The Most Dangerous Fishing Method on Earth 

I love the genuineness of this video, nothing is faked for content, it is just regular people doing their jobs and an awesome youtuber filming them!

As a war photographer for 3 decades, I can recognize true artists when I see them, and the kid who published this piece is definitely a pro! Great work, kid

We have encountered that "decompression sickness" here in the Philippines due to air compressor fishing. Majority of those guys were paralyzed some were dead.

Love how the guy was ready to give you the fake big tv routine. Had his wooden goggles, tiny rowboat ready.

For a 150 ft dive that lasts 1 hour at depth you would require an estimated 250minutes of decompression time assuming the only gas you were breathing is air. This rough estimate was calculated using a square profile with 10ft deco stops and a 40/85 Gradient Factor.

I've been living within the Bajo tribe for around 3 months now just a few kilometers away from Bungin Island in an island called Kaung for an internship program. Coming from a populated city area (Jakarta) and a upper middle class family, I empathize with their living situation so much and I've learned a lot from them. I love this video cause it captures the reality that it isn't as "tribal" as it is and in fact, it's very much modernized. Job well done 👍🏻

For a dive on air to 150 feet for 2 hours assuming the first dive of the night would require a minimum of about **7 hours** (423 minutes) of decompression, starting at 70ft and ending at 10 ft. For example: Depth (ft) , Time (minutes) 70, 3 60, 14 50, 21 40, 32 30, 49 20, 89 10, 214 (Calculated on MultiDeco with ZHL-16C & GF 100/100).

Love your content! As a car painter, I can tell that using such piston air compressor often sends a lot of fine oil particles along with the air, leaving us painters with a fisheye paint problem afterwards, or ruined paint job, and those poor compressor divers with lungs full of oil. You need a series of really good and expensive air filters and water/oil separators to battle that problem, or you just use screw type compressor. Love your content and the way you tell your stories! Keep up the good work! Also I am very pleased to see how those natives of the small island were very friendly! Just sad about the island condition, they are a bit dirty, not caring a lot for plastics floating around...

Now, this is how a true documentary should be made! One of the many best videos of yours for sure. Enjoyed every second of it. Genuinely amazing!

As an indonesian i entirely shock and sad for them risking their life just for such a smallfish like that. Im definitely getting my freediving course first before i turn spearfishing into a hobby. Thanks a lot dude

It is amazing to see how your channel has grown! I remember when you where just getting started, this is a true blessing that you have worked so hard to create. Enjoy it, keep sharing!

I love how he said “but those 2 guys are professionals” as if the sea nomads aren’t doing it since they’re born to literally SURVIVE.

The closing statement is powerful. People struggling for survival will act out of desperation. People that have some sort of stability have the ability to think ahead and the luxury of making decisions.

I've been an avid fan of the channel for some time now. I must admit that I find it very easy to listen to you as you explain the video. Your content intrigued me from the start and now this video 👍👍. Absolutely awesome and amazing content for everyone. This group of people are incredible and actually scientifically amazing. Thanks for the video and as always I am looking forward to seeing the next one.

Amazing video, I really appreciate the fact you kept it real. I can't imagine how much work went into this video. Also the final statement from Peterson is very true!

15:10 I was so invested that I completely forgot compression diving was the focus of the video. You're amazing at this, great work.

This is one of my favorite videos you've done so far, I loved seeing you interact with the locals and telling the story of their lives. Hope to see more like this!

So refreshing to see your insanely entertaining, informative and maybe most importantly no bs videos. Keep it up i look forward to every video you upload!!

This video was incredible I love how you accurately captures the real history of these people.

Awesome content. Love your honesty. Love the choice of music! Well done!

Brilliant video!!! I learned so much from this. Love your content and the fact that you're now making proper lengthy vids and not shorts. Don't get me wrong the yt shorts are great too.

Loved this longer form story! Don’t worry about being on camera talking, you come across great!!

Years ago I worked in a small dive shop on an island in the Pacific, the small compressor we used was essentially the same as used for tires, except that a system of filters (charcoal I believe) was used to clean the air that I pumped into 80 cf tanks. That's what I recall. I wonder if anyone has made the effort to introduce filters on the compressors they use to these divers. Or does it make a difference, I don't know. The shop also had a bunch of those frogman double hose regulators like Mike Nelson used on the TV show which looked pretty cool at the time. I don't remember seeing any PADI or NAUI cards or schools. The shop only rented to divers they schooled or divers affiliated with the US Navy. It wasn't unusual to see divers spearfish 300-400 lb grouper, or even larger bottom fish back then. The owner of the shop was one of the first divers approached by J Cousteau to test the SCUBA as invented by Cousteau.

Luv these LONG videos yet luv the shorts as well!. Great content!.

I just want to say what a hook. Your first 3min did a great job of captivating, putting questions and rebuttals out. I'm exited to see you go meet them.

This is a great documentary, vlog and educational video and you're a great story teller!

such a fantastic episode. Thank you !!

I did a liveaboard dive trip around Sumba and Sawu a few years back, and the one thing I couldn't believe was the sheer amount of trash that was absolutely everywhere! Really really sad to see...

One of the best videos so far. A true documentary. Very nice.

I love you for your honesty makes the video more real and enjoyable. I wish our media houses shared nothing but the truth and this world would be a better place 😊

This was my new favorite video on the whole of youtube. Thank you for this!

This was a really amazing video man, keep up the great work!

Loving the long video format. Great work

Interested in seeing you explore other, more remote Bajou villages.

Just found your channel today, and I must say I'm a fan. I grew up on a sailboat in Mexico & the South Pacific islands, and spearfishing was the most reliable way of stocking the freezer. Was particularly epic in Tuamotu, French Polynesia, which is also where I learned how to scuba dive courtesy of the French Foreign Legion. That said, 75ft is my personal freediving record, which was quite deep enough thank you. Those guys who fish using pony bottles or air compressors... yikes. When I was 9 we came across a drifting panga in Baja California with a dead fisherman and air compressor in it. He made it back into his boat, but presumably succumbed to decompression sickness after. From the way he looked, it must have been an extremely painful way to go

I binged watched every one of your videos like it was the newest season of GOT. Love your take on the lifestyle of freediving and I really enjoy seeing big tuna, real culture and delicious food. Maybe I’ll see you in Bali this fall! 😎 🤿 🐟

Try the Philippine bajao. They are still doing free diving. Mindanao or dumagat in Isabela in Luzon .. BBC 9 years ago feature Badjao in the Philippines not Indonesia.

Very cool vid but the music was irritating

Professional breath hold diver Budimir Šobat's world record of 24 minutes and 37 seconds holding his breath underwater.

In case you’re wondering what the most populated island on the world is, I think it’s Java, Indonesia with around 150 million people

Yes. I’ve been waiting for this and it’s a half hour!🍿

This was such an authentic video! Immediately subscribed 🤙 Also I’ve always been curious how people shoot videos who hate talking to cameras haha

this was phenomenal, great video

Modern diveing rules are more savety driven than anything else. You can go up and down in the collumn, higher pressure is the actual treatment for compression sickness. if he goes up to drop off a fish and then goes back down the nitrogen bubbles get compressed back down and hes fine. While he hops between surface and depth the actual pressure hes under is not as high as if he was constantly under water.

The auto tire compressor is fine if the right oil is used. As a commercial Diver when I came in from oilfield diving to inshore diving we used tool compressors from home Depot with extra volume tanks and LP oil for dive compressors. We where diving normal commercial helmets to a max deep of around 25 meters

Amazing video! In addition to the fantastic production, it is very interesting to see the adaptations that our body (and other living beings) acquires to adapt to the environment and activities.

thanks for this video, i really enjoyed it! crazy to think that those divers go up and down 20m without a pause!

What a high-quality video! I love the realistic portrayal of the world. Keep up the good work. Also, the Peterson ending with the video overlay was great.

compressor diving is illegal in the Philippines. but this is the best real talk documentary about spear fishing... thanks for sharing. watching from the Philippines.

Youre so sound dude. I love that ive seen you grow by millions of followers over what feels like such a short time!

This is absolutely wild! To merge sea nomads with scuba diving techniques 😮

Interesting to see another island like this. Pulau Mesa i thought it was the most densly populated island in the world. not far from Labuan Bajo. thanks for sharing

You have to visit sama -bajau in philippines down in zamboanga - sulu because they still practice deep diving and still living in boats

RIP Fast Eddie. Born in Andros. Met him in Bimini. Excellent free-diver. He told me, I quote, "It's a mind ting, you hafta to trick yourself mon. Trick yourself by pushing until the da point you tink you are drowning. Soon come. Soon come." Also he taught me this: NEVER, EVER HYPERVENTILATE! Don't be like me YT, dive with a buddy. SWB. It's very real. But it wasn't long, I was in 40+ feet of the second clearest waters in the world. I got spoiled. Came home to Florida, and it's all murky and sharks. After about 20-30 feet you are not visible with the glass bucket when current. Remember! It's your job as a diver to maintain safely. The cap can only look back and forth for bubbles. Get on a fish, get lost in the abyss and bam. Memento Mori

What a great video and the ending with Dr. Peterson was excellent!

I used to do this type of COmpressor spear-diving at night in the Philippines. Indeed it's very unsafe and dangerous. I have watch few of my buddies died or crippled (due to bends). Looking back, our compressor did not even have a regulator/dryer.

I was wondering why your channel was relatively quiet for a while. Thanks for making great content, as always. Any place with a lot of people in one spot seems to decimate the wildlife around the area. Its the same in the Caribbean too. Not that I blame them for trying to survive. I agree with you. While it is sad that old lifestyles die, I think its better for the people as well as the natural environment to help folks modernize. Its inevitable anyways, so all we can do is to help the smooth transition.

Amazing video the ending was perfect. This explains that.

Can we get more of these types of vids? this was amazing!

Love your content❤

The "should you drink tonight" written on the wall lol. You've got some amazing friends dude!

Great video and thanks for your honesty.

My grandfather used to spearfish whenever he could, he grew up during the Japanese colonization of the Philippines so he couldn’t really go to school, he decided he’d make a living off the sea, whether he was day fishing or night fishing he could dive up to 80-100 feet barefoot, no gear at all and could hold his breath for 2 minutes, said it was a lot slower though since he didn’t have a flipper when he first used to dive, notice how I singularly said “flipper” the man only had one flipper made out of a flat piece of plastic which he’d use to dive, my uncle now uses that same flipper whenever he goes fishing, he too can dive up to 20 meters or more, I also just use one flipper I made from a plastic barrel lying around in my dad’s construction yard but I can only dive 25 feet though :P I only get to see the sea every summer, can’t reach a depth of 20 meters just yet, hopefully one day. Great video by the way, love the Jordan Peterson bit at the end.

The sea nomads makes me wonder if in a few centuries jobs we take throughout our lives will make our bodies adapt to it. So like if we used our computers for many hours a day, everyday, would our eyes be more accustomed to our screens?

Thanks for the honest video, I really appreciate it and I’m definitely a new subscriber to your channel.

There are a lot of bajau in sulu Philippines where they still practice free diving and spear fishing

We also have badjao community (or sea jepseys) here in Philippine. There really good in diving probably because fishing is their number 1 source of income primarily spear fishing. Through the years of passing that kind of way of living they probably develop a very strong spleen.

My dad used to practice same method of diving. Now one ear doesn’t work at all 😂 Also he had a lot of health issues . This video is f*^+ing awesome you killed it

I love this guys videos been subbed for at least 4 years i always wanted to go scuba diving for fish seems like fun but I can’t hold my breath for that long 😂😂

Well documented. I like the narrator. He nailed it. Keep it up.

The two videos were made in different places, although they are still of the same tribe, the one on Sumbawa has been slightly contaminated with the progress of the times and the mixing of tribes that has occurred through marriage, the tribes in the Bajo tribe on Sumbawa have also begun to wane. It's different from what NetGeo documented, they are still very natural and the tribes that NetGOE recorded are tribes in Sulawesi, they are still original, and the difference is that NetGeo made videos for years ago while this video was only made or uploaded a few months ago, due to the times the Bajo tribe has also been slightly affected by progress and has begun to abandon their diving habits a little, therefore their abilities begin to decrease, and everyone has different abilities.

I am from Saudi Arabia, and I can hold my breath up to 3 minutes, but my major problem is with deep pressure under 8 meters 😵‍💫😵

My boy this is great no bs straight foward

I've never related more to a youtuber. The on camera talking is always so awkward for me I loathe it. But the voiceovers are astounding. I love how genuine this is. Keep it up brother

the reason the guy could go up and then come down like he did was because he was using the water as a pressure chamber like is used to treat decompression sickness. it is a technique utilized by cave divers and tech divers often

I think all races of people can free dive a similar amount, if you dive every day from a child you grow and adapt to it that's probably why they are great divers (bullcrap 15minutes as there would be video proof), its not just genetics its practice anybody who dives all day for their entire life will be able to do it no matter where they are from.

Brilliant video as always.

Amazing Video , thank you for sharing your experience!

Video was 100% fantastic ... Until Peterson had to ruin the ending by being on screen and saying words😔

Use the metric system please its so frustrating for all non-americans watching your videos. At least put a label in the video with the meter equivalent.

I love your video and story. Thank you for all the time you spent going out there and putting them together. If I may, I have one constructive criticism: sometimes the music is louder than your voice and it's really hard to hear what you're saying (which is very interesting and I don't want to miss because I all about learning!) and find myself turning on subtitles to understand batter. As I said, I love your videos. Keep up the good work!

As someone who scuba dive i really love your video,it an amazing place and some amazing people love from the Caribbean🇻🇨🇻🇨

This was great. Really well made.

Please keep posting longer vids there so good 🙏🙏

I love the reality of this video! VERY rare! Excellent job!

Is there not a difference in the compressor air and the air from a SCUBA tank? The abiolity to avoid the bends on comptressor must6 be so9methying related? .

I love this channel so much

Easily one of the best videos on RU-vid.

I like the concept of making your home and your property out of Coral. Simplified, do the work, earn your worth. Totally would love to visit here one day if they had anything other than fish to eat!

This was amazing. Thanks for the honesty 🙏🙏😊

Try the bajao in the Philippines in TAWI TAWI maybe there you can find one.

Thanks you for making this video and in your specific style as well. New subscriber here :)

They are called BADJAO in Mindanao, PHILIPPINES. They are really thriving on floating bamboo nearby shore.

This was a amazing video love it and keep going brother ❤

This is basically National Geographic water edition, and i am all here for it!

Excellent video. Well done.

Great content! Thank you

I'm wondering if you head up to the boat after you've free dived and head back down almost immediately if the decompression state you should do doesnt affects your body differently and doesn't do as much and on your last surface, you decompress for longer than normal.

Truly Outstanding, loved it.

Thanks for this one man