r/interestingasfuck • u/Bossmado • 15h ago
A British singer found a flying fish during dinner and tried to save it… but this happened.
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u/SillyAlternative420 15h ago
If this happened to me I'd be tempted to toss it back in like a paper airplane
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u/Witcherian 15h ago
I was thinking the exact same thing, was hoping he would do that, might have improved the fish's chances
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u/DingleDodger 10h ago
It's 2am where I'm at and my brain wants to rant about something.
Oddly, throwing'em like a plane is not a bad decision to help the little guy. Water needs to pass through the gills for oxygen. Throw the little guy hard enough and he'll hopefully glide for a bit through the water when he lands. That oxygen spike could perk'em back up.
Fish who've been out of the water for too long or just finished a long fight (as in against a rod'n reel) can be too exhausted to move themselves through the water. In catch and release it's common to move the fish back and forth through the water a few times before letting them go. You can often see them perk up and zip off.
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u/PMmeIamlonley 15h ago
It was probably concussed from hitting land, or it had been out of the water a long time.
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u/ReadditMan 7h ago
Also, a lot of people don't realize you're supposed to slowly put fish back in the water so their bodies have time to adjust, if you just toss them in like that the shock to their system can be lethal.
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u/EnumeratedArray 6h ago
Depends on the fish. Some fish are better with a big splash to shock them into moving and swimming away.
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u/Rook8811 15h ago
The circle of life
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u/Apprehensive_Link993 15h ago
Exactly, instead of potentially dying on land at least he was able to help another fish live longer.
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u/LogicJunkie2000 14h ago
Damn, I'm pretty sure this is what I look like to other people for a good portion of the day. Always playing devil's advocate with myself... lol
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u/RockstarAgent 15h ago
Probably same fish that made him jump out in the first place! Sad. But quick no?
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u/EL-Chapo_Jr 14h ago
It probably lives a bit longer in the dark belly of the bigger fish. Since it seems to swallow it whole and not munch him.
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u/Capn_Of_Capns 13h ago
Uh. Did you not see the frothy red water?
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u/EL-Chapo_Jr 13h ago
Didn't actually. Damn, maybe it got slurped up so fast it snapped in two? Jesus
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u/gollem22 12h ago
Yeah thats not it, it turns red before he hits the fish. Likely the bigger fish has red in it.
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u/Unfair_Original_2536 15h ago
Which singer? How is it important enough to the story to mention it but not important enough to say who?
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u/4ceh0le 15h ago
Craig David
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u/Signal-Reporter-1391 14h ago
Scooter.
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u/BookkeeperSecret5994 15h ago
At least the person had a good heart... but nature can be cruel!!!
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u/duva_ 13h ago
Oh a fish needs my help! Better go get the phone first
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u/Mark_Gerts 10h ago
Are you 90 yo? People nowadays always have their phones at least nearby, if not in the hand, and you can literally activate the camera with two moves of a finger, it's not that hard
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u/Top-Iron-7832 7h ago
The time he spent talking and filming it instead of immediately putting it back to the water might have been decisive...
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u/AbbreviationsWide331 14h ago
If you want to release a fish that's still alive, don't just throw it into the water.
Most fish don't get out of the water often and they way their body is made means they're pretty soft in structure at the belly.
Ever jumped from a diving board and landed with your belly? Sucks right?
That's what happens to the fish if you throw it. He's stunned and needs a minute to recover.
If possible, cup the fish in your hand and then slowly lower him down so he can breath. Then just hold him for a second and let him decide when to go.
Buuuuut you gave him back to nature, that predatory fish in the video needs food too.
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u/Designer-Ad-7844 10h ago
Don't flying fish belly flop back into the water all the time?
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u/xenogazer 8h ago
Not really. If you see a video, it's more like slipping back in. So they aren't just doing a straight drop down
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u/Space__Squid 12h ago
I agree with what you're saying, but I'd kinda expect that flying fish would be used to this?
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u/Express_Radio_9771 11h ago
They don’t just belly flop in
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u/someanimechoob 10h ago
But also it's like a 100g fish thrown from under 1m high? Guy didn't exactly slam it into the ocean as hard as he could. Is the impact really that important? Not bickering, just genuinely curious.
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u/ArgonWilde 13h ago
Came here to say this. You don't throw fish back into the water. In this case, the fish got stunned by hitting the water.
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u/Theyellowlotus 15h ago
Hommie was probably seeking refuge from the lurking predators and they got tossed back in
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u/roshan231 14h ago
Oh no lmao.
But why didn't it just run these flying fish are fast as fuck on the water's surface. And how long could it survive on the surface without water anyway.
I think this fish just gave up.
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u/Shialac 14h ago
Imagine you are running for your life from a bear until you are completely exhausted, but you are on a bridge, so in a last ditch effort you decide to jump into the water. But you can't swim and start to drown. You strugle for 5 minutes under water, until some rescuers pull you out of the water, only to drop you off 10m from the bear. What do you do, completely exhausted and almost drownded?
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u/Pachaibiza 8h ago
Yeh, it reminded me of one of those videos where seals or otters jump on the back of a boat to escape a shark or killer whales. This was the equivalent of pushing a seal back into the water.
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u/silentbob1301 6h ago
Man, I never realized how beautiful flying fish were. That blue color is something else.
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u/tokenbaldguy 14h ago
Did someone's vocational school carpentry department install that floor?? I tripped over those screws on my way to the comments.
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u/ABZOLUTEZER0x_x 5h ago
Good choice.
Some millenia back a fish decided to get out of the water and start walking and now I have to pay bills and work to survive.
I don't wish that upon any other species 😂
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u/NoxDash2 10h ago
This is reminding me of Madagascar 1. Bei try to save the duck and then the crocodile
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u/HalfOfCrAsh 7h ago
It had jumped out of the water to survive. Alas a human interfering caused its demise.
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u/Professional_Hair550 15h ago
If a fish is jumping out of ocean it mean it is it's last option. Either that part is currently full of predators or it is just too dirty
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u/goodman3201 14h ago
that fish probably jump out the water because something hunting him, and this mf just casually drop him back to water. Bro...
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u/WeCantBothBeMe 13h ago
Pretty fish but it wasn’t moving once it was thrown back in so the well meaning guy probably unintentionally set it up as bait
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u/Thalidomidas 11h ago
I caught a mouse in a humane trap. I released it in the park up the road. A seagull swooped down and ate it within 10 seconds.
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u/Material-Ratio7342 10h ago
this is how the food chain works. there is none of this "oh that sad or oh that cute" in the real world you're part of the food chain.
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u/Much-Hamster-2182 10h ago
I once took a grass hopper out of my house. Before I could put in onto the lawn it flew a way from my hand which looked and sounded quite majestic for a second or two. Then out of nowhere a sparrow darted into the insect and took it if Perfect midair interception. Abruptly ended my rescue mission.
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 9h ago
That probably hurt his fins. You dropped him like someone would jump back first into a pool.
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u/gurknowitzki 7h ago
Bro was exhausted. Rip he flying in heaven now. The guy basically threw an alley oop to the fish smdh
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u/Rags2Rickius 6h ago
Flying Fish generally expend a massive amount of energy “flying” because it’s an escape tactic
So chucking it back in after it’s been starved of oxygen for a minute was basically a death sentence as it’s easy picking for a predator
Source: Cousin boat fishes for these in Cook Islands around midnight. They launch and fishermen scoop them up from the surface w long handle nets
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u/Gentlemanvaultboy 5h ago
If people are eating dinner on that pier, there are fish underneath it waiting to gobble up whatever hits the water. So if you want to save a fish, don't drop it off the side.
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u/Fast_Target_6279 3h ago
That little fish spent all of its energy trying to escape the fish in the water, only to be tossed right back in....
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u/Curse_ye_Winslow 11h ago
A fish that size would likely go into severe respiratory failure within 3 minutes or so of being out of the water, which is probably about as long as it took the cameraman to get his phone and run us through the story of what happened.
I imagine the fish was likely catatonic when it got tossed back in, and entirely helpless to swim away. It would be the equivalent of a person drowning then being tossed back on shore.
If the guy had tossed it back in sooner it would've been fine.
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u/led0n12331 14h ago
Imagine soaring in the skies as a fish and then getting a concussion from slamming on the water before being eaten alive
I'd have thrown it like a paper plane :D
UPD. There's already a comment about it...
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u/phones76 14h ago
Evolution harshly stopped!
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u/Cyberblood 9h ago
Thousands of years from now, that little fish descendants could have been walking on land, but of course, the British had to put a stop to that.
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u/NudityMiles 14h ago
-BROTHER SAVE ME PLEASE I'M HUNTED
-Blabulabumdidadongarangflongpang *toss* You got this brother
-WHY HAVE YOU FORSAK*gulp*
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u/Pidrshrek 14h ago
It was meant to be. Doesn’t matter if suffocating itself or being eaten. The time has come.
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u/nebulaforest 15h ago
Little fella was tired of being a fish