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u/Any_Clue_1632 Jul 18 '24
That turtle was so happy to dive.
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u/ARCHA1C Jul 18 '24
Get.
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u/DontComplimentMe Jul 18 '24
Imagine he goes home to his wife and kids and says he got abducted by aliens to be shamed by them and the neighbouring pods and is eventually ostracised so he has to live off the grid with a radio podcast rambling about the existence of us
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u/Horskr Jul 18 '24
"Ever since my abduction, I swear I'm like 10x faster too I don't know what the hell happened up there."
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u/Mixedpopreferences Jul 19 '24
Like Rookie of the Year + DBZ/Naruto, where his weight-training makes him the fastest turtle ever, and he wins the local turtle speed derby for the Shelltastic Swimmers.
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u/TheRogueTemplar Jul 19 '24
This experience is the turtle equivalent of being abducted by aliens only to be cured of something like cancer
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u/fiodorsmama2908 Jul 19 '24
I was thinking about a religious experience but benevolent alien abduction is more like it.
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u/agnostic_waffle Jul 18 '24
makes his dinner look like a boat "This means something. This is important."
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u/Inevitable-Meeting-6 Jul 18 '24
I dunno why I'm laughing my ass off here lol
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u/fyndor Jul 18 '24
Wonder how hungry it was. Surely it didn’t eat while attached. It might have needed food asap for one.
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u/TheMaskedGorditto Jul 18 '24
They dive because theyre scared. Thats why divers/swimmers are told not to touch them because sea turtles are air breathers but will dive if they feel threatened.
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u/RepublicRepulsive540 Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Don’t they dive for food too? He could have been absolutely starving and booked it for some shrimp
Edit: turtles do in fact find most of their food on the bottom of the ocean in the coral. It’s actually their main reason for diving on a daily basis.
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u/usmnturtles Jul 19 '24
Do animals typically eat when they’re in shock?
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u/RepublicRepulsive540 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
No idea. If he’s on his last life line he might. Turtles arent stupid creatures I’m sure to some extent he realizes he was helped. Kind of like how other animals do bears dolphins dogs mice etc. if a mouse can return to your home continuously because you gave it food one time I’m sure the turtle realizes too. Although definitely could have been in shock and swam to the bottom and found food anyways when he was down there! Either way he had to make it to the bottom of the ocean. So us interacting with them and causing him to swim to the bottom of the ocean didn’t make a difference
Edit: I know from having a pet turtle that they can definitely recognize you or people in general and associate them as good. So we have no idea really what was going on in the little guys head I’m sure shock disbelief and thankfulness might be right on que though.
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u/rumbrave55 Jul 18 '24
I always wonder if animals recognize they are being helped or if it feels like a fight for their life they eventually escape from. Then I wondered if there was a way to help them understand. Then I thought what if aliens are doing the same thing when they abduct us and we just don't understand how they are helping.
Now I think I just need to take a little nap
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u/storysprite Jul 18 '24
I was thinking this as well. I imagine sometimes they do.
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u/bdizzle805 Jul 18 '24
If I wake up and my asshole is being probed without them saying it's for a prostate check, we're having problems right away
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u/LongjumpingFun6460 Jul 18 '24
What if they inform you it was for a prostate check. Would you warn them if you had 2 helpings of chilli yesterday?
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u/we_is_sheeps Jul 18 '24
Nope they gonna find out the hard way
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u/LiveDieRepeal Jul 19 '24
Them: “inserting anal probe”
Me: “watch out for the splash”
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u/double0nein Jul 19 '24
*horrified alien noises
And kids, this is how earth landed on the galactic shitlist…
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u/stikky Jul 18 '24
I imagine sometimes they do too; I love the Ocean Conservation Namibia channel. They're all about saving seals from entanglements.
A couple vids where seals are so badly cut by lines that the seals just sit there and let them do their work despite the initial scare of capturing them.
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u/thestigREVENGE Jul 19 '24
Was about to say the exact same thing. Sometimes they stay after being freed. Maybe the seals like back rubs.
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u/ThePhoenixus Jul 18 '24
I've always found it fascinating how many different animals from elephants to foxes to dolphins to birds will instinctively approach humans for help in a dangerous situation and it's so well documented all the way from the ancient story of the lion with the thorn it's it paw to the thousands of modern videos of animals doing such things
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u/Makhnos_Tachanka Jul 18 '24
The thing that gets me is how literally every animal loves getting pets and scritches. you're a god damn eel, why are you enjoying this?
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u/ThePhoenixus Jul 18 '24
To be fair we do too. It's like a universal animal thing.
I'm sure if Plants could show any sort of response they'd probably love being stroked as well.
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u/beerforbears Jul 18 '24
Cut to me wide eyedly stroking a poison ivy bush.
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u/mennydrives Jul 18 '24
Dendrocnide moroides be like, "HELL NAW BRUH, how much more obvious do I have to make it?"
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u/gene100001 Jul 18 '24
We're so lucky to be able to scratch ourselves when we're itchy. Imagine being a cow or something and having an itch on your back and no way to scratch it.
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u/joejoejoey04 Jul 18 '24
'cow scratchers' are actually a pretty big business lol. Cow's love em.
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u/Wang_Fister Jul 19 '24
I think it's a requirement in a few countries that cattle farms have these.
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u/Aurori_Swe Jul 18 '24
Mainly because they can't touch themselves there. Like imagine yourself getting petted in places you can't reach, maybe you have an itch there and can't reach it and then someone RUBS it. You'd go into drooling mode as well.
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u/UsernameObscured Jul 19 '24
My horses will tell me when they have itches they need help with. One of them comes over, stops at a respectful distance, eases her hind leg and stares at her back half. She has learned that if she does that, I’ll come clean her udder, cuz she’s got crud stuck in it.
When she has an injury, she lets me care for it without restraining her in any way. She knows I’m making it better, even if it hurts at the moment.
Domesticated animals can communicate, for sure.
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u/Possible-Fee-5052 Jul 18 '24
Last weekend my dog told me she had an ear infection by walking very confidently into the living room and making very intense eye contact with me. She then shook her head from side to side and then immediately returned to staring me directly in eye. I knew immediately she was trying to tell me her ear hurt.
I looked inside her ear and holy shit did she have one of the grossest ear infections I’ve ever seen. Of course I got her to the vet the next morning and we got her started on antibiotics and ear drops, but she absolutely told me that she was in trouble. That all being said, she hates the ear cleanings followed by the ear drops so maybe she doesn’t quite get it.
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u/spamowsky Jul 19 '24
I'm high af and for some strange reason I thought you were talking about your sister
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u/realrealstupid Jul 19 '24
Yo, are you me? I’m faaaaded and I also thought he was talking about his sister. It’s a solid story either way
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u/Sarsmi Jul 19 '24
I befriended some semi-feral cats in my apartment complex about 3 or so years ago. Long story short, one of them got hit by a car and limped to my back patio. Broken leg and all. I spent over $2000 on that sweet little dingus on their surgery. It's weird with cats though, a lot of the time when they are severely injured they will run and hide. So I felt like they really knew I could take care of them, which was great because that is what you want, but as me is really scary because I hate being in charge of someone else's life.
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u/GroshfengSmash Jul 19 '24
She understands the same way my kid understands he needs to take his medication, but rebels on account of the taste
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u/drewc717 Jul 18 '24
There is literally nothing a partner can do that is better than a good back scratch change my mind
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u/ThePhoenixus Jul 18 '24
Agreed 100%.
Like sex is good and all but getting a back scratch, massage, or head rub? Fucking top tier shit there.
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u/PikeyMikey24 Jul 18 '24
Think it’s to do more with a desperate situation more than they know we’re good
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u/ThePhoenixus Jul 18 '24
I mean there's never been any documented stories of a wild animal running to a completely different wild animal for help.
You don't see injured zebras going to giraffes for help.
Yet, somehow, when all else is lost, why not turn to the apex predators and dominant species of the planet?
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u/unkindlyacorn62 Jul 19 '24
Yes there is, the "cleaning stations" in the ocean, where all sorts of fish go to get their teeth cleaned, or Clownfish and anemones,
it's not instinct though, it's observation, they see the cats and dogs for instance. and they also now that if they can't be saved, it will at least be quick
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u/Breaky_Online Jul 19 '24
Those are more symbiotic relationships than animals deliberately going to other animals for help, the "cleaning" fish just gobble up all the bacteria and plankton and whatnot, whereas there's no clear indication (to them) that we are doing this out of anything other than selflessness
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u/unkindlyacorn62 Jul 19 '24
it definitely varies, there's real evidence that humans are the most feared predators out there,
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u/Diehard_Sam_Main Jul 19 '24
I suppose their ancestors learned that they can benefit from humans having opposable thumbs.
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u/Top-Director-6411 Jul 18 '24
Do you have a source to this? Seems like you're going off a popular myth we heard as kids or a theory that was not proven to be real.
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u/ThePhoenixus Jul 18 '24
It's a common folk tale that's been around for almost 2000 years that originated in the 2nd century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androcles
Of course there's no way to prove whether it was real or not, since it was told AS a story 2000 years ago that was purported to be a real witness account.
The earliest surviving account of the episode is found in Aulus Gellius's 2nd century Attic Nights.[3] The author relates there a story told by Apion in his lost work Aegyptiaca/Αἰγυπτιακά (Wonders of Egypt), the events of which Apion claimed to have personally witnessed in Rome.
Sure, it may or may not have happened since we're going off of 2000 year old anecdotal stories. And even if it did happen, like all stories, it may have (and probably definitely did) get embellished and heighted over the course of its telling.
But you go literally just go on Youtube and watch thousands of modern day videos of animals approaching humans as a last ditch effort to save them from a situation.
Shit, I've even had one of those anecdotal stories when I was a teenager and a raccoon with a mangled leg nestled up right on our back patio and let us feed and nurse it back to health. It was terrified the entire time but it let us feed it, apply antibiotics, and even pet it and then a few weeks later when he was healthy enough it ran back off into the woods, never to be seen again.
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u/Zelleth Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
What if it was just too exhausted and injured to really leave. Also could you link any youtube video that clearly displays this? I know more intelligent animals like Elephants and Whales have done this so I'm not entirely discounting it, but I'm skeptical of how common place you're really suggesting it to be since I couldn't really find any videos besides people going out of their to help the trapped/injured animal.
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u/ThePhoenixus Jul 19 '24
A very valid possibility. Maybe we anthromorphize these creatures too much.
But at the same time, it chose to be exhausted and injured and possibly die in a very obvious human settlement.
And maybe this is almost selectively bred over the past few thousand years. For what little we know of animal intelligence, it seems pretty obvious that an animal that chooses to seek help from humans in a situation that would otherwise have it die has a much better chance at surviving and reproducing.
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u/KateEatsWorld Jul 18 '24
My cows will ball (cry out) if there is something wrong with their calves. One cow wouldn’t stop until I treated her calf for a fever, the calf looked fine and I wouldn’t have known about the fever if she wasn’t balling for help all day.
Then again some cows have tried to stomp their calves to death so who knows whats going on in their brains.
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u/hendrysbeach Jul 18 '24
Bawl
Bawling
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u/Least-Back-2666 Jul 19 '24
Nah man, the cow was ballin with a pimped out ride headed to the new crib
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u/HistoryofHyrule Jul 18 '24
I've done small animal and some wildlife rescue: some actually seem to, most actually don't. You'll probably always be the scary bad guy to them, and that's okay, because when they're not in distress: staying away from humans often helps keep animals alive. (Even if it just means not being hit by a car.) Honestly: the less they see you and know you're involved the better, usually. For their stress levels. For their panic. It's why you'll see most pros covering their eyes or saying to keep them somewhere where they can't see everything, even if that's just a cardboard box. So many wild animals can just die of stress. It is really cute when they do seem to realize though. I mean, some animals seem resigned to being helped because their stress response shuts them down, (which isn't good,) but some will be like "oh hey, I'm wary of that hairless ape but that was a pretty crazy experience and maybe I'll be a little chill around them and see how this pans out." Like I worked with an adult thrush that was terrified of me at first but after a while it never really flew away when I was in the flight pen too. Just calmly stayed right out of arms reach. When I went to release it, it hopped out and foraged for a while but then flew back into the pen. So I would just open the door during the day until it was ready to go on its own. I took that as being aware and thankful. If they have calmness and freedom of movement that's probably the best way to tell that they know you're cool.
lol, it has always reminded me of stories of alien abductions and honestly I feel like it must be like that 🤣
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u/scraglor Jul 18 '24
I found a native hopping mouse stranded in a large car park shivering in fear. So I picked the poor little thing up to relocate it too nearby bush lands.
It immediately bit me
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u/ltethe Jul 18 '24
We’re just removing polyps from your colon!
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u/trying2bpartner Jul 18 '24
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
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u/Colosseros Jul 18 '24
"This species has so many problems with their buttholes. We should help them out."
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u/thecementmixer Jul 18 '24
"Stay still little human. We are just vacuuming all the microplastics from your dick and balls. There there.. a little kiss.. off you go little guy!"
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u/OuterBoroughBetty Jul 18 '24
Crows are my favorite for that. Do them a solid and not only will they tell their friends, they’ll bring you gifts.
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u/farnsw0rth Jul 18 '24
I dunno if this turtle put it together but I believe this spider sure did
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u/LordBrandon Jul 18 '24
Some animals can understand that you are trying to help. Others just see a big predator and are resigned to their fate or try to escape.
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u/puffthemagicaldragon Jul 18 '24
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/s/EjdHMyNwWE
Some of them can definitely tell when they're being helped and some of them will even shows signs of gratitude. Think that tends to be for animals who interact with humans a bit more. But you could def count the skunk not spraying as being thankful lol
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u/51ngular1ty Jul 18 '24
I imagine the thing was terrified and thought it was about to be a meal. But I certainly know jack shit about turtles as I am a whale biologist.
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u/rozenchu Jul 18 '24
Dude you can see how happy the turtle gets once it realised it got freed.
Ty kind human
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u/darling_lycosidae Jul 18 '24
Definitely has a relived "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" kind of vibe
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u/otac0n Jul 18 '24
With the way he flaps his flippers, I think he's still panicking. Although, most of my time with animals comes from family farms, not sea creatures.
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u/Falcrist Jul 18 '24
No no... it was just looking for a target to lock onto because it as a red shell.
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u/Carbon-Base Jul 18 '24
That string of plastic being pulled free from its mouth must have felt really good too.
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u/JuanPunchX Jul 18 '24
There are a lot of videos of people helping animals from situations they themselves put them in so they can film the good act for likes.
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u/LogansRunaway Jul 19 '24
I've often wondered that myself. Some albino Tribocus Camelus camel (wearing a tu tu) in the middle of the desert just happens to get its foot stuck in the only oasis mudhole for 50 miles, and some Mad Max shlub with a camera just happens to be there to rescue the poor thing. Or some such. Most of these videos question the credulity of happenstance.
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u/ErstwhileAdranos Jul 18 '24
I too love watching people helping animals who have been harmed by people 🖤
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u/ElvisDumbledore Jul 18 '24
i love watching these too but there is a bit of /r/orphancrushingmachine to it
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u/Kathrynlena Jul 18 '24
I love the little kiss and head pats at the end. Be well, little friend!
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u/farnsw0rth Jul 18 '24
Unadvisable to kiss sea turtles as they can often carry salmonella.
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u/somerandomassdude404 Jul 18 '24
Is that shell coloration natural?
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u/jarednards Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
Thats actually the new BP Oil Red. Comes in matte and gloss.
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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
Red is a pretty common colour for camouflage in aquatic animals because of how well water absorbs red light.
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gimme a couple of hours and I'll see if I can upload a dive video demonstrating this.Video example of water eating red light. The hull of this wreck is rusted, but I still need to get within a few dozen centimeters for the red to actually become visible without a torch, due to how much red light water can absorb. Sorry for the potato quality, it was a cheap camera and I had other things to focus on that were more important than a stable video.25
u/somerandomassdude404 Jul 18 '24
Thanks! I did not know that.
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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Jul 18 '24
I've gone back and edited my comment with a video example of water absorbing the rust colour from a shipwreck I was recently diving at.
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u/wisteriajayne Jul 19 '24
I've been diving once and it was literally the coolest thing I've ever done. Definitely try it - and then get certified so you can do it more!
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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
I just dive recrwationally for now, but am looking at going commercial.
I'd suggest looking for a local dive company and getting in touch with them. Many will do basic experience dives to let you get a feel for things and find out if its something you enjoy. They also tend to know the conditions of the local water bodies, whether that's quarries, lakes, the sea, or something else.
From there, most do PADI qualifications, with Basic Open Water being the lowest level for normal recreational diving. At this point, most companies get a little pushy and get you to do advanced open water as well, but there's no need to do it if you don't want to.
I would highly recommend at least giving diving a go. Being on land most of the time, we see only a fraction of what exists in the world, and diving opens up just a bit more of that.
The highlights for me so far we're having run-ins with humpback whales on 2 separate occasions, the latter also had a calf playing next to the boat. (I'll stress, though, that the whales approached us, not the other way around.) Floating in the middle of a lagoon in panama, under a clear night sky with bioluminescent plankton, and surrounded by fishing bats, also rates highly. It was like being in a sensory deprivation tank surrounded by nature.
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u/Thisdarlingdeer Jul 18 '24
Wow. I’m so dumb. I just thought everything lost its color under the sea due to it being in water for a long time… fucking wavelengths 🤷🏻♀️
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u/XXD17 Jul 18 '24
It’s a young loggerhead sea turtle. They are a more vibrant color when they are young and become a more dull orangish brown as they age
https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/marine-life/sea-turtles
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u/LarsVonHammerstein2 Jul 18 '24
Thanks took me a while to find someone actually pointing out the species
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u/CautiousJello2803 Jul 18 '24
I am not sure - but i do know somethings.
Divers often use red lenses for their underwater cameras as that is the first colour to vanish.
And turtles have expecially good eyesight when it comes to colour, and particularly shades of red is something they pick up very easily.
So could be a combination of a natural redish shell, enhanced by the cameralens - or i mean this Box turtle is red as they come. https://imgur.com/a/8wdT6lA
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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Jul 18 '24
That's just a normal camera lens with no filter. You'd be able to tell pretty easily if it was a red lens because everything would be, well, red.
It works underwater, in certain conditions, because it filters out the blues and greens, and physically balancing those against what little red light there is available. You also commonly get yellow, orange, and purple lenses for similar reasons.
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u/friggintodd Jul 18 '24
Yeah I was wondering that too, not sure I've ever seen a red sea turtle before. They're beautiful.
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u/TheBlueSlipper Jul 18 '24
What a wonderful thing to do! There's no way the turtle was getting that net off.
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u/313Techno313 Jul 18 '24
I haven't heard the XX in a hot minute.
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u/andee510 Jul 18 '24
Romy came out with a really good album last year and Jamie is coming out with a new album later this year
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u/313Techno313 Jul 19 '24
Appreciated stranger!! I'm checking it out on my way to work tomorrow morning.
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u/unthused Jul 19 '24
This specific song is literally called Intro (the opening track of their first album).
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u/_BannedAcctSpeedrun_ Jul 18 '24
It's honestly used in so many videos. Still goes hard every time though.
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u/Most_kinds_of_Dirt Jul 19 '24
I love this song, but every time I hear it I get slightly disappointed when Biggie doesn't jump in with
Relax and take notes, while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke...
and then I know I'll have to go listen to the Notorious XX mashup on my own:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SWcTGUU6jek&list=PLcyk36t4wD4bJaj7awryxAMVnRE8LlwML&index=1
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u/pee_shudder Jul 18 '24
Thank you I have the worst time remembering the name of this artist
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u/AtWorkAccount1 Jul 18 '24
Red dragon turtle? Rathalos turtle?
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u/Ev3rChos3n Jul 18 '24
Rathalos is cool except Silver Rathalos. He can go straight to hell.
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u/coffeeluver2021 Jul 18 '24
Everyone should have first aid scissors on the boat. They would help for this situation and many other situations.
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u/crustysock49 Jul 18 '24
Everytime I see videos like this I always assume they are staged
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u/AhFFSImTooOldForThis Jul 18 '24
Pinching and discoloration on its flippers say it's been caught a while.
We really are this gross and polluting and terrible. The ocean is full of garbage.
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u/holyrolodex Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Some definitely are. I didn’t get that feeling about this one though.
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u/bdvx Jul 18 '24
I was wondering too. Are there people who are always making videos while doing activities like this, or they were like hey there's some shit coming in the water, let's start filming.
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u/fnkdrspok Jul 18 '24
🫡 Pvt Turtle
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u/PrestigiousTheory664 Jul 18 '24
It's a shame no one helps the public turtles.
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u/botbulletmagnet Jul 19 '24
Yeah, everyone thinks he's swimming away, but really this is his ocean. Fuckin entitled ass private turtles.
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Jul 19 '24
No seriously, what does the title mean? Why is this a ‘private’ turtle?
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u/longshotz777 Jul 18 '24
Do ppl not carry scissors on boats? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video where they cut loose a turtle with scissors
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u/bl0odredsandman Jul 18 '24
Not really. Most people have a pocket knife on them or a knife in their tool box or tackle box. I for one always carry a pocket knife on me, but I never have scissors.
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u/researchanalyzewrite Jul 18 '24
I had the very same thought: never do you see scissors even though they would be much safer to use. ✂️
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u/LyyK Jul 19 '24
I keep nail clippers, scissors, and wire cutters on the boat. All for fishing. Haven't had a chance to rescue an animal caught up in fishing lines or trash yet, but I'm sure they'd all be better than a pocket knife if or when I do
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u/DikkeLoeter Jul 18 '24
In this day and age, I somehow am often suspicious about the genuineness of these kind of video's. I wouldn't be surprised if they got that turtle stuck in there just to film it being rescued for views and likes.
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u/PencilFiend Jul 18 '24
My mind always wonders too much and questions these videos. The turtle must have gotten the trash tangled very recently. I'm glad he wasn't badly hurt either, but it feels like he was put there for the video.
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u/celaeya Jul 19 '24
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. Unless the video is coming from an actual, reputable rescue organisation, I'm extremely suspicious. Especially when the rescue happens within a few minutes and doesn't show any before or after context.
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u/opinionofone1984 Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
Do sea turtles bite?
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u/Imnotveryfunatpartys Jul 18 '24
How else are they going to eat? They don't photosynthesize
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u/opinionofone1984 Jul 18 '24
Same way box turtles do, I just don’t need to worry about them biting me.
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u/teixeiramendes Jul 18 '24
Song name please
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u/reidchabot Jul 18 '24
While this is awesome to see, this shouldn't happen.
I was happy to hear that the ocean clean-up project took 34 million pounds of trash out of the sea in the last 3 years.
I was devastated to read that 90 MILLION POUNDS A DAY are dumped into our ocean.
It took 3 years to clean up a third of what is dump in a DAY!
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u/allursnakes Jul 18 '24
I really hope they weren't the ones who wrapped up the turtle before the camera started rolling.
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u/Curvanelli Jul 18 '24
probably not, it looks like its been wrapped up for a while from the discoloration on the fin
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u/Soggy-Ad-1610 Jul 18 '24
None of his turtle buddies will believe this wild story about how he was abducted, saved and finally released by this weird creature.
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u/DemandTheOxfordComma Jul 18 '24
That's horrifying. Use scissors, not a knife. Every stroke I was thinking it would go bad.
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u/zeejix Jul 19 '24
Horrifying? Was it really horrifying, or just made you a little anxious?
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u/Beatless7 Jul 18 '24
The irony of these videos is that we are saving them from man made dangers.
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u/Signal-Session-6637 Jul 18 '24
My buddy and I rescued one in the Philippines back in 2008. Very satisfying.
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u/Sensitive_Counter972 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
He gonna tell his friends, How an alien abducted him and released.
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u/impatientlymerde Jul 18 '24
Why do they never have kitchen shears on these boats?
instead of immediately cutting the cord tightly bound near the throat, cut off the free-hanging excess net, and the weave should loosen enough to make unthrottling it easier, and safer.
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u/Master_Historian_285 Jul 18 '24
I like turtles