Bajan Fisherman throwing out the nets

This is a video that I took this morning of a sight that I haven't seen until today.  It involved 3 boats and around 17 men!  One boat was flat and didn't have a motor attached to it.  A second boat was used to string the rope/net out to start off with. The third boat was larger and only had one man aboard - it was there to pull the first boat in.  This was so fascinating to watch.  It took probably about an hour to complete.  I know all of these men were really tired upon completion.  

What were they doing?  They were fishing!  They had this huge net that they separated and strung out between two boats to begin with - and then the majority of the men had on their scuba masks and were navigating one end of the rope back to the flat boat.  Eventually, this rope had made a full circle - thereby, capturing all the fish inside.  The guys inside the flat boat were busy pulling the net and rope back into the boat.  The guys in the water would ever so often, slap their arms onto the water.  (If you got back to the video, you will see some slapping the water.)  I feel like this was to keep the fish inside the net - until they had time to get the net full circle enclosed.

After the net was full circle - I would have thought the guys in the water would have been finished with their part of the job, but they were not!  They were constantly working the net from all sides.  My guess is that they were keeping the net from getting snagged on coral and such, but also - they were probably culling out undesirables from the net - such as turtles.

I was hoping to get a good look at what they caught at the end - but, it happened very quickly.  In a blink of the eye, the final part of the net was tossed inside the flat boat.  My guess is that they caught enough fish to fill a small pickup truck's bed.  I would have loved to seen what came out of that net.  

After the net was inside the boat, most of the men also got back into the boat - and then the larger boat came up and threw a large yellow rope to them - and started pulling them back to the shore.  

These were the guys inside the boat that were pulling the rope and net into the flat boat.

These were the guys in the water that were constantly diving underneath the water working the net from below and also keeping the fish inside the net that they wanted and culling out what they didn't want.

This picture was taken just moments before the net was completely tossed inside the boat.  It happened much quicker than I thought it would.  See how much smaller the circle had gotten towards the end of this fishing endeavor.