It enjoyed communicating with us through different means. Such as mimic kissing, saying hi, and it knew its name. It was intelligent, capable of loving, and could learn from humans. I was really touched by the privilege to be able to take care of it. It was estimating about 17-18 years old when it passed away. There wasn’t anything I could do and it was a tragic event for me.
FISH THAT BLOW UP SKIN
It was healthy until the last two days, and from what looked like skin cancer. Yes, thank you all for posting the comments! I had a rescued pufferfish for 16 years and I learned a lot from it. Spread the word and let’s have an ocean worth diving into in a decade! That’s why we, as divers, have a responsibility to share our knowledge and stop the ones destroying the environment.
Some divers are naive and don’t know the impact we can have on marine life. Often scuba divers don’t know the harm caused by the human touch. Have you ever seen a diver touch or harm underwater life? What did you do to stop it? In some cases, the pufferfish dies from this stress. This creates an extreme amount of stress for the pufferfish. This violently forces the puffer’s organs to be pressed to the side, inside the body causing the organs to flatten. When a puffer fish puffs up, it takes in water to increase its size. In the video, the biggest concern is not if they die, it’s what happens to the pufferfish when the dive guide makes it blow up. You can read our guide on becoming a sustainable diver. It also leads to destructive behavior with negative effects on the future of the ocean and the whole dive industry. It’s a bad practice to touch anything underwater, but to deliberately chase and catch a pufferfish is just cruel. I’m really sad to share a video like this, but I feel it’s the only way to stop a behavior like this.
FISH THAT BLOW UP HOW TO
We earlier covered a related topic where a new dive guide didn’t know how to behave toward dive guests with this behavior: You can read and join the discussion here: The Bad Diver and Aquatic Awareness The worst dive behavior
The diver in the video is, therefore, both irresponsible and quite stupid. That’s 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide. Pufferfish are poisonous, containing enough tetrodotoxin venom to kill 30 humans. He clearly wanted to put on a show for his guests, and therefore decided to use this porcupine pufferfish as his entertainment props. Not at the person who shared it, but at the dive guide. This video was shared with on our Facebook page with the question: is this dangerous behavior for a diver? Are puffer fish poisonous and is it safe to touch one? Yes and no.
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