4 WEEKS SURVIVING AT SEA (Spearfishing The Craziest Fish In Ocean!)

Hey guys, we're Strick and Fran. And before we became the castaways, this is how it all started. Hope you enjoy it. We've actually travelled a thousand miles. Oh yes! Look at the size of it! Good morning. In the morning, in the day. No, that's it. For three weeks at sea, we've arrived to this place. And see if I can get them behind me here. There is about a thousand nesting birds. You might be able to hear them behind us there. It's absolutely incredible. And we're going to use this as a launching platform to get out and dive some of the most outer reefs that the Great Barrier Reef has got to offer. I'll show you the booby birds. They just sit down on the ground on their nest and chill out. They're awesome. Never in my whole life have I felt more surrounded by Mother Nature than right now. This is just absolutely amazing what we're witnessing here. Green job fish. He's a hungry boy. This is the other end. This is one of those trumpet fish. They're about that long. They're literally longer than the green jobby. And he's come through and smashed it. It's unbelievable. It was sticking out of his mouth. Good job, Fran. We're going to let him go? Ready? One, two, three. He's off. Holy ----! This is a big fish. Really big fish. How much spool have we got? All right, wind when you can. That's all right. It's huge, eh? Like, really, really big. He's still here for 30 minutes. That's some line back. This is the hardest fighting fish I've ever had on, I reckon. Just so heavy. Huge silver fringe whaler. It's a big shad. I was expecting like an 80 kilo yellowfin. Lost the pliers. I'm not putting my hand in there. Yes, good job. The absolute pinnacle for me and for us here is the dogtooth tuna. They are just the most gnarliest fish in the ocean. Big, strong, powerful. And they are generally in areas that are so remote, hard to get to. So they're super elusive. Which, hence why we've come out here. Three weeks at sea, out in the middle of nowhere. To try and get a crappie on mission while we're out here. Is get Fran a chance at a dogtooth tuna. And see how we go. Wish us luck. Big tuna busted up. It's a big one. We've hooked a big one. Really big one. Big tuna buster. Holy ----. I didn't see it. Oh, it's a shark. There's a shark around it. Get the rod. I think we did all the hard work, Fran. Can you reverse back to it? No, the other way, the other way. Shit. Something bigger than... Do you think a shark got it? Yeah. Shit. Rod is smoking. Let go of it. Oh, bugger. There's a big bust up over here. Yellowfin tuna of all shapes and sizes here. There's some absolute kegs amongst them. But we're just hoping for a little one for dinner. Fran's in the hot seat. Alright, here we go. Yes! We've got a yellowfin tuna. We don't have him yet. He's a long way off. Get it up. I'm just going to throw him on the floor here, Fran. Yeah. Oh my God, it's gone. Oh my God. What a beautiful fish. Yes, Fran! We've got a yellowfin, finally. You're too big for us, mate. Thanks for the good time. Let him go. Yes! We finally got one. It's swimming around the back. We got the dog. Hold him up. We got the dog, man. So good. Yes. Let's give him the boat, eh? Yeah. What have you got there, Fran? I got a dog. You caught the dog. We got the dog. Teamwork makes the dream work. What was it doing? Oh, it was trying to escape from me. Not quick enough. Turned back and came straight at me. Bang. That's such an incredible fish. Well done. Forget the dog. Well done. Oh, this is awesome. Literally our dream fish and our dream location. It's all come together. Yes, Fran. Dog, tooth, tuna. The gnarliest fish of the ocean. Did you get him up? Slippery sucker. The slipperiest fish of the ocean. Oh, we're having a bit of trouble here. Upside down. Upside down doggy. It's close enough. We've got him the right way up. Yes. Oh, that's so awesome, Fran. Dog, tooth, tuna. Yes, we finally got the dog. It's our favourite fish in our new favourite location. Big dog, tooth, tuna. How cool is that, Fran? Good job. Oh, big bust up in close. You'll be able to get a cast in now. Oh, perfect. Are they having a look at it? What are they looking at? Fuck yes. He's big, eh? Really big. Oh, that's epic. I'll just get the hooks out. It may be hard to believe right now when it's absolute glass out, but there's a bit of wild weather coming. So we're fleeing into a better anchorage. We're also getting fuel, a fuel drop there. So we're going to repay the people dropping off a drum of fuel for us with dog, tooth, tuna, sashimi and steaks after we have a little bit first. Choose the tail. We got the dog. We got the dog, didn't we? Sashimi, dog, tooth, tuna. Okay. Dog, tooth, tuna with a touch of lemon. Sweet potato chips left over from last night. A very happy Fran. And maybe the last of our crackers. And some yellowfin tuna busting up behind us. Bit of a change of scenery from this morning. The sand cave we're at. We've had a massive day. We've moved to another group of islands where we're going to set up camp, obviously, for tonight. We're going to have dog, tooth, tuna raw for entree. And we're going to have steaks of dog, tooth, tuna for dinner. So it's going to be awesome. Cooking them skin on, eh? Yeah. Controversial. Nice. Nice and hot too, eh? So it just cooks quick. But tomorrow morning we've got a big one coming. There is some Aboriginal cave paintings on some of these islands. And we're going to go and search them tomorrow morning. So that should be bloody awesome. We'll see you then. Good morning to day 23 at sea. Last night was a bit sketchy. So the only way we can get fuel, I've got a mate who's a commercial fisherman. And he runs up and down this east coast for a couple of weeks at a time. I've got a message on the radio. He's like, Hey, Strick. How's 1am? Out the back of Back Reef for ya. To fuel up. And that's like an hour away from where we're camping. And I'm like, Oh, just had a couple of glasses of wine. Big feed. I'm like, Oh, alright man. Whatever it takes. We need fuel. So last night I had to swim out to the boat at about midnight. Get the boat. Punch it out to the reef. Hour out. We made it out. Made it back safely. But it doesn't strike you as a crocodile-y beach. So I was like, Oh, don't be scared. Just swim out. Don't be a pussy. White sandy beach. Beautiful and clear. But check this out. What I've just found. So there's a bit of a washout mangrove system that during the wet season obviously floods. But it's dry at the moment. Just in the corner here. Check it out. These are all turtle bones. And do you know what eats turtles? Big crocodiles. So look at these. He's just smashed these to pieces. You can just imagine his big teeth just chomping through that and shaking that around. It's absolutely crazy. So there's big crocs now from all the islands up. And actually on one of the next beaches over a couple of years ago a bloke actually got taken out of his tent and dragged down the beach. But pretty hectic stuff. So we just have to be super super careful now. I've always been super interested in the history of this country. But more specifically the indigenous history. And just how in touch the indigenous people of this land were with the land around them. The bush tucker that they ate. The understanding of the seasons. Their interaction with the animals. How they hunted. And these islands specifically are incredibly rich in indigenous history. Which can be seen in the aboriginal cave paintings. Fortunately for us the traditional owners of this land have allowed a couple of sites to be open to the public which we were able to check out. But some people believe these ships paintings on the cave here are proof that Chinese, Spanish or Portuguese ships all travelled up and down Australia's east coast long before Captain Cook the Englishman and his ship the Endeavour. But that's a debate for another time. They haven't seen too much of us today because we are just pinning it up the coast. There's some really wild weather coming. Winds in excess of 40 knots. 40, 50 knots. So we're trying to hole up further north. And we're just looking for an island to camp on. We found this one. How good does this look? White sandy beach. Yep, no worries. Little palm tree. Looks beautiful. But... Oh, there he is there. That's him. But look out. Look on the beach here. There's this huge crack. That's a big saltwater crocodile. He's been sitting on the bank there. Come in. He's swooped into the water. It's fresh. It's literally just happened. I'm going to try and get the drone up in the air and see if we can spot him. In this clear water. This is just mind blowing. This place is wild. There's a crocodile slide on the beach and then down the end of the sand spit there. There's sharks eating a bait ball. Here he comes. Look at the sharks going through that bait. There's the croc slide. He's been sitting up there, made his way down into the water. And then where did he go? Pretty big croc, eh? Where are you, mate? So this is the croc's movements here. First of all, he came up here. He was just sitting in his fat belly. You can lie down in his belly. You wouldn't even touch the sides. That's crazy. So he came up here. Turned to stunning himself. The entrance here. The tracking of the dinosaur. This thing is huge. Look at that there. And then slid back down into the water. So he's out there somewhere. Are you scared or excited? I'm excited. Let's go find a croc. That's the low water mark. We generally camp up here thinking we're safe. He's sitting up like in the shrubbery of the trees. It's crazy. It blows my mind how high up the grass can all go. This is a fresh one. The tide hasn't washed it away. What are they doing there? We still had a long way to go to get to a safe anchorage before these wild winds picked up. So while it was still calm, we jumped in the boat and kept pressing north. Big hammerhead fin. Huge big hammerhead fins come out of the water just here as they're coming in. See if you can spot it, Brent. It's fair to say we've proper entered the wild country here. Last time we were hoping to camp on this crocodile that was all over the beach. This time we're just pulling in and admiring it. And there's a huge great hammerhead fin out of the water chasing something. Just here. This hammerhead shark is hunting one of its favourite meals in the shallows, the stingray. And although the stingrays can be very well camouflaged hidden under the sand, the hammerhead sharks have sensory organs that can detect the electric fields of these hidden stingrays underwater. And one of nature's constant battles of predators versus prey is playing out right before our eyes. But the stingrays survive this round and the hammerhead shark goes hungry for now. Looks like this will do us for the night, Fran. Just fine. No crocodile tracks. Oh, yes. And they are the first coconuts we've seen growing fresh off a tree this whole trip. And there's more there. There's low-lying coconuts on this island. Fran, we've reached paradise. The best thing so far is these low-lying coconut trees that I'm going to get my hands on ASAP. Just within reaching distance. How good's that? Give him a bit of a twist. Come on, mate. There we have a coconut. Easy. Some big turtle. That's where they've come up from the beach. They lay a couple of dummy holes and then lay their real hole. Very cool. Look at the size of that for a cuttlefish. Huge. Very cool. You always find them on the high tide line when we're looking for driftwood like this. And away she goes. Let's see if we can spy anything on the drone. Oh, these mullet are spawning, I reckon, eh? That's amazing. Yeah, they definitely are. That's really cool. They're right in the shallows now, though. I think they were interrupted before when old mate Hammerhead came through. Yeah, look at them going. Oh, there's a couple of shark. All right, for dinner. You guessed it. Dog tooth tuna. Steaks. Medium rare. So it's been doggy for breakfast, raw. Doggy for lunch, raw. And doggy for dinner. This is the last of our dog tooth tuna. Oh, you all right? Yep. Good job, Fran. It was at this time last night when we were just settling in to a drink that we got the call that we got the call up that at 1am we had to do the fuel pickup. So hopefully tonight there's no such mishaps. We're running on empty. We're pretty knackered. And we need a good rest. So see you bright and early in the morning.