Survival BULLSHARK TRAP - Australia's DEADLIEST Animals (Catch and Cook)
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00:00 are living in meanwhile attempting to track them down. I could be out here for a couple hours,
00:05 a week, a month. I have no time limit that I have to track these animals down in but I reckon we'll
00:10 be able to do this one pretty quick. Let's jump in the kayak and have a look around.
00:14 Look there's a shark with its fin out of the water just up there.
00:26 I'll get my camera out. That is so cool seeing him swim across the surface like that. They're
00:32 everywhere up here. So far up here into the Australian rainforest and we're seeing bull
00:38 sharks. So besides all my filming gear this is what I've brought out here to survive with these
00:43 sharks over this next time period. We've got a few things to tie up this trap that I plan to make
00:48 later on in the day. We've also got a knife. This is just going to be used to help cut up the pieces
00:53 for the trap. Maybe fillet any fish if I catch them later on. And what I'm going to be catching
00:58 the fish with, I've brought out this little hand spear. I have to catch food out here or I'm not
01:02 going to be eating so hopefully we'll be able to spear something like a flathead, a mullet,
01:07 maybe even a cod or a mangrove jack later. I've also bought a wetsuit, snorkeling gear and an
01:13 underwater torch because later on in the day what we're going to be doing is after it gets dark
01:18 we're going to be going night snorkeling with some bull sharks in this creek system. I've never
01:22 done it before. I don't think anyone in this creek would have ever done it before so it'll be
01:28 interesting to see how they react underwater when they see a torch light and me swimming around.
01:33 I reckon we start kayaking around, get on the river, see if we can find any sharks first up
01:37 in the morning and then maybe go for a bit of a hunt and catch some breakfast with the spear.
01:41 Let's go! Episode one.
01:44 So we're currently kayaking through a remote section of the Australian rainforest and all
02:01 the way up here in these tidal zones is a safe haven for one of the deadliest and most amazing
02:07 species of sharks in the world, the bull shark. Reaching lengths of over three meters long with
02:13 one of the strongest bite forces in the animal kingdom, bull sharks are perfectly equipped to
02:18 survive in a whole bunch of different environments including fresh water. Bull sharks kidneys
02:24 recycle the salt in their body which allows them to travel all the way up into freshwater creeks
02:29 and that is where I'm going to be trying to trap one in this video. But first I need to scope out
02:34 this creek system and see if I can find any. So unfortunately the further out you go in this creek
02:50 system there's a lot of fishing pollution and you can tell it's not from people just getting snapped
02:55 off by fish, it's by them leaving rubbish around which then affects the animals. But I've also seen
03:01 a fair few bull sharks up here that do have hooks in the corner of their mouths. I've seen one that's
03:06 wrapped up in a bit of fishing line and generally these sharks will be hanging around this same area
03:11 so those are the ones that we're trying to catch and hopefully remove the fishing hook out of
03:16 because it would take so long to rust out in a creek that's pretty much freshwater.
03:29 So we just got the hand spear out we've been cruising around seeing sharks all day it's so
03:34 cool but I'm a bit hungry so I'm going to try to catch myself some food
03:38 with this hand spear out here in this saltwater creek. Let's go.
03:41 Spooking so many little fish just walking this edge. There was just a flattie here before and
03:49 a big whiting. Wouldn't even mind trying to catch a big mullet they taste so good when they're fresh.
03:54 [Music]
04:06 Big mullet sitting right there.
04:07 This is going to be my dinner if I can get a shot at him. They're such weary animals though.
04:21 Got him. Yes! Yes we got a mullet. All right so we're going to quickly kill this mullet.
04:29 He might actually be dead. Oh no. We're going to quickly kill him and then cook him up on
04:34 the riverbank. All right and that right there is going to be our dinner. These mullet when they're
04:39 fresh actually taste so good so I reckon what we're going to do now is we're going to stop
04:43 looking for sharks go find a place to make a little fire and cook up this fish. So hungry
04:49 and haven't eaten anything all day this is why I bought this spear out here. It's not like making
04:53 a primitive spear but it's still cool catching your own food. All right make a fire. So we're
04:57 just going to take the guts out of this mullet because we're going to cook it whole in the fire.
05:01 So people do die from shark attacks each year but you need to understand that if you go into
05:11 an animal's environment and get bitten or you get stung it's not the animal's fault and in most
05:17 cases it's not your fault either. To put it into perspective more people die from coconuts falling
05:22 on them out of trees than from shark attacks every year. This is where they live so if I decided to
05:27 go swimming in here and I was attacked right now I would not blame it on the shark at all.
05:32 Sometimes what can be the case is people don't understand that these sharks can go up into fresh
05:37 water but all the animals that you'll see me work with in this series there's things that you can do
05:42 to avoid getting bitten or avoid getting attacked by them. There was just a massive shrimp down here.
05:47 Yes! I just caught that shrimp and I forgot that my camera was sitting on this thing over the water
05:58 and it fully fell in, got completely soaked. It's a six thousand dollar camera but yep that just
06:06 happened. I don't actually know what the best thing to do is. There's water inside it. About
06:12 as good as a potato right now. Oh that hurts my soul.
06:17 [Music]
06:47 Once we cook up this fish I'm going to start building this primitive shark trap. I reckon
06:52 I should have it done around the afternoon and then tomorrow morning is when we're going to
06:57 be trying to trap these sharks.
06:59 [Music]
07:14 And we'll just chuck the fish on.
07:16 [Music]
07:27 So the fish may look a little bit dodgy but it's meant to look like that I think.
07:31 Here we go. We'll take it down to the creek and eat it.
07:38 [Music]
07:48 How good is that? Fresh mullet swimming around about half an hour ago.
07:52 Yeah not bad. I'm definitely glad I got one this big. I'm so hungry.
07:58 Not only am I surviving out here in the environment that the sharks are living in
08:06 but I'm eating the same food as them. This is exactly what these sharks are feeding on
08:10 all the way up here. All right let's build this bull shark trap.
08:15 [Music]
08:26 So what we're doing is we're finding the center of the bamboo
08:29 just like that. We'll get the rock and hit it in.
08:34 Once you got it past that first bit you start split it apart like that.
08:41 Pretty tough work out here with this knife. It's about 35 degrees at the moment but it's all going
08:46 to be worth it if we can catch a shark. That would be so cool. I've been wanting to do this since I was little.
08:53 [Music]
09:00 So what I've done is I've just lashed that little square together with the rope.
09:06 That's where the sharks are going to be going into. I've made a much smaller one for the back.
09:11 What I'm going to do is I'm going to get four planks, run them down from the top and bottom,
09:15 tie it on and then start building the trap around it.
09:20 [Music]
09:36 [Music]
09:51 So this right here is exactly what we want. All these bamboo pieces split in half
09:58 so that we can tie it up and no sharks will be able to get out of it if they go in.
10:02 [Music]
10:28 So this is how it's looking at the moment. You've got the entrance in the front which
10:31 we're going to scare the sharks into and then they should be trapped in here. We've still got
10:35 to put a heap of pilings the other way but we're just going to fill this in over the next couple
10:39 of hours, chuck it in the creek and see if we can catch a shark.
10:43 [Music]
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11:15 This is the pool that we're going to be setting it in because what happens is these bull sharks
11:19 will venture all the way up as far as they can get when the tide comes up and when it goes out
11:24 they'll get trapped in these kind of little pools but I'm thinking if I can set the trap down at
11:29 the end as the tide's pushing out and I see a shark trapped in one of these pools, hopefully
11:35 it's one of the ones with the hook stuck in its mouth and I might be able to get in the water
11:39 with it, get it in the trap and then grab it.
11:41 [Music]
11:45 Look at that, look at that, oh see this is what I mean, the sharks come all the way up here,
11:51 that is crazy. Just as I'm filming this, this is so far up the creek and this is what I'm talking
11:59 about, why I'm going to set the trap just down there as the tide goes out. That is so cool,
12:04 literally got the trap sitting right there.
12:06 [Music]
12:26 All right we're down at this creek, it's crazy to think of this shark swimming past right now.
12:30 We're going to head out there and see if we can swim with a couple of them.
12:33 [Music]
13:02 So I've been snorkeling around for a while, I haven't actually seen any sharks yet,
13:06 that's all right we're going to keep going until we find one. I know that there's sharks
13:10 around here, I know that the shark's watching me as I'm swimming past.
13:13 [Music]
13:24 And I was swimming around, I can only see about half a meter in front of me
13:27 and from the depths out comes a little juvenile bull shark checking me out.
13:32 This is when I feel most alive, when I'm doing things like this and I'm so grateful that I can
13:38 come out here and share this whole experience with you. But I'm not going to push my luck,
13:44 I know these animals are potentially dangerous and I know if I keep swimming around, splashing
13:49 around in the water, it's just not a good thing to do when you're by yourself. So I'm going to call
13:53 it a night, bit of a quick night snorkeling session but definitely the most memorable night
13:58 snorkel I've ever done. All right I'm going to head back to camp and tomorrow we're going to
14:02 go try to catch one in the trap.
14:04 [Music]
14:14 So I decided to go for a walk up this creek the next day to see if I could spot any sharks
14:19 and we've spotted one mate, trapped in this little pool right here.
14:22 Where I was filming yesterday where the shark came up to my feet was right there
14:26 so it could even be the same one, trapped at low tide.
14:29 [Music]
14:48 Sure that's a pretty cool colored rock. Whoa, I've got a shark to catch.
14:54 The trap's set now we need to go scare the shark into it.
14:59 [Music]
15:10 Here he is.
15:11 [Music]
15:18 There, see him?
15:20 [Music]
15:25 Oh he's coming for me, here we go.
15:27 [Music]
15:35 Look at him.
15:35 [Music]
15:39 Oh.
15:39 [Music]
15:41 You can see him.
15:42 [Music]
15:45 I might see if I can grab him.
15:46 [Music]
15:49 The problem I'm facing right now is the tide started to come up again and if it gets too high
15:55 there's no way I'm going to be able to get him in the trap because the creek will rise and there'll
15:59 be more places for him to actually get out. I'm trying to see if this is the one with the hook
16:03 stuck in its mouth but it's so hard to see underwater that I think I'm actually going to
16:07 have to catch him and have a look. You know I hate to say it but I reckon we lost him.
16:13 I don't know if he's just in the deeper part of this pool or if he's gone up further. I don't
16:18 think he's gone down that way but yeah I've been here for about an hour looking for him. Can't
16:23 find him since we last saw him. Tide has started to come up now but I reckon I might have a chance
16:28 if the tide comes up to try and get one in a trap. But yeah maybe we keep exploring the creek
16:32 and see if we can find any more sharks.
16:35 [Music]
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17:15 [Music]
17:31 All right and after being out here for two days look at what we got right here. A little bull shark
17:36 out here in the Australian rainforest. Now we're not going to keep him long at all. I think these
17:40 animals are absolutely amazing and I think people should respect them. Sadly it wasn't the one with
17:45 the hook stuck in its mouth. We're going to get him back in the water. We didn't exactly get him
17:49 in the trap as I would have expected but we did grab him in the shallow so this is the perfect end
17:54 to an amazing video. All right mate.
17:59 Off he goes.
18:07 That is a crazy start to what's going to be a wild series so if you want to join in there's
18:12 going to be a lot more deadly animals. Obviously I'm going to be careful. I know the potential that
18:16 these animals have. They can be dangerous. I don't think people should go night snorkeling
18:21 and I don't think people should go put themselves in dangerous situations. I've been working with
18:26 these sharks in particular in this creek since I was about 12 years old. I know their behavior,
18:31 I know where they're swimming, I know what they look like when they're getting a bit defensive.
18:35 But to come out here and have that kind of experience is exactly what I wanted to start
18:40 off this series. So if you want to see more make sure you leave a like on this video,
18:44 comment down below what other deadly animals here in Australia you want me to find and yeah it'll
18:49 be pretty cool making the other episodes of Australia's Deadliest. We got a bull shark mate.
18:55 Thank you so much. I'll see you guys again next week in the next adventure. Let's go.
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