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Off the coast of remote Western Australia, the water is so clear you can see a tiger shark coming from fifty feet away — and Brodie Moss swims straight toward it anyway.

Episode 3 of YBS Lifestyle drops the YBS Youngbloods crew into a stretch of reef so transparent it looks doctored, and host Brodie Moss uses every bit of that visibility to hunt, dive, and cook his way through the day. The episode pairs two of the ocean’s most intimidating predators — a big tiger shark and a hammerhead — with the kind of quiet, practical spearfishing that’s defined the channel’s early run. By the end, Moss has a cod on the spear and a fresh meal cooking with nothing but what the reef gave him.

• Brodie Moss free-dives and spearfishes a coral reef off Western Australia in what the episode title calls the “clearest water ever.”
• The dive features close underwater encounters with both a large tiger shark and a hammerhead shark in the same session.
• Moss spears a cod and prepares a rustic catch-and-cook meal on the boat, following the visibility-and-harvest format of the YBS Lifestyle series.

The Water That Gives the Episode Its Name

The title isn’t marketing hyperbole for this one. The visibility off this stretch of Western Australian coast is clean enough that Moss can track fish, coral structure, and — more urgently — a tiger shark’s outline long before it’s within spearing range. That kind of clarity is rare even by the standards of a channel built entirely around remote-water diving, and it’s the reason this particular episode stands out from earlier YBS Lifestyle entries shot in murkier inshore spots.

Clear water cuts both ways for a free-diver. It means Moss can spot his target cod sitting deep in the reef structure, but it also means nothing is hidden — including whatever apex predator happens to be cruising the same patch of coral. The channel’s appeal has always been that Moss dives it anyway, spear in hand, breath held, camera rolling.

Tiger Shark and Hammerhead in the Same Dive

The episode’s centerpiece is the back-to-back predator encounters. A tiger shark moves through the frame at close range while Moss holds his position, and later a hammerhead works the same reef edge in equally clear conditions. Both sightings happen in open water, not from a cage or a boat deck, which is the through-line of the whole YBS Youngbloods catalogue — get in the water with what’s actually down there.

Water this clear off Western Australia meant Moss could see the tiger shark coming from clear across the reef — and kept spearfishing anyway.

Neither shark is hunted or provoked in the episode; they’re simply part of the ecosystem Moss is diving through on his way to the cod he’s actually after. That distinction — apex predators as scenery rather than target — is part of what separates this kind of ocean-lifestyle content from straight shark-diving footage, and it’s a theme that shows up across other reef and open-water spearfishing episodes in the genre, including the shark-heavy dives covered in DAY 85: Sharks Really Wanted This Fish!.

The Cod, the Spear, and the Cook

Once the sharks clear the reef, Moss turns his attention to the actual objective: a cod tucked into the coral, taken with a traditional spear rather than a rod. The catch-and-cook segment that follows is deliberately unpolished — fresh fish, a basic setup, and a meal built entirely from what came out of the water that day. It’s the same off-grid, self-sufficient ethos that runs through other ocean-harvest content in this space, like the reef-to-plate approach detailed in Catch and Cook from ISOLATION – Uninhabited Island Paradise! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 272.

There’s no restaurant plating and no seasoning montage — just a cod that was swimming an hour earlier, cooked on the boat or shore and eaten where it was caught. That simplicity is the whole pitch of the YBS Lifestyle format: put in the work underwater, and the payoff is dinner.

Episode 3 set the template the channel would keep leaning on — find water clear enough to shoot properly, let the apex predators show up on camera without turning the dive into a shark hunt, and close every episode with something actually cooked and eaten. Moss and the YBS Youngbloods crew were already three episodes in and still working off nothing more than a spear, a GoPro, and whatever reef they could find.