Coral Gables FL. The first time we dove outside the man-made reef in open water a big 'cuda (about my size 😮) appeared from nowhere and nailed a solitary yellowtail that had been swimming around us. It looked like a blur as it darted at the yellowtail from 20 feet away. I'd observed hundreds of small ones while snorkeling - but never a Great barracuda.. So I'm watching (and hearing) it munch down the fish, scales sparkling and drifting down in the sunlight.. All I could see was a mouth full of monstrous teeth as it came over to check me out from about arm's length. I held still. Eventually it swam away after the longest ten minutes of my life
I remember having a similar encounter with a great barracuda of off Al Lith, Saudi Arabia at a dive site called Aramco’s reef. That Barracuda came out of nowhere and it was the most curious barracuda I’ve seen, it kept swimming with us, checking us out until we just finished the dive by the boat and then it left.
Territorial and curious. Diving in a salt water canal one time I had a sense of something behind me and turned around to find a 4' cuda staring me in the face from about 12" away. My dive buddy knew beforehand that the location was it's territory and he had seen it before but didn't bother to tell me about it.
Yeah the same thing happened to me my Spider sense went off and I turned around feet up and six feet behind me was a big cuda that then proceeded to flank me. But what is it with that spider sense right? Like my neck prickled and tingled and everything
That's i thank God i live on Mediterrean, actually it's eastern part , the bay called Adriatic Sea, about 1000 nautical miles long and 100 miles in average wide, i live on croatian side of it, we fish, swim, bath, dive, now is very warm sea temperature, like in tropics, about 25-28 C( don't know in your measures , F , in the winter is about 14 C) , here we don't have to fear sharks, i never saw one in the sea, except small species, the biggest 1 meter( 3 feet), the last fatality was in 1974 from great white, after that only one non-lethal attack, from about 4,5 meters great white ( about 15 feet) in 2008, but locals were never attacked, in 12 attacks in 80 years from 1895-1974 ALL eaten and killed were tourists and ALL of them were killed, at least 4,5 were eaten totally, never found their remains and people were catching accidentaly or deliberately enormous great whites, 6-7 meters, 20-25 feet, government was giving money award for every maneater until 80s( that was literally our name for great white, pas ljudožder-maneating shark) , we have rich marine life, now we changed, for example 15,20 years ago , not to mention earlier we were killing octopuses every time we saw them, kids, women, old people because they are one of the most delicious sea creatures, now many of us release them from traps on the sea floor, there can be 5,6 octopuses and they put it in the small boats marines, i released yesterday from my trap 2 conger eels, i felt sorry for them , about 1 meter each and 2 kilos, they ate 10 small fishes that got trapped few hours ago , which i release always when i dig my trap, i release small fishes, small cuttlefish, small octopuses , but sometimes i get tasty piece of fish, i catch squids by jigging , in the autumn and winter when they come close to the shore, and by big spears and light i sometimes catch something like octopus but they are smaller and have only one suckers on its tentacles, octopus has two, don't know english name ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qy3by0A34g4.html , this is our adriatic barracuda , this is filmed 1,2 nautical miles where i live.
Ahhh- I remember my first barracuda encounter- Roatan island West-side 1993- it was an early morning snorkeling with v. clear water, sun streaming when I noticed a tremendously Silver fish- rather large as it came closer its 5 Bulging canines told me it was A Barracuda. Later that afternoon I saw a similar size barracuda just 4 ft. from the beach swimming in 8-10" of water- amazing! A few days later I jogged my 8 miles and then suddenly felt the urge to snorkel out to a reef about quarter mile off shore- brilliant with small tiny v. colorful fish. On the way back I felt tired so I just relaxed on my back and used my flippers paddling in. Then slowly like I was witnessing a movie from the left side of my mask slowing The Barracuda emerged- it was seemingly bigger than the first I had seen about 7-9 ft. from me just checking me out. Again- its the 5 Big canines that are intimidating as their son Big this fish has them permanently on the exterior of its mouth. All in all I admire The Barracuda- may it always swim Free!
I had one nearly as large charge me while snorkeling off Roatan. They are lightening fast and terrifying. The giant charged me, I believe because my camera case was really catching the light.
Being that close to a barracuda is like being that close to a lion, if it decided to attack there is nothing any one of you could have done to stop it in time... That said it had to be pretty cool to be swimming that close to one. :)
Not many people are aware of this.. but this encounter might be just as dangerous as a shark encounter with a medium sized shark due to the often aggressive nature of the barracuda, and this one is big enough to "challenge" humans which it do not want near
if i was there, without my speargun, i would have probably shat my pants.... that is the biggest barracuda i have ever seen, cant believe it was so close... the guy with the camera truly has some balls... well done!
It's not a bad thing if a barracuda comes close to you. But never harass them with your prescense. They're pretty high up the food chain. This one was indeed curious.
Hey you divers are jealous cause ima barracuda! look at at me swim yeeeaaaa you wish you were me cause ima barracuda! o what? Your taking pictures? ok let me pose BOOM now your camera is gonna explode with awesomeness cause ima barracuda
Happened to me once in Pompano Beach. Was snorkeling offshore in a rare still, crystal clear water day when this huge barracuda swam up to me really fast, stopped and just kept looking at me. Didn't know what he had in mind. I slowly drifted towards shore and, eventually, he left.
I used to feel this way. In my adventures, I rarely took pictures because I was too busy enjoying the moment. Now that time has passed and my memory quickly fades, I wish I had documented more of those great moments. You will be surprised what you won't be able to remember, moments that you thought would stay with you forever. Most of the time, you won't even realize what you've forgotten. Pictures are a reminder of your history. They keep your past from becoming unmoored and lost. Do your future, old self a favor and take more pictures. What good is experiencing a moment when it's gone from memory?
He was doing his best "Jim Carrey-In Living Color" skit about people photo-bombing and being knuckleheads when the camera is rolling and they get to act silly in the background
