Dive guide Scares Puffer Fish to Get it to Blow Up
Torben Lonne
Torben traveled to South East Asia for scuba diving and never really stopped his search for new adventures. His affinity for gear that works and his...
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Dive guide Scares Puffer Fish to Get it to Blow Up
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What an ignorant idiot. When you are diving, you are a guest in their part of the world. Behave like one!
I even saw an ad from a documentary film maker that features this ‘handling’ of a puffer fish. I hope these guys (escapi.com) have learned since then.
Take only pictures, leave only bubbles!
Yes, thank you all for posting the comments! I had a rescued pufferfish for 16 years and I learned a lot from it. It was healthy until the last two days, and from what looked like skin cancer. There wasn’t anything I could do and it was a tragic event for me. It was estimating about 17-18 years old when it passed away. It came to me wanting to die by my side. I was really touched by the privilege to be able to take care of it. Pufferfish belong in the ocean.
It was intelligent, capable of loving, and could learn from humans. Such as mimic kissing, saying hi, and it knew its name. It enjoyed communicating with us through different means. It would blew up on its own when we were least expecting about once or twice a year, and deflate without a problem. We always stayed away during that time to avoided scaring it. My pufferfish had the intelligence of a cat.
I am appalled by the lack of knowledge and people kept showing pufferfish blowing up. One is on youtube showing a pufferfish being fed carrots. These are animal abuse behaviors and should not be ignored. After seeing this, I found an astounding number of videos people posted. It’s evil that causes some people to think of ways to torture animals for sport. It’s ignorance that causes some people to like the video postings, and it’s arrogance that causes some people after being confronting with the truth and still justifying the behavior. We are not better or superior; we have a responsibility to protect animals and be responsible for our environment.
I love Reading about the awareness that you all have taken care of these wonderful creatures of the sea–marvelous puffers,/ blowers whatever name you want to call them. yes we are all one let’s take care of them.
We are constantly seeing experienced divers “petting” and handling sealife on social media. Maybe this isn’t such a good idea since inexperienced divers are mimicking this behavior?
It just appears that the dive guide wants to show people how amazing the pufferfish is. This guide is ignorant, not necessarily, deliberately cruel.
Is this really regular behavior in those countries? How can people, who works with diving, do this. I can imagine anyone I know doing this.
Couldn’t agree more! Thanks for the article!
This (dive guide) should be sacked ,This would not happen in Maldives,Red sea etc,more common in afro Caribbean countries where standards tend to be way below the acceptable levels of underwater etiquette