Brings back memories. I made my first dive into Eagles Nest in 1962 when I was in college. Things were really different back then. I was 18 and nothing scared me. I'm 72 now so those days are long past. I still miss the feel of the exploration. You probably weren't even born yet when I was diving into that cave. I wish I could find my old photographs. I would send you copies.
@@jeremiasflamenco7055 You are a fucking fool or maybe just a dumbass !! Or i could be wrong, and then i am sorry !! Cus you was only thinking about he's dick !! I think we got it, you have never been with a woman, cus you only like (last line's people can guess, I'm sure. Just strange you feel the need to go in on a person, just because of age. All this on a 2 year old comment he made.
Oh I forgot to tell you. A well known Florida diver during the sixties was Don Ledbetter. I'm pretty sure he was probably the first diver to dive Eagles Nest. I learned of the cave system from Don and made my first dive with a friend shortly after that. We were only able to venture a short distance beyond the ballroom, but it was a thrill just the same.
Hi Bobby, I think your right that it was Don Ledbetter. I googled this, “Did Don Ledbetter discover EAGLES NEST,” In Florida?” And I came across this story which was the very first link on the Google page that listed many links/pages, and this article is so very much worth reading!!!! Even though I’m not a diver. I throughly enjoyed reading it!!!! WHERE EAGLES DARE.” 9 / 1 / 1999 “As old stories were once told, so will I tell you the tale of my experiences with the finding of a lost sink. So much water has passed under the bridge since I first heard of Eagle’s Nest. The first exploration into the system was by Don Ledbetter in the early 1960’s.” “Not until the late 60’s did exploration move beyond the main ballroom. With names like Exley, Wiggens, Stevens, Martz, and Lockwood, exploration moved into the upstream and downstream passages of Eagle’s Nest. Because of the limitations in equipment and technology, exploration and survey had reached its limits by the mid-seventies.”
I’ve often wondered just who it was that discovered these tunnels. Think about it, what would give someone, anyone, the idea that there may be tunnels caverns down inside this small pond.
This cave, more than others, looks extremely dangerous because it’s very large and easy to get turned around or lost. The smaller linear caves that don’t have a lot of silt, are not too bad. I did Ginnie’s devil system and it’s main one is pretty easy
I love how they portray cave diving in a light that isn't so scary, showing the beauty of it. Yes it can be terrifying and accidents can happen, but there _is_ a reason that people do it.
More people dive this place successfully than unsuccessfully. While several people have passed away here, the majority of divers pass through and admire the cave safely. Proper, knowledge, skills, equipment, and experience will see you through.
I'm a very experienced diver dove Devil's Den in Florida. Eagles nest from what heard is beautiful, but I would never leave the Ballroom. Great video thanks.
@@JustinJamesXJS Even the most experienced make mistakes :-) Its only natural. Sad but accidents happen. If done correctly there is no danger whatsoever
"This shit is dangerous if your light goes out." Really kid? Did you miss the part in the article where the Dad wasn't a certified cave diver and the son wasn't even a certified diver? More like "this shit is dangerous if you have no idea what you're doing"
This is amazing. Thank you for doing this. I just watched a video about how dangerous this cave is to dive into, I knew someone had to have a video. Thank you for the risk you all took. Be careful out there.
scares the complete shit out of me, so i thank you for being brave and showing us this video. always good irish luck and welfare to you, specialty cave divers. god bless and god speed
a well organised and safely conducted dive which makes you feel the thrill of exploring caves. Quite a lot of life closer to the opening. The Pit was quite worrying, how brave to venture into such a narrow gap with all these bottles! They bear the scratches of many close encounters with the rocks, lol. Well done, and beautiful video. It must make for a great memory.
Thanks. I dove Devil's Eye in Jenny Springs, once. It was cold, dark, and cramped. Kind of like being in the womb, only worse. I won't ever go back to either place.
I dove the one that’s got the opening where you float down, but it’s a much bigger space, like 20’ x 20’. I think it’s “devils ear” or something. The one you’re talking about is really tiny, I hated that one too. I never even FOUND the entrance lol, or I might’ve but it was so tiny I didn’t even try
Charles Graves Once you get inside it’s the color of gray marble, smooth and cold, and at the very bottom they put up an iron gate to block the way to keep people from going further, because other drivers had gone deeper and gotten lost and ran out of air.
Wow, that’s incredible!!! Not something I’d do, no matter how beautiful it is, I’d be scared of dropping the flashlight or getting lost😭 Thanks for sharing the view though, it’s aww striking 😍
the divers say each of them bring 3 quality diving flashlights with them everytime they go under. Atleast that's the proper way. Some people bring one because they want to die I guess
To be clear cave diving is actually a (relatively) safe sport *if* you have the proper training and equipment. The vast majority of cave diving fatalities fall into three categories 1) open water divers who had no business being there or cave divers who exceeded the scope of their training. 2) cave explorers (trained cave divers going into unmapped caves-- this is far more dangerous due to so many additional unknowns) 3) a lot of the fatalities we read about are from decades ago (1960 to 1985ish). A big part of why cave diving is relatively safe today is because we learned from the tragedies of the past.
Question: from a statistical and fact based standpoint, how dangerous is cave diving if you know what you're doing and take the necessary precautions? The media likes to spin things by focusing on the dangers of cave diving. The rule of common sense tells me that experienced cave divers don't take this lightly and they're probably better prepared (redundancy, backup, etc) than an experienced diver who prefers innocuous ship wreck diving looking at some coral and moray eels.
This is a great question and too long to answer here but there are very few actual trained cave diver deaths a year. Training is so important and you don't just go a mile back into a cave. Baby steps you start in caverns where you can see daylight and learn to run reels, air management, lost line drills, redundancy with lights, air, reels, tanks, ect. Usually after cavern you move into an Intro to cave couse, then a basic cave class and a full cave class. Baby steps!
you also work on buoyancy skills, emergency drills, out of air drills and sharing air through small restrictions. There is so much to be learned. You do the drills over and over with lights out and in different situations. It becomes second nature to you so when a problem does occur you have the muscle memory to deal with it.
Becky Kagan Schott Becky, again wonderful video and enjoyed watching again. I do a lot of diving and mostly in Curacao, (where we have a home). We live in Florida and have dove many of the states sink holes, springs and some caverns. My question to you is how does your lost line drills work. Just curious...
@BeckyKagan Thanks so much for uploading this video Mrs. Kagan!! I hope to get my cavern certification this summer. I've been wanting to get it after diving 'The Ballroom' at Ginnie Springs, Blue Grotto, Morison Springs, and Devils Den. I loved going into the cavern zones! It was so intriguing, beautiful and fascinating!
Ok, question: If this is such a dangerous dive, yet, extremely important for divers, cave geologists, scientists, etc then why isn't the cave properly signed and marked? Obviously a sign was put down there and has held up over the years as a warning, so why not more signs? What I was thinking was high visibility signs to mark each section's height, width, and depth, but also pressure and where your breathable gas levels should be. There can be a high vis rope or line installed to give guidance along the entire length. Each large section has a sign and instructions. Each maze pathway has prewarnings. We have the tech and equipment now to do it. As for protecting the untrained public just make it mandatory that if you want to dive this cave system you have to get access permission and plan the date. Then if anything should happen emergency crews are already prepped and on alert. With the tech we have we can map this cave accordingly to prevent deaths and post it on the website so people who want to dive it can look up the experience and equipment requirements before asking and paying for permission. Even experienced divers are dying in this cave and rescue crews are risking their lives for someone else's thrills. If this isn't enough then just leave for scientific research only and leave it at that.
I think more signs and mark would attract more people to dive there (especially the unexpierienced ones) because it seems saver. It gives people the feeling of a savety that is not existing and that is, i imagine, really dangerous.
WOW IM NOT A DIVER, BUT I COULD SIT & WATCH U GUY'S ALL DAY. THAT MOTHER EARTH IS SO BEAUTIFUL & THE MUSIC JUST AS GREAT THANK U GUY'S & GAL ♥️ FROM 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA 👍 ON YA MATEY'S
Majority of my dives are wreck dives on Nitrox, or or shark dives. Cave dives kinda worry me. But very specialty beautiful if you can handle the feeling that if you make the slightest mistake it's over
just take comfort in the fact that you're not and just watching this from the safety of your computer or phone, etc...like everyone else on here and you'll never go there, even though it looks sick!
Usually they try to leave caves as untouched as possible so other people can see them in their most natural form, even something as simple as that probably not
VERY INTERESTING, Thanks for sharing. Can someone tell me what I am seeing 13:14-13:21. It looks like some type of rock creature camouflaging themselves in the cave. Maybe it's the lighting or shadows?
thanks for the video . I use to go swimming in the springs around Ocala and Silver springs when I was a youngster, I remember we would go to the heart shape spring . Not sure if you heard of that one. just to swim and chill nothing like what you do much respect..
Great question, we are using closed circuit rebreathers which basically recycle the gas we are breathing and add in small amounts of oxygen to replace what we matabolize. It also scrubs out the carbon dioxide allowing us to stay underwater for 8 + hours!
@@BeckyKaganSchott As an engineer I find this fascinating! It's probably not far from a space suit I imagine. Very cool! The reason I asked is because I know that bubbles are very harsh on the environment. I like what you are doing. Respect
Man,you guys went 2000 ft deep into eagles Nest, quite an achievement. I heard the most u can go is 5000 ft and how are u not scared of your oxygen cylinder, it can go empty
i believe they use a air mixture of o2, helium and the rest nitrogen, it's called trimix. and then there's nitrox which is a mixture with O2 like 21% and the rest is nitrogen. Pure oxygen is bad for diving. I just learned about diving from watching "dive talk". They go in depth. If your have the wrong gas below like 20feet you will quickly get narcosis and die because of it.
i know im 3 years late, but no, i don't believe there's any spots in Eagles Nest that require this technique(thankfully, considering the cave is a technical beast as is)
I have no idea whether that's in this cave, but I know for sure that that is something that happens sometimes. For tight spaces you'll have your gear on your side instead of your back, for even tighter spaces you'll take the gear off (not your breathing apparatus obviously)
Good question Mark. We plan for that in an emergency scenario especially in deep caves. We make sure we have enough breathing gas to swim out, or the diver can be towed out on another dives scooter. Some divers even carry back up scooters on long exploration dives.
+Mark Johnson When swimming you would typically use the rule of thirds. 1/3 of your total air supply going in, 1/3 going out and 1/3 for emergencies. When we use a scooter in a cave we make that more redundant and makes those measurements 1/6. Scooters go about twice as fast as a swimming diver. That way if it fails at max penetration you will have the equivalent left for exit and emergencies that you would have swimming in.
Im open water certified and nitrox certified and mostly dive and spearfish in the keys because I live in Florida... I have done a few "cavern" dives but don't know much about cave diving.. but is there a reason yall aren't running a guide line? is it always required? or is it just a preference?
Dylan, thanks for your comment. Cavern and Cave divers are taught to run lines and most known caves have lines in them already. That is the case here. If you watch again you should see the line on the left side of the video. #1 rule in cave diving, have a continuous guideline to the surface! Good comment!
Hi becky. Do you know what happened to the two divers on 10/20/2016? Patrick Peacock, 53, and Chris Rittenmeyer, 38 what do you think could have happened. Lost? Spent to much time down and ran out of oxygen. They were found together as well is that odd to you? Thank you and stay safe
Hi Becky and Liquid. Thanks for the great video. Heard the news today, very sad. I've heard of this cave before, but haven't thought of it in a long time. I went to look it up and guess what? There's no wiki on it. I would start something, but I know nothing of this cave except the news and YT. Do you know of anyone that can fill in the blanks on it? Thanks! Dunwyche~
I don’t see the point of diving into a cave where you can’t see shit.... you get the same effect if you just turn off the lights in a pitch black room. At least you won’t run out of oxygen.
Idk if you watched the video but it's not pitch black when there are multiple intense lights. I would NOT want to be in a heavily silted cave though. No thank you
Someone needs to learn english and get out and LIVE life! Explore our planet and see something amazing vs critiquing youtube videos. We are highly trained and very experienced technical divers that have been doing this for 26+ years now. We specialize in filming in extreme underwater environments to bring back footage no one has ever seen. It's actually pretty special and it's not for likes or subscribers. I could care less. It's about sharing our passion and our adventures.
There are fish, snakes and turtles in the basin but inside the cave there is little life except some catfish and albino shrimp that are adapted for living in the dark. They feed off of detritus and decaying plant matter that falls into the cave. There isn't much life usually. Other caves have other types of amphapods and sometimes blind salamaders and eeels.
Brings back memories. I made my first dive into Eagles Nest in 1962 when I was in college. Things were really different back then. I was 18 and nothing scared me. I'm 72 now so those days are long past. I still miss the feel of the exploration. You probably weren't even born yet when I was diving into that cave. I wish I could find my old photographs. I would send you copies.
Bobby Budman do you have stories of any accidents?
Bobby Budman how was it?
I'm 20 and I wouldn't even dive 10ft in there
@@jeremiasflamenco7055 You are a fucking fool or maybe just a dumbass !!
Or i could be wrong, and then i am sorry !!
Cus you was only thinking about he's dick !!
I think we got it, you have never been with a woman, cus you only like (last line's people can guess, I'm sure.
Just strange you feel the need to go in on a person, just because of age. All this on a 2 year old comment he made.
Reading this reminded to just appreciate the moment. Time flies
Oh I forgot to tell you. A well known Florida diver during the sixties was Don Ledbetter. I'm pretty sure he was probably the first diver to dive Eagles Nest. I learned of the cave system from Don and made my first dive with a friend shortly after that. We were only able to venture a short distance beyond the ballroom, but it was a thrill just the same.
Hi Bobby, I think your right that it was Don Ledbetter. I googled this, “Did Don Ledbetter discover EAGLES NEST,” In Florida?” And I came across this story which was the very first link on the Google page that listed many links/pages, and this article is so very much worth reading!!!! Even though I’m not a diver. I throughly enjoyed reading it!!!!
WHERE EAGLES DARE.” 9 / 1 / 1999
“As old stories were once told, so will I tell you the tale of my experiences with the finding of a lost sink. So much water has passed under the bridge since I first heard of Eagle’s Nest. The first exploration into the system was by Don Ledbetter in the early 1960’s.”
“Not until the late 60’s did exploration move beyond the main ballroom. With names like Exley, Wiggens, Stevens, Martz, and Lockwood, exploration moved into the upstream and downstream passages of Eagle’s Nest. Because of the limitations in equipment and technology, exploration and survey had reached its limits by the mid-seventies.”
I'm more familiar with Dan Hedgetter who famously first explored the darkest corners of your mom's cave
@@michelleobamasthicccocc822 why?
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 I would have read your hole comment if it wasn’t a bloody novella. 📚
@@xhunniebeexosad day for education when someone considers a 3 paragraph, 9 sentence reply a novella 😂😂
I’ve often wondered just who it was that discovered these tunnels. Think about it, what would give someone, anyone, the idea that there may be tunnels caverns down inside this small pond.
no joke..If your not certified and prepared..stay out of the caves
I agree. So cool to see videos of those that can do it. .
bullshit
just do it!
david santoso that many?
This cave, more than others, looks extremely dangerous because it’s very large and easy to get turned around or lost. The smaller linear caves that don’t have a lot of silt, are not too bad. I did Ginnie’s devil system and it’s main one is pretty easy
@@jquest43 lmao natural selection 😂😂😂 that’s how people end up dying with that stupid mentality. You sir deserve a Darwin Award
I love how they portray cave diving in a light that isn't so scary, showing the beauty of it. Yes it can be terrifying and accidents can happen, but there _is_ a reason that people do it.
More people dive this place successfully than unsuccessfully. While several people have passed away here, the majority of divers pass through and admire the cave safely. Proper, knowledge, skills, equipment, and experience will see you through.
Thanks to Mr Ballen for sending me here
same
Your pretty an brave ❤
Nice to see that safety line running all the way through.
Thank you for videotaping this dangerous and alluring underwater large intestine.
The bowels of mother Earth.
Channel Three Natural excreta
Lol!
It's not dangerous if you are cave certified and follow the proper protocols
I'm a very experienced diver dove Devil's Den in Florida. Eagles nest from what heard is beautiful, but I would never leave the Ballroom. Great video thanks.
2 men died here recently...RIP to them and i hope their family finds peace
Turkee Sonvich Shitloads of people have died there. You would think people would have sense enough to stay away, but noooooo.
@@JustinJamesXJS Even the most experienced make mistakes :-) Its only natural. Sad but accidents happen. If done correctly there is no danger whatsoever
Jai Courvoisier more people die from vending machines than cave diving related accidents. Think about that for a while
@@Bluewolf2016 maybe cause more people use vending machines
@@Bluewolf2016 how are you so dumb
Who was brought here because of MrBallen?
A father and son died there on Christmas day this year. This shit is dangerous if your light goes out.
Yeah, that was sad....
"This shit is dangerous if your light goes out." Really kid? Did you miss the part in the article where the Dad wasn't a certified cave diver and the son wasn't even a certified diver? More like "this shit is dangerous if you have no idea what you're doing"
Actually the father was not certified to dive in caves...that's all.
Turkee S The father was open water qualified, and he trained his son... Meaning that the kid wasn't certified at all.
guys, 2 ppl died there recently!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is amazing. Thank you for doing this. I just watched a video about how dangerous this cave is to dive into, I knew someone had to have a video. Thank you for the risk you all took. Be careful out there.
Enjoy the videos, please don't go if you're not trained and haven't planned extensively for this specific dive.
I'm stealing background music for church vidios cause sometimes we get a little funky
jay down music is lit isn’t it lol
Praise the lord
This is the dirty version don’t wanna let you get in too much trouble ;)
Can't thank you and your friends enough for your bravery and upload. It was scary but amazing to see how calm you all stayed at such depths!
Oh shut it
scares the complete shit out of me, so i thank you for being brave and showing us this video. always good irish luck and welfare to you, specialty cave divers. god bless and god speed
a well organised and safely conducted dive which makes you feel the thrill of exploring caves. Quite a lot of life closer to the opening. The Pit was quite worrying, how brave to venture into such a narrow gap with all these bottles! They bear the scratches of many close encounters with the rocks, lol. Well done, and beautiful video. It must make for a great memory.
Like how your bailouts are positioned correctly. Streamlined
Thanks. I dove Devil's Eye in Jenny Springs, once. It was cold, dark, and cramped. Kind of like being in the womb, only worse. I won't ever go back to either place.
I dove the one that’s got the opening where you float down, but it’s a much bigger space, like 20’ x 20’. I think it’s “devils ear” or something. The one you’re talking about is really tiny, I hated that one too. I never even FOUND the entrance lol, or I might’ve but it was so tiny I didn’t even try
Charles Graves Once you get inside it’s the color of gray marble, smooth and cold, and at the very bottom they put up an iron gate to block the way to keep people from going further, because other drivers had gone deeper and gotten lost and ran out of air.
Wow, that’s incredible!!! Not something I’d do, no matter how beautiful it is, I’d be scared of dropping the flashlight or getting lost😭
Thanks for sharing the view though, it’s aww striking 😍
the divers say each of them bring 3 quality diving flashlights with them everytime they go under. Atleast that's the proper way. Some people bring one because they want to die I guess
To be clear cave diving is actually a (relatively) safe sport *if* you have the proper training and equipment. The vast majority of cave diving fatalities fall into three categories
1) open water divers who had no business being there or cave divers who exceeded the scope of their training.
2) cave explorers (trained cave divers going into unmapped caves-- this is far more dangerous due to so many additional unknowns)
3) a lot of the fatalities we read about are from decades ago (1960 to 1985ish). A big part of why cave diving is relatively safe today is because we learned from the tragedies of the past.
@@mayalackman7581 yea i watch dive talk too
@@SpudKai lol, was thinking the same thing while reading that comment.
@@mayalackman7581 what unknowns can you come across in an unmapped cave
Question: from a statistical and fact based standpoint, how dangerous is cave diving if you know what you're doing and take the necessary precautions? The media likes to spin things by focusing on the dangers of cave diving. The rule of common sense tells me that experienced cave divers don't take this lightly and they're probably better prepared (redundancy, backup, etc) than an experienced diver who prefers innocuous ship wreck diving looking at some coral and moray eels.
This is a great question and too long to answer here but there are very few actual trained cave diver deaths a year. Training is so important and you don't just go a mile back into a cave. Baby steps you start in caverns where you can see daylight and learn to run reels, air management, lost line drills, redundancy with lights, air, reels, tanks, ect. Usually after cavern you move into an Intro to cave couse, then a basic cave class and a full cave class. Baby steps!
you also work on buoyancy skills, emergency drills, out of air drills and sharing air through small restrictions. There is so much to be learned. You do the drills over and over with lights out and in different situations. It becomes second nature to you so when a problem does occur you have the muscle memory to deal with it.
Becky Kagan Schott
Outstanding points. Well said.
Becky Kagan Schott
Becky, again wonderful video and enjoyed watching again. I do a lot of diving and mostly in Curacao, (where we have a home). We live in Florida and have dove many of the states sink holes, springs and some caverns. My question to you is how does your lost line drills work. Just curious...
its not hard.just GO FOR IT!!
No way in hell would I ever go down in those tunnels, or any, Any tunnels.
@BeckyKagan Thanks so much for uploading this video Mrs. Kagan!! I hope to get my cavern certification this summer. I've been wanting to get it after diving 'The Ballroom' at Ginnie Springs, Blue Grotto, Morison Springs, and Devils Den. I loved going into the cavern zones! It was so intriguing, beautiful and fascinating!
Ok, question: If this is such a dangerous dive, yet, extremely important for divers, cave geologists, scientists, etc then why isn't the cave properly signed and marked?
Obviously a sign was put down there and has held up over the years as a warning, so why not more signs?
What I was thinking was high visibility signs to mark each section's height, width, and depth, but also pressure and where your breathable gas levels should be. There can be a high vis rope or line installed to give guidance along the entire length. Each large section has a sign and instructions. Each maze pathway has prewarnings. We have the tech and equipment now to do it. As for protecting the untrained public just make it mandatory that if you want to dive this cave system you have to get access permission and plan the date. Then if anything should happen emergency crews are already prepped and on alert. With the tech we have we can map this cave accordingly to prevent deaths and post it on the website so people who want to dive it can look up the experience and equipment requirements before asking and paying for permission. Even experienced divers are dying in this cave and rescue crews are risking their lives for someone else's thrills. If this isn't enough then just leave for scientific research only and leave it at that.
I think more signs and mark would attract more people to dive there (especially the unexpierienced ones) because it seems saver. It gives people the feeling of a savety that is not existing and that is, i imagine, really dangerous.
Worth watching every second… you are so brave! I was totally mesmerized watching this video!
WOW IM NOT A DIVER, BUT I COULD SIT & WATCH U GUY'S ALL DAY. THAT MOTHER EARTH IS SO BEAUTIFUL & THE MUSIC JUST AS GREAT THANK U GUY'S & GAL ♥️ FROM 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA 👍 ON YA MATEY'S
Am i the only1 that the only thing that scares me about this is getting eaten by some weird ass creature sitting next to the sign waiting for me?
Beautiful video, very well shot and edited. Brings back some memories of Eagles nest. Too bad the visibility was a little cloudy on your dive.
Ah Helium voices while you guys were on the loop, pretty awesome...
Majority of my dives are wreck dives on Nitrox, or or shark dives. Cave dives kinda worry me. But very specialty beautiful if you can handle the feeling that if you make the slightest mistake it's over
Nice work 2000 feet dip down cave 🏊♀️🏊♀️
This is insanely gnarly. Well done.
Just really amazing. Thanks for sharing and not to mention doing the hard work of planning and taking of video footage.
Amazing quality on the video. You guys are crazy
im crying inside , what if i was lost in the middle of th cave
just take comfort in the fact that you're not and just watching this from the safety of your computer or phone, etc...like everyone else on here and you'll never go there, even though it looks sick!
Exactly what I was thinking when I was watching this what if you get lost you're screwed
Can you imagine being one of the first people to ever explore this place. Mental.
Do you guys ever bring capsules,for future generations to discover?
Usually they try to leave caves as untouched as possible so other people can see them in their most natural form, even something as simple as that probably not
Sounds like the underwater donkey Kong stages.
Awesome footage and nice equipment you guys have
Lots of people died in eagle nest it's scared me people still venture in these caves
Risk your whole life to go look at some underwater rocks 👌
VERY INTERESTING, Thanks for sharing. Can someone tell me what I am seeing 13:14-13:21. It looks like some type of rock creature camouflaging themselves in the cave. Maybe it's the lighting or shadows?
Those are air bubbles that can’t escape. Like looking up at a raft while underneath it, in a swimming pool, wearing goggles.
Rebreathers and dual bail outs?! Y’all are pretty geared up
I'm getting claustraphobic just watching this
thanks for the video . I use to go swimming in the springs around Ocala and Silver springs when I was a youngster, I remember we would go to the heart shape spring . Not sure if you heard of that one. just to swim and chill nothing like what you do much respect..
Is that fresh wateR?
These guys look like they know what they're doing unlike some of the people who have been into this crazy place.
Are you guys using systems that dont make bubbles? I'm no diver...
Great question, we are using closed circuit rebreathers which basically recycle the gas we are breathing and add in small amounts of oxygen to replace what we matabolize. It also scrubs out the carbon dioxide allowing us to stay underwater for 8 + hours!
@@BeckyKaganSchott As an engineer I find this fascinating! It's probably not far from a space suit I imagine. Very cool! The reason I asked is because I know that bubbles are very harsh on the environment. I like what you are doing. Respect
Imagine there were some alligators just chillin in there
Its great and all but is it worth it too look at rocks under water?
don’t be stupid that’s obviously not why it’s done lmao
@Nugs it’s a sport and people like me like the adrenaline rush and thrill of potential death
No it sure isn't
Man,you guys went 2000 ft deep into eagles Nest, quite an achievement. I heard the most u can go is 5000 ft and how are u not scared of your oxygen cylinder, it can go empty
i believe they use a air mixture of o2, helium and the rest nitrogen, it's called trimix. and then there's nitrox which is a mixture with O2 like 21% and the rest is nitrogen. Pure oxygen is bad for diving. I just learned about diving from watching "dive talk". They go in depth. If your have the wrong gas below like 20feet you will quickly get narcosis and die because of it.
@@SpudKai 130 ft with o2. Anything below that you need the tri-mix
They must have used Duracell for those lights...
Man that's a remarkable video. Well done.
“if you do to much of it you end up with bugs” -Brett 😂😂😂
I shit my pants many times watching this 😂😳
Are there ever any spaces so small that you have to take off your oxygen tanks and push them Infront of you whilst breathing? Or is that a big NO NO?
i know im 3 years late, but no, i don't believe there's any spots in Eagles Nest that require this technique(thankfully, considering the cave is a technical beast as is)
I have no idea whether that's in this cave, but I know for sure that that is something that happens sometimes. For tight spaces you'll have your gear on your side instead of your back, for even tighter spaces you'll take the gear off (not your breathing apparatus obviously)
SO much water, and not one fish?
what if your scooter fails?
Good question Mark. We plan for that in an emergency scenario especially in deep caves. We make sure we have enough breathing gas to swim out, or the diver can be towed out on another dives scooter. Some divers even carry back up scooters on long exploration dives.
+Mark Johnson When swimming you would typically use the rule of thirds. 1/3 of your total air supply going in, 1/3 going out and 1/3 for emergencies. When we use a scooter in a cave we make that more redundant and makes those measurements 1/6. Scooters go about twice as fast as a swimming diver. That way if it fails at max penetration you will have the equivalent left for exit and emergencies that you would have swimming in.
Im open water certified and nitrox certified and mostly dive and spearfish in the keys because I live in Florida... I have done a few "cavern" dives but don't know much about cave diving.. but is there a reason yall aren't running a guide line? is it always required? or is it just a preference?
Dylan, thanks for your comment. Cavern and Cave divers are taught to run lines and most known caves have lines in them already. That is the case here. If you watch again you should see the line on the left side of the video. #1 rule in cave diving, have a continuous guideline to the surface! Good comment!
Hi becky. Do you know what happened to the two divers on 10/20/2016? Patrick Peacock, 53, and Chris Rittenmeyer, 38 what do you think could have happened. Lost? Spent to much time down and ran out of oxygen. They were found together as well is that odd to you? Thank you and stay safe
Is something lurking in there
No
no one knows for sure ;)
Oh my god I will never do this ..
It all looks the same. Don’t understand the fascination
I'd only dive here when I don't have any friends who'd cry on me. I wanna dive but if I die I dont want anyone to be sad.
not only sad, but u also will be a burden becaause now some divers should go there try to find your deceased body
Can you free dive some of these caves or no ?
What is on the cave wall at 6:39??
lol@“It’s all about sex...Deep holes. Big scooters.”
Amazing video! What video camera, lenses, housing, and video lights did you use? Thx for share!
is this sinkhole fresh or salt water? I thought it was fresh until I saw a traditionally saltwater "shaped" shrimp. Now I'm curious.
It's freshwater but there are species of remapedes and blind cave crayfish that live in the caves.
cool. I wonder if those shrimp would taste any different to sea shrimp.
This is awesome 👌
Hi Becky and Liquid. Thanks for the great video. Heard the news today, very sad. I've heard of this cave before, but haven't thought of it in a long time. I went to look it up and guess what? There's no wiki on it. I would start something, but I know nothing of this cave except the news and YT. Do you know of anyone that can fill in the blanks on it? Thanks! Dunwyche~
I don’t see the point of diving into a cave where you can’t see shit.... you get the same effect if you just turn off the lights in a pitch black room. At least you won’t run out of oxygen.
Hi Ally baba
I do that all the time. Shower in the dark while holding the shower head over my head does the same, but considerably more safe.
Idk if you watched the video but it's not pitch black when there are multiple intense lights. I would NOT want to be in a heavily silted cave though. No thank you
I'd love to do things like this, too bad I'm a huge chicken LOL
Great video and awesome conditions.
Great HD video!
lol at the chatter voices towards the end XD
This looks fun and amazing but not for me.
Why???? Because it's there, I suppose.
This absolutely petrifies me.
are you sure that is safe like why you are risking your life but we will not liy you will get a 10000 like and Suscribirse so ya byyyyyy
Someone needs to learn english and get out and LIVE life! Explore our planet and see something amazing vs critiquing youtube videos. We are highly trained and very experienced technical divers that have been doing this for 26+ years now. We specialize in filming in extreme underwater environments to bring back footage no one has ever seen. It's actually pretty special and it's not for likes or subscribers. I could care less. It's about sharing our passion and our adventures.
Yea this shit is batshit crazy. I would def not be going thru there
Did you find anything interesting? Nice video but all I saw were the rock walls you traveled through, a couple of fish, and some shrimp.
Who took out the rubber chicken?
Y’all crazy
ohh yeahhh very beatiful.. SALUDOS DE BOLIVIA Becky Kagan Schott
music @ 7:33 ? Amazing video
The balls must really replace some weights here.
What's that from 13:18 to 13:21?
Air pockets
They need to put down a heckuva bed of gravel on that road. I’d say, oh, 4 inch to 5 inch bed. That should do it.
mrballen
Brought me here too
@@eddielong9137 me too!
I'm both: scared and amazed
That’s a big nope
Im daane nice viedo
Why is there so little wildlife?
There are fish, snakes and turtles in the basin but inside the cave there is little life except some catfish and albino shrimp that are adapted for living in the dark. They feed off of detritus and decaying plant matter that falls into the cave. There isn't much life usually. Other caves have other types of amphapods and sometimes blind salamaders and eeels.
I thought no one could dive to 2000 ft??? I mean the deepest dive was an Egyptian guy who dove to 1000 ft.
Perhaps it was 2000 ft into the cave and not necessarily 2000 ft down
Over 10 people have died their.
But if they got lost - they could just rewind the video and remember which way they went in 👍
@@MissEwe lmao! Keep knocking on deaths door, it will eventually answer you.
So many people died there it's sad
There's nothing in there .. absolutely nothing
munble talking underwater.... effective?!?!?!
NOPE.
Imagine if someday a diver finds a body deep in there. 0.0
It wouldn’t be first time XD
yeah rescuers already pulled a few out. Sounds like a terrible way to go. When people die in there they close down the hole for awhile.