CAVE DIVER REACTS TO SCARY CAVE DIVING INCIDENT

hello everyone and welcome to yet another cave diver react video this time this was a recommendation from someone who sent us an email again our email address is info at divetalkmedia.com if you have any recommendations or anything you want us to review please go ahead and send that over and i'll you know we'll take a look and we'll react live for all of you to see my name is gus i am a cave diver and also a scuba diving instructor i dive with a closed circuit rebreather in caves and i love to you know kind of review these videos and provide kind of my thoughts on the things that i see things that are not common for us to see it mistakes and also point out really good things today i'm excited because i have a video that is hosted on the gopro youtube channel and it's about an an incident that happened to actual cave divers so they were filming this dive inside a cave and they had an issue so i want to talk about what happened there where i saw kind of the the the training that we received as cave divers should have kicked in and he didn't really kick in and kind of like what we can learn from it now spoiler alert no one dies in this thing so if you're coming you know because if you're coming to see the video because we've posted a couple of videos in the past about the death of dave shaw and yuri lipsky for example uh we're not going to be be having anyone dying today so this was something where the this was an accident or an incident i would say where the divers all survived but it was very scary nonetheless uh this will be scary for divers i think and it also is scary for cave divers as well however i think that this could have been prevented uh but at the same time if it was prevented we wouldn't have a video to review so i want to talk about that because i'm pretty sure the divers who were affected as part of this incident kind of learned their lesson the hard way right they had the issue and then they were like okay you know now we know what to do about this i'm lucky that i haven't been through an incident like this one but i've prepared ahead of time just in case it happens to me i wouldn't fall into you know what happened in the video and i will show you i actually brought my equipment down to show you um however i'm gonna kind of leave the equipment side to the end just in case you're not interested in diving equipment whatsoever if you don't want to find out what i would have done differently then you can just watch the video and then skip the rest basically because i'm going to show you kind of what are the things that we can do in order to prevent an issue like that from happening it's a pretty short video but i think this explanation will be pretty long just because we're going to go through the gear i'm gina edgerton my name is brian wiederspan my primary dive partner is my wife he's gonna hand you my tray when you can gina who's also a part-time dive instructor as well okay so i'm gonna stop here for a second uh so if you notice the the name of the divers david and gina gina edgerton is actually the person that will have the incident um and i think that when it comes to mindset right if your main dive partner is your wife i think that that increases a little bit of your anxiety when it comes to responding to this incident now multiple divers one of things that you will see in this video too and i'm going to prepare you for it so you can see it when when it happens is when we are cave divers or technical divers like even if we're in the open water technical divers are i don't want to say like a like a superior class of divers or anything like that anyone can become a technical diver but what i what i want to point out is that our mindset really changes depending on what type of dives we're doing and who we're diving with if we're doing a technical dive whether it's in a cave or outside a cave the mindset of you know how we conduct the dive changes for example when you are a recreational diver and you're out in the open water typically if you have an issue maybe your body will help you but like if you're out like i've been you know i've been in a cruise for example and then i go into a dive and on the boat like i feel that it was just mainly me and my body and if one of us had an issue we would have to help each other and then go to the surface and like the dive will continue like everyone else would just keep doing their thing and that happens a lot in recreational diving there wasn't anything special about that specific dive i think that's pretty much how it works when it comes to recreational divers is you and your body are you know a team and if any one of you have an issue you help each other and you go to the surface that's basically how it is in technical diving going to the surface if you have an issue may not be an option if it's early in the dive perhaps and you're not in an overhead environment like a cave perhaps you can go to the surface if you have a problem but technical diving means diving beyond recreational limits so even though you're doing a technical dive if it's early in the dive it's still just a recreational dive a recreational dive means you can go to the surface at any time for any reason on a technical dive you no longer have that option we have established that before in this channel so when you're doing a technical dive you dive as a team you still have a buddy and you can see the david mentioned my wife gina is my body so they work together but the whole team will react if there's an issue right if any diver in the team has a problem we are taught as technical divers to have this swarm mentality where everyone really conveys in the person with the problem and now all of our combined resources expertise capabilities whatever you name it will be now at hand will be available anything we have is available for the issue whether you were my body it doesn't matter anyone in the team has a problem we swarm the victim and we help the victim whatever it is for example i dive with a rebreather if my rebreather fails and i'm gonna super deep dive in the ocean or i'm gonna dive inside a cave or whatever i have zero worries that i'm gonna be alone and i'm gonna have to deal with this thing my entire team will swarm on me and i will have all the resources available for example my rebreather stops working it blows up for whatever reason now i have not only my bailout tanks to survive this cave or wreck or whatever it is but i have my body's tanks and everyone else in the team's tanks to help me survive essentially now obviously if someone else has a problem then you know now we all have to help you know two people and whatnot but one of the biggest things that changes between being a recreational diver and a tech diver is that you know kind of the way we address issues and one of the things you will see in this video is exactly that as soon as gina has a problem everyone swarms her all right i want you guys to pay attention to that because i definitely want to commend everyone in this team which seems to be a small team of four or five people for having that swarm mentality they show it perfectly in this video and um i think that is one of the reasons why everyone made it out alive but the other thing i wanted to talk about is gina's credentials so i don't know if you guys missed it but i actually looked her up uh her credentials are in this website called frockkickingdiving.com pretty cool name by the way uh but her name is gina edgerton as you can see she's a utd technical instructor number 12. that's a very very low number uh that's pretty awesome like i think my instructor number for um for ssi is like 93 000 and some change so you can see it's pretty big and for intd my instructor number i think is on the tens of thousands or something like that it's i mean to be number 12 it's pretty impressive right but utd is is a pretty young organization i'll talk about utd in a second uh she's a nowy technical instructor now it has been around for a long time you can see her number is 42 000 and some change now is big in a lot of cases people really love nowadays open water classes actually above some of the other um you know agencies and i might talk about that i don't know if we'll have time for that and why i've never taken a naui class by the way um and then she's certified utd cave too cave 2 means full cave she can you know go in jumps she can explore whatever she's not um she doesn't have to stay within a line or have limitations she's full cave certified just like me so that's great she has 1800 dives very experienced 200 dives requiring stage decompression meaning 200 tech dives um you know requiring stage decompression she had to decompress along the way that's great 300 dpv dives definitely had me beat on that because i have like five or something like that so she's she's awesome she's been doing dpvs for a long time and 200 cave dives all right so at least this was listed i don't know when was the last time this was updated maybe these numbers are higher now maybe she has 2 000 dives now 500 dpv dives i don't know what it is but she is clearly very experienced she's not a cave diving instructor but she's a cave diver she has 200 cave dives 200 cave dives i know it sounds little but it's a lot of cave dives i have 27 for example um and i've been cave diving for almost a year at this point and she has 200 so she has almost 10 times the experience that i have when it comes to cave diving now i do worry or wonder about ud utd in particular and she's an instructor for them i i don't mean to bash utd as an agency i have no experience working with them but when i look at utd utd stands for unified team diving i don't know i i think i've heard of this agency before i've never taken a class their logo is pretty cool they have a dpv on the logo i don't know if you can see dpv stands for diver propulsion vehicle those things that look like torpedoes right which i have one and i love my dpv um but it's interesting so when i read this it says you're going to be amazing that's like their motto and he says you will become an awesome diver with utd training whether you take a traditional utd scuba class or join the utd scuba coaching program you will become the best safest badass team diver in the water okay so anyway there's this agency called utd it's not very difficult to start your own kind of training agency the difficult part is to actually have your agency listed on the world recreational scuba training console which is this this thing right here and i pulled it up for you because i want to talk about this for those of you who are non-divers specifically if you watch this channel and you're like i want to i want to become a diver i want to be a scuba diver right you don't have to be a cave diver and do all this stuff that looks dangerous but you can be a regular diver i mean it's i'm in love with it as you can tell so i totally recommend it the when people ask me for example should i be should i do nowi should i do ssi should i do paddy like which agency should i go with the answer is it doesn't really matter because all those agencies are members of the world recreational scuba training council so if you read what that is look at the mission statement of the wrstc it says the wrstc is dedicated to the worldwide safety of the recreational diving public as such one of the wrstc's primary goals is the development of worldwide minimum training standards okay and that's really what they do very well the establishment of globally recognized and implemented standards is a valuable asset in addressing local and national regulatory issues so in in a short i guess summary this agency which is a non-profit agency comes up with here are the very minimum standards for any of our member agencies to provide training under they have to show these things and require these pieces of equipment as a minimum in order for them to be certified under the world recreational scuba training console now what do you get from this what you get is you essentially if you have a certification under an agency that is a member of the wrscc then is recognized globally and is recognized by operators from other agencies for example my just as an example i have some cards right here from multiple agencies that i've taken training here's my open water instructor certification on their ssi just to show you a card this card i can go to a patty you know shop or or a nowi shop for example like we've done many many times and i can show this card and they'll be like okay you're an instructor they'd recognize it uh the same thing with this this guy and this happens to be my narmoxic trimix ccr card this is from ian td as you can see it says technical diver on it i can go into any dive operation in the world in any country like in november of this year for example where i'm planning to go to micronesia and explore the wrecks in choc lagoon the wrecks in choc lagoon can be pretty deep you need an expert level of certification to go down to 200 200 plus feet to explore these wrecks what are they going to ask for are you certified to go that deep i just show my ian td card which is a member of the wrstc and they'll look at it and be like okay you're good to go it doesn't matter the agency name doesn't matter as long as they're part of this council because all of the agencies that are part of it have to follow the same minimum standards and procedures in order to deliver training so they're reciprocated around the world the same thing with patty patty is the biggest agency i have a few certification from patty i go anywhere and i'm like hey i'm a you know certified dry suit diver for example is one of the certifications i have through paddy i can dive with my with a dry suit anywhere in the world because it's a patty certification patty is a member of the wrstc the utd agency that she's a member of is not a member of it as a matter of fact here i pulled the list of all the agencies that are currently members of it so if the question is as you can see as of 2020 these are the agencies that are a member of it if the question is who should i take scuba training with it doesn't really matter as long as you take it from one of these agencies that would be my recommendation because it will be recognized anywhere you go you want to go diving in the bahamas no problem you have an open water diver car from ssi sdi raid intd who cares they all have to teach the same safety standards and when we get into the video and we talk about safety standards i want to talk about some of the safety standards that i learned on my iantd cave diving class so my cave diving certification is from iintd as you can see intd is listed first in the members of the wrstc so it's recognized everywhere utd is not now i'm not saying that their class is crap or they don't that's unsafe or anything like that there are other agencies out there like global underwater explorers for example gue which is you know globally recognized as a super strong training agency they are not part of this member member council because they don't want to be or because they don't meet the standards i'm not really sure why but they're just not part of it so i can't really say well they don't teach this or they don't require this i'm not really sure if they do or not but i want to move forward just you know essentially talking about what i learned because i've learned from an agency that happens to be part of this and i assume if you get your cave diving certification from any of these agencies whoever haven't i don't i'm not i'm not sure if all these agencies teach cave diving they will probably all follow kind of the same standards that i saw when i took my iantd um my ntd class lastly gina is listed as having 200 um you know cave dives i there's an agency here in the u.s called nsscds that essentially gives awards to divers that successfully meet kind of some deadlines or some milestones not deadlines milestones when it comes to safe cave diving um there's three awards that are given by this organization and there are three awards once you reach that milestone you apply for it they check your logs and if you are checked out you get the award the first award is named the abe davis award abe davis fun fact happens to be the first known cave diver at least in america for sure so when you hit 100 save cave dives you receive the abe davis award you apply for it you submit your log you have you know bodies on every one of your dive they might be contacted to verify that you are you know in fact you have been diving or whatever once they verify your locks you get the award that's basically how it works my instructor doug eversole for example received the award three years ago and he became a cave diving instructor last year so this this award has been around for a long time there's actually over a thousand people 1087 at the recording of this video that are on the database for the abe davis award which once again is for 100 safe cave dives gina's name is not there now i'm not saying she doesn't have 100 cave dives she probably hasn't applied for the award so gina if you watch this you should apply for it because you have over 200 cave dives the next tier of the award is called the henry nicholson award henry nicholson created a lot of the safety recovery and um you know rescue protocols basically that we use in cave diving and when you hit 500 cave dives safe cave dives you are you can receive these award the henry nicholson award now how many people have 500 cave dives i know it doesn't sound like a lot but think about the abe davis award with a hundred there's a 1087 people that have received that award the henry nicholson one which is 500 only 51 people so from 1087 to 51 so getting a few hundred cave dives is not easy and i just want to highlight how experienced gina is when she's doing this dive i mean she is very very very experienced way more than me by the way so she should probably react to my videos to be honest um and by the way the third level of a word call is called the check xlia word check actually is perhaps the most known cave diver cave explorer in history is one of the you know creators of cave diving basically he he is he wrote two books about cave diving he created many of the rules that we use today to be able to do to be safe cave divers plus he's the first person in history to log 1000 safe cave dives so you guessed it the final award to save cave diving is named check actually and is given to people that can demonstrate they've completed a thousand save cave dives only 29 people have received the chickaxley award so it's very very exclusive if you ever meet someone who has received the check actually award and you're going to go cave diving especially if your instructor your cave diving instructor is a recipient of the shek axley award you'll be in good hands pretty sure so it's very very exclusive award but anyway back to the video let's go back to the video and now watch i'm gonna try to watch as much as possible all along and then at the end i'll kind of give you my thoughts it's a short video i've been scuba diving for more than 25 years part-time underwater explorer cave diving for more than nine years primarily searching for shipwrecks i'm here to help with the underwater filming of this project [Music] on one of our dives we've resurfaced into actually a fairly large air dome and these air domes can be absolutely beautiful in there but they are most likely going to be oxygen deficient okay so let me stop right here for a second so you see that air air dome also known as air bales sometimes they're basically as divers go through it in most cases all the bubbles they blow start building into the ceiling and it can create a pretty big pocket of air now in some cases you may find a cave that has an air dome that wasn't created by divers like it could be that it has been air that has been trapped there for millions of years right or at least for hundreds of thousands of years so the direction is you should never breathe air on an air dome on an air bill because you don't know what that air is it could be methane like it could be any gas uh in there but even if it is blown by divers like you can see david was talking about how it's it's oxygen deficient that is because the air is built by the bubbles that are blown away so as you breathe air assuming that you're breathing air you're breathing in 21 oxygen and you're blowing out about 16 oxygen now 16 oxygen can sustain life that's why mouth-to-mouth respiration works because you can blow 16 oxygen which is better than nothing and that can sustain life um i think the number is about 12 to 10 percent can sustain life anything below 10 you kind of pass out um you know on on on oxygen so if you're blowing all these bubbles and they're building up in the you know in the ceiling of this cave you can go out there and breathe it but it's not going to be 21 oxygen which is the normal air is going to be 16 at best and it could be lower than that so because of that if i ever i'm in a cave and i see an air bill i don't think i will ever remove my regulator out of my mouth to see what the air is right so let's keep going because you'll see that these divers are talking about like there's an airbell it could be oxygen deficient we don't know but they still breathe it so let's see as i was ascending i was pulling on the inflator trying to inflate and it came off in my hand that's bad i realized i was struggling staying on the surface i couldn't get inflated and started kicking quite hard after that i hardly remember anything okay so let's start with the gear so what gina is diving with is called a wing now i happen to have a wing that is not installed on anything let me see if i can get this in camera now this is not installed into a plate it's just the wing right it looks like this now on this side of the wing let me see how i can get it on camera on this side of the wing notice that i have this thing called the inflator that's what she's talking about the inflator is basically a deflator as well it allows us to air out the the air inside the wing and by the way the wing essentially what what it does is we can inflate it with air so all of the weight that we carry in order to go down we can add air to our wing so we can be you know perfectly trim underwater be on you know stay on the same at the same depth so we don't carry too much weight that we're sinking or too much air that we're going up we just add enough air so we can be perfectly still basically at the same depth on the water so what she's saying is she was trying to add air which is with this button right here she was doing that and this thing stayed in her hand now one of the skills that you learn in scuba diving is that you can unhook your air hose just like this and nothing happens you can actually plug it back in underwater on the surface your wing or your bcd buoyancy compensation device will not be affected by you unhooking the the hose that's not what she's talking about she's not talking about the hose washing her hand she's talking about this whole thing is in her hand so it either come up from this joint right here which is basically a zip tie uh it has a little screw but it's a zip tie or it came from the elbow which is this thing back here and you can see how easy it is that if you pull this thing you see how i'm unscrewing it just with my hand right right look just a couple of um spins around and it's completely out so now it's just a hole there's nothing to stop water from going in and that's what she's talking about she tried to use this thing and it stayed in her hand so now this thing you cannot inflate it because even if you lose the hose okay you can still orally inflate into this see it has like a mouthpiece i can blow into this thing to inflate my wing if you lose the hose if the hose ruptures if you you know your tank it's not working whatever it is i can still orally inflate this thing like if i make it to the surface and i have no air i can blow into this so i can float on the surface and wait for somebody to come get me right so what she's talking about is i pulled this thing just completely out of it now you have this thing in your hand worst case scenario really really bad but there's a solution for it i'll talk about it in a second let's keep watching yeah this air is not good right over here watch this swarm mentality watch everyone swims to her it's awesome [Music] everybody has to go for us see everyone who's on here put a regulator in your mouth now watch he's telling her keep your regulator in your mouth keep your regular in your mouth why because she's breathing this oxygen deficient air she can pass out all the way and you don't want that so obviously she's trying to tell him like you look my my inflator is messed up i cannot inflate i cannot inflate she's panicking big time and these guys are doing the right thing keep the regular in your mouth breathe breathe because even if you sink to the bottom of this cave you're breathing right we can then figure out how to get you to safety but she is just trying to stay afloat and at that point as she claimed she doesn't even remember what happened panic 100 took over and again everybody's staying calm including david her husband so he's doing a great job complete panic she's trying to hold to this stalactite by the way which took probably tens of thousands of years and you're not supposed to touch him but i mean it feels like she's gonna drown so she's holding on to it i i don't uh criticize her for that i would have done the same stop stop i'm glad it was a big one you need to breathe she's trying to communicate but they keep breathing keep breathing and you can see the other divers are also breathing on the regulator they know that the air is not good they're staying calm you know just trying to help she her mask is off her face you know clear sign of a diver in distress she's trying to hang on to anything um it's it's a bad situation breathe out the regulator regulator the end he has breathe [Music] what we discovered was her inflator had come loose all the way like i showed you not only did she lose that that wing was filling up with water that's not good it really just does go to show that if you let things snowball even the best diver can get into a bad situation it was a really really intense moment for me probably the most intense moment i've had with diving and that's pretty much the end of it so let's talk about what happened and what she could have done to prevent essentially like panicking and feeling like she was gonna die and be able to react to it once again this shows that this can happen to anyone including me right um anyone so i'm not saying like there's no chance this can happen to me there are things that i've done in order to prevent myself from accidents like this one um i didn't do it because i saw this video by the way i've been doing this for months now but still this can happen to any diver so here's what happened she only has one way to add air it seems like she only has one way to add air to her essentially to her buoyancy compensator and to her overall like in order to add air to not sink to the bottom it's really hard for you to just swim up if whatever you have is super heavy in my case and i i wish i knew what tank she was using they looked pretty big i think they were steel 72s but i use steel 85s and those things are so heavy i wear no weights whatsoever when i'm diving with those tanks because the tanks are so heavy that i don't need to add weights into it and i typically have to add a bunch of weights you know 16 pounds whatever it is when i'm not diving with heavy tanks like that but cave diving those tanks are so heavy and so massive because i need them for air if my rebreather fails that i don't need to add any weights so the one thing that you learn scuba diving is if you're having an issue being buoyant is drop your weights that's in like class one right they teach you how to drop your weights well what weights if you if your tanks are super heavy your weights are not a thing you cannot drop them so your weights are your tanks and you cannot drop your tanks she's not diving with a rebreather by the way she's just open circuit diving meaning her tanks are the only air she has so it's not like she can drop her tanks because yes she's going to be buoyant she's going to be in the surface but now she can escape out of this cave plus the air inside the cave is oxygen deficient so it's not like she can stay there and wait for help right she can pass out and drown so it's a it's a really really bad situation so what happens if this happened to you and like i showed you earlier with the wing the whole inflator falls apart and your wing is filling up with air well under the agency that i got certified on this is a you know scenario that we practice right and what they teach you is even to take the class you have to have at least two ways to gain buoyancy one can be your wing like we saw before and the second one has to be something else it cannot be the primary wing is everything so you either can have a dry suit dry suit has a hose that is plugged into it and you can inflate it you'll have a button in your chest and literally just press that button it will add air to your suit so if your wing fails you can control buoyancy with your suit or two if you're in a warm cave like they were there they were you know in mexico um if you're in a warm cave and your dry suit will make you too hot you're wearing a wetsuit then you have to have something else what is that something else check this out this thing this is a surface market buoy um this is a super long sausage safety sausage as it's known to that you can roll out inflate you just notice that it has like a little thing right here that i can plug in my my host to the host that you saw me take away before i can plug that in or i can blow into it but i can inflate this thing with air and what you do is you put it under your arms like like this like if you were you know with one of those pool noodles you put it under your arm and you can float with it and you can add air or remove air this same thing i don't know if you can see but this same thing i can pull and it will release air so it works like my wing i can add air i can remove air i can control my buoyancy with it my dive is over at that point but at least i won't sink to the bottom and risk basically drowning if the bottom is if there's no bottom like if it's a super deep cave that will be a really really big problem you saw it on the yuri lipsky video where he sunk all the way to the bottom of the blue hole in egypt right so what you do is you have one of these things in your pocket it's only going to be used if your wing fails your wing fails you inflate this thing and now i can put it under my arms and literally swim with this thing under my arms and get out of there okay i can do that i personally chose another another path to having two sources of inflation let me grab my rebreather and show you what i mean okay so here's my rebreather you won't be able to see the whole thing on it but what i wanted to show you is that here on the left just so you can see yes it's orange everything i have in my rear is orange pretty much um i have that inflator just like you saw on the previous wing i'm trying to do this all in camera and it's hard but i have the inflator so i have the deflator button right here inflator button right here mouthpiece right here to inflate orally just like the one she has it also has that elbow in the back that i can unscrew and pop up and then it will be sinking you know it will be filling with water just like it happened to her which is a problem so the way i approach this is i upgraded my rebreather my really didn't come with this i upgraded to a dual inflator and deflator model so you can see i have two of these on the same wing right it has two bladders inside so if one of the elbows falls off like this guy right here in the back which is the original elbow falls up falls off i can still inflate and deflate on my right hand side this stays kind of behind my right arm i don't even see it or mess with it at all i only use my main one which is the one on the left right but if this one were to fail if it comes apart right here the joint if i pull it out of the socket right here on the on the elbow whatever i don't have to panic i just reach below me like it will be around here and i will reach out to this guy inflate deflate whatever it is so it's a dual bladder wing it has safety built in into it i have two in one basically and i only use one and the other one is only extra just in case so that's how i approach the dual inflation problem if i'm in a cave that is cold all i do is i unplug this line right here the orange line that you see and i plug that in into my dry suit so i don't use the dual bladder if i'm driving with a dry suit because the dry suit will be that secondary inflation that we talked about that is the standard and is what you should have is two modes of inflation so i no longer have to bring an smb in my dives it's bulky it doesn't make any sense inside a cave to be honest so i just use my rebreather because it has two two bladders or i would use my bladder in my dry suit so that is how you get around the limitation of having just one inflation so if gina had a double wing and maybe she did and and you know under panic you kind of forget your gear and all of that and i totally get that i'm not gonna judge her on that um all she had to do is oh wow it's not inflating let me reach for my secondary you know inflation my dry suit or my secondary wing or or bladder and inflate that now i'm at the surface what the hell is going on with my primary inflation hey david what is it oh it came off the thing okay whatever okay that's fine i got this one let's get out of here like the dive is over but it's just really really awesome to see how they all swarm to her how they all kind of cocoon her and helped her out uh it is always hard to see people panicking like this in dives um you know you always try to keep your cool but i can totally understand how if she had two heavy tanks and all of the sudden your only inflation method or capabilities completely dead and out of the picture uh i mean it's a it's a it's it's rough um and i think she reacted the way i would have reacted the way anyone would have reacted that's why we need to work on having you know two of everything two is one one is none kind of philosophy you know i assume i bet if her light failed she would have had other lights you know we dive at least with three lights when it comes to cave diving she wouldn't even have asked for help like oh my life failed let me get my other light no problem um if like pretty much anything her mask if her mask fell off guarantee you she had a pocket mask or a secondary mask you would have just reached for that boop put it on her face good to go but inflation it looks like she only had one wing and by the way i looked at her equipment it's on on the website frockkicking.com that i mentioned she was using a dive ride wing just like the ones i just showed you the one in my rebreather and the one that i showed you previously which was the original one i had on the rebreather it was a single bladder i upgraded it to a dual bladder it was a lot of money i think it was like 500 i don't remember how much the upgrade was but it is worth it to be safe you know i want to cave dive for decades to come it's not a cheap thing some people will be like wow that's how much i pay for my entire you know bcd i know it's pricey but it's way safer to do it that way so anyway i hope you enjoyed this video very very short very very heavy on all of the descriptions and equipment and all of that but i know that some people really like the gear part of diving so i wanted to get into that and kind of describe the way i do it uh if you enjoyed this video please go ahead and click the like button and leave a comment the youtube algorithm loves you know when people leave comments and make recommendations and things like that so they can recommend it to other divers i really really love the fact that the youtube channel is growing um we have giveaways as i've mentioned before whenever we hit a thousand subscribers we're gonna start giving away some of the stuff that some of these companies ask us to review and provide feedback on like our you know orca torchlights for example which right now we have four of them work at torch keeps sending us models and we provide feedback to them and you know they love working with us so we cannot wait to start giving away um you know all of this stuff we we want to reward you guys for staying with us and watching we love talking about you know talking about diving if you have any questions please leave a comment below i've been trying to respond to all the comments that people are leaving you know behind or if you have you know something longer that you want to type in or comments you want to keep it private please go ahead and send us an email at info divetalkmedia.com other than that thank you so much for watching we'll see you in the next one

Channel: DIVE TALK

Views: 83,356

Rating: 4.9253607 out of 5

Keywords: SCUBA, IANTD, TDI, NAUI, PADI, SSI, Tec Diving, Tec Diver, Tech Diving, Tech Diver, Cave Diver, Cave Diving, Open Water Diver, Scuba Diving, Scuba Instructor, Dive Instructor, Scary Incident, Cave Diver Reacts, Reaction, Cave Diving Scary, Cave Diving Accident

Id: ayb0u71XOcg

Length: 41min 37sec (2497 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 15 2021