BBC Walking on the sea bed - Human Planet: Oceans, preview

Here is a cool little video on BBC Walking on the sea bed - Human Planet: Oceans, preview

Pretty bad ass to div e that deep with no fins and proper mask ! true meaning back to the basics

That was really cool. That dude is the man!

He got the skills!  Thanks for sharing the video clip Matt.

Oh Man!!! This guy is my hero - and walking on stinging stony coral to boot - what a sav!

dam!!

had to come back an watch it again

High tech speargun - looked like he used  a piece of innertube for his rubber band. Hope whoever took those pictures fixed him up with a proper mask and fins. Must have some real calluses on his feet to walk on the coral like that.

That guy would crush the lings in NorCal!!!

Wow, thats badass!  Wish I had a down time half that long!

Brings back memories when I was a teenager back in American Samoa. Me and my brother used to owned those diving gogles and we don't use no weight belt or fins at all.  Makes me appreciated all the different equipments that we got now a days.  My grandfather will smacked me across the head with a 2/4 if he ever find out I'm using a mask with a snorkel, weight belt, fins and spear gun. May he rest in peace.

IslandYak

Its still quite common in the Philippines, I have seen it first hand numerous times.  These fishermen are usually very poor. 

His goggles are carved from local wood and I've seen plywood used as fins.  What the video does not tell us is that most likely his ear drums are damaged from the pressure. 

My wife's family driver and handyman in the Philippines both used to do this.  They left their home province and moved to the big city for a better life.  I've exchanged a lot of fishing stories with them.
I brought some lures and they were amazed to see a Rapala.

Cheers,

FA

Makes me appreciated all the different equipments that we got now a days.

amen brother!

imagine if this guy was set up with modern gear    I got nothing but respect for people that live with what they got and they make the best of it.

Appreciate the little things in life!

I have a feeling, like the local tossing a cast net in Hawaii told me, he has to be good, cuz if not there's no dinner.

Thought he was being funny at the time but as it sunk in not so much.

Ok admit it.  Who held there breath while watching this to gauge against my mans down time?   

That's amazing to see someone eggbeater down to that depth so easily then do te deed.

Pretty cool but I can't imagine that guy shooting any sizeable fish walking around like that.  Not a very stealthy approach.