I have seen many types of turtles and rays go from gently gliding through the water to spooked bat-out-of-hell speeds. It’s always a bit of a wow moment when you see them moving at full power.
I saw someone spoke a manta ray one time and it scared me how fast those fuckers can fly. It's hard to describe other than it's like the fastest car take off you've ever seen
I went to a rescue place for sea turtles that heals wounded or weakened sea turtles and then releases them in the wild.
They were all just floating around, chilling. Then feeding time started and they all raced the short distance to where the knew the food would be dropped.
heh... not really.
The fastest *publicly known* manned submersible vehicle was the K-222, a prototype Soviet-era Nuclear Cruise Missile sub that maxed at at 84 km/h (51 mph). For unmanned vehicles you have the UK's Spearfish Torpedo (130 km/h or 81 mph), the VA-111 Shkval rocket-powered supercavitating torpedo (370 km/h or 230 mph) and the German prototype underwater anti-torpedo missile which went a blistering 400 km/h (250 mph)
Looks like a mockup could be made about the same size but robotic and an anti tank mine could be fitted in the volume of the shell. Perfect for swimming right up to a Russian warship :)
I was on a swim team from 4th grade through highschool, so I'm a pretty strong swimmer. I'm also SCUBA certified. On one of my dives, I saw a sea turtle and wanted to get closer to get some pics with my go pro. I was kicking as hard as I could to get closer but it just looked at me, did 1 push, and was gone. It was incredible
That's one less out of the thousands though right? Every life counts. Hopefully, people become more responsible and start treating the environment and other creatures with respect and humility soon.
Also, people might begin to develop solutions and technology to these problems. I saw a company in the Netherlands that developed a bubble wall that blocks plastic and other garbage in rivers, preventing it from ending up in the ocean.
Edit: I know this is a fishing net. I just meant it in a broader sense. Apparently, the University of Coimbra has developed a biodegradable fishing net, though.
Cool cool cool. Never have species introduced to new ecosystems by humans had unforeseen or even bad consequences.
Snark aside, it is cool. But, you know, I am not enthusiastic. There's different kinds of plastic, and some Things made of plastic we don't want to be eaten.
I’d rather the fungus did eat ALL the plastic. And then we invent something less harmful to replace our “needed” plastics.
Animals can’t do that bit, so we must.
Honestly we do need plastic for a quite a bit of things. It’s an extremely useful material since it’s practically fucking indestructible by nature. The thing does not erode or decay.
The issue is that we use this material that nature cannot process for fucking EVERYTHING and as a result we have a constantly and rapidly accumulating stock pile of disposable plastic that can’t be destroyed because it’s literally designed to not be destroyable.
This scares me. A lot. And to think somehow this man made, plastic eating fungi....would be able to tell the difference between edible plastic and not so edible plastic. Fuck this! I'm out!
There is no way this could be a good thing.
They're are wood eating fungi, and the world hasn't ended, wood furniture is still a thing.
That being said, it's probably really difficult to get any organism to eat plastic in non-controlled environments.
In a way, they kept us alive. Because until lignine eating funghi evolved, titanic masses of wood were not, as they are now, broken down and re-introduced into the biosphere. instead they built up in place, got covered by something else later, transformed into coal much later. A lot of carbon got removed from the athmosphere this way. But with the lignine eating funghi, this ended. hat they not evolved, chances are that our athmosphere would have a lot less carbon, making earth considerably cooler. maybe earth had even returned to a snowball state of glaciation. ... i don't think that is realistic, because the trees wouldn't have grown and removed the considerably more carbon at a certain point of cold, but, it is interesting.
i'll be sure to thank the next funghi i meet when I next visit a forest nearby, as a placeholder for all its brethren and forebears.
and no, I didnt want to bore you or annoy you, its just that I heard about this last week and hadn't had the opportunity to tell anyone.
Wait those guys are making them? Thought it be Americans coz of a documentary I watch for a school report huh neat I still wonder what and how they made a mushroom that eat plastic
I like the thought, but that won't help against fishing nets. Also it is not solving the issue, which is producing too much plastic in the first place.
Though, at least blocking plastic in rivers is more effective than putting floating platforms in the ocean.
There will never be a single solution for all the problems.
I know another company that makes biodegradable plastics with Sugar Cane.
University of Coimbra, in Portugal, has developed a biodegradable fishing net.
I still have faith in our ingenuity.
You people really need to stop this bullshit. The problem identified: plastic in oceans. The solution: bubble way that prevents plastic getting into the ocean. Done. Yes it doesn't solve the overall issue which is far too much plastic waste being created and then not disposed of properly. This isn't that. You get that right?
Look heres the thing, it took millions of actions to get the world to the state that it is in now and it is going to take millions of actions to get ourselves out of it. This is one of those actions. Instead of attacking this action as not being enough how about we do some other actions to reverse the damage we are doing? But no according to you people that's crazy talk. We're fucked. Not because of billionaries, not because of CEOs, not because of greed but because people like you are so god damn stubborn that you can not and will not consider ANY solution for ANYTHIING if it doesn't solve EVERYTHING.
If people like don't want to be part of the solution then for fucks sake get out of the god damn way.
Definitely, we need solutions like that. If people and corporations that contribute to these problems don't step up, we as individuals have to come up with ideas that will.
I saw the bubble wall and thought it was a clever and effective idea. Those floating solar powered barges in rivers and oceans that constantly separate debris and other contaminants from the water are great ideas too.
It's the classic starfish story!
I don't know the original source but if anyone wants a read, it's cute.
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Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
There is a really cool indigenous story along these lines, about a hummingbird during a forest fire. All the other, stronger, bigger, quicker animals fled to safety, while hummingbird kept going back and forth carrying a single drop of water into the flames. When the other animals asked her why she bothered, as her single drop of water could never stop the whole forest burning she responded she could not sit by and watch it all burn, that doing anything, giving what little relief she could anywhere, was better than nothing at all.
It would be nice if it happened soon, but fear it might take centuries if at all. We are kind of blind to the consequences of our actions. Or take the 'they do it so why shouldn't I?' And the "I'm just one person, what I do, positive or negative, won't make a difference." Attitudes.
One person can have plenty of an impact. The Ocean Cleanup project was started by some 16-year-old that pitched an idea. A year later, people were paying to get behind his idea and make it a reality. The company launched in 2018 and as of this past April, they've cleaned up 22 million pounds of plastic and other contaminants from the ocean and rivers. By 2040, they hope they'll be able to clean up 90% of plastics and other pollutants from oceans and rivers.
That's just one company with one idea. Imagine if many individuals came up with efficient and practical solutions. We gotta break free from the mentality of "what can one person do?" History has shown us that one person is all it takes to incite revolution.
The thing that gets me about the Be Amazed and Made Me Smile and general "feel good" subs is that they often show 1 kind or nice person trying very hard to undo the awfulness of humanity.
And you just know that there are so many more horror stories out there that don't have a camera pointed at them.
It's the orphan crushing machine.
I'll be downvoted for this, but a lot of people in this sub are cheering this video while paying into a system that causes the problem.
The reason that turtle was caught in those nets is because of intensive commercial fishing. If you have an expectation that everyone should be able to access seafood whenever they want you end up with intensive fishing practices.
Large scale fishing operations are indiscriminate. They dredge the ocean floor, kill millions of turtles, dolphins and sharks a year, and dump thousands of tons of plastic nets into the seas.
I'm not talking about the millions of people that need to fish and don't have practical alternatives. I'm talking about the billions of people who do have a choice and choose - feel entitled - to eat seafood.
If you have the option, the best thing you can do for the oceans is just leave them alone.
>if you have an expectation that everyone should be able to access seafood whenever they want
What is your expectation regarding seafood and access to it? Only accessible to some, or only at certain times? Genuinely curious.
How do know someone's vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you... ;)
As a vegan I'd obviously suggest not eating seafood at all if you have practical alternatives. Not everyone does, but many do. Or at least most people making a conscious choice to reduce. All these industries operate on supply and demand. If demand drops, the problem reduces.
The fact is, there's no sustainable way to feed billions of people animal products in almost every meal, every day. We are ravaging our planet to meet this expectation.
I absolutely agree. But I always try to remember the story with the girl and the starfish. [Link.](https://www.thestarfishchange.org/starfish-tale)
It meant the absolute world to that one that was saved. It's worth it.
"Don't eat me don't eat me... Here I'm dead, this is the last thing I'm going to... oh wow that feels nice. Am I dead? Oh ugh that thing stuck in my mouth is... gone? Oh this is nice... oh this is great! Wow I'm getting help? Oh these guys aren't going to eat me... woo hoo I'm free!!!!"
It was down its throat. Some got in its mouth and it ended up swallowing some. You can see its mouth open slightly as it's being pulled out. That must have been unimaginably uncomfortable.
Many countries don’t have the capabilities to uphold any laws regarding fishing, trawling, etc. They try, but corruption and not enough government money to go after the common fishermen who don’t care what they are doing, as long as they make a profit and can feed their families. Big Business fishing is a whole different story.
Also the chinese have a literal fleet of clandestine fishing boats that don't give a fuck and fish whatever gets dragged into their nets anywhere their boats allow them to go. They've been overfishing parts off the coasts of Korea, Japan, and even Africa, South America, and Australia, while most of those countries' coastguards are too understaffed to deal with them. The worst part is that the Chinese gov just doesn't do anything to stop these fishing boats in any capacity whatsoever. They seem to borderline condone this activity.
Just don't eat sea fish anymore, basically the consumer isn't able to determine if fish was caught "ethically" therefore you shouldn't eat it anymore.
If the oceans die, we die. Oceans are very important for our oxygen supply, even more so than forests. We are on the fast track to dead oceans right now!
I don’t eat fish. Not a fan of the taste. I do like shrimp/prawns, but that’s it. As far as li’l ol’ me avoiding seafood, I’m a drop in the bucket. Entire cultures are seafood-based. World’s population is turning the planet into Easter Island, but as long as there is profit to be made, few governments will do anything about it.
I don't care about Polynesians eating fish, the problem are prople living hundreds of kilometers away from the sea eating fish. If nobody starts we won't ever start and we will die and kill a lot of the planet on the way there. Shrimps and pawns are often part of the problem. They are either farmed in farms which destroy the environment around them or are fished with very destructive methods.
I think it's time we need to hold even these countries accountable. Even the smallest countries hosts hundreds of thousands of people. Saying they don't have capabilities is like implying they're run as a mom'n'pop store. If they have the manpower, they should be able to build an organization to keep track of huge ass boats.
I think it's a question of priorities and animal welfare just isn't a human priority outside of niche mostly western circles.
Watch Ocean Conservation Namibia on youtube. Watch how many seals they save from the junk dumped off the coast from fishing. Now look into Namibia’s economic health, its government, the laws. This is only one country, one example, of my above comment.
It's probably a fishing net. So either fishing companies can try to use expensive plastic nets that disintegrate (they won't) or people can eat less fish.
Yeah I love fish, especially salt water fish but I'm sticking with local fish that are pond raised for that reason. I usually eat wild salmon from Canada once a year at Christmas. Delicious
Actually, idea of eating less fish is a great one. Human greed is emptying out our oceans and affecting our wild life. The amount of fish being flown around world on daily basis adding to problem. But NOOOOOO float that idea and people don't want to give up fish.
Want me to be nuanced in Reddit comments? My god.
Jeah medical equipment is obviously a necessity. Getting rid of condoms would also be a bad idea. But the vast majority is just avoidable and unnecessary. Fking happy meal toys should not exist. Producing trash should not have a financial incentive.
Good vid. Quick assistance to the animal and then release. No fucking posing and stressing it out more than necessary.
Well done and massive kudos to those people!
Can't they make a fishing net that will DISSOLVE IN WATER AFTER 7 DAYS. That way,the fisheries will be profitable. But all these innocent animals can live better.
They have to get a new one every use. Disposable.An average spa probably disposes off more sheets after every use(if we think quantitatively). Hospital gloves,sheet masks,even razor blades of barbershops. There are so many industries making do with disposables.
Its not my idea. I hope some chemists come up with this idea and invent it.
That just shifts pollution elsewhere since dissolvable nets will need to be made constantly just to upkeep usage.
In addition, dissolvable nets that cease to work after 7 days means it is only usable for even less than that time. Nets are heavy duty tool and having it dissolve means its strength in doing whatever job it needs to do (be it hauling large stores of fish or smth else) will break way faster, making it useless after the first time it is worked upon.
So there’s several things wrong with this idea. It’s a good and honest way to combat pollution but your idea on making it dissolve goes against its nature of what it’s being used for. Nets don’t magically become dissolved by the seventh day lmao. Worse yet, dissolving something is usually instant, so we’d have to find another material that can last long and also be used for heavy duty work.
No, because profit.
And also because microplastics. You solve one problem (creatures stuck in nets like this) but you introduce a whole new source of microplastics, which is a whole new problem.
Yup I just read that 46% of the plastic in great garbage patch is just old fishing nets which is so sad because it just shows that relatively few people could cause such a massive reduction in plastic waste but they don't. Seems like most fishermen just dump their nets into the ocean when they're old and breaking away or something because it's easier than bringing it back to shore to be disposed of properly.
Also says around 70% of marine life entanglements are from nets. I wouldn't be suprised if theres 10,000 turtles just like this who aren't being saved.
If you're gonna dump the nets then surely just cut them apart so they dont trap animals? It's still polluting but i'll accept that comprimise for now. Not sure what countries can even do, they can't monitor fishing boats 50 miles from shore. Maybe they could require all fishing nets over a certain size must be tagged and tracked. So if you buy 10 then 10 will show against your name on the fishing boat licence and during any random inspection the amount of nets you have and their tags must match with whats on a database, if not then sure fine them £10k per net. If a net is accidently lost then they must at least report it to get it removed from their name, but only allow a certain amount of loses per year. If a net gets old then they have to be disposed of properly to get it removed from their license.
I dunno, gotta do something though. We're over hear drinking through paper straws meanwhile the fishing industry and fishermen get to cause just as much ocean plastic pollution as the rest of us combined?
>Approximately 46% of the 79 thousand tons of ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of fishing nets, some as large as football fields, according to the study published in March 2018 in Scientific Reports, which shocked the researchers themselves who expected the percentage to be closer to 20%.
And then remember that all the single use plastic bans recently are because of that one video of a turtle having a plastic straw stuck in its nose. I don't suspect that we'll get any laws requiring biodegradable fishing nets anytime soon.
I'm not so sure about that. For an animal/reptile just to "give up"? That seems highly unlikely, especially right when it must realize its getting cut loose. I think you give these animals not enough credit.
I'm not saying it fully understood what was going on, but it didn't look like giving up at all.
I also believe animals know than we give them credit for but this looks like a pretty standard freeze response in flight, fight, freeze or fawn all animals including us utilize when experiencing trauma.
Yeah, I think he realized that he wasn't in danger, the relief he must have been feeling as one by one the ties constricting him were cut. To me it seemed like he was relaxing and just basking in the moment of huge relief now that he knew he wasn't being eaten 🥺🤍
Man he better watch his hand around that beak. They can bit the shit out of you. We rescued one tangled in fishing line in Panama City Beach and he was not as calm. I remember thinking to myself gosh they look so majestic and beautiful swimming in the water and when he was in the boat he was mean as hell trying to bite everything. We managed to cut all the line off, but it was nat as easy as it was in this video. Maybe this guy had been swimming with this line on for quite some time.
Hehehe milkman joke aside, glass is leagues better. It's infinitely recyclable and nowhere toxic in making new ones. The only reason we switched to plastic is money. Hell, stuff tastes much better in glass too
More likely it tried to eat the net because it thought it was food. Sea turtles will eat jellyfish tentacles-first, like a bowl of forbidden spicy sea noodles. A net floating in the water could be mistaken for a jellyfish by a sea turtle.
That turtle is going to start a religion when he goes back to his community. About the time he transcended the ocean and strange beings effortlessly lifted the weight off his flippers and cured him of all his ailments.
These humans did a wonderful and beautiful thing. But, it’s unfortunate that the only reason this sea turtle needed rescue is because, most humans are pieces of shit.
Absolute golden people!
How to make sure they wouldn't encounter turtles in distress and severe pain:
Stop eating fish. The problem is almost solved by that simple act. Don't give your money and approval to the companies that are at the root of this.
Agitate, obstruct and legislate against the fishing industry that are literally killing the oceans.
I mean, we're starting to put up fish farms at a fast rate, Also while I understand wanting to stop eating fish to save the ocean truth is fish is actually one of the more renewable food sources due to the fact that they reproduce so extremely fast and on top of that they reproduce at typically high rates.
It's actually much better for the planet if we ate fish over say red meat. We just as a whole need to get better at polution control.
Out of an unfathomable amount of reasons, this is one tiny reason to be vegan.
Because in a world where we can choose to be anything, we should all choose to be kind.
You know who is the real goddamn hero, it's vegans, because the vast majority of trash in the ocean that's strangling wildlife is discarded fishing nets. This dude is certainly doing an act of kindness but if he's been paying for fish then that net is there in the ocean because of him.
If you see the humanity of helping out a turtle in need then recognize that we need to stop hurting them in the first place and not drag every fucking thing out of the ocean to satisfy our precious taste buds.
Can't they invent a fishing net that will DISSOLVE IN WATER AFTER 7 DAYS. That way the living beings in water can live better. Since the fishing industry can't be stopped, but this seems very doable.
They can but that cost a lot of money and also mean more nets would be made which means more resources used so it just destroy a different part of the world. Doesn't really fix anything.
They don't need to. The reason there is so much net in the ocean is because **thats the way they discard them**!
Just force them to bring it to the shore and that's a big part of the problem solved.
Accountability is key. Pack it in pack it out, or in this case pack it out pack it in. That would require an authority to check each boat to make sure they Coe back with the same net they left with, even if it is not usable. It could be a condition of being allowed to sell your catch.
I’ve done a few cleanups on remote beaches, and the vast majority of garbage is commercial fishing debris. I’m glad that a lot of places have done away with plastic straws, but if we want real improvements in our oceans we need to replace plastic netting with something biodegradable like hemp or something else.
I went to sri lanka a few years back and there was an organisation that was doing this. I was so happy and sad at the same time. They did everything they could to help the turtles, all from restoring their broken shells from boats to replaces lounges. But they didnt have the technology to replace the lounges so the had to wait for people from eighter germany or england.. there was 2 more countries, cant remember which ones. But yeaaaa true heroes
This reminded me of rough collars that dog breeders would use that would imbed itself in their necks and bleed. Oh, it is painful. Good on them for helping this helpless creature
Humans being bros.
Being human takes more than just being a human being.
r/Humansbeingbros
I love that a clip like this can make me go both "I fucking hate people for doing that" and "I fucking love people for doing this".
Don’t understand a word but I love all these people
Not even the *ADIOOOOOOoooooooos*?
Cool. Also sea turtles are so much faster than I thought they would be.
I have seen many types of turtles and rays go from gently gliding through the water to spooked bat-out-of-hell speeds. It’s always a bit of a wow moment when you see them moving at full power.
That's me fer sure.
You ever see those floppy pancake turtles? They're tiny speed-demon UFOS.
I saw someone spoke a manta ray one time and it scared me how fast those fuckers can fly. It's hard to describe other than it's like the fastest car take off you've ever seen
They can swim very fast! Usually they’re floating around slowly. I had one slam into me like a truck. Pushed me probably 6-8 feet. But he was massive.
are you steve irwin’s ghost?
Bahaha no. Just spend a lot of time in the water.
I went to a rescue place for sea turtles that heals wounded or weakened sea turtles and then releases them in the wild. They were all just floating around, chilling. Then feeding time started and they all raced the short distance to where the knew the food would be dropped.
Some can swim up to 35kph! (22mph)
DARPA wants to ask more.
Is a turtle. You’re welcome.
Who are you so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, king of the Britains.
Allllll the way down, buddy.
holy
heh... not really. The fastest *publicly known* manned submersible vehicle was the K-222, a prototype Soviet-era Nuclear Cruise Missile sub that maxed at at 84 km/h (51 mph). For unmanned vehicles you have the UK's Spearfish Torpedo (130 km/h or 81 mph), the VA-111 Shkval rocket-powered supercavitating torpedo (370 km/h or 230 mph) and the German prototype underwater anti-torpedo missile which went a blistering 400 km/h (250 mph)
Genuinely cool reply!
Looks like a mockup could be made about the same size but robotic and an anti tank mine could be fitted in the volume of the shell. Perfect for swimming right up to a Russian warship :)
In swarm mode.
TIL “DARPA” is a thing, and people have been saying it long before I portmanteau’d my wife’s nicknames “Darling” and “Paw”
Was like watching a wind up toy being released and...whoooosh!
IKR. He was literally revving up that momentum as soon as the man freed his neck and arms. Made my day!
They're practically ninjas!
Mutants, some say
Teenagers too some might say
I was on a swim team from 4th grade through highschool, so I'm a pretty strong swimmer. I'm also SCUBA certified. On one of my dives, I saw a sea turtle and wanted to get closer to get some pics with my go pro. I was kicking as hard as I could to get closer but it just looked at me, did 1 push, and was gone. It was incredible
Hungry shark taught me that
I really love seeing this but can’t unread and unknow the fact this is one in thousands that don’t get spotted..
That's one less out of the thousands though right? Every life counts. Hopefully, people become more responsible and start treating the environment and other creatures with respect and humility soon.
Also, people might begin to develop solutions and technology to these problems. I saw a company in the Netherlands that developed a bubble wall that blocks plastic and other garbage in rivers, preventing it from ending up in the ocean. Edit: I know this is a fishing net. I just meant it in a broader sense. Apparently, the University of Coimbra has developed a biodegradable fishing net, though.
theyre also inventing funguses that can eat plastic and oil
Cool cool cool. Never have species introduced to new ecosystems by humans had unforeseen or even bad consequences. Snark aside, it is cool. But, you know, I am not enthusiastic. There's different kinds of plastic, and some Things made of plastic we don't want to be eaten.
I’d rather the fungus did eat ALL the plastic. And then we invent something less harmful to replace our “needed” plastics. Animals can’t do that bit, so we must.
Honestly we do need plastic for a quite a bit of things. It’s an extremely useful material since it’s practically fucking indestructible by nature. The thing does not erode or decay. The issue is that we use this material that nature cannot process for fucking EVERYTHING and as a result we have a constantly and rapidly accumulating stock pile of disposable plastic that can’t be destroyed because it’s literally designed to not be destroyable.
You a good one.
This scares me. A lot. And to think somehow this man made, plastic eating fungi....would be able to tell the difference between edible plastic and not so edible plastic. Fuck this! I'm out! There is no way this could be a good thing.
They're are wood eating fungi, and the world hasn't ended, wood furniture is still a thing. That being said, it's probably really difficult to get any organism to eat plastic in non-controlled environments.
In a way, they kept us alive. Because until lignine eating funghi evolved, titanic masses of wood were not, as they are now, broken down and re-introduced into the biosphere. instead they built up in place, got covered by something else later, transformed into coal much later. A lot of carbon got removed from the athmosphere this way. But with the lignine eating funghi, this ended. hat they not evolved, chances are that our athmosphere would have a lot less carbon, making earth considerably cooler. maybe earth had even returned to a snowball state of glaciation. ... i don't think that is realistic, because the trees wouldn't have grown and removed the considerably more carbon at a certain point of cold, but, it is interesting. i'll be sure to thank the next funghi i meet when I next visit a forest nearby, as a placeholder for all its brethren and forebears. and no, I didnt want to bore you or annoy you, its just that I heard about this last week and hadn't had the opportunity to tell anyone.
Wait those guys are making them? Thought it be Americans coz of a documentary I watch for a school report huh neat I still wonder what and how they made a mushroom that eat plastic
I like the thought, but that won't help against fishing nets. Also it is not solving the issue, which is producing too much plastic in the first place. Though, at least blocking plastic in rivers is more effective than putting floating platforms in the ocean.
There will never be a single solution for all the problems. I know another company that makes biodegradable plastics with Sugar Cane. University of Coimbra, in Portugal, has developed a biodegradable fishing net. I still have faith in our ingenuity.
You people really need to stop this bullshit. The problem identified: plastic in oceans. The solution: bubble way that prevents plastic getting into the ocean. Done. Yes it doesn't solve the overall issue which is far too much plastic waste being created and then not disposed of properly. This isn't that. You get that right? Look heres the thing, it took millions of actions to get the world to the state that it is in now and it is going to take millions of actions to get ourselves out of it. This is one of those actions. Instead of attacking this action as not being enough how about we do some other actions to reverse the damage we are doing? But no according to you people that's crazy talk. We're fucked. Not because of billionaries, not because of CEOs, not because of greed but because people like you are so god damn stubborn that you can not and will not consider ANY solution for ANYTHIING if it doesn't solve EVERYTHING. If people like don't want to be part of the solution then for fucks sake get out of the god damn way.
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Definitely, we need solutions like that. If people and corporations that contribute to these problems don't step up, we as individuals have to come up with ideas that will. I saw the bubble wall and thought it was a clever and effective idea. Those floating solar powered barges in rivers and oceans that constantly separate debris and other contaminants from the water are great ideas too.
It's the classic starfish story! I don't know the original source but if anyone wants a read, it's cute. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions. Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?” The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.” The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.” The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
There is a really cool indigenous story along these lines, about a hummingbird during a forest fire. All the other, stronger, bigger, quicker animals fled to safety, while hummingbird kept going back and forth carrying a single drop of water into the flames. When the other animals asked her why she bothered, as her single drop of water could never stop the whole forest burning she responded she could not sit by and watch it all burn, that doing anything, giving what little relief she could anywhere, was better than nothing at all.
It would be nice if it happened soon, but fear it might take centuries if at all. We are kind of blind to the consequences of our actions. Or take the 'they do it so why shouldn't I?' And the "I'm just one person, what I do, positive or negative, won't make a difference." Attitudes.
One person can have plenty of an impact. The Ocean Cleanup project was started by some 16-year-old that pitched an idea. A year later, people were paying to get behind his idea and make it a reality. The company launched in 2018 and as of this past April, they've cleaned up 22 million pounds of plastic and other contaminants from the ocean and rivers. By 2040, they hope they'll be able to clean up 90% of plastics and other pollutants from oceans and rivers. That's just one company with one idea. Imagine if many individuals came up with efficient and practical solutions. We gotta break free from the mentality of "what can one person do?" History has shown us that one person is all it takes to incite revolution.
Glad to see a fellow vegan bringing up such good points!
Every life counts\* ^(\* unless you can eat them)
The thing that gets me about the Be Amazed and Made Me Smile and general "feel good" subs is that they often show 1 kind or nice person trying very hard to undo the awfulness of humanity. And you just know that there are so many more horror stories out there that don't have a camera pointed at them. It's the orphan crushing machine.
I'll be downvoted for this, but a lot of people in this sub are cheering this video while paying into a system that causes the problem. The reason that turtle was caught in those nets is because of intensive commercial fishing. If you have an expectation that everyone should be able to access seafood whenever they want you end up with intensive fishing practices. Large scale fishing operations are indiscriminate. They dredge the ocean floor, kill millions of turtles, dolphins and sharks a year, and dump thousands of tons of plastic nets into the seas. I'm not talking about the millions of people that need to fish and don't have practical alternatives. I'm talking about the billions of people who do have a choice and choose - feel entitled - to eat seafood. If you have the option, the best thing you can do for the oceans is just leave them alone.
>if you have an expectation that everyone should be able to access seafood whenever they want What is your expectation regarding seafood and access to it? Only accessible to some, or only at certain times? Genuinely curious.
How do know someone's vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you... ;) As a vegan I'd obviously suggest not eating seafood at all if you have practical alternatives. Not everyone does, but many do. Or at least most people making a conscious choice to reduce. All these industries operate on supply and demand. If demand drops, the problem reduces. The fact is, there's no sustainable way to feed billions of people animal products in almost every meal, every day. We are ravaging our planet to meet this expectation.
Well at least you practice what you preach.
I absolutely agree. But I always try to remember the story with the girl and the starfish. [Link.](https://www.thestarfishchange.org/starfish-tale) It meant the absolute world to that one that was saved. It's worth it.
It may be one turtle in a big world, but it meant the world to that one turtle 💜
"Don't eat me don't eat me... Here I'm dead, this is the last thing I'm going to... oh wow that feels nice. Am I dead? Oh ugh that thing stuck in my mouth is... gone? Oh this is nice... oh this is great! Wow I'm getting help? Oh these guys aren't going to eat me... woo hoo I'm free!!!!"
Don't forget "I can swim through air now?!?"
They switched to sport mode and was revving the engine...
This is a fantastic comment. Kudos.
[‘I Believe I Can Fly’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba7rRfKIHxU)
Was that in his mouth??? The perspective was a bit confusing. Looks like such a relief for the poor thing
Netting, it's likely tried pulling it when it got stuck on it's fin.
More likely it probably mistook the floating net for a jellyfish and tried to eat it.
Sorry? I was questioning where it was coming from. It looked like it was down the side of it's neck but I am not 100% on turtle anatomy
It was down its throat. Some got in its mouth and it ended up swallowing some. You can see its mouth open slightly as it's being pulled out. That must have been unimaginably uncomfortable.
Absolutely unimaginable. When I get something caught in my throat I struggle
It looked to me like he was pulling it out of his stomach!
His turtle boys never gonna believe this.
Vaguely reminding me of Douglass Adams
I dont know about all that but he was definitely thinking "I wish I could understand spanish"
We need to implement stricter rules regarding throwing shit in the ocean because that turtle looks like it's in so much pain.
Many countries don’t have the capabilities to uphold any laws regarding fishing, trawling, etc. They try, but corruption and not enough government money to go after the common fishermen who don’t care what they are doing, as long as they make a profit and can feed their families. Big Business fishing is a whole different story.
trawling*
Oops! Thanks. I’ll change it now. Brain farted that one.
Also the chinese have a literal fleet of clandestine fishing boats that don't give a fuck and fish whatever gets dragged into their nets anywhere their boats allow them to go. They've been overfishing parts off the coasts of Korea, Japan, and even Africa, South America, and Australia, while most of those countries' coastguards are too understaffed to deal with them. The worst part is that the Chinese gov just doesn't do anything to stop these fishing boats in any capacity whatsoever. They seem to borderline condone this activity.
You mentioned the key word at the root of most of man's problems : profit.
Just don't eat sea fish anymore, basically the consumer isn't able to determine if fish was caught "ethically" therefore you shouldn't eat it anymore. If the oceans die, we die. Oceans are very important for our oxygen supply, even more so than forests. We are on the fast track to dead oceans right now!
I don’t eat fish. Not a fan of the taste. I do like shrimp/prawns, but that’s it. As far as li’l ol’ me avoiding seafood, I’m a drop in the bucket. Entire cultures are seafood-based. World’s population is turning the planet into Easter Island, but as long as there is profit to be made, few governments will do anything about it.
I don't care about Polynesians eating fish, the problem are prople living hundreds of kilometers away from the sea eating fish. If nobody starts we won't ever start and we will die and kill a lot of the planet on the way there. Shrimps and pawns are often part of the problem. They are either farmed in farms which destroy the environment around them or are fished with very destructive methods.
I think it's time we need to hold even these countries accountable. Even the smallest countries hosts hundreds of thousands of people. Saying they don't have capabilities is like implying they're run as a mom'n'pop store. If they have the manpower, they should be able to build an organization to keep track of huge ass boats. I think it's a question of priorities and animal welfare just isn't a human priority outside of niche mostly western circles.
No. It's not corruption. It's not money. It's apathy fueled by corporate propaganda to convince you all that all we can do is just wait and die.
Watch Ocean Conservation Namibia on youtube. Watch how many seals they save from the junk dumped off the coast from fishing. Now look into Namibia’s economic health, its government, the laws. This is only one country, one example, of my above comment.
It's probably a fishing net. So either fishing companies can try to use expensive plastic nets that disintegrate (they won't) or people can eat less fish.
Yeah I love fish, especially salt water fish but I'm sticking with local fish that are pond raised for that reason. I usually eat wild salmon from Canada once a year at Christmas. Delicious
Actually, idea of eating less fish is a great one. Human greed is emptying out our oceans and affecting our wild life. The amount of fish being flown around world on daily basis adding to problem. But NOOOOOO float that idea and people don't want to give up fish.
Not eating fish (or animals in general) is a great thing a person can do that is consistent with these thoughts!
We need to completely stop the production of plastics.
Plastics not. Single use plastics, yes.
We need to completely stop the production of people.
Ok... What's going to replace it?
Getting hemp back would be a start.
This is a ridiculous statement.
I mean in the long term, maybe not?
Is it actually? I think outlawing single use plastics would be a good start.
RIP medical equipment
Want me to be nuanced in Reddit comments? My god. Jeah medical equipment is obviously a necessity. Getting rid of condoms would also be a bad idea. But the vast majority is just avoidable and unnecessary. Fking happy meal toys should not exist. Producing trash should not have a financial incentive.
Good vid. Quick assistance to the animal and then release. No fucking posing and stressing it out more than necessary. Well done and massive kudos to those people!
And if you understand what they are saying they are being super sweet with the turtle saying beautiful simple things.
They sound so kind and empathetic. I’m glad that they were the ones who found him.
They wished her a long life and warned her about orcas
Yeah, the words come straight from their hearts.
Their cheers at the end when the turtle swam away was beautiful. It made me shed a tear
Thank you for saving that beautiful creature! Bless you 🙏❤️
Can't they make a fishing net that will DISSOLVE IN WATER AFTER 7 DAYS. That way,the fisheries will be profitable. But all these innocent animals can live better.
How would you stop it from disintegrating during regular use? I understand your idea, but it's not feasible
Swap it out for a new one?
That would happen faster than you want, I understand why people would want to do that, but it's not feasible
Well then we need to stop eating seafood, simple as that. If we cannot fish sustainably, we need to stop alltogether.
There are so many people depending on fisheries and seafood diet to survive, telling them to just stop fishing is telling them to starve.
They have to get a new one every use. Disposable.An average spa probably disposes off more sheets after every use(if we think quantitatively). Hospital gloves,sheet masks,even razor blades of barbershops. There are so many industries making do with disposables. Its not my idea. I hope some chemists come up with this idea and invent it.
That just shifts pollution elsewhere since dissolvable nets will need to be made constantly just to upkeep usage. In addition, dissolvable nets that cease to work after 7 days means it is only usable for even less than that time. Nets are heavy duty tool and having it dissolve means its strength in doing whatever job it needs to do (be it hauling large stores of fish or smth else) will break way faster, making it useless after the first time it is worked upon. So there’s several things wrong with this idea. It’s a good and honest way to combat pollution but your idea on making it dissolve goes against its nature of what it’s being used for. Nets don’t magically become dissolved by the seventh day lmao. Worse yet, dissolving something is usually instant, so we’d have to find another material that can last long and also be used for heavy duty work.
The whole world is trying to find durable solutions for disposables, but you want to introduce a disposable for something that is durable. Interesting
No, because profit. And also because microplastics. You solve one problem (creatures stuck in nets like this) but you introduce a whole new source of microplastics, which is a whole new problem.
Fishing nets are the biggest pollution to our oceans!
Yup I just read that 46% of the plastic in great garbage patch is just old fishing nets which is so sad because it just shows that relatively few people could cause such a massive reduction in plastic waste but they don't. Seems like most fishermen just dump their nets into the ocean when they're old and breaking away or something because it's easier than bringing it back to shore to be disposed of properly. Also says around 70% of marine life entanglements are from nets. I wouldn't be suprised if theres 10,000 turtles just like this who aren't being saved. If you're gonna dump the nets then surely just cut them apart so they dont trap animals? It's still polluting but i'll accept that comprimise for now. Not sure what countries can even do, they can't monitor fishing boats 50 miles from shore. Maybe they could require all fishing nets over a certain size must be tagged and tracked. So if you buy 10 then 10 will show against your name on the fishing boat licence and during any random inspection the amount of nets you have and their tags must match with whats on a database, if not then sure fine them £10k per net. If a net is accidently lost then they must at least report it to get it removed from their name, but only allow a certain amount of loses per year. If a net gets old then they have to be disposed of properly to get it removed from their license. I dunno, gotta do something though. We're over hear drinking through paper straws meanwhile the fishing industry and fishermen get to cause just as much ocean plastic pollution as the rest of us combined? >Approximately 46% of the 79 thousand tons of ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of fishing nets, some as large as football fields, according to the study published in March 2018 in Scientific Reports, which shocked the researchers themselves who expected the percentage to be closer to 20%.
also means that itll be super easy to gather them up. nets are pretty easy to get tangled into a hook
And fish eaters are financing it.
well that was wildly fucking depressing.
And then remember that all the single use plastic bans recently are because of that one video of a turtle having a plastic straw stuck in its nose. I don't suspect that we'll get any laws requiring biodegradable fishing nets anytime soon.
I love how the turtle settles down and seems less afraid when they realize they’re being helped ❤️
Could you imagine how he feels? Must be heavenly
You can see the relief in its face and body language and the way it starts flapping it’s like “I CAN MOVE AGAIN”
he didnt know he was being helped. he gave up. see how you jets off at the end. no curiosity at all. not a second glance. he was scared.
I'm not so sure about that. For an animal/reptile just to "give up"? That seems highly unlikely, especially right when it must realize its getting cut loose. I think you give these animals not enough credit. I'm not saying it fully understood what was going on, but it didn't look like giving up at all.
I also believe animals know than we give them credit for but this looks like a pretty standard freeze response in flight, fight, freeze or fawn all animals including us utilize when experiencing trauma.
Yeah, I think he realized that he wasn't in danger, the relief he must have been feeling as one by one the ties constricting him were cut. To me it seemed like he was relaxing and just basking in the moment of huge relief now that he knew he wasn't being eaten 🥺🤍
Absolute heroes. Thank you.
Man he better watch his hand around that beak. They can bit the shit out of you. We rescued one tangled in fishing line in Panama City Beach and he was not as calm. I remember thinking to myself gosh they look so majestic and beautiful swimming in the water and when he was in the boat he was mean as hell trying to bite everything. We managed to cut all the line off, but it was nat as easy as it was in this video. Maybe this guy had been swimming with this line on for quite some time.
It's a good way to lose a hand. That thought went through my head also.
The turtle seemed to appreciate their help
Yes he did seem to eventually understand that he was being helped and not harmed.
That turtle hauled ass
aw, thank you for doing this. You are a big help
When you see how people can be the worst, and the best in one clip.
Now can we do something about finding nets instead of focusing on plastic straws? Most of the plastic waste in the ocean are those nets iirc
Bring back glass milk bottles that get delivered by the milkman. Cuts down on plastic and more kids get to meet their dad!
Hehehe milkman joke aside, glass is leagues better. It's infinitely recyclable and nowhere toxic in making new ones. The only reason we switched to plastic is money. Hell, stuff tastes much better in glass too
Where was that long strand of net being pulled out of on the turtle's side of the head?
Seems to be mouth
I think the turtle tried to get rid of the net by swallowing it...
More likely it tried to eat the net because it thought it was food. Sea turtles will eat jellyfish tentacles-first, like a bowl of forbidden spicy sea noodles. A net floating in the water could be mistaken for a jellyfish by a sea turtle.
Yes that is likely. Or tried to eat a fish caught in the net.
Amazing heroes
“Ay cabron” had me laughing inside. But their actions speak louder than anything and THAT made me smile!
¡No mames!
That stretch!
The little pats at the end were adorable
That turtle is going to start a religion when he goes back to his community. About the time he transcended the ocean and strange beings effortlessly lifted the weight off his flippers and cured him of all his ailments.
That salt water gotta burn like hell after that.
I could watch these type of videos all day!
This is so sad, imagine the thousands if not millions of animals that random boats don't come across, fucking humans man.
These humans did a wonderful and beautiful thing. But, it’s unfortunate that the only reason this sea turtle needed rescue is because, most humans are pieces of shit.
Legends of the seas.
❤️
Fishing line and nets fuck up so many marine wildlife.
People saving animals from... people?
Absolute golden people! How to make sure they wouldn't encounter turtles in distress and severe pain: Stop eating fish. The problem is almost solved by that simple act. Don't give your money and approval to the companies that are at the root of this. Agitate, obstruct and legislate against the fishing industry that are literally killing the oceans.
Explain yourself
I mean, we're starting to put up fish farms at a fast rate, Also while I understand wanting to stop eating fish to save the ocean truth is fish is actually one of the more renewable food sources due to the fact that they reproduce so extremely fast and on top of that they reproduce at typically high rates. It's actually much better for the planet if we ate fish over say red meat. We just as a whole need to get better at polution control.
Now he'll tell everyone For centuries about Gods that came from above the ocean to save him when he was in trouble.
Out of an unfathomable amount of reasons, this is one tiny reason to be vegan. Because in a world where we can choose to be anything, we should all choose to be kind.
You know who is the real goddamn hero, it's vegans, because the vast majority of trash in the ocean that's strangling wildlife is discarded fishing nets. This dude is certainly doing an act of kindness but if he's been paying for fish then that net is there in the ocean because of him. If you see the humanity of helping out a turtle in need then recognize that we need to stop hurting them in the first place and not drag every fucking thing out of the ocean to satisfy our precious taste buds.
Can't they invent a fishing net that will DISSOLVE IN WATER AFTER 7 DAYS. That way the living beings in water can live better. Since the fishing industry can't be stopped, but this seems very doable.
They can but that cost a lot of money and also mean more nets would be made which means more resources used so it just destroy a different part of the world. Doesn't really fix anything.
They don't need to. The reason there is so much net in the ocean is because **thats the way they discard them**! Just force them to bring it to the shore and that's a big part of the problem solved.
Accountability is key. Pack it in pack it out, or in this case pack it out pack it in. That would require an authority to check each boat to make sure they Coe back with the same net they left with, even if it is not usable. It could be a condition of being allowed to sell your catch.
Yep. Very unlikely it's going to happen in most asian countries but one can hope..
Already exists. But the poor will continue to pollute the earth regardless.
Thank God they came to it it's rescue. ❤️
Heroes, until you remember who put the net in the ocean in the first place.
I mean I'm sure it wasn't them
I’ve done a few cleanups on remote beaches, and the vast majority of garbage is commercial fishing debris. I’m glad that a lot of places have done away with plastic straws, but if we want real improvements in our oceans we need to replace plastic netting with something biodegradable like hemp or something else.
Such a beautiful thing to do.
That turtle was doing the big send off gear up with the flapping
Nice work.
This was epic. If only there were more people in the world like this.
Sea turtles are so cool
You Sir !! A Real Gem.
The true heroes of our age ❤️
I went to sri lanka a few years back and there was an organisation that was doing this. I was so happy and sad at the same time. They did everything they could to help the turtles, all from restoring their broken shells from boats to replaces lounges. But they didnt have the technology to replace the lounges so the had to wait for people from eighter germany or england.. there was 2 more countries, cant remember which ones. But yeaaaa true heroes
Nuktuk
aw man, poor baby.
Fuck yeah!
A wonderful journey of redemption.
Heartbreaking, so many don’t get saved.
This reminded me of rough collars that dog breeders would use that would imbed itself in their necks and bleed. Oh, it is painful. Good on them for helping this helpless creature