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Whoa look at this!

The Hawaiian Islands, simply put, are cinematic.

Forged from the Earth by molten lava,

there are eight land masses in total.

And on this adventure, we will be exploring

on the remote island of Kauai.

A literal paradise, this diverse location

has been the backdrop for many movies and television series.

But today it will be the backdrop for Beyond the Tide.

Oh man, this is pretty epic.

Check out the rain over there,

it's going to the mountains.

Yeah, well as long as that stays that way

I think we're good.

Because where we want to head is right up

here into this rock bed and start

looking for marine creatures.

All right guys, our first beyond the tide episode in Hawaii.

I'm pretty excited, let's move.

Under the light of day when the tide pulls back

from the shoreline, intertidal pools can be the perfect place

to find hidden marine animals.

However, under the cover of darkness,

these animals emerge from their hiding spots

to search for food, which makes exploring the tide

pools at night the perfect time to get up close

and personal with some seriously bizarre creatures.

All right, well we have made it to the shoreline.

And let's go with the path of least resistance on this one

and go this way.

That looks like a bunch of tangles of trees,

and that looks like open shoreline.

All right, start moving.

Wow, look at this.

The overhanging leaves on the shoreline-- there's a crab!

Oh!

There it goes.

Ghost crabs!

You see how fast those were?

Look at the structure.

This is all real soft sand, you see that?

Oh Yeah.

And then there are these different hard rock

masses, very different than anything we've explored before.

Is it slippy?

This is not.

That's very grippy.

Sand is very soft.

How deep is it out there?

Not too deep right here, but it's warm!

It's warm water.

We're used to tide pooling in freezing cold water,

so it's not going to be too bad getting soaking wet tonight.

And I think it's just a matter of time

before we find the right pools to start exploring in.

All right, let's head up-- oh! there's another crab.

Look at that, you see it?

Where?

Running along the edge there, man

we've got to catch one of those ghost crabs.

All right, let's just keep getting distractions.

Did you get it?

Got it.

All right, let's go.

Wow, OK!

Oh man, they're everywhere.

They are everywhere,

you can see how fast they are.

Here, bring the light in.

They're called ghost crabs, in my opinion,

because they're so fast they disappear

like a ghost in the wind.

And we've seen them skittering all over the sand,

and I snuck up on that one and actually used the same tactic

I've used with frogs, where I keep a bright light

right on its eyes.

It kind of keeps it stunned right there in place,

and I was able to actually get my hand on it.

And then it tried to pinch me, I let go,

and it ran down in these rocks and I just managed

to get a hand on top of it.

I had a pretty good shot.

I saw you try to go for it, and then it ran behind you.

You saw that? Yeah.

it have like this zigzag move, it was like dododoop,

and went right around me.

But there you have it, our first marine creature

of the night, a ghost crab.

It's interesting, he's got his eyes tucked in right now,

but these eye sockets are rather pretty.

Let me see if I can get him to--

put your eyes up.

Watch this.

Wow.

See that?

Now I don't know how good their eyesight is,

but they can sense light and movement, certainly.

And it appears that too much light forces

it to just stay in one spot.

Wow.

My hand's actually kind of shaking,

that was a tough catch.

What a cool crab. Right?

What big eyes you have.

Yes, Mr crab, what large eyes you have.

That's cool, man.

All right.

Our first marine creature of the night, a ghost crab.

You guys want to see how fast this little thing runs?

Let's see it. Watch this.

Put it right down in the sand, it's

going to bolt into the water.

Whoa!

Cool.

Now a lot of times in tide pool episodes,

we're flipping rocks.

But look down at the ground here.

It's all sand.

It's a lot of sand.

And the rocks that we do have, like this, are massive

and they are not exactly flippable.

So what I do have is this net.

We're going to wade out into the shallow water

and see if we can get something inside.

You ready?

Let's do it.

All right.

With our lights scanning the shallow waters,

we carefully made our way through the maze of rocks.

All of a sudden we came across our next animal.

I've got something over here.

What do you got?

Looks like a slug.

Oh, no it's a sea cucumber!

All right, guys.

Follow my hand down here right into the water.

Oh, yeah.

You see it right here?

There it is.

All right, I'm going to pick it up really slowly, you ready?

Oh, come here buddy.

Here we go.

Wow, that is a good size sea cucumber.

Totally stretched out I would say this-- woah,

look at it squirting water!

That's not pee, that is excess water from inside of its body.

Let me turn it for you like that, oh it's like a tremor!

Look at that beast.

This is the most common sea cucumber species

here in Hawaii, and one that I hoped

that we would come across.

Underwater you can see that they have

all these little bumps, that's what makes

them look like a cucumber.

I keep saying sea cucumber, and you probably thinking, well,

is it a vegetable or is it an animal?

Mark, do you know?

Uh, I don't want to eat it.

No.

Well actually you can eat the sea cucumber.

Really?

But the sea cucumber is not a vegetable,

it is an animal.

They're actually the same phylum as sea urchins and sea stars.

Now let me see, one end is the anus and one hand is the mouth.

I do believe this is the anus, also known as a butt.

I think it just farted, actually.

And this is the mouth.

No really, I heard a [farting noise]...

Really?

Yeah, I heard it.

It farted on me.

Now this end here is the mouth, and these creatures

are very similar to the terrestrial earthworm in that

they're moving along the basin of the ocean

and they're literally eating through one end.

And they feed by bringing sand into their body,

and then they're absorbing all the algae

and all the decomposing plant matter that's

on the base of the ocean.

And as they're moving along, it's

processing through the length of the body

and then being pooped out on this end in

these little tiny sand pebbles.

And sure enough, here's some right here.

And I'm going to pick it up, OK?

That's sand.

Nope, this is poop!

I'm going to get a whole handful of it.

Why are you touching it?

Because I want to show you guys when

sea cucumber poop looks like.

Oh man, look at that.

It just crumbles in my fingers.

Hold on, let me get a little turd here.

Very slowly.

That right there.

Yeah, that is deposited sea cucumber droppings right there.

Ew.

It just smells like sand.

And basically the sand filters through their body,

they absorb their nutrients from the plants that

are growing on the sand, and then they

continue about their business.

Now like I said, this is the most common sea cucumber

species here in Hawaii.

There are around 50 different species, and around

1,200 species worldwide.

But the one I'm really looking for tonight

is the white spotted sea cucumber,

it's very cool looking.

So we're going to put this guy back into the water

and see if we can find one of those white spotted ones.

Sound good?

Let's do it.

All right, bye big guy.

Thanks for squirting water on me.

All right, guys.

Come here, check this out.

What do we got?

Our second cucumber species of the night.

You see it right here?

Oh yeah.

I'm going to slowly bring it off the rock.

Got a good shot?

Yeah, much different looking.

That is a white spotted--

woah!

There goes the water excretion.

Look at it deflate, just like a water

balloon with a hole in it.

And that's the butt right there, and that's the mouth.

Now this is the white spotted cucumber,

another very common species here in the Hawaiian tide pools.

Now what makes this sea cucumber very unique is it

actually has five teeth in it's butt.

What? Why?

You heard me right.

Why would have teeth in it's butt?

Are you done?

Now these teeth are not used for feeding,

they're actually used as a defense.

Now there's a parasitic fish out here called a pearlfish that

will actually try to swim inside of its butt

and then feast off of its organs.

Well, I'm glad it has the teeth then, because that's

one eerie thought.

No, things swimming up your butt,

eating your organs?

Not a good day.

But looks turn this little white spotted sea

cucumber this direction and look at his face.

Hi, buddy.

Kind of look like an elephant trunk, don't you?

Now I love these ones, and you can

clearly see where they get the name white spotted cucumber.

See those little white spots?

Little bumpy patches all over it's back?

Those do help with camouflage in the tide pool.

Now they do get quite a bit bigger than this,

but any sea cucumber is a cool cucumber in my book.

I see what you did there.

Yeah, that's a little pun.

All right, well, shall we put this one back into the water

and see what else we can find?

Let's do it.

All right.

Cucumbers are everywhere,

Give its tube feet a second to grip on there.

Here you go buddy.

All right, let's keep moving.

Watch out for sea urchins!

Woah, look at this!

OK, it's turning into the night of the sea cucumbers.

This is not what I was expecting to find.

Hold on a second, can you see this right here?

That is a warty sea cucumber.

Now a lot of its warts are going to disappear when I pick it up.

Look at that.

That is awesome.

Wow.

Oh my gosh, I can feel all it's little tube

feet gripping on to my fingers.

That is so cool.

All right, I'm going to lift it up a little bit higher, very

gently.

That may be the most bizarre looking marine creature.

Oh it's making a fart noise.

Hello.

I know, you're right in the middle of dinner

eating all sorts of plant matter.

Dead stuff on the bottom of the ocean.

I can't even believe what I'm holding right now,

are you you seeing this?

That thing is so bizarre looking.

A warty sea cucumber, just when you

thought the big black sea cucumber was bizarre,

we find this thing!

I think this is the mouth and this is the butt.

It's tough to tell on this one.

How do you tell which is which?

Well, usually the mouth will actually extend out.

I believe this is the mouth, and they

have these little tentacles that they use-- yeah,

this is the head.

Here we go, look, maybe he's going to show us his tentacles.

Your tentacles going to come out?

No, I guess not.

But they use it like a little vacuum cleaner like numnumnum

to eat up a bunch of sand.

They just process it through their bodies.

And then what's really cool about all sea cucumbers

that I know of is that they actually

breathe through their butts.

Can you see his butt there?

That's a butt?

And that's where it breathes?

Yeah, you see that?

You see the air coming out, that's why

I'm hearing that farting noise.

Oh my gosh, it is. - Right?

I thought you were kidding.

No, breathes through it's butt!

Crazy gross, but crazy awesome.

Oh, there you go.

It's excreting a little bit of it's excess water.

You can see the body is deflating now at this point,

it's kind of just turning into a gelatinous mass.

This thing is crazy awesome.

Oh look at this, look at this!

What's happening?

That's its mouth.

Here it comes, sticking his head out.

Hey buddy.

You see all these little tentacles up front here?

Oh yeah.

They're contracted in,

but when he's under water-- oh, it's leaking on me.

It's opening it's mouth.

Something's happening.

That's its mouth.

That's its mouth right there, you see that?

That is crazy.

Similar to the sea slugs that we've shown you guys before,

and remember, this is not a slug.

It's related to sea stars and sea urchins.

When they're in the water, they actually take their true form.

Watch this, I'm going to set it back down in here

and it's going to go from a blob of jello

back into a sea cucumber.

Dude, this is the coolest thing I've ever--

Look you can see it, see the tentacles

come out of its face. Oh yeah.

Look at that, look at that!

You see all those tentacles up front there?

Yup.

That's its mouth, look at that.

You can see all the tube feet better under water like that.

Actually, if I keep it under water like this,

look at all those tube feet on the underside.

Those are all like little itty bitty suction

cups that help helping to slowly move

along the base of the ocean.

Look like he has a mustache.

It does.

It looks like a big walrus mustache.

Let me touch those.

Those are little sensory organs.

Now, can it bite you?

No, sea cucumbers do not bite.

I can see all the little warts

or appendages have come back.

Oh, yeah.

See that?

Now it's completely taken as sea cucumber form.

Look how long this one is, look at its body

fully stretched out.

That is impressive.

What an amazing creature.

I'm in complete awe of this thing right now.

Hold on, it's holding onto my arm.

There we go, so cool.

I love sea cucumbers, they're becoming my

new favorite marine creature.

Fascinating, and there are around 1,200 species worldwide

and 50 in Hawaii alone.

How cool is that? Wow.

Yeah, you guys have

a lot of sea cucumbers here.

I mean, we've only been exploring

for what, an hour and a half?

We've come across three species already.

It's pretty awesome.

Well I would definitely say that our first episode of Beyond

the Tide filmed in the dark, certainly

turned into the night of the sea cucumber.

I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave, stay wild.

We'll see on the next adventure.

All right, buddy.

Back off into the ocean with you.

All right, Coyote, what's going on?

Well, we are on our way out to the Circleville Dive Center,

where the past few months, we've been

working on scuba dive training.

And we are about to get dive certified, this is our last day

of classes, our last open water dive,

so we figured we would film it.

And we're going to head out into this quarry looking

for a giant catfish today.

All right.

Now before we actually go looking for the catfish,

we have to kind of finish our dive certification first.

So I'm going to get my BCD and my tank on.

Time to get certified.

And here's your temporary card.

Yes, thank you sir!

You're more than welcome.

Got it!

Officially certified.

Let's get back out into the water to look for some fish.

All right, I'm all set.

Let's go find ourselves a giant catfish.

As we deflated our BCDs, or as they are technically called,

buoyancy control devices, we sank beneath the surface

and began searching for this legendary catfish.

For years I have heard tales of this giant,

and everyone that gets dive certified in this quarry

has their own yarn to spin.

Some say he's as big as a school bus.

One person actually warned me that his mouth

was so massive that my entire head could fit inside.

They say the Circleville beast is out there, and maybe he is.

But so far the only fish I saw were bass and bluegill.

Give us an update.

What are we seeing?

Hold on a second.

Let me blow up a little bit here.

A lot of fish.

Pretty cold.

It's pretty cold down there.

No big catfish yet.

Saw some bluegill and some bass, that's about it.

There's a lot of clouds rolling in.

Found some muddy spots, it's pretty cool down there.

Diving is definitely a whole new world, that's for sure.

We go to plan b?

I think so.

plan b, I think it's time to draw out those catfish.

All right. - Want to see what happens?

Let's do it.

Gotta get back to the dock.

Head back over to dock, and we're

going to break out plan b.

I got it.

What is it?

I have a secret weapon when it comes to finding the biggest

catfish in the pond.

Oh, Ball Parks!

There it is right there, Ball Park hot dogs.

All right.

The channel catfish is North America's most numerous catfish

species and they can be found in almost

every waterway across the middle and Eastern United States.

Holy cow, dude.

There's a sea of catfishes right here.

They like immediately showed up.

On average, a full grown adult like the Circleville beast

tips the scales at around 20 pounds.

However, they can get significantly larger,

with the current world record tipping

the scales at 58 pounds.

They have an incredible sense of smell,

and the minute that a potential food source--

even something like a hot dog--

hits the water, these eating machines will often

swarm in and begin to feast.

For Well over a century, the channel catfish

has existed at the center of big fish folklore.

And it's encounters like this one that

add a truth to the idea that monster

sized catfish do truly lurk beneath the water's surface.

Well I would say that was a pretty successful day.

Dive certified, and we even filmed a giant catfish

on this expedition.

Mark's still out there swimming with the fishes,

but I know I got some really great shots.

I'm freezing cold at this point, so it's

getting a little overcast, I think it's time to get out

of the water and get warmed up.

This was one wild adventure.

For Mark and I--

Yeah!

- getting scuba certified

has been a goal since the start of our Beyond the Tide series.

There's an incredible world to explore beneath the ocean

waves, and we can't wait to share it

with each and every one of you.

If you live in Ohio and want to get dive certified,

make sure to visit Aquatic Adventures

and schedule your classes today.

Oh man, that was a lot.

I am whooped.

Diving is not easy, but it's official,

Coyote Peterson is dive certified.

Now exploring in a quarry here in Ohio was pretty cool,

and that catfish was epic.

But you know it's more epic than a catfish?

Sharks.

And I know everybody out there watching

is excited about all the ocean creatures that

are soon to come.

I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave, stay wild.

We'll see on the next location.

I need a warm shower.