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Speaker 2: That's really cool. How the pearl ages itself?
Speaker 3: Well, it was a brilliant study by doctor Makaida and
Speaker 3: it really is the best study of its kind to
Speaker 3: age any of the giant squid species, which are there
Speaker 3: five you know, giant squid Arkituthus. Then you got Mescenta
Speaker 3: Kaituthus HAMILTONI, otherwise known of the colossal squid, and I
Speaker 3: have plans to go and film that in person. But
Speaker 3: they're estimated they may reach well over a ton, So
Speaker 3: that's a that's another BFS species, And and they live
Speaker 3: in Antarctica primarily, but they also you know, come into
Speaker 3: the Atlantic Indian oceans as well. But the study by Mark,
Speaker 3: by you and I to do that was so homegrown
Speaker 3: and so based. It was like, you know, my friend's
Speaker 3: a jeweler, I'll take it there and we'll we'll do
Speaker 3: this together. And it was just absout beautiful. But Michel
Speaker 3: was how do you know what a layer is? So
Speaker 3: I never challenged it. I actually helped him a little
Speaker 3: bit with a study collecting species. But he did such
Speaker 3: a great job and I care about him he's a
Speaker 3: wonderful man. So I never actually published any of my concerns.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is, how do you know that
Speaker 3: layer on the statle with is in fact twenty four
Speaker 3: hour cycle? You don't. It could be a cycle of
Speaker 3: predation every time it comes up to sunlight. It could
Speaker 3: be temperature change, it could be a feeding cycle. So
Speaker 3: you don't really know what every layer on the pearl is.
Speaker 3: Therefore it kind of sort of negates the whole thing
Speaker 3: about it. But it is a really good thumbnail. So
Speaker 3: how long does jis squid live? We don't know. But
Speaker 3: the only reason that they're not conquered the world and
Speaker 3: driving around in cars, it's because they only live for
Speaker 3: a short period of time. The learning speed of a
Speaker 3: squid is so stunning. I had one ripped my shoulder
Speaker 3: out of its socket, up it onto my camera and
Speaker 3: pulling it back. At the time I could bench pus
Speaker 3: three hundred pounds. I wasn't a whim. I was just
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting this level of ferocity. So comes up
Speaker 3: behind me, grabs my arm and the camera yanks it
Speaker 3: in back, pulls my right arm out of it soket.
Speaker 3: Then another one grabs me and it pops back in,
Speaker 3: So I thank Tim kind of what really, wow? What
Speaker 3: that's People don't realize how violent these things are. And
Speaker 3: all the while, they got a beak the size of
Speaker 3: a man's hand that's trying to remove an orange sized
Speaker 3: chunk of flesh every three seconds and bites and swallows
Speaker 3: and uses the radula, which is a spike covered tongue
Speaker 3: to swallow the meat. Then it goes in for another bite.
Speaker 3: And they are problems solving, intelligent like an octopus, but
Speaker 3: they do so just in predation. So if they can't
Speaker 3: eat you, they have no use for you, so they
Speaker 3: leave in about thirty seconds. So all of the footage
Speaker 3: that you've seen me encounter over the last ten years
Speaker 3: or ten years when I was researching these animals and
Speaker 3: filming them, interactions are usually only thirty seconds long, and
Speaker 3: then you sit in the water wait for the next one.
Speaker 3: So they you never see a humbold squid by itself.
Speaker 3: They're like gang members. They're usually one hundred or a
Speaker 3: thousand of them, so you're alone. Next thing you know,
Speaker 3: you're surrounded by one hundred one hundred pound squid, sometimes
Speaker 3: two hundred pounds squid that want to eat you. That's
Speaker 3: the only reason they're there. And they know their great
Speaker 3: white shark look like a puppy.
Speaker 2: So that's the humble right. How many like yeah? How
Speaker 2: many giants squid hang out together?
Speaker 3: They're more loaners solo. Yeah they are, although you know
Speaker 3: people have seen more than one together. There's another of
Speaker 3: the of the five giant squid species called Taningia, and
Speaker 3: they are often seen as a couple, the male and female,
Speaker 3: and they hang out. And if you capture capture one
Speaker 3: tan India, fishermen will notice the other one will surround
Speaker 3: the boat for days. You know, it won't leave.
Speaker 2: So who gets to name these? Did you ever get
Speaker 2: to name one? Because you've seen them.
Speaker 3: I've discovered species, but I've never named anything. I turned
Speaker 3: my see, I was an explorer. I'm a part of
Speaker 3: the scientific process. My job is to collect information and
Speaker 3: give that to people that are working on PhDs or
Speaker 3: working on a scientific program, and then they take that
Speaker 3: data and they put it wherever they want it. So
Speaker 3: they they do all the naming stuff. But I got to,
Speaker 3: you know, discover several species, and and you know that's
Speaker 3: one of the things is that I like to protect animals,
Speaker 3: so That's how I got into hunting poachers, not to
Speaker 3: kill them. I've never killed any poachers, but you wanted to.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean they're they're discover of the earth.
Speaker 3: They're they're the clowest people. And I've seen them killing dolphins, uh, sharksening,
Speaker 3: killing sea turtles, killing sea lions for their penis, all
Speaker 3: this basically for the Chinese market. Well what ye said, Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you ever want to help the environment, there's there's
Speaker 3: people out there trying to protect from I've gone to
Speaker 3: South Africa and run as a as a rifleman to
Speaker 3: protect rhinos from coachers. I've lived there, done that for
Speaker 3: periods of time and at different sites, and i just
Speaker 3: love rhinos, So I've put my life on the line
Speaker 3: to protect rhinos. But if you really want to help rhinos,
Speaker 3: don't buy anything from China. Let China go into economic decline.
Speaker 3: So they stopped the demand for gorilla feet and you know,
Speaker 3: sea lion penis and all this stupid you know gorilla
Speaker 3: uh uh, tiger pause. You know, all these things go
Speaker 3: to China because they have an economy that has made
Speaker 3: so many wealthy people. They believe they could afford all
Speaker 3: the luxuries of life and everything belongs to them. So
Speaker 3: if you actually want to save an elephant from ivory coaching,
Speaker 3: stop buying from China. I mean, so that's that's fundamentally
Speaker 3: the thing is that the great evil on killing animals
Speaker 3: was them. So I started hunting poachers for prosecution, and
Speaker 3: I would use sniper tactics which I learned in the army,
Speaker 3: and combat diver skills which I learned as a contractor
Speaker 3: working with the army. And so I would literally drop
Speaker 3: off a boat and do a combat dive, which a
Speaker 3: little rebreather and stealthy equipment and listening systems and filming,
Speaker 3: you know, thermal night vision, all this stuff. And I
Speaker 3: would go into harbors that were operated by drug cartels
Speaker 3: that had hired poachers to kill animals so they could
Speaker 3: sell it to China, and I would I put a
Speaker 3: lot of people in prison, drug cartel members included, which
Speaker 3: is why they had a bounty on my head for years.
Speaker 3: I did this all by myself. It wasn't like a
Speaker 3: team of people. I wasn't paid for the most part
Speaker 3: to do this, I would I was a contractor. I
Speaker 3: would go and do things in war torn areas, usually
Speaker 3: as a good guy and then I would come back
Speaker 3: with way too much money and I would spend it
Speaker 3: living down hunting poachers for months at a time. And
Speaker 3: I turned that over to friends that I made with
Speaker 3: different police departments and you know, different countries that I
Speaker 3: was operating in, and they'd prosecute them in prison. But
Speaker 3: thank you. I never claimed, but you're welcome. But I've
Speaker 3: never claimed anything from it. But I got lots of
Speaker 3: video and footage.
Speaker 2: Well here's the deal with that that I'm thinking is,
Speaker 2: in order for you to catch them, you have to
Speaker 2: literally not just videotape them or film them or whatever
Speaker 2: you're doing there, but you have to actually watch them
Speaker 2: do it in order to stop them. So you have
Speaker 2: to see this little massacre before you can turn them in.
Speaker 3: You know, I really appreciate your heart for being able
Speaker 3: to think that through and realize that. Yeah, I have
Speaker 3: had to endure watching that, and you know, I felt
Speaker 3: like I could crush rocks in my hands. I was
Speaker 3: so angry, you know, watching them dragging a sea lion
Speaker 3: that's screaming and begging for his life while it was
Speaker 3: in a net, while they literally got it and amputated penis,
Speaker 3: while it's still alive, being held down. How do you
Speaker 3: not ever unsee that? You can't. So these people are
Speaker 3: the most cruel people. And I later found out through
Speaker 3: different law enforcement agencies they are the same pattern people
Speaker 3: as a rapist. So if you've got a poacher, they're
Speaker 3: usually abusive to the people that they're around. They're usually
Speaker 3: awful people.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Well the serial killers all killed animals
Speaker 2: when they were kids.
Speaker 3: Right, I agree, that's that's completely correct, And thank you
Speaker 3: for bringing that up. And that's why, you know, when
Speaker 3: I'm hired to be a submersible pilot, I would be
Speaker 3: able to go and be in the peace and the beauty,
Speaker 3: and so I was away from people. I was away
Speaker 3: from people that are coaching them, away from you know,
Speaker 3: people that hurt. So I was around you know, God's creation,
Speaker 3: this beautiful ocean, and I've seen things from the vantage
Speaker 3: of a submersible that you would not believe. And just
Speaker 3: new species that are still unknown to science. Nobody still
Speaker 3: knows what they are, and I got them on video
Speaker 3: that are just really like what is that? Well, we
Speaker 3: don't know until we catch her one and or see
Speaker 3: what multiple times, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and then bring it up for us Scott,
Speaker 2: so we can cut it open and see what it is.
Speaker 2: That's the same way with bigfoot. You know, I'm serious,
Speaker 2: but that's what they want with bigfoot. They want to
Speaker 2: take out a bigfoot and cut it up. And stay
Speaker 2: away from those people that say that, you know, that's
Speaker 2: what they want to do, or that hide that they
Speaker 2: want to do it. There's a lot of them out there.
Speaker 2: I know the people. They're out there. They're saying they're
Speaker 2: bigfooters and all they want to do is take one down,
Speaker 2: but they're playing it off. They just want to find
Speaker 2: people's areas where they are. So those of you out
Speaker 2: there that genuine don't tell your spots. Quit sharing information
Speaker 2: with people that you you better know these people inside
Speaker 2: now when you.
Speaker 3: Share it, well, you're right. And if I can and
Speaker 3: have the permission to talk to your audience, who, by
Speaker 3: the way, thank you for listening to me. And I hope,
Speaker 3: I hope you guys are liking some of my crazy stories.
Speaker 3: I've always prided myself on being partially insane. But the
Speaker 3: reality is that if you identify species and somebody wants it,
Speaker 3: they'll find a way to go and harvest it. And
Speaker 3: I've seen this firsthand. I was working with river monsters,
Speaker 3: and I was working with a wonderful guy. You guys
Speaker 3: may have seen on TV, Jeremy Wade. So Jeremy and
Speaker 3: I are working together on humbold squid project and he's
Speaker 3: just absolutely sweetheart. And while we were working with him,
Speaker 3: he hired a scientist from California and we pull up
Speaker 3: one little squid. Because I wasn't sent ahead of time
Speaker 3: to go and scout the squid out. The scientists said, oh,
Speaker 3: I know exactly where they are. And of course it
Speaker 3: turned out to be a lie. Scientists had no idea
Speaker 3: where they were. Field Men like me find species that
Speaker 3: they researched they don't know often have fun. Anyway, they
Speaker 3: didn't know where the squid were. And we found one
Speaker 3: small quid and we picked it up and we put
Speaker 3: it inside of a bucket and it was too small
Speaker 3: to film. It was too small to be scary, it
Speaker 3: was too small to study. It was like foot and
Speaker 3: a half long. And I said, well, there's no reason
Speaker 3: to keep this ould guy. Let's let him go. And
Speaker 3: the scientist goes, no, I want him, and he pulls
Speaker 3: them out of the bucket and slams him on the
Speaker 3: deck to kill it, and I said, what's what's the
Speaker 3: point and he goes, I just want to have a
Speaker 3: single specimen to take back with me. I don't have
Speaker 3: a plan for it yet, but I'll think of something.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: And I looked at this guy and again, I could
Speaker 3: break rocks with my hand, and Jeremy just looks at
Speaker 3: me and he goes. He calls my name, and I
Speaker 3: just I just left. I went to the bottle of
Speaker 3: the ship and sat there for a while because I
Speaker 3: just watched a scientist quote unquote kill an animal for
Speaker 3: no scientific value, for the joy of murdering it. And
Speaker 3: I've seen that a lot. So we put to verify
Speaker 3: their species. No, DNA should be fine in the watercol
Speaker 3: you get some hair, you get some video, something like that.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. If you know, if a location
Speaker 3: of these things is found out, the worst thing you
Speaker 3: can do is announce it. And because nobody's going to
Speaker 3: be able to properly protect it, yeah, and people will
Speaker 3: find a way. I've seen poachers go in places that
Speaker 3: are well protected and guarded, like you know, you know,
Speaker 3: in places in Mexico that are well protected and guarded
Speaker 3: places and uh in an island chains that are literally
Speaker 3: protected by navies and poachers still find a way to
Speaker 3: go in there and slaughter. So don't we need we
Speaker 3: need people like me that can go up to Bigfoot
Speaker 3: if they're found out ands me.
Speaker 2: You know, we need more of you all over. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we need more of you all over. In fact that
Speaker 2: some of the other things you're You're welcome. There's other things,
Speaker 2: thank you. There's other things that you have also. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're amazing when it comes to underwater like the I
Speaker 2: think it's the line fish that people have, like just
Speaker 2: they had maybe in their tank or aquarium and then
Speaker 2: they put it out into the sea or ocean or
Speaker 2: wherever they put it, and then those there's a problem
Speaker 2: with that messing up. It's not supposed to be happening
Speaker 2: in that area, correct, it messes up everything else.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. I mean you're completely correct. And I
Speaker 3: appreciate you knowing that. I love your mind and you're
Speaker 3: a you're a you're as curious as a child, Connie,
Speaker 3: and I love that about you. I never lose it.
Speaker 3: But the lionfish is an evasive species in America and
Speaker 3: it's primarily on the East coast Florida. All the way
Speaker 3: up to Maine, believe it or not, and all the
Speaker 3: way down into the South American region, so all the
Speaker 3: way down through Mexico. And these animals are not supposed
Speaker 3: to be here, and they got there with the aquarium
Speaker 3: trade or even museums that have allowed them to be here,
Speaker 3: and them to enter the environment here, like you know,
Speaker 3: I'm moving in Buffy, my little fish here can't come
Speaker 3: with us, so let's just put him in the bay
Speaker 3: so he can live on well. The fecundity, in other words,
Speaker 3: the amount of eggs that a female can have is stunning.
Speaker 3: We're talking million eggs per female and they're sexually mature
Speaker 3: in less than a year some people say ninety days
Speaker 3: from birth. And so in a very short period of time,
Speaker 3: this predator will have a tremendous amount of eggs. And
Speaker 3: there are no natural predators for the lionfish in this area.
Speaker 3: And you have an animal winefish that only eat babies,
Speaker 3: not human babies. They only eat like baby shrimp, baby
Speaker 3: coral fish, like clownfish. They only eat baby animals in
Speaker 3: the coral reef, and they displace by eating all the babies.
Speaker 3: There's no animals to refill like sea bass and grouper
Speaker 3: and you know, more eel and all this stuff. All
Speaker 3: those species are declining rapidly because the lions fish, you're
Speaker 3: eating their babies and they're not reproducing, and they're replacing
Speaker 3: them with their incredible ability to spread.
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