SEA TURTLES, CORAL REEFS, & FISH | SNORKELING AT FATUMAFUTI, AMERICAN SAMOA | Drone Footage
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- FATUMAFUTI can sometimes be overlooked as one of the great snorkeling spots in AMERICAN SAMOA because of its easy, central location, as well as its popularity as a beach to just hang out on, but we're here to tell you that just under the surface is a whole other world full of alien-looking coral and brilliant sea creatures.
As we snorkel along the coastline of Fatumafuti, we're always amazed by the stark difference between the lively groups gathered on the beach and the peaceful, allurement of the world below.
That's not to say that we don't enjoy joining in on the fun, especially jumping from the protruding rocks into the cool water and building castles in the sand.
Come along with us as we enjoy all that the beautiful Fatumafuti has to offer and then, hopefully, experience it for yourself when you get a chance.
Tofa Soifua!
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00:00- Introduction
01:10- Drive from Pago
03:49- Rock Jumping
06:01- Snorkeling Fatumafuti
09:51- We Saw a Sea Turtle!
10:34- Tofa Soifua
I love you're videos
So happy that you enjoyed our Beach thank you for sharing
We love it! Thank you for keeping it clean and beautiful ❤️
Very nice. Great to look at those sea turtles just by snorkeling. We just spent time in the Outer Banks. Through great beautiful beaches, would not dare to swim in those rough cold waters and visibility nowhere clear like that.
Just started watching you guys. Fatu ma Futi is beautiful.
Omg those fishes were so beautiful!!!❤ thank you for sharing! One of the black fish was trying to say something to you 😃! Faafetai lava
Watching this is fun cause I go to SPICC
The coral and fish 🐠 🐠 - that black fish knew it was on camera. It needed its 15 minutes of fame or maybe more like a minute of TV time it was so cut watching it keeps looking to the camera ❤️ thank you AmSamFam.
thanks guys, manuia le aso
note that we islanders of american samoa have a lot of sea corals. That's not really seen elsewhere...so proud ya'll got to show us how beautiful the ocean is...god bless ya'll and your trips.
Beautiful Fatu ma Futi the two lover living on island 🏝 travel 🧭 from savii on canoe 🛶 sank and pair transformed into two tree 🌳 topped island 🏝 thank you 🙏🏼 beautiful 🤩 remember swimming 🏊♂️ there at young kid 🤜🏻🤛🏻🦾🇺🇸🇦🇸
It’s such a beautiful story ❤️ I didn’t think about it until after the fact, what a missed opportunity it was to not share the legend 🤦♀️
Love this underwater video. What kind of GoPro do you guys use? Keep it up ✊🏽
We just got the new GoPro Hero 10 Black and we’re loving it.
Memories
Thanks for all the videos. Just wanted to say be careful out there. I saw a picture of a shark attack victim on a beach off of Vatia
Yeah, that was crazy! We’ve been keeping our eyes wide open. 👀
Thanks for vlogging from American Samoa! I miss home and it’s great to see someone capturing the life there especially when I’m missing home 🤍
Nice cool hi nate your like Aquaman🧜🏻♂️
Love you AmSamFam ❤️ God bless your family
You guys were swimming in front of my school S.P.I.C.C
Talofa my favorite family from the mother land.. the ocean life is alive in fatu ma futi ..never seen such beautiful colors only a healthy reef has.. I reside on Hawaiian islands and never see reef this healthy.
Man I sure do miss the clear water, healthy reef ecosystems, abundant fish, thank you for this great vid. Soifua!
Wow, the sea turtle did it for me, I had to sub after seeing that. I am one of the unluckiest sight seers in the universe, I didn't see the turtle and shark in Vaitogi, I never saw a single dolphin while I was there, (I even went out to sea working on a long liner...)and I didn't see the whales that beached themselves either right there at Fatu ma Futi or not too far from it. You know what I did see though? I climbed a mango tree and found myself face to face with the biggest damn "bat" I never cared to see. I'm not sure how the science works, but I also got an up close and personal view of the many beautiful stars... after I hit reverse so fast that I "Mostly" fell out of that big ass mango tree.
All of that staghorn coral is remarkable. It breaks so easily and is one of the first corals to disappear on an unhealthy reef system. Nice to see a reef with no coral bleaching.
Stayed there for a couple years. Lovely place. Thanks for the video
Yes, it is so lovely ❤️
So much more amazing than the neighborhood pool here in the center of the U.S. That little black fish was wanting to talk to you about your car’s extended warranty! Kip is a hoot.
Another awesome video! Love the drone footage and turtle sighting that’s pretty cool!❤️😊🐢
Beautiful ❤
Awesome guys..always love and enjoy your videos..beautiful family❤
Beautiful.
Can you folks also add some videos in the enormous huge bats that fly during early evening? I remember seeing them while having dinner at Sadie's
Thank you for doing a video at my beautiful village! I remember all the times swimming and fishing there as kid and countless time I jumped off that rock! Thank you again and have a great weekend!
I know there is plenty to see just snorkling, but have you guys been diving on/off the island?
The sea turtle is so beautiiiifffuuuullllll lol but hopefully you'll have the time to vlog the Palolo thingy since its Palolo season lol stay safe AMSAMFAM
OMG...this was so beautiful 😍
Thank you 💗
Please make a video of the palolo this week.
I don’t know that we’ll be able to this year. We’re researching the best gear to use when shooting at night so we can really do it justice next year 🤞
Beautiful 😍
Oh, well done! Beautiful footage of the reef, coral, fish... swimming. The reef looks unchanged from what I saw so long ago now. What a credit to everyone there!
Laumei ma i'a is Samoan for turtle and fish. Don't know how to translate the rest of the title.
I wonder what "futi" means... Funafuti is the capital of Tuvalu, and Tuvaluan is supposed to be very similar to Samoan.
Swimming with your hat and shades and camera is talented uso 😆 thanks for sharing AmSamFam we love you guys God bless.
Yay!!! Fatu ma Futi❤
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There’s more sea life there than I would have thought...so beautiful! For people that live on islands, Samoans seem not to be water active people!
Ah2 Ah you’re wrong about Samoan people are not water active… lm Samoan and I just did 5 miles of one man canoeing 🛶 out in the black blue water and I make sure my grandkids are in the ocean not pool.. we’re Polynesian we invented surfing 🏄♀️ the greatest water activity of our generation.believe me it’s real.
@@tuiesera3231 it was more of my observation that I commented on.... compared to other islands. I don’t see a lot of Samoans in the water is what I was getting at. It’s really nothing to get upset about... really. U just may be one of the few I see being active. But when I see Samoan beaches... I don’t see many people in the water, is what I was saying.
@@bleebbloob4855 uhhhh, that’s not what I was talking about...
@@bleebbloob4855 OHhhhh that makes sense!!!!! I totally get it!!! Oh do I knw about riptides!!!!! I hear ya! So I would assume that death counts from drowning is very low.... if any at all? Samoa doesn’t seem to have many clear sandy beaches, meaning most beaches are made up of mostly rugged rocks and plenty coral near the shore line. I haven’t seen too many beaches like the Hawaiian beach front coastlines.
Ah2Ah I’m sorry if’s my comment sounded upsetting… I was just stating that Samoan people are excellent swimmers.. appreciate the mindset of the Channel’s who always doing ocean activities and encouraging to snorkel ..lol.it’s all good 👍🏼 on my side.🤙🏿🤙🏿
So sad to see so much dead coral. The fish and other animals in the sea are losing their home. Looks like some of it is a result of bleaching....due to climate change.