Thanks for the video, if you don't mind I have couple of questions: - what is your bailout plan on scooter with 2 OC tanks (sorry can't tell the size but they were smaller than standard ALU80, were they steel?) when you need to tow buddy and share gas. (Extreme situation). Do you plan for team bailout? From what I understood it was just 2 of you on scooters at EOL. - What is the full length of line to the EOL? - It looked like 150min total dive time. - Why split fins ????? Towing or pushing scooter from EOL would suck the BO rather quickly, not much propulsion and proper frog kicking is almost impossible. Is buddy tow possible in these passages? - What is your SAC/RMV for this config? Looking at worst case scenario where scooter is flooded and one of the CCRs is dead and you need to fly BO. From my experience it would look like ~2.5x of the gas you need on the scooter to close that distance. When/if CCR works thats not a problem but if/when s$it hits the fan... - Toddy style O2 and Dil mounted tanks, are these standard 3L steel tanks? - These are questions that come to mind as your map, comments mentioned numbers like -45m and 25 minutes scootering, and then deposit of the scooter. Rough speed of 40m+ a minute puts you close to ~1.0 - 1.2Km in cave. And then you still swim? For how long. Full disclosure: Full cave on CCR (SF2) certified, SF2 owner (BM and SM), cave DPV certified, cave multistage, Never dived in Bel Torrente.
Thank Thomasz for your questions. First of all we did not dive into the Hasenmeyer turn until 40m of depth, the dive in this movie in the Rama del bue turn. In total average depth of 8m with 3 open air spaces. Each of us uses a minimum of 2x300bar 7l carbon bailout with air and a bailout Oxygen 1l on the backplate for the SF2. I had also a 11cft alu as extra bailout. Even with the RMV’s you state this is doable indeed. The sf2 cylinders are 300b steel 3l. On the DPV’s: in case of an emergency and one of the DPV’s fails, we leave it. Buddy tow is very doable in this cave. Don’t know exactly the length of the swim anymore, have to look into the maps. Kind regards, and great questions indeed.
Most incredible cave dive I think I've ever seen. The dropoffs and ascends were insane! May I ask though why you guys had the scrubbers on your side instead of on your back? Never seen it before (and also have no tech experience). Great vid
Thanks! Rebreather as a sidemount rebreather is a matter of personal choice with some advantages and some disadvantages. For me the biggest plus is that the sidemount config enables me to get through restrictions more easy than a backmount and it has more flexibility.
Bel Torrente non è Cala Gonone,ma Baunei!!!!Continuate a prendervi quello che non è vostro,la maniera giusta che ci porterà a non andare mai d'accordo!!!
Nicely done video. Simple, concise narration with watermarked descriptions of each stage of the dive. All dive videos should be like this!
Great video guys! It was a pleasure to watch! I'm starting my Tec Sidemount training and PADI Tec 40-50 in Thailand this summer :)
I'm not a cave diver, but this was really really cool to watch. I music a little loud, but I really enjoyed it.
Great video👍🏼Very good explanation
I love your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Chris👍
beautiful cave
Thanks for the video, if you don't mind I have couple of questions:
- what is your bailout plan on scooter with 2 OC tanks (sorry can't tell the size but they were smaller than standard ALU80, were they steel?) when you need to tow buddy and share gas. (Extreme situation). Do you plan for team bailout? From what I understood it was just 2 of you on scooters at EOL.
- What is the full length of line to the EOL?
- It looked like 150min total dive time.
- Why split fins ????? Towing or pushing scooter from EOL would suck the BO rather quickly, not much propulsion and proper frog kicking is almost impossible. Is buddy tow possible in these passages?
- What is your SAC/RMV for this config? Looking at worst case scenario where scooter is flooded and one of the CCRs is dead and you need to fly BO. From my experience it would look like ~2.5x of the gas you need on the scooter to close that distance. When/if CCR works thats not a problem but if/when s$it hits the fan...
- Toddy style O2 and Dil mounted tanks, are these standard 3L steel tanks?
- These are questions that come to mind as your map, comments mentioned numbers like -45m and 25 minutes scootering, and then deposit of the scooter. Rough speed of 40m+ a minute puts you close to ~1.0 - 1.2Km in cave. And then you still swim? For how long.
Full disclosure: Full cave on CCR (SF2) certified, SF2 owner (BM and SM), cave DPV certified, cave multistage, Never dived in Bel Torrente.
Thank Thomasz for your questions. First of all we did not dive into the Hasenmeyer turn until 40m of depth, the dive in this movie in the Rama del bue turn. In total average depth of 8m with 3 open air spaces. Each of us uses a minimum of 2x300bar 7l carbon bailout with air and a bailout Oxygen 1l on the backplate for the SF2. I had also a 11cft alu as extra bailout. Even with the RMV’s you state this is doable indeed. The sf2 cylinders are 300b steel 3l. On the DPV’s: in case of an emergency and one of the DPV’s fails, we leave it. Buddy tow is very doable in this cave. Don’t know exactly the length of the swim anymore, have to look into the maps. Kind regards, and great questions indeed.
I'm a bit late but great vid my man!
Anxiety FreeLeaf thanks!
Is someone diving a sidemount rebreather? I didn’t know they existed
National geographic ? Did you do this for them?? Looks like a nice cave to dive.
Great video! Thank you. I have a question, how did these divers figure out the dry area within the cave was breathable?
Send it bro
Amazing..
Most incredible cave dive I think I've ever seen. The dropoffs and ascends were insane! May I ask though why you guys had the scrubbers on your side instead of on your back? Never seen it before (and also have no tech experience). Great vid
Thanks! Rebreather as a sidemount rebreather is a matter of personal choice with some advantages and some disadvantages. For me the biggest plus is that the sidemount config enables me to get through restrictions more easy than a backmount and it has more flexibility.
At 9:00 looks like a face on right wall.
Evil eye more the brown eye. Looks like you found the earth's brown eye
Bel Torrente non è Cala Gonone,ma Baunei!!!!Continuate a prendervi quello che non è vostro,la maniera giusta che ci porterà a non andare mai d'accordo!!!
Doing it shlow and shayfe shkootering in twho thaushend yherars old chrapp
say rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr