(dramatic music) (splashing) - Wow. Look at this. (dramatic music) - The Hawaiian islands,
simply put are cinematic. Forged from the
earth by molten lava, there are eight land
masses in total. And on this adventure,
we will be exploring on the remote island of Kauai. A literal paradise,
this diverse location has been the backdrop for many
movies and television series. But today, it will be the
backdrop for Beyond the Tide. (splashing) - Oh man, this is pretty epic. - Check out the rain
over there, it's goin' into the mountains. - Yeah, well as long
as that stays that way, I think we're good. 'Cause where we wanna
head is right up here into this rock bed and start
looking for marine creatures. Alright guys, our first Beyond
the Tide episode in Hawaii. I'm pretty excited. - [Cameraman] Let's move. - Under the light of day when the tide pulls back
from the shore line, inner tidal pools can
be the perfect place to find hidden marine animals. However under the
cover of darkness, these animals emerge
from their hiding spots to search for food, which makes exploring
tide pools at night the perfect time to get
up close and personal with some seriously
bizarre creatures. (grunts) (yells) - Alright well, we have
made it to the shoreline and let's go with the path of
least resistance on this one and go this way. That looks like a bunch
of tangles of trees and that looks like
open shoreline. Alright start movin'. Wow look at this. The overhanging leaves on
the shoreline are pretty. There's a crab. (dramatic music) Oh. - [Mark] There it goes.
- Ghost crabs. You see how fast those were? Look at this structure. This is all real soft
sand, you see that? - [Mark] Oh yeah. - And then there are these
different hard rock masses. Very different from anything
we've explored before. - Is it slippy? - This is not, that's very
grippy, sand is very soft. (splashing) - [Mark] How deep
is it out there? - Not too deep right
here, but it's warm. It's warm water, we're
used to tide pooling in freezing cold water so it's not gonna be too bad
getting soaking we tonight. And I think it's just
a matter of time before we find the right pools
to start exploring in. Alright let's head up. Oh there's another crab. Look at that, you see it? - [Mark] Where? - Runnin' along the
edge the edge there. Man.
- Oh yeah. - We have gotta catch
one of those ghost crabs. Alright let's just keep
headin' this direction. (dramatic music) Wow. Wow, wow. - [Mark] Did you get it? - [Coyote] Got it. - [Mark] Alright
let's go, let's go. (dramatic music) - [Coyote] Wow barley. Wow okay. - [Mark] Oh man,
they're everywhere. - They are everywhere and you
can see how fast they are. Here bring the light in. They're called ghost
crabs in my opinion, because they are so fast, they disappear like
a ghost in the wind. And we've seen them
skiddering all over the sand and I snuck up on that one and actually used the same
tactic I've used with frogs. Where I keep a bright
light right on it's eyes. It kinda keeps it stunned
right there in place. And I was able to
actually get my hand on it and then it tried to pinch me. I let go and it ran
down into these rocks and I just managed to
get a hand on top of it. - [Mark] I had a
pretty good shot, I saw you try to go for it
and then it ran behind you. - You saw that?
- Yeah. - Dude it had this zigzag
move, it was like blalala, and went right around me. But there you have it,
our first marine creature of the night, a ghost crab. It's interesting, he's got
his eyes tucked in right now but these eye sockets
are rather pretty. Let me see if I can get
him to, put your eyes up. Watch this. - Look at.
- Wow. - [Coyote] See that? Now I don't know how
good their eye sight is but they can sense light
and movement certainly. And it appears
that too much light forces it to just
stay in one spot. Wow, my hand's
actually kinda shaking. That was a tough catch. - [Mark] What a cool crab. - [Coyote] Right? - [Mark] What big eyes you have? - Yes, Mr. Crab. What large eyes you have. - [Mark] That's cool man. - [Coyote] Well alright,
our first marine creature of the night, a ghost crab. You guys wanna see how fast
this little thing runs? - [Mark] Let's see it. - Watch this, put it
right down on the sand and it's gonna bolt
into the water. - [Mark] Wow. (splashing) Cool. - Now a lot of times
in tide pool episodes, we're flipping rocks. But look down at
the ground here. - [Mark] It's all sand. - It's a lot of sand, and
the rocks that we do have like this are massive, and
they are not exactly flippable. So what I do have is this net. We're gonna wade out
into the shallow water and see if we can
get something inside. You ready? - [Mark] Let's do it. - Alright. - [Coyote] With our lights
scanning the shallow waters, we carefully made our way
through the maze of rocks all of a sudden, we came
across our next animal. - Got somethin' over here. - [Mark] What do you got. - Looks like a slug. Oh no it's a sea cucumber. Alright guys, follow my hand
down here right into the water. - [Mark] Oh yeah. - You see it right here? There it is. Alright I'm gonna pick it
up really slowly, you ready? Wow come here
buddy, there we go. Wow that is a good
sized sea cucumber. Totally stretched
out I would say this. Oh.
- Wow. - Look at it's squirting water. That's not pee,
that is excess water from inside of it's body. Let me turn it
for you like that. Oh it's like a tremor. Look at that beast. Now this is the most
common sea cucumber species here in Hawaii and
one that I hoped that we would come across. Under water, you can
see that they have all these little bumps. It's what makes them
look like a cucumber. And I keep saying sea cucumber and you're probably
thinking, "Well is it "a vegetable or
is it an animal?" Mark, do you know? - [Mark] I don't wanna eat it. - No, well actually you
can eat the sea cucumber. - [Mark] Really? - But the sea cucumber
is not a vegetable. It is an animal, they're
actually in the same phylum as sea urchins
and sea stars. Now let me see. One end is the anus and
one end is the mouth. I do believe this is the
anus, also known as a butt. I think it just farted actually. (Mark laughs)
And this is the mouth. No really I heard a (bubbling). - Really
- Yeah I heard it. It farted on me.
(Mark laughs) Now this end here is the mouth and these creatures
are very similar to the terrestrial earth worm, in that they're moving
along the basin of the ocean and that they're literally
eating through one end and they feed by bringing
sand into their body and then they're
absorbing all the algae and all the decomposing
plant matter that's on the base of the ocean. And as they're moving along,
it's processing through the length of the body and then
being pooped out on this end in these little
tiny sand pebbles. And sure enough,
here's some right here. And I'm gonna pick it up, okay? - [Mark] That's sand. - [Coyote] Nope, this is poop. I'm gonna get a
whole handful of it. - [Mark] Why are
you touching it? - [Coyote] 'Cause I
wanna show you guys what sea cucumber
poop looks like. Oh man look at that, it
just crumbles in my fingers. Hold on, ah let me get
a little turd here. Very slowly. That right there,
yep that is deposited sea cucumber
droppings right there. - [Mark] Ew. - It just smells like sand. And basically the sand
filters through their body, they absorb their nutrients from the plants that are
growing 'em's sand and then they continue
about their business. Now like I said, this
is the most common sea cucumber species
here in Hawaii. There are around 50
different species and around 12 hundred
species world wide. But the one that I'm really
looking forward tonight is the white-spotted
sea cucumber. It's very cool looking. So we're gonna put this
guy back into the water and see if we can find one
of those white-spotted ones. - Sound good? - [Mark] Let's do it. - Alright. Bye big guy, thanks for
squirtin' water on me. (dramatic music) (splashing) (dramatic music) Alright guys come here
and check this out. - [Mark] What do you got? - [Coyote] Our second
cucumber species of the night. You see right here? - [Mark] Oh yeah. - [Coyote] I'm gonna slowly
bring it off the rock. Got a good shot? - [Mark] Yup. Much
different looking. - That is a white-spotted. - [Coyote and Mark] Wow. - There goes the
water excretion. Look at it deflate just like a water balloon
with a hole in it. Now that's the butt right there. And that's the mouth. Now this is the
white-spotted cucumber. Another very common species
here in the Hawaiian tide pools. Now what makes this sea
cucumber very unique is it actually has five
teeth in it's butt. - [Mark] What? What?
- You heard me right. - Why would it have
teeth in it's butt? (Mark laughs) - Are you done? Now these teeth are
not used for feeding. They're actually
used as a defense. Now there's a parasitic fish
out here called a pearl fish that will actually try to
swim inside of it's butt and then feast off
of it's organs. - [Mark] Ew, well I'm glad
it has the teeth then, 'cause that wouldn't
be very fun. - No, things swimmin'
up your butt, eatin' your organs,
not a good day. But lets turn this little
white-spotted sea cucumber this direction and
look at his face. Hi buddy. Kinda look like an
elephant trunk don't you? Now I love these ones and you can clearly see
where they get the name, white-spotted cucumber. See how it has
little white spots, little bumpy patches
all over it's back. Those do help with
camouflage in the tide pool. Now they do get quite
a bit bigger than this but any sea cucumber is a
cool cucumber in my book. (Mark laughs) - [Mark] I see
what you did there. - Yeah, that's a little pun. Alright well should we put
this one back into the water and see what else we can find? - [Mark] Let's do it. - Alright. - [Mark] These cucumbers
are everywhere. (dramatic music) - Give it's two feet a
second to grip on there. Here you go buddy. Alright, let's keep movin'. Watch out for sea urchins. (splashing) (dramatic music) Wow. Look at this. Okay it's turning into the
night of the sea cucumbers. This is not what I
was expecting to find. Hold on a second. Can you see this right here? That is a warty sea cucumber. Now a lot of it's
warts are gonna disappear when I pick it up. (dramatic music) Look at that. - [Mark] That is awesome. - Wow. Oh my gosh I can feel
all it's little tube feet grippin' on to my fingers. That is so cool. Alright I'm gonna lift it
up a little bit higher. Very gently. That may be the most bizarre
looking marine creature. Oh it's making a fart noise. Hello. I know, you're right
in the middle of dinner, eating all sorts
of plant matter. Dead stuff on the
bottom of the ocean. I can't even believe what
I'm holding right now. Are you seeing this? That thing is so
bizarre looking. - [Mark] Yeah. A warty sea cucumber. Just when you thought the
big black sea cucumber was bizarre, we find this thing. I think this is the mouth,
and this is the butt. It's tough to tell
on this one, but. - [Mark] Yeah how do
you tell which is which? - Well usually the mouth
will actually extend out. I believe this is the mouth, and they have these little
tentacles that they use. Yeah, this is the head. Here we go look, maybe he's
gonna show us his tentacles. Are your tentacles
gonna come out? No, guess not. But they use it like a
little vacuum cleaner like nam nam nam nam nam, to eat up a bunch of
sand they just process it through their bodies and
then what's really cool about all sea cucumbers
that I know of, is that they actually
breathe through their butts. Can you see his butt there? - [Mark] That's the butt? And that's where it breathes? - Yep, you see that? You see there's air comin' out. That's why I'm hearing
that farting noise. - [Mark] Oh my gosh it is. - Right? - [Mark] I thought
you were kidding. - Nope breathes
through it's butt. Crazy gross but crazy awesome. Whelp there you go, it's excreting a little
bit of it's excess water. You can see the body is
deflating now at this point. It's kinda just turning
into a gelatinous mass. This thing is crazy awesome. Oh look at this, look at this. - [Mark] What's happening. - That's it's mouth, here it
comes sticking it's head out. Hey buddy. And you can see all these
little tentacles up front here. - [Mark] Oh yeah. - They're contracted in,
but when he's underwater. Oh
- Oh it's opening it's mouth. - He's leakin' on me. - [Mark] It's
opening it's mouth. Something's happening. - That's it's mouth. That's it's mouth right
there, you see that? That is crazy. Similar to the sea slugs that
we have shown you guys before. And remember, this
is not a slug. It's related to sea
stars and sea urchins. When they're in the water, they actually take
their true form. Watch this, I'm gonna
set it back down in here. And it's gonna go
from a blob of jello back into a sea cucumber. Dude, this is the
coolest thing I've ever. - Look you can see it.
- I've ever seen. - See the tentacles
coming out of it's face. - [Coyote] Oh yeah, look
at that, look at that. You see all his
tentacles up front there? - [Mark] Yep, yep. - [Coyote] That's it's
mouth, look at that. You can see all the tube feet
better underwater like that. Actually if I keep it
under water like this, look at all those tube
feet on the underside. Those are all like
itty bitty suction cups that help it to slowly move
along the basin of the ocean. - [Mark] Looks like
it has a mustache. - [Coyote] It does, it looks
like a big walrus mustache. Let me touch those. Those are little sensory organs. - [Mark] Now can it bite you? - [Coyote] No, sea
cucumbers do not bite. - [Mark] Oh you can see
all it's little warts or appendages have come back. - Oh yeah. See that? Now it's completely taken
the sea cucumber form. Look how long this one is. Look at it's body
fully stretched out. That is impressive. What an amazing creature. I'm in complete awe of
this thing right now. I'm just gonna
hold it on my arm. There we go, so cool. I love sea cucumbers,
they're becoming my new favorite marine creature. Fascinating, and
there are around 12 hundred species worldwide,
and 50 in Hawaii alone. How cool is that? - [Mark] Wow. - Yeah you guys have a
lot of sea cucumbers here. We've only been exploring
for what, hour and a half? And we've come across
three species already. That's pretty awesome. Well I would definitely say that our first episode of beyond
the tide filmed in the dark certainly turned into the
night of the sea cucumber. I'm Coyote Peterson. Be brave, stay wild, we'll
see you on the next adventure. Alright buddy, back off
into the ocean with you. Exploring tide pools under
the darkness of night was incredibly rewarding. The animal activity
was unlike anything we had encountered before. And while sea
cucumbers may not be the fastest moving creature
you can come across, I think it's safe to say
that what they lack in speed, they definitely make up for
with their bizarre appearance. Hey Coyote Pack, have you
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