Ooooo that’s an interesting fact!

No spine no feeling juss lyk fishies

we should make sea urchins be considered vegan then lol

@@Psysaberwtf?? fish haves spines and can feel pain

@@spoon7053 no they don't they have no real vertebrates

Broo 💀

why

@@maxwell_edison Overpopulated species that is harming the environment

Lamo

I feel like it should have been the other way around?? 😂

Agreed

Exactly

Agreed

Bro this is the ocean equivalent of species based genocide. Not saying it's wrong, just saying what is.

Couldn’t of said it better myself

Don't ppl eat that?

Those spiky balls are known to sea urchins

​@@germanguywithamoustachesomeone will eat that because it's actually a food

@@krisdumocol8665 good food and bad rep

​@@germanguywithamoustache yeah, theres videos on how to prepare them

They don’t feel fear or pain. They’re less sentient to trees, but harm the ocean more.

​@@scarft.You have literally no way of knowing that. You don't even know what sentience is, what causes it, or how to measure it

I would personally say sentience is the ability to think and process complex thoughts and emotions, and by definition is “consisting of a conscious awareness of stimuli without association or interpretation” which I highly doubt these invasive kinda have the ability to do since (I’m no expert) they lack a central nervous system or brain, but I personally believe it doesn’t matter since leaving them would do more harm to the environment

@@Superabound2 How would you know what they do and don’t know? 😂 The sea urchins don’t have pain receptors.

@@Superabound2’You literally have no way of knowing..’ in other cases this argument stands up, but you fail to realize that there are actually studies done on sea urchins and there are strong backed up evidence of what these sea urchins can or can’t feel, all you have to do is open up an app called ‘google’ and self educate yourself a bit

It works at conditioning so the fish will guide the diver right into the target next time.

​@@DioDCynic (In greasy american-italian accent) Urchin: *"I'm surrounded by fuckin rats! Rats!! All of yous!"*

​@@notanaveragedoktah8390 you gotta undastand petahs it was fo da job, boss needed you whacked

Man, a terrestrial mammal : NOTHING shall harm me through my technological innovations and weapons! Nature, the undefeated : lmao

​@@NiquidFoxWe'd beat nature at this point.

​@@NiquidFox not if I burn the trees down first!!

​@nickmorzinski5558 we're currently doing our best to simultaneously kill nature and keep it alive, it's basically torture

​@@nickmorzinski5558What do you think we can block tsunamis and plug volcanoes all of a sudden?

"Crunch to Squish Sound ratio" i love it.

LOL

perfect asmr

Sounds like fresh sourdough

Sounds like biting into a wafer, and then drinking *just a little bit* of water Actually no, more like freshly buttered toast.

My brother can

There is a video game called "subnautica" 👍🏻

Yeah haha

That's such a good idea! I'll keep that in mind

Right?!

Autism

bro can’t afford a clentaminator smh

My brain is cooked, I immediately started hearing the Corruption Biome OST.

🐝

LMAO omg I can't believe you said that, my nickname growing up was space monkey lol

you win the internet

Wait but isn't that more related to sunlight and light in general tho?

@@xxsegaxx color is light, so yes in a way

Its actually more than just being friendly! They occasionally break one so the fish learn that there's tasty kina to grab when the divers are coming, so in the future the fish start to show the divers where the kina are hiding!

​@@KeaveMindWait they get the fish to snitch on the kina THATS SO COOL

​@@KeaveMindfish domestication

Every diver that dives for these call it giving back to the fish community and some say it brings them luck for the next time.

​@@Abraham_the_pierra you should see when divers and giant groupers are together, and the divers are feeding invasive lionfish to the groupers. It's awesome

I'm not sure what marine life eat kina but it's widely available for purchase and a lot of people eat it so tbh we're probably the main predator lol

snapper(oor large fish)

Always find some urchin spines in snapper belly’s

Those damn dolphins always up to no good. Yes I love going around informing people that Orca are dolphins.

@@PhrozenFox huh

Me too

Can you suggest me more channels?

Same

We're Really replying to a comment from one year ago

Soo true bro

Not all species can be eaten

They're edible but they have a taste that is different from most urchin so they are popular with the local population but most global markets do perfect the taste they are used to

What rlly ??​@@kleszczoros4885

These kina have the issue of their diet being not great, as they are eating poor quality seaweed. so they don’t tend to taste good. New Zealand’s population LOVES kina, but no one wants to eat the ones that taste bad 🤷 (this is from my knowledge, take this with a grain of salt lol)

Really? My uncle moved here from the South of Italy and brought a lot of recipes with him. Limoncello, tiramisu, lasagna, veal, lamb. But he never talks about seafood/fish. What are some popular seafood dishes?

All this sea urchin destruction makes me hungry. Alas, it's time for sleep.

Yes they’re invasive. They’re rampant and out of control, and eat up the kelp and other local flora iirc. When he cracks them open for the fish it achieves three things: 1 - nice snack for fish 😊 2 - Teaches local wildlife (who aren’t used to this invasive species) that, hey, this stuff is food, eat it! 3 - Fish will swarm around urchins leading the man to more urchins. Kelp forests are very important to our oceans so it’s good that this guy cleans all these up, even if it only helps a little bit each time.

They are yummy

Yes overpopulating

Local species that overpopulated due to extinction of their predator (sunflower sea star) due to warming waters Edited for spelling

not invasive, just overpopulating!

😮

Laughing uncontrollably

"we will send unto them... only you."

This is so good! 😂😂😂 You could be a writer by trade!

​​@@Raevarie it's a Doom reference

spamton

spamton

Also efficiency 5, these fork skills are admirable.

Don't forget Aqua Afinity 3

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 thats for his snorkel

remember haste is hard capped at 1200

​@@fallsky_19Aqua affinity is to mine faster underwater, respiration is for underwater breathing

No he’s definitely breathing underwater lol

Any idea what equipment he's using? ​@@Mushboom37

@@Mushboom37 he's on a breath hold.

hes playing rivulet

@@technological_Architect saint is better.

they're going in for a snack

Honestly they are so slow they probably don't realize they're being picked up until the next day

So it's win win.

Someone said that these things lack A LOT of what's needed to sense danger or feel pain. So really, they're less sentient than trees.

Yeah, they're basically plants but made of meat.

​@@kentreed2011and they are dummer than plants at that

now imagine doing it while holding your breath and walking around

Walking around??

@@diet_dr.demoncoreyou can hear him breathing, this isn’t that bad

​@@shadowbonbon3 he's got freediving fins on and ascends way too quickly and often to be on scuba

​@@nidustenebris I'm no professional but they are literally wearing scuba in their KZfaq pfp

Thank you for your service in making this post. It's 3am rn, and I'm so close to unconscious I hadn't looked up anything and just assumed "sharp fish food spineies on rocks bad."

​@@Katastr0phic_Katicorni tend to do deep dives on the internet at 3am😌. Hope you rest well.

Oh these don’t taste good?

@@Katastr0phic_Katicornthe sentient underwater porcupine can’t hurt you on land the sentient underwater porcupine can’t hurt you on land the sentient underwater porcupine can’t hurt you on land Why am I still worried!😮

Uni's texture are like fish eggs and i like fish eggs

Two birds one stone

@@numpty94 for sure, i’ve never tried Sea Urchin but a lot of people love it

@@thetwitchywitchy makes me wanna give it a try

@@thetwitchywitchy sea urchin has a celestial taste, better than any other seafood. put it on bread and gulp it down with a glass of wine

@@regnbuetorsk that sounds so awesome i’ll have to try it for sure!! thanks for the suggestion!

There's a limit on invasive species?

@@TankManHeavy there is here in NSW Australia.

​​@@TankManHeavy they're not invasive, just overpopulated. They don't want people taking away too many from a single area & make them go locally extinct, so that's probably why there's a bag limit! They're a very slow moving species so you want the population to be somewhat evenly spread

@@batfurs3001thank you actually I was wondering how long it would take for the area to be covered again but if it’s slow a couple people can really make a dent

so an "inconvenient species"

@@simunatorNo, overpopulated.

Japan right now has that problem with deer. Nobody hunts anymore and all the natural predators are gone. They are devouring entire forest floors and destroying biodiversity at best, creating mini deserts at worst

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Japan also banned the sale of all sea cucumber species around mid last year because various Yakuza/mafias were poaching them en masse. Not sure if they've lifted *that* ban yet, but selling sea cucumbers is still illegal in Aomori Prefecture due to a Chinese import/export ban

Id say this varies not all urchins are overpopulated and​ in fact some are event being driven to extinction because of other urchins altho in ginna have to do more research on the over populated ones to make a final decisio on if i think they are invasive but anyways good look travler :)@@AMnotQ

And what about sharks staring at him from the dark??

​@@anaskhan-uc7tg If you are familiar with sharks, you can deal with them quite well and read their body language. It also depends on how many there are and whether you always keep an eye on your surroundings. I think the people with jobs like this know this and are well prepared.

​@anaskhan-uc7tg Sharks are actually really peaceful to humans for the most part. We aren't their natural prey

​@@anaskhan-uc7tg lol I'd rather prefer sharks over dolphins any day so it's a win for me cuz sharks are dangerous but can be easily subdued

@@darren9678 Not to mention your average shark is highly unlikely to even try to take a bite out of a diver. At most they'd be curious WTF the diver is as we're nothing like what they usually eat. Unfortunately, like babies, shark curiosity usually involves putting things in it's mouth. ;)

Lol sea pimples that's quite a name 😂👍

It reminds me of pimple popping videos as well!

I also find this video incredibly satisfying. The scraping and crunching sounds are so good to the ears.

Got this after talking about getting a license to legally catch urchins in my state, it’s absolutely been spying on me lol (Recent literary analysis suggests that the usage of the acronym “lol” in this comment is meant to indicate a lack of seriousness and a tongue-in-cheek tone. The author was later found dead in a crumpled heap at the base of a cliff in Yosemite National Park, the victim of a horrific paragliding accident.)

Hmm, its possible. But I doubt it. That's an extremely large amount of audio to record and process for key words, combing that much data would be more expensive than what it would be worth selling it to most advertisers. Its survivors bias (I think that's the term?) In WW2 they collected data on where their planes were getting shot most by inspecting the planes pilots managed to fly home, survivors bias is thinking you should put armor around the spots shot most on the surviving planes, but that doesn't protect the spots that actually bring a plane down. Basically, when you perceive a coincidence like this, talking about something and being recommended it, you don't see the thousands of people it was recommending to that had no coincidence, only the people who experienced a coincidence will talk about it, and thus, it feels reasonable to question if it's really a coincidence. But tech/communications companies are 100% scummy and opportunistic enough to do this so ehh, could be monitoring after all.🤷‍♂️

@@An_Average_Arsonistno they are definitely spying and we have proof, it’s not a human doing the spying it’s a bot that picks up on keywords and then links those words to video recommendations

How do you think your phone responds to voice-activated commands?

@@kyleafythelegendaryleafeon7404very nicely

We are the kings of the earth. Put here to rule over the beasts. Other land mamals don't even know this place exists.

search up 1932 emu war outcome

@@existenceexpired1532 apparently, the emus won

Australian here and I can verify that it was quite embarrassing

The Kina is our fault

I love you american jello

YES OMG-

and sped up

You, good sir, have given me a wonderful idea. I’ll notify yall when i’m done

Divers packing up their things after getting fired

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hrCHiqV6sKiblpc.html

*Y E S*

We makin it to the ecological dead zone with this one 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

DEAD ZONE

brains OP

​@@0hwaoThumbs OP.

@@ExSpoonmanBrains, thumbs, and tools OP

@@dryfox11you win! 😂

There's good reasons why we've been so successful, this is definitely one of them.

i think that's scuba gear, could be wrong though

@@Ghajestis He's definitely not using scuba gear. He is in fact holding his breath for every trip!

​@evanmoore9871 you can hear him breath underwater he has a tank

@@wildwestwaifu6201you only hear him breath at the surface, he doesnt have a tank. His buddies dont have tanks either, and if he did have a tank, he would die from going to the bottom to the top so fast due to the bends.

@@wildwestwaifu6201 4:33 that person is not wearing scuba gear. they are using snorkels which is how the camera man can breath with is face underwater.

It is therapeutic

well this is different since these people make money off of the kina

"Ah yes id like this kina and this other one how much that will be?"

Solutions to your problem 1 have less air in lung => less dive time 2 have a weighted belt

because your density times volume is more than your mass. You either need to apply more downward force by swimming or use additional weight. Its 6th grade physics

Pretty much everyone does unless you have very, very low body fat, like bodybuilder level. Most divers use weighted belts to counteract this. You can also breathe out and you'll sink, but that's obviously not the best thing.

When you factor in your air and fat, you are less dense than water. So divers need weighted belts.

Sooooo no cinderblock?

Yep

The urchins are very overpopulated. The urchins eat the plants, and with so many, there eating away the reefs.

Plus, these are invasive and can kill an entire reef really quickly if not mitigated

@@starcraftgem are these different from the sea urchins people eat?

@21234u There are many types of sea urchins, the ones shown in the video are called Kina, and they're edible

Right? If this is a viable career path, I would have to seriously consider leaving my current life behind and moving to New Zealand to become a full-time urchin scruncher.

He is, getting paid for this. No one does charity work willy nilly

​@@tanky_8677getting paid or not, he's still saving the environment.

They've got air tanks

@@MoonyCatif so why come back up to the surface to breathe?

​@@Overrated333to store the full bags?

@@graycatsaderow sometimes you see him come up to breathe and you can literally only hear him breathe when he is at the surface of the water and not all the time he comes up to switch the bags you see him do this several times. I think he is just using a snorkel.

@@Overrated333 watched it a bit more and realised its free diving,ssry

Whitianga, NZ

There is already many of these programs

It’s not industrially profitable

Kina sea urchins in particular are considered bitter (according to wikipedia) so they're not sought out in Asian markets. I assume they taste different from other species of urchin, but I don't know anything about that.

Depends on the individual, I’m not a fan of kina but a lot of people in NZ love it especially if they’re fat and creamy.

Some of the kina are dead, so there's no reason to take them, as they're not killing the environment

As far as I’m aware the main reason they are doing this is because the Kina is extremely overpopulated because of overfishing of their natural predators. I would think that the diver’s main goal is to simply get rid of the Kina and being able to sell them is a nice bonus.