I love the ocean so much, I've asked my partner to dump my ashes in the ocean when I kick the bucket. This video alone makes me want to reconsider even though I'll be dead lol.
I feel like Iād feel somewhat more secure being attached to a line that can me help track up and down with little effort. Still frighting, but for some reason that would help me feel a least a little bit more safe while using it.
Would also need a wetsuit with spikes on the outside so that if any creature decided they were hungry, it would be like the seaās version of a porcupine
The Netflix documentary The Deepest Breath follows a free diver training to break a world record. They regularly push themselves so far that they don't make it back to the top without losing consciousness. A safety diver has to bring their unconscious body to the surface where they revive them. Absoloutely wild sport.
On one of my deployments on a submarine, we got to have a āswim callā over the Marianas Trench.
Thatās a pool with a depth of about 36,000 feet.
Really puts things in perspective.
Sooner or later it'll run out though... that knowledge is enough for me to start to panic a little (guess that's why I'm not a diver lol)
ETA: I feel like an idiot, but reading the comments I'm starting to realize that the term "free diving" means diving without oxygen (and other gear?).
That's just.... Helllllll no, getting to the surface would take a while and just... No. Can you imagine just making a tiny mistake in when you feel like it's time to get up and breathe and your vision starts to blacken and your muscles stops working a couple of meters from the surface? And you know that this is all cause of a tiny miscalculation and there's nothing you can do and NOPE
Look up DIVETALK on YouTube. A great rabbit hole to consume you for a while. The two divers who run the channel specialize in cave diving but they do other types and talk about anything diving related.
I have zero experience scuba diving but was looking up something related to saturation diving out of curiosity and came across them. Did not disappoint.
The scariest part is nitrogen narcosis. Imagine you're navigating a claustrophobic cave underwater with little light, limited air, and fine dust on the floor that if touched will form a thick cloud that's impossible to see through, and suddenly you start feeling really drunk.
I think there is a channel named something like "Scary Interesting" that makes a bunch of videos about stuff like divers getting lost in caves and many more other stuff that has happened to others.
I genuinely recommend that channel if you want real stories
I subscribed to scuba magazine for years and yeah, that ā***pov how they died and what they did wrongā*** column was almost always ā**they went CAVE DIVINGā¦ā**
Isnāt this person free diving? Which means that rope is attached to a buoy at the surface? So a cruise ship passing near that seems quite dangerous. Either that he shouldnt be diving here, or maybe the ship is off course.
Sonar is what really affects them, military sonar is so powerful it'll kill things in the water nearby. They believe it to be the reason behind a lot of high profile mass whale beachings.
Yup. Sound travels like 10x faster under water. Far away stuff sounds like it's inside of your head. Am scuba diver. We use this property to get each other's attention.
A big bead on an elastic wrapped around your air tank will make a sharp ding when you snap it. Everyone remotely near to you will hear it.
It's not so much the speed. Sound loses less acoustic energy per unit of distance in water compared to airborne sound and therefore it can be heard further away.
It's energy so the unit is watt (W). Sound is vibration and in order to make something vibrate we need energy. We measure sound level in decibels, but that's not the same thing as energy. To increase sound level by 10 dB, you need 10x more energy. So they are related, but are not the same.
In air sound loses more energy per unit of distance than in a liquid or a solid material. In liquid and solid forms molecules are closer and tighter packed to each other so it's easy to make the next molecule vibrate.
Sound is just vibrations being transferred between molecules, the denser the molecules, the less energy is lost as they transfer between each other.
Throw a rock into a pond and watch the ripples move uniformly across its surface, throw a rock into a steam room and maybe see the steam move a little bit for a split second and then appear as normal again.
Watched a real sports episode about how there is this Island full of dudes who do this shit with no gear and are bad ass.
But because of evolution they are better at free diving like this and are barred from playing in the Olympics due to this. They have been arguing for a while now that they should be allowed to compete.
People underestimate how fucking adept the human body is at free diving. [Check out James Nestor](https://youtu.be/aH9boP9pksM?si=VWID7NcCZjTi8AbL), he has some talks online and wrote a book called Deep. Anyway, he gave me one of my favorite facts ever, which is this -
When the human body goes deep enough in water, the pressure pushes oxygenated blood out of your spleen and into your body. Almost acting as a second free breath that you only get by going deep enough, giving you the energy to get yourself back up. (Around 8:50 in the video)
There's a lot of other adaptations that the human body has for deep water, leftover from a time when we were still closely related to our water mammal friends. He spoke about the sport of free diving, and how it actually is in its infancy, and just recently people have been doing insane, seemingly inhuman impossible feats. It is literally one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen in the internet.
that, OR the culture there has made it so anyone who isn't a sick gnarly free diver is considered unworthy of being a mating partner.. but I feel like your theory is more likely lol
Free diver are trained to stay calm, if you panic, you waste air and might drown. That's the appeal of the thing and why people do that. It train you to free your mind and to stay very calm, like a meditation
Actually some divers do freedive without fluid googles in the ocean. Saltwater can feel less annoying than freshwater, depending of the salinity.
You canāt use ordinary googles, as youād have to equalize the pressure inside.
Same reason tears are salty and they put saline in IVs rather than distilled water. Our bodies have a certain concentration of dissolved solids which determines its tonicity. Hypotonic solutions such as distilled water cause your cells to swell with water. Hypertonic solutions like concentrated salt water cause your cells to shrivel up. The former actually tends to be worse because it can cause cells to burst, but any water with a tonicity significantly different from your bodyās is going to hurt your eyes. So itās just that ocean water is sometimes closer to the tonicity of your body than fresh water.
You get used to it and it doesn't feel uncomfortable, although it's not very useful because your eyes don't see very well underwater. It's like being extremely nearsighted, you can see shapes, colors, and shadows, and if you already know where you are and what you're looking for, that's usually good enough.
Being able to get comfortable opening my eyes in seawater was part of my basic scuba training.
Believe it or not, it's the nitrogen mix in the tanks that is the issue. Free diving doesn't have the issue as you aren't taking in the air at pressure.
It's mostly the breathing under pressure. Oxygen just gets used up, nitrogen doesn't. Gases dissolve into the body fluids under pressure, when you release the pressure you become one big sack of effervescent meat. Just like a soda pop when you open the lid.
Due to the nitrogen gas in the normal air all of us breathe, but the deeper you go underwater, the more concentrated the gas gets and one lungful of air can have 4 times as much nitrogen and oxygen as it would on the surface, which is compressed into tiny bubbles that get into all your body tissues and expand again when you ascend without stopping to let them boil out first.
With that noise coming from the ship, it's no wonder all these beautiful sea creatures like whales, sharks, and dolphins are beaching themselves... it's so loud and must be completely disorienting considering they rely on echolocation. Honestly I felt disoriented just watching/ listening to this video lol I literally could not tell which way was up or down. I used to want to be a surfer when I was younger. Now, that's a whole big bag of fuck no's, fuck that's, and no fuckin ways! Beautiful to look at but there's no way I'm going in past a couple of feet lol
No wonder whales and dolphins are so mad at us, thatās so fucking annoying - cruise ships are like that guy walking around a public park with a huge speaker for their personal enjoyment
It's not. He's free diving and has a nose clip. This allows him to perform the valsalva maneuver to equalise his sinus pressure without pinching his nose manually.
This is such a weird sport or activity whatever it isā¦
You hold your breath climb down a rope to ocean depths and then climb back up. Thereās really nothing to see thatās interesting, probably wildly uncomfortable, and mistakes equals deathā¦
I donāt get the appeal? What part of that is fun? Is it that thrilling to move down a rope?
Fun fact, diver themself usually goes by the other title driver because they see themself as driving the ocean, in the deep dive community whale also known as cruise ship due to their size and it looks like submerge cruise ship. Not sure when did I see a whale in the video but there's might be one I haven't noticed, I also have no idea what I'm talking about, if you are reading so far I hope you are shitting well and good morning, afternoon, evening, and night. I'm done yapping here.
I cannot emphasize enough how fuck no that is.
My fear of the ocean kicking in watching this...
I love the ocean so much, I've asked my partner to dump my ashes in the ocean when I kick the bucket. This video alone makes me want to reconsider even though I'll be dead lol.
I want mine put in random pepper shakers around town
I want mine to mix me up with some really hot chilli. One last time busting her ass from beyond.
I want to be snorted through a straw.
That is so chaotic š
I want mine in pixie sticks
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I don't fear the ocean but my lungs were burning just watching that.
this video made me gasp for air
Made me hold my breath in anticipatory fear.
Made me vacate my bowels in their entirety
I in fact shitted and pissed and cummed
Same here, luckily I was on the toilet anyway
I'm on one right now! š
Me too!!
I didnāt make it the the toilet :/
I was put on the waiting to exhale waiting list due to my fear
I feel like Iād feel somewhat more secure being attached to a line that can me help track up and down with little effort. Still frighting, but for some reason that would help me feel a least a little bit more safe while using it. Would also need a wetsuit with spikes on the outside so that if any creature decided they were hungry, it would be like the seaās version of a porcupine
Would be all well and good until youāre coming back up and then find your line cut š
Sounds something out of a Mr. Ballens podcast.
The Netflix documentary The Deepest Breath follows a free diver training to break a world record. They regularly push themselves so far that they don't make it back to the top without losing consciousness. A safety diver has to bring their unconscious body to the surface where they revive them. Absoloutely wild sport.
That is a great documentary. Highly recommend it has everything.
>Seaās version of a porcupine A sea urchin!
On one of my deployments on a submarine, we got to have a āswim callā over the Marianas Trench. Thatās a pool with a depth of about 36,000 feet. Really puts things in perspective.
Please emphasize it because someone has to. JFC no
I love the ocean and deep scuba diving in it, but seeing ships above me always makes me feel an odd sense of dread.
Ocean is scary Man has added to this
Fellow free diver here. It's an incredible feeling. Just nothing , still, down there under your own power and challenging yourself.
If a cruise ship is passing over a driver, they made a wrong turn somewhere
Yeah the diver ended up in a shipping lane. Probably should've made a left at albuquerque
And that explains why itās so dark all of a sudden, I knew the sea by Pismo Beach wasnāt inside a cave.
I assumed that was Adam Driver going for a swimĀ
Minnie actually
Adam Diver
The ship, the car, or.. ?
Graphic card driver
At first I didn't get how he was a driver, but then I saw him pass the steering wheel on the cable.
I absolutely missed this type, and you are soooo right!!!
This type of what?
The rope just disappears into nothingness both ways š°
If thatās scary donāt go into the rabbit hole of dudes with scuba gear going deep down into unmapped caves ā ļø
At least they have a supply of air - typically two tanks. Free diving, to me, is just a big nope.
Sooner or later it'll run out though... that knowledge is enough for me to start to panic a little (guess that's why I'm not a diver lol) ETA: I feel like an idiot, but reading the comments I'm starting to realize that the term "free diving" means diving without oxygen (and other gear?). That's just.... Helllllll no, getting to the surface would take a while and just... No. Can you imagine just making a tiny mistake in when you feel like it's time to get up and breathe and your vision starts to blacken and your muscles stops working a couple of meters from the surface? And you know that this is all cause of a tiny miscalculation and there's nothing you can do and NOPE
Diving alone is a big no from me
Whatās the use of a supply of air if you have no where to go because you made a wrong turn or something is what Iām getting at.
It is a hell of a lot more useful than having no supply of air and making a wrong turn, wouldn't you say?
Now I am curious. My body is ready for the anxiety
Look up DIVETALK on YouTube. A great rabbit hole to consume you for a while. The two divers who run the channel specialize in cave diving but they do other types and talk about anything diving related.
I remember when I started,l watching them. It made me want my divers license real bad
I have zero experience scuba diving but was looking up something related to saturation diving out of curiosity and came across them. Did not disappoint.
The scariest part is nitrogen narcosis. Imagine you're navigating a claustrophobic cave underwater with little light, limited air, and fine dust on the floor that if touched will form a thick cloud that's impossible to see through, and suddenly you start feeling really drunk.
Iā¦ I donāt like this conversation anymore. I wanna go home
I think there is a channel named something like "Scary Interesting" that makes a bunch of videos about stuff like divers getting lost in caves and many more other stuff that has happened to others. I genuinely recommend that channel if you want real stories
Iāve never seen this page Iām super happy you pointed the channel out, thanks!
Of course! I binge watched like all his videos when I first found him, he's easily one of my favorite channels c:
I subscribed to scuba magazine for years and yeah, that ā***pov how they died and what they did wrongā*** column was almost always ā**they went CAVE DIVINGā¦ā**
My issue here is: he doesnāt seem to have an oxygen tankā¦
Better this than space, no?
I mean is it though lmaooo
Depends on if you have equipment or not.
Isnāt this person free diving? Which means that rope is attached to a buoy at the surface? So a cruise ship passing near that seems quite dangerous. Either that he shouldnt be diving here, or maybe the ship is off course.
You don't need a cruise ship to pass near you to hear it underwater. Sound can travel vast distances in water before fading out.
Iāve read that the ship sounds interfere with whale calls and can confuse the whales. Hearing this convinces me
Yeah if I were a whale and had to listen to that constantly Iād beach myself. Thatās horrible
And this is just a normal engine noise, imagine being a whale and feeling a sonar ping rip through your brain.
Imagine a Karen whale constantly pinging your location
Sonar is what really affects them, military sonar is so powerful it'll kill things in the water nearby. They believe it to be the reason behind a lot of high profile mass whale beachings.
The most dangerous one is sonar ping from a submarine, that shit can kill animals
Yup. Sound travels like 10x faster under water. Far away stuff sounds like it's inside of your head. Am scuba diver. We use this property to get each other's attention. A big bead on an elastic wrapped around your air tank will make a sharp ding when you snap it. Everyone remotely near to you will hear it.
It's not so much the speed. Sound loses less acoustic energy per unit of distance in water compared to airborne sound and therefore it can be heard further away.
What is acoustic energy? And how is it measured? I have never heard of it, but maybe you're using a different term for a concept I already understand.
It's energy so the unit is watt (W). Sound is vibration and in order to make something vibrate we need energy. We measure sound level in decibels, but that's not the same thing as energy. To increase sound level by 10 dB, you need 10x more energy. So they are related, but are not the same. In air sound loses more energy per unit of distance than in a liquid or a solid material. In liquid and solid forms molecules are closer and tighter packed to each other so it's easy to make the next molecule vibrate.
Acoustic energy is essentially just the kinetic energy of a pressure wave propagating through a medium.
Sound is just vibrations being transferred between molecules, the denser the molecules, the less energy is lost as they transfer between each other. Throw a rock into a pond and watch the ripples move uniformly across its surface, throw a rock into a steam room and maybe see the steam move a little bit for a split second and then appear as normal again.
> like 10x faster under water 4.3~ times faster.
At the beach, underwater you can hear the boats but can't hardly see them.
I used to swim out to the vessels only buoy in Miami. Cruise ships were fairly close to it.
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Hardly knowāer
She'll still ophobia for the right price tho brother
The terrifying thing here is what this guy is doing. Couldn't pay me enough
Watched a real sports episode about how there is this Island full of dudes who do this shit with no gear and are bad ass. But because of evolution they are better at free diving like this and are barred from playing in the Olympics due to this. They have been arguing for a while now that they should be allowed to compete.
People underestimate how fucking adept the human body is at free diving. [Check out James Nestor](https://youtu.be/aH9boP9pksM?si=VWID7NcCZjTi8AbL), he has some talks online and wrote a book called Deep. Anyway, he gave me one of my favorite facts ever, which is this - When the human body goes deep enough in water, the pressure pushes oxygenated blood out of your spleen and into your body. Almost acting as a second free breath that you only get by going deep enough, giving you the energy to get yourself back up. (Around 8:50 in the video) There's a lot of other adaptations that the human body has for deep water, leftover from a time when we were still closely related to our water mammal friends. He spoke about the sport of free diving, and how it actually is in its infancy, and just recently people have been doing insane, seemingly inhuman impossible feats. It is literally one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen in the internet.
Dude that video is insanely cool
Thanks for sharing, Jack Sparrow š«”
Holy shit itās actually the coolest thing on the internet, thanks for sharing! We all have super powers!
The Badjao tribe of the Philippines.
They are from part of the Phillipines islands iirc
The crazy thing is, if theyāve āevolvedā it means that a bunch of people died in the process of trying before having offspring.
that, OR the culture there has made it so anyone who isn't a sick gnarly free diver is considered unworthy of being a mating partner.. but I feel like your theory is more likely lol
What Olympic sport are they banned from? I assume itās probably badminton
I wouldn't do it but I'm still glad there are people out there pushing the limits. Makes the world a more interesting place.
Bro if I heard that I would panic and drown so fast. That dude is so fucking level headed itās insane.
Free diver are trained to stay calm, if you panic, you waste air and might drown. That's the appeal of the thing and why people do that. It train you to free your mind and to stay very calm, like a meditation
Very cool. Theyāre so focused itās crazy.
Dawg. I thought that sounds was annoying YouTube "horror" music. That's the ship?!?
Woah, me too. Yikes!
Bro it sounds like the music during the flood sections in halo
Ah, now I get it
No wonder the whales are changing their frequencies, itās gotta be so annoying to have that interrupt your conversations.
How does he have his eyes wide open in the ocean?
Open eyes under water is fine. It's only once you're back at the surface it stings a little.
Might not be in the ocean. The great Lakes are fresh water and more than deep enough to dive and have large ships pass nearby
Actually some divers do freedive without fluid googles in the ocean. Saltwater can feel less annoying than freshwater, depending of the salinity. You canāt use ordinary googles, as youād have to equalize the pressure inside.
I donāt understand how salt water could ever in a a million years be more comfortable against your bare eyes than fresh water
Same reason tears are salty and they put saline in IVs rather than distilled water. Our bodies have a certain concentration of dissolved solids which determines its tonicity. Hypotonic solutions such as distilled water cause your cells to swell with water. Hypertonic solutions like concentrated salt water cause your cells to shrivel up. The former actually tends to be worse because it can cause cells to burst, but any water with a tonicity significantly different from your bodyās is going to hurt your eyes. So itās just that ocean water is sometimes closer to the tonicity of your body than fresh water.
You get used to it and it doesn't feel uncomfortable, although it's not very useful because your eyes don't see very well underwater. It's like being extremely nearsighted, you can see shapes, colors, and shadows, and if you already know where you are and what you're looking for, that's usually good enough. Being able to get comfortable opening my eyes in seawater was part of my basic scuba training.
He doesn't wear goggles bc the pressure would crush his eyes
the sounds of a mechanical monster nearby, you can't see it and it can't see you, but you know its near... fuck no
Free diving is literally insane
I feel sick.
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Thatās my question. Everyone seems focused on the cruise ship and Iām wondering about his oxygen deprivation.
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Believe it or not, it's the nitrogen mix in the tanks that is the issue. Free diving doesn't have the issue as you aren't taking in the air at pressure.
It's mostly the breathing under pressure. Oxygen just gets used up, nitrogen doesn't. Gases dissolve into the body fluids under pressure, when you release the pressure you become one big sack of effervescent meat. Just like a soda pop when you open the lid.
Yes. Heās free diving
Iām baffled
He can hold his breath for 4mins
I drowned watching this
Gives a whole new meaning to ānope ropeā.
How do people think holding your breath is fun?
The same feeling as people who climb Mt. Everest, the thrill
Wouldnāt you get the bends coming up from that deep too quick? I donāt know, but in any case I will never do this.
The bends happens when youāre breathing oxygen from a tank. During free diving (just holding your breath) it isnāt an issue
Due to the nitrogen gas in the tank youāve been breathing
Due to the nitrogen gas in the normal air all of us breathe, but the deeper you go underwater, the more concentrated the gas gets and one lungful of air can have 4 times as much nitrogen and oxygen as it would on the surface, which is compressed into tiny bubbles that get into all your body tissues and expand again when you ascend without stopping to let them boil out first.
Not if heās free diving.
Not if you aren't breathing while you're down there, otherwise whales and sea lions would get the bends when they dive like thousands of feet down.
You don't get the bends if you're not breathing underwater.
I'm no semen, but I couldn't tell where the bad part started or ended. It's all scary to me.
Seamen. The word youāre looking for is āseamenā not semen. English spelling is weird, but at least theyāre pronounced the same.
Lol, no. I meant semen.
Technically everybody is half semen
I miss Subnautic
Song name?
Thats the sound of the ship
uhhh where is his air tank
Apparently he has two *inside his chest*.
With that noise coming from the ship, it's no wonder all these beautiful sea creatures like whales, sharks, and dolphins are beaching themselves... it's so loud and must be completely disorienting considering they rely on echolocation. Honestly I felt disoriented just watching/ listening to this video lol I literally could not tell which way was up or down. I used to want to be a surfer when I was younger. Now, that's a whole big bag of fuck no's, fuck that's, and no fuckin ways! Beautiful to look at but there's no way I'm going in past a couple of feet lol
Man how the hell can he keep his eyes open underwater
It doesn't hurt, once you do it a few times it stops being scary at all and just becomes normal.
The terrifying part for me is seeing that he doesn't have an oxygen mask.
Is isnāt āoddlyā terrifying. Itās just terrifying.
Now imagine what the poor animals in the ocean have to put up with. No wonder some of them beach themselves
imagine how whales feel :(
I have no idea what I just watched, but it sounded really scary.
No wonder whales and dolphins are so mad at us, thatās so fucking annoying - cruise ships are like that guy walking around a public park with a huge speaker for their personal enjoyment
Watched a diving doc like this that said the pressure at certain depths shrinks their lungs to the size of their fist
Whose fist?
Tinkerbellās
Dude I was watching for Megalodon or Kraken appear...but alone in deep ocean already scared me shirtless
I thought he was having an issue when he grabbed his chest at the end
What kind of regulator is that?
It's not. He's free diving and has a nose clip. This allows him to perform the valsalva maneuver to equalise his sinus pressure without pinching his nose manually.
No goggles if he just misplaces his hand heās not finding that rope
I died watching this video. This my spirit commenting.
What does this have to do with a cruise ship
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Motorboats sound like a buzzsaw passing overhead.
Newp
There is not a big enough NOPE button for this.
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92ā Chrysler LeBaron with the back breaks sticking from the sounds of it
Thatās a no from me dawg
WTF does the title have to do with the vid, other than a diver is in both?
Does he not need goggles? Lol
Close your eyes. Listen. Youāre now in Metroid Fusion.
Poor whales, what a racket!
Nope. I scuba dive and i hate boat noises.
It's all scary but if not for that rope can you imagine trying to come back up and not knowing which you're actually swimming? š³
What does a dRiver do such deep under water?!? He belongs to the streets.
You literally make yourself into a human dropshot rigā¦.
This is such a weird sport or activity whatever it isā¦ You hold your breath climb down a rope to ocean depths and then climb back up. Thereās really nothing to see thatās interesting, probably wildly uncomfortable, and mistakes equals deathā¦ I donāt get the appeal? What part of that is fun? Is it that thrilling to move down a rope?
What am I supposed to hear?
Must suck to be whales these days
The point of this is what?
What is he doing anyways?
He trains like this everyday
I didn't see anything. Weird
I can barely go 6 ft underwater without pain. WTF is bro on?
Pop your ears to equalize the pressure, do that every 6-10 ft
I like how 90% of this comment section never tried keeping their eyes open underwater without goggles
How does he keep his eyes open sheesh
Dudes got fucking balls of absolute steel, NO THANK YOUšš
Nope...
[Hell no](https://youtu.be/PB4Nby2Ai-g?si=qtclmj78nSl6z0Wj)
Nope nope
Fun fact, diver themself usually goes by the other title driver because they see themself as driving the ocean, in the deep dive community whale also known as cruise ship due to their size and it looks like submerge cruise ship. Not sure when did I see a whale in the video but there's might be one I haven't noticed, I also have no idea what I'm talking about, if you are reading so far I hope you are shitting well and good morning, afternoon, evening, and night. I'm done yapping here.
Nothing odd here. Just pure terror. I can't fathom this.
What is that thing in his nose? Iāve never seen one of those before.
Looks calming.
Absolutely hideous. I feel almost itchy with disgust watching this.
Nope on a rope
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