- Most of these hang a little bit deeper,
than what our draft is.
Like, all the actual line itself will be down.
If you're just gonna jump on a boat or do most of your
free diving, I would recommend just getting a weight belt.
- So, we're off to the outer edge.
(slow techno music)
- It's a pretty hefty old coral trout.
So, I actually think that that maximum size limit
is to protect anglers against ciguatera.
(slow techno music)
- We've just dropped the mooring.
We had a good dive on that bombie.
Saw some Dogtooth tuna.
Troy got down to 25 meters.
I reckon I got down to 20.
You can see the marks on my face from the mask pressing on
my head and now we're going to go anchor on this sand quay.
And, it's going to be beautiful calm weather tomorrow.
So, we're going to out exploring on the wild side.
Where you can see the waves crashing at the moment.
Yeah, lots more to do tomorrow and lots more diving.
It's awesome.
(heavy bass music)
- So that blue cylinder is a GPS unit solar panels
and stuff like that, and, you can see that there's a strobe
strapped to it as well.
At night time that will kick off.
We got a nice big pinkie there.
Most of these hang a little bit deeper than what our draft
is, like all the actual line itself will be down.
- [Pascale] Yeah.
All the hooks and that.
- But this, this is not one that's drifted in from Asia.
This is one of the local Australian ones.
So hopefully, I mean this has drifted off where
they would have wanted it to have been deployed,
but they'll come back and pick this one up.
Everything is in really new condition, you know.
This is not like a ghost line.
- [Pascale] No.
- It's just in the wrong spot.
But it's definitely, if you're going to be cruising around
in the coral sea and you see something like that, [laughs]
Be very careful around it you know.
That's a tuna long line.
I wanna get some nice clean sand.
I don't wanna touch any coral with the anchor chain.
- [Pascale] You don't want any grading, yeah.
- (heavy bass techno music)
- Move to the bomby.
- [Pascale] We had two dives.
- The bomby.
We checked out a long line.
- [Pascale] Oh, we checked out a long line.
And, we saw Dogtooth tuna,
and you dove to 25 meters.
- Doggies.
25 meter free dive.
- [Pascale] I probably dove the furthest I've ever dove.
- You did pretty close.
Like you did between 80 and 20, I reckon.
- [Pascale] Yeah, I think those last couple of days,
looking at the clown fish were quite deep.
- It was interesting to use the torch.
That under water footage that we just shot then
was our new Sony cam.
(laughs) Attached to a metal plate.
Alright, to give it some heft
and I threw my little lead lens a torch on there as well.
- [Pascale] Your _
- So, there's a pretty janky sort of set up, wasn't it?
I made sure that when I had the camera
it was sort of aimed in the same ...
I can't undo it now.
In the same direction that the torch was.
I had it actually down like that.
Well, I think that those Dogtooth, they came right up.
So, I think they were quite intrigued by the little light.
- [Pascale] The light, yeah.
What's that?
- Not much scares a dog tooth tuna, because they're just
heavy metal machines, but yeah they're very curious.
You know, they really want to investigate things.
- [Pascale] This is the charging station.
How much have was got?
How many hours are coming up?
Three hours are coming up.
- [Troy] That's not too bad.
- [Pascale] So, we're charging the
Canon battery.
That's flat.
See one flash of red light.
We're charging the Lanza battery.
Troy's iPhone 4S.
I don't even know how this thing still works, but it does.
- [Troy] I'm only charging that to get the sat phone number
for my mate Tim.
- [Pascale] Yeah, you never use the thing.
- No.
- [Pascale] You use it to make phonecalls.
- As soon as we put a little bit of charge on,
I can open that and get that number out.
That's it (laughs).
If you call us you normally speak to Pascale.
- [Pascale] But anyway and I'm using my phone right now,
and that's charging too.
So, three point one apps.
- [Troy] And this camera will soon be going back in,
as soon as I've got it loaded.
- [Pascale] The Sony's flat.
So, you've got to charge that too.
- Alright, we're going to go for another dive,
and we've had a number of questions about our dive gear.
Mainly, actually people asking what's this red vest.
And, it's just something made out of vinyl.
Stitched together and basically it's just a whole series
of pockets that you can put these, whoops.
So, you've got these three pound
or one and half kilo dive weights.
They're pretty common.
They go in each one of these pockets.
As however much you need.
What am I swimming around with at the moment?
I'm swimming around at two and I've got them right there.
The main thing is when you're a commercial diver,
like I was, it's not unusual to spend about five,
six hours a day in the water, and if you've got your
weight belt on the small of your back, you know,
like I felt it could lead to some problems.
And, also I was a hookah diver.
It sounds a bit dodgy, but what it really means
is there's a compressor on the surface with a long hose,
about 100 meters feeding the air,
and that hose got caught in the current,
sometimes if you were free swimming with a boat
following you, they would be pulling on you.
So, it would be always better to have it attached here
to your jacket, and then your shoulders
could take the strain, much like a dog in a harness.
But, I don't really need it any more,
but I'm loathed to throw anything away.
So I've kept it.
And, I just find that it gives, the way my weight is,
just because the way guys are built.
My legs are heavy anyway.
My bum doesn't float, like Pascale, she swims like that.
I don't, I sink anyway, so just having my weight uppermost
gives me a nice flat position in the water.
But, I wouldn't go racing out and spending hundreds
of dollars getting one of these made.
If you're just gonna jump on a boat or do most of your
free diving, I would recommend just getting a weight belt.
You're not going to give yourself a sore back
just an hour or two a day at most.
If you are gonna go for it, I like rubber.
They're comfortable, but also as you're diving down,
if once you get good at it, as you dive down
water exerts pressure and if you're wearing a wetsuit,
or anything or even your body, that pressure squeezes you.
You get skinnier.
[Laughs] Alright the wetsuit and you.
A rubber belt, if you have it nice and snug,
and firm on the surface will actually,
it's in a stretch condition,
and as you go down it maintains its same tension.
So, make sure on the surface that they're fairly tight,
and when you go down you won't have your weight belt
slipping up around your ribs and looking silly.
In another throwback to my commercial days I still use these
big long free diving fins and it's really for free diving
they are the best.
If you not that experienced and you're still mucking around
with your buoyancy, these things can probably cause a fair
bit of damage to the coral.
So, you know just be careful.
But, these foot pockets, I've actually had these for years,
and this one I actually took a hole punch to.
If you find your fins are a bit uncomfortable,
say on this bone of your foot,
it's totally okay, and a commercial sort of thing
to do, to go get a hole punch and whack, put a punch in.
Try and get a nice circular hole punch.
Don't just cut it with something ragged
or any sort of little nick will lead off to a tear.
This one I've sewn up with a baseball stitch,
probably about a year and a half ago,
and it's still hanging in there.
But, if you make that a nice circle,
if there are any tight spots in your fins,
you can alleviate it by doing that.
So, we use those.
These are carbon fiber blades, because I wore out
my other blades commercial diving.
We were doing what 500 hours a year or something like that
under water, so you run out of things,
you know, you wear things down.
So, we're doing that and you'll notice
that I've got a full foot pocket.
When I get these fins my favorite way of fitting them on
is you should be able to just slip them on,
and they're quite loose,
'cos fins push their way onto your foot.
But, if you don't want to end up with a million blisters,
go out and get yourself some 3ml mia-primed soft socks.
You can get away with footy socks or work socks
for a little while, but nothing really compares to these.
They're a bit more slippery, you won't get blisters
and you'll keep your little tootsies a little bit warmer.
- [Pascale] And, if you're like me
and you've got small ankles, then you get thicker ones.
- You get thicker ankles after swimming (laughs).
- [Pascale] (laughs)
I never sprain my ankles actually.
Like, I can roll my ankle and I've never ever
had a sprained ankle, a rolled ankle or bruised ankle.
Just because I've spent so much time in these,
I think that my ankles are about the strongest part of me.
Well, apart from my head.
Dive masks?
I don't have too much to say, 'cos each one of them
you really wanna suit your own face and what you wanna do is
when you're buying a dog mask, is you should be able to just
put it on your face, breath in very gently,
and take it away, and it should be a nice vacuum
all the way around.
You shouldn't have to really suck to make it stick.
It should just wanna stick there and the other thing
is when you put it on, just push the space where your eyes
would normally be.
If you just push there, make sure there's no contact.
If I got hold of Pascale's mask and put it on.
where it's got this bit of plastic,
that contacts that bone right between there,
my caveman bone, and after just a small amount of time
that would really cause an ache.
So, they're the things that you wanna get.
You wanna get a nice seal for your face,
'cos every face is different and you wanna make sure that
that part doesn't get pressure on it,
because that's a total killer.
I've seen a few people come up onto our boats with a big red
mark there and they'll retire with a headache,
and they're stuffed for the day.
That's about it.
What do you reckon Pascale?
- [Pascale] I'm about to get in the water.
It's rolling and I wanna (laughs).
- Oh, one more thing, with snorkels,
you can get all sorts of fancy snorkels,
with little valves here and balls there.
I like a really simple one, particularly one I can fold up
and put in smaller places.
I don't go for the big fancy clearing valves and all that.
I just want a simple one with a decent size hole.
You don't want it too big, so you've got a big dead air
space and when I'm clearing my snorkel, you'll often see,
if you've watched the footage, just before I hit
the surface, I'll be tilting my head back like that
and I'll be blowing the air out.
So, when I come up my snorkel's actually clear.
A lot of people you'll see they come to the top and then
(snorts) they need a big charge to blow it out.
But if you tip your head back, look at the sky and blow,
(blows) just as you bring your head up,
you'll find that your snorkel's nice and clear,
ready to rock and roll.
- So, we're off to the outer edge.
Gonna do some diving.
Looking for Gutters at the outer edge,
so they'll be some action.
(bright techno music)
What are we doing? 80?
- I had to rank it up just off the wild side.
Here are Holmes Reef, this is mostly where the waves
are crashing on here, so there's not going to be
lots of big delicate corals.
There's going to be some low coral and things like that,
but more we're looking for rubble pans
and it's more of a fish dive here.
I don't you might have a shark come up and see us.
There's deep water, it just goes, 'whoo' just over there.
- Yeah, out there is just the deep dark blue.
- Yeah, but this is nice and clear here,
so it's really great.
- Yeah.
- So, yeah just need to slip into something less comfortable
and dive in there.
It might look like that we're sponsored by
the Carpentry Company here,
that's my mate's Robbo's company.
He's about as good a chippie as he is a fisherman,
so if you want some good timber work done, give him a call,
if you're living in Cairns.
(laughs) The Carpentry Company.
(bright techno music)
- [Pascale] Oh, we can just jump off the boat
and have a snorkel.
(orchestral techno music)
- That's a pretty hefty old coral trout,
but these are a blue spot,
and they are also are hood boiler trout,
Petraplomlavis, if you wanna get really fancy.
There's a bag limit of five but also the size limitation
says a minimum size of 50 centimeters
and a maximum size of 80 centimeters,
because they're a type of cod or a grouper, if you like.
They start life as female and shift to male.
So, the bigger ones would all be males.
I actually think that that maximum size limit
is to protect anglers against ciguatera,
because trout particularly, on these coral sea reefs,
and as you go further east to Vanuatu and things,
the larger groupers, the larger reef predators,
they start to become a ciguatera risk.
So, this trout is, he's probably about 70 centimeters.
Going by a hand span a meter.
So he's within size.
That's about as small as they get around here as well,
(laughs) it's crazy.
It's not a great reef for coral,
but it's just alive with fish.
(fish sizzling)
I like these short trips of only a month away.
Got lemon with our fish.
Let's have a look at what we've got here.
- [Pascale] It's cooked in butter and garlic and salt.
Big flakes.
- No knife required.
- [Pascale] Coral trout flakes.
- Well that was the end bit.
Hmm.
But ...
- [Pascale] Hmm.
Simple pleasures, hey.
- Golden cooked fish.
Yum.
- [Pascale] With sprout salad afterwards.
- With lentil-- - [Pascale] - Lentil sprouts.
- Once I've made some room in this bowl,
then I'll have some ...
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