freediving for scallops - Wellington, NZ

diving 10 meters (30 feet) down on a single breath to collect scallops. living off the land is something unique to Wellington, New Zealand. an English speaking capital city where you can collect clean and fresh seafood just 5 minutes from work or home. the Department of Fisheries allows each person to collect 20 scallops per person per day, which is quite a lot. Craig and I usually collect our quota when we freedive for scallops. mmmmm, fresh scallops.....

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• freediving
• for
• scallops
• diving
• wellington
• new
• zealand
• collecting
• seafood
• single
• breath
• hold
• living
• off
• the
• land

[whitewingsoulpanther]

do scallops have pearls?

[kenisanidiot]

OMG ITS JEREMY LIN!!!!!!

[RVAepiphanyseeker]

I want to move to Wellington! I've been a SCUBA diver for years and never took anything but photos!

[tall32guy]

How do you pick them up or sneak up on them, without them flappin and getting away? hehe

[sikashooter]

I do appoligise if my comment was perceived as inappropriate, however i will say, my family were in a number of wars, ww1, ww2 Vietnam to preserve what is kiwi about this great country, and pillaging the coast isn't very kiwi.

[GOTALITEG]

@UnholyStyx take what you can? Are you kidding me, its idiots like you who have no consideration for the environment then wonder why the price of seafood sky rockets! Im hoping MAF will be knocking on your door, because as idiots you failed to think that concerned NZ like my self will report you, and yes they have the link to your youtube evidence vid, oh and if your thinking of taking it down, i took the time to screen shot your faces just in case you did, happy diving!!

[GOTALITEG]

@sikashooter you will find that unless your Maori, everyone in NZ are guests, choose your words wisely or your look like an uneducated fool! Im porn breed NZ PI who also feels strongly about idiots who do not comply to NZ regulations so don't paint everyone with the same brush!!

[benwinza]

well well well. Another REALLY disappointing video of people taking undersize kai from the sea. Show some respect for the ocean please....

[dilt4]

@sikashooter I am pretty sure they live there.

[luckys303]

go back home and take ur own fish, grrr, ive seen far to much of asians and the like pillaging, takin anything and everything. buckets and buckets of everything undersized, Kiwi's dont work this way. when i dive or fish i only ever take the biggest paua and ill only ever take 5, thats a mean feed... gettin real sick of our fish stocks droping makin it harder and harder to get my 1/2 quota... dont come over here and fuk our fishing plz! stay at home and fuk ur own fishing!... oh too late huh ?