We climbed into this Portuguese cave to go diving...
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Jonathan and Todd travel to Portugal to join famous European cave explorer Anton Zhuchkov and dive Alviela Cave in central Portugal! It's an epic adventure just getting to the water, but that's where the real fun begins!
#cavediving #scubadiving #portugal
This expedition was organized by Portugal Dive. If you are interested in diving Portugal, their website should be the first place you go!
www.portugaldive.com
WARNING! CAVE DIVING REQUIRES SPECIAL TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT! This video is for entertainment purposes only and should not be considered a guide to diving these or any caves.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 Returning to Portugal
1:21 Arriving at the cave
1:53 Moving the gear
5:16 Diving in the cave
11:05 Summary
11:32 Credits 
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We are super grateful for all of this amazing footage you bring to us.
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I watched this channel 8 years ago when I was super young I’m super glad to see he is still posting and still entertaining a lot of this ment a lot to me as a little kid and I still have my love for marine biology I know he probably gets these comments all the time but his vids are still amazing and I can’t get enough
Thanks for still being here!!
The start of the biggest dives in John's history of diving, and along with the upcoming vid in Norway, 2m+ subscribers are upon this channel😁
That would be awesome!
@@BlueWorldTV well, here a new sub! Awesome channel u have here!
I love Blue world 🌎
Thanks!!!
I can’t wait to get cave certified. I just got all my sidemount gear
Oh man I would have been exhausted before I even got in the water! Maximum respect to Anton for building the diving platform and decompression rest areas, incredible that they had to drag it all up that wall to get it in there!
The upside down airbubble river was very surreal too! Awesome!
The cave didn't seem like it has such a diving place hidden in it. Amazing video as usual.
Another awesome cave dive! The decompression chambers were really cool!
I can't imagine spending three hours in there though!!
@@BlueWorldTV I am designing the new bell now. It will be light, foldable and more comfortable. When you come next time, I suppose you will beg me to pass a couple of hours inside 😂😂😂
@@BlueWorldTV haha
@@BlueWorldTV The KUR guys have been running internet to their deco habitats. Put up some art, it is almost like home, if home were damp and cold.
This is dynamic!
Not just the diving…the food is so good at any restaurant
And inexpensive. And the wine is great! And the people are nice!
Thank you for showing a glimpse of how beautiful my country is.
Have you seen our other Portugal videos?
@@BlueWorldTV I haven't, but now that I'm subbed, I'll definitely will!
This is the best diving RUclips channel! Or any channel for that matter
I love this cave dive
Never get tired of cave dives
I would love to see an episode about the Blautopf, Jochen Hasenmayer and his submarine made for cave diving. He explored quite a few caves in central Europe. After a decompression accident his legs were left paralyzed, but since cave diving was his heart and soul he, together with a friend designed and build a submarine called Speleonaut, that allowed him to explore the depths of the Blauhöhle without functioning legs.
That must have been great cardio ! Edd can probably bring all the gear in in 30 mins
No doubt! LOL!
I used to watch your videos when I was 7. Now I found your channel again after years and I’m so happy that I did.
Welcome back!
Great dive. Cannot wait to see where the newly acquired CCR training takes the blue world team. Can’t imagine how epic your video ninja skills would be like pushing deeper into Pearse Resurgence!
This video never gets old! I love this so much, keep it going
Alviela is such a great site. I remember putting our team in, moving all the kit, and laughing the whole time. Then going for carachoice (snails) washed down with several cokes afterwards.
I'll pass on the snails, but I agree, the adventure getting all the gear in was a blast. We had so much fun making this video!
What a work to get into the water! But the cave is amazing!
Amazing! Your cinematography and narration was excellent! Thanks for sharing!🤿
The dive was exceptional as well! I am a non diver that fell in love with your channel. Sent my son to Scuba Rangers because of this channel.
Thanks so much!
That is great to hear! Tell him congratulations!
I plan to let him work privately with an instructor in Roatan this summer. I hear this place is great for diving. Thanks again for the great content. You inspire divers and non divers as well.
….. fascinating and horrifying at the same time…per usual. 😂
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Intro never gets old😀
Anton seriously looks like a Blonde-Ukrainian version of Johnathan 😂
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He is my brother from another mother!
@@BlueWorldTV 😂😂😂
5 hours of lugging gear definitely paid dividends. Awesome cave video once again.
Might be time to do some Australian caves, then over to New Zealand. That would make an amazing video
I wish i could go scuba diving. This is soooooo awesome. Love the content
My god thank you, that was amazing. I have goosebumps that was so cool!
Glad you enjoyed it!
YES YES ANOTHER VID I LOVE YOU GUYS
I actualy do not understand how you have the guts to go in the cave in the first place. Your awesome
Your videos lite that fire for me to start diving awesome videos!
Such a wonderful experience I’m sure! Awesome! 😊
12 hours?!! Holy smokes!
Amazing
How great Thou art oh God
Jonathan is a true legend for my childhood my entertainment and
For the ocean🎉🎉🎉
awesome vid, love the crisp aerial shots or portugal in there too for atmosphere
Thank you for taking us along on your adventures. Watching your videos inspires me to get out there and plan my own.
Great episode!
Cool looking dive. The most impressive is the idea of the decompression stops they made!
cool stuff
Looks like the group was a mix of OC and CCR. That would make for an interesting dive plan!!!
Arlindo was on a rebreather and he just did what we did.
I think I know the cave, there has been several gue projects run there to explore it?
Yes, it's the deepest known cave in Portugal, so there has been an ongoing exploration.
@@BlueWorldTV please do Ressel in France, and take the sidewinders to film the deep part. I’ll happily drive 800km to join 🙏☺️
Watched this guy when I was a lot younger I have always been subbed and just came back to watch, loved it
Oh you have a LOT of catching up to do!! 1-2 episodes/month since you last watched!
@@BlueWorldTV sounds like a good idea😃
Especially the cave diving ones, really informative ❤❤❤
You'll never find me diving in a cave but the footage is breathtaking.
Amazing vid.. I love your videos a lot lot
That is dedication getting the gear in there!! Wow
Hi Blue World family! I’ve noticed two small black tanks shoved into Anton’s wing on the rear side… What are those??
Hi Miguel, I use two 2L tanks. One is to inflate my dry suit, and another one is to inflate my bcd. Totally I have 4 liters for inflation. When one bottle is empty, I connect the second one to my dry suit. It is about redundancy. Also, if I need air for one of my rebs, I can easily connect one of the bottles to the reb 😉
(Anton was diving open circuit with us because we were on OC. But normally he is on twin rebreathers in this cave.)
Got it! It seemed to me a pseudo rebreather configuration, thanks for your response!
Wow! You Really had to work for that one!
That's for sure. It was fun!
It is one of my life goals to learn how to scuba dive and go diving with Jonathan and the blue world team lol
You need to come back to Portugal, he have another spectacular spots of cave diving nearby Almonda, speak with Anton they know every one and are some beautiful
Oh trust me, we are going back to cave dive with Anton!
Good to see you visiting Europe. Not cave diving, but in Greece the Alonissos Underwater Museum (featuring antiquities on the sea bed) opened fairly recently. Something which might interest you if you can get access to it.
You should make a trip to BC, Canada! Some of the best cold water diving in the world out here. You would not be disappointed.
If you are looking for more caves in Europe to explore, I can highly recommend Sardinia to you (Golf of Orosei, Cala Gonone) and the Lot region in france. :)
Tell me more about Sardinia!
@@BlueWorldTV Jonathan and Co, look at some vids of Grotta del Fico. It is a beautiful rollercoaster cave. Entry from the sea by boat. There are at least 4 famous caves very near.
@@BlueWorldTV @BlueWorldTV Hey Jonathan, would love to give you some input! I think you would absoluetely love the place. Good starting point is the beautiful, small town of Cala Gonone. You will find two bases there, which are suitable for cave diving (Base 1 & Protec Sardinia - for some reason I cannot post any links, there also awesome pictures on both websites which should give you a first glimpse of what the caves are like). All caves are entered from the ocean and at some point you have a halocline where they switch to fresh water. The water is super turqoise, which is due to a special species of algae living in the region. In general, you have five caves suitable for diving (Bel Torrente, Bue Marino, Cala Luna, Del Fico and Utopia), which are all (except Utopia) really shallow. Furthermore, in Bel Torrente you can find ancient monk seal bones, which are extinct in the Med by now. Also, there are dry passages in almost every cave meaning that you'll sometimes encounter curious tourists in there when you surface which is kinda funny! :D The dry passages are also worth a visit, because ancient people from the bronze age lived there and left behind their trails (paintings, etc.), which is really exciting!
I think you would love it there!
Beautiful ❤️
Thank you! 😊
You need to bring back "I'm Jonathan Bird, and welcome to my world!"
A lot of people felt that open made it seem like a children's show.
Anton and Jonathan looks like Gru and Dru😂
He is my brother from another mother!
@@BlueWorldTV hey man thanks for making my father's day great, now it's my turn to watch your vids😁
I’m marathoning these most recent episodes in anticipation of my trip to The Gulf of Mexico tomorrow, new underwater camera in hand!
Just remember one thing. Do not allow your camera to distract from safety. A lot of dive accidents occur when a camera is involved.
This is a really nice one.
If I make a suggestion, you guys need to take DiveTalk and Edd, Mike, Medhi, ask Patrick Widmann and go to France.
Dive Ressel and film the deep part and dome 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Now THAT is a great idea!!! 👍
hi jonathan i live in the netherlands maybe you should make a video about diving in the netherlands its called zeeland which is one of the most beautyfull places to dive there
Wow that looks like a ton of work for a 70 minute dive.
Yes, but it was fun!
Portuguese, Mexico, and USA Florida are the only counties, that as far as I know, that have a place to go cave diving. What is your family doing, as you're cave diving?
Oh man there are cave dives all over the place. Bahamas, Spain, France, Norway....we have all kinds of places to go! Typically when I'm cave diving, my family is at home. They don't cave dive. Our cave diving expeditions are mostly just me, Todd and Noah.
@BlueworldTV Awesome! Curious, how do the habs work with the gas being used? Do divers just sit there breathing off their reg or are they prepped with stage bottles?
In those little habitats (upside-down water containers), the diver usually stays on the rebreather. The habitat is just about getting warm and being out of the water a little. Also allows you to have a snack and take the mask off for comfort. But there is no provision for refreshing the air/gas in the habitat so you need to stay on the rebreather.
@@BlueWorldTV Thanks! I'm naturally a nose breather out of water. When you're on your loop, is it okay to exhale out of your nose? Would doing so save you time on your scrubber? Is that even beneficial, relatively speaking? I've been diving since the late-90s and have been CCR-curious lately. Thanks!
Awesome video. My son and I didn’t see a guide line…was there one? Sometimes they are hard to see maybe we missed it. Or is it not needed in this particular cave?
Yes, there most certainly is. I probably should have pointed that out in the video. They use stainless steel (!) guideline in this cave because the flow is so strong during the rainy part of the year that the water just rips traditional cave line right out. Unfortunately, that means that divers have to carry cutters that are capable of snipping the line in case of entanglement. Anton actually has something that could best be described as small bolt cutters on his rig.
Europe has some pretty decent cave diving, that's for sure ! There's a warm water cave (about 75 F) in budapest, hungary, and some amazing caves in lot-and-garonne, in france, which is sometimes called europe's cave diving mecca
If you happen to be round those areas, would love a vid !
Actually, would love videos about litterally anywhere in the world, be it in a cave, a lake, the sea, or just your standard backyard pond 😂
We are planning Budapest in 2024.
@@BlueWorldTV I was there 3 weeks ago, had a dive planned in the cave. And i got such a bad flu i could barely move out of my bed and had to cancel 😭
Sucks when this happens, may looki into going back ...
What's the plan when those things happen to you ? Do you postpone your trip or do you just cancel on a video completely ?
(God I need to participate in those FAQs)
Another awesome video! Question, here you had 5 minutes of decompression. Do you find that a large group of divers skip the decompression times if they are say 10 minutes or less, or would you venture to guess most decompress no matter how short the interval is? As a very amateur diver who hasn't dived in years, I understand the importance, but I am curious how many people follow the rule as "to the t" as you and the crew do, like the 5 minute decompression we saw in this video. Thanks!
Actually, I would say that the vast majority of divers are afraid of getting bent and do longer decompression than necessary (or safety stops on top of decompression, or safety stops even when no decompression is obligated). Slow ascents and safety stops are drilled into divers from the beginning. I don't know anyone that would intentionally skip a deco stop or even a safety stop.
I have the weirdest Mandela effect that I’ve been watching your show for maybe 10 more years than it’s been airing. I feel like as a young man I watched you on PBS.
According to the internets your first episode aired when I was 20. Either way, as a current diver I appreciate the cinematic filming, the focus on conservation and the camaraderie between you and the crew.
We were on PBS from 2008-2012 ( the first four seasons). We started our RUclips channel in 2007 but we didn't really have much content here until 2012 when we switched from PBS to RUclips.
Great video - any info on why the Poseidon RB was in Rec config? I’m not a cave diver but isn’t an ability to do shutdowns etc important? I.e having it in tech config?
@Steve on the tech setup your cylinders are inverted so you can reach the valves, and you have manual add for O2 and Dil - on the rec setup the valves are pointing up (like in this video)
@Steve No problem, sharing is caring! So Poseidon is pretty unique in that it has a ‘rec’ mode. Most CCRs are tech only so would confuse most people who have ever dove a CCR. The rec version of the Poseidon requires much less training and there is no ability to fly the unit manually, in rec mode your only option is to bailout. That’s why I was curious using that config for cave diving, I’d like the option to stay on the loop as long as possible 😂
You would have to ask Arlindo.
PLOT TWIST: Jaws comes swimming towards them! 😮😉
A shark in an inland cave? No way. A better twist would be they discover the fossilized jaws of a Megalodon in the cave wall.
i've been very interested in diving. how do i get started?
Like Steve said....find your local dive shop and pop in to say hi!
A lot of those rocks look identical to ones on Mars.
I Love your channel. I understand your passion for cave diving. Please be careful to caution your audience about the significant dangers of cave diving. I am concerned your passion will encourage untrained divers to follow your example. You may want to include a warning in your intro. BTW, Caves aren’t terribly blue. Thank you for your content.
Maybe Jonathans guide to technical diving.
All of our cave diving vides contain a warning (this one has it at 0:25). But honestly when you think about it, we make scuba diving videos. Scuba diving without proper training, even diving on a reef, is dangerous. If you go by that criteria, probably half the videos on RUclips should come with a warning. Just because I watch a video of a guy in a wingsuit jumping off a cliff on RUclips doesn't mean I'm qualified to do it. And if I did go and do it without training, it's not the fault of the guy who made the video! People should realistically understand that RUclips videos are for entertainment, not training. We specifically DO NOT make our videos to seem like training, because they are not. I'm not qualified to teach scuba, nor is RUclips a place to learn such a thing. We have scuba instructors for that!
Wow, Jonathan has a European twin 😂
He is my brother from another mother!
I've often wondered, what happens to your bubbles after they gather on the roof of an underwater cave? Do they just slowly dissolve out into the water over time?
They slowly percolate through micro cracks in the rocks.
@@BlueWorldTV Neat!
I am really curious about those decompression bells. I wanna know how does somebody pass the time sitting in one of those for twelve hours, and how they are kept full of oxygen. And what kind of work are they doing down there that requires such long decompression afterwards? Just exploring?
Typically the person in there stays on his/her rebreather (doesn't breathe the air inside). The air inside is just for warmth, and maybe having a chance to sip a hot chocolate.
@@BlueWorldTV Ahh that makes a lot more sense
I didn't see any reels used. Is there only one passage?
There is a permanent guideline in there.
Imagine getting the sidewinder down there...
Maybe next year...Anton has some new adventures for us!
I'm curious why this cave didn't appear to have a guide line in most places, at one point it looked like there was one but for most of the dive I couldn't find one. My guess is that it's because of how little silt is in the cave or the more likely guess that there is one but it's just not visible in the video
It had a guideline. In fact, they use stainless steel guideline in this cave because the flow is so string during the wet season that regular cave line gets destroyed. Anton has to carry wire cutters just in case of entanglement.
Are there no dive reels in there?
In some of these Portuguese case, the "line" is actually stainless cable. The reason is because in the rainy season, the flow is so powerful that it just rips conventional cave line right out of the cave. So Anton has to carry cable cutters in case someone gets caught. However, it's a lot harder to get caught in a steel cable than a line.
Yo Jonathan, have you ever dived in Burmese coast line?
Not yet!
@@BlueWorldTV @BlueWorldTV you gotta try it, tho you need your own team and equipments to dive since diving industry here is pretty immature but also you can bump into some of the rare species to dive with since most of the places are still unexplored. For rare species I know of are Whale sharks in the coast, Dugong population, Irrawaddy river shark and river dolphins. Forrest Galante travels here a couple of times in search of new or endangered species as well. I'm hoping a decent documentary would come out about some local species we don't know of since we aren't quite capable to research and exploring ourselves yet 😬
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Are the cave walls yellow because of sulfur content in the rocks?
That's a good question, I'm not sure.
im so sad now i have to wait a whole other week 😭😭😭
How old were you when you got certified? I didn’t get certified yet but I really want too.
I didn't get certified until I was about 20.
@@BlueWorldTV ok
Hey guys , why didnt you use the KISS ?
This was filmed before our training. Our episodes are usually released about 6 months after filming because we have so many in production. We rushed to release the KISS training episode because we were so excited about it.
@@BlueWorldTV thanks for the reply :) cant wait to see you guys making no bubbles 🔥
700 FEET!? As an advanced open water diver, that would freak me out even in the ocean, let alone in a cave.
I know, it's crazy to even think about.
Come and film french cave diver Xavier Meniscus for deep cave diving !
I'm a shallow cave diver!!
You said you don’t have access to nitrox, why not?
We were in the middle of nowhere with no nearby dive shop. Anton brought his own compressor to fill tanks.
Cave Dive inside a Cave Dive.
Wouldn't carbon do the job, with the heavy equipment?
Or can you not dive with carbon air tanks?
I have never seen carbon fiber tanks used in diving but fire fighters use them.
Lovely cave, but I'd hate to spend HOURS decompressing!!!
Any plans to go to the Philippines? A combo Jonathan/Justin dive would be amazing - he's such a great filmmaker - ruclips.net/video/hp56tXgmHKU/видео.html
Justin is cool and I have watched his channel. In fact I just saw his muck video come up on facebook.
Bro sub he did this vid like 4 hours carrying supplies❤
FYI when you mentioned something about Europe you must have missed pronounced it it was actually taking place in Portugal and there was the Portuguese cave
ruclips.net/video/5y4l9bNTqp0/видео.html You have T1 in both display positions! Great cave video!
It's hilarious that you noticed that. Todd was setting up his computer right before the dive in a rush (which you should NEVER do!) and he managed to screw that up. Fortunately, he had analog gauges on his tanks so he could check the tank pressures the low-tech way.
@BlueWorldTV of course! Blame todd! I actually met him in st louis when he premiered your ancient caves movie, great guy and great movie! I watched it several times.
hey could i just talk to jonathan bird
I answer the comments just about every day!
12 hrs of decompression, just to explore an endless cave with just rock formation - makes no sense to me (it's not something I can understand), especially all the work that goes into it
It's all about finding something new that nobody has ever seen before, or discovering the source of the water, or connecting it to another cave. Thrill of discovery.
@@BlueWorldTV I hear loud and clear... I rather see fish
Why no life?
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