Monty Halls Great Irish Escape 2 Episode 2 b013pt8j original

a wild ocean teeming with life the Sun in the sky and a crazy dog for compound boobs just another day at the office the coast of Connemara in the West of Ireland some of the largest animals on the planet migrate through these waters and on land the people are a special group too [Music] going back to my roots is it marine biologist working for an Irish whale and dolphin Conservation group so you don't burst intestines because it gets very messy then yeah it's the chance of a lifetime to discover more about the extraordinary animals swimming off our shores this week my mission is to hunt down basking sharks true monsters of the deep I seriously thought he was gonna eat me and the wildlife attacks just go on and on one of the slight downsides a swimming reroute he just wants to rescue me then every now and then he catches me a good attacked by my own dog an inevitable part of my job here for the six months it's going to be ranging up and down the west coast so I do lots of road trips basically just bolting the rib on the back and heading off and this one's down to see Simon and kilrush Simon's my boss at the Irish World in Dolphin group and he wants me to find out as much as I can about a monster fish that visits this coast we don't know much about dolphins we know absolutely nothing about basking sharks you know simple stuff I mean even of the physiology the gestation it all this kind of stuff [Music] Barsky sharks are massive the biggest one ever recorded was longer than a double-decker bus an oar from a diet of microscopic plankton they appear off our shores every summer but we very little idea where they go for the rest of the time is the basking shark in trouble is there in danger it's vulnerable according to sight ease it was haunted extensively its populations are thought to be depleted because of that and the geneticist tell us the population could be as less as 20,000 individuals in the whole world you know which I find hard to believe but in islands we've actually the last two or three years we've reported an increase in sightings yeah so is that because there's more on the surface is the more here what's going on I've dug out some shark tags for you long last and these are tactical made force last year and for the basking shark project I had these made was similar time made to me in 1993 when I tried to start tagging sharks and I failed miserably and it took me 15 years before I got a tag out there was only 2008 that's amazing that the first-ever sharks basking sharks tagged here was just 2 years ago and 1/5 2/5 after 15 years of trying to do it yeah if it took Simon 15 years to tag his first Baskar what hope for me in one summer subtle he doesn't work just straight in bang it in and most the time shark it might kind of flinch because it's shocked at the boat I don't think it feels that the tank and I agree and occasionally you know there's a big smack of a tear the big cloud of water comes over you the tags are a simple way of tracking where the basking sharks travel in the oceans but last year Simon's stumbled on a much more sophisticated research technique it was when we tagged one shark it kind of bangs off the side of the boat with it some mist helfen we were back at Malin Head harbor at the end of the day and I saw this black slime on the front of the boat I remembered when I was out fishing with them gill netters that they'd say that they know when a shark has bust their net because it's covered in slime and so I think must immune from the shark so I scraped it off put in an achievement of a geneticist and said see if you can get DNA from that and they could is fantastic because there was literally up to last year before we started slimming there was less than 100 samples of just basking sharks for genetics in the world it's mad isn't it we're the only shark slime samplers on the planet welcome welcome to the world of sharks I'm 25% of the shark science slime samplers on the planet as you said harder to say easier to do bring us on thank you so much [Music] this is the kit required for smearing a basking shark an alarming concept sure you agree the whole idea is that these patents scare is obviously and the slime will be held in the little cells of this pad the scouring pad and in the slime is the genetic makeup of that animal so it's populations its history it's all in the slime and then I'll freeze that and get it to the galway Institute stage one remove a head of the amount they said it just kind of came to me when I went past a hardware store and Simon of course Simon advised me as well the scouring pads are the ideal thing stage 2 is fix your scouring pad in fact you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna fix to don't for a moment make the mistake of thinking I know what I'm doing this is all new stuff now that will do literally just needs to be brushed along the back of the animal stage 3 is gonna find a basking shark [Music] I need to sample baskets hopefully and to do so I've got to get really close to them I got to rub the old scrubber thing on them and so I want to practice doing them the best way to do it make fire the secret you get really close to an emergency car cuz you're low and your choir and you don't alarm that I need to practice a large marine organism just to give it a go and see if and that noise you can hear in the background is lower three organism I'm gonna try it out [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I've had a little settling-in period now and a good old chapter Simon and I've got a very good idea of what I need to do here so what I need to do now is just get out there and get on with it Simon knows actually quite little about this region because relatively little information has been gathered I think I've got a sneaky suspicion that connemara is one of the richest places in Europe for big animals in the sea and I'm gonna make it my mission over the next few months to prove that that's an absolute fact look that we certainly know there were so many basking sharks in the past that hunting them was a way of life basking shark fisheries extracted a terrible toll on the basking shark it's estimated about a hundred thousand were taken in Norway and in Scotland and Ireland and the last one to shot in Ireland was a kalai 'land the huge sea cliffs highest sea cliffs in Europe which is interesting in terms of the baskets because they tend to like areas like that they like these big drop-offs and where the big currents come up against something hard like a big cliff just getting nutrients there are lots of currents rich and I'm just heading down there now to actually meet someone who was involved in the basking shark fishery and just find out a little bit more about it what it was like to hunt these massive massive animals on the sea Michael guilty's taking me to Keene Bay where the Hunts used to happen Wow it's really some of the inland really so I come back here nearly every day possible and maybe read the paper just love her and its nicest of all when you're on your own yeah when you're the only one that's le aya well what a spot a very excited dog in the back he likes his beaches oh yeah Michael and his mates would have headed out to the Atlantic waters on the traditional Couric boat it's Gaelic meaning is unstable and it's well-named the biggest danger was being sort of throw it thrown over to the car could you swim then no no come this way the truth and of the many mentors have been fishing here from the object thority and I said was maybe a third again through mr. Bradley many of the old-time fishermen never learned to swim because they believed if their fate was to drown then so be it and how with a shark score to show the sheriff who killed a note from left to right we went along we put irons or chairs or whatever in the rock hold the net and we shot the net across from right to left I mean that was across the sort of Whataburger and then at the end of the net with a small stone maybe about a pound weight to hold the net in position right and then the shark came along and he's going to the middle is in it and the shore was tacked the shore rock was tight but the other one as he was going along it was moving in behind him short so here we were here at in Decorah the spears man was decide so this man's job was to hold the net across the stern of the garage and here we were hear her pulling in the shark and if you didn't have patience if you didn't get him right with the first shot it should take you maybe 15 20 minutes to get him it was only the Sharks liver they were after the oil of which lit the street lamps of Ireland the carcasses were left to rot on the seabed how do you feel about killing the Sharks now is it I'm dead sorry oh really yeah true choice it was it was you got you got to work for three months of the year at home yeah you know mostly let's come back from England for the shark fishing yeah and having three months at home with your wife's and family you know what the poor fellows there do no one any higher I would only live on plankton and I boats boats you see when we fished away back in the 50s we we never thought fish will get scarce we always thought to us plenty there for every and there was then with our type efficient picture window and with the bigger fish like well everyone talked to me about the slime the black what the her name change it to its I think of there's a certain time of year this name when the window a meeting that was the most time we're good today I'm and or you get it on the net yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a beautiful tranquil spot behind me but it was a scene of carnage and chaos and drama in the 50s when Michael was due Michigan and Michaels just set some really interesting things to me about the slide if there was slime on one of the Nets other sharks would be drawn towards that slime who knows it's all speculation it's a great thing about these animals and about working here this summer is that it's so much of its speculation and uncharted territory which is an amazing thing when you consider this is one of the Giants to the ocean that visits our sure every year at the same time [Music] [Applause] [Music] while I'm here I thought it'd be nice to have some homegrown food the veggies have been growing fantastically well I've surprised myself and they're getting too big for their boxes now the plan is to have kind of hillocks of soil running right the way down the hill I've got long enough here to actually grow a few veg and really start learning about the shore here and start getting the food from the shore and the sea and by the end hopefully be kind of self-sufficient you know be getting a lot of my food from here and from out there there we go you have to build a fence around this as well because the one thing we do have here in abundance is has hares are very rare or increasingly rare in Britain and the reason is that they're all over here there's some net down there small fishing net which I'll make a fence with get some driftwood some fishing net I mean come on start with a bit of a fence sort of hare shaped hold of it it's good I come out in the morning find hundreds of hairs caught in the net or roots are fine rubes struggling in the net come on [Music] perfect time all this fence has got to do is keep them hairs out it's a hair net now I'm planting quite late so I've abandoned my plans to do bananas avocado and coffee and instead I'm doing things like the salad and he digging needs to be closely supervised [Music] it's not a bad days work it's not a bad days work is it Oh God I've realized why I don't garden now it's absolutely shattering right rubes be aware for the terrible implications of you PO going all over my new vegetable fashion I've slaved all afternoon to create I'm serious this is serious horticulture rubes it's isn't helping is it the group does anyone else's dog do this I not on the friendship Burke [Music] Riis just off my front door out of my front door you walk 150 yards and he got amazing greets and they're sort of pushing into whites and areas of white Sam and his perfect crab and lobster country I'm hoping to catch a few fish while I'm here and the reefs are teeming with crabs and lobsters just gonna put out the first in my pots so Martin's gonna come out with me and show me where to put them ideally somewhere there isn't gonna get me beaten up in a pub yeah Martin O'Malley is a fisherman and powerboat instructor who's keeping me right while I learn the local waters let's say close to your house yeah that kind of area yeah yeah so you say right along the edge if we bases up first baby yes is this there yeah those are the fish we thought brown trout would work well oh yeah salmon yeah that's right oh well they are trap you kid oh I know where that's problem now I should point out by the way there's a local girl he's helping me out and I was charged around this morning putting the boat in I said well can you nip off and get some fish from the fishmonger and she very kindly did just come back with smoked herring I think of this which is very nice so my krills will be very distinctive along these coasts I think it's smoked herring yeah yeah which is delicious tears yeah it's a shame seeing on the pot yeah it'll probably last about a minute and a half in the pot as well I think God big ugly crab hanging Oh terrific water why go through all the rigmarole of catching a crab when you can just eat the bait that's my theory okay is that one basis that ones baited yep just it yeah and we'll do one more I shall be fascinated to see what we catch usually they're left two or three days yeah you can hold them every day if you want if you want but the chances are I think I'll I'll give it a couple of days yeah cuz the other thing I'm worried about it cuz it's smoked fish they'll probably degrade easier here yeah quicker it's yeah yeah but you're better off giving it a couple of - yeah - three days no problem one of the key things to do over the course of the next few weeks or indeed the next few days is to get posters up in Clifton and just generally all around connemara to try and get people to give me a call when they cite a big animal in the sea no one's better than the local fishermen they're doing this or the local divers or the people who get out regularly on the sea the guys who run the ferries that is what the fuss is all about there we are second largest fish in the sea it's filter-feeding worth getting excited about I think I'll stick that on the poster and catch people's eye hopefully and catch their attention and give them a big old number to find and just wait for the phone to ring even if you don't get out there yourself you can still record the sighting you can still say right that someone said they saw a basking shark in this location then you build up a pan and the movement of the animals around the coast this is the extremely appropriately named old road on a bleep day to really honking this missile coming in from the Atlantic but what it does mean is it's a bit blowy so all the boats are tied up alongside and it's a great opportunity to go and give the posters to fishermen to hotels to pups meet someone called John Britton and he's with the RNLI in Clifton so he is a good man to ask about basking sharks hello John how are you the traditional way against them I'll do that at the moment it's like don't have a look at the station yes this is a station we keep the Isle be one in right I always sing any anywhere I ever operate on you know tagging programs or anything like that it's always worth sticking your head around the RNLI place and just sort of say hello and see what's in there yeah could I give you a couple of posters it's a number for people to call if they happen to see a Basque or whatever yeah absolutely I haven't seen any recently except for the the bottlenose dolphins yeah are you gonna try and tag these yes yeah could you do the blue shark tagging I do yeah the Sharks would that that's some very basic form of tagging it's just a plastic tag and an address send it back to the fisheries board yeah if you find this yeah I the best one I had was the recapture was done off the Cape Verde Islands which i think is about three and a half thousand miles from here yeah all right John I'm gonna keep charging around and dishing these out so well I'll ring you if I see one no please do yeah yeah that'll be fantastic I'm just wondering I've got some posters I'll just want if I could give you a couple perhaps to put up these fantastic thank you I was just wondering if I could dump put up a couple of posters that's very kind Thanks horrible homemade face but just if anyone you know you might see a basking shark was that big one yeah stick never quite there and they come out at quarter to one but really really good evening and the lads are really up for it as is so often the case fishermen in places like round stone a very hooked into the local environment and very interested in the animals they're seeing and trying to help out in understanding them a little bit more so really promising that and great evening certainly enjoy myself chatting to a lot of the guys in Connemara they say the one place it's very good for basking sharks is the Aran Islands so I brought the rib down it's my first visit to the Aran Islands this mythical set of islands and I'm just going to have a little cruise along the cliffs about Farren's basking sharks central the Aaron's the three remote islands in the Atlantic Enosh more is Big Island in ish man is middle island and in a shear is East Island I'm gonna take a trip round to the clips on the western shore of the main island that's apparently where all the vaska's are see the problem I've got is saying a bar screen this is gonna be really really tricky this is the western side of Inishmore the largest of the Aran Islands and you look at these crimps they just face they're a buttress between the islands we talked about called to zero well these are the castle walls and they fit sculpted and shaped eons of time really rugged caves and quits really beautiful really beautiful and a fitting setting for something like a basking shark or a minke whale or a humpback fairly regular visitors to these waters I see something I don't have had to be here with the birds [Music] we need a glove activity all this we going on above the surface you can guarantee that we something going on underneath as well yeah of course it's trying to figure out what it is the waves of intimidatingly massive through my binoculars [Music] the basking sharks are here somewhere but I'm beginning to worry it's like looking for a needle in a haystack all I can do is keep hoping and patrolling I'm trying to find the pinnacle is an undersea pinnacle great places for fishing I marked it when I was out here on patrol one day hey here we go it is it comes from about 17 feet of water up to about 40 feet looks it's like it's an underwater volcano spewing out fish I'm convinced should be very happy hunting-grounds just seeing this massive reef underneath me a beautiful these guys are so successful down there they're the Wolves of the reef probably the most successful reef predator in Britain all right follow really nice-looking fish I'll keep this guy and stick him in my Creoles and then hopefully I'll bring in some crabs and lobsters I'm not optimistic about the krills partly because they're baited with trout and smoked herring I do want to get a bit more serious about all this and start really trying to provide myself with some good food rebate it I've sort of been playing at it up to this point but it'll be nice to start feeding myself anyway and actually getting reasonably self-sufficient now I'm obviously never going to be totally self-sufficient there's things like milk and stuff I have to buy but just a level of self-sufficiency would beastly well there we go they're out fishing for me now and with any luck get a couple of crabs maybe even a lobster or two and I'll get some people round when I smoke some fish as well I never really nice to get together think I'll cook up these get in now the one who sprung up so much unbelievable [Music] a big part of my job is responding to calls about whales and dolphins that have been washed ashore dead or alive often there's nothing there by the time I arrive but I have to check out every report I've towed my read 3,000 miles up and down the coast of Ireland chasing shadows just off to clarin to meet up with martin O'Malley John Britton these are great guys to get out on the boat with a huge whale of local knowledge and the first problem they can sort out with that knowledge is the fact that the rib has just bounced on the trailer it is leaning drunkenly at a very worrying angle and it was ends up rubbing against the metal of the trailer which it's not very good for ribs because if I lose the rib I'm stuffed you know I've can't get out on the water I can't do the photo IDs I can't do the tagging and all this towing is really tearing the thing apart as Terry man calls while I'm naked or a cappuccino and a cellphone not a flat-screen at my mom John and Martin already feel like old mates ready to help out whenever I call we were we were I was sort of that means the boat fell off the trailer yes I was sort of inadvertently adjusting the boat the road was adjusting the boat a problem is that you know where they're like rubber nose wheel is that on the trailer that you put the bow on it's bounced and it was rubbing on the thing so it's just one if you can have a quick look at the hull for me and just see if I'll show you it's just here and I'll just lift it yeah on this side it seems to me here we go it's funny you do more damage to boats trailing them around don't you great stuff that you can barely notice the repair I'll probably hang on to this because I suspect I'll be using it again yeah I think the plan will be to to get the old girl in a bit of TLC because she's been batted over the last few weeks [Music] your limits [Music] now although it's a beautiful beautiful day I do feel a slight sense of frustration it's nice to be doing this but even though it's kind of a day off I would be out there like a shot patrolling for whales and dolphins and bhaskar's but sadly my rib is temporarily out of service it's just been knocked about so much over the last couple of months but hopefully I'll pick it up again pretty soon we can get back out there because look at that this is the optimum sort of conditions for looking for these animals it's flat calm you see the ripples a long way off you see the Sun glinting off dorsal fins it's just perfect you know I'll I'm off collecting winkles oh this is great got a few think winkles arteries I should be out tagging five-ton sharks yeah this is the wincle litter on a spur and have a very interesting sex life these animals they change sex sometimes and they have this thing of the male winkles Winkle dropping off which is alarming in the extreme I imagine I think gross Backman's doing they got this a per Killam here basic so trapped all their shut when the tide goes out and it means they stay nice and moist and safe inside we can see this guys coming out it's high tide so he's been very active so there we go he's just pops his head out and that's the part I'm gonna eat now I was gonna go for a swim the water is about 14 degrees first out rubes fancy a swim [Music] one of the slight downsides of swimming reroute is a he just wants to rescue me just wants me to get me out of the water you know and he doesn't like trying to grab me grab me with his paws and pull me around and every now and then he catches me a good'n he caught me at humdinger attacked by my own dog graze me I'll go foraging for a few winkles and I come back cold wet and bleeding human roofs doesn't try and rescue him it could be a feast fit for a king this isn't it a lovely way to cook these is white wine and herbs I'm fortunate got any white wine so I'm just gonna put a bit of water a bit of vinegar and a few of the herbs from the garden and lemon pepper I'm the blue moons heart connemara interestingly when they used to cook shellfish on the coast here back in the mists of time I'm talking a long time ago they didn't have cooking pots that could withstand fire so what they do is put stones in a fire and then make a depression in there in the earth and put the stir put water in the depression and then put the stones it so an awful lot of places you walk around here have blackened stones then if you look nearby where ever there's a load of black and stones you'll invariably find a bunch of old shells you know shells that are hundreds and hundreds of years old these are tomatoes from the supermarket down the road for with any luck I'll add me only Tomatoes by the end of the summer smell right that's what the fuss is all about oh yeah honestly that was really nice quite a delicate flavor actually it's not a sort of I was expecting a really strong flavor and it's not at all that is really really nice great food and great fun good combo [Music] [Applause] [Music] the boats still out of action but I need to check my lobster krills [Music] so I'm gonna go out in the kayak and be rather clever and try and tie a rope around the boy which is just there and with any luck be able to tow that in and stand on the rock and haul the Crillon and there's another one up here somewhere so it's gonna be watch this space this could be quite fun [Music] [Music] well I started about an hour and a half ago but I got little glance at the trail and it's been opened which is quite interesting cuz it's either a local fisherman who's not happy that my krills are out here you know asked everyone in the village got permission and borrowed these krills from a local fisherman Oh believe it or not it could be an otter otters have learned how to open these Creoles a minor in shallow water there's definitely officers around here I've seen sprains I've seen bits of old crab claws so the otter has got the better of me this time I hope it's an octoroon not a local person so I'd be mortified if a local guy was upset that I was fishing here so somewhere on a rock behind a rock somewhere there's an otter having a good laugh won't open krill not good not good I want one more I'm gonna go check just to see if that's good open as well if that's okay I'll go to the pub and just have a chat and make sure that anyone is upset and if it's a small guy I'll have it out with him it's a big guy I'll buy an affair and apologise [Music] don't go away there's something in mockery it's a spider crab Meyer square Nardo which means May and angles May because they appear in May that mating aggregations in May and they come to shallow water to breathe and these guys camouflage themselves they put bits of seaweed and whatever they stick them onto themselves like a soldier you know where the helmet with all the stuff stuffed in it there's beautiful color underneath they're not really nippers they've got this wonderful armored shell League points on and that's a really small one I could put that on a cracker possibly but I'm not gonna put him back and I gotta have a cheese sandwich lift in that second one was really important because I was really worried that you know maybe as I said some some local was upset or whatever the I was he's in the pot here and the fact that the pot was shot and had this crab in it it's a good sign so I'm really happy about that and I think there might be no non sir there's so much Oscar activity along here and the author's definitely opened Creole the locals are telling me about it say here we go I feel look at this that's a spider crab shell probably that's a spider crab shell that has probably been eaten by an otter you see it's a bit smashed up and I find a lot of them as a walk the dog along here in the morning find a lot of these and I'm absolutely confident otter working this little stretch so obviously I'll have a look for him later on but it does add to my little theory that maybe the peppered open by an otter there we go evidence Exhibit A [Music] my association with places like this wild places where the mountain has hit the sea and there's locks and bays and inlets an incredible wildlife started with one animal it started with an animal I was fascinated with as a kid and I've got an opportunity to meet that animal now in a pretty unique environment and get closer to it and I think I'd probably ever will for the rest of my life Judy and Clive Lawrence run an animal sanctuary and letter frac 20 miles from my cottage and the latest arrival is an orphan otter hello young lady you can see this this question this is obviously the closest I've ever been to an on-set and this animal is the animal that drew me to the west coast of Scotland originally because of the works of gavin maxwell and he raised the officers major nidal and he spoke of their the fact that you could kind of domesticate an autumn but it would always be a wild animal and you can just see by the look in the the otters I hear that I have one myself the teeth obviously very sharp and Maxwell wrote of having his hand bit once and the teeth actually met through his hand so it's a it's a top predator it's not an animal to be messed with and the whole thing Judy and Clive are trying to do here is gradually distance themselves from the otter so the otter can be released program and your fingers I'm very much minding my fingers now that's just the slight whiff of Rueben I'm assuming is the slight whiff of rumen it might be me if ever my trousers proved their worth oh there we go look everything you know just straight away banging that's clay it's the design you can see this is an outlet we've designed to move through water sinuous one was the ill right now flathead very bright very intelligent eyes again Maxwell always talked to this is really intelligent this is magical magical moment for me it's an animal I've seen in the distance it's assumed almost mystical proportions for me the otter and to be this close to why this is unbelievable he needs at least 20 percent of her body weight per day in food so that's a kilo of food as you can imagine in the wild you know that's a ferocious rate of predation isn't it you know but they're burning up their food so quickly yeah right could be time for me to leave I think with bruised ankles that was amazing look at an amazing experience didn't disappoint me at all it's sort of like meeting a superstar you know as I'm meeting someone you've always wanted to meet and often that can be quite a crushing experience and I've always wanted to get that close to an otter and just see what made this animal so special and it wasn't it's a ball of energy if it's like bottling lightening meeting an otter and and real intelligence amazing athleticism and seeing it so close the way it moved in the water it's just absolutely beautiful [Music] [Music] I just had a very excited and very exciting phone call the excited part was a guy standing on a headland telling me he was looking at 24 basking sharks what would you call an athlete but there's not a show in a bit fleet and basking sharks there any slight snack is that it's Malin Head that he was standing on which is the very northernmost tip of Ireland but the exciting part for me is obviously this is an opportunity to tag and possibly get in the water with a large number of huge marine animals and the guy I'm meeting here is guy called Emmett and Emmett is the one who made the call and said he can see all the baskets and he's a man who should know because he's the local wildlife Ranger and that Johnson has worked in Mallen head for the past six years you get aa stock headlamp up there yeah you're into shark country right excellent flatcar boilie carp if this is a perfect Emmett said have been seen all day seven o'clock at night now so we've got about an hour maybe have a little look around you coming back that sort of time yeah just I'm making a classic mistake of staring fixedly at exactly where you're staring no it's not the most efficient way of search engines are up and down obviously they're not staying on the surface of the earth so just saw something about 150 meters off the back if you just want to say something definitely out there sit up see there yeah yeah that's yes there is 100% that is a basking shark a little glimpse offend makes the whole six-hour drive getting the boat in worthwhile tag number seventy four fifty five one eight two nine nartz you can see why it's a sign that it sort of raised people's emotions seven three two nine five West right time is twenty past seven just go in for it like this I'll go super fast hang around not go back snicker back oh sorry didn't go ahead and on uh sorry throughout here anyway you know so saying that was nice to see the nose up there yeah I was right out of the water wasn't it just there just that there's one in front ears out there's one closer there's one closer what wolf just one just there hey this is my last go and then you're up just sit there that we've come yeah go in go in go-go-go [Music] go-go-go first of all by debut tag why David thanks tag zero seven at five five one eight zero seven four the power of that animal you know for me to show off five meters shot he's probably talking a couple of tons two and half three tonnes mate and it gave the boat a clunk as it disappeared and the whole boat if you feel just just shook in the water that's great it's another tag deployed and the information from that tag if it's recited will be invaluable to tell the movements of that shock and indeed the movements of the whole species of the coast of Ireland so great stuff this one's for you Oh fantastic yeah he's a beast who could possibly miss an animal like that this is probably the most exciting moment of my entire miserable life so fast for you can't even see it say I'm too fast fit just stay on your right hand side think so yeah we get a balance between the two of them you've gotta just give it a little bit of time I'm just yeah boost in before he yeah ah down yeah this is the one I got a good feeling about it your name on it see that's good to see them high out of the water and see the nose that means that feeding on a feeding that preoccupied a while a preoccupied we can get at our you know okay okay let go in oh yeah got of the most plums II have a fits it said the poor animal but definitely ready and I saw the taco head hope there stated and faster and he gave the boat if we got clogged because they disappeared as well great first ever tag I'm gonna get drunk oh no no [Music] morning after the day before it's the 6:45 in the morning after a day before so nice and early but just a phenomenal day yesterday we were here yesterday yeah that's right today we will probably work the sharks little bit slower like we'll go in and maybe make sure we got our photographs on both the eyes are the fins yeah and then we maybe get a swim sample and then we'll go for the tag down there's the last thing right you know so right we're kind of build up a little portfolio yeah yeah identity yes sorry haha well spotted and it has this mere supernatural ability to spot that much of a basking shark popping up a mile after way Oh God the strength 1 2 3 that's moving in circles think it's a feeding thing you know he's coming back on himself it's like he's swimming in a bowl of soup a small bowl of soup and he's so he's turning all the time and he just his nose that means he's got that massive mouth if it's called round filter feeding this so he's pushing his body through the surface mouths open and a huge amount of waters washing over his gill rakers and the gill rakers of seven out and food man see how easy you could have tagged him yeah got one two three four five shafts I can see in the area of a football pitch seem to be going down coming up yeah it's hard to tell oh yeah well fishermen everywhere always say don't they for everyone on the surface is at least two underneath yeah so I'm sitting over the world we're sitting over the top of considerable tonnage of animals at the moment pic of Easton I think he wants to be tagged this opponents swimming right towards us [Music] [Music] get him bang on bang only a fool could have missed my whole vision was just full of baskets shot so fantastic that was seamless yeah in fact there's three yes sir three yeah this three isn't it yeah teeth really go right in a really tight group there must be must be touching this there's so many mysteries surrounding this animal was far more questions than answers amazing by the way it's not having dinosaurs around the boat I could slime him there we are yep right here well I scraped it down his back yes so this is the sign but the information that can be got from that potentially is absolutely massive and it's a bit like a memory stick that slime and what we got to do is somehow plug it in and decipher it and get the information out of it because in there is potentially the lineage of these animals of that particular animal and this slime it's like a book and if we can figure out how to read that book suddenly the story will reveal itself so I'm gonna put it in a planky bag and send it off to the lab set Galway Marine Institute and hopefully they can decipher it and we'll find out a little bit more an oven scraper and some slime in there as well scientists will need hundreds more scouring pads before they can draw any conclusions but I'm proud to be a pioneer Slimer we've tagged an animal we've taken photographs from the surface we've got a slime sample and the next thing is to try and get the sex of the animal that we take the slime sample from and the only way to do that is getting in the water to try and get a shot underneath because the bowel has been claspers pretty unmistakable [Music] you get a sense of scale there need to see his snorkel of us has had in the water the size even just of the fin all we're seeing is the same on the back of the shark absolutely incredible [Music] Wow unbelievable I seriously thought he was gonna eat me for just a brief second I had to fit furiously to get out of the way he came right at me I'm sure he had a glint in his eye basic that vast cavern of the mouth and those gill rakers offices circle the entire head the first you see it's a big white cave coming towards you out of gloop just behind it I think it's getting used to being fellows this just their just their life [Music] [Music] that was moderately close twist it up in your head across the defense of these animals is their size and I've just got a tiny glimpse there and the power that tail I always collected a slime sample on my head you know that's quite excited watering I'm very excited I'd like a sort of loss but a picnic as far as they're concerned just a little bit annoy you know better somewhere else so leave the big fellas to get on it I said a couple more shots oh wow look at them now that's magic it's undeniably great fun I'm not even gonna pretend it is a great flood and amazing the life-enhancing experience but it's not important stuff yeah we can clearly identify the male's had the females have anybody do that it's do photography in the water then add a little bit more information about the bottle shine that is very fun did I mention it was great huh I think I probably did next time 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Published: Fri Jun 15 2018