Dragonfish Caught on Camera - how we filmed a creature of the deep

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @Venasai
    @Venasai 3 года назад +22

    You guys deserve more attention!

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +2

      I like to think so ... maybe one day 200 years in the future!

  • @DetaiIist
    @DetaiIist 3 года назад +51

    Imagine if the black dragonfish had the size of a whale and can be also found near the surface...

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +8

      that would be scary! Fortunately they are only about 20cm long!

    • @xddeepblue1165
      @xddeepblue1165 3 года назад

      @@IndoonaOceans they can be found near the surface, many species can be found from 1-5000m deep very rarely can you actually spot one on the surface

    • @darthpawblo6407
      @darthpawblo6407 2 года назад +1

      Ooohhhh than the ocean will be of limited

  • @irexzilla2392
    @irexzilla2392 3 года назад +35

    I have to admit these Black Dragonfishes on footage are very hard to find.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +3

      Yes it is rare to get the chance to see one!

    • @irexzilla2392
      @irexzilla2392 3 года назад +1

      @@IndoonaOceans I've seen a lot of photos barely seen a video.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +1

      @@irexzilla2392 that's great to know, thanks!

    • @balramkatriamokhra8697
      @balramkatriamokhra8697 3 года назад +1

      Thank you for my help

    • @irexzilla2392
      @irexzilla2392 3 года назад

      @@balramkatriamokhra8697 What help?

  • @trapdoorguppi
    @trapdoorguppi 3 года назад +7

    So glad I found this channel! Subscribed!!

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +1

      Thanks ~ I've had a break but will do some more soon!

  • @Purwapada
    @Purwapada 2 года назад +14

    Really amazing. I have always wanted to try to keep various deep sea fishes in aquaria. The jellyfish aquarium design was very interesting! Perhaps one day I can use one of these trawlers (any idea how, as a private individual?) to collect some specimens.
    I know many would need nitrogen injections into the water to displace oxygen etc. It's all very fascinating

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +3

      Tricky to keep much alive from the deep - the Monterey aquarium in California, funded by Hewlett-Packard, has managed it. Anyone can hire a trawler like the research one used here - only about $40,000 per day plus fuel! More economical would be to built your own deep sea winch and net and fish off shore on a volcanic island where it shelves deep very quickly.

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada 2 года назад

      @@IndoonaOceans oh yes I see. Very expensive indeed Haha.
      The second option seems viable. I will read into that.
      Thanks very much

  • @Chesteran007
    @Chesteran007 2 года назад +6

    Honestly I love the deep sea dragon fish, probably my favorite fish I love it's bioluminescent red light adaptation, thank for doing all this documentation for us

  • @The_Only_Juan
    @The_Only_Juan 3 года назад +24

    I'm so disappointed as a species that we are using the same techniques to "explore" the deep sea as 200 years ago. What the actual heck?!

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +10

      Yes I know it seems like that and I think that too sometimes. The fact is that it is really hard and expensive to get into the deep sea. To get far from shore and be safe in the open sea often needs a big boat - that is a huge cost for a start with tens of crew who need paying every day and big boat= big fuel bill. Then to actually go deep you need loads of winching gear and cable. If we could make autonomous low cost camera systems deployed from smaller boats that might work. There are things called 'gliders' that are underwater robotic research 'drones' but they still cost millions. I wonder sometimes if I could go off the Azores or similar - mid ocean volcanic Islands where it is very deep only a few tens of metres from shore - a mile down in the Azores not far from shore is common. Then you could just drop $200 cable cameras from a small fishing boat and run fields of them over many miles of seabed because they are low cost - servicing them every day like lobster pots. Someone will crack something like that pretty soon (if not me!)

    • @The_Only_Juan
      @The_Only_Juan 3 года назад +2

      @@IndoonaOceans I hope it gets cracked soon. I'm not sure exploring and discovering new things is worth it at the current cost to the environment. Thanks for responding!

    • @MissleT0E
      @MissleT0E 2 года назад +1

      @@The_Only_Juan LOL! the environment (like the planet) will correct itself whether we do anything or not. I mean you could try educating people to not litter their trash. That's a good start.

    • @boogie1434
      @boogie1434 2 года назад +4

      @@IndoonaOceans maybe ask Elon Musk for some funding, I’d imagine it would be a pretty easy pitch if you showed him stuff like this. You miss all of the shots you don’t take lol

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +2

      Have you got his phone number?!

  • @GiraR487
    @GiraR487 2 года назад +6

    "And some people think they don't exist" lol sounds weird in my head

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +1

      ‘You do not exist’ is a paradoxical statement as George Orwell pointed out in his book 1984. My comment is somewhat in the same vein so maybe that’s why it feels weird!

  • @The_posh_cat123
    @The_posh_cat123 10 дней назад +1

    Imagine a kaiju sized black dragon fish, that would be so scary tbh

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  8 дней назад

      It would but they are only about a foot or 30cm long in real life!

  • @theonyxwolf5675
    @theonyxwolf5675 2 года назад +3

    These deep sea dwellers are naturally still in the water like this until they strike on their prey.

  • @Buttergirla
    @Buttergirla 2 года назад +3

    I figured it would die. The pressure and temperature was too drastic for it

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +3

      Yes sadly but we have recorded it here so people know about these creatures

    • @Buttergirla
      @Buttergirla 2 года назад +1

      @@IndoonaOceans right I do understand completely

  • @lucax2300
    @lucax2300 5 месяцев назад +1

    I remember my 10 year old self, thinking these were actually as big as catfish and were the swarming type of predator, like a piranha. Boy, was I wrong.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  5 месяцев назад

      The world seems bigger when we are younger!

  • @CarbonGlassMan
    @CarbonGlassMan 2 года назад +4

    Who said it's cruel to show a dead fish? Or to even kill a fish.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +3

      Lots of people and they are somewhat right I think - however, we tried to respect this animal by filming the scientific catch as a record that people could at least know what wonders there are in the ocean. The scientific samples taken had much value too in both understanding the sea and the physiology of things like eyes in the deep sea. Every day millions on millions of fish have a traumatic death through being caught in nets etc. We need the food but should also respect by not overfishing and avoiding by-catch.

    • @CarbonGlassMan
      @CarbonGlassMan 2 года назад +1

      @@IndoonaOceans over fishing is not good but I'd say it's a tiny minority of people who think its cruel to show a dead fish. A dead fish is just food.

  • @jakebuenaventura9753
    @jakebuenaventura9753 2 года назад +4

    I didn't even know they were two species dragonfish the first type of dragon fish I knew was the deep sea dragonfish

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Well all common names for animals seem to have potential for confusion- which is why zoologists use Latin names - although they are often hard to read and pronounce !

  • @platty9237
    @platty9237 Год назад +2

    No light show? Their bioluminescence is pretty neat.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад +2

      I think we’ve not seen it all yet - someday someone will capture something spectacular from a research submersible with its lights switched off

  • @zachplayzyt7412
    @zachplayzyt7412 8 месяцев назад +3

    Dragonfish Are cool

  • @alexanderbernard7846
    @alexanderbernard7846 3 года назад +2

    Is this how other documentaries like nat geo, discover, etc film deep sea creatures?

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +1

      Yes. - I also worked on those - Blue Planet etc. and for many deep sea creatures it was either like this or with a submarine - although that was always very expensive

  • @bromotomoto9330
    @bromotomoto9330 2 года назад +3

    In the deep sea, are all the fish similar to that one? Like is it because of their environment that they all look like nightmare fish

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +1

      Yes you are right that they are shaped by the dark place they live - as you know after a few hundred meters very little surface light penetrates the water and many animals hide by using black camouflage

  • @Durplepurple94572
    @Durplepurple94572 3 года назад +6

    Sucks that I can't own one of those

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +3

      No it would not be happy in a normal tropical fish tank. If kept in cool and dark maybe (Monterey aquarium USA have tried) but then you only need about £500k in trawler time to find one!

  • @Thefam_vlogers
    @Thefam_vlogers Год назад +2

    HOW YOU GET THAT💀💀

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад

      Well it’s kinda in the video but ask me any specific questions and I will try to answer

  • @Dakwahonline212
    @Dakwahonline212 Год назад +1

    Hello, I want to ask permission to use your video for my content. I'll put the credit later

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад

      Thanks for asking but we only license this footage starting at $30 per second minimum use 30 seconds- it is the only way to reinvest to get more such footage because it is so expensive and even then it nowhere near covers costs. I hope you understand- if you want free material try Wikimedia commons. Thanks again for asking though as many don’t.

    • @Dakwahonline212
      @Dakwahonline212 Год назад

      @@IndoonaOceans ok thanks a lot for the info

  • @Nasromeo2015
    @Nasromeo2015 2 года назад +1

    I like your videos keep to it

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Thanks so much for the encouragement!

  • @emlachoi
    @emlachoi 2 месяца назад +1

    Well, i think thats dragonfish *abuse*

  • @AdityaKumar-tq4kv
    @AdityaKumar-tq4kv 3 года назад +3

    i think it was breathing but pretending to be dead

  • @ampleculpt4life187
    @ampleculpt4life187 3 года назад +1

    Im always confused cuz the dragonfish and the viperfish look so similar

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +1

      Yes I think they are interchangable names for many people

  • @jeffrunyan5065
    @jeffrunyan5065 2 года назад +1

    That thing almost looks like the inspiration for the aliens in the movie alien

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +1

      Yes I am sure HR Giger, the artist of Alien, got his inspiration from nature and likely marine creatures but we don’t know if it was just one or many bits from different creatures

    • @raptorblack2269
      @raptorblack2269 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@IndoonaOceansFor the jaw inside the jaw, he was inspired by the moray eel

  • @bromotomoto9330
    @bromotomoto9330 2 года назад

    Wait so is that fish in our possession or is it still in the ocean

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      This one was caught but there are likely many thousands down there

  • @marivicobera3549
    @marivicobera3549 3 года назад +1

    The one older dragon

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +1

      Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool! You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.BILBO BAGGINS TO HIMSELF AFTER CONFRONTING SMAUG[

  • @ellengould2137
    @ellengould2137 2 года назад +1

    It's alive I saw it move a little bit when he put it in the tank.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад +2

      Yes it was briefly. - very fresh or the colours would soon fade

  • @martinramsey114
    @martinramsey114 Год назад +1

    I'm all for discovery and learning about species. Is there really a need to kill them for this purpose?

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад +1

      I agree with you in general and millions of tons of ocean creatures are killed every year for food or just wasted. This was a scientific expedition that can provide useful conservation date - you have to know what’s there for a start - admittedly only a small part of it and slow to produce results. We were filmmakers documenting these animals - I think you will agree that is a worthwhile addition to keep the images and show them to a wider public ( this was done in 2005 BTW). Deep sea submersibles from which non destructive filming is possible are upwards of $20,000 per four hour dive - trawling can be done over a much larger area for half that per 24hours. Possibly better baffles could be fitted in the cod end trawl to prevent battering from the current although there wasn’t much interest in that - a lot of the research is biochemical looking at eye pigments etc not the whole animal. I think the feeling is that it is for the greater good but certainly one needs to respect these animals and harvest images and observations effectively.
      I should add they are not deliberately killed of course- it’s the mechanical battering they get in the trawl and the sudden change in temperature and pressure as they come to the surface that kills them.

    • @martinramsey114
      @martinramsey114 Год назад

      @@IndoonaOceans I do understand the procedure, and your need to go through such a process. Although you state they are not killed deliberately, you and I are both aware they are going to die. I am familiar with the workings and the costs of operating an ROV from a DSV. It's just a shame you don't have the sort of money that oil companies have to hand. Perhaps the oil companies should be paying for these expeditions. I do wish you all the best.
      P.S. I think my older age has made me more apathetic to the welfare of animals. I go Salmon fishing (Fly fishing). Although I put them through a bit of trauma, I put them back alive and well. In the process, I have learned how intelligent these fish are. I've come across things with Salmon that people just simply wouldn't believe.

    • @johnruthven3619
      @johnruthven3619 Год назад

      @@martinramsey114 totally agree that fish have amazing intelligence - would be interesting to do a film on it - maybe I will here. Perhaps you can give me a few suggestions from your salmon experience? I have access to salmon footage so could do something with it.

  • @okilson8119
    @okilson8119 3 года назад +5

    Ignore the haters

  • @TMundohere
    @TMundohere 2 года назад

    Ugly looking monster-like fish are quite common. The monk or angler for example are just ugly-fugly. But there be tons of scary ugly down there. Not necessarily big, but definitely scary-lookin

  • @kidsnooneunderstandwithsir483
    @kidsnooneunderstandwithsir483 Год назад +1

    NAH THAT THING IS ALIVE I SAW ITS GILLS FLAPING

  • @jesusa.1586
    @jesusa.1586 2 года назад

    Whats crazy to me is that they were selling these dragon fish at my local walmart…

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Really - got any pictures you could share?

    • @arontabio7779
      @arontabio7779 2 года назад

      I wonder the nutrition facts of it 🤔

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      @@arontabio7779 Do you mean what it eats or what it tastes like? It probably eats other fish (we know from one caught with a fish inside - see other video on this channel) and shrimps - anything it can catch basically by sucking it into its balloon mouth and being able to open its jaws wide like a snake. How does it taste - no one knows but 'fishy' is one answer!

  • @imrankhanofpakistan4967
    @imrankhanofpakistan4967 Год назад +1

    dragon fiah are the most amazing deep sea creatures👍

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад

      Yes they are - especially those that use red light

  • @sandrawilkinson3782
    @sandrawilkinson3782 4 месяца назад +2

    😢😢the one in this video is dead💔.
    Precious, scary looking little monsters😢

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  4 месяца назад +1

      Yes - recently so but still with colour. Hopefully the video explains why.

    • @sandrawilkinson3782
      @sandrawilkinson3782 4 месяца назад

      @@IndoonaOceans 🤗🥰❤️👍

  • @OverlordShamala
    @OverlordShamala Год назад

    People calling certain animals fake seems to be common in RUclips. There are people that have commented that the gorillas & chimpanzees they've seen in zoos are just people in costumes. No such thing of these animals.
    People that say are fake & don't exist include pandas, bears, whales, lions, & elephants. Strange these people.

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад

      Thanks for your reassuring comment - I agree all you can do is show what you have honestly filmed and people will make up their own minds about what’s true or not. Love the idea of a zoo with humans in costumes though - it would be a hit!

    • @guhduh
      @guhduh Год назад

      Feel bad for the wild costumers ones that maul everything they see

  • @TheCatGuyThatLikesChrimas
    @TheCatGuyThatLikesChrimas 2 года назад

    I wanna have a dragon fish as a pet

    • @Buttergirla
      @Buttergirla 2 года назад +1

      Why?? It looks like a demon from hell

  • @bellenvideo5629
    @bellenvideo5629 Год назад +1

    Only thing going to space is your imagination 👋😎

  • @jseedoubleu
    @jseedoubleu Год назад

    Is this real or fake? I watched the whole vid so ypu got my view so be honest

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад +1

      It’s real - there are quite a few dragonfish of various species all over the world in the deep sea at middle depths around about 600m and deeper - it’s why we rarely see them. The middle part of the ocean is the biggest place for animals in the world and there’s still loads we don’t know there.

    • @jseedoubleu
      @jseedoubleu Год назад

      @@IndoonaOceans is that the actual fish? How was it caught?

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  Год назад

      Yep - in the trawl as in vid

  • @amoghwadikar5229
    @amoghwadikar5229 4 года назад +2

    Cool

  • @jacoblee3385
    @jacoblee3385 2 года назад +1

    10:10ok😀

  • @rhythmandacoustics
    @rhythmandacoustics 3 года назад

    Alien?

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад

      A lot of those deep sea critters seem like they are!

  • @jaydeniskandar9185
    @jaydeniskandar9185 3 года назад +1

    Over deep in 9000 down there is real

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад

      this animal is from the middle part of the ocean - so at about 1000 metres

  • @jacenoel3761
    @jacenoel3761 3 года назад +2

    I LOVE IT

  • @moonlightsonatina627
    @moonlightsonatina627 3 года назад +1

    I came from bright side, these dwell at a depth of over 7000 feet, but can't believe they are just 20 cm long🤔

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад

      well I guess there is no reason to be big unless there are 1) big things to eat or 2) big things to be eaten by ?

  • @mutya8264
    @mutya8264 2 года назад +1

    O. May. GaD

  • @nolanbutbetter4181
    @nolanbutbetter4181 3 года назад

    It is real but more endangered then arowana

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад

      true - but most things on Earth are now - some hope is that people are realising this and the environment is becoming number one on the agenda

  • @youdoyouplayer8529
    @youdoyouplayer8529 3 года назад

    Great video. But so dramatic

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад

      Thanks - have been taking a break but will get back to it soon!

  • @Ufgvcewghhjgfhj
    @Ufgvcewghhjgfhj Месяц назад +1

    May Allah bless you all 💎

  • @piyamaslimaichay9061
    @piyamaslimaichay9061 4 года назад

    Awesome

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  4 года назад

      Thanks - took me a while to realise people wanted to know about this!

  • @frontrooms-explorer907
    @frontrooms-explorer907 4 года назад

    I want deep sea fish and sea creatures

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад +1

      Tricky to keep alive - although I think the Monterey aquarium in California has a deep sea tank and they also have quite a good online page about their deep sea work: www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/habitats/deep-sea

    • @carpediem7654
      @carpediem7654 2 года назад +1

      Glory to Russia 🇷🇺

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Not sure what that has to do with it but there is no glory in war

    • @carpediem7654
      @carpediem7654 2 года назад

      @@IndoonaOceans Russia is fighting for its survival against NATO and its proxy ukraine. The glory is ours. Ukraine will dissappear along with all nato countries before our survival is threatened.

  • @OcellatedEelpout
    @OcellatedEelpout 3 года назад

    TRY TO FIND BATHOPHILUS BREVIS NEXT!

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  3 года назад

      It's one of the barbelled dragon fishes isn't it? There is a honeycomb dragonfish on this channel too - not sure if I have the species right though - what do you think? ruclips.net/video/vOwDdJiO4Go/видео.html

  • @ILikeSkulls666
    @ILikeSkulls666 2 года назад

    So it IS dead 😂

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Pretty much or recently so - but you will not see this level of detail in colour or skin texture etc anywhere as even museum specimens are pretty degraded

  • @ugez567
    @ugez567 2 года назад +1

    Dragon fish look dead but they’re actually alive also dragon fish have red lights below their eyes you can see them because this is recorded and also dragon fish I am the master of disguise

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Our latest video talks about this - you are ahead of us!

  • @samarthd9948
    @samarthd9948 4 года назад

    Keep it up MEN!

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  4 года назад +5

      I feel vibes that we are all a bit too male - yes sorry about that but marine biology is actually one of the sciences that has more female representation in the USA anyway at 69%: careerexplorer.com/careers/marine-biologist/demographics/ and I was heartened to see that two women won the Nobel prize for chemistry for the first time ever this year: news.sky.com/story/two-women-jointly-win-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-for-first-time-in-history-12098161. Interestingly though I can see that about 75% of the hits on Indoona channel are male - especially deep sea fish - clips like the humpback whale ones have a higher % of female viewers - perhaps because they are more social animals and more relatable?

    • @seechee
      @seechee 2 года назад

      @@IndoonaOceans I am a female and I ‘troll’ for footage of spectacular solitaries like this one all the time. I rarely engage with the platform though, as in I rarely ‘like’, ‘subscribe’, comment. And I’ve met lots of other women who do the same. Is it that we just aren’t engaging with the community as much and are therefore flying under the radar?

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      @@seechee ​ @Stephanie Creech It could be a factor but because Google gives me the channel data - which does not depend on interaction but on what Google knows about RUclips viewers (age, sex, and other demographics) I can see that a big majority of the viewers here are male (73% over all my videos views are male - based on nearly three million views). It's probably the slightly nerdy facts and lack of stuff about social interactions etc. that attracts more males - a big generalisation of course with much overlap, but generally men like deep sea fish!

  • @javiendavis1935
    @javiendavis1935 2 года назад

    They say it is fake... then they should learn THE DEATH PENALTY!

  • @SOULRELIEF22
    @SOULRELIEF22 2 года назад

    Time is winding up.
    "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
    Daniel 12:4!
    "And he saith unto me, Seal up the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
    He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
    And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
    I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
    Revelation 22:10-13!
    REPENT and RECEIVE JESUS as your SAVIOUR to have your name secured in His Book of Life!
    "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
    Revelation 20:15!

  • @SOULRELIEF22
    @SOULRELIEF22 2 года назад +1

    I'm in love with JESUS!
    "All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:3!

    • @IndoonaOceans
      @IndoonaOceans  2 года назад

      Yes there is some wonderful life on Earth

  • @jacobkhan266
    @jacobkhan266 2 года назад +1