They jumped into 3,000-foot-deep water to spearfish for food then one of them took a spear to the leg - "I speared myself in the leg"

Man, that is a horse! What a great fish! Would you drink that straight? Have a drink of one of these. Selamat pagi and good morning from one of the 17,500 islands here in Indonesia. Out of respect for the locals and their way of life here I'm not going to tell you exactly where we are but what I can tell you is that I've linked up with a couple of my local mates Joshua and Michael to head out only 10 minutes from the land it gets to 1500 and then 2,000 meters deep and there's what the locals call room pawns or fads which are a fish aggregation device and they essentially create an ecosystem out here on the water I'll tell you more about this throughout the episode but we're really keen to jump in for a spear and see if we can get some fish for the guys families and local community and explore a bit more of what this section of Indonesia has to This is a bit of a unique and different episode. I've been traveling through Southeast Asia personally with my dad for the last couple of weeks, had some really eye-opening and incredible experiences which I'll share with you more. But for now we've got a bit of a steam to head a few miles out and jump in the water. Let's do it. So this is the vessel we're heading out in. It has two 15 horsepower two-stroke outboards on the back so 30 horsepower to push an 11 meter vessel and the captain apparently knows a couple of good spots. Hopefully the weather clears up for us. All right let's do it. We're all rigged up and ready to hunt fish and the second we drifted near these floating bamboo structures Walls of fish appeared before us, including a few mahi-mahi, or dolphin fish, right on the surface. This commotion bringing in a few wahoo, which, lucky enough to get a shot. Two of the most sought-after fish out here in the deep blue. Man that is a horse, what a great fish. Well done, man. Teamwork to make the dream work. Oh man, that was great to watch. What you call this one? Tumpek. Tumpek. Yeah, Tumpek. Tumpek, mahi-mahi. Mahi-mahi. well we got a nice mahi mahi but i speared myself in the lake accidentally oh well done guys beautiful fish so it's chicken sambal noodles peanuts yellow rice Wow, this looks great. What would you call this, Nasi Kuning, Nasi Bonkas? Nasi Kuning. Nasi Kuning. These are triple tail or jumping cod, which are a very sought after fish out here on the fads. I'll just quickly show you this triple tail we got on this fad have a go at that probably only two or three kilos but that is a triple tail see at the back there it looks like it's got three tails you generally only find them out here in the deep blue in you know a thousand meters of water seeking refuge under one of these fads. So if you are traveling along the ocean out in the deep blue and you do see like a big floating log or structure of some sort, jump in and quite often there'll be a couple of these underneath. They've got beautiful white flesh, really good eating. They're not that sporting, they generally sit there and look at you. They're very curious in the water so they're quite easy to shoot. I'm really looking forward to eating one of them tonight. We're gonna jump in on a few more fads. Hopefully we get a shot at seeing some mahi-mahi or even wahoo. Anything's possible out here. There's so much life on them, bait everywhere. Good to see. Great job bro, nice fish. I'm going to do a birdie, I'm going to do a birdie. Josh, good session mate. Good stuff bro. Thanks very much. Loved it mate. Good spewing mate. Captain, terima kasih. Whoo! Hey! Yeah, nice size, hey? It's really nice, hey? I'm just still so impressed that we've got ice with coolers to keep the fish fresh. Normally the fish are just sitting around in like the salty petrol juice in the back. Josh, how do you feel about the session, bro? It's always alright. I have good fish, you know. Got some fish? How do you think we cooked them up? Grilled them. A lot of grilling them. Maybe a little bit of sashimi, but the rest grilled them. Happy with how you performed out there, Mike? Oh, man. Freezer foiled. Good to go, man. Nice, bro. Pretty tired, but worth it. Nice, mate. We had such a great day, yeah? Yeah. See you again. Yeah, bye. Great job. Very professional and very experienced. El Capitano. Time to fillet some fish. I wanted to remind you, as of three, four months ago, we do have a new Back to Basics Adventures website. On there, a lot of kit that Strick and I have been testing over the last few years. There's shirts, there's caps, there's boardies, there's rain jackets. We quite often have giveaways, promos, a lot of free stuff for you guys. It really does, when you make a purchase on there, help support these adventures. QR code is right there, or a link in the description of this video. Check it out, let us know what you think. And if there's anything you'd like to see us make that we've used, or you think that you'd get a lot of value out of, whether that's other filleting knives or lures, let us know in the comments. Never really know what to expect out of the deep blue waters of Indonesia, but we ended up with a couple of beautiful mahi-mahi. Got a wahoo and quite a lot of triple tail, So the captain took his tax, he had a big smile on his face, and the rest of the crew will get fed well tonight and then for the next couple of weeks for them and their families. So feeling pretty good about it. We're gonna cut these fish up now and get ready for a sunset cook-up. It's always a bit of an improv when you're filleting up your fish in a remote location. We've got a boat rudder here that's acting as the board and a fallen over tree that's eroded here on the edge of the bank. These are actually one of the fastest growing fish. They're sexually reproductive at about that big and grow up to an inch a week. So they're one of the most sustainable fish to get, which you can sleep well knowing. Let me know in the comments how you would love to cook this or if you'd not cook it at all. It's just the easy fillet bench. So for the fish tonight we're doing a couple of the triple tail and we've just gutted, gilled, scaled and then we're cutting them pretty much in half so we can like fan them out and cook them on the grill. Just highlighting how absolutely nothing's gone to waste that we've taken the fillets off a few of the fish and not only the frames getting used but even like the wings and like top of the guts and all that sort of offal from around the wing, all getting used. So you might be wondering how we're carrying all of the gear and fish back to the village. The fish, like everything else in Indonesia, goes on the back of a scooter. You all good, Tule? Bye-bye. Good man. One of the local farmers has just arrived on his bike and climbed up this Arak palm tree and there's bottles set up in the top and it excretes a liquid that ferments and becomes a really strong alcohol called Arak and then the local villagers will contact him, come to his house to buy it to drink and have a good time and see those sort of 10 litre drums maybe half full with the liquid. hopefully you can admire and appreciate the climbing skills here that is incredibly challenging would you drink that straight can we i don't know whether it's the petrol or the alcohol i can smell yeah i think he runs his scooter off it put some hair on my chest you want to try it just want to check that it's safe oh yeah before arak a little sweet yeah yeah it's like sweet fruit ferment yes it is fermented some vinegary yeah it's kind of like an apple cider vinegar very mild that's really good yeah yeah i do feel vibrant you're very like very strong man i'm so impressed it's like a wine then it becomes like 40% or anything or you know so that there might be like eight to ten percent like a wine yeah to work seeing how it's distilled yeah it's like pvc piping everything is very homemade it's very unique yeah nice you could actually yeah it's a little beach shack beautiful views, one bedroom, boat, motorbikes, kids out the front, get your fish, out front reef, what a life. Simple seafood, that's all you need, a few hot coals raised above the ground and a little bit of a makeshift barbecue. Oh man, it is one of my favourite things ever, watching back footage after a good day on the water. Stoking up, stoking up, they're getting hotter, looking good. Hello girl, right on the edge of the beach, oh you've got a lot of flies on you, I wish I could help you. Hey, hey, sorry barley cow, you're alright girl, you're alright, I'm your mate, oh a couple little baby ones, hey, hey little baby barley cow, how you doing? Geez other than a lot of fly on them, they look in pretty good condition. We've just walked down a little sandy track to the beach here and there's a small hut where there's a couple of guys that have got a little business here and they only sell two things. Big, tall, cold beers and good vibes. That's all they're selling. They've got a little bit of a grill plate. Oh we're putting the fish on? Cool, they've got a bit of a grill plate and they said if you buy some beers from us and sit with us here on The beach you can cook the fish up in our hut. So that's what we're doing. Yeah. Wow month up Triple tail fanned out straight on the grill. So yeah, all we did there was just took the scales off and Gutted gilled and then cleaved it in half. So it sort of fans out and can evenly cook This legend on the left is doing a lot of the heavy lifting this afternoon. What is this? Garlic. Garlic, oil. I'm telling you, that's all it is. It's a hut that sells big cold beers, tallies, fish grill and good vibes. That's it. So this is local Arak. Alcohol palm tree. Alcohol palm tree. Here we go. Okay. Is it stronger? It's very much stronger. The first was like apple cider vinegar. This is like proper alcohol. It's already fermented in the tree and then you put it in the magic kettle. Yeah, much stronger. And it feels, it sort of tastes as if I drank that, I would not be spearfishing tomorrow. Well, this is the second one. We're doing two tonight. Two out of the maybe 10 triple tail that we got. Hey, hello. Apa? Ikan. Ikan? Ikan. When older, be bagus mancing. Bagus mancing. Good fisherman. Yeah. Fisherman. Yeah. All right. Saya makan, yeah? Yeah. Selamat makan. Nice to meet you, Julian. Nice to meet you. All right, fish grill time. Would you say that if it's not spicy, It's not Indonesian food. Would you go that far? Okay, good. All right, so what do we have? We got rice. That sounds great because I know you do amazing food. It's definitely a fish that's way better filleted. Oh, way better whole grilled. Yeah, because you get all this meat too. Yeah, all through the face. I'm counting on you here, Mike. I'm counting on you, mate. We can do it. Get the protein in, mate. Thank you, Triple Tail. Thanks, mate. I'm so happy in this moment, this is delicious. Travelling to new places, solo or with the people who matter most, is one of life's great joys. You get thrown in the deep end, tuk tuks, dodgy dispensaries, bear sanctuaries, back country roads, cabarets and chaotic markets that smell like 10 different kinds of spice and diesel. It shakes up the way you see the world and yourself. But doing it with your old man, doing it with dad, that's something else. And something that I feel if you can do, you should do more of. You see a different side of each other. Sharing stories over local brews, laughing at the chaos, arguing over which backstreet noodle joint is better, walking the local markets. It's messy, it's real and for me it's been unforgettable. I guess that's the point. Travel isn't often about the destination, it's about the company, the curiosity and these unexpected detours. It's about six o'clock and we're going to ride into town and check out the morning markets. That's where life starts out here. Haven't driven one of these in a while. Would this be a corpus like this morning or last night? Looks very fresh. It is a bustling trade this morning. Busy shop. it's got everything in here everything to make a soup yeah fermented soybean tempeh looks really good they're one of my favorite fruits it's been so sweet. I'll buy one bag of rambutan, thank you. Rahayu. Rahayu. I'm stoked of that. We're back out on the water but this time with no spear guns. Joshua is not only a passionate underwater hunter but a seriously skilled free diving instructor and his underwater content is next level so make sure you check out his Instagram and book in a session if you can for a free dive or a spear. We felt super lucky to be out here diving the clean warm waters of Indonesia and getting real-time feedback on how to move more efficiently, dive safer and stay down longer. I think we've been on the float here for maybe 30 or 40 minutes and already there's quite a few different species of fish that are coming up and swimming around our face and our bodies and the float we're becoming the fish attraction device much better yeah it's like you can feel yourself pulling oh my my pen my chance to talk i gotta relax yeah the number one is to be aware if we're not aware that we can't change anything we can't control anything exactly when we're aware then we can change it yeah control it yeah okay and then i was like feeling a little I couldn't equalize, so I just paused. Your left hand behind my neck. Behind my neck. Your right hand, you can let go. Blow, pop, pop, pop, and Joshua, breathe, Joshua, breathe. Blow harder, blow to the face area, yeah? Okay. Every time I do some freediving and rescue training, I realize there's always more to learn down there. Oh, it was great. Just to do it in like a really controlled, formal environment. Yeah, the conditions are great. Yeah. No sailfish, though. No, I was looking. A couple of weeks ago Joshua was out here doing some free diving training and just in the middle of nowhere had this big curious sailfish swim up next to him and just like swim around him for, I don't know, like a minute or so out here on the blue, which is incredible. Were you out like this when the sailfish came and swam up to you? Yeah, it was just like three metres away from the buoy. The students are just relaxing and I just lift up for a bit. Yeah. Wow. They don't realise it. Oh man, thanks for that. That was awesome. I really enjoyed that guys. That was awesome. Definitely beneficial doing it every now and then. I haven't formally done any free dive training in years, but always good to do, especially the safety side of things. We might go and try and find a better reef now to check out. It was cool to check out a completely new spot, these epic man-made coral reefs. Steel frames sunk to the ocean floor, powered by solar panels. Local corals have been grafted onto them and with the electric charge, they actually grow faster and stronger. Now there's fish everywhere, there's turtles cruising through, there's a whole new reef ecosystem taking shape. Nature is truly bouncing back here and there's all sorts of wildlife. I just did not expect that, on the way to the boat, a big mother dugong with a little calf. Really, really impressive to see, Josh. That's really cool. I didn't know what that was. I thought it was like a person on scuba. I thought it was like five times bigger than a I didn't know what that was. I thought it was like a person on scuba, but it's like five times bigger than a human Very cool. We got a captain It's cool little gate. I keep the cows out Looking good, mate. That's my colour. Here, the majority of Indonesia is Muslim, but there's little pockets of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and this particular temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples, and it's still a working, still a practising temple. I think all of the different places of worship I've been throughout the world, I always arrive, stay and then leave feeling calmer than when I walked in. So I'm feeling very grateful to be here. Tucked away in some nearby hills here in the north, we found a pura or temple, which locals visit to ask for luck in business, farming and trade. It's peaceful, it's quiet. You can really feel the good energy here. Offerings are everywhere, there's incense in the air, there's carvings that look like they've seen a thousand years of prayer. They say the goddess here brings abundance. Standing here, it felt more like a reminder. Stay grounded, stay grateful, be present and respect the land around you that feeds you. It's a pretty special spot. As much Much as I've tried to spend a large part of my life getting away from man-made structures and people and civilization, I have to say one of the most rewarding things to do is to go out and see cultures outside of yourself. Different country, different people, different way of living, different mindsets. It's both humbling and educating. And like Anthony Bourdain said, travel is very much an education for living, which is something that's been going through my mind over the last few weeks here in Southeast Asia. If you're after some behind-the-scenes content and to support the channel jump on to our Patreon page. Thanks for watching guys, we'll see you out there somewhere.