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8:01 u guys are solid with the safety 🤘🏻 so sick

One never suspects to get a food poisoning from such a fresh, amazing looking meal. Wow. Thanks for sharing!

Only channel I'm subscribed to. Reminds me of the best times of my life, 3 pronging all of the local spots in Northern California. Would be my dream to learn and dive with you, and get my body fixed up by bruddah E. You guys should make a series where you bring people out and change their lives!

Bro the way everyone was checking yall out when yall rolled in like bada**es😂😂 towing Uku spearguns😂 that was classic! I bet everyone was jelly and wanted sum fisssssh too😂🤙🏽🤙🏽

Holy shit what a legend… eats more even after second guessing the cig!!! Excellent video thanks for sharing braddah!!!

Amazed you found those great fish out there in front of all the tourists!

Thanks for sharing about the cig poisoning. I hate having to worry about eating foods we love. Up north it’s a gamble eating the clams with paralytic shellfish poisoning. 😑 Stay safe, I was getting scared for Danny with all those heavy contractions. 100’ is no joke.

Mahalo for sharing this video. We literally had uku sashimi last night with for dinner that our son caught on the boat. It is such a divine fish to eat. Sending good vibes.

So sorry this happened, though it was only a matter of time when consuming reef fish. Solution: Make tea out of dried leaves [ not the fruit! ] of the octopus tree ( Heliotropium arboreum, aka. 'false tobacco' in French -- "faux tabac" -- because the leaves are velvety and resemble tobacco leaves ), which is common along the shores of Hawaii. You can also add a 1sq inch piece of bark to the infusion. Do not smoke the leaves. Note: French Polynesians who live on atolls contaminated by cig, use 'false tobacco' leaves daily by stuffing them into fishes' abdominal cavity when cooking, or into the broth. Families who do that supposedly never get 'the itch' ( French: "la gratte" ) from cig poisoning. Dried leaves are more potent. The compound is related to rosemary, so you may try that as well. Do your research. Trivia: According to Wikipedia, some anthropologists theorized that cig contamination may have spurred Polynesian migration through the Pacific.

What about your friend the one made all that sushi...you neva check with him see if he got sick too...

Love it, nice dives😎. Too bad cuz that uku is bomb to eat!

I can't believe you ate more fish instead of just Googling whether ciguatera yields those symptoms. :)

I'm 53 years old and started diving when I was 11.... Even from back THEN, I remember being told to be careful eating fish from that side.... Not saying other parts of the island doesn't have cig but, West side was considered "hot"...

I love your vids bro!!!!!

I really enjoy all your videos. That is really awesome you go down so deep and stay there a long time to hunt fish. I really enjoyed all my visits to Hawaii. I got to see a lot of it by helicopter. Man I caught some huge marlin off of Kona. I got to eat some spectacular fish like you spear in a few of the restaurants. Hawaii is much more than raw ahi.

The diving off Kona was some of the best I have ever had .

classic symptoms bro! We were always taught "if it's longer than your arm (forearm), it'll do ya harm. Glad you recovered!

Helpful info on cig .thanks !

Brah!!! Just grabbed me some uku down south point! Glad my boogers where clean!! Mahalo for the heads up!

keep the vids up haynnn

Glad you’re ok braddah🤙🏽

Brah that's why I don't eat anything that big...less than two feet you're fine...the bigger the fish the older and the hotter they could be...glad you're ok!

Dayuuuum ma braddah, heavy episode!.. stoked everybody iz all good 🤙🏽🤙🏽 I ate one Roi I shot cuz I heard no eat the head and no blood and no wureez.. fried up Roi fillets and they wuz killahs!.. zero cig side affects.. uku is definitely one my favorite fish too and bummed ta hear they can hold poison too.. must be all the chemz they spray around tourist sections🤦🏽‍♂️

Sick video. I had the coast guard circle helicopter me on the north shore, turns out they were trying to warn us of a big tiger shark near by.

My hometown!!!

Houuu nutz ah, good thing wasn't worse, I've heard some crazy stuff about cig, stay safe out dea braddah 🤙

Good luck with your channel man

Brah whenever I had tangles… let the shafts drop so it taught a the lines… way easier after that to unspin and unknot them

Glad you're OK. I and my boys are just getting started with spearfishing reef fish and cig poisoning is one of those things we're concerned about, but aren't very familiar with. Hearing your experience is helpful.

weird nerve issues and vision issues happen with diving too...did u have a viral sickness in previous 3 ish months? if was "poison" everyone who ate it would of experienced SOMETHING, obv not always if bacteria. how was ur blood cell count? hemocrit? liver enzymes? ive slept weird on my arm and my fingers were numb for several weeks. do you get hangry? do you get light headed when you don't eat? thirsty?

Yesssah braddah lester

In the first part of this video overlooking the bay into the clear water on the bottom of the ocean is a giant scull about 30 feet by 20 feet with eyebrows. Do you see what I see. It's a treasure. Who knows

Nice boat paddle on

I from Kona and would nevah eat reef fish hahaha. I sked da fish this side lol. Oh and on a side note. Every person is different. It's the build up of the toxin Gambierdiscus Toxicus in your body that either push you over the edge or be at the borderline. Every person is different. I have friends that eat Ulua and Kahala on the wide and they're fine. I had friends who ate a couple pieces of Yellow Eye Kole and went balls out sick and down for the count for weeks kind. It's a gamble. No where in this island chain is safe. I'm born and raised in an area where there was not 1 single hotel that could cause the toxin to flourish like Kona but we still have cases. Fish do travel and humans love to eat fish. It's a gamble every time you take a bite of that fish. But to me... since i'm a born and raised fishaman.....i'll gladly take that gamble. LOL>

Gotta find someone with an extra drop in ermes trigger for that. That was total seer friction and all that strength into that trigger pull racked your wrist that was locked cause the trigger squeeze. Hope you can find one. They're worth every penny.

damn braddah. subscribed

Sorry you got sick bro! Did you not freez the fish before you made sushi? Love the videos! Make more!

Yo that sushi looks bomb af!!

Bro that was a sick dive! I think you moved your gun when you squeezed the trigger when you missed that one. Sorry to hear about the poisoning and glad you're feeling better. Fuck the haters who probably just drove through McDonald's and got a fish fillet. Your videos are awesome I'm in Kona if you ever want someone to dive with. Hit me up.

Totally RAD!

Thats crazy neva heard of getting cig from uku

Haha, such a legend! How much did the uku weigh? My buddy also got cig from one but it was a monsta! Anybody know if it’s from eating one fish or the accumulation of it in our bodies from eating lots of fish that have small amounts?

I’m someone who is learning about all this could anyone explain what cig is ?🙏🏽

Yo, Jay- the people that fish there long ago don’t fish there any more, and the people that use to buy fish from the guys that fish there don’t buy fish there anymore. Reason is that the sewage pipe broke there twice and it got the waters there polluted. Jus saw your vid. That happen to a lot of people. They all thought it was that fish sickness but the fish are eating what is settled on the bottom and the fish eat fish has it in them. So don’t dive or fish there.🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

🙏🏽🇺🇸👍🏽🤙🏽🍀🔱🤿😁!!

Didnt know Uku can get cig. Maybe gotta test next time?

+1 for Magic juju

Hoo sht. Only now I seen this vid. But yeah thats scary as fck, glad you ok. I heard of some people almost dying from Ciguatera. I had a scare the other week, ate Pananu, and felt little funny after, had the nausea, turned out to be nothing, I guess just an exhausting day. I dont ever think of it when eating fish, especially stuff that eat off the reef and predators that eat reef fish. I dunno, I always say, I live by the ocean, I goin die by the ocean. I just hope not from drowning, cause that must suck, I rather eat one fat fish and die instead.😂😂😂

What about the chef? Did he get sick too?

Hoo Brah Uku broke da mouth

U da best kanaka scientist I know my guy chee but Mahalo keakua it nevah whack u crazy bad and the channel name is on q uz 1 hammah

What about your friend? Did he get sick also?

At any point did you make an effort to get to the emergency room?? If not, why? They may have been able to get something in your system to neutralize that poison. If I'm feeling something that strange that doesn't go away after several hours, or maybe by the next morning, I'm heading to the hospital.

I get sick just seeing that scene on the shore 🤢 🤮

Now it's gone

Did your chef friend get sick too?

What does "cig" mean

Did your friend have symptoms too?

Whats the chefs social media? He’s a hottie. You two could pass as brothers. Another great video. 😊 Kona is where I’m originally from. ❤

Shitty deals ... Did your friend get affected?

its not the whey braddah, whey protein is filtered milk

My girlfriend says you kinda look like a fish 😂 I take it as a complement fish eat fish brotha

I see a skull in the thumbnail, is it js me

🔨 108’ 😮, fuckin Davy Jones locker bro…

You got poisoned because theres a skull in the water.

In FL spearfishing I look at their teeth if you see blue on the teeth don't eat it!!! Not sure about pacific type though!?

Ho Lester you fekeh

you nuts for not getting meds .. they got meds for it right?

Quite happy this happened to you...leave the fish alone! 🐟 😊

that uku had choke cig for such severe symptoms

MASTAH. CHEF. LESS.