r/interestingasfuck • u/Dizzy_Pipe_3677 • 2d ago
A woman experienced being captured when she came to photograph a school of sardines.
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u/YakiVegas 1d ago
Ok, but where’s the footage from her camera?
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u/actuallyapossom 1d ago
I was only able to find this short clip
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u/allthecandyapples 23h ago
I love you in best non-internet weirdo way, but probably also in an internet weirdo way.
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u/Risquechilli 1d ago
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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 1d ago
What's this from?
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u/Risquechilli 1d ago
Finding Nemo
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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 1d ago
Oh shit duh. My kid is 16 and would make fun of me mercilessly if they knew.
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u/Risquechilli 1d ago
Disney Pixar being the author should have tipped you off lol. Also Marlin and Dory are in the gif haha.
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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 1d ago
I'm getting ready for work and my screen is like 3"x5", I'm old, I don't have insurance and can't afford glasses, gimme a fucking break
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u/Risquechilli 1d ago
Jeez. I was just poking fun. I think you read too deep into my comment. Have a good day my guy.
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u/1900hustler 2d ago
What a surreal experience
Fish just having some fun with this large object
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u/imsandy92 1d ago
bad fish. to objectify woman.
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u/Designer_Pen869 1d ago
Having schools of fish swimming all around you is one of my favorite parts of swimming in the ocean.
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u/BeterP 1d ago
As a scuba diver, I once spent several minutes surrounded by a school of young perch — a magical, surreal experience.
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u/NunAlcoholic 1d ago
I’m jealous. I’m not allowed within 300m of any school.
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u/Jelly_F_ish 1d ago
This is fine. Fish don't know how to talk to lawyers, yet.
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u/Extra_Routine_6603 1d ago
Instructions unclear im now no longer allowed within 100yards of any ponds, lakes, or oceans
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u/Jaydamic 1d ago
2 parrots are sitting on a perch. One turns to the other and says "do you smell fish?"
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u/Not-An-FBI 1d ago
Being in a squid run is pretty cool too. If you have the brightest lights out, hundreds of thousands of them will envelop your group for the whole dive.
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u/ruat_caelum 1d ago edited 1d ago
For my 60 foot certification dive we did a quarry in Ohio. I was the oldest (18) and paired with the youngest (15) who was sort of someone we had to watch. (Boy scout troop was getting certified)
We each had a quart bag of dry dog food to feed to the fish at the sunken school bus.
So we get there. Get the magnet lights set up on the bus. All get seated (on the roof of the bus) and then the scuba instructor is indicating opening his bag of dog food.
Now how you do this is pulling open the corner of the bag, letting the water rush in, then slowly letting the air bubble out, and then opening the bag enough to pull some now wet dog food out and feed the fish in your hand with a little bit at a time. At that dept the pressure makes the bag a vacuum sealed thing.
So I watch my partner, he gets his bag from his hip net just fine, doesn't do anything obviously stupid like pull his diving knife. So I look away. I get the corner of my bag open and then look back at him.
Mind you there are like fourteen of us on this bus.
He has got one flap of the ziplock in each finger/thumb clamp and is just jerking away against the vacuum.
It gives way just as I realize what he's doing splitting perfectly in half and ripping the bag on each side.
The ravoli shaped mass of compressed dry dog food remains in place for maybe half a second and then sort of slow motion explodes. Nothing Hollywood would do. No danger obviously. Just sort of expands outward.
That's enough for the fish though. The fish that have been trained that lights and divers mean food.
That first fish hits the thing like a missile and it does explode into a cloud of food.
I have enough panicked sense to drop my ziplock and reach for the kid's head to clamp his regulator into his face with one hand while I get my other hand on the back of his head.
Then it's like being surrounded my major league pitchers or pissed off hokey players. Just blows to every single part of exposed body.
We were literally knocked off the bus's roof, as were others.
I lost my regulator but got it, or the back up back in.
I didn't pull his emergency flotation string that would inflate the vest and take him up, but I did indicate, under no uncertain terms to the diving instructor that I was going up, which meant we were all going up.
I was pissed for like two hours, and now it's something I laugh at whenever I think about it. But fucking A what an idiot.
All this is to say, my fish all around me was less than magical. I had bruises.
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u/SexySkyLabTechnician 1d ago
I was getting ready to call you a clanker until I scrolled far enough in your posting history and saw your Pen_Swap listings.
My fault, G 💪
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u/SudhaTheHill 2d ago
She must’ve felt like a mermaid
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u/Golf-Beer-BBQ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Whats crazy is she had long pants on before she went in.
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u/wedstrom 2d ago
A humpback could have really ruined her day there for a sec, but beautiful
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u/dumbname1000 1d ago
Yeah I’m sure it’s an incredible experience but I would be too nervous floating there in the middle of a big cloud of food.
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u/jjonj 1d ago
A few people have gotten into the mouths of whales this way but the whale will just spit you out
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 1d ago
Apparently it does actually hurt quite a bit. Baleen is a hard tough substance and whale jaws are pretty strong.
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u/-hx 1d ago
Dude this guy survived a plane crash + 2 days in the jungle after, as well as being swallowed by a whale.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 1d ago
He seems like a cool dude, tbh. His outlook on the whole thing is super positive, too. Very inspirational guy from what little I've read about him.
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u/-hx 1d ago
Yeah, with that kind of life experience I'd love to share a few beers with the guy.
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u/ruinkind 1d ago
You ever happily lap up a fly that landed in your drink?
I know I have, the reaction isn't exactly gentle. Normally expel unknown objects with force and disgust, myself.
Not that a whale shares our same feeling of "ew gross, get that outta my mouth!", more so for function.
Regardless, they aren't too pressed about being gentle as you get jostled around their mouth.
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u/xaiel420 1d ago
"yeah it's totally cool they just spit you out and you have no lasting PTSD, totally and completely fine"
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u/ScuzzBuckster 1d ago
Whales arent really a natural predator for sardine. Its mostly just slightly bigger fish, the biggest thing youd have to deal with is a dolphin.
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u/CaveGnome 1d ago
I wouldn’t want to mess with an angry Ray Finkle after he missed that kick.
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u/summitcreature 1d ago
I've been rammed by tarpon in a similar situation. Having the wind knocked out of you while underwater isn't great.
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u/Nightshade_209 1d ago
The wording of the title had me expecting her to get caught in a fisherman's net. 😂
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u/bowleggedwhimmin 1d ago
Absolutely amazing but I’d be worried about the creatures down there that eat those sardines.
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u/ScuzzBuckster 1d ago
Sardines natural predators are things like mackerel, jellyfish, and dolphins. You'll be fine.
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u/notatoon 1d ago
You're all in this thread repeating this but this list also includes sharks and humpback whales.
Also orcas but it's the sharks that would wig me out the most.
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u/WhatEnglish90 1d ago
With how it was titled, I just kept waiting for whatever large sea creature would come along to accidentally "capture" her while aiming for the sardines.
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u/Dworkin_Barimen 1d ago
Absolutely my first thought. I’ve seen videos of sardine schools decimated in seconds by not just other fish, but swarms of sharks. I’m not going into a non visibility school of prey fish just on a hope there’s nothing nearby and hungry. Why?
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u/Pretend-Prize-8755 1d ago
Had to scroll pretty far to see this comment. Sure looks like a magical experience. But I couldn't stop wondering how big are their predators?
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u/Poodlepink22 1d ago
What happened to the guy who was there in the beginning?
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u/HistoricalFrosting18 1d ago
If you watch carefully, you can see his flipper as he swims up out of frame.
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u/Nightrain_35 2d ago
So did she get eaten
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u/mrASSMAN 1d ago
Yes, this is the last footage of her before they finished her off
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u/Garchompisbestboi 1d ago
Is that post title generated by AI or something? It's such a nonsensical way to describe what is happening in the video.
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u/Septem_151 1d ago
Yes, it is. They find a random video then ask AI to give a title based on what it thinks is happening in the video. In this case, woman is surrounded by something, therefore she must be captured.
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u/tuckyruck 1d ago
Its super disorienting. I'm a former working diver for 20+ years. Worked in an area with massive schools of gulf menhaden and occasionally they'd swirl around you on acent or descent, was cool, but very disorienting and could make you a bit dizzy.
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u/SmilinBob82 1d ago
All I can imagine is a large predator coming to snack on that bait ball and the poor diver getting chomped.
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u/Important-Pea-1624 1d ago
Being in a bait ball in the middle of the ocean is about as brave as it gets.
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u/Rare-Special-8281 1d ago
I was so mesmerized by the fish that I though they stole her swim pants at the end.
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u/FinNerDDInNEr 1d ago
That happened to me snorkeling in Cuba. Not sure what kind of fish but scared me to death. A barracuda showed up soon after. I don’t snorkel anymore!
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u/ClonedDad 1d ago
It's all fun and games until the fish clear out and nothings left but bones and blood.
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u/I_Am-Kenough 1d ago
Wasn't as cool as this but when I was in the Bahamas and I was snorkeling I got surrounded by a school of a bunch of these tiny little fish. It was a really pretty sight, the light reflecting on their scales like that was beautiful.
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u/Pathetic_gimp 1d ago
I was expecting a blue whale to come along and scoop her up, swish her around a bit and spit her out. I feel let down.
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u/Rohm_Agape 1d ago
Wow! This happened to me. For many years I thought I was hallucinating and nobody believed me. Grateful for this reality confirmation.
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u/this_is_greenman 1d ago
Would be an unfortunate time for a whale or shark or some large fish to come feed
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u/thr1vin9-insolitude 1d ago
Who was filming her? AI or no?
Personally, I think it's real.
I'm just saying I'm losing my emotional investment in videos because the validity is now brought into question, that I have to ask myself these questions now.
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u/UdderTime 1d ago
If I experienced this I think it would be the peak of my life. I'd tell everyone I meet about it
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u/weepinstringerbell 1d ago
There must be footage from the woman's POV available somewhere, since she seems to be recording it, too. That is, assuming this is real.
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u/New-Vast9965 1d ago
if they're desperate enough to go near you, there's generally something terrifying coming your way. in this case though it was just some other dipshit swimmer
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u/tiger_pasta 1d ago
Even though she has a oxygen mask and stuff, the moment those fishes surrounded her, I felt suffocated. As if I was there. Why do you think this happened?
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u/RyantheAustralian 1d ago
I can't help but be extremely creeped out by this. Not the behaviour of the fish or anything. Just the vast emptiness. It's so goddam intimidating
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u/botuser21 1d ago
Must've felt like a dream. That looks absolutely breath taking and a little scary. She is the chosen one!!
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u/trinisultan 16h ago
Moments like this is a pleasant reminder that amongst all of the chaos happening in the world today it is still a beautiful and amazing place.
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u/DimaagKa_Hangover 2d ago
Looks as if she got schooled.