CAVE DIVER REACTS TO 7 MOST DANGEROUS UNDERWATER CAVES

hello everyone my name is gus i'm the co-host of dive talk and also a certified rebreather cave diver and a scuba instructor someone sent me a suggestion to our our email address which is by the way info dive talk media.com so info divetalkmedia.com if you have any requests or you know any questions that i can answer for you here in our youtube channel i'm happy to do so so some someone one of our listeners to the podcast sent a suggestion for me to react to this video on youtube called the seven most dangerous underwater caves in the world or something like that i actually haven't seen it yet so i'm going to be reacting to this life obviously i assume i haven't been to all these caves hopefully i've been to some of them um i'm pretty sure eagles nest for example will be on the list but i wonder what else is in there uh so i'll be reacting to it live and give you some commentary and um you know if there's anything else to add if it was a because it was a suggestion to our or to our email address i assume it was another one of those you know videos by none divers to essentially for clickbait they want to get thousands and thousands of thousands of views so they have to add these you know titles like the most dangerous whatever in the world and then people click on them and they just do their best to you know kind of explain why these caves are dangerous but they're not really cave divers so um i wanted to react to it so i'll be looking for you know i guess signs of whether the person narrating this video is a diver or not so if they say things like oxygen tank instead of you know an air tank or if they say flippers that is a dead giveaway or if they say you know your stuff about like if they miss you know really simple stuff like oh you know there's silt in the cave yeah almost every single cave has silt in it there's nothing special about that you know i'll be looking for things like that uh to determine if this person was or is an actual diver or not so let's get started and again i'll give you some input as we go through it all right let's hit play it takes a brave soul to strap on a pair of flippers flippers three seconds into the video he already said flippers so you know where this is going you i already know where this is going um it's eight minutes long so let's let's keep watching and leap into the watery unknown and it takes a much braver soul to explore some of the caves that are lurking below cave diving is one of the most dangerous sports in the world wow i like how they how they say that it's the one of the most dangerous sports in the world and i'm pretty sure a lot more people die of a lot of other things and you know one of the interesting things about it i covered this on my last video about reacting to the dangerous truth of jacob's well is that most of the fatalities in caves are from non-cave divers they're from non-certified cave divers they're regular divers any instructors like myself that say oh look i'm gonna go into the cave and i'm an instructor already i know what i'm doing you don't know what you're doing i didn't know what i was doing until i was certified as a cave diver so you know one of the things i tell all my fellow dive instructors is just because you're an instructor doesn't mean anything when it comes to cave diving um so you know you just have to be certified now do actual certified cave divers die in caves absolutely there's registered deaths in the past um at eagle's nest for example which i mentioned earlier there were two certified cave divers very experienced divers that died there um you know it doesn't no one really knows what happened it seems like they got caught up in a restriction or something uh but they they were very prepared like i read the oxygen the accident report and i mean they had dpds they they had stage bottles along the way they had prepared for the dive and still they didn't make it so there's always a risk but i would say out of the fatalities in caves uh globally every year i would have to assume that 90 or more if not 99 are from people that are not cave diver uh cave certified uh some debts happen for two cave explorers which i have no intention in becoming by the way cave explorers are the people that go into caves and no one has ever been in um no human has ever been in there and you know those are the caves that have a higher risk of collapsing on top and things like that i know people personally that have been in caves that have collapsed but they managed to get out but there's also some brilliant by the way explorers that have died exploring new caves i only go to caves that have been explored the tons of people have been in them they have lines in them um i love cave diving but not cave exploring will i ever become a cave explorer probably not but um you know i i tip my hat to those who are explorers so dangerous sport i think there's a lot more people that die of doing regular scuba diving which is a safe sport by the way then cave diving but let's just keep going here are seven of the most dangerous underwater caves what lyrics below number seven devil's cave florida a submerged labyrinth 50 miles from gainesville florida okay devil's cave there's no such thing as devil's cave it's actual it's called the devil system right um and is many many caves that are interconnected miles and miles worth of caves by the way i want to give this person props for actually using you know it's not exactly right i'll talk about this for actually using um real footage or pictures from real dive sites right the previous video that we made about jacob's well they were using like movie footage which makes no sense with so many videos and pictures about the actual dive sites makes no sense to use movies but i don't know why they did that maybe they were lazy and didn't want to google or search for the actual pictures of the site uh this person actually searched for pictures of the site but because the system is so massive the pictures that he's using is actually from devil's den which is not a cave at all it's actually a super shallow and super fun dive for brand new students experienced divers probably are not going to go to devil's den just because there's not a whole lot to do like once i mean the site is pretty impressive it's a you know a a sinkhole that caves into the ground and you go down the stairs and you can see in this picture you can kind of see the the the stairs going down into the water there's several platforms and you essentially put on your gear and going you can see even kids with no gear right here like they're just snorkeling and swimming around having fun it's a pretty cool sight for brand new divers and even non-diverse that they can go in there it's not dangerous at all i don't know if anyone ever has died at devil's den because it's so shallow i think the deepest you can go maybe it's like 45 feet maybe uh which is 15 meters so it's it's just not a challenging side whatsoever super fun for beginners uh but it's not a cave devil's caves is an intricate system of tunnels and caverns with very pleasant sounding names such as little devil devil's eye and the devil's ear all right so little devil devil psy devils here they're actually features of the cave and they allow us to enter the system i've personally have entered devil's the devil's you know system at genie springs which is a place in florida and the two main entries to the cave system are devil's eye and devil's ear which are pretty close to each other i would say they are i eye is the the the one that most people use because it's the one that is bigger there's more potential to tie up lines and things like that and if you're training to become a cave diver probably every single dive that you'll make will be through the devil's eye that is the kind of the common entrance the devil's ear is my favorite because number one is smaller the entrance is smaller which means the flow of water trying to push you out is is bigger so it's a it's exhilarating but at the same time if you get scared easily you probably are not going to like it at all like the first time i did it i wasn't a big fan but now i actually really really love it um and the other thing is because of how the systems meet which is the clear water from the spring and the water from the river which is murky when you look up and what i'll do is i'll i'll put a picture right here on the screen so you can see what it looks like from the bottom and this picture is from my co-host and dive talk woody who is coming down the the devil's ear the the combination of the clear water of the spring and the murky water of the river make this like super cool fiery background so one of the things i i like to the most and all divers that go down the devil's ear is as you go down there's like a really huge like you know i guess tree trunk that is right in the middle of the hole that you can use to protect yourself from the flow but then i like to look up i like to look up and look at the opening because all of that mix of waters and stuff looks amazing like it looks photoshopped i mean look at this picture it has no photoshop whatsoever in it but it looks epic right so i actually like it but all of these are entrances now he's talking about him because obviously clickbait him because he wants to make it sound scary like devil's eye who's going into the devil's eye i've done that many times and uh it's actually awesome it's super fun this popular site is devils for its warm waters and incredible rock formations as well as its swirling underwater vortexes that can knock even experienced divers off their game and cause confusion and paranoia all right confusion and paranoia that's ridiculous um it is true that there is kind of not vortexes but there are sections in the cave where the flow is greater and you have to hang on like if you don't hang on you get pushed um and you know it can can it cause confusion i mean i don't know if if you flip upside down and you you don't hang on to the rock like there's a part called the gallery which is a a big opening right that you kind of have to know how to navigate that you have to stay close to the ceiling so you so the rocks coming up from the ceiling protects you against the flow like if if you kind of lose your grip and i use gloves in this section although many divers don't but i like to use glove in this section because i don't want to slip you know could you get confused and and and whatnot maybe um i i've never seen anyone get confused i've never gotten confused myself but paranoia what i i don't even know what what that means um you get what paranoid that oh my god i'm gonna die in this cave let me get out i've seen people uh that are trying to get in and they realize that there's no joke that there's flow and the cave's trying to keep you out it's not trying to swallow you in and they essentially say you know what this is not for me um let me let me rethink about my life choices and they you know they go out and they think about it they talk a little more and they they try again and then they make it um you know it's one of those things that is a challenge challenging the first time because you've never experienced that but then after that you get used to it deep inside the arteries of the cave devil's cave is stunning and unpredictable a display of raw power of nature and it has been responsible for condemning a few unlucky to their watery deaths number six jacobs well texas might look like you're run off the mill we already talked about jacob's well in the previous video so i'm kind of going to buy this but our pick for number six shows that first impressions can be deceiving under the surface jacob's well opens up to chambers upon chambers each a little bit trickier and narrower than the last underwater claustrophobia aside the tiny i don't think this is jacob's well by the way it looks pretty cool though it looks like a cenote actually caves in passageways are lined with silt when kicked up the debris again talking about silt every cave even safe caves have silt i don't i don't know what the big one is the water and makes escaping difficult and sometimes even futile divers who find themselves trapped in the murk tend to panic swallowing a gasp of precious air as they frantically try to flee the cave often it's in vain jacob's well has claimed the lives of eight souls number five blue hole belize belize's blue hole may just be the most photogenic and gorgeous sinkhole on the planet it punctures the caribbean seabed in a perfectly round 124 meter deep hole okay so i've never been to blue hole in belize i hope i get to go one day i'm not sure if the blue hole is a cave or not again i didn't know what he has on the list so i didn't research ahead of time um because in order for it to qualify as a cave and not a cavern you cannot have light from the outside so if you're inside the hole even if it's deep 124 meters deep assuming that's right um you know the light in the middle of the day should reach pretty deep i don't know if it's gonna go all the way to 124 meters i've never been that deep deep as i've been is around 61 or 62 meters so twice as much as that i i don't know how much light will will make it there but you know there's two things that we're looking for in order to qualify something as a cave number one is it is an overhead environment you cannot just go up to the surface and number two is there any natural light that is seeping through that i can see right because caverns that have a large opening you may be on an underhead environment or sorry overhead environment but there's plenty of light coming through making it safe and also the size like there's a there's a place in florida for example called blue grotto which i've seen also videos of it in youtube people is like we were in an air build deep inside a cave in florida and they're just a blue grotto which is not a cave it's a cavern and number two the air bale is a like i don't know 30 feet it's not deep at all and not deep inside a cave it's just all click bait again um but the point is we're looking for again overhead environment no light from the outside the hole is so massive that i would find it difficult that there are places inside of it where light doesn't reach but i've never been there so i don't know crammed with exotic marine life and coral formations ripe for the exploring and is a draw for divers around the world the only problem is that this deep paradise has become a nightmare for unlucky divers who descend too quickly and find themselves in the maddening grasp of nitrogen narcosis maddening grasp gasp of nitrogen narcosis look at that skull um okay so let's talk about nitrogen narcosis super quick i don't want to this to become a a class or a super technical thing but nitrogen narcosis happens when the intake of nitrogen that you have at death which starts around 80 feet or so becomes narcotic essentially and people say it feels like being drunk like when you drink some alcohol and just like alcohol narcosis affects people differently some people start feeling it at 60 feet which is pretty shallow some people feel it super bad like you're on 100 feet and you feel like you've had you know a lot to drink i personally have never felt it however they say that narcosis you know the first sign of narcosis is that you deny that you do you felt it because you're i guess drunk enough that you're like i'm not drunk right maybe that's true maybe i have felt it but it's never i've never felt like i'm i'm out of my game or out i'm i'm not thinking straight maybe i've been you know narc before and the deepest i've been on air i think it was around 140 feet or so 145 and you know i was already normoxic trimix and i was in my rebreather on a regular open circuit tank which is a regular tank of air which is what most people do i think the deepest i've been is 135 and i didn't feel gnarked at that point um but once again the first symptom of getting narct is that you deny that you're narct so who knows but it's never been it's never been bad for me and the cool thing about nitrogen narcosis is that although you feel gnarked you feel drunk however you want to put it it goes away immediately as you go up so you just ascend right you go a little bit shallower and it goes away which is not the case when you feel like that in alcohol you can't make it go away you can eat whatever you want you can drink whatever you want go to sleep wake up feeling awful that's typically the way it works when you're drunk with narcosis that's not the case you may feel narc you start going up uh i'm not narc anymore it's awesome the scourge of divers and the cause of many fatalities underwater since the walls of the blue hall are solid for 30 meters novice and even experienced divers can accidentally go too far to the point of no return see like i'm looking at this picture and again i don't know if this is from the actual blue hole and i can see that there's an overhead environment right he's under the the ceiling of this cavern or whatever it is but there's plenty of light right this is in no way shape or form a cave no chance this is a cavern obviously at best i don't know how how deep this hole is where you can go into the overhead environment but it's a cavern and caverns are cool like i have nothing against caverns but um i don't know why this is on the list if is if it's just a if it's supposed to be a list for caves i don't know turn nitrogen narcosis comes with the host of terrifying symptoms like hallucinations anxiety and the feeling of extreme intoxication i mean if you have a few beers and you start having hallucinations hallucinations and anxiety and all of that then maybe that can happen to you i have never ever you know talked to anyone that had nitrogen narcosis and they were like oh i was imagining you know sirens or whatever you know mermaids uh down there or or i've i've never seen it that bad so i don't know when you need to keep your hearts about and make life or death decisions a strong bout of nitrogen narcosis can and does finish off thrill seekers and divers number four eagle's nest sinkhole floor for our number four pick we head back to the sunshine state of florida and check out the eagles nest that is actually a picture of eagle's nest so this is this is true i've been there a whopping 315. okay this is this is dumb uh it's not 350 meters deep that would be like a thousand feet it's actually 315 feet deep so about a hundred meters um maybe less um less than a hundred you know right around 100 meters deep so that's that's a mistake um you know probably you know while he was taking notes or whatever but it's still a pretty pretty deep cave 100 you know 100 meters uh it's it's a lot meter deep dive site where explorers can come face to face with their old nemesis nitrogen this is funny like this picture reminds me of the cavern at genie springs which is in the devil system so this is definitely not eagle's nest like i said i've been there this is not it but this looks like the opening at ginny which is where the devil system is and there's a section uh that has a cavern no entry to the cave where you know regular divers like like this person right here on the picture can go in with lights and everything you can go into the cavern it's an overhead environment but again there's plenty of light coming through you can go in there even uh free divers go in like they just take a breath and go into the cavern and pretty deep like some of those guys are legit but i wouldn't do that i wouldn't go overhead without a tank but um these guys go in there and they they do pretty good narcosis once again the deeper a die the more likely nitrogen narcosis will set it so some divers use a blend of different gases called trimix oh my god what tree mix what is tree mix i have no idea again he's not a diver so it's it's actually called tri-mix and tri-mix is essentially we just take helium and we add them into our tanks so as i talked about in the previous video the scuba tanks are not oxygen tanks they actually have oxygen and nitrogen which is the air we breathe the air we breathe has about 21 oxygen and 79 nitrogen that's the air that we breathe out uh on the surface um and because the deeper you go there's a few laws that you learn in you know during your scuba club to keep it simple if you're going deeper than 130 feet you want to add helium to your tank so you can breathe the gas down at the bottom that's pretty much it uh one example is the gas that i use when i went to eagle's nest was 1640 16 oxygen 40 helium and the rest of it was nitrogen helium is great because it doesn't affect you know you it doesn't affect you other than makes your voice sounds weird but we call that gas trimex because it's helium oxygen and nitrogen to offset the effects there is no surefire way to stave off the murderous underwater sickness though as eagles nest sinkhole proves even experienced divers have been sentenced to the depths here we got different gases by the way i'm talking about like we invented a gas we're just adding helium problem is the sheer extent of the dive only a slight distraction could cause a diver to easily forget to check their air consumption and by the time they realize they're at a critical level it's far too late by the way this doesn't happen often especially for people that dive at eagle's nest which are very experienced divers we plan our dives there's an app for that i use an app called idco pro and on this app you essentially put in the gases that you'll be breathing how deep you're gonna be going for how long and the app tells you exactly how much gas you need to bring with you it tells you you need two tanks of this size or one tank of that whatever it is the app literally tells you what to bring so you can complete that dive so if you run out of air that means that you totally violated your plan meaning you went deeper than you thought you went longer than you thought or whatever because if you stick to your death and if you stick to your time you don't even have to look at your air i mean you will because that's you know you want to you want to keep an eye on your air but you technically don't have to look at it like if your spg or your computer fails to communicate and you're within your parameters meaning depth and time you should have plenty of air because you plan for it you use an application for it that tells you exactly how much air to bring and how long to stay down for number three cenote escualetto the temple of doom mexico actually i i've heard about this um i haven't been there but the temple of dune is actually called cenote calavera which stands for skull escaletto is actually the spanish word for like the whole human body it you know it's like the bones like the whole body not just the skull the whole body uh so i think he made a mistake on this one i think it's called cenote calavera instead of escaletto so i that's the big and i'm reading that from the temple of doom that's the name that i've heard but um you know other than that this this is actually a shallow one i think this is 45 feet deep i don't know what's in a name well when it's a snarl of sunken tunnels affectionately referred to the temple of doom there's a lot labyrinth doesn't begin to cover it divers are strongly advised to keep out of the cavern's mazy and inky passageways and to stick only to well-lit areas to avoid getting lost and perishing in the dark what is he talking about well-lit areas i mean well areas by what by light from the outside because that wouldn't make it a cave and obviously this picture is from a cave but with a flashlight so is he talking about maybe divers should bring flashlights i mean that's kind of common sense i'm not i'm not following these formations are cool though alone as has been the fate of eureka monsters to the temple of doom divers get lost and are never seen again once forgotten in the tunnels the sheer intricacy of the temple of doom system of chambers makes exploring here a hard no for novices and a strict proceed with caution for experts ah that doesn't look like i said no to that last picture by the way that looked like a different cave or a different place if you try your hand at our number three pick for the most dangerous sunken caves stick when the sunlit spots you'll thank us number two the shaft sinkhole australia coming in at number two is arguably the most treacherous cave diving site in the world australia's shaft sinkhole has a trifecta of terrifying cave challenges wrapped up into one scary dive that many adventurers never return from the sinkhole is deep i think this place has only killed two people by the way i i remember reading about this when i was researching places to go and places to dive it is pretty interesting to get in you have to kind of like rappel through a little hole but once you're inside the cave is pretty massive and it's pretty deep i think it was it's not as deep as eagle's nest but it's about 200 and something feet so definitely tri-mix territory um it looked pretty massive though nothing terrifying or or or you know claustrophobic it was it was just more about getting there is interesting getting through a little hole you you cannot have all your gear on you have to like go down and then your gear comes down or whatever send your gear down and then you go down and then put it all in the water and then go diving but it didn't sound it didn't look scary to me tempting nitrogen narcosis to grab some unlucky victims it's also affected silt and debris causing a murky slur to the fill of minuscule passageways and makes for poor navigation finally the shaft sinkhole is full of underside you can see the opening is just that little hole down there and you have to go down it and you cannot have all your gear on you can see these people are going in and all their gear is on the grass openings including the famous entrance to the cave system where divers must actually remove their equipment to squeeze in this cave is not for the claustrophobic or faint of heart but for those brave enough to traverse her depths the payout is huge the shaft sinkhole is full of incredible rock formations and other worldly natural elements just make sure you have enough air to pinch yourself back through the tiny entrance getting lost or running out of air is the number one cause of death in these caverns in all caverns and caves getting lost and running out of air is the reason why people die but you learn all those things during your cave diving training the cave diving training class is by far the most difficult class i've ever had um if you for example if you're not a diver you can go from knowing zero things about diving to being a certified diver within three days maybe four days or something like that and the cave diving training is eight days long so it's more than twice as long as the open water diver and again they don't accept just anyone to cave diving training you have to be an experienced diver for me as a rebreather cave diver i had to put in 100 dives on my rebreather alone just to qualify to take the class and once you take the class you're only guaranteed to go through the class but you're not guaranteed to pass you actually have to earn that certification an instructor has to say look this is a person that i would trust you know to go diving inside a cave with so i've never met anyone that just took that class as a brand new diver and just got certified that that's not a thing the there are minimum requirements for it and because of that they only take you know experienced divers to go that extra level and it's eight more days so after you're an experienced diver and have hundreds of dives by that point i think i had something like 350 or 400 dives 100 of those being on my on my rebreather or 100 plus being on the rebreather you know by the time i get there i still spend eight days learning more skills to learn how to dive in caves and again eventually getting certified so yes you learn how to not get lost you learn how to you know plan your dive so you don't run out of air you learn all those things and by the way when we plan our dives we don't plan it like everything is honky dory great dive we plan it as we're panicking we're breathing two and a half times what we normally breathe you know everything is going south and everything happened at the deepest point of the penetration so you go inside a cave you're planning to go a thousand feet or something like that inside the cave imagine exactly when you hit a thousand feet the worst problem that you can have happens now how do you get out and we plan for that we plan to be able to exit safely from the worst possible point at the worst possible time we plan to make our way out by using again technology and application and understanding what is that we have to do in order to achieve that you've noticed several times he's talked about silt and being that murky and lose visibility you learn all of those things in your cave class as a matter of fact you learn how to find your line with no visibility right so you literally they cover your eyes and they say okay go ahead and find a line and they spin you up so the way it works is and i love this exercise by the way your instructor tells you go ahead and you know go blindfold essentially and essentially what you do is you turn off your lights which means there's absolutely no light in the cave uh totally pitch black he then picks you up he spins you up all over the the cave right and if there's flow the flows are also pushing you and you get spun up in all directions and then he just lets you come down and put your hand on a rock now you're in a random rock with no lights inside a cave what do you do it's called a lost line procedure right we do that we learn that in the class it's pretty awesome you tie a line into that rock you kind of remember the features of the cave and as you dive into the cave you start you know kind of learning the cave and knowing where the lines are you you have line awareness is called and you know i understand like okay i know where i am this feature based on flow based on where i am the line should be this way and then you start searching for it once you find it you tie your line into that and you make an exit you get out of there because you have no visibility you know at all so this is something you do multiple times during your cave dive training as a matter of fact we not only do it like they spin you up going crazy whatever put you in a rock no lights you don't know where it is now they do it so you're with your body and your body has no air or you have no air now you have to find the line while you're sharing your air with your body and both of you need to get out of there without being able to see each other or communicate with each other all of that happens during class because it can happen during a dive as well so i've been in dives where it was zero visibility zero like we went into a super tiny tunnel with a bunch of silt we no matter how we kicked the silt just covered and we saw zero nothing at some point we're just like let's turn around and i was like face to face with my body and he was like turn around right in my face i turn around and i exited by okay in the line it's another thing that you learn in the class because the line is on the floor like that and you're not swimming i'm just using my cable for this example you're not swimming with your hand on the line you're swimming away from it but you know where it is and then you okay the line you put an okay sign and then you go out of the cave by following the line you know that the line is going to take you to the exit and i again i'm over oversimplifying this because you might be watching this and you know i don't want to super complicate this thing but uh all of those things you learned during cave dive training and that's why we tell people that are not certified to not go into a cave because as soon as something goes bad they have no idea how to react to that i mean imagine you especially if you're a diver and you're watching this if you don't know anything i'm talking about you're inside a cave and you get disoriented and your lights fail and you have no backup how are you going to find your way out zero light you can't see anything you you drown that's what you you know you die and then you're part of a video like this one number one egypt's blue hole what could edge out the shaft sinkhole for our top spot on our list how about a place called divers cemetery where 150 thrill seekers have perished by the way they're the i i know about this whole there's actually um um a group of people that i i'm gonna travel with in 2021 to chuck lagoon as part of the you know with my rebreather to dive in the wrecks over there and they're actually just posted a trip to dahab or dahab i don't know how to say it in in egypt where the blue hole is located um so i've i've done some research about it i've never been there but i as part of that trip i did some research so i'm glad he came up because um i looked that up you know uh heavily and you know divers cemetery by the way is is one of those things that the people in egypt want to get rid of they're not proud of it uh i think florida is proud of the devil's the devil system uh they like that devil's eye devils your devils then they love that stuff um but you know in egypt they're not very very happy about the nickname a lot of people have died unfortunately a lot of them free divers as well because the blue hole is pretty deep i think it goes down to something like 130 or something like that meters so that's hundreds and hundreds of feet and the problem is you know when you're a brand new diver when you're a regular open water diver or even a tech diver is fine when you go diving typically they will take you to a place where you can't really go deep where if you're a regular diver you know a place like molasses reef for example in key largo you go down there and there's there's a floor like you know the bottom of the ocean is around i don't know 35 feet so even if you are awful with your trim and your buoyancy and you just go down super deep and slamming to the floor of the sea you're not gonna go deeper than 35 it's done to protect divers right and most dive sites that you go to um they will have a bottom that is typically you know not too far from the limits so even if you go on a deep dive like you know sometimes when you go diving they'll have a shallow boat and a deep boat for those of us who want to go into deeper sights the bottom of the deep sites is often 130 or something like that something along those lines 140 so even if you go beyond the 130 feet or 40 meters that you're supposed to get to you're not going to go much further than that so they are doing that to protect you some other sites are not like that and you have to have you know tremendous discipline and awareness in order to stay out of trouble one example is the uss oriskany which is the largest shipwreck in the world it's located in florida off the coast of pensacola my favorite wreck in the world i've been there it's awesome you know the uss oriskany goes down to about 260 feet i believe which is pretty deep if you want to go all the way to the bottom you know of the ocean essentially where the ship is is sitting right at the bottom so if you have a limit of 130 feet or 40 meters you cannot go all the way down to 65 meters you have to stay you have to be aware and stay around the areas that are shallow now luckily the ship because it's there you essentially go to the fly tower and you can swim around you know in 130 or whatever like even if you venture all the way to the fly deck which is you know the deepest i've been in on air it was 145 feet right so i i touched that and i was in a rebreather but my diligent was air i touched the fly deck and went back up so it's 145 and i did that on purpose i didn't do it you know by mistake but if someone does that by mistake they'll probably get to the fly deck and then they'll they'll come up the problem with the blue hole is that it goes for hundreds and hundreds of feet and it's just dark right you're just going down you're going down if you're unaware of your death then you can end up super deep and remember we already talked about narcosis setting in around 80 feet so for most people so imagine if you're all of the sudden 140 or 150 right the chances that you're knocked out uh out of your mind are are greater and i know that there's people out there that have been deeper than that 200 300 feet on air um i wouldn't do it but i assumed those people were knocked out of their mind as well ship's blue hole is the most lethal dive site in the world yuri lipsky who met his fate at the bottom of the hole accidentally filmed his own death very popular video this one i've seen it um it has millions and millions of views i think over 10 million views um and it's this guy once again you know without proper training went down there super deep got marked at some point dropped his regulator like he just i mean that decision is only made if you're i mean imagine in terms of being drunk or high however you want to see it for you to be underwater and like get rid of your regulator it's you have to be crazy out of your mind right in order to do that the video is difficult to watch especially because yuri's face is beaming at the beginning the story of this video by the way i remember it this guy showed up at you know the blue hole and said that he wanted to film the arch there's a famous arch at the blue hole that you can swim through and if you remember the picture you see the blue hole and there's like a wall and then there's the ocean so there's an arch which is like a tunnel that you can swim through on the hole and come out in the ocean which is supposed to be pretty cool i can't wait to do it by the way so this guy wanted to film that whole thing like going down going through the arch up in the ocean but he was on air and inexperienced and i think i read about this that someone who owns a dive shop um at you know at the blue hole in egypt said look let me let me train you let's work together for a few days before you do that and the guy was like i'm only here for like a day i'm gonna do it anyway so he just went solo by himself like just grab a tank let me go where's my camera and he started filming and he died i mean what else do you expect blissful ignorance of what lies ahead and by the end he's deep in the clutches of nitrogen narcosis confused and alone in the blue hole so what makes diver cemetery so savage its dominant feature is an arch and tunnel that connects to the sea 56 meters below the surface so that's what i was that's what i was talking about uh the arch is supposed to be pretty massive so it starts at 56 meters which is already too deep to be on air but people you know they see the light coming through it it's an arch it's really cool i've seen videos of this it does look pretty cool so they go down there inexperience and now you're in an overhead environment super deep by the way once you're 130 if you're on regular air your bottom time is five minutes you have five minutes before you run into decompression which requires you to stay underwater or else you can have the compression sickness and die or you have to go to a recompression chamber right so imagine going even beyond that that's five minutes of 40 meters the tunnel starts at 56 and that is just the the tip of the tunnel so imagine a regular tunnel the top of it starts at 56 the bottom of 120 meters not feet so 56 meters 120 at the bottom if you go into the tunnel and you start looking oh my god this is so cool and now all of a sudden you are 120 you'll be out of air in no time um and there is just no way you can ascend from 300 feet or 100 meters you know to the surface safely with no air that's just not going to happen and if you try to go for your body and get their air they're probably out or almost out anyway so this is why it's so dangerous uh you can just walk in into this side nobody's checking you whether you're certified or not or moxie try makes like nothing it's just like oh you want to die if you want to die today all right cool go in um and and that's why so many people have died here 56 meters deep almost twice the recommended depth for scuba diving and creates the perfect conditions for nitrogen narcosis just by the way i don't know what what he means by recommended depth there's not such thing there's some max recommended depth for um depending on your level of training so if you're a brand new diver we recommend that you don't go beyond 60 feet um or 20 meters and if you are you know an advanced diver for example you have you know depending on your agency if you make it to advanced diver we recommend 99 or 30 meters and then once you go your deep diving training then you can go to 40 or 130 feet now so the recommendation changes depending on your level of training for me because i've progressed in my training i'm a normoxic tri-mix diver my recommended depth is 200 feet or 60 meters that's currently what i'm certified to do but later in 2021 in may hopefully i get to do my final uh training which is called full trimex in which i can go to 330 feet or 100 meters plus i have to plan for it but that is the deepest you can get certified to it takes a long time you can't just do it or else i will be certified by now you have to kind of do a lot of deep dives to 100 and more than 140 feet on your rebreather to qualify for the 200 training and once you do the 200 training which is the one i currently have i got that in october of 2020 then i have to do i believe 25 dives past 180 feet so super deep dives which are not easy to find that's why i'm kind of stuck plus i've been diving caves a lot uh i've been a little lazy on the deep dives and uh hammering cave diving almost every weekend so in florida so um once i do 25 dives that are super deep then i get to qualify to go to my final training which is full trimex which will be the last you know the last training that i have beyond that just that try and mix instructor but there's no that's that's the deepest certification you can get set in and torment the diver until they succumb to the depths many divers like yuri miss the arch completely and get lost in narcosis induced fever dream of anxiety and ghostly hallucinations missing the artist's calls were coming for certain death making divers cemetery the spot where you get one shot to diving glory and bragging rights but run the risk of becoming another sad statistic from the balmy saltwater depths of belize's beautiful blue hole to mexico's murky temple of doom and florida's freshwater eagles nest scene oh my god okay so this picture okay so there's uh several things to unpack here number one most of the things on the list now that the list is over are actual caverns they're not caves so i'm not really sure why they're on the list to begin with second of all this is not eagle's nest the picture that he had before was eagle's nest i'm not sure why he didn't use the same picture this is actually a picture of blue grotto which i talked about earlier where people post videos saying that they were deep in a cave in an air bell or whatever and and it's not true uh this site has changed tremendously though um this is this is an old picture of a blue grotto now i i've been there recently a few months ago now they have rails right so there's rails all over this thing so you don't fall well at least you know the rail start i think starts here and it goes around and he has an opening on this side and an opening on this side they also have a system right here and i'm going to give props to blue grotto to lower people with disabilities into the water so if you are disabled let's say you you can move from the waist down or something like you can dive a blue grotto there they have um you know a completely accommodating facilities for people with disabilities and they have you know one of those mechanical arms that would take somebody and lower them into the water so they did a great job with that uh they deserve recognition that they don't often get uh this is a great place for training this is where i got my instructor uh certification i did my ie or instructor evaluation here love displays great memories i've done dozens of dives in there a blue grotto so i'm not really sure why he used eagle's nest but i'm glad he put this picture on and messed up so i can talk about it because um they deserve the world is full of incredible sunken caves and caverns to explore but remember it's a whole other world down there and one false move will mean the difference between getting out alive and perishing below okay well that's uh that's pretty much the end of the video i mean it is true and we're going to reiterate the fact that if you're not cave dive dive trainer uh train if you're not certified to be a cave diver don't go into caves can you go into overhead environments absolutely and there's actually provisions within the open water training materials and standards that allows brand new divers to go and do swim throughs right they go on overhead environments but there are some limitations like they have to be 30 feet long they have to you know have to be able to see the exit on the other side depending on your training your ability to do swim throughs and be in overhead environments will change but overall you can absolutely do it safely just don't go in caves that's it if you want to go in caves get the training become a better diver learn how to do it i would love to take you in a cave with me is awesome it's epic and there's nothing scary or dangerous after you learn how to do it safely so just like everything i know this was a super long video there's so much to cover if you have any suggestions for other videos you want me to break down or talk about please send us an email at info divetalkmedia.com or you can leave a comment below here or you know send me a message however you want to see it we have a page on facebook if you want to like us give us a like or communicate with us there were pretty responsive and obviously listen to the podcast now if you're not a diver you know the podcast is not going to make a whole lot of sense because we're talking about diving things uh in there this channel is more for you know people that are non-diverse as well to be able to learn more about the diving world and i hope you get excited and learn how to dive you know because it's it's awesome it changed my life years ago and i hope it changes yours give us a like you know subscribe if you haven't done that 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Channel: DIVE TALK

Views: 78,230

Rating: 4.876895 out of 5

Keywords: Cave Diving, Diving, Scuba, Cave Diver, Eagles Nest, Blue Hole, Jacobs Well, Underwater Cave, Scuba Diving, Scuba Instructor, Reaction, Dangerous, Cave Diving Death

Id: 6vm_qsp6Mmw

Length: 48min 37sec (2917 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2020