1 hour dive in Lake Tanganyika - Chimba, Zambia

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This was the last dive I took in Lake Tanganyika on 18th December 2013, on the last day of a 6 weeks stay, based in Ndole Bay. "Magical" is a feeble word to describe how I still feel about it.
After some time in the shallows I decided to go deeper, but the deeper I got the more desolate it seemed. Still, something told me to continue following that seemingly barren lake floor that was slowly getting deeper. I then saw a couple of Emperor's.
They were very nervous when they saw me and I was wondering why. That camera caught the reason much before than I noticed it: they had a large school of young free swimming fry.
No one knows for sure what happens after the fry go their own way, I think, after 9 months.
The parents don't eat through this whole period. Their digestive systems even desappear somewhere along the way. Some people say they die, some say that they are able to recover their digestive systems.

[@D.Uwins777-music]

That is awesome. Really great video. Love Tangayikan cichlids...and I saw a bunch of my favourites!

[@user-leon1992]

非常棒，我不希望我的孩子未来只能在网络上才能看到这些美丽的生物，欣赏和保护都很重要！ love from china.

[@patricksonga4124]

Very beautiful

[@evanscott7652]

Oh my god that is truly awe inspiring. Thisis one of the most diverse habitats on Earth, I seriously hope humans don't destroy it. I am going to go there before I die, I will make sure of it.

[@LightSearch]

Please don't forget what you wrote here.

[@hampeblixt7677]

"One of the most diverse habitats on earth"... Bro It's litterally nothing but algae and Chiclids. While I dont disagree with you that we need to preserve places like this, but I think you should blame no one but yourself for the destruction of the planet. you probably support it everytime you go to the supermarket.

[@hampeblixt7677]

@@LightSearch I mean you ride airboats for entertainment, you both disturb the enviroment and release co2 gas. You live in a bubble.

[@hampeblixt7677]

@Nite & Day And that makes it the most diverse habitat? So far we named 4 living things lol.

[@hampeblixt7677]

@Tim was your commemt with or against me?

[@paulchippington7498]

stunning video thank you for posting so relaxing.

[@GUYANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

I bet that was one of the fastest hour of your life....watching this made time fly for me

[@herun2076]

¡¡¡Hermoso realmente, sobre todo para aquellos que nos apasionan los cíclidos del Tanganika ... gracias por compartirlo!!!

[@LightSearch]

Herun Al mirar este video ahora, es dificil creer que ese lugar existe.

[@lincolnroad3]

Beautiful. I can just leave that playing in the background

[@LightSearch]

I do that sometimes. It's great before going to sleep.

[@lorenzomata9389]

it's almost like an artistic story to your videos, I have this as one of my newest playlist...the music also helps with concentration!

[@stevendrysdale1067]

Beautiful. Thanks for posting this. I plan to dive Lake Tanganyika at some point in the next few years. This was a great teaser.

[@LightSearch]

whatever scarifice you need to make to go there, it will be worth it.

[@LightSearch]

Sarpa salpa ?

[@Rocky_Intertidal]

Thanks for the video. That pugnacious male defending his nest on top of that rock at the beginning of the video is funny. I think it is a male Cyathopharynx furcifer or foai . I have been in to african cichlid aquariums for many years and have always wanted to take a dive in Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi.

[@darlingtontonderaitanganyi8476]

lovely

[@gillesduplessis]

Thanks Edouardo. With 30°C today, it's very a great pleasure to dive with you :) I have seen some very nice pictures to make a background for my n.multifasciatus tank ...

[@LightSearch]

Thanks Gilles! Having this dive to finish my 6 week stay there, made it really really tough to leave the place. Those 6 weeks were so full, that it felt like a year.

[@salih3752]

Nice video thanks

[@LightSearch]

Thanks.

[@lincolnroad3]

Beautiful, dream dive 👍🏻

[@LightSearch]

It was the last dive before leaving Lake Tanganyika, after a 2 months stay.

[@minhojeon788]

as a fish keeper , your video is very educational for me, i wondered how lake look like

[@LightSearch]

Thanks. I went there twice and the lake really changes a lot in a short period of timr.

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

Relaxing beautiful put me to sleep last night

[@LightSearch]

COOPER'S CICHILDS My videos should be sold in drugstores as a non side effect valium :)

[@Stewart638]

Amazing amount of square blocks in that lake almost all ninety degree angles. Ancient sites.

[@neothauma]

Сны о танганьике. Очень порадовало видео!

[@LightSearch]

Tanganyika Collection spacibo!

[@kimpacolet5603]

The scene at 2:55: has the cichlid built a nest on top of the rock? Looks like he is protecting his territorium pretty good. That is a beautiful act of animal behaviour caught on film

[@LightSearch]

Kim Pacolet Yes, it's the nest of a Cyathopharynx. He carried some sand to the top of the rock and created a small bower.

[@adamkaczka2817]

Amazing :) I invite you to watch mu tanganyika tank!

[@muhammadx656]

Devastated lake

[@victorharris1971]

Sad! 😢

[@sandorivanyi]

I want to build an new big tank in this year: 350 x 120x 90 cm ( with Malawi and Tanganika cichlids and plecos. ) ( thickness of window: 22 mm)

[@Happy_Free_Time]

Moving to Kigoma in Tanzania (northern part of the lake), any guidance on the crocodile situation in the lake? Am hoping to make snorkeling or diving there a weekly activity if all works out.

[@LightSearch]

Out of the water before 9:00 and after 16:00

[@Happy_Free_Time]

Been in the Kigoma region for a year now and it doesn't seem like there are crocodiles in this area (touch wood). Have been enjoying some really nice snorkeling sessions and hoping to go for a proper dive this weekend. Thanks for the relaxing video!

[@coolslc]

We’ve pretty much destroyed the ocean reefs, I hope the African Great Lakes remain healthy...

[@LightSearch]

coolslc Just wait for the last chapter of Tales of Shells and Dust :)

[@eve7568]

can somebody please tell me the name of the bug black whit blueish scales fish at 18:16 ... ?????

[@mardanils]

+Polaris Targaryen It's a Cyathopharynx Foae.

[@eve7568]

+mardanils thank you! :)

[@indoinsects313_win5]

ARE THERE OTHER FISHES IN THE LAKE THEN CICHLIDS?

[@LightSearch]

+IndoInsects 313_Win : Yes there are, big and small. Kapenta, nile perch and many others.

[@tiagorocha1493]

Lindo alfredo

[@LightSearch]

Boas Tiago. Vê se me adicionas no facebook actual.

[@tiagorocha1493]

@@LightSearch nao o encontro. Fica aqui o meu: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009418499012 Manda-me pedido

[@tiagorocha1493]

@@LightSearch conseguiste encontrar?

[@LightSearch]

@@tiagorocha1493 Não consigo no tablet porque o link abre no browser e não na app e eu esqueci-me da minha pass do facebook :) Depois tento no pc.

[@tiagorocha1493]

@@LightSearch OK amigo não te esqueças

[@johhnyonthespot4694]

What is the fish at the 4 min mark above the rock

[@LightSearch]

I believe it's a Cyathopharynx furcifer

[@gonamission2748]

LightSearch3D Nice about to say you stole this music from battle of the shells! then realised its you LOL. great work as usual my friend!

[@LightSearch]

G on a mission LOL! It's great that you recognized the music :)

[@lesterclaypool1]

JohhnyOnThe Spot fuercifer check the spelling autofarnics furicer from memory or that sound familiar or cycothropharnics furcifer

[@Spoonrrr]

35:22 why dont some countries sells them? Are they the worlds largest cichilds?

[@LightSearch]

Who has tanks big enough for them? Also, these fish are built for speed.

[@adamroberts3354]

Music?

[@LightSearch]

It's my own music inspired on a few classical pieces.

[@pizpor1893]

Anybody got an ID at 19:32

[@LightSearch]

Looks like a Cyathopharynx foai

[@derschwimmendeHaiausHessen]

So wenig Fische, wo sind sie? Keine Frontosa? 🐟🐠🐳🙄

[@THAOpeacockcichlids]

This tank is over stocked

[@LightSearch]

I wish!

[@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638]

Lástima que la atención es siempre para los peces, ( que también), pero nadie graba videos del bentos, ( briozoos, moluscos, crustáceos, gusanos, algas, fanerógamas, etc...)😢😢

[@LightSearch]

@@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638 Todos os seres que enunciou têm pouco interesse para mim e entendo que isso possa causar alguma frustração. No entanto, se o seu interesse por eles for realmente importante, tenho a certeza que irá encontrar forma de os ir lá ver ao vivo, tal como eu fui. Eu acabei recusando financiamento externo para este projecto precisamente porque era demasiado importante para mim ter liberdade de me focar no que me interessava: as histórias que estes peixes têm para contar.

[@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638]

@@LightSearch Ten en cuenta que esos mares interiores,( los grandes lagos de África), están dando resultados biológicos por evolución convergente, con los del océano, y son lo que son gracias a que explotan un nicho ecológico diferente, que a veces nos puede parecer trivial o humilde pero que para ellos es crucial.... El hecho de que no sean espectaculares las formaciones de algas en mosaico de los arrecifes del Tanganika, no quita importancia para la tremenda especiación que está teniendo lugar en los últimos cinco millones de años.. ¡El resultado espectacular !

[@LightSearch]

@@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638 Apercebi-me de 2 coisas importantes neste projecto: estamos a meio de uma extinção em massa em velocidade acelerada e é IMPOSSÍVEL pará-la. Desde que eu nasci, o planeta perdeu 70% dos vertebrados. Há mais galinhas do que aves em liberdade. A energia renovável não substitui combustíveis fósseis, é adicionada a eles e permite-nos crescer e destruir mais rápido o planeta. A evolução converge no mar nos grandes lagos, leva-me a pensar na hipótese de que o processo de colapso também seja inevitável, assim que uma espécie conquiste todas as externalidades., tal como nós o fizemos.

[@ShowemRight]

Beautiful Lake, now why on earth would the leadership of the nations that utilize this Lake give permission to an Australian Company to drill for oil on this lake? This company couldn't even get permission from their own nation to drill on their own lakes. WAKE UP AFRICA and stop selling out your resources for some pocket change. Now lets say there was an oil spill on this lake similar to the spill of the BP SPILL in the gulf in America a few years back, will the leadership in Africa tell the company to clean up the spill and compensate the people? of course not , africans there have no leverage to make the white man do anything, they will just pack up and run back to AUSSIE, while millions upon millions of africans will be forced to seek water and food else where, but don't worry , the african leadership that allowed for this will still have their Mercedes Benze and Swiss Bank account.

[@LightSearch]

At this point, it's not a question if it will happen or not, but when.

[@65FullMoon83]

That's a good point, and no truer words have ever been spoken. Just a quick review of history is ample testimony of this truth. It appears as if there is a greater unfolding of truth, and deception in the world today. A revelation, or narrative that things are far from ideal & quite possibly a discovery that conditions are very remote from being what they seem. A restless uneasiness that can be sensed, but is often just out of the reach of clear conscious definition or explanation, though it's right there in plain sight.

[@proudkafir926]

White man? There are more Chinese companies trying to lock up African resources now than the rest of the world combined. Yes, the history of colonialism in Africa is white on black but to make this about white on black now simply distracts from the objective. Resources like Lake Tanganyika need to be national preserves. Stop distracting from it with your race baiting bullshit.

[@MaximHawaii]

I'm sure the local populations will happily starve and have almost no regional economy to satisfy environmentalists in California.

[@Jadae]

@@proudkafir926 Correct. China has been going hardcore for African and Middle Eastern resources. On one hand, Africa does need to modernize, and its needs businesses. On the other hand, the lack of order in governments, the lack of jobs, and the lack of protections is very scary.

[@GUYANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

I bet that was one of the fastest hour of your life....watching this made time fly for me

[@LightSearch]

Yes it was. Everybody had finished their dives 20 minutes before me. During the 6 weeks that I stayed there, there was not a single person who came there to see the cichlids.

[@GUYANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

thats crazy some poeple just see them as fish...are u diver certified? do u have to be to dive in the lake ?

[@LightSearch]

I did the diving course almost ten years ago and it's something I can't say I enjoy. It's to much equipment and in the case of lake Tanganyika, I was always afraid a croc or hippo may have been nearby (and I was diving alone, 95% of the times). At Ndole Bay you can take the course.

[@GUYANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

o i c lol that would be crazy to see a hippo or croc