Diving with Yellowfin Tuna in Malta (my first underwater video)

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Hi,

Here is my first video underwater. I used a Gopro Hero2 with the BlurFix flat port and the UV lens. Natural Light. Sorry if it's a bit too long, I have tried to fit the music.

[video=youtube;Qrvzn3WTerE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrvzn3WTerE&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[Mike]

Damn, I thought I'd seen it all, until this video!

Can you post the details of how that dive works? It looks like the tuna are captured in a net.

 

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They capture the Tuna off the coast of Malta with a big net in circle. As the Tuna are affraid of the net, they follow the net until they are stuck in the middle. Then they put the tuna in this place that look like a big cup, 50m wide by 40m deep. As they are still affraid they turn around all day long. They grow here up to 7 years were they reach more than 100Kg (They can leave 20 years and weight 400Kg). Then the bad thing happens, they are mainly sold in Japan...

 

[Mike]

So that's kind of a Tuna farm then. I didn't realized they caught them and keep them around for a long time, I thought it was a live catch out in the ocean or something that they took you to.

 

[Interceptor121]

Those are tuna farms but am not sure that the tuna are captured and moved around. I think they are young tunas that breed in captivity whilst being fed