DIVERS REACT TO DEVIL'S HOLE DEATHS (a story by MrBallen)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ย. 2021
- Four divers go into a cave with unknown depth, only two come out alive.
This is another great story from the master of the strange, dark & mysterious, @MrBallen
Original Video: • Top 3 places you CAN'T...
Special thanks to Jonathan Bird from @BlueWorldTV and @mikeyoung8968 for sharing some amazing details about Devil's Hole!
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Thanks for reacting to the video Dive Talk team!!
👋 morning :)
Hope there will be more of these reaction videos to come.
Or maybe you three could do some comparison of your diving experiences?
Damn there he was
The legend himself
I remember watching my first MrBallen video (just happened to be about cave diving) and really liked the way he presented himself and the content. Then he started talking about the intricacies of deep diving/& cave diving and i rolled my eyes like yea sure Mr diving expert. Then he casually mentions he's an ex Navy Seal and I was like well that will do it! About as qualified as 99% of the population along with myself who has never scuba dived. Don't judge a book by it's cover and all that.
I watch all your videos cheers from Michigan
Woody managing to do the whole “I wanna promote your hole” argument without a single sign that he wasn’t serious was seriously commendable 😂
He just wants to penetrate... hahahaha
Hilarious
I'm dying!!
Nevada has lots of legal hole penetration just not that one hole. The other holes want more promotion.
He's about to charm the pants off Nevada to get to their hole XD
Woody refusing to stop saying “I wanna promote your hole” as Gus was trying so hard to stop him was so funny, he was so deadpan and serious about it 😂😂😂😂😂
I lost it at “We want to penetrate further….”
🤣@@shepherdhearth
It’s the deadpan delivery for me- idk if I could have kept my cool for that long
I live in nevada and I could say, knowing this got sent in a letter to our state government would make my life so much more meaningful 😂
Gus refraining from laughing and shutting Woody down when he was talking about “promoting their hole” had me cracking up.
Fr. XD I lul'd.
Call me immature but the "promote your hole" joke had me literally crying. Very well played by both of you.
FRRRR 😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
I woke up the kids from laughing
I was laughing so hard!
I honestly nearly wet myself when he said "we wanna penetrate"
Well... if you're immature for that, then I am too... AND I'm not going to grow up any time soon. I flatly REFUSE, because once you grow up, there's only growing old and dying to look forward to. ;o)
“I wanna promote your hole” lmao Idk why I burst out laughing, gotta love Woody.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@isaackeller90 there would be jokes about his choice of outfit but they're crude. 😏
Same!🤣
And he kept the straight face the hole time.
@@isaackeller90 right😆
Gus's reactions to the whole 'promote your hole' thing had me in stitches, esp the 'penetrate your hole' bit LMAO I was in tears 🤣🤣🤣
Mr Ballen is gifted as a story teller . The guy is effortlessly unique .
ye was subbed long ago :D
its Mr B Allen
let's read is good also, arguably better at story telling imo and i listen to mr ballen daily.@TH-camReviewsAndTutorials
@@pillaridhaid argue he introduces his channel as Ballen so it doesnt matter anymore. It became his channel nickname probably, nicknames dont follow real name rules
Woody: “I wanna promote your hole”
The State of Nevada: 😏
🕳 💦😩
@@Nikki_Catnip settle down, Shawn
What happens in NV stays in NV.
Loll 😅
Deeeeeeeeep penetration
I’m sorry but “Hi Nevada, I’m Woody and I want to promote your hole” is one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a while.
It made me laugh so much I woke up my pet bird 😂
I couldn't stop laughing 🤣😂🤣🇦🇺
Comedy gold, and they kept repeating it over and over! 🤣
I lul'd.
@@xyz7572xD
The things that Woody does that Gus hates are arguably my favorite part of this channel. Never change dudes
Apparently large earthquakes in Japan, Indonesia, and Chile have made water slosh in Devils Hole which is just incredible to think about. What an insane thing to have formed somehow. Not only is it somehow connected to South America, it has a connection to East Asia. I can't even begin to fathom it
“I want to promote your hole. I want to go deeper into your hole than any other human has ever gone.”
Kind of sexy actually LOL
Woody's hole promotion and penetration services LLC ™
I'm dying of laughter
Woody wearing a pink beanie and sweater saying “I want to promote your hole” with a straight face cracked me up 😆
He reminds me of my organic chemistry professor! Very smart, very cute, smart, funny & sometimes he'd wear pink all over including his reading glasses most especially whenever his wife calls him a drama queen! ... He doesn't give a sh*t! He knows he's cute! He's very secure 😁
Woody’s comment, “They don’t know what they don’t know”, is on point, and demonstrates their high level of skill in diving. That’s actually the first stage of competency, unconscious incompetence, in the hierarchy of competence learning model, which describes the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill. I’ve used that phrase frequently when discussing medicine and similarly in diving, this is the stage where people and situations are the most dangerous. Love watching you guys, thank you for creating dynamic and engaging content!
After I learned about cognitive biases like the Dunning-Kruger effect, I have been fascinated with theoretical models of learning associated with the administration & management fields. (Been out of school for a while, but I have a B.S. in psych & a B.S. in crim; I think both psych & crim can benefit from economic & business theory and vice versa.) Do you think the Peter Principle can help explain why dive instructors, with no cave diving training, think they are competent enough to enter a cave? I can kinda see how that cognitive bias could result in a diver dismissing the old Grim Reaper warning, especially if they have minimal cave diving experience, leading to greater (but faulty) confidence in one's own ability. And I dig your using learning models in medicine (another field psych & crim can & do learn from).
3:04: Woody keeping a straight face here is legendary.
Underground oceans are kind of scary to think about, The great Artesian basin in Australia is 660,000 square miles and up to 9000ft deep and all under ground, imagine seeing down there. I feel like places like that are the true unknown abysses of our planet.
Imagine if they could get a nuclear sub down there.
It’s basically like outer space. Fascinating.
@@MrHarrystank James Cameron went down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a customized sub, im sure we could explore a lot of these places someday.
Well, it's not a literal huge cavern filled with water in which you could swim.
Absolute majority of it is just waterlogged clay and sand.
@@LoisoPondohva There are huge caverns down there though, the ground water connects them
Its closed because there is a critically endangered fish called "The Devil's Hole Pup Fish" that only lives in the first few feet of water at the opening of Devil's Hole. The population of fish has ranged from 20-200 over the years and is very sensitive to changes in their environment.
Maybe if you did the dive as a "Save the Pupfish" dive and used it to raise awareness of endangered and sensitive ecosystems you could get the park system to go along.
I still dont see why scientists havent used underwater drones there
@@dogguy8603 literally was just about to say this. Sure it would be expensive but the data and information for a 2000 mile long tunnel with god knows what else wildlife would be well worth it
So would it be safe to sat that if those pup fish suffered a completely accidental disaster that the hole would be back open for business?
Great idea, Dive Talk should go for it : )
@@ChibiViolin that comment probably got you put on an eco terrorist watch list
Kudos on clearing up the Mr. Ballen confusion. People will jump to conclusions, assume they are right, and tell you that you're a fool without even checking the facts. That's TH-cam for you.
@@will.green.But they do though, sir. All the time.
Mike is so stoic. Without knowing much about cave diving I can tell he’s calm under pressure lol
3:00 minutes in and Woody has me on the floor in laughter. Gus is like, oh shit, woody wtf bro 🤣
You guys never fail to deliver the goods
👌
28:45 someone got robbed
Hey guys! Great episode, thanks for having me on. Fun to catch up with Mike too. Can’t wait to do my sidewinder class!!
Loved the interview with Jonathan & Mike. Non-diver here, but am a fish keeper. Interesting to hear the divers mention that the water was 92°F. I would imagine the oxygen levels in the water would be lower than normal at those temperatures. There are not a lot of fish that I know of that can live in those temps. Those pup fish have evolved to be able to live in some unusual conditions.
That story is just incredible. The small hole that was discovered at the bottom of devil's hole is called Infinity Room and to make it clear how big the ocean under Infinity Room is, 2000 miles is double the distance from Vienna to Moscow.
It is sealed off because of an endangered fish, walking on the ledge destroys this fish's only habitat these fish are only found in this cave and another a bit farther away. Yea Endangered species act.
So there are fresh water oceans under the desert and we depend on the Colorado river for water?
@@will.green. What?
I rarely laugh out loud at anything, but I was cracking up during the “promote your hole” bit. HILARIOUS
Woody is being Woody.
That was like a bit from a stand up comedy show 🤣
Woody: “I want to promote your hole!” Gus: “That’s… (head in hand) they probably will not…” “They exited the video” 😂😂
It's 92degrees all year to.... it's a dark, wet, hot hole and gash darn it Woody wants to probe and promote it!
🤣
I love woody going on about “promoting and penetrating Nevada hole” I was dying from laughter due to his innocence and ignorance of the double entendre while you kept trying to clue him in rofl. I love your videos and appreciate all you guys do to promote diving and safety.
He understood the double entendre perfectly, it was a joke with a deadpan expression
Mr. John B.Allen is my absolute favorite story teller, I’m addicted! And now I love you guys since you’re friends with him!
When Woody starts in on penetrating the hole and promoting the hole with a deadpan face, it reminded me of this great Daily Show video where they go to the Cooter (a type of turtle) festival and interview all the people about their cooters. It’s so hilarious.
Found a link to the clip 😂 th-cam.com/video/KWRxq1NmDWM/w-d-xo.html
Lol
Omg hilarious, thankyou I'll look that up immediately!
He penetrated your mom's hole 💩
Trevor Noah is the most unfunny person on earth
Not sure how I ended up on DiveTube, but I'm definitely enjoying the videos - perhaps it's morbid curiosity. My fear of drowning combined with claustrophobia had me "noping" throughout the story, but it is entertaining to learn about.
Same here! I've never been diving, have absolutely no interest whatsoever in going diving I don't like swimming in the ocean but I love these videos. I'll live vicariously through everyone else lol but I do love these videos and like learning about it
Yup. Me too. The guys have said before that most of their subscribers are not divers.
I am exactly the same. I also hate horror movies normally. So this is a kind of replacement for it, at least for me^^
Jonathan bird got me into watching dive videos like 5 years ago. He is my freaking favorite. I found dive talk this year and fell in love with the channel. It’s cool to see Jonathan on this episode
“ I want to promote your hole”
😂 you guys are just great!
I am a new sub from the UK 🇬🇧
much love ❤️
He doesn't even crack a smile. That takes real talent. I would never play poker with Woody!
I come for Dive Talk, but I stay for woody. Woody is funny and entertaining and Gus is like the dad of woody trying to reign him in. This channel is awesome. If you haven't subscribed yet then you should or woody will promote your hole.
Why is this description so accurate 😂
🤣 As a new diver, I need to be careful which of these things I watch bc some freak me the F out. Personally, I avoid HOLES 🕳 myself.
I discovered these video's through mrballen! I will never do what you guys do but I admire that divers and cave divers are some of the last pioneers in exploration. Mad respect!
Woodys sense of humor is actually so funny for someone his age. i find a big disconnect between generations, especially in modern America, but as a young viewer Woody is great. again, and as always, luv ya guys
Indeed, Woody is peak comedian at times. 😂
Poor gus just trying to shut up Woody when he is talking about the hole. I can just feel the second hand embarrassment. 🤣 this video makes my day so much better.
"I want to promote your hole...." 😂😂😂😂
This has to be my favourite channel. I don't even dive but Woody and Gus really got me wanting to take classes! Keep up the amazing work guys!!! 👏
Omg I found Mr. Ballen from DiveTalk and I love love love both of you!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Both channels help with my depression
Came here from MrBallen and now I’m hooked!! You guys are so awesome and I have so much respect for what you do and the educational information you provide! Keep it up!
I had to stop the video at 2:34
To burst out laughing
"Dear Nevada, I want to promote your Hole"
That sounded strange 😂
I love your channel by the way, and respect what you do - and I am not laughing when the stories turn tragic.
🌹
The actual reason it's sealed is much cooler--there is an endemic species of pupfish that only exists in this single 20' x 40' pool in the middle of the desert. The population fluctuates from a few dozen to a few hundred depending on conditions, if I remember right, so any human activity could severely disturb their habitat and potentially wipe them out entirely.
I went to fact check you on google and ended up going down a Devils Hole Pupfish rabbit hole. Legitimately amazing, thank you!
Lol, I just commented this before seeing someone else had already :D
Well said!
came down to comment just that- as I recall they're one of the rarest known vertebrates on the planet! They're also beautiful little fish, especially the bright metallic blue males
Cool information. Thank you.
Woody cracks me up 😂🤣😂 And Gus just trying to keep it together Love you guys ❤️
Woody’s deadpan and Gus’s bluntness is such a great combo 😂
Ahhhh, Mr Ballen - the ultimate storyteller! Finishing up cast iron biscuits over the stove, just in time to dial up another Dive Talk vid. Hope you guys have a good start to the week! ~ Brian
Man that sounds good. Toss one over here, would you?
Thanks Brian!
Grifo Cold pppp
send that recipe my man!
I've been binging on Ballen since the last video. A great storyteller, as well as telling the stories of strange, dark and mysterious things.
Ugh… worst fear. As a cave diver myself it’s always been that one disturbing fear I have. Diving somewhere we know bodies have been lost but never been found… just the thought of someone dying, and then just in there, in the dark, floating in the water for eternity. And one day when you’re not even expecting it, boom, there they are. Seriously is my worst fear. I used to listen to my parents talk about this stuff when I was little and I would have nightmares about it…. Still do. Gives me the willies!
just image if that guy really sucked in that hole on bottom off the cave and someday his suit with bones in it will pop out somewhere 2000+ miles away.
Mr Ballen is a legend!! His storytelling is one of the best to find on the platform! Amazing dude,with amazing content! This is a good good collab!
Yep, I agree, just sad that he just sold out to Amazon.
He’s a legend?? 😂 not quite bud. He tells stories on TH-cam of what other people did, well short of a “legend”
@@roycemartin9068 and he's a. Navy seal something your not
Mr Ballen makes up a lot of “facts” in his videos though to make the videos “more interesting”, and intentionally rewrites details, like saying a victim of a home burglary had a _gun_ collection when in fact he had a _guitar_ collection. He is not a reliable source and he spreads a lot of misinformation.
Love how Ballen tells stories... Its so east to visualize it the way he tells it...
Woody should play the “oblivious” act more often . . . It’s so funny when he gets into that mode. Does it with Aliens too. Lol Hilarious.
(Just to be clear, not calling him dumb, not in the least bit)
I like the oblivious woody too XD
But what if he’s serious 😂 … i cant tell it seems almost half joke half serious haha
@@GrifoStelle OBLIVIOUS! Yessss! That’s the word I was looking for, dumb didn’t quite fit but I knew people would know what I was talking about. But Oblivious is the word I should have used, actually gonna edit that now. Thank you.
What do you mean? Aliens are real. Everyone knows it.
Woody is the male version of Golden Girl Rose.
"dear Nevada, this is dive talk Woody, and i wanna promote your hole" 😂🤣" I wanna promote your hole, and we'll be respectful and we wanna penetrate the deeper levels of the hole" Woody and Gus have such great subtle humor in their videos, love it! Keep it up!
They need consent in writing before penetration. These guys are proper gentleman 😂😂😂
Woody was so innocent, saying “I want to promote your hole.” God bless your passionate heart ❤
I mentioned this on MrBallen's vid, I am surprised nobody has sent a drone/ROV through the hole and see whats there, or send a few automated drones to go in different directions and see if they could find other exits even if miles away, we love to explore and the possible ocean down there has got to be such a tease not to be ignored.
Omg. I don't know how Woody managed to say that over and over with a straight face. You two have the best dynamic ever. It's awesome to watch.
If Mike Young and Ed Sorensen just had a whole series where they just tell stories from the past in great detail showing a few pictures (even if some are from online but relevant), I'd watch every one of them.
Yes! I’d pay to listen to that. Both of them fascinate me and I can only the imagine the depth (no pun intended lol) of the stories they could tell!
@@stephnicole3078 Me too! I love hearing anyone very technical just talk in great detail about things they have done
@@nk361 I feel very much the same! Especially when it’s something they’re passionate about. Most of the time I don’t even have to care much about the topic.
Both Edd and Mike's voices are like ASMR for me. They're great storytellers!
I am not a diver and ran across a cave diving video and actually fell in love with you guys and the way you explain things. Your friendship is inspiring and It makes me wish I could go dive with you both, either that or just hang out and talk. I am to old now to start learning how to dive but I would hope if any of my boys wanted to get certified that it would be with either of you or teachers like you. I was in Fiji about 20yrs ago and we ended up on a boat tour where they were letting people get geared up and go scuba diving with NO EXPERIENCE or previous experience. As much as I wanted to go I didn't do it and now watching your videos I'm glad I didn't do it.
Woody I love all your Pink!! Pink is my color and I wear it all the time. You killed me with your intro..... Dear Nevada, we want to promote your hole, we want to penetrate your hole. I laughed so hard because you were saying it with a straight face never cracking a smile and Gus just shaking his head and trying to get you to be quiet. Love you guys and stay safe.
I’ve been hooked on Mr Ballen for about a year now.. watched every video and hang out each week for the new one.. such a great story teller!!
I agree with Woody, MrBallen describes things in a way that you can picture yourself in the situations that he's describing. I'm really glad that you're covering these stories!
Yes! Mr. B is the Michaelangelo of painting mental pictures!
Yay! I love your Mr. BAllen reviews. That's how I found Dive Talk to begin with. If he has kept up on his diving skills, I think you 3 should make an actual dive vid collab. How cool would that be! Just don't give him comms during the dive or he'll either terrify you with the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, or else his smooth storytelling voice will hypnotize you like a siren's call lol.
Have a great week gentlemen! Much love your way
P.S.- Should we gently strand your like button in an air pocket with no equipment but a knife? 😂😂💀
Please do! But push it first.
@@DIVETALK already done my friends!
Same!
@@lyndiwilson2334 Glad *you* got it. At first read, I thought they meant to push the *knife*! Since Woody and Gus seem like pretty reasonable guys, that response struck me as a bit harsh. Not until reading your response, did I see the error of my ways. A moment of d'oh!
@@grievouserror your initial interpretation is cracking me up!
How did I miss this , at first hilarious and then stupid and expectedly scary , episode ? A treat .
I adore you two! You guys are the most levelheaded, normal, and all around good guys on TH-cam! Hands down.
Why is woody so funny 🤣🤣 "I want to penatrate your hole, if anyone's listening" "they stopped listening when you started saying you wanted to penatrate their hole" love your videos guys, brilliant duo, love how your personalities gel together.
And document it. Lol.
"They exited the video" 🤣
😂😂😂😂
Devils hole is closed because of a fish that lives there and nowhere else. The pupfish. It is extremely endangered. I think there are only 114 left.
I replied before he mentioned it. Lol
@@darkestalmond Same here lol
How does anyone know its extremely "endangered" and just not extremely RARE!
@@8InchShaka I have mentioned the same thing and I really wonder how many surrounding caves have been researched for this fish?
They could be somewhere else and just haven't been noticed.
We know that that is not a closed system and it's very possible that it may exist elsewhere. It wouldn't be the first time that this has happened.
@@8InchShaka Because that's basically the same thing. There's a certain minimum population size for a species to remain viable, depending on how often they reproduce, at what age, how many young they get and how many survive. Less than that size and the population will decline faster and faster because it can't replenish itself fast enough.
The needless loss of life can only be described as tragic.
Maybe someday they could explore with remotes.
Awesome review.
Having 2 sons and a daughter, one son is 35, and one 24, this broke my heart 💔. Both of them are extremely adventurous, and at the ages of 16,19,20 and 21 there is a sense of invincibility. I can without a doubt see my boys trying something like this. ( just babies) very hard to watch 😪.
19:39 that's incredible to think that this small hole may lead to a gigantic underground ocean.... if that is the case, then its likely that tidal forces would cause the hole to either suck water in or push water out depending on whether its high tide or low tide... but not only that, imagine all the undiscovered life forms that may exist in there - especially if it's a closed system.
That's terrifying to be honest. There _has_ to be life down there because the pupfish. There is an ocean underground. Under the driest places on the planet. Scary.
That’s actually a cool thought, if the direction of the hole does switch depending on high tide or low tide, could you theoretically plan an expedition in?
You mean to tell me there's a chance that that nasty titan centipede from AOT really may be lurking around in underground water down there?🤢🤮 Nope nope nope nope!! Noo thank you. Leave it where it's at x.x
@@sissysovereign1294 I'd imagine at that depth it'll be hard for anything to live down there. Even in the deepest parts of our oceans at the veeeery bottom there isn't much but decayed carcasses and things that eat that decayed stuff like Sea Pigs and Hagfish. Sadly, I don't think we'll see a Ghost Leviathan from Subnautica in it.... that being said we just don't know yet!
@@StinkyPoopyMcFartFace You honestly never know what could reside in such areas of deep seclusion. It’s fascinating
You guys have a strangely entertaining chemistry. Love it.
I was crying with the "hole" jokes at the beginning
Ahh two awesome creators. Dive Talk, and Mr Ballen!!!! Nothing fricking better. These videos are awesome guys! Love all the content!!
Oh hell yes Mr Ballen content is what helped me find this channel. I’m excited.
Same! I've been here ever since lol
@@lostintime7974 I watch all their videos now it’s so interesting. It’s also nice to see how much they have blown up since.
Same!
@@Chris0nF1re same here! It makes me happy. They are great guys and their content is fantastic!! I'm not even a diver but I want to be now haha
@@lostintime7974 I'm horribly land locked and I want to be a diver too XD
I never expected to see something so strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in such a story format on this channel
He kept saying "promote your hole" and I'm just dying here!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Here from Mr Ballens videos, and not bingeing videos here too. What I love about his videos is it literally feels like I’m there or like I’m watching a movie. So captivating. Love learning more from the channel, so informative.
Since I heard about Devil's Hole, I get the feeling the only way to visit would be to have a very well formulated research proposal. Which I guess could be doable to try and answer some of the mysteries around that system. I read an article about local folklore, where shamans would appear and disappear, apparently travelling via underground waterways. So there seemed to have been local knowledge of a large system there. It's also where I miss having acccess to academic search engines, ie an ability to pull up every previous bit of research around that area.
It would be interesting to have a mapping project, ie ROVs and sonar to map out the upper chamber, and potentially what lies beneath. But I guess that would be expensive, so might take a couple of reasearch teams pooling grants.
I also read that the pup fish are still potentially threatened by falling water levels due to their environment largely being confined to a shallow section near the open entrance. AFAIK there are breeding projects to try to maintain the population, but may not be successful in their original environment, if that changes. Which I guess could be a further incentive to understand the topology and hydrology at play. And then maybe Woody & Gus could tag along as support divers :)
Bro sux a dix. Be different. You know what you did...
Amazing! Both Jonathan Bird and Mike Young?! You guys are just killing it.
Love watching you guys!! Never been a diver but for some reason i watch your videos several night a week… just entertaining…
I've only been watching your vids for a couple weeks and I'm binging my way through them. This is one of my favorites because you can hear from the guys who actually worked in this area. I'm amazed that you guys didn't put in the title that you were going to interview these two. It kind of came out of nowhere.
Mr.Ballen is my favorite story teller of all time. I absolutely love that you guys are fact checking his very believable and mostly honest stories. I'd certainly love to see a calibration between the 3 of you. If you can convince JB to go on a dive trip with ya's, id love to be invited.
I'm sick of the backwards cap and the flannel shirt, and therconstant mis-pronunciation of sites, but I used to watch his stuff--
Whenever I think about diving, I remember a moment I had as a kid at summer camp where they used to take us to a pool at a dive center; with us kids swimming at the shallow end around 4-6 feet, with the deep end being used by the dive center for training at 15 feet.
I remember playing with one of those torpedo pool toys with friends underwater one day in the shallow end when someone threw it toward the deep end, so we all decided to try and swim down to get it. I will ALWAYS remember the primal fear I felt when i was almost 10 feet down, as a 4 foot tall kid, having so much water above and below my head. I’ve always wanted to dive, but having that experience spooked me so much as a kid I still get wiggly when I think about diving in huge open areas
When I was growing up my neighborhood pool was 15 feet deep. They took down the tall diving board before I was born, but as a kid I always wanted to reach the bottom of the 15 foot side. I got down pretty far, but scared myself with how long it took me to swim back to the surface -- wonder if that's partially why I'm not a fan of deep water of any kind today or whether it's just an instinctual revulsion.
I came across you guys on my YT feed reacting to a Mr Ballen video and I was hooked! I don’t dive but I watch your videos because I love the banter between you two! And also Woody’s headgear! Your stories are interesting and informative. Great channel!
Woody needs to make a top ten list of holes to promote. That would get a lot of views. And he can be thorough in his education on each one. Each hole is special in its own way, after all.
Mike remains so calmed , cool and collected , not interrupting anyone .... he is just awesome . There's so much knowledge and experience in this guy .
I watch Mr. Ballen when I go to bed and I can also close my eyes and listen to him and visually see what he's talking about, he's great at what he does 👍👍
So thankful this guy was who led me to dive talk and is now one of my favorite TH-cam channels, now I watch dive talk more then Mr. B Allen! So thanks!!
I came from another video and was thinking about subscribing but after seeing the whole "I want to promote your hole :)" bit absolutely sealed the deal I already love you guys
This is the pup fish hole right? It's sealed because there's a VERY endangered species in it and people keep further ruining their habitat. The channel "Ask a mortician" has a very in depth video on this subject if anyone's interested!
Edit: I'm glad they were mentioned!
Yes, it's the pupfish hole
it is fascinating to hear MrBallen tell the story and have your expert input. That is amazing.
Yes, the desert gets very cold at night, especially in the winter! We lived fairly close to death valley and Joshua tree for many years and did our fair share of camping and once the sun starts to go down, the temp starts dropping exponentially! Great video, very thorough and thought provoking! Thanks!
Ive never been diving and dont want to really but i love this channel. Great work guys.
Man, I say this every time but this is phenomenal content from you guys. It's always a joy to see you cover MrBallen's videos and I can't believe you went the extra mile to get a zoom call with people who have actually been there. Amazing work!
I would love to see that collaboration! This was great because it wasn’t just the reaction, really cool to hear from the actual divers and find out how stuff was done.
Thank you!
I got interested in diving by reading Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor
by Ben Hellwarth. I had no ideas that rebreathers even existed, but this book describes some of their development, as well as pioneering research into different gas mixes.
The original Sealab was 1963 and some work into breathing gas at depth had gone on in the years prior. So it's just barely possible a heliox mix or early rebreather would have been available at the time of the Devil's Hole incident, but obviously not to random civilians. I highly recommend the book!
Fascinating interview! I had never heard of the Devil's Hole Cave so it was really cool to learn a bit about this really strange place and some of the logistics involved with gaining access to it.
Woody, I also enjoyed your completely heartfelt plea to the state of Nevada to let you promote their hole.
Phenomenal video and the the starting dialogue with "promoting the hole" and " penetrating.." has been just hilarious. The two special guests added more value to the overall. Great guys as usual.
P.S. in the last video Woody seemed to be a bit down, genuinely happy to see him in the right mood again.
Woody was killin it on that monologue, Gus was trippin. 😂
That’s so cool, i have literally never owned a watch but recently started my dive journey and have a Suunto d5 and now iv started looking for watches because my wrist feels naked.
Penetration of the hole 🕳! I’m subscribed now, but seriously interesting. I have learned so much that I don’t know if I’m ready, I want to learn but these videos are sobering. I thought like a fool you just threw on Air-Tanks and jumped in. Amazing content
Lol I never laughed so hard ... You guys are hilarious . My parents were scuba Divers and I'll never forget growing up as a little girl and remembering there bright orange and yellow tanks they used to have. My dad is gone now and my mom is 80 with cancer but one thing I'll always remember are those tanks lol..love your channel! Xo
Huge MrBallen fan, brought me to your guys’ channel and I wasn’t disappointed! Love this channel been binging the videos for a few days now 👏🏼👏🏼🏆
**you guys motivated me to get back into diving! Thank you for that
I'm so glad I found this channel. You guys are great. I've been listening to Mr.Ballen for a couple of years, and I love y'all's reactions and follow-ups.
Great video and excellent tease build-up into talking with Mike Young and Jonathan Bird! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻