Giant Manta Ray Tangled In Fishing Line asking us For Help! 

I know this is an old comment, but I think it mostly has to do with the fact that mutualism between larger organisms is very common underwater. Plenty of fish/sharks/turtles/etc will go to the reef in order to be cleaned of parasites by fish and certain kinds of shrimp. Additionally, predators seem to be far more picky underwater, and as a result many prey species only adapt/learn to fear certain types of creatures (humans not included). Some combination of these circumstances make large animals underwater very relaxed/curious around unfamiliar creatures as opposed to scared or aggressive.

thank you for doing that!

The bigger problem is abandoned drift Nets. Fishing line is a major problem don't get me wrong. But drift nets they killed for years and years and years

How come some many modern inventions are destructive instead of constructive.? Humans has been fishing as long as we been human, why modernity is so problematic.?

@@RukiaBlackBlazer Economics. Today's trawlers are catch more for less.

Anyone who thinks this is a modern problem is stupid. The only difference between now and the past 500 years is that now we have cameras and social media and instant access to today's outrage

Oh yes, have always done that, especially with the fishing (lead) weights you'll find around the wrecks.

Thank you for always doing that! A worthy effort to keep our oceans habitable for the fish that have to live with the aftermath of a visit from man. Cheers!!

Great idea mate. I do I similar thing for free campsites that I stay at, as my way of showing my appreciation to the landowner for allowing me to camp there. Your idea is way more interesting though. I dip my hats to you, Sir.

Thank you for doing that!

Terry Alsop Thank you for your efforts on this when you dived. You can continue to do this, but do it on land, and get the plastic and other debris before it gets into our rivers and oceans. I do river and lake cleanups every year, and pick up hundreds of pounds of garbage that all the pigs in this world carelessly litter our rivers and lakes with.

"Flap flap"--is that a Latin binomial?

TheGentleman this is my new favorite comment.

''fap fap'' xD

What are you ? 4 YO ?

TheGentleman This has to be the most sickly saccharine immature comment I've seen on a RU-vid animal clip,and that saying something!😳

Agreed! They're 1 of my fave aquatic creatures! Gr8 aerodynamic shape:that's y d AirForce had som designz based on 'em:SR 71. B'dos,W.Indies

I never knew they grew that big 😬 I learned something new 🤗

@@vickyandersen8660 LAFF 😁UT L😆UD🎭🃏 B🇧🇧 dos,W.Indies🍒🍑🍊🍌

They enjoy those bubbles hitting their bellies lol

@oi YOU That is true, ocean dead zones, zoonotic pathogens like coronavirus, ocean plastic (70 percent is discarded fishing gear), global warming, deforestation (most of it is for soy to feed livestock) oceanic acidification, and this isnt even getting into health or ethics! you can make a positive difference with the very simple and easy step of living a vegan lifestyle though

Yes, mesmerising💕

Everytime i watch them helping these beautiful creatures i get emotional too im a sucker when it comes to animals, Its good to see love in this world After watching the news and seeing all negative its.nice to see this

I love'd swimming with the Manta Ray, best experience in my life.

Yes! The only monster in the world are the human!! not 1 animal is realy bad! only human are very bad!! sorry for my bad english! Reiner from Germany

A Big thanks from land locked Colorado!!!!! WELL DONE!!!!!!

Don't forget, we are also the people who have caused death and destruction to many poor animals.

james street Not very many examples of why they derive the word Humane from human.

why do we let ppl pour shit into rivers and seas, why do we let ppl plunder the oceans, if you want fish fkn farm them and leave a beutiful world for our kids to see as we can, with the tech we have achieved now we dont need to ruin and destroy the planet, unless you want some thing for nothing, time to make that shit illegal, invest in farming fish or eat fkn Quorn :)

As the old saying goes "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” therefore, do something, whatever it is that you are capable of and that you care about. Campaign, write to your MP, start a pressure group. And of course how you live and how you spend your money. They may seem like little things that effect little, but the more people become active in their own small ways, as a whole we can change the world. It is possible. be active, not passive.

Are we? Or are we a parasite that is surviving off of other species, devouring and destroying everything to out advantage?

Simon C so cute

Ya that's what you want to feel, you're just hopping they have feelings and stuff to make you happy on a rainy day, but then you're gonna eat your stupid antibiotic mass production chicken and you don't give a shit!

@@cosmicgyoza1898 Or maybe you don't know them And feeling that way makes you happy.

How cool was it that the divers are actually the ones that kept swimming round them instead of it actually being that make believe fantasy that your feels made you concoct up? 😊

Thought the divers were the next upgrade to their cleaning station, stayed around to see if there was anything else the divers could get off...

Swum with one once and they are a sight to behold and yes Jamal I know....Im really smart

I'd be sh_tting myself if something that large just swam up to me out of the blue.

majestic AF

Don't forget about yap state Micronesia..

@@5mini5 Also Hawaii! Big Island!

I remember back in the 70s when Jacques Cousteau specials would come out every few years. One year he followed a fishing trawl and his mini Subs. Those trawl Nets take everything off the bottom of the ocean and away they dredge through the settlements. He estimated that at best 40% of the catch was marketable species. The other 60% was thrown over the side dead. I remember seeing a show in the 80s where in Canada they were over exploiting the herring in the ocean. They weren't selling the fish it was the roe they were after. On a world full of starving people the fish were dumped by the tons into landfills. In Florida where I live, the mullet Fisheries collapsed. The commercial mullet fisherman tried to blame the schmuck that was out there with cast net for the collapse. The real reason is during spawning season they would go in pick up whole schools of mullet. Mullet is new big commercial value fish. But what was valuable at that time of the year was the roe for export to Asia. Once again they were catching the fish throwing away all the fish once they strip the eggs. So the mullet weren't able to spawn and surprise surprise the Fisheries collapsed. The ocean has the potential to feed the planet if and only if Will you manage the resource responsibly. there was a variety of fish that was readily available in the late 80s and 90s. Perhaps you remember seeing it in the fresh fish markets, orange roughy. In matter of a decade or two commercial fishing destroyed the orange roughy population. First of all we didn't understand the biology of the fish. secondly the method used to fish for them, the trawls, destroyed the natural habitat that they used to feed and find shelter. I think there is videos on RU-vid about the orange roughy then you might find heartbreaking and informative

Most of the plastic in the ocean is fishing stuff.

Yes........thats real humanlike for better world. I love it totaly

Could not agree more with this comment! I've been seeing all kinds of these videos. Of various sea creatures asking humans for help like this. I had no clue the stuff like this was such a problem. Thank you brave kind amazing heros, the internet and RU-vid for getting the word out about this horrible thing we are creating for these beautiful intelligent creatures. So happy to know the world still has so many heros out there doing the right thing. I appreciate this kindness so much and wish I could give you brave men and women a huge hug! May your days be filled with goodness and love and the kindness unto you that you showed here and in all the many other hero videos. I'd marry you just for that! Lol well plus your cute.. well I think anyways under all that gear.

You can. Stop supporting the fishing industry.

You can. Stop eating animals! Stop your own pollution!

You can do similar things like to adopt homeless dogs, they will be even more grateful

Me too

me too

Exactly sarah, not enough credit is given. At the risk of sounding like a tree hugger, i seen a documentary about how trees and the whole forest will communicate when they are threatened and act accordingly, it was amazing!

Carlotta H Yes. I could never eat a homo sapien. They have rights too!

Gary Chadwick did you cry watching

They are dumb animals in that they can't speak, that is the true definition of the word dumb, unable to speak, at least with their mouths but they are very much aware and very intelligent.

Mantas are there to be cleaned, they aren't 'asking for help' they go there for fish to eat parasites. They are also curious of all large creatures.

Of course animals can speak but we humans are too dumb to understanding them sometimes. They just speak a different language. they are not dumb in any way!

So many remora on those mantas. They are only hitching a ride so it doesn't harm the manta.

Lol! That ray must be a good provider!

What a nice car they got...

Nuthin' like cruisin' a '63 Stingray!

gym shoe man as in huMANs. You’re way too sensitive.

@@BlGGESTBROTHER I gotta say I'm with you my man. Nobody loves animals more than me but men who eat fish are evil...but women get a pass? & How does liberal fit in there? Go sip your latte in your Italian leather shoes you snowflake! I love animals but I also love the 2nd Amendment. I think this LIBERAL might be late for drag queen story hour at the PUBLIC library, ya know that liberal agenda with men in drag reading books to children around 5 years old.? Dudes logic has more holes than the nets that these poor sea creatures are getting caught in. Nobody said anything about politics until that guy/gal/non-binary person. NO GENDERED LANGUAGE, LIBERAL. GEEZ, THAT'S LIKE #1 IN YOUR PLAYBOOK & YOU OFFEND ALL OF US BY SAYING EVIL THINGS LIKE MEN AND WOMEN... I'll never be able to sleep tonight. ✌️Jonathan Yaniv.

@@saveyourselvessheeple What the hell did I just read rofl

@@BlGGESTBROTHER A short part of the reality of the liberal agenda, the one where all the men are inherently good.?? Glad you got a kick out of it, boys laugh and men stand against such things. Do a little research if you think I exaggerated one ioda. They've always gotta come into something completely unrelated and virtue signal. My mistake, I thought I was talking to a grown up.

@@saveyourselvessheeple You're a nutter ;)

HeidiSue60 I've seen one where a wild Canadian Goose actually went straight to a police officer for help in rescuing it's babies from a storm drain.

HeidiSue60 Hi, do you by any chance have the link to that video please. Would love to see it. Thanks. Agree its great to see humans in the act of helping animals instead of hunting and hurting them.

Calling the trump

Mantas are known as "Majestic Sea Flap Flaps" on the internet for a reason.

Yes mine too 😟

well done you got to the end of that comment

That hook must been on him for a long time

It was rusted

Gender assumed

Why is it a she?

The books on the table

Jim 671467 Like anything else though it’s supply and demand. Stop eating them and encourage others and there won’t be this sick industry.

@@em-jp4xt The demand of millions of uninfluential people barely making a living is constant and a lot harder to change than the method of supply of a few billion dollar corporations.

Jim 671467 Mostly Chinese and Japanese fishing boats.

@@aliceshaw8265 hmm yes, all liberals are hateful. Take the plank out of your own eye. Shame on you for stereotyping.

Nuke asia

These are giant mantas. They can be up to 9m across. Normal Mantas are smaller - mostly 3m to 4m.

I’ve found all kinds of garbage while scuba or snorkelling! Hell even on mountain tops, humans are the worst! If you bring it with you take it back with you!

Thank you. There really should be laws that nets *have* to be manufactured from material that will fully biodegrade within say 5 years, and non-toxic if ingested. Yes it means nets have be replaced, but they have a limited useful life anyway so there is no point in making them out of a synthetic that never ever goes away.

Yeah exactly.

Why killing fish when it is not necessary?

Their fin span is up to 22 ft.

The greatest words said,, our supposedly elected administrators are trying their best for a nuclear war...

Absof***inglutely

Wish I could give you more than one thumbs up. You said so much with very few words.

Technically untrue, we've found life on other celestial entities in our own solar system. This is just the only planet we know of to have life on a larger multicellular scale.

@@n4120p Way to go, Ernest. There's nothing quite like a California liberal that has to drag politics into a video about helping out an animal in distress. Go spew your rhetoric under political videos, and get over being so butthurt.

You are so welcome

why on earth would anyone dislike this?????????????

I know eh? Like I was cheering this Guy!!! Great job he did.How could anyone not like that?... People Baffle me.

My guess is that people still for some reason have a hate since its a creature related to the kind that fatally stung Steve Irwin. Even though steve would still never harbor hate for these beautiful creatures or any creature for that matter. Though its only a guess

@@sofyuchiha9 I doubt that. I think it has to do with the fact they read the title of a video, then have certain expectations. And when they don't see their exact expectations met in that video, they hit the thumbdown. And then there are the trolls and the haters, who will just thumbdown a video because reasons unknown. To be frank, it's really not worth the time and effort to try figure out their motives. And while a RU-vidr may feel attacked over a thumbdown, it IS an interaction and therefore it helps said RU-vidr gain views and, if monetized, money.

A little sharp knife with a blunt tip is handy, but a good pair of stainless steel Medic type scissors is actually more effective and safer to use to cut away monofilament and other entanglements.

sunny71169 A small pair of stainless steel pliers for removing hooks is invaluable.

+sunny71169 When I was able to dive I always had a pair of scissors and pliers with me, just in case. So many sea creatures are impaired by other people's stupidity.

I feel that.