 I used to do that job in salmon farms and commercial days Oh, did you? Did you cut the eggs out of them? I used to do everything And they inseminate the eggs? Oh, that's crazy, hey How cool is that, dude? Like, when does that happen? Hey, brother Peace to you, my friend They're talking to you Yeah No, that's okay No, you're all right What's up, man? Yeah, no, I just wanted to say hi, man Oh, cool, brother I would love to see I used to do that job in salmon farms and commercial days Oh, did you? Did you cut the eggs out of them? I used to do everything And they inseminate the eggs? Oh, that's crazy, hey I was a vegetarian at 15 But I was doing that job at 21, 23 I used to dive to the depths of 50 meters To clean up the corpses and all that shit Oh, because it's farming? Yeah, yeah, yeah I used to work with ROV, like remote operating vehicles Yeah, yeah, yeah And they show you what's below these farms It's completely barren Absolutely deserted And there is a sludge from the shade of the fish Yeah And from the food that they don't eat They eat about 30% of the food that is thrown at them So, yeah And the feces that come out of the salmon farms is huge And the disease, they get like lice and Chlamydia, heart disease and all those things A lot of all the types of diseases that you can think of You see them on the nets And, yeah, no, the problem is that Also, the by-catch get caught in the farm I used to release sea lions And seals And one time we almost had to release a whale as well From these nets Dude, that is crazy So where were these salmon farms? South of Chile Chile Yeah, South of Chile It's owned by Norway Yeah Sold to everywhere Like Australia is a big buyer of So Australians are supporting everything that happens In these factory fish farms in Chile Yeah Because all the fish comes, they import it all over the world Yeah Over the world Like China is also a big buyer of Chilean fish That is owned by Norway people So in the end, they're not only having the animals and the environment They're also messing with people livelihood over there Yeah Because that job is super, super dangerous Like I did for a couple years on my first year I almost died three times And like people who are doing these jobs That they're so extreme They develop all sorts of addictions and mentalism Because of the job, the job's pushing to the limits It's a job, yeah I gotta start on the face On the job With a fishing rod? No, no, no, like one of the divers Run out of cigarettes And the job is so intense that the motion's getting intense too We had a fight and the guy tried to stab me Like, like a slice in my eyes Oh my god dude I had a few more things like that and I got out I got out It was way too much People don't think of a salmon farm Being such a horrible hellhole It's horrible, it's horrible It's like a nearest slavery situation Like a lot of people are living in it Like there is entire towns That are working for this because It pays a little bit more than other jobs So they keep those jobs underpaid Like the salmon farm industry keep those jobs underpaid So you have to work for them Yeah But when you work for them You see like all your stuff And really like a lot of people get PTSD and stuff like that I met a lady who had five kids Because they have a lot of kids over there It's very poor people I was very poor and I got into that job It was the only way to learn to dive as well And these days I have five kids Four of them became divers and died And her husband died She had one kid And the kid was like There's nothing else I can do here in the area If I want to remain close to you I have to go into the salmon farm Poor lady Poor salmon No my friend What we're asking from people is If you consume sea animals You're paying for these industries to happen So all we're asking people to do is to stop These supporting these industries Yeah because if you're not a vegan You're not a vegan as you eat plants You don't wear any animal products You don't abuse and kill animals for your lifestyle basically So when you do all those things You get all these animal products out of your lifestyle Then you can say that you're consistently against their abuse But these places like the salmon farm He was talking about in Chile In Mali I've seen I release a shark from one of these All the bio catch This is all happening because people want to eat fish and seafood And they're dragging up massive trawling nets Dragging up every single sea animal Just to target one species They throw all the rest over the you know I rescue turtles as well And they usually have hooks and lines on the stomach Yeah I'll show you I'll give you some information We don't want any money But I appreciate you doing that What you should think about is where you put your money Yeah Yeah So here's some fish facts And this is um This is uh Challenge 22 They help you for 22 days for free On how to be a vegan But I've made a little booklet here Yeah That's got all the stores where you can shop Where you can eat And apps you can use to avoid animal products Yeah And uh You can make a huge difference over your lifetime man Thanks very much All right brother Thanks for reaching out to that aye No worries mate aye Have a good day Thank you very much for stopping by Yeah yeah Of course you're Yeah yeah How you going mate Good thanks Son's my mum Should be your s*** Ah say hi to your mum Yeah school men like a lot of vegans Don't care much about the ocean animal No no Well I Are you More people need to Yeah they're not spoken about as much are they Yeah but uh We are focusing completely on them for the next week That's good man Come on guys Fish feel pain Just getting the message out there Yeah they do So we shouldn't be eating them That's for sure I mean it's a simple thing If you believe they already If you already believe they feel pain Then stop causing them pain Yeah Yeah check this out I'm not kidding manly In Ferry Bauer we had to rescue her Because she was very sick And it's not the only turtle Like late in the last year There has been like over six turtle rescues The turtles that are very sick Because they eat plastic Or they get caught in fishing line as well Fishing line People who are thinking like oh I'm just fishing one Fish for my family Yeah yeah But it's like yeah that line gets caught up somewhere And then the turtle goes and gets stung And they either die Or they start getting all these diseases From fishing nets And just because somebody wants to eat fish for dinner In the end it's killing turtles in Ferry Bauer in Manly And like we have taken out of the water a few turtles And they always have plastic man They always have plastic And most of the time it's fishing line Fishing line And people won't eat straws Or they'll get like a plastic Different plastic bag They'll get like a paper bag or this and that But they'll eat fish Which stumps massive amount You watched these spirits series recently No I'm already vegan for like 10 years So it's like I don't want to see water Yeah I get it It's pretty interesting though It's like I don't want to see that shit Nah I get it I'm already vegan and I try to do all my things so it's like Yeah It's a We're campaigning off the back of it to promote it To people who need to see it basically Yeah so it's really interesting that you come up I used to fish when I was a kid Yeah yeah Wow so did I I used to kick fish And like you know I do horrible things We were spear fish And I would hit the little clown fish with the spear Just stabbing them because I was ignorant I didn't think anything of it you know what I mean But now looking back I feel like a monster You know what I mean Just senselessly torturing animals You know and uh Yeah it doesn't make sense I grew up like that And in my country there's a lot of meat eating And there's a lot of fishing and a lot of hunting So you're from Chile? Yeah yourself Okay Yeah So there is a lot of that So to break that from that dog man Yeah It's pretty harsh But it just makes sense Yeah It just makes sense Like if you have a little bit of empathy for someone If you can have it for another fish too And when I'm not asking them to like I'm not asking them to do anything special Just not cause them suffering and harm And abuse and killing Like you don't have to like Get them tattooed on your face or anything Or you know donate all the money that you have in your bank Just you know So What's your name again? Lotaro Lotaro Lotaro Lotaro Did I pronounce it properly? I'm pretty Lotaro Lotaro Good brother Do you use spearfish like you used to? I used to Thank you Years No I very amateur for a few weeks We did it drunk Just young Yeah I got a little bit when we went down When we hit the Yeah no no no My friend had a big gun And I would shoot bigger fish And I would have one of the ones that You know retract on your arm And you let go And I had the three prongs on there Yeah okay Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah So I'm a freedom instructor Ah yeah I try to drag more vegan people to it because if I feel like more vegans that care already about animals getting to the ocean and discover that are going to put a bit more focus into the ocean which is even more important that whatever happens on the land, like the ocean produces like almost triple of the oxygen that what is produced on land, like the ocean is insane, it's a massive carbon basin as well for all the carbon that gets, yeah it's crazy. 100 reasons, it's like I try to bring more vegans into the ocean, this is a video that one of my students did, this is one of my entry-level students, it's me on the video, but my student recorded it, that's a grey North shark there. Well, so interaction with animals, like it's not only happening on land, like people like relate so much to dogs and everything but it's like I relate to sharks sometimes and we have this beautiful moment like face to face, you know. One sec, can he film this moment? I can send it to you if you want to see. That's okay, can you see this? Tell them what you were saying to me this moment here. Yeah this is a beautiful moment of connection, interaction, there is boy language from her and from me, this is a juvenile and dangerous grey North shark and I need more people to see this because they can relate, they understand that there is a connection to be made to have with underwater animals, at least with land animals. Yeah, good on you brother, it's really good talking to you mate, if I was here for the weekend we're leaving, we're leaving on Friday, but I would love to come diving, it would actually be good for the filming as well, we could do that, but uh... Joey, Carp, Stronger, Carp, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I first got to Australia, I think it was like five years ago I saw it, I was like, I like this guy, he's not the classic yogi, relax and stuff and stuff. No, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I had a lot of f***, it was like, you're vegan too, I value that shit. Yeah mate. Because coming back from this side of life that is a little bit rougher, it takes more. Takes more, because if you're already there, compassionately, you only need a little push, but I have to change the way I've seen everything. Bless you my brother. Keep up your great work with the sea animals man, hey. Thanks mate. How cool is that dude? He worked in a salmon farm, he's like, teaches free diving so people connect with sea animals. He's like having like crazy moments with sharks underwater, he's like rescuing turtles from, you know, plastic that they're eating, fishing nets and stuff. Like when does that happen? Literally the most amazing sea life activist vegan just walks past who worked on a salmon farm, you know, while we're doing this. Anyway, if I do get an opportunity, I hate going in the ocean because I believe that's not my, ain't my environment, I stay out here because that belongs to the sea animals. And if anything happens to you when there's your own fault, but it would be actually pretty crazy to go there and go into the sea to connect with the animals and to film it. I think that would actually, this whole connecting with sea animals campaign that we're trying to do here, that would actually put the icing on the vegan cake. You've used animals through your lifestyle, that's all. I want to tell you, you've used animals through your lifestyle. Can I just look at the hooks? I want the one that's going to, that's going to really stab into the face to pull them out. Just going to have a look here. Prisoner. Massive tuner, eh?