SHARK ATTACK & Amateur Surgery: Sailing & Spearfishing the Ragged Islands (EP 55 - Monday Never)
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Sailing the Ragged Islands. It's known as a remote destination that can be treacherous in certain wind conditions. We knew we needed to be prepared with plenty of food and water on board, but we had no idea what lay in store for us.
In the beginning of our trip, our friend Jeff got bitten by a shark while we were out spearfishing with our friends. Despite being 2 days away from any medical help, the sailers with us were able to suture him up, deliver IV antibiotics, and fully care for him while the rest of us watched in awe. This is a video of that incident, what happened, the medical attention received, and lessons learned.
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Watching this for about the 4th time. We were not told about this until Jeff was in the all-clear. Thank all of you for taking care of my family. Love to all of you amazing people! -Rachel's mom
I made myself a boogie board float (about 10yrs ago). It works great. Always lots of sharks where I spear and haven't lost a fish since I started using it. Made of an old boogie board, pool noodles and a spring loaded 'crayfish bag' to hold the fish. Mostly all zip tied together. Also great for holding a drink and snacks and it's big so stands out well on the water. Which is good to stop boats running you over :)
Well that is a great idea! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Glad it wasn't a Bully. Glad it wasn't a more aggressive bite. Glad EVERYBODY learned from this. Sharks are no joke and we are in thier domain at a distinct disadvantage. So happy this story had such a great ending. What a wonderful video guys, thank you for sharing.
Outstanding job telling this story in a very helpful and educational manner. It could’ve been very easy to over dramaticize the incident for YT ratings but you didn’t. I have been following you guys since the beginning and am very proud of the evolution you guys have become to full time, professional cruisers and storytellers! Looking forward to the day we meet up in person to share cockpit cocktails!
Thank you Kevin! Really appreciate the kind words. Really hoping to share a drink with you too one of these days.
That was an amazing video. However, Linda (who is a nurse) will not see this one if I can help it! I think the wound healed very well so good job to everyone involved. I have a ton of first aid training thanks to the Navy and many, many classes since. However, no class can teach you how to stay calm and focused. The young man was very fortunate he had professionals available to tend to him that did not panic. If they did, they hid it well. Great tips at the end also. When I said a few months ago after the Annapolis boat show that you guys needed to get back to making videos, you really out did yourselves with this one! It must of taken a long time to put together so thank you for all your hard work. Well done and happy it turned out well for everyone.
Paul & Linda
S/V The Friendly Confines
You have a brilliant story telling talent and slick editing skills. I ❤ this video!!!!!!!
We had a good cast and crew to make it extra extra 😉😉😘
Retold beautifully!! You amaze me, my friend!!! So thankful we all have this to look back on…and beyond thankful for our sailing family!!! ♥️⛵️♥️
We love you!!! So thankful to have you and your family to travel with.
Incredible job telling the story by everyone involved, possible sailing video of the year 2022🎉
You are too kind ☺️ thank you!!
Well done video, glad that Jeff and everyone came out for the better... having lived, freedived, and speared in the bahamas all my life. Living here permanently on our numerous boats. This story brings a few things to mind that might be of help... we always spear and freedive with buddies, no exceptions. There is always a dingy above us to take the fish immediately from the hunter... most important in this story is not having the fish anywhere near your body. The fish is always kept on the pointed end of the shaft pointed down and out as you head to the surface then brought immediately out of the water making sure to not let the fish slide down the shaft to your hand, a very special woman had this happen on the surface and her hand snd fish were ripped off in two jerks from a shark no one ever saw... I've never heard of anyone hugging a bleeding fish to their chest as a target for our friendly sharks... the dirty rash guard doesn't make a difference... the bleeding fish being hugged to someone's chest surely does... being at the end of the shaft 3 feet away from your hand and arms length away from your body does make a difference... I surely understand the feeling of loosing your favorite spear, but its better when a shark takes the fish at the end of a spear and possibly your spear at the same time while leaving your body in perfect tack to go and get another spear and continue on... we spend a lot of time purposely freediving with the Tiger, bulls, and lemon sharks around where we live here... they are amazingly wonderful gifts from mother nature. They only want the fish and definitely don't want to mess with humans in any way.
Sorry I babbled so long and wish you all a great and safe upcoming season.
Hey Geoffrey, thanks for leaving such an informative comment. We really appreciate your perspective. I (Will) am certainly inclined to agree with your experience that leaving the fish outstretched at the end of the pole is the safest location. Our rationale for holding the fish close was that it would prevent the worst of the rapid death wriggles (which I think may be more attractive to sharks than even blood) and it would prevent there from being a fish shaped silhouette in the water. Obviously those ideas didn’t pan out successfully.
I fished primarily with a Hawaiian sling last season and one of the challenges that I had is that even when I tried to keep the fish at the end of the shaft it would often just slide up to my hand unless I was swimming hard with it trailing behind me, because it’s just a thin smooth shaft with a single flopper. Nothing to hold the fish in place.
This season I’m switching to an 8’ carbon pole spear with a slip tip which will work perfectly for your suggested method.
As mentioned in the vid, totally agree with your recommendation about having a dinghy on site!
Thanks for your thoughts!
What a great video! Thank you for sharing this story. Jeff is a great guy and he was super lucky to have all of you around to help him out. You guys have an amazing buddy boating group!
We spearfished with Jeff a couple of times in the raggeds and heard about the shark attack but didn't get any details. Cool to see this video pop up and I'm really glad that you were all there to help him. I'm an amateur but have gone fishing with much more experienced spearfishers and they either have 1 stay in the dinghy while the other dives or they never get further than ~50 yards from the dinghy. I've seen them let a big snapper or hogfish go because they strayed too far.
Buddy boating is absolutely the way to go with kids. We were part of a group of 6 kid boats heading north that you passed on your way south at 2:24.
It was so cool to see your gang as we sailed past! New World actually got a great shot of us that day! Hope to see you out there this season. We’ll be back in the Bahamas in a few weeks!
Up there with the Tilly Mint rescue of Dove II crew. So lucky to have medical people with you and someone with the right antibiotics. Good lesson in spear fishing with sharks in the area.
Good job handling everything, glad it wasn't any worst. It really makes you think of the first aid supplies we carry on board and how we spear. With a baby we've been doing alone way more than we used to. Fair winds and stay safe.
The all time wisdom not to dive alone... Always have someone near to you. Always!
I remember you from when you first started. Lost track and here you are again. Excellent story telling by the group of sailors. The Ragged Islands were home to a similar group of sailors during COVID. Fond memories and lifelong bonds were formed there. Such a special remote piece of heaven. Teamwork is key for successful outcomes. Lessons learned and shared will forever bond. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber.
Excellent episode. Best wishes to everyone!
Very educational! Thank you so much for sharing this video. Lots of things to know and prepare for.
Good job Charlie for being aware and right there to get your Dad.
Pretty amazing! Terrific teamwork and an excellent example of the importance of staying calm in a stressful situation.
It was incredible. So thankful to have friends with that kind of medical knowledge!
Bill may be the coolest human on the whole planet
Thanks for the compliment. Staying calm and cool goes a long way in most situations.
Thanks for sharing. This is a very good learning experience. Happy that everybody is ok.
Excellent video! Kudos to the medical team!
Excellent video guys. Thank you!
What a story he’ll have forever!! Well told, glad he was ok.
great work! let me know if you need anything from MSOS. see you in the islands
Thanks John! This is the guy who can get you all the stuff you need for your medical kits and he does AMAZING classes!!
Great job on this video! I hate it when RUclipsr’s use doom and gloom to get views, and I don’t like gross stuff. But you guys all presented that video great and with class and informative! And most of all we’re glad everything turned out ok. Keep the videos coming!
I don't believe in coincidence but I believe in fate you all were faded to be together. This is a lesson everyone needed to have refreshed .Sadly someone did get bit. Happily everyone came together to create the perfect balance of hospital an calm fun .. This is living with nature we are visiting their home .. This is a wild place . I love travel as a flotilla of families an friends...it's a beautiful life style..an I learned so much from this ..an I found new ppl to follow.. I'm land lockd lost everything to fire..looking for future vessel..til then I watch an learn.. I'll forever be a sea sponge soaking up knowledge an expanding upon it!! I commend each of you ..the safe guard you've all implemented is to be noted as I see many lone sailor's not thinking about the creatures who patrol these waters for injured electric signals blood sent is secondary to the electric current a injured fish puts out.. it travels quite a distance.. sharks whole set-up is to read electric current running thru water.. an smelling of blood in water right with it...
Thanks for sharing your lives with us grateful for the wisdom shared ✌🏼💗😊⛵
If I had a dollar for every time I saw the boating community come together and go above and beyond I would be a rich man. Great video great story great ending.
Great story and video, thank you
You made it out with a cool story and the scars to prove it. The only sharks that worry me are oceanic white tips.
Great video guys. Love how all involved were so calm cool and collect. That would not be our family. I’m going to make all my immediate family members view the video and take notes. Also, do you think you paramedic friends could put together a list of items for a concise First Aid Kids. Not the crap bought in stores. You were talking about Antibiotic IV is that something that could be purchased OTC? Again, ty. We are going to be heading out on our first crossing this summer. Ciao!
Hey Carlos - here is the response from Natalie:
You can not get IV antibiotics OTC in the US. Your doc can write you prescriptions for oral antibiotics. For restocking this season, I went to my old friend/coworker John Heiser. He lives in SE Florida but travels all over to do amazing classes. You may have seen him on La Vagabond "Rescued with THIS!?" (around 15:42). He can hook you up with all kinds of meds, teach you how to use them and when you panic and forget everything in the moment he can also hook you up with medical direction for what to do. He can also email you a list of what he recommends you need, depending on your location (how remote you are). I hope this helps! Lmk if you have any other questions!
Natalie
Here is the website link: www.msos.org.uk/
@@Mondaynever Hello, Natalie, thank you so much for responding so quickly. We live in Ft Lauderdale. Just checked out the MSOS website and it’s incredible. Definitely will signup for classes and kit.
Great scar. Scar should be your new nickname.😅
Sharks are also attracted by the vibration in the water from the dying fish, and they can feel that from a long way off.
Cheers guys !
Rad adulting ❤
I'm to old now but 50 years ago I worked on a Prawn Trawler ,, I've seen many times the 3 ft Black Tipped reef sharks , in one bite take a piece out of the net you could put your head through ,, scary,, no way I would get in the water with them,
I stopped watching y'all a long time ago because I thought you were retired. I had no idea I was back on the water.
Healed up nice. Great story telling. Question though. Did you lose the fish or was the fish being fillet the special fish?
The fish was long gone. Jeff threw the fish and the spear at the shark fairly early on. A few days later, the gang was able to go back to the spot and retrieve Jeff’s spear. So that was another bright point of the story!
Crazy!!
This, in my opinion, is a direct result of humans and the Bahamas, there is more tours from the Bahamas for shark dives where they bait and feed them that reef and black tips do not fear humans and also see them as a food source. I never fish there anymore, I prefer to go south to Turks or further south and have zero issues. I also use a spear with a tether not a tri prong so when I shoot I swim back with the fish 10' away on the tether. Cool story though and medical is so important for any blue water sailing as you can be hours or even days from medical help
Further north in the Bahamas I can definitely see tourism having a direct effect on shark behavior, but I’d be pretty surprised if that was the case in the Raggeds. There are very few cruising boats and zero tour boats. However, Bahamian commercial fishermen do use the Raggeds as a stop over while fishing the banks and I imagine that they attract a fair few sharks while cleaning their catches. I suppose either way it creates an association between humans and food, but given how remote the southern Bahamas are I can’t imagine too many places on earth (at least in the tropics) that would not have a similar dynamic.
-Will
Well, done4!
Just thought of a new nickname. Shark Bait 🤔😁 How cool is that?😁👍🏽😁
Thank God it wasn't a bull
Bull Sharks are suspected of being the sharks behind the attacks that fueled the Jaws movie. Black tips on the other hand are responsible for the majority of shark attacks in New Smyrna Beach FL, the shark attack capital of the USA (30 miles from where I live).
Thank you for that information! I did not know that. I guess blacktips are more dangerous that we thought even after this experience.
@@Mondaynever I guess the bright side of a black tip bite is they're mouths are small and can't take an entire limb the way a Bull shark can. (Okay, that's still not a bright side.) I've been spear fishing along side black tips along the FL coast for 20 years so this video kind of surprised me. Just goes to show that we shouldn't let our guard down with any of them.
Sharks can smell blood a mile away .... we would throw old fish off dock and watch a shark feeding frenzy with sharks coming from miles away ... and thrashing oh my scary ...
It's a flesh wound, it's not even bleeding. A field wrap would have been appropriate.
I'd suggest Free Range Sailing as a resource for fishing with sharks (or crocs, different video). Aussie Professional Fisherman on how to avoid bites ruclips.net/video/PP8SVeSZKVg/видео.html
A bull shark killed a woman snorkeling with a guided group off a cruise ship in the Bahamas! They kill ! That is what everyone in Australia says about them and these people surrounded by ocean know all about the behavior of sharks! This couple never should have been in the water with them. He is very lucky!
I think you mean they “can kill”. Like bears can kill. We’ve been in the water with 100’s of sharks and have never had one care about us unless we are carrying their food back to the dinghy. Of course they can kill. They’re apex predators of the ocean. Most shark attacks are mistaken identity…sharks are attracted to vibration/splashing. I was with Jeff when this happened. This shark wouldn’t have given him the time of day had he not been carrying a free snack that was high on the shark menu. It’s important to have a healthy fear of sharks. Respect them. But theres no reason to be afraid of them if you understand and their behaviors.
When I read “shark attack” I want footage of someone being eaten like Quint.
Shark click bait!!
classic clickbait ........... a handful of sutures is hardly surgery
That's the key to spear fishing. You have to have a buddy in the water and one in the dingy. But if gonna spear alone you have to have a buddy in a dingy close. Those sharks are after that bloody fish. They want that fish! You can't outswim or fight them off period! He could have lost his life so easily, he was very lucky. And knowing exactly how to do stitches. You always need morphine in a syringe ready to go. Always! And pill form oxycodone, preferably instant release form, pure oxycodone. Brand name Roxycodone. He was lucky because what if he had lost a hand or any limb or even if the bite had been larger and deeper. I keep a huge paramedic size rolling carry bag that when full is around 50 lbs. Has huge size gauze packs to small, every type of liquid skin anticipate, creams, ace bandages, various Pill form as well as IV pain killers. Leg and arm tarnicats to stop blood loss. So many other things. It's packed slam full. Glad to hear you sto ked up your kit but try to gather more. I have a niece that works at the fir department here in Tennessee 🇺🇸 and she was able to purchase me one. So if you or anyone you know has a Contact networks for the fire department or somewhere like that they can probably hook you up with a proper medical bag. So glad to hear you're able to stick him up and the story ended good when could have been so much worse. Always buddy spear and buddy boat. God bless