My parents abandoned me at an early age and I was raised by a family of Barracudas. Growing strong off their rich milk I can attest to their gentle near passive nature.
You can tell who the arm chair divers are here. Barracudas are naturally inquisitive and see humans as a larger predator. They aren't sizing you up, they aren't wanting to eat you, but they are looking for scraps that you as the "predator" might leave behind...They are more like a stray dog wanting food, just don't hand feed a cuda ;).
@@lulubelljingles9701 only the big ones because they develop some type of toxin in their system from the shit they eat as they get older it gets worse so when you eat them you get food poisoning so only young ones are safe to eat.
Growing up in Key West SCUBA diving and surface diving you naturally spend a lot of time around around barracudas. They are inquisitive and for the most part not aggressive towards humans. However, on two occasions I have witnessed what appeared to be aggressive, territorial behavior from two extremely large barracudas. In each instance these Barracudas were hanging out by an object that fish schooled around; a coral head and a channel marker. The behavior was the same both times...erratic, aggressive movement then the barracuda turned and swam directly towards me with a WIDE open mouth and flared gills...this 'display' was akin to how other animals flex their muscles so-to-speak. Only once have I seen a barracuda "attack". Like any Barracuda attack on fish, it was so fast that it was over before you knew it happened. It was during a decent on a night dive. A barracuda shot straight towards a diver's mask and by chance was stopped short by running into the lobster net the diver was holding upright while descending...a total fluke...my guess is her mask threw a reflection from a dive light and the barracuda's reflexes just kicked in.
Haha yes! I went to BSA Seabase in my teens. Loved every second of snorkeling in the Keys...The fish would gather in these huge balls around us, while the big barracudas slowly circled like sentinels 15 feet or so away, waiting for a fish to stray. They are definitely an intelligent and curious species. They warned us not to agitate or flash bright things at them because they could trigger a response, but on the whole, barracuda 'attacks' are extremely rare.
I looked up this video because the only time I’ve snorkeled, was in key west and two giant barracuda came right up to me. I could count their teeth. It gave me a scare for my first time snorkeling but it was fun.
They are attracted to shiny things. Anything that’ll reflect light is what will make them charge at you. That’s why you don’t wear jewelry such as silver especially when diving
I haven't gone diving in years, but the one thing I remember is how curious barracudas are. They routinely swim right up to you and look you in the eye. Very inquisitive fish.
I swam and snorkeled with the same barracuda for 10 days at Rolleville on Great Exuma, Bahamas. I know it was the same one because it had some scales missing on its side. It never attacked me, and would never let me get close enough to touch it, though I tried. It just stayed with me the whole time I was in the water. Really cool!
That thing is huge. Wow. I learned a lot from comments of experienced divers. I've always found barracuda to be terrifying until I read this. I'm generally of the belief that most animals are more sensitive and intelligent than we've originally given them credit for.
When I was a child in the 1960' my parents would take us to Florida for holidays. We live in Windsor Ontario at the time. One evening I strolled down to a dock to see the rich diversity of sea life visible from the dock. The water was so clear. I saw a school of mullet swimming by when suddenly a big barracuda streaked in a took out a mullet, leaving only it head to float down towards the bottom. It was quite astonishing for a 10 year old. I ran back and told my parents who then accompanied by back to the dock. They brought the 8 mm movie camera with them. So I still have the movie, now transfered to video, of my father wading into the water of the dock and retrieving the bitten off head of the mullet. I will never forget the speed of that Cuda.
I have the feeling that all 535 dislikes are from people who have never been within 20 feet of a barracuda. A barracuda "chilling" stares motionless with all fins deployed underneath your dive boat. When a barracuda gets within 10 feet of you it is because it is deciding whether or not it can force you to leave its territory. The barracuda in the footage is conduction mock-attacks on the divers to try to scare you away.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking, because these fish have great bursts of speed, the Cuda was barely swimming, and if the Cuda really wanted to charge them, then it would be charging to attack, which "
Roy Patterson Like a Mako Shark they would never see an attack coming until someone lost a limb and was bleeding out. People are such idiots. They pretend fish are stupid and having raised my share of them I can say they are not anywhere near as dumb as people want to think. I honestly think if someone spent the time and raised a Great Barracuda from a Juvenal (about a foot long) and took the time to train it it would follow divers like a guard dog and woe be to any bull shark or group of them trying to molest a diver. They may not be a "cute" as a Dolphin or as smart but they are if anything "Smart enough" and very lethal and on top of that faster than any dolphin. Heck, even sharks are respectful of Great Barracuda.
ill never forget the time i was in cuba with my family and came face to face with a barracuda. my brother and i were chilling in the ocean and had our scuba goggles on, i went underwater to grab a cool shell and turned around and a barracuda was just vibing and starring at me. i shit my shorts, surfaced and started swimming faster than i ever have. my brother started chasing me yelling at me “where are you going?!?” i told him when we got to the beach and he was like you didnt even say anything! every man for themself in a situation like that. if i start swimming fast to land, just know you should to.
I love Barracuda's always been my favorite fish. In every footage of a barracuda taken by people diving it's always the only fish seemingly completely unperturbed by the divers' presence! I really think they might be smarter than most other fish. Even in gopro footage of the Barracuda eating a lion fish with over 2.8 million views, one of the divers holds a gopro 4 inches in front of the barracuda's face, and it looks right into the lense for a second, then it moves it's ping pong ball sized eye to look right at the diver holding it. You just don't see fish looking around like that, surveying their surroundings. Part of what makes these guys special in my mind. Plus I mean if a Barracuda isn't the best design in the ocean for an underwater offense I don't know what is! It's got thick white teeth, long slender streamlined body with stiff, upright tail fins designed to bank around corners maintaining as much speed through the water as possible, lending more truth their higher levels of brain activity, they'd need it to coordinate a high speed attack in such a complex environment when their prey is so quick and can dart into an underpass of coral or something, it follows the trail and doesn't stop moving until it's got what it wants or can not detect the prey any longer. Plus, there may be other fish in the ocean that are un intimidated by humans swimming around in their environment, but it takes a level of curiosity and some level of mental capacity to CHOOSE to stick around throughout the whole time the divers are present, which you see barracuda's doing that often.
There was a Dive Captain out of the Keys named Capt Slate and He used to feed a large barracuda by putting a bally hoo on this mouth and the Cuda would swim and take it at lightning speed..The Cuda never came back as rumored to have been caught.
I'm coming back from the Caribbean where a barracuda as big as this one followed me They're impressive but very calm You can see their big black eyes following you and their sharp teeth, and other fishes just sprint away, they're such kings, I love them.
Been a few feet away from barracudas that big, they’re usually chill. This one wasn’t aggressive and was just playing. They do like shiny flashy things. So watch any jewelry that you wear.
Being that close to a barracuda is like being that close to a lion, if it decided to attack there is nothing any one of you could have done to stop it in time... That said it had to be pretty cool to be swimming that close to one. :)
Not true... barracudas dont have the ability to remove a limb. While they will feed on proportionately large fish, they lack the size, jaw strength, and serrated teeth needed to do that kind of damage. Though, I agree that this one is just curious. In fact, she seems especially curious about the bubbles being released by the SCUBA rig.
Not many people are aware of this.. but this encounter might be just as dangerous as a shark encounter with a medium sized shark due to the often aggressive nature of the barracuda, and this one is big enough to "challenge" humans which it do not want near
I remember having a similar encounter with a great barracuda of off Al Lith, Saudi Arabia at a dive site called Aramco’s reef. That Barracuda came out of nowhere and it was the most curious barracuda I’ve seen, it kept swimming with us, checking us out until we just finished the dive by the boat and then it left.
Here's a good? 'fish story'... A friend of my Dad's taught me to dive with tanks when I was 13 in '65. We practiced in the enclosed atoll area of Matheson Hammock Park near Coral Gables FL. The first time we dove outside the man-made reef in open water a big 'cuda (about my size 😮) appeared from nowhere and nailed a solitary yellowtail that had been swimming around us. It looked like a blur as it darted at the yellowtail from 20 feet away. I'd observed hundreds of small ones while snorkeling - but never a Great barracuda.. So I'm watching (and hearing) it munch down the fish, scales sparkling and drifting down in the sunlight.. All I could see was a mouth full of monstrous teeth as it came over to check me out from about arm's length. I held still. Eventually it swam away after the longest ten minutes of my life
Armchair diver here. I will have you guys know that the things with bubbles coming out are the humans and the thing that looks like a torpedo is some sort of fish.
I had one nearly as large charge me while snorkeling off Roatan. They are lightening fast and terrifying. The giant charged me, I believe because my camera case was really catching the light.
Territorial and curious. Diving in a salt water canal one time I had a sense of something behind me and turned around to find a 4' cuda staring me in the face from about 12" away. My dive buddy knew beforehand that the location was it's territory and he had seen it before but didn't bother to tell me about it.
Yeah the same thing happened to me my Spider sense went off and I turned around feet up and six feet behind me was a big cuda that then proceeded to flank me. But what is it with that spider sense right? Like my neck prickled and tingled and everything
That's i thank God i live on Mediterrean, actually it's eastern part , the bay called Adriatic Sea, about 1000 nautical miles long and 100 miles in average wide, i live on croatian side of it, we fish, swim, bath, dive, now is very warm sea temperature, like in tropics, about 25-28 C( don't know in your measures , F , in the winter is about 14 C) , here we don't have to fear sharks, i never saw one in the sea, except small species, the biggest 1 meter( 3 feet), the last fatality was in 1974 from great white, after that only one non-lethal attack, from about 4,5 meters great white ( about 15 feet) in 2008, but locals were never attacked, in 12 attacks in 80 years from 1895-1974 ALL eaten and killed were tourists and ALL of them were killed, at least 4,5 were eaten totally, never found their remains and people were catching accidentaly or deliberately enormous great whites, 6-7 meters, 20-25 feet, government was giving money award for every maneater until 80s( that was literally our name for great white, pas ljudožder-maneating shark) , we have rich marine life, now we changed, for example 15,20 years ago , not to mention earlier we were killing octopuses every time we saw them, kids, women, old people because they are one of the most delicious sea creatures, now many of us release them from traps on the sea floor, there can be 5,6 octopuses and they put it in the small boats marines, i released yesterday from my trap 2 conger eels, i felt sorry for them , about 1 meter each and 2 kilos, they ate 10 small fishes that got trapped few hours ago , which i release always when i dig my trap, i release small fishes, small cuttlefish, small octopuses , but sometimes i get tasty piece of fish, i catch squids by jigging , in the autumn and winter when they come close to the shore, and by big spears and light i sometimes catch something like octopus but they are smaller and have only one suckers on its tentacles, octopus has two, don't know english name ua-cam.com/video/qy3by0A34g4/v-deo.html , this is our adriatic barracuda , this is filmed 1,2 nautical miles where i live.
Ahhh- I remember my first barracuda encounter- Roatan island West-side 1993- it was an early morning snorkeling with v. clear water, sun streaming when I noticed a tremendously Silver fish- rather large as it came closer its 5 Bulging canines told me it was A Barracuda. Later that afternoon I saw a similar size barracuda just 4 ft. from the beach swimming in 8-10" of water- amazing! A few days later I jogged my 8 miles and then suddenly felt the urge to snorkel out to a reef about quarter mile off shore- brilliant with small tiny v. colorful fish. On the way back I felt tired so I just relaxed on my back and used my flippers paddling in. Then slowly like I was witnessing a movie from the left side of my mask slowing The Barracuda emerged- it was seemingly bigger than the first I had seen about 7-9 ft. from me just checking me out. Again- its the 5 Big canines that are intimidating as their son Big this fish has them permanently on the exterior of its mouth. All in all I admire The Barracuda- may it always swim Free!
if i was there, without my speargun, i would have probably shat my pants.... that is the biggest barracuda i have ever seen, cant believe it was so close... the guy with the camera truly has some balls... well done!
It's not a bad thing if a barracuda comes close to you. But never harass them with your prescense. They're pretty high up the food chain. This one was indeed curious.
Hey you divers are jealous cause ima barracuda! look at at me swim yeeeaaaa you wish you were me cause ima barracuda! o what? Your taking pictures? ok let me pose BOOM now your camera is gonna explode with awesomeness cause ima barracuda
He was doing his best "Jim Carrey-In Living Color" skit about people photo-bombing and being knuckleheads when the camera is rolling and they get to act silly in the background
Happened to me once in Pompano Beach. Was snorkeling offshore in a rare still, crystal clear water day when this huge barracuda swam up to me really fast, stopped and just kept looking at me. Didn't know what he had in mind. I slowly drifted towards shore and, eventually, he left.
I used to feel this way. In my adventures, I rarely took pictures because I was too busy enjoying the moment. Now that time has passed and my memory quickly fades, I wish I had documented more of those great moments. You will be surprised what you won't be able to remember, moments that you thought would stay with you forever. Most of the time, you won't even realize what you've forgotten. Pictures are a reminder of your history. They keep your past from becoming unmoored and lost. Do your future, old self a favor and take more pictures. What good is experiencing a moment when it's gone from memory?
I'm much more worried about these than sharks. While in the coast guard in the gulf we did a rescue on a lady who had her main artery in her leg just about ripped out by a barracuda....AND SHE WAS IN THE BOAT WHEN IT HAPPENED!! She was reeling it in and it jumped out of the water and tore her up!!
This is why people get killed "oh it's so amazing let's go swimming with it and take pictures". Unless you're doing this for research dont risk your life taking pictures up close of a predator that can sheer one of your limbs clean off.
*giant barracuda floats near divers*
Clarkstowns Finest swims****
Watch out guys. We got a baddass over here.
Interesting behavior, never seen that before!
Just a little one. Smaller than the divers.
@@DiveHard Agreed. One that big is no joke when it acts like that
My parents abandoned me at an early age and I was raised by a family of Barracudas. Growing strong off their rich milk I can attest to their gentle near passive nature.
Fvck man... 😂
What?
This guy gets it
lmao
Got milk?
How much did he charge?
+Tom Nally Fifty clams.
hope he's not expensive hahaaa
At least it wasn't an arm and a leg.
Sporkmaker5150 Not even a finger!
Nemo...
You can tell who the arm chair divers are here. Barracudas are naturally inquisitive and see humans as a larger predator. They aren't sizing you up, they aren't wanting to eat you, but they are looking for scraps that you as the "predator" might leave behind...They are more like a stray dog wanting food, just don't hand feed a cuda ;).
Wear a shiny watch on your wrist with some shiny rings on your fingers. My boss knows someone who has lost a finger.
lol....so true. I was snorkeling yesterday and had one follow me for about 30 minutes
Thank you for clearing it up Mr. diving god
@@jasonjackson5696 its 'sir' diving god
Did the barracuda tell you that?
Barracudas have learned that hanging out with divers, spear fishermen, can lead to an easy meal.
Barracudas taste good. Hopefully they spear the aggressive ones
@@Toybinging you do know they are deadly to eat
@@lulubelljingles9701 only the big ones because they develop some type of toxin in their system from the shit they eat as they get older it gets worse so when you eat them you get food poisoning so only young ones are safe to eat.
@@badcrysis1349 have ppl died from eating the big ones?
@@glossygloss472 if it has a toxin developed from eating and being preyed on then yes most likely someone has died
Isn't this what killed Nemo's mom?!
yes indeed.it was a Barracuda
no, stupid Tourists killed Nemos mom
And many of his brothers
@@crank6666666 no, the barracuda actually killed the mom and ate all his siblings, the tourists kidnapped Nemo
Stephanie Gonzalez yes just F’n Terrifying
she wanted to eat you just didn't know how xD
He really was like what is u like ??????!
Nigga you still alive?
@@waluigihentailover6926 LMAO
Tg
@@waluigihentailover6926
Rip waluigi ✊🏽😔
Growing up in Key West SCUBA diving and surface diving you naturally spend a lot of time around around barracudas. They are inquisitive and for the most part not aggressive towards humans. However, on two occasions I have witnessed what appeared to be aggressive, territorial behavior from two extremely large barracudas. In each instance these Barracudas were hanging out by an object that fish schooled around; a coral head and a channel marker. The behavior was the same both times...erratic, aggressive movement then the barracuda turned and swam directly towards me with a WIDE open mouth and flared gills...this 'display' was akin to how other animals flex their muscles so-to-speak. Only once have I seen a barracuda "attack". Like any Barracuda attack on fish, it was so fast that it was over before you knew it happened. It was during a decent on a night dive. A barracuda shot straight towards a diver's mask and by chance was stopped short by running into the lobster net the diver was holding upright while descending...a total fluke...my guess is her mask threw a reflection from a dive light and the barracuda's reflexes just kicked in.
Is diving good in the Keys? I getting tired of using my passport to dive.
Haha yes! I went to BSA Seabase in my teens. Loved every second of snorkeling in the Keys...The fish would gather in these huge balls around us, while the big barracudas slowly circled like sentinels 15 feet or so away, waiting for a fish to stray. They are definitely an intelligent and curious species. They warned us not to agitate or flash bright things at them because they could trigger a response, but on the whole, barracuda 'attacks' are extremely rare.
I looked up this video because the only time I’ve snorkeled, was in key west and two giant barracuda came right up to me. I could count their teeth. It gave me a scare for my first time snorkeling but it was fun.
They are attracted to shiny things. Anything that’ll reflect light is what will make them charge at you. That’s why you don’t wear jewelry such as silver especially when diving
Man's wrote a whole essay
curious but hardly aggressive
The ocean is one big bucket of NOPE.
burntham113 I know what you mean. I was bold when I was young and did a lot of snorkeling in Hawaii. Beautiful, but scary.
100% agreed
PlanetRockJesus I just went snorkling for the first time, and it was actually in Hawaii
PlanetRockJesus why is snorkeling scary?
@@nerad1994 Because in the Ocean, you'll realize how little chance you'll stand against any predator. Can't out swim it & can't fight it
I haven't gone diving in years, but the one thing I remember is how curious barracudas are. They routinely swim right up to you and look you in the eye. Very inquisitive fish.
He smiled for the camera at the end.
lol
XD
Omg adorable XD
WHY am i watching Baracuda for the 2nd time, when i just woke up from my alarm at 9
Professionals have standards
lol I love the end. "It's right behind me, isn't it."
lmao yer i would hate that feeling
Exactly what I was thinking LMAO!
yay ... hes pooped his pants/divers out
I swam and snorkeled with the same barracuda for 10 days at Rolleville on Great Exuma, Bahamas. I know it was the same one because it had some scales missing on its side. It never attacked me, and would never let me get close enough to touch it, though I tried. It just stayed with me the whole time I was in the water. Really cool!
They love following snorkelers around as we tend to stir up lots of small fish for them
Just lying
I recommend you try it sometime,. A bit off-putting at first, but they are really cool fish.@@chorise9698
That thing is huge. Wow. I learned a lot from comments of experienced divers. I've always found barracuda to be terrifying until I read this. I'm generally of the belief that most animals are more sensitive and intelligent than we've originally given them credit for.
This is our barracuda from Adriatic sea, smaller then her oceanic cousins but with equally sharp teeth
ua-cam.com/video/qy3by0A34g4/v-deo.html
When I was a child in the 1960' my parents would take us to Florida for holidays. We live in Windsor Ontario at the time. One evening I strolled down to a dock to see the rich diversity of sea life visible from the dock. The water was so clear. I saw a school of mullet swimming by when suddenly a big barracuda streaked in a took out a mullet, leaving only it head to float down towards the bottom. It was quite astonishing for a 10 year old. I ran back and told my parents who then accompanied by back to the dock. They brought the 8 mm movie camera with them. So I still have the movie, now transfered to video, of my father wading into the water of the dock and retrieving the bitten off head of the mullet. I will never forget the speed of that Cuda.
Upload it to YT!
nice 😂
This is a curious barracuda. I have not yet met one who was not.
Come to Jamaica and find out
I think he's just inquisitive about the divers and bubbles....
I have the feeling that all 535 dislikes are from people who have never been within 20 feet of a barracuda. A barracuda "chilling" stares motionless with all fins deployed underneath your dive boat. When a barracuda gets within 10 feet of you it is because it is deciding whether or not it can force you to leave its territory. The barracuda in the footage is conduction mock-attacks on the divers to try to scare you away.
He's just being curious. Barracudas don't attack randomly.
First they conspire
That's a pretty damn big barracuda. I don't know about the "charging" part in this video's title tho......
Bruh was charging them food
Charged? Are you kidding? If this fish charged someone would be missing an arm or leg. That was curiosity and most of it had to do with the bubbles.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking, because these fish have great bursts of speed, the Cuda was barely swimming, and if the Cuda really wanted to charge them, then it would be charging to attack, which "
Roy Patterson
Like a Mako Shark they would never see an attack coming until someone lost a limb and was bleeding out. People are such idiots. They pretend fish are stupid and having raised my share of them I can say they are not anywhere near as dumb as people want to think. I honestly think if someone spent the time and raised a Great Barracuda from a Juvenal (about a foot long) and took the time to train it it would follow divers like a guard dog and woe be to any bull shark or group of them trying to molest a diver. They may not be a "cute" as a Dolphin or as smart but they are if anything "Smart enough" and very lethal and on top of that faster than any dolphin. Heck, even sharks are respectful of Great Barracuda.
ill never forget the time i was in cuba with my family and came face to face with a barracuda. my brother and i were chilling in the ocean and had our scuba goggles on, i went underwater to grab a cool shell and turned around and a barracuda was just vibing and starring at me. i shit my shorts, surfaced and started swimming faster than i ever have. my brother started chasing me yelling at me “where are you going?!?” i told him when we got to the beach and he was like you didnt even say anything!
every man for themself in a situation like that. if i start swimming fast to land, just know you should to.
I love Barracuda's always been my favorite fish. In every footage of a barracuda taken by people diving it's always the only fish seemingly completely unperturbed by the divers' presence! I really think they might be smarter than most other fish. Even in gopro footage of the Barracuda eating a lion fish with over 2.8 million views, one of the divers holds a gopro 4 inches in front of the barracuda's face, and it looks right into the lense for a second, then it moves it's ping pong ball sized eye to look right at the diver holding it. You just don't see fish looking around like that, surveying their surroundings. Part of what makes these guys special in my mind. Plus I mean if a Barracuda isn't the best design in the ocean for an underwater offense I don't know what is! It's got thick white teeth, long slender streamlined body with stiff, upright tail fins designed to bank around corners maintaining as much speed through the water as possible, lending more truth their higher levels of brain activity, they'd need it to coordinate a high speed attack in such a complex environment when their prey is so quick and can dart into an underpass of coral or something, it follows the trail and doesn't stop moving until it's got what it wants or can not detect the prey any longer. Plus, there may be other fish in the ocean that are un intimidated by humans swimming around in their environment, but it takes a level of curiosity and some level of mental capacity to CHOOSE to stick around throughout the whole time the divers are present, which you see barracuda's doing that often.
Agreed! they seem to have a awarness about them interacting with the divers...
There was a Dive Captain out of the Keys named Capt Slate and He used to feed a large barracuda by putting a bally hoo on this mouth and the Cuda would swim and take it at lightning speed..The Cuda never came back as rumored to have been caught.
I'm coming back from the Caribbean where a barracuda as big as this one followed me
They're impressive but very calm
You can see their big black eyes following you and their sharp teeth, and other fishes just sprint away, they're such kings, I love them.
0:58 Barracuda approached the diver and gently whispered in his ear:
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Been a few feet away from barracudas that big, they’re usually chill. This one wasn’t aggressive and was just playing. They do like shiny flashy things. So watch any jewelry that you wear.
I remember the first time diving in the Caribbean - the dive guide warned everyone to check their jewelry before boarding.
Barracuda is like "wtf is this shit?"
He's playing with bubbles. *Human attempt to read animal language fail.
true, read ur comment b4 i watched and i'd have to agree. he was clearly interested in the bubbles.
Try to be with one of those barracuda... the last thing you will be thinking is about bubbles, that barracuda is damm biggg,,,
Barracuda are insanely curious - if it were an attack it would have been lighting fast.
Being that close to a barracuda is like being that close to a lion, if it decided to attack there is nothing any one of you could have done to stop it in time... That said it had to be pretty cool to be swimming that close to one. :)
Not a "charge" at all, have seen a barracuda really charging? it would take an arm or leg of a diver if she really charges. This one is just curious.
Not true... barracudas dont have the ability to remove a limb. While they will feed on proportionately large fish, they lack the size, jaw strength, and serrated teeth needed to do that kind of damage. Though, I agree that this one is just curious. In fact, she seems especially curious about the bubbles being released by the SCUBA rig.
Exactly what I thought. He's not charging anyone 😂
_ Alecator _ Still helps to be cautious around them; they’re deadlier to humans than Great White Sharks.
Tigerpuffer this one looks like he would do a whole ton of damage tho
Did you just that fish's gender?
Not many people are aware of this.. but this encounter might be just as dangerous as a shark encounter with a medium sized shark due to the often aggressive nature of the barracuda, and this one is big enough to "challenge" humans which it do not want near
I remember having a similar encounter with a great barracuda of off Al Lith, Saudi Arabia at a dive site called Aramco’s reef.
That Barracuda came out of nowhere and it was the most curious barracuda I’ve seen, it kept swimming with us, checking us out until we just finished the dive by the boat and then it left.
Title: BARRACUDA CHARGES DIVERS
barracuda: “y’all got any leftovers 🥺”
@0:58 "Hey, how ya doing little mama? Lemme whisper in ya ear..." 🤣
I love barracuda. As a kid, they always reminded me of northern pike or muskie! They definitely earn my respect!
He was just messing with them. If he wanted to actually attack (extremely rare). You would barely see him moving as they are that fast.
You want to see how fast they are? - hook one. It's like trying to reel in a bolt of lighting.
'Giant Barracuda just happens to be slightly inquisitive as they all are' is the actual title.
Giant Barracuda Cuddling group of divers
Here's a good? 'fish story'... A friend of my Dad's taught me to dive with tanks when I was 13 in '65. We practiced in the enclosed atoll area of Matheson Hammock Park near Coral Gables FL. The first time we dove outside the man-made reef in open water a big 'cuda (about my size 😮) appeared from nowhere and nailed a solitary yellowtail that had been swimming around us. It looked like a blur as it darted at the yellowtail from 20 feet away. I'd observed hundreds of small ones while snorkeling - but never a Great barracuda.. So I'm watching (and hearing) it munch down the fish, scales sparkling and drifting down in the sunlight.. All I could see was a mouth full of monstrous teeth as it came over to check me out from about arm's length. I held still. Eventually it swam away after the longest ten minutes of my life
awesome fish. dis-likeing for bad tittle. he didnt charge you. he just chilling
If this animal really wants to hurt these divers it would have made a bloodbath.
Divers = I'ma record you doing about your business...
Barracuda = I'ma go say hello to a bunch of weird creatures...
Armchair diver here. I will have you guys know that the things with bubbles coming out are the humans and the thing that looks like a torpedo is some sort of fish.
I had one nearly as large charge me while snorkeling off Roatan. They are lightening fast and terrifying. The giant charged me, I believe because my camera case was really catching the light.
The 'cuda was smiling at the end.
Barracudas are naturally curious. This one wasn't "charging" divers. Probably just waiting for an easy fish meal.
Here let me fix that title for ya "Giant Barracuda swims around divers"
Territorial and curious. Diving in a salt water canal one time I had a sense of something behind me and turned around to find a 4' cuda staring me in the face from about 12" away. My dive buddy knew beforehand that the location was it's territory and he had seen it before but didn't bother to tell me about it.
Yeah the same thing happened to me my Spider sense went off and I turned around feet up and six feet behind me was a big cuda that then proceeded to flank me.
But what is it with that spider sense right? Like my neck prickled and tingled and everything
That's i thank God i live on Mediterrean, actually it's eastern part , the bay called Adriatic Sea, about 1000 nautical miles long and 100 miles in average wide, i live on croatian side of it, we fish, swim, bath, dive, now is very warm sea temperature, like in tropics, about 25-28 C( don't know in your measures , F , in the winter is about 14 C) , here we don't have to fear sharks, i never saw one in the sea, except small species, the biggest 1 meter( 3 feet), the last fatality was in 1974 from great white, after that only one non-lethal attack, from about 4,5 meters great white ( about 15 feet) in 2008, but locals were never attacked, in 12 attacks in 80 years from 1895-1974 ALL eaten and killed were tourists and ALL of them were killed, at least 4,5 were eaten totally, never found their remains and people were catching accidentaly or deliberately enormous great whites, 6-7 meters, 20-25 feet, government was giving money award for every maneater until 80s( that was literally our name for great white, pas ljudožder-maneating shark) , we have rich marine life, now we changed, for example 15,20 years ago , not to mention earlier we were killing octopuses every time we saw them, kids, women, old people because they are one of the most delicious sea creatures, now many of us release them from traps on the sea floor, there can be 5,6 octopuses and they put it in the small boats marines, i released yesterday from my trap 2 conger eels, i felt sorry for them , about 1 meter each and 2 kilos, they ate 10 small fishes that got trapped few hours ago , which i release always when i dig my trap, i release small fishes, small cuttlefish, small octopuses , but sometimes i get tasty piece of fish, i catch squids by jigging , in the autumn and winter when they come close to the shore, and by big spears and light i sometimes catch something like octopus but they are smaller and have only one suckers on its tentacles, octopus has two, don't know english name
ua-cam.com/video/qy3by0A34g4/v-deo.html , this is our adriatic barracuda , this is filmed 1,2 nautical miles where i live.
Ahhh- I remember my first barracuda encounter- Roatan island West-side 1993- it was an early morning snorkeling with v. clear water, sun streaming when I noticed a tremendously Silver fish- rather large as it came closer its 5 Bulging canines told me it was A Barracuda. Later that afternoon I saw a similar size barracuda just 4 ft. from the beach swimming in 8-10" of water- amazing!
A few days later I jogged my 8 miles and then suddenly felt the urge to snorkel out to a reef about quarter mile off shore- brilliant with small tiny v. colorful fish. On the way back I felt tired so I just relaxed on my back and used my flippers paddling in. Then slowly like I was witnessing a movie from the left side of my mask slowing The Barracuda emerged- it was seemingly bigger than the first I had seen about 7-9 ft. from me just checking me out. Again- its the 5 Big canines that are intimidating as their son Big this fish has them permanently on the exterior of its mouth. All in all I admire The Barracuda- may it always swim Free!
I came face to face with one in Lanai skin diving off cliffs, His eyes shifted when we saw each other about 30 feet away, I will never forget it.
The baracuda was like, "Wtf are those vile creatures" when it saw the divers.
Ah, he was just being friendly! :)
Looks like it was just curious of the bubbles from the tanks and of what your doing in the water LOL... Very cool by the way Loved it!!!. :)
if i was there, without my speargun, i would have probably shat my pants.... that is the biggest barracuda i have ever seen, cant believe it was so close... the guy with the camera truly has some balls... well done!
Actually it was more like ... "Woah ... Farts! Wonder if I can smell em? "
Don't turn your back on a barracuda.....
It's not a bad thing if a barracuda comes close to you. But never harass them with your prescense. They're pretty high up the food chain. This one was indeed curious.
More like curious barracuda checking out weird creatures in the water.
Looks more like, “fish finds new friends, hangs around for a while.”
Lol the way he stares at him reminds me of nemo :0 its him
i would underwater shit my pants
The baracuda just wants to be a tourist guide😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
When you need a spear gun and ya don’t have one.
"Charging"
Hey you divers are jealous cause ima barracuda! look at at me swim yeeeaaaa you wish you were me cause ima barracuda! o what? Your taking pictures? ok let me pose BOOM now your camera is gonna explode with awesomeness cause ima barracuda
I love the little smile at the end
He was doing his best "Jim Carrey-In Living Color" skit about people photo-bombing and being knuckleheads when the camera is rolling and they get to act silly in the background
holy fuck! Hes friendly!
I have to ask that fish one question. Me : Wanna Cuddle? Fish : NEVA!!!! RAAAAWRRRRRR Me : Ouch.
Seems more like curiosity rather than aggressivity
its so cute😂 he's just a curious little barracuda a cute one😂
that smile with broken glass for teeth at the end,, charming
barracuda's like "i'm hungry and theres,..plenty a' assholes in the water"
Barracudas scare me more than sharks do!
Shoud've titiled the video : "barracuda wants to be diver's new pet"...
WHEW. Giant barracuda calmly swam by me
*nervously wipes sweat off brow*
Never ever NEVER! turn your back on a Barracuda if you want to enjoy life with all your limbs!
That thing is masssiveee. I've caught a 4ft barracuda and that thing was huge! This is on a whole nother level
If you just glance at the barracuda while it's stationary, you quickly realize that it's built like a Virginia Class Nuclear Attack Submarine!
I like how the Cuda smiled right at the end.
Happened to me once in Pompano Beach. Was snorkeling offshore in a rare still, crystal clear water day when this huge barracuda swam up to me really fast, stopped and just kept looking at me. Didn't know what he had in mind. I slowly drifted towards shore and, eventually, he left.
That fish has all of them in check.
dude, he was into those bubbles!
I've never understood everyone's penchant for recording everything. To me, the more incredible it is, the more I want to just look at it.
I used to feel this way. In my adventures, I rarely took pictures because I was too busy enjoying the moment. Now that time has passed and my memory quickly fades, I wish I had documented more of those great moments.
You will be surprised what you won't be able to remember, moments that you thought would stay with you forever. Most of the time, you won't even realize what you've forgotten.
Pictures are a reminder of your history. They keep your past from becoming unmoored and lost.
Do your future, old self a favor and take more pictures. What good is experiencing a moment when it's gone from memory?
There's a reason why "a picture is worth a thousand of words"
Barracuda just wants to borrow a lighter from someone to light his cigar.
He was more like 'ok guys, the show is over. Now get out of my home so I can fish'.
Charging, no, curious, yes
He just wanted a snack don’t be rude he was very polite
We need to talk about your definition of "chargin" espicially when you know just how fast a cuda CAN charge if he wants to
He looks more like he is checking them out than charging them.
These underwater videos make me wanna flush the toilet
Barracuda: I actually met the aliens
Looks like he is interested in the air bubbles
I just went on UA-cam and got recommended this vid of a fish trolling some divers wtf
Amazing experience, that is a decent sized barracuda, one of the few fish I always keep an eye on when in their presence 👍
This fish charged like the Energizer Bunny without his own batteries
I'm much more worried about these than sharks. While in the coast guard in the gulf we did a rescue on a lady who had her main artery in her leg just about ripped out by a barracuda....AND SHE WAS IN THE BOAT WHEN IT HAPPENED!! She was reeling it in and it jumped out of the water and tore her up!!
That's what she get for messing with the fish
Charging? More like wondering, "Why are you in my living room?"
This is why people get killed "oh it's so amazing let's go swimming with it and take pictures". Unless you're doing this for research dont risk your life taking pictures up close of a predator that can sheer one of your limbs clean off.