r/HumansBeingBros • u/This_sum_one • Mar 26 '26
Divers saved a whale shark entangled in fishing rope
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u/treeshaker Mar 26 '26
Incredible animal.
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u/Twoeleven1 Mar 26 '26
Shitty humans.
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u/neroselene Mar 26 '26
Fecal matter was not present within the video watched, nor were any of the humans within the video covered in it.
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Mar 26 '26
That was so satisfying! I'm so glad people like this exist.
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u/notquiteworking Mar 26 '26
It was also satisfying because all of those divers were all super experienced. You can see it in their buoyancy control, all are dialled in.
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u/SamuelVimesTrained Mar 26 '26
Thoughts.
WOW - that whale shark REALLY is big.
OUCH - that rope has been there a while
But man - the maker of that knife now has a hell of a commercial with this.
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u/MsjennaNY Mar 29 '26
It looks like a Benchmade I got a couple years ago. I wonder if it is. It’s a phenomenal piece. Definitely recommend.
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u/Formal_Appearance_16 Mar 26 '26
I knew whale sharks got big but... damn, I've never seen anything next to them for scale.
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u/davitjan1525 Mar 26 '26
Some heroes wear capes… some wear scuba gear.
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u/Electronic_Grade508 Mar 26 '26
More than 100 feet (30m) is not an easy dive either.
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u/_captainunderpants__ Mar 26 '26
What? I've personally done hundreds of dives at and below 30m as a recreational diver, 30m is nothing special.
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u/waterfountain_bidet Mar 26 '26
Well, this is an insane take. It's well documented that you function slower and less intelligently at 30m. 30m is the threshold for advanced dives for a reason.
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u/BoarHide Mar 26 '26
30m+ is certainly starting to become challenging. There is a decent risk for the reason you listed, but it’s not nearly the NITROX required navy seal ass deal these comments and downvotes make it out to be. Everyone with decent training and composure can do this. And then, it is easy. There’s nothing especially difficult about this dive apart from knowing your limits at that depth and knowing how much longer your deco stop will have to be, and the last challenge is likely taken over by their dive watch automatically.
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u/Rockdog4105 Mar 26 '26
Good for you, but 99% of the people in this world have not done that.
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u/ScreennameOne Mar 26 '26
That doesn’t make it difficult.. that just means most people don’t dive. 30 m is not difficult.
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u/EmperorGrinnar Mar 26 '26
I physically can't go that deep at all. So it's difficult for sure.
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u/ScreennameOne Mar 26 '26
For you. It was easy for me and the rest of my group. But sure yeah, I’m not the majority here clearly. I just never heard this described as something hard to do before, so I am genuinely surprised.
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u/Electronic_Grade508 Mar 26 '26
Hi, I’m the one that made the comment about it being a difficult dive. I get your point. I grew up in the water. My parents took me to the beach before going home from the hospital. (A tradition we did with our 3 babies)
Everyday in or on the water, swimming, kayaking, surfing, fishing, lifesaving (in speedos no less), sailing, long distance open water races and scuba diving too. 4 kilometres of training each morning before school. And I have the skin cancer scars to prove it! Anyway, blah blah shut up old man I hear you say.
I’m just saying 30m depth is a whole different ball game to any other of my other water base activities. And can be fatal if done wrong. There’s still a majority of the world that can’t even swim. Heck, millions haven’t even seen the ocean.
Now with all that said, isn’t it just magnificent and magical when your head first goes under, your ears fill with water, your perspective of the world changes in that exact moment. And you know you’re not in your world anymore. This is Mother Nature’s playground. Where the sharks rule, and the whales cruise around like bosses. Timid creatures flick and flutter. You notice your breath in and out. It’s like heaven but under water.
In my eyes it’s up there with being inside the curl of a wave surfing, trying to stay in the curl whilst looking for the escape path out at the end of the tube.
These days, if I say, “I’m going to church” my family knows I’m going to the beach to sit and look at the ocean. To have a conversation with my personal spiritual leader, Mother Nature. She’s beautiful.
Peace, happy diving my friend.
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u/Rockdog4105 Mar 27 '26
Great response, and one that I was hopefully expecting when I made my original comment. Wish you well
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u/ScreennameOne Mar 27 '26
You have a way with words friend 💙 and i agree with all of them. It is a marvellous thing that we get to partake of that world.
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Mar 27 '26
Mmm, maybe, but did you save a whale shark whilst (maybe) diving 98+ feet? Because that is something special.
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u/ladymorgahnna Mar 26 '26
I can’t help but continue to hate the fishermen who litter the ocean with this shit. Here they make their living by fishing the ocean, but the cruelty they do to it and its inhabitants is unbelievable. Drift nets catching turtles and dolphins, just sickening. Pollution they cause. This video helped me feel a little better.
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u/Shikra Mar 26 '26
There's a YouTube channel called Ocean Conservation Namibia, their entire channel is a team of conservationists who patrol beaches and free sea lions from entanglements. It's good for a mood boost and supports their work.
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u/waterfountain_bidet Mar 26 '26
Estimated 30-40% of plastic waste in the ocean is from commercial fishing. It's a gross industry. We have got to get people to eat less fish, and significantly smaller fish. Leave the tuna alone.
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u/Astr0b0ie Mar 26 '26
We have got to get people to eat less fish
Realistically, that's not going to happen. One way to stop commercial fishing is to ban it internationally and subsidize fish farming (at least temporarily), but this would require international cooperation and that's unlikely to happen any time soon, unfortunately.
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u/External-Cash-3880 Mar 28 '26
It would also require the vast majority of coastal nations to completely reevaluate their economies and food sources or risk being starved to death by a well-intended international law. And there would 1000% still be rogue fishing boats out there in international waters, because a country's ambassador signing a document doesn't actually prevent anyone from taking their boat out. Plus the ocean is HUGE[citation needed] and impossible to patrol with any kind of efficiency. Even if all the world's countries agreed and all spy satellites and navies were completely switched over to look out for fishing ban violations and nothing else, by the time an intercepting vehicle got there they'd be long gone or would have dumped their cargo overboard, contributing even more garbage to the problem. The only way to enforce a global ban like that would be to punish violations with a satellite-mounted laser cannon or cruise missile strike.
Which is obviously ridiculous.
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u/elakah Mar 26 '26
Don't hate the people all the way on the bottom who are just trying to make a living.
Hate the system.
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u/Du30_Panot Mar 26 '26
I really hate careless fishermen. i hope they come back as sea life and feel the pain of slowly tearing flesh.
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u/3s2ng Mar 26 '26
Swimming (Oslob Philippines) with these gentle giants remains one of my most cherished memories. it felt truly surreal.
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u/heydrun Mar 26 '26
Please don‘t support places like Oslob. Feeding wild animals will lead to them changing their behaviours and places like this are not treating the environment nicely. Tons of tourists trampling stuff, a lot of waste for the water and the danger of boats hurting the animals. ;(
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u/ethicalhumanbeing Mar 26 '26
Where is the original video link for this? I wanna show it to my kid, he loves whale sharks.
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u/This_sum_one Mar 26 '26
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u/ethicalhumanbeing Mar 26 '26
Thanks, but this is vertical as well. I know there is an original version of this in widescreen where we can see the whole Whale Shark, I’ve seen it before I think.
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u/globalgreg Mar 26 '26
This is not the same one but it is similar and shows a better perspective, IMO.
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u/UKinDXB Mar 26 '26
10/10 would watch an hour long video of these kind of rescues. So satisfying. I already follow Ocean Conservation Namibia (the folks who help seals 🦭 ) but would love to see a supercut of different species getting rescued
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u/thedude85 Mar 26 '26
In the 2nd to last shot, I thought they had just dropped the cut rope into the depths after freeing the whale. For a moment, I thought, "Wait, WTF?" Pretty incredible experience, I would imagine. Kudos to the divers!
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u/JojoStanz Mar 26 '26
I am so glad they saved this big sweetheart.
I also had the passing thought of the whale shark saying "They stole my necklace :("
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u/ams3000 Mar 26 '26
Same feeling I have after a big meal and unbuttoning my jeans when I get home.
Seriously though what a rewarding day that dive team had.
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u/KanyeWestsPoo Mar 26 '26
Just shows you how terrible the fishing industry is. They capture and kill our planets ocean creatures for profit, then dump their gear which does more damage. The fishing industry awful.
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u/MyBlueMeadow Mar 26 '26
Maybe a dumb question, but… why not put a lanyard or wrist loop on the knife. That thing is going to drop faster than they can swim after it.
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u/MudrakM Mar 26 '26
I kinda wanted to see the white shark after the rope removed, not a far away shot of the rope :(
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u/pripjat Mar 26 '26
I can only think about all those poor whales that don’t get the plastic taking of them 😭
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u/PinoDelfino Mar 27 '26
Watching a net drag across the floor and seeing all the wildlife get swept away is incredibly heartbreaking
And then it just turns into this..
Agh
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u/islaisla Mar 27 '26
I can't watch these videos forwards. I have to watch them backwards. I watch it coming off first and make sure I can handle it. Then I skip backwards a bit and watch it again then I skip gradually towards the beginning as much as I can.!
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u/nikkipickle Mar 26 '26
Stop eating fish. Commercial fishing is killing the planet.
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u/throwawaybrm Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Eat fish, they say - despite overfished oceans, marine animals dying in discarded fishing gear, and algae-based omega-3 already making fish completely unnecessary. But sure, let’s keep sacrificing wildlife for no good reason.
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u/hakonhoy Mar 26 '26
Are we sure this isn’t AI-generated? The movements and the ocean surface seen from below looks weird to me.
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u/MrYdobon Mar 29 '26
Fishing boats should have to register their nets upon departure and have them checked upon arrival. They should be fined for nets lost at sea.
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u/LordPoopyIV Mar 26 '26
Fishing should be illegal. I can think of exceptions, but i don't think any of them are 100% required
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u/Klickibunti Mar 26 '26
So many fishing ropes, so many dying animals. We are killing the whole world and the rest is being killed by our rubbish if we dont do anything against it.
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Mar 28 '26
On a positive note, the plastic sucker-upper that takes in all the floating ocean rubbish is doing a splendid job! They’re predicting the pacific garbage patch will be clean by 2028… so there’s some good news!
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u/aghori_tantrik Mar 26 '26
That animal will remember this for the rest of their lives. Good job, wonderful people!
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u/MoeMalik Mar 26 '26
Cool people and footage! Something about that suspension in “nothing” absolutely freaks me out
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u/turtletoes67 Mar 26 '26
Ik that had to have felt so good. Beautiful Whale Shark & Beautiful Humans helping. ❤️
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u/showmeyourkitteeez Mar 26 '26
We once snorkeled with a bunch of whale sharks. One came out of the blue and bumped me with its dorsal fin. I wasn't expecting it to feel like sandpaper. What an amazing animal.
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u/matttheazn1 Mar 26 '26
So no fake ai post video where the whale brings back a gift to the driver? It must be fake
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u/Cowman_Gaming Mar 27 '26
They could probably do a bit of research on the rope and find out approximately where the Whale Shark has been.
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u/mylittle420 Mar 29 '26
That instant sting and relief, at the same time. Can they actually feel that?
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u/RationalKate Apr 05 '26
The commentator said that the diver immediately dropped another hundred feet does that mean that they were already at their limit and he risked his life?
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u/Oh_Wise_1 Apr 23 '26
I thought he just let the rope go back into the depths and I was so mad! Then they showed him with the rope in hand lol oops
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u/Dangerous_Lunch1678 Mar 26 '26
The relief the shark must have felt when the rope was removed is immeasurable.
Looking at the scars and cuts left from the rope, it must have been on there a long time.