--- title: This Turtle With a GoPro Will Take You on a Pond Adventure description: A YouTuber named the "Fish Whisperer" strapped a GoPro to a turtle, with viral results. canonical: https://time.com/5609276/turtle-with-gopro/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-06-18T17:57:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:46.631Z og:title: This Turtle With a GoPro Will Take You on a Pond Adventure og:description: A YouTuber strapped a GoPro to a turtle, and the result is a viral video og:url: https://time.com/5609276/turtle-with-gopro/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Turtle With a GoPro Will Take You on a Pond Adventure twitter:description: A YouTuber strapped a GoPro to a turtle, and the result is a viral video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Turtle Strapped With a GoPro Is the Cinematographer to Watch Underwater Right Now for the Turtle’s-Eye View > Sponsored content. 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This is the heartwarming scene as a disabled sea turtle happily swam for the first time after being given a prosthetic flipper._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 18, 2019 5:57 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 18, 2019 5:57 PM UTC Welcome to a whole new underwater world, thanks to the work of a YouTube creator who calls himself [the Fish Whisperer](https://www.youtube.com/user/fishboy242/videos) (real name: [Kyle Naegeli](https://www.instagram.com/thefishwhisperer1/?hl=en)), the cooperation of a red-eared slider turtle at a local pond and a [GoPro](https://time.com/5352744/dog-steals-gopro/) video camera. Naegeli is something of a marine [YouTube](https://time.com/5601665/youtube-hate-speech-policies-white-supremacist/) star — he has over half a million subscribers to his channel, and has been sharing his videos of fishing adventures and encounters with freshwater sea creatures going back six years. But this appears to be the first time he decided to strap a GoPro onto a turtle and see what would happen. The result is a meandering journey through the muddy pond depths, featuring encounters with other turtles, eating shad from Naegeli’s hand and the unique experience of seeing life from a turtle’s-eye view. Naegeli also takes some time to feed the catfish and bass circulating at the corner of the pond. The video may not be quite what contemporary spectators are used to in terms of superhero-style action sequences, but there’s still drama in the small pond ecosystem; at one point, another turtle beats the GoPro-equipped star to a snack, and it topples backward into the water. And it seems to be enough to captivate YouTube viewers: after less than a week, the Fish Whisperer’s video has over 10 million views, making it one of his most popular by a long shot. “I like turtles,” Naegeli commented on his post. Looks like plenty of others do, too. ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] All right. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Here we go. Here's Rocky heading off for a swim with a new prosthetic. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Pick up this side muscle, arms underneath. [ UNKNOWN ] Yep, all right. Yep. And you're off. Look at you Rocky, way to go I love it. He's got some thrust in that thing. Uh- huh, he's like, whoa! [ LAUGH ] What's going on? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Wow, wow, that is cool. [ LAUGH ] Wow! [ LAUGH ] He didn't take [ UNKNOWN ] out. He's like wait, what about me? it might take him a little while to figure out. Yeah, what he's doing. Yeah. And he'll look good while he's doing it. Yes. He's been without his flippers for probably eight years. Wow. So he right now when he gets excited he still uses his stone. He just doesn't go anywhere. Yeah. 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