- Alright Coyote, so I think we need to talk
about what everybody wants to know...
How close were you to actually getting chomped
by that tiger shark?
♪Fire♪
♪A fire on the mountain♪
(fiddle music)
- What's going on Coyote Pack?
And welcome to another episode of Base Camp.
Now this one's gonna be a little bit different
because instead of reviewing and old episode
on the Brave World on this channel,
we're gonna review the new series
that just launched, Blue Wilderness.
- It's out, it's finally out.
- The fist two episodes, yeah.
- We've been developing this for a very, very long time
and I hope everybody is liking it so far.
It's just the beginning but we start out pretty, pretty big.
- Yeah, tiger shark big.
Nothing's bigger than a two part
diving with tiger sharks episode
which took months to get through post production.
This was a big undertaking.
- Yeah, it was a big story.
Well you know the series launch,
we wanted to give a nice backstory,
tell everybody what the series is about
and uh, do it justice.
- We want it to start with big splash.
Dive into the deep end.
- I see what you're doing, I see what you're doing there.
- Now usually we start an episode
with some Coyote Pack artwork,
but unfortunately today, we don't have
any Blue Wilderness oriented artwork from the pack.
Which means, you guys have a homework assignment.
Everybody needs to work on
either making some Blue Wilderness
logo art or drawing sharks, draw an octopus,
draw the Loch Ness Monster, whatever it might be,
send it in to the P.O. Box so we can start sharing
Blue Wilderness artwork here at the Base Camp set.
- Yeah, and you know, knowing that we may not
have artwork for this particular Base Camp,
I didn't make any artwork, but I do have an artifact.
Mario, I actually, it's right over there by you. Grab it.
- Oh, here it is.
Oooh what's this buddy?
- [Mark] You remember that?
- Oh is it heavy
- It's heavy, it might be expensive
- It's a little bit heavy
- Yeah, put it back
- I do remember this, from the manatee segment?
- [Mark] That is correct.
So this is our very first
underwater camera housing, sort of the beginning
stages of Blue Wilderness, if you will.
Um, which you know was now almost three years ago
that we filmed that, but uh, it's sort of a relic now,
not something that we're gonna use again
but I thought we could put it up on the wall and...
- Yeah, it's kinda fun to see this
because the manatee segment, besides being really cool
swimming with the manatees, it was our first like,
true underwater segment, right?
- [Mark] Yeah, it was and uh, you know,
starting with the manatees
and leading up to the tiger sharks
there was a lot of baby steps along the way
like not only learning how to film underwater
and learning about the different housings
but also getting dive certified
which, Mario, you only got dive certified
a week prior to swimming with sharks, awesome
- [Mario] Thank you, thank you.
Yep, I basically went the accelerated route
I got dive certified and then
- Speed certification
- A few days later I was on a boat
heading to swim with tiger sharks
- And the other different aspect is that Coyote went
from being in front of the camera
to behind the camera, you guys didn't see me
behind the camera a lot but I was
getting some of those shots
and Mark took over as the show host,
so tell us, what was it like getting in front
of the camera for the first time
in full perspective, like, we know you've
been on camera before but, this is from the host perspective
- Well, I have to first and foremost man,
not an easy job by any means at all
like, I mean, so much respect for all the videos
that we made together, you stepping in front of the camera
for the team, uh, it's not easy to deliver lines
especially when there's like a crowd behind the camera
and the boat's rocking,
and there's so many distractions going on
so sort of keeping your focus
becomes a challenge in itself.
But beyond that, it was really humbling.
Now having this, you know,
the full perspective of all the roles,
hopefully will not only make me better
as a new host, but also a better director
for the main series which, speaking of directors,
Mario made his directing debut on these videos,
Mario, what was it like?
- [Mario] Well, in line with what you said,
I now have a better perspective
as to the difficulty of being a director.
And there's a lot of responsibility that a director feels
um, you gotta make sure you got all the shots
all the cutaway shots, so as you're filming,
I was also thinking of, alright this is the next thing to do
uh, Mark should say this instead and...
You know, it's difficult but I certainly
appreciated the challenge.
- But you had fun
- [Mario] I did!
- I know you had fun, every time you said cut
it was with a smile on your face.
- Cut, do it again, do it again.
- Now just for audience clarification,
because a lot of people have written
in the comment section on social media,
is Mark quitting Brave Wilderness?
No, Mark's not quitting Brave Wilderness,
Blue Wilderness is a show that's gonna be
housed on the Brave Wilderness channel.
However, we're also creating the Blue Wilderness channel
because we're looking to diversify the content on YouTube.
Not only through shows, like Blue Wilderness,
and Beyond Dinosaurs, but also by building new channels.
So hopefully, it's just gonna attract more people
to the world of animals.
- Absolutely, this is about being versatile,
all of us have roles
that we could actually intertwine, and switch,
and just be really good at what we're doing.
- And you're gonna be out there again with us
under the ocean surface, right?
- We'll see, as long as you don't get seasick.
- Seasick, that was the big reason,
obviously, I can't host everything
and with the idea of diversifying the channel,
we want to start plugging different people
into different roles to branch out.
Now yes, I get seasick quite a bit
but actually didn't get seasick on this voyage
strangely enough, like we really had
this whole scene planned where it was like
oh, Coyote's gonna be puking over the side,
it's gonna be funny, but...
- You had the Scops patch
- Yeah if you guys looked, like we were wearing Band-Aids,
those actually keep you from getting seasick.
- One thing I do have to say,
I take a moment to thank Jonathan Bird
and his amazing team with Blue World.
We could not have done this production without them
certainly was the primary factor in keeping us safe
and aware for our very first shark encounter.
So, definitely check out Jonathan's channel, right here
he's got BlueWorldTV, lots of amazing underwater videos
and I don't think this is gonna be the last time
we're gonna work with Jonathan and those amazing guys
so stay tuned.
- Yeah, they are a goofy bunch of guys
that loves diving underwater and just
so much fun and I know one thing
that a lot of people noticed and commented on was like,
Whoa, you guys are doing
your first shark episode with no cages?
I mean that was the thing that I think
was really crazy for us and probably
anybody out there watching is that
we're getting into the water with all these sharks
and most of the time you see
people in cages, but this is one of those
unique spots in the world that you can go
and get in the water with sharks without cages, so...
- Yeah, it's all very calculated,
we certainly didn't just go off and dive with any sharks,
this area is a known dive spot,
this occurs year-round and we were with professionals.
- Alright Coyote, so I think we need to talk about
what everybody wants to know,
how close were you to actually
getting chomped by that tiger shark?
- Pretty close, closer thank I think anybody
would ever want to get
with a tiger shark, a 14 foot predator
I know a lot of you have been asking
Coyote, when are you gonna get bitten by a shark?
Never, certainly not intentionally
but this, this was close.
- That was close.
- It was very close, and I distinctly remember underwater
after it happened, everybody was looking at each other like
did you see that?
And everyone, I think we got like four different shots
everyone's like, oh yeah we saw.
- Yeah, good thing all the cameras were rolling
to get the shot.
- Yeah so we have the footage here today
why don't we take a look at all four of those clips
and then we can examine
just how close things actually got for Coyote.
- Sure, perfect, let's watch it all through once first.
- Here we go.
Alright so, big tiger shark's coming around
you're filming, you're filming, ooh oh!
So that was kinda tough,
'cause you were blocking the camera there
so you really couldn't see how close you got.
- I like how I went right back to like
oh, and I'm just filming now.
- That was commitment.
- I think that was my shot, I think this is Jonathan's shot
yeah, this is the close one.
Woom, that one you can actually see how close you got.
- And you see how I really had to pull my arm back
and good thing he drifted off to the side
and I just continue to get the shot.
- That's your shot
- This is, this is your shot
actually kinda blocked but bump
ah man, you definitely see under the shark's nose.
- Yeah, I had to kinda lose my hold
on the camera at one point.
- Look at you, you're like, like...
- I tell you what, my heart was racing at that point
- No like, we know, Coyote, we know.
Alright.
You know, looking at it in slow-motion
without the dramatic music from the episode
you know, you may not know how close that was
but I think down there in the moment, we all knew.
- Well here's, here's what happened
what we were instructed, is that
when sharks come straight at you,
you hold your ground, right
the sharks will almost every single time
drift off to the left or right
we experience this with all shark species
like we would stay there and the shark would
come at you, come at you, come at you
almost like a game of chicken
and then it would go whoop off to the side
- I think this is an important point to make too
because when we first got down to the bottom,
the sharks are very cautious, they're very apprehensive
they're not like coming in right away
and making a beeline for you
like, they're actually gonna scope you out first
before they even think about getting close to the cameras
so, actually when you get down there,
you're hoping the sharks get closer to you,
you try to remain calm and still so hopefully
you can get that epic shot
but, inevitably they do get confident
and they get closer, and closer, and closer, and closer
and then the contact comes
- Well, and certainly at a point where
they're in an experience where they're feeding
and they're like oh, maybe this person has something for me
they're gonna come over and check it out
- [Mario] Certainly, yeah, and that's a great situation,
or a great example, maybe not so great for you
but uh, that shark coming up approaching very slowly
it wasn't like just going fast and mouth open
it was approaching slowly and when it bumped into you
you did something where you
accidentally touched kinda the bottom of his snout.
- Yeah, I don't think it, I think it was like this
'cause you got caught off guard
- Well, he bounced off the front of the camera
and the shark was so close at that point
I couldn't really see what was happening
it was just like, whoa the shark didn't go to the side
- You can see right here
- You can see there, the way that I had put my hand up
'cause I couldn't see through my mask
and you could see all the bubbles in front of me
once that shark collided with the camera
I didn't know where to put my hand,
I couldn't see where I was putting my hand
so I hit the underneath part of his nose
and he came up, you could see his eye roll back
and the white come over like,
- The teeth come out
- He was ready to bite
- Essentially, you just triggered a feeding response
because the professional feeders
when they actually have the sharks approach
they put the fish underneath their snouts
'cause as we know, sharks have the Ampullae of Lorenzini
all these receptors around their snout,
as soon as you touch one of those
they're gonna open their mouth reflexively, right?
- I should've put the camera into his mouth
- You should have
- Just given him something to eat
- I mean, I'm just glad you didn't get bit
I mean, what were you thinking in that moment
explain, 'cause you know, when you're down there
like you know, after this is
all done and we're looking at the footage now,
it's easy to be like, oh yeah man it was no big deal
swimming with sharks, but like when you're down there
you are on guard.
- Yeah and when you're looking down the little viewfinder
of a GoPro camera, underwater, through a dive mask,
everything's disorienting so, what I saw was the shark
getting that close, in the moment there I was like,
oh it's hitting the camera, I started to move
and then those bubbles came up
just like in Jaws or something like
(low pitched aggressive cry)
and I could see down the mouth of that shark
and the first thing I just thought was,
move to the side, and you can see
I kinda pull my hands back immediately
knowing that like, oh man, if the shark
feels something in its mouth, that's when it's gonna grab
and shake its head.
- Yeah you know that, that's a good point
underwater during the experience,
it seems so much more intense and essentially faster
I was behind you when that happened
I got that initial shot, that perspective
and it was such a quick movement that you did
spinning, turning, shark's gone, back to you
and we're just like, that just happened
- Well I mean I was immediately thinking
oh man that might be the shot of the tip right there
I better keep the camera going and in frame
and with everybody that was down there with us
I think I was the only one that actually got chomp-
well like, we consider it a chomped at,
but it was a nonaggressive move on the shark's part
which was clear once it went past
and it's like, oh there was nothing here for me to eat
okay I'm gonna circle around again,
- And, and to be fair, I don't know
if we told you this beforehand
but Mario and I, we did a lot of research
before we shot this video, clearly
uh but, we were told by many people like,
hey you may want to reconsider this
to be your first shark dive
because the sharks do make contact
inevitably, they do get confident enough to come in
and test you out
and it's not an aggressive like, I wanna kill you
test you out, it's a like, what, what are you man?
- Yeah, hey, do you have any fish for me or something
yeah uh, you know, right after that shark
just kinda circled around everyone
and went back to feeding
- Yeah like nothing happened and it is surprising
just how easy it is to move such a large animal
away from you underwater, which,
here, I'll show you
I brought one of my clips.
This is what ideally you want to happen
this is uh, yeah, here you can see
the shark is approaching me
and you wanna keep your palm down
and push the shark away from you
see there you go so, and then just push it away.
- Yeah so you made your move a lot quicker
I let the shark run into me
which, if I had earlier on been like,
I mean, my low angle too, I think
I was at a disadvantage too, right from the start
being as low as I was, and not really having
anywhere to go, other than hoping, alright
the shark's gonna go to the side.
- Yeah but, but yeah, that's exactly, Mark,
Mark put his hand on top of the shark, kind of push down
he didn't trigger that response which is reflexive, right
of opening the mouth, yeah.
- But I have to say, I think the big takeaway
from all of this is that those sharks are super intelligent
and amazing to be around underwater like,
I honestly can't wait to go back and do it again.
- It was uh, it was fairly surreal to be in the water
and then having these massive predators
just kinda pass right by you
and at some points you will look at them
directly in their eyes, and they're looking back at you
- And I, I think you lose sort of like,
it's not that you ever lose respect
for what those animals are
but you do start to get comfortable in that environment.
At first, you're like, holy cow, there are sharks everywhere
and then it'll just be like, oh you're getting one shot
and before you know it, you know three or four sharks
are just coming past the side of you like,
whoa, it's a good thing that nobody got curious
and decided to bite onto my leg at that point.
- You know, we will say as well, at all times,
we were instructed to always
have your head on a swivel, right
so you're constantly, you're getting the shot
but you're also looking over your shoulder, right.
If you see one of your buddies, a shark coming from behind
they're not aware, give them the signal, right.
So we're always kind of aware and always looking around.
- Which, what's the shark signal?
Shark!
And how about, what if it's a tiger shark?
Big shark!
- Run, swim, whatever it is but I mean
this was cool, I think the audience
gets a really great perspective
of what it takes to make these underwater videos
by us analyzing the scenario and pointing out
instances there were almost really pretty catastrophic,
just, tell you what, you get bit by a tiger shark
that far out in the ocean like,
- [Mario] It's game over.
- [Coyote] It would've been really bad.
- [Mark] Thankfully you didn't get bit.
- Close call, very close call.
- Yeah, about as close as you ever want to get
but, if you haven't seen it yet,
make sure to go back and check out the tiger shark videos
there's a two part episode, episode one right here,
and uh, yeah lots more to come from Blue Wilderness
- Stay tuned, lots more to come for sure
- And don't forget guys, send in
your Blue Wilderness artwork to the P.O. box
so that we can start debuting it here on the channel.
I'm Coyote Peterson,
- I'm Mark Vins
- I'm Mario Aldecoa
- Be brave
- [Together] Stay wild
- We'll see you on the next Base Camp adventure.
- Let's take a look at that
- Yeah, one more time
If you like this episode of Base Camp,
make sure to go back and watch the series premier
of Blue Wilderness, where we went face to face
with giant tiger sharks.
And if you haven't yet, follow us on Instagram
so you can keep up with all the behind the scenes action
on our latest adventures.
(fire roars, bird caws)