Video: Meet 'the oldest man in the sea', Pat Murphy, the 83-year-old fisherman who tells it like it is

Brooklyn-based production company WeAreFilms got in touch recently after we highlighted a great travel video they made in Ireland. It turns out that they filmed a wonderful story while they were here – from Pat Murphy, an octogenarian fisherman who tells it like it is.

Pat's been fishing the waters in Cork for almost 70 years, since he learned the art from his father. And he's still going strong on his own in a one-man boat.

We went to southern Ireland trying to find an interesting story to capture. While we were in Castletownbere, Ireland, the name Pat Murphy kept coming up around town. The locals said that if we wanted to get an interesting story, we had to interview him.

So we went on a journey to find him. We had to wait in the town three days before we could meet him, because he was out at sea. This is the story we got from him when he returned.

Watch 'The Oldest Man in the Sea' here:

The Oldest Man In The Sea from We Are Films on Vimeo.