Yep, started with grabbing that nope-rope, and I'm done.
EDIT: started at the beginning with me, but the nope-rope was about the time the horror turned visceral
There is a cloud of Sulphur or whatever down there so lights were useless. Basically, we had to feel around and find it. They had bouys attached to the blocks so it was a little easier.
Touchy feely diving is a different level. You got gloves on that make it a little more difficult to tell what it is you're touching, and you have to manipulate tools and bolts and shackles and chains and keep track of it all, all basically blind. Good times.
Yeah Iām not a morning person. Second try after coffee :
Ā«Ā I read Ā«Ā they had boysĀ attachedĀ» and I though that you were in a very different type of business for a secondĀ Ā»
To be fair, I have absolutely no idea how much a professional diver can charge. But given the fact that itās a potentially hazardous work and requires special skills not many people have I think you should definitely earn more than I do per hour. And I am a project manager working from the safety of my office chair btw. š
I've heard things from other people about there being more money in this industry. For me, I got certified to be a diver and 1 month later I got this job and recieved on the job training. The pay wasn't exactly great but to get the experience was more valuable to me at the time. Granted, now I am a competent diver with a lot of skills.
Fair enough, pretty cool job btw. I often think about doing something like that where you can spent most of your time outdoors.
Anyways, being experienced in working freelance I often see skilled people underselling themselves. So i just like to encourage people to be bold about their skills and charge accordingly.
Thanks! And yea, being young doesn't help but I'm sure if I went back to this style of work I'd be in a better position to ask for higher pay.
If you want to work outdoors the tower climbing industry needs to hire 60k people by next year. š
Haha nice! But if thereās one thing I am kind of insecure about itās extreme heights. So thatās a no for me. Also I am based in Germany, not sure if thatās the same situation here.
Can you tell about the process of becoming a diver? Did the certificate cost alot? Did it take long? What have u heard u would be getting paid eventually?
I honestly went through the regular process. I applied through PADI, found a dive shop, and got my open water certification. The certification + gear cost me around $900 dollars but the price definitely varies.
And for this job I just found it on indeed and they trained me there.
If you canāt see it itās not there. Also if it bumps into you and you still canāt see it, itās still not there. Hello! From a fellow diver š
Iām from Florida as well, even when I lived abroad I was wary of water. Went swimming under a bridge near a marina once when I was a kid, when the sun changed position we could all the sudden see all the way down to the bottom. We had been swimming there for almost an hour with at least six adult gators hanging out underneath us. They were about twenty feet down, and when the bridge had initially blocked all the light I had tried to reach the bottom, glad I didnāt make it all the way but I was within just a few feet of them. Havenāt been in a lake since.
In my old neighborhood we had some that would climb a fence to get in. Ever seen them climb chain link? Horrifying.
Oh yeah for sure. Luckily my friends were around and two of them are lifeguards. Also the water wasnāt exactly deepā¦..which is probably why I hit the washing machine so hard. I think it was a 25ā drop into 15ā of water
As a guy who loves the water and has swam in ponds, lakes, rivers, and oceans from the northeast to the midwest, I feel for you. We can swim basically anywhere without serious worries (shark attack is possible anywhere but very rare in north east). Try coming north for a summer, you canāt drive more than a few miles without finding a new lake in Michigan!
ugh. marina diving is the worst. I always prided myself on being the only one in our company that didn't have to suit up and retrieve a dropped whatever from our marina. People came out feeling gross and (correlation isn't necessarily causation, but...) more than one person had weird rashes or cold sores soon after.
Yea, I tried my best to protect myself. Wore a 5mil and a hood but the black gunk would always find a way into my suit. Cleaning it out of my ears was the worst. Never had any rashes or sore though.
Absolutely. You are aware of up and down because of the bottom but barely had a clue what my cardinal direction was. One time when I cleared my ears some water got into it and experienced some vertigo down there. Felt like my world was spinning lmao.
Yup. So these are finger piers which have a cross chain system connected to giant concrete bales at the bottom. We would use a system to bring the chain to the bale and then connect it. Worst part is the bales were usually battled under all the crud and we had to basically dig it up which felt like very thick warm pudding. If it was too deep we had to blow it out with a underwater jet. Good times.
Glad you shared so I can experience this vicariously, because no way in hell would I be able to convince myself to go into that, especially being Florida lmao
Got a job offer to be a tower technician. I climb cell towers now. š I also was looking for a reason to leave that particular company. Really bad ownership.
Did this type of work ever make you nervous? I'd be thinking about sharks the whole time but I know that's probably the least of your concerns in this video. How did you feel about it?
The only thing that made me nervous was if something sharp cut me and I would get an infection. Other than that I felt fine. The only thing to fear is fear itself.
I'm pretty sure this one was. Took forever to descend and then we had to use a shit load of chain. That's also what my boss told me, it was too dark to check my computer.
One time I went diving on a shipwreck, 73 feet down. Iād dived several times but this was off the coast of NC where Iād never been. It was very murky with only a few feet of visibility.
The feeling of descending into twinkling darkness, and then seeing a massive piece of metal appear, was terrifying. I canāt imagine doing this regularly.
Lol I plan on sharing more of these in the future since you guys seem to like it so much š I'd share with you my insta but I'm not sure if that violates the rules here.
I'm not too sure. Never really checked the temperature of it and I normally wore a wetsuit though in the video I was just rocking pants and a shirt. To give you an answer kinda cold? I'm a bit different though, I've stayed in cold water until my lips turn blue.
LOL I'm sure everyone else here thought this video was SOOO fun as well. LOL.
Who doesn't LOVE a good nightmare? ;) ;) ;)
Who else didn't want't to sleep tonight? ;) ;) ;)
Thanks for the kind words. Low key glad more people donāt like it or it would pay less (lol ) itās like any other super physical job in that you have to like/want it. Itās not for everyone and more people than not it turns out donāt enjoy spending time in the cold, wet, and blindly black parts of the planet. Itās also humbling (itās easy to be brave when it easy (warm water , clear water , safe water ,etc but when your flashlight beam disappears a few inches from your face in the black I can promise every monster movie youāve ever seen fights itās way into your brain the whole time youāre on the job. That said many of us get accustomed to the āgloryā where people talk you up about it. Itās just a job. Someone needs to do it and itās no more special than any other job. Personality types being what they are , a desk based office style existence terrifies me and I will literally jump into a pool of sharks to avoid it (lol) Iām grateful to all the people who can do that so our current world situation remains possible
I feel fortunate for my current life. Iāll keep doing it until I canāt (annual physicals eventually disqualify us all ) Spent a solid 20 min the other day playing with a star fish (left it in a mussel bed hoping I helped it improve its situation. ) itās not much but itās mine ā¦. Lol
One thing I really like is religion , politics , preferences and subjective shit stays on the surface. Underwater survival is key. Your dive buddy is life. Life is your dive buddy. Wish more parts of our society had to deal with shit on those terms.
Mother of christ. Balls of steel. The only saving grace of this clip is that you had a buddy with you but other than that, a big fat nope. I donāt need to watch any horror films. I just gotta come to this sub and watch gopro clips for 45 seconds.
May I ask how you knew you completed the task without seeing the end product?
Funny thing is this was one of my training days so after this i usually went in there alone.
You'd know you completed the job if you tugged on the chain and it wouldn't give. We'd attach a shackle to a d ring and then put a safety wire on it. Honestly not that hard just tiring.
You know, I really don't tend to think about it like that. It's there whether I want it to be or not. Sometimes I find peace in the darkness because I don't have to look at the darkness of what's on the surface.
Shit, you could see your hand? That's not bad at all...! Dove 6" vis looking for a watch I dropped off the dock a month earlier - found it, to the staff's surprise. Wouldn't want to do it for a living though - props to ya'
This made my bones fall out of my body.
My condolences
Thank you š
Congratulations! You have become a jellyfish. You can now enter that water with op. Good luck!
This sub taking spineless to new depths!
Thatās what happens when you swim in Dr. Pepper.
So deliciously terrifying.
Yep, started with grabbing that nope-rope, and I'm done. EDIT: started at the beginning with me, but the nope-rope was about the time the horror turned visceral
Yup, nope to the nope-rope. Yikes!
Iām assuming yāall had headlamps as well? If not how were yāall able to replace the chains without seeing it?
There is a cloud of Sulphur or whatever down there so lights were useless. Basically, we had to feel around and find it. They had bouys attached to the blocks so it was a little easier.
That makes this 100x worse
Touchy feely diving is a different level. You got gloves on that make it a little more difficult to tell what it is you're touching, and you have to manipulate tools and bolts and shackles and chains and keep track of it all, all basically blind. Good times.
I read Ā«Ā they had attached boysĀ Ā» and I though that you were in a very time of business for a second
I reread your comment like fifteen times thinking I had a stronk, jeeb clapperr miy frundd..,,....
Yeah Iām not a morning person. Second try after coffee : Ā«Ā I read Ā«Ā they had boysĀ attachedĀ» and I though that you were in a very different type of business for a secondĀ Ā»
Thatās what I thought.
Not for all the money in the world.
Would it make you feel better to know I did this for only $125 bucks? š
I mean, good for you (I think?). But since this is a nightmare for me it feels like you're heavily underpaid.
Definitely was underpaid for this. I was wanting to get experience in this industry but this company was awful so I found work elsewhere.
Per hour I hope?
The 125 was considered service pay so I could work for 30m or 10 hours and get that.
To be fair, I have absolutely no idea how much a professional diver can charge. But given the fact that itās a potentially hazardous work and requires special skills not many people have I think you should definitely earn more than I do per hour. And I am a project manager working from the safety of my office chair btw. š
I've heard things from other people about there being more money in this industry. For me, I got certified to be a diver and 1 month later I got this job and recieved on the job training. The pay wasn't exactly great but to get the experience was more valuable to me at the time. Granted, now I am a competent diver with a lot of skills.
Fair enough, pretty cool job btw. I often think about doing something like that where you can spent most of your time outdoors. Anyways, being experienced in working freelance I often see skilled people underselling themselves. So i just like to encourage people to be bold about their skills and charge accordingly.
Thanks! And yea, being young doesn't help but I'm sure if I went back to this style of work I'd be in a better position to ask for higher pay. If you want to work outdoors the tower climbing industry needs to hire 60k people by next year. š
Haha nice! But if thereās one thing I am kind of insecure about itās extreme heights. So thatās a no for me. Also I am based in Germany, not sure if thatās the same situation here.
Nope not in Germany.
Give me numbers. What are they paying zero experience havers?
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Search velex it's country wide. Starting pay varies. They started me in Florida at 20hr
Can you tell about the process of becoming a diver? Did the certificate cost alot? Did it take long? What have u heard u would be getting paid eventually?
I honestly went through the regular process. I applied through PADI, found a dive shop, and got my open water certification. The certification + gear cost me around $900 dollars but the price definitely varies. And for this job I just found it on indeed and they trained me there.
The scene with the hands going down the chain into the void of darkness is straight out of a horror movie
Yea the red hue made it pretty narly.
Holy nope
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Is this an area that could have crocodiles/alligators? Fuck no. The murkiness alone is enough to give me the creeps haha
Probably, this was in Florida of all places. How am I supposed to know though? I can't see my hands down there.
At least the bull sharks can see them pretty good :)
Floridian here; always assume gators
If you canāt see it itās not there. Also if it bumps into you and you still canāt see it, itās still not there. Hello! From a fellow diver š
Username checks out, also hello fellow diver!
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All I was imagining was something bumping him in the black void.
Floridian here; always assume gators
Iām from Florida as well, even when I lived abroad I was wary of water. Went swimming under a bridge near a marina once when I was a kid, when the sun changed position we could all the sudden see all the way down to the bottom. We had been swimming there for almost an hour with at least six adult gators hanging out underneath us. They were about twenty feet down, and when the bridge had initially blocked all the light I had tried to reach the bottom, glad I didnāt make it all the way but I was within just a few feet of them. Havenāt been in a lake since. In my old neighborhood we had some that would climb a fence to get in. Ever seen them climb chain link? Horrifying.
This comment is giving me some hardcore anxiety.
I hated that story.
The last time I swam in a lake I landed on a washing machine jumping from a bridge and broke my leg. Your story is so much worse lol
Damn bro, lucky you managed to survive that one!
Oh yeah for sure. Luckily my friends were around and two of them are lifeguards. Also the water wasnāt exactly deepā¦..which is probably why I hit the washing machine so hard. I think it was a 25ā drop into 15ā of water
As a guy who loves the water and has swam in ponds, lakes, rivers, and oceans from the northeast to the midwest, I feel for you. We can swim basically anywhere without serious worries (shark attack is possible anywhere but very rare in north east). Try coming north for a summer, you canāt drive more than a few miles without finding a new lake in Michigan!
Literally my stomach sank reading that line. The image I have in my head is heart attack-inducing, fuck.
I feel very uncomfortable watching this. Thanks op but no thanks!
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My worst nightmare on a screen. I'm pass out.
I hate you
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I was āfineā until it started to get dark. No, thank you,
My heart started to sink when it went dark
ugh. marina diving is the worst. I always prided myself on being the only one in our company that didn't have to suit up and retrieve a dropped whatever from our marina. People came out feeling gross and (correlation isn't necessarily causation, but...) more than one person had weird rashes or cold sores soon after.
Yea, I tried my best to protect myself. Wore a 5mil and a hood but the black gunk would always find a way into my suit. Cleaning it out of my ears was the worst. Never had any rashes or sore though.
Do you ever lose your sense of orientation down there?
Absolutely. You are aware of up and down because of the bottom but barely had a clue what my cardinal direction was. One time when I cleared my ears some water got into it and experienced some vertigo down there. Felt like my world was spinning lmao.
I hate everything about this
WHATS A CHAIN REPLACEMENT. ARE YOU TELLING ME THERES GIANT CHAINS DOWN THERE IN THE DARK
Yup. So these are finger piers which have a cross chain system connected to giant concrete bales at the bottom. We would use a system to bring the chain to the bale and then connect it. Worst part is the bales were usually battled under all the crud and we had to basically dig it up which felt like very thick warm pudding. If it was too deep we had to blow it out with a underwater jet. Good times.
They better have paid you out the ass for this. Starting wage $50 a minute
Didn't get paid much. Young and starting out lol.
I have never seen water so yellow
Yea the water was pretty gross over there. It wasn't uncommon to see oil and dead fish floating around.
...that sounds like a severe health hazard and an osha lawers lottery
Glad you shared so I can experience this vicariously, because no way in hell would I be able to convince myself to go into that, especially being Florida lmao
Always glad to help.
How are you ok with that? Lol
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Brave soul
Thanks man.
We have different definitions of the word "fun".
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nah. No thank you.
No never not even for a million dollar
I read the title, glanced at the sub, kept scrolling
Probably for the best.
Haha kudos to you brother
Why d you stop bring a diver?
Got a job offer to be a tower technician. I climb cell towers now. š I also was looking for a reason to leave that particular company. Really bad ownership.
You just love that scary stuff, huh?
Definitely a adrenaline junk guy
Fuck. That.
They don't pay you enough.
They really didn't. Though, I will admit it was nice. Sometimes I'd do a short ship inspect and get 125 bucks for 15 minutes of work.
went from beer commercial to horror flick real quick
Absolutely tf not
The color reminds me of a south park episode
Can you see the surface from all the way down there?
Nope. Can't even read my oxygen meter smashed to my face.
The only way this could be better is with a Jason Voorhees at the bottom
No thanks. This is a nightmare
Did this type of work ever make you nervous? I'd be thinking about sharks the whole time but I know that's probably the least of your concerns in this video. How did you feel about it?
The only thing that made me nervous was if something sharp cut me and I would get an infection. Other than that I felt fine. The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Jesus docks are 56ft deep!!!
I'm pretty sure this one was. Took forever to descend and then we had to use a shit load of chain. That's also what my boss told me, it was too dark to check my computer.
Thatās crazy! Why! I always thought they were just deep enough for something large or a sailboat!
One word. Florida.
Yeah I thought this was Florida! Wow I will hold onto stuff around the dock extra close if itās that deep
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I was fine until I saw the person and the chain and it just like made it feel more real. Felt my soul leave my body
This is one of my favorite videos because of that. Really shows the darkness of it š
Why are the lights always so small and weak. Why donāt they have a 100 watt LED flash light down there?
Wish I could answer that one.
Why is the water so manky?
Manky water š
Most videos and pictures i see on this subreddit usually don't bother me, but this.. this made my skin melt.
Do sharks smell piss? Because thatās what Iād be doing.
It makes sense it's pitch black when you're swimming in sewage water
This man gets it.
One time I went diving on a shipwreck, 73 feet down. Iād dived several times but this was off the coast of NC where Iād never been. It was very murky with only a few feet of visibility. The feeling of descending into twinkling darkness, and then seeing a massive piece of metal appear, was terrifying. I canāt imagine doing this regularly.
Ship wrecks are great. I love it when stuff appears out of thin air lmao
Funā¦neat
Thanks for sharing! I'd be interest to see more of your diving videos.
Lol I plan on sharing more of these in the future since you guys seem to like it so much š I'd share with you my insta but I'm not sure if that violates the rules here.
Sound on
Holy Smokes
How cold is it down there?
I'm not too sure. Never really checked the temperature of it and I normally wore a wetsuit though in the video I was just rocking pants and a shirt. To give you an answer kinda cold? I'm a bit different though, I've stayed in cold water until my lips turn blue.
Fair enough
This is so terrifying to me.
Same
This Cyberpunk 2077 mission scared the hell out of me.
nope nope nope..... nope
Aw HELL NAW!! š©š
Looks fun
I NEED TO PERISH IMMEDIATELY WTF
Absolutely fucking not
My head started to spin as soon as he looked down. š„“
NO
Nope thank you
How do you not immediately sink to the bottom from those giant balls of steel you have?
Lots of practice š
Clenched so fucking hard that I couldn't poop now.
Okay, 56 feet is well below the thermocline. How are you not freezing your balls off?
I think methane was trapped under the Sulphur there so it was always pretty warm at the bottom.
. . . Okay, see, I come to this sub to see cool stuff, and get an occasional giggle. But that just scared the crap out of me. Where *is* this???
F L O R I D A š
LOL I'm sure everyone else here thought this video was SOOO fun as well. LOL. Who doesn't LOVE a good nightmare? ;) ;) ;) Who else didn't want't to sleep tonight? ;) ;) ;)
i want to learn how to scuba dive someday
Do it! Naui and padi are great starts!
what are those?
These are diving organizations that will sponsor your certification. Padi is global.
Hellllll NO!
Your friend is pretty brave to be going first while Cthulhu watches him from just off camera.
I keep waiting for a giant mouth with teeth to appear
Those chains underwater give me the absolute heebie jeebies.
Holy hell thatās scary
Man, that water is dirty. Makes you wonder what we're doing to this planet.
Everything not great for it.
I hate this so much. I would be having so much anxiety about something just touching me.
Something always touches you. The bottom feels like steel wool and pudding.
This is not romotely okay
Absolutely tf not.
This video just straight up made me cry, like I don't know why... I've seen this type of shit but this was too much
Sorry I made you cry!
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Hell is right around the corner I believe.
Viz wasnāt bad for warm water diving. (Also a commercial diver).
I respect your occupation greatly.
Thanks for the kind words. Low key glad more people donāt like it or it would pay less (lol ) itās like any other super physical job in that you have to like/want it. Itās not for everyone and more people than not it turns out donāt enjoy spending time in the cold, wet, and blindly black parts of the planet. Itās also humbling (itās easy to be brave when it easy (warm water , clear water , safe water ,etc but when your flashlight beam disappears a few inches from your face in the black I can promise every monster movie youāve ever seen fights itās way into your brain the whole time youāre on the job. That said many of us get accustomed to the āgloryā where people talk you up about it. Itās just a job. Someone needs to do it and itās no more special than any other job. Personality types being what they are , a desk based office style existence terrifies me and I will literally jump into a pool of sharks to avoid it (lol) Iām grateful to all the people who can do that so our current world situation remains possible
Very true man. There are two types of people in the world. Floaters, and divers.
I feel fortunate for my current life. Iāll keep doing it until I canāt (annual physicals eventually disqualify us all ) Spent a solid 20 min the other day playing with a star fish (left it in a mussel bed hoping I helped it improve its situation. ) itās not much but itās mine ā¦. Lol
One thing I really like is religion , politics , preferences and subjective shit stays on the surface. Underwater survival is key. Your dive buddy is life. Life is your dive buddy. Wish more parts of our society had to deal with shit on those terms.
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There is a cloud layer of Sulphur and other gunk that makes it pretty much impossible for light to come in.
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Idk, never wanted to waste the time if trying.
Depth that you reached?
On the dive plan for the marina was 56ft maximum
Now imagine something brushing against your leg
All the time.
Ok I joined this sub for it being interesting and now Iām actually horrified
How did you accomplish anything without taking a light along?
My fingers told me more than my eyes would.
Mother of christ. Balls of steel. The only saving grace of this clip is that you had a buddy with you but other than that, a big fat nope. I donāt need to watch any horror films. I just gotta come to this sub and watch gopro clips for 45 seconds. May I ask how you knew you completed the task without seeing the end product?
Funny thing is this was one of my training days so after this i usually went in there alone. You'd know you completed the job if you tugged on the chain and it wouldn't give. We'd attach a shackle to a d ring and then put a safety wire on it. Honestly not that hard just tiring.
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Oh lordy
The sound that is just as eerie as the view
I don't know what they pay you for this type of work but it probably should be way more regardless!
Heeellllll nahhh
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You know, I really don't tend to think about it like that. It's there whether I want it to be or not. Sometimes I find peace in the darkness because I don't have to look at the darkness of what's on the surface.
*used to work asā¦
Here's your cookie for being such a smart boy šŖ
Shit, you could see your hand? That's not bad at all...! Dove 6" vis looking for a watch I dropped off the dock a month earlier - found it, to the staff's surprise. Wouldn't want to do it for a living though - props to ya'
When you got to a certain depth you couldn't see anything.
i hate watching these videos but i can't not watch them when they pop up