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Spearfishing and compressor diving with members of the Bajau sea nomad tribe in remote Indonesia
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Love the way you ended the program. The answer to poverty is growth – that is the only possible answer. The only way to help save these aquatic environments is to reduce poverty, so that people can focus less on rote survival and more on creating and preserving a beautiful world. Wonderful, truthful documentary. Love your no-bullshit approach, that you gently criticized previous documentaries for avoiding the 100% truth, while also affording their creators credit for their monumental acheivements in bringing the world a version of these peoples' story.
I also really like that you just showed things the way they are, and left your own perspective until the very end, after the viewer has had the opportunity to establish their own thoughts and make their own observations about how what they're seeing should make them feel. I appreciate that you afford the viewer that much credit.
Every time I watch these documentaries about tiny islands what strikes me is the garbage. It's so unbelievable that such small communities can't find a better way to manage it.
@Aquatic Apes .. Wrong place looking for a bajau tribe. There's over million bajau in State of sabah. The diver you looking for is bajau laut the sea gipsy of North Borneo. Most of them living in a wooden house floating in the sea for their whole life and rarely sell their prey and they will have hard time going to the main land as they will get something like sea sick if stepping on land.
The numbers you are quoting for the depth and dive time of the “sea nomads” are entirely false, a cursory google search for “erika schagatay bajau” will bring up the actual paper on them, depths are around 10m and dive times are less than a minute on average. The only “remarkable” characteristic they have is being able to dive for a long time with short surface intervals and those among the population that do dive have enlarged spleens.
You belive everything from Google huh omm those mfs couldn't hold there breath longer than 4 minutes
They're not holding their breath for 13 minutes. They would not be able to read or see clearly underwater without goggles either. Please. Stop.
you should go and film after every national graphic and debunk whats real and whats not
Can you believe he's saying that corporate media giants aren't truthful? This must have been an extremely rare case.
You lied to the whole village because your life is against what but their religion is standing for , and somehow you make ot sound like a joke and nobody noticed it , its very wicked
What i find so sad and also an ironic and avoidable Catch 22 is that so many divers and fishermen in Asia take any and all fish, of any and all sizes of any of all sexes etc. The abundance of their fisheries has finally hit a wall (hence why they have to go deeper and deeper). Its so sad….with some decent Fisheries Managment and education, they could have some of the most abundat and plentiful fisheries on the Planet, and by extension, food security for decades to come (as long as they can keep China away from it)
cool clip about some guys living on a pile of trash and totally destroying ecosystems ^^
They are called BADJAO in Mindanao, PHILIPPINES. They are really thriving on floating bamboo nearby shore.
Maybe it has to do with their compressor vs the oxygen tank divers used.
@8:22 some one wrote in the wall dirt "Should we drink wine tonight". I doubt that's a Muslim families house like you claim. You're in the "hotel" of the island.
yes, it's actually quiet sad that they are forgetting about freediving, but they are being realistics
i watched that doc too and was captivated, i was also wondering about why none of theirs actually won a competition
about the decompression sickness in their case actually going up and down alot helps with purging nitrogen
i remember there were papers about decompression sickness in freediving Ama divers and one case of a guy in italy who freedive using a submerssible scooter.
the rules of scuba arn't relevant for repeated short dives and they need a new research.
Sad to see that they throw their waste everywhere. Not taking care of their own environment.
