Dive Team Hunt For Living Dinosaur Thought To Be Extinct | Dinofish | Real Wild

In 1938, a living, prehistoric relic was discovered. A trawler docked in East London, South Africa with the usual catch of shark, ray, and ratfish but found something unusual. A huge purple fish that seemed to have limb-like appendages instead of fins. The discovery of the coelacanth caused a sensation in the scientific world because it is the only living member of a very old group of fish, the Actinistians. A sole survivor of a line of fish believed to be extinct.
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[@makoyoverfelt3320]

great doc, but a little over-dramatized for my taste to be honest

[@rexredmonwalkingintheword9892]

Yeah I thought it was really funny how the one part she's like looking through the pile of fish and then they do the camera like it's in the pile of fish and she reaches in and grabs it and then in the very next scene they're talking about how the fish was over 5 ft long and like 140 lb or something and I just laughed because the very seen before she's grabbing it with one hand

[@thevillageblacksmith8550]

I got a better point. The under water comms check is a farce they clearly have mouth pieces that would not facilitate talking. I had this on for my nephew who is 9 to entertain him while I did some cleaning and he was the one to point it out. Lol

[@christinamae]

@@thevillageblacksmith8550 its probably to make it more entertaining rather than silence. An overlay of what they were most likely signaling to each other. I know the one guy is using a rebreather which is more than I can afford. Also this is very dangerous diving at these depths and only have a few minutes to spend down there. They likely are unable to dive again until the following day. Nitrogen builds up in your system even inside your bones and is slow to get rid of without extended decompression times. Again, this can literally kill you

[@thevillageblacksmith8550]

@@christinamae my nephew when I told him something similar he said they should just tell us what they were thinking instead of instead pretending they were talking when they can't. It's dumb and makes me not really want to watch more.

[@christinamae]

@@thevillageblacksmith8550 then don't watch more 🤷 expedition unknown does the exact same thing so dont watch that either

[@--cxssiedits--9694]

Life finds a way. Great footage. Truly a wonderful moment.

[@shainemaine1268]

Does everything have to be dramatized?

[@rexredmonwalkingintheword9892]

I've always said the scariest part about diving is the damn music

[@NormanF62]

Professor JLB Smith didn’t know it lived close to home! The coelacanth is an extraordinary fish, a living example of a Lazarus taxon. They do occur in nature and our presumption about supposedly extinct species is upended by our ignorance about them. To see it alive takes one’s breath away, considering that 90% of the life on earth that’s ever lived is extinct. Our coelacanth is a born, true survivor.

[@kenyongray2615]

It is too bad we can't ask them how they survived all those millions of years when everyone thought they were extinct. The coelacanth has always fascinated me since I was a small boy many many years ago.

[@stefdearlife]

the same for me. it has somewhat mistique. i have done my 2nd grade of scuba. and one day who will know...

[@usamommy4446]

Wonderful documentary and truly amazing to see such a creature up close. Cheers 🥂 you are awesome! I also have to say though,,, what's with everyone wearing wetsuits and then there's the one man in shorts and a button up 😁

[@808bigisland]

Great expedition. Thank you from a fellow freediver.

[@annanardo2358]

Creature ?? It's a cealacanth, amazing discovery !!!

[@angeleusebio9451]

more of nice doc.REAL WILD THANKS

[@indyreno2933]

African Coelacanth Classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Sarcopterygii Subclass: Actinista Superorder: Coelacanthomorpha Order: Coelacanthiformes Suborder: Latimerioidei Infraorder: Latimeriales Superfamily: Latimerioidea Family: Latimeriidae Subfamily: Latimeriinae Genus: Latimeria Species: L. chalumnae

[@puliliar7692]

Thanks!

[@markwhelan9887]

Fantastic doco I mean just how old these fish are is a testament to to their strategy of survival. Amazing fish just amazing. Thank you for this.👍💯♥😉🇦🇺

[@rommelorbigo6857]

Absolutely thrilling!

[@sayaseorangnelayan3883]

The best documentaries 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Rencana yang terbaik 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@patricia1333]

I’m stunned no one has commented on the dude diving in a *sweatshirt and shorts*! 😅

[@sharonshea3261]

I wondered about that!

[@jonholen5112]

The depht is fake. . . .

[@stevegartman113]

They all had mouthpieces for breathing, and no one could even talk or communicate. They added fake voices. It was too fake for me. I don’t think they were diving as deep as he said either.

[@Shady-Mali]

one of the best documentaries i've ever watched in my life.., Enjoyed every single moment of it.. Really great work.

[@sudokode]

Nice voiceover work for the dive scenes. There's no way they're talking through those masks and if they were, they'd sound hilarious since they're probably using a helium gas mixture for deep dives. Guess the producer didn't like the radio silence 🤷

[@stevegartman113]

I said the same thing, also the dialogue was unrealistic. During a real dive speech is limited, and very specific to the dive. Voiceover was stupid.

[@sharonshea3261]

Fantastic. Just fantastic.

[@annanardo2358]

I knew it !! The Real aca th is the only dino fish to be discovered yet !!😍😍😍

[@princecharlo9623]

442nd viewer. More than worth watching!!!!

[@tonysargent3852]

Only thing that could have saved this was finding Jimmy Hoffa in a 50 gal. drum at the bottom.

[@bluedevilg3542]

Beautiful wonder how many are out there

[@Gue55576]

Beautifully made, but the cinematic reconstruction is in my opinion for this discovery, taking away from the brilliant fact that this is an amazing find! it is presented the wrong way I think. Too much cinematic grandeurs when a nice matter of fact video with actual interviews with the people involved without the unnecessary acting and a more natural presentation of things would’ve been nicer. I just wanted facts, not a movie about them finding this specimen. It was tough watching this one. Keep it simple and matter of fact! Don’t turn into Hollywood please!

[@antoniocolacino5643]

WOW! WOW! WOW! Wonderful!

[@tklube308]

Great video. Must be the 3rd time I've watched it.

[@williammadray7818]

Probably the most thrilling documentary ever; some of the dive footage, I was on the edge of my seat.

[@colinowenuk]

Great vid, shame about the sound...What price a good sound engineer?

[@LethalAnimals1]

Such an amazing Wildlife channel Ever!

[@yangdong8879]

Thanks RealWild

[@anthonypalo8191]

Nature be like: Human, meet your Ancestor.

[@DocHolliday1851]

Such a beautiful fish. I hope they continue on living.

[@jadeddragon4254]

Well they are supposed to evolve…remember ? Even though they haven’t for millions of years

[@DocHolliday1851]

@@jadeddragon4254 I meant I hope they don't go extinct. We've already lost so many species in modern times.

[@metalmamasue3680]

I remember when they first found it, the story & footage was everywhere. Such a cool find, I just wonder how many more species of fish & wildlife is yet to be found in the depths of the ocean. We know more about the moon than we do the deepest parts of the ocean. 🤔

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Wasn't that back in the late 80s?

[@PLnbdy]

None... Everything ELSE is exactly how we think it is... Srsly.,.

[@PLnbdy]

​@@88_TROUBLE_88 close... '38

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@PLnbdy Oh shit! Ok, well; I was only off by a few (read: several) decades.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@kevinlengkoan8534]

What, back in 1938? You must be pretty old by now..

[@kevinlengkoan8534]

Nice voice over. There's no way the divers could radio talk while they have oxygen in their mouth.

[@redarmy1012]

👍 super.

[@user-nu1fh4qt4w]

Malcolm was right... "Life found a way" 🥰

[@bodern7089]

43:45 your welcome lol

[@paulsimeone2708]

If it’s that deep why is he wearing shorts ? That my question, it’s freezing down there

[@christinamae]

It's possible he is just experienced and able to tolerate the temps since they only have a few minutes. Idk tho id be wearing a dry suit but I get cold easily

[@billcampbell7397]

I caught one of these fish in a well just outside Salmon Arm British Columbia. This happened about 60 years ago. There is a well behind an old church south of Silver Creek. If you are interested I could give you directions exactly where the well is. Only thing is the one I caught was only 6 inches long. I did put it back in the well.

[@markhoffman4587]

This is a saltwater fish

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

tl;dr - pics or it didn't happen.. Yeah, I dont believe that you caught a deep sea reclusive fish that is so difficult to detect they made a whole documentary about how they thought it was long-extinct due to the highly improbable chance of ever seeing one? Even for experts, it's extremely elusive and yet you aim to convince us that you have a well full of them shits just chillin behind some church in BFE? Bitch, please. Save that horseshit for someone who is wealthy in gullibility and naivety cuz that's too rich for my blood and I ain't buying it.. Stool bory, cro. But nice try and I encourage you to keep working on it because with tenacity, practice and dedication it's possible to perfect anything.. Except convincing me to accept your horseshit for fact, of course. So, _almost_ anything.

[@English_MoFo]

@@markhoffman4587you found a Gobie

[@juliuswatts4773]

It's so much more down there 👍🏾

[@svenfredriksson9213]

In 2017 I visited Richards Bay SA and while I stayed with Oom Frickie, he caught one of these from his ski boat off the Moz Channel. Tante Frannie made it into lekker fishcakes as it was to tough to fillet and the dogs liked the legfins. I can ask her for the recipe if anyone interested.

[@gregwoolley6105]

You've missed the most important parts. Research Credo Mutwa and his explanation as to why it's only found here and why the water is cold at depth.

[@anthonydoyle7370]

This is such a fine collection of ads. Such a shame that they are interspersed by a terrific documentary.

[@williammadray7818]

Ironically; there's probably no telling what gets found on the ocean floor.

[@juliuswatts4773]

Wow

[@joshandrei1098]

Eyyy I'm early 😁

[@LabVectors]

I like how they pretended the divers were talking to each other, even to the point of adding fake echo and static. smh

[@mikefisher4834]

I watched this when it premiered and quite a few times after that I just never seen it on KZbin until now

[@palgrnbeck3737]

Only worth seeing the last 6 minutes, but they are good!

[@scubacro5758]

What is water temperature on 115m ? One guy is diving in shirt and swim trunks...

[@Jakelol1980]

God i hate the fake radio chatter when they dive 🤦‍♂️

[@joemilbourne3151]

While not knowing the type, Charles Darwin predicted in the 1800's that there would come a day when there would be a "Living Fossil" found ..... an amazing prediction from the greatest naturalist ever !!

[@stevegartman113]

I don’t think the communications between divers sounds right. Must have been added during edit. They all had mouth breathers in, they couldn’t speak. Also he said there was very little food but the whole time there were fish of all sizes swimming around, come on! Hahahaha

[@cameronbaggett2248]

Why is it so dramatic haha

[@mikefisher4834]

On their second dive I seen the outline of a coelacanth and I’m Steve Urkel blind💯💀😂

[@Multiplexation]

It's a bunch of amateur dramatization. If you got clickbaited and just want content, skip to 43:26.

[@blyt5046]

Point of no return😮 43:14

[@craigleibbrand7761]

In my next life I want to be this fish.

[@eddywatson3904]

Could do without the dramatic background music and the exaugurated sound effects.

[@billcampbell7397]

We did verify the fish with the picture in the encyclopedia britannica.

[@Cyclegladiator]

I guess they’ve never heard of ROVs. Shame those three divers were claimed, but seriously…. ROVs! 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@annanardo2358]

They are a deep depth fish that don't survive when brought to the surface... Unfortunately .😫😫😫 therefore, you won't see a real scanty in any aquarium. 🙄

[@annanardo2358]

Scanty ?? I didn't say canty, I said CEALACANTH

[@barbaraseymour3437]

Dynamite fishing - illegal. I hope they don’t find anything. As soon as humans interfere……. Others will probably disagree but I could do without the dramatic distracting music. The search is dramatic enough.. Wonderful.

[@richardwaugh2049]

The Coelacanth has never been a dinosaur. Lying doesn't help your job description.

[@malawidick]

Dynamite fishing should be outlawed

[@omarhuggins8633]

I think there’s a lot more creatures to be discovered in the sea. Looking in the fact it’s 70 percent of earth I think theres a lot more places in the deep we know little or probably nothing about.

[@Jes9119]

There are also sections of the ocean that are just voids of life. Where nothing lives. Most creatures tend to hang around the coasts or continental shelves or sources of volcanic activity. If the oceans were drained, they would easily resemble the Sahara.

[@ArshadAli-ov8fp]

The documentaries standard has fallen so low in recent years. They can't make documentaries now, like they used to do in the 80s and 90s. Looking into nature series by George page in 80s and 90s, you will find a big difference in quality, research and narration.

[@6980869]

George is my fav narrator voice of all time!

[@ArshadAli-ov8fp]

@@6980869 yeah along with keith david, David Attenborough.

[@carlolago14]

the living prehistoric fish is coelacanth

[@noninoni9962]

Nat Geo is king for fake underwater conversations between divers, to the point whenever I see the video is made by them, I usually skip the videos... I was hoping to at least see the fish.

[@horacehhelmsley9375]

Like the music from Tron: Legacy (2005) Voice over track is horrible

[@English_MoFo]

44:43 you’re welcome

[@BroccoliHead7]

enough with the dramatic music bro

[@toryritter5273]

At about ten minutes in, the background music is a blatant rip-off of The Grid from daft punk’s tron score 😂

[@ragecharacter4743]

This is not a horror movie so why make it this way???

[@terischiech]

43:40

[@noninoni9962]

The fake underwater conversations between divers is done so badly it's ridiculous... They would do better to edit in, over the visuals, with documentary style description of what they are doing and why vs. expositioning by pretending to talk to each other underwater.

[@stuartnicholson8298]

How can it be a missing link when it's there????? I call BS

[@janicewolk6492]

One guy isn't wearing a wet suit.

[@trickedouttech321]

Fake drama over nothing, grrr what happen to real nature shoes that just show the real wild, not all this fake drama that is not true.

[@melindamartin9765]

"Nature shoes"??? I need a pair 😅😅🙄

[@donnieharness2]

those outboards doesn't sound like cam'd out big block v8s just like no ones saying we are running out of time guys leave that garbage sound effects out

[@ernestimken6969]

They should look at the Loch Ness in Scotland. That's where they'll find them, but no one scuba dives there, because they don't want them found. It would mean some dinosaurs are not extinct.

[@tonysargent3852]

Over produced like a porno with a plot🤦

[@de-bodgery]

You have to ask the question! WHAT ELSE is "evolution science" FLAT WRONG about???!!! You can observe macro-evolution aka adaptation, but that's about it. Probably the rest is BS.

[@quentinbabin2109]

Fish aint Dinosaur, what a dumb title ...

[@matthewmcnamee7263]

Mate that is really boring .Now I can 1unite understand wanting to look at a fish but all that hanging out in cold wet caves just for a quick glimpse of some jumped up want to be amphibian.well I know what I got a life Gilead.

[@mariemitchell3898]

Such ignorance 😒

[@r1madbrit]

The overly dramatic dun dun dun danger from a horror film is pathetic. Just give us the facts and spare the exaggerated drama.

[@annanardo2358]

Those fishermen should NOT BE ALLOWED TO FISH IN THAT ARWA, AND THE DYNOMITE HAS TO GO .👹😈😈😈👿👿👹👹👺👺 Fishermen can do a lot of damage to those Cealacanth.

[@gracethroughchrist4949]

It's astounding how easily people will believe in evolution when it's been disproven over and over and over.

[@philipcallicoat3147]

the fish in question was first discovered at a fish market by an educated naturalist in the 1930's... Pretty cool... Just more reinforcement to the fact that mankind knows very little about the awesomeness of God's Creation....

[@Muttinchopsforeverandalways]

It would be awesome if god was real and not just some pagan religion

[@mariemitchell3898]

Read your Bibles people and get educated with truth!!

[@scubacro5758]

What does bible have to do with this??

[@mariemitchell3898]

Bible teaches creation, evolution is false. Don't be decieved

[@jandrews6254]

Not a dinosaur!

[@MrDuffy81]

They’re looking for this little fish and they are acting like it’s the Loch Ness monster.

[@melindamartin9765]

Considering they thought it was extinct millions of years ago, it kind of is

[@jadeddragon4254]

Evolution 😂👍 yup ok 👍

[@LabVectors]

It's direct evidence of evolution.

[@aadi9534]

They should let scientists make documentaries, not drama directors. Footage is spectacular but the dialogues are absolutely dumb

[@marilynbarker8255]

Wow