around on the surface and very few people get to scuba dive ever get to go in submarines people don't get to snorkel and see what's actually down there so our experience of sharks is largely when someone pulls one up fishing or in a net or of a shark bites somebody and that's led to the misconceptions of sharks or monsters and predators of people and you know you've maybe heard the stat we've mapped more
And it really took forever, but it opened the border. snorkel on, and watch for sharks.
Cheng: The questionís about the photo on the upper left. It is a shipwreck. Itís called Sugar Wreck, a very shallow shipwreck full of life, so itís a great place to dive or snorkel. Although I wouldnít recommend snorkeling when tiger sharks are around, which weíve had happen before. Male #1: Why? Whatís the difference between snorkeling and diving?
And it really did center me. And then I went snorkeling, and I just really deeply listened to the sound of the waves lapping at my ears. And these tactical concrete taps into your five senses are a very practical way to be in the moment
As children, we got to do a lot of things that many kids only dreamed about. Swimming and snorkeling in the nearby bay and ocean, whitewater rafting, and rest and relaxation trips around the Philippines. Later on in high school and college, training and jumping horses became my passion.
But it's more up to-- I actually, before we started rehearsal, was in Mexico. And I was snorkeling. And I found a Skate fish.
This animal was probably sort of between two and three feet long, they're not small. I was snorkeling near Sydney and saw under a ledge something moving around, went down and had a look at it. And as I thought from the surface, it was a large animal and something very active.
They're never out in the open. If you're a snorkeler or a diver and you pick up a piece of coral rubble, oftentimes you'll see these brittle stars scurrying away to avoid getting eaten.
Her skindiver's fins form a single, broad fluke which propels her neoprene form sinuously toward the rocky bottom. Bright bubbles escaping her snorkel wobble urgently back to the air above. A thousand times I have seen her descend like this.
And then my body just moved forward at the surface like this. I'm on snorkel. And I felt this pressure against my back and my head, and I strained to look up, and I saw the underside of a whale go over the top of my head and stop right here.
marine wildlife. But we also show films that are how we engage with the ocean, and appreciate it, and have fun with it, from surfing, Now we could send divers to snorkel these streams and count fish.
I was scuba diving a lot, and then on the last day of a scuba trip you're not supposed to dive and fly on the same day. So I would go out and snorkel some of the same reefs, and see something 30, 40, 50 feet down, that I wanted to go take a look at. And I'd try to go down, and I'd get 20 feet down and feel like I had to breathe, and have to turn around.
pointed out that there was a space rocket out at sea, which they didn't initially believe me, but we're able to take a few out snorkeling today and get really close to it. Extraordinary, isn't it? Let's talk about it with Alice Gorman who's a space archaeologist and associate professor at
But we're aligned to the same desired end result, and that's beautiful. And just have what we call a land snorkeling roving salon, basically.
who just couldnít get out of the way fast enough. Theyíre harmless. Theyó Male #1: Is he snorkeling? Is he actually snorkeling? Cheng: I donít know if he has a snorkel on, but heís out of air. So heís in dive gear, but on the surface. Yeah. So these sharks are the biggest fish in the ocean. They can get up to around 40 feet long. They are totally harmless. Theyíre plankton eaters. Amazing fish to see. Some more sharks. This is a lemon shark. It
There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols. swimming, so snorkeling, not scuba diving, that would bring in a whole other set of complications, snorkeling and we do linear transects swimming for identifying any of the sea turtle groups,
screen that um I don't know anybody like to snorkel here I I'm a a big snorkler
Of course, I'm not snorkeling in Alaska.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. Like, if you were diving or something or snorkeling, you'd probably see it looking like this, with surprise yet to come.
Or has she really put him on my watch, allowing herself to forget her own warnings? In any case, when she places her snorkel in her mouth and puts her face in the water, all of us follow suit, except Anoop. With the animal stranded on his trembling hands, he is unable to replace his snorkel and is left alone above water while everyone
And from six or five feet away from a whale's eye? When I'm in the water, I snorkel.
snorkel. Although I wouldnít recommend snorkeling when tiger sharks are around, which weíve had happen before. Male #1: Why? Whatís the difference between snorkeling and diving? Cheng: The difference is youíre on the surface, and sharks pretty much always investigate anything floating on the surface. So if you want to get attention from a shark, just jump
Cheng: Free diving. Youíre not allowed to scuba dive here, so it isóAnd really, if youíre diving, you canít swim. If you have all that gear on, itís very hard to swim. So itís a much better experience by snorkel and free dive. These are shots of whale sharks feeding. These were taken of sharks when theyóTheyíre called ìbotellasî, like a bottle. They float like this: vertical with their mouths open on the
like to see reefs well it washes off us while we're snorkeling and it feeds a
You know, as if I had been on a snorkeling trip to the Maldives.
And the same is true, also, if you go snorkeling.
I'd encourage you-- I have links in the talk to actually go and download systems like Snorkel and Weld, as well as Macrobase.
In any case, when she places her snorkel in her mouth and puts her face in the water, all of us follow suit, except Anoop. With the animal stranded on his trembling hands, he is unable to replace his snorkel and is left alone above water while everyone watches his hands below.
So depending on where you are, you may find those same corals in very deep water in the tropics and at the depth that you can snorkel in Alaska.
we both did, to talk about it because it's a captivating sport where people are doing things we've all tried to do. Hold our breath as long as possible, and maybe swim the length of a pool, or kick down when we're snorkeling to a reef. And here are people going deeper than scuba divers can go with a tank.
Carefully, she opens Allie's palm and holds it beside her own. As the knobby creature slides from one hand to the other, Allie's eyes widen, and she speaks into her snorkel, an incomprehensible but richly expressive string of syllables.
At first he looks somewhat resigned, like a surgical patient separated from the doctor's work by a curtain across his chest. But a second later, he whips his head suddenly to the side, trying to catch his snorkel's mouthpiece with his teeth. He makes three such lunges, each of them unsuccessful, before he gives up, takes a deep breath, and submerges his face, just in time to see Veronica's index
As Anoop watches their hands reaching in to investigate, his cheeks begin to swell with the pressure of unexhaled breath. And just when it appears they might burst open, admitting a gasp of seawater, Allie reaches across our circle and places Anoop's snorkel in his mouth. Through his glinting mask, he seems to look gratefully at her.
It's pretty common. I kind of giggle a little bit when I see vehicles with the snorkels on them here in the States.
whale sharks. Very large whale sharks, mostly female. Iíve only ever seen one male whale shark in Galapagos. This was one of the only really friendly ones Iíve ever seen there, who just hung out. I mean, all of those divers on the surface are out of air. What weíre doing is trying to snorkel around this whale shark whoís just hanging out and rubbing up against boats, doing weird things.
The other thing is: this whale shark would pick one diver and swim towards it until you got out of the way or it forced you out of the way. This is our dive guide, who just couldnít get out of the way fast enough. Theyíre harmless. Theyó Male #1: Is he snorkeling? Is he actually snorkeling? Cheng: I donít know if he has a snorkel on, but heís out of air. So heís in dive gear, but on the surface. Yeah. So these sharks are the biggest fish in the
ages. Again, because they were soóThey just basically ignored us here. You could take some more interesting shots instead of just going for whatever shot you can get. So I shot splits, these vertical splits, and then I dove down to their heads to try to get shots of them hanging in the water upside down. This is also on snorkel, on free dive. More shots here. The one on the left is-- That little piece there, of red, is actually part of a squid arm, which is what they feed on. This one in the middle is a juvenile about
Simone, Cousteau's wife, in mask, fins, and snorkel, would swim out to watch over her husband from above and signal to Dumas if he got into trouble.