Last summer I visited Rusper brick works, a quarry where my father worked as a very young man. It is now a lake, so I took a swim. I was floating above where my father had worked. Now He is floating above me.
Best inland UK quarry by far. I've done about 400 dive in this quarry from the nineties to a couple of year back, and the best viz was at the end of January one year when me and my buddy were at 48mtrs near the Pinnicles and we could see the surface buoys and the sun highlighting them and the rope. Used to pop down Henry's ridge and then over the the 48 hut, on the way to the submerged trees in the far corner; this was just one of my favourites and all free. Many happy days, but some sad one too.
"1994-2004, 21 divers lost their lives in the quarry." RIP. Great video, this location is obviously for higher experienced divers. Would love to learn to dive.
There’s so many platforms at different levels, so Dorothea is for all levels of qualifications. I started diving there during my Ocean Diver training - if you do the 20m tunnel dive route, there’s a floor below you, so there’s no risk of suddenly dropping to 100m or anything. I’d recommend going with someone who knows the quarry so they can show you all the best bits. I agree that many of the accidents there have been because of people diving beyond their training or not having the right equipment. For example, I know people who have bolted to the surface from 40m just because they had a freeflow. Totally avoidable.
This quarry had the last Cornish beam engine ever produced here in Cornwall. Guessing not much left of it now? Great video, really enjoyed that. Sending warm wishes from Cornwall.
One of the best diver vids I have watched. In my younger day, I bounced 75mtr on compressed air. I just wish I was still diving when mixed gas entered the main diving stream. I would have loved to view more technical information about the dive
Thank You so much for sharing! 😱 I must commend you on your Bravery! It’s literally a another world 🌎 deep beneath the quarry! A shame to see so much clutter and cars. Have they ever considered cleaning up the bottom of the quarries? Great 👍 Video.
I'm guessing by the adits and winch that this was also a mine as well as an open pit slate quarry. That was a cool little shack! I think the oddest thing was the BBQ and chairs that have apparently been there since sometime between the time the quarry shut down in 1970, the pumps were shut off, and since it is lower than the natural water table it filled with water. Glad you guys came out safe; between 1994 - 2004 21 divers lost their lives in that quarry.
Clyde Ceniza: Apparently they over estimated their abilities. British Sub-Aqua Club sets the safe diving limit at 50 meter. Parts of Dorothea Quarry are over 100 meter deep. 104 meter actually, thus the title of this video.
Duck Landes Damn! There was this video too in RUclips that some Chinese tourists was already at the depth 56 meters (maybe im wrong) luckily a concerned diver was with them and warned them and they barely made it to the surface
Thanks for the link. That video proves that just because you can afford to buy the equipment doesn't mean you're smart enough to use it :> Deepest I've been was 30 feet (9 meter) when dredging for gold, which is only about 2 atmospheres. But I would stay down there about 8 hours, and I wasn't scuba diving, I was using a hookah diving system so had no worries with how much air I was using.
I live very close to here, and it was only recently I managed to walk on the footpaths and get close to the lake itself. Absolutely amazed at the footage you got, very interesting indeed. Must be a surreal experience. Great Work.
a very good friend of mine and previous diving buddy from the mid 1990s lost his life there 20 years ago ..made me think hard about adrenaline sports and I gave up my climbing and deep diving shortly after ..I miss the ability to drift in space and the tinned buzz of pressure on ears and brain..but I don't want to do it again Now I would be forcing myself to do it to prove something to myself and I like life too much..it's weird seeing Dorothea again it's just the same as it was 25 years ago..only I never got down to 104metres..so these guys have had a proper grumage ..the water looks pretty good tbh and visibility seems somewhat better than how I remember it.. Anyway nice vid and be careful
You should take a sample of the milky stuff on the bottom. It has to have a specific gravity of greater than 1.0 witch makes it heavier than water so it stays at the bottom and do the same with the black stuff on the cabin floor. You might not want to dive there after that.
Hi, If you are ever in the area to dive again, we've just opened up a new hostel down the road from Dorothea called Basecamp Wales, about 2 miles down the road in Llanllyfni
Thanks for the memory regularly dived here mid 80s Is the sign with skull and cross bones saying warning divers have died here still on the entrance to a cave
i worked in quarries like this for many years and ive fished alkot of them also. ive never seen a mature flooded quarry with this much structure so devoid of fish. quarries are fish heaven
There is loads of fish in here, along with sponges, newts, snails etc. Harder to spot in winter when water is colder and they are normally in the shallows in summer
Awesome video, it feels like this place flooded over night with some of these findings. But on the other hand a couple of those cars were very old models. I saw graffiti from 2005 but at the same time there was a house that looked from the Stone Age haha great video!
Thanks for uploading this! I am running an RPG and I'm about to send my players diving in a quarry (with a scary monster at the bottom, of course...). This gives me so much inspiration to describe the scenes for them!
This was a slate quarry until 1975 when the pumps that kept the bottom from flooding were turned off, and the quarry was abandoned. There should be some history of the quarry on the Internet.
This was a slate quarry until 1975 when the pumps that kept the bottom from flooding were turned off, and the quarry was abandoned. There should be some history of the quarry on the Internet.
No comentary? No discription? Where is this place? Why it's under water? How did you prepare for a dive like this? What where your feelings, reaching the bottom? What was your equipment?
Not sure if you're still interested as you posted over a year ago. Its in the Nantlle area of North Wales. Its a former slate quarry which like most Welsh slate quarries extracted slate via tunnels which opened up into big chambers, as well as open cast working. Like any big hole it will fill with water which had to be continually pumped out. When the quarry stopped working-probably in the 1960's?- the pumping stopped and quarry simply filled up.
Dorothea quarry, north Wales, UK. Want more info? Google it please. It's been a while, can't remember. Video made for personal record to come back to now and again.
Why does everyone think playing shitty elevator music makes it better it doesn't. Rather hear the regulators and bubbles type shit. Would of been great video had it had audio.
Tj RhdEg6 Because people think it's their God given right to bitch! Like in USA 1st amendment, Freedom of Speech. They bitch and moan so they don't have to deal with there own problems!
Is there a guideline or are you laying one once inside the mine i.e. in a fully overhead environment with no natural light penetration? I didn't see any in the videos. If there isn't one that makes me concerned because the main reason for cave diving deaths is due to a missing or lost guideline from what I have read. Maybe I'm just missing something about the dive site or from the video. Overall, looks like a fun dive
If there are passages with no natural light coming in and an overhead environment it’s equivalent to a cave and the same procedures need to be followed. I don’t know how long those passages are. If they’re short, could be ok but it’s clearly visible that there’s a lot of silt and therefore no vis situation in an overhead environment is a real possibility.
Is anybody else wondering why there's an Evo 5/6 at the bottom of a flooded quarry?? Check it @8:14. Nice dive btw, but the car guy in me is just curious.
I saw a video discussing all of the diving-related deaths at the quarry but it didn't have any dive footage of the quarry. Seeing this, I kinda understand why lots of divers go to the quarry.
I don't know all of them and details. But from a story of a witness diver I've spoken with "one of the bouys implode and the weight of a drop line took the diver all the way to the bottom " . Ever since I heard that kept away and not grab hold of it.
What was the temp of the water at them depths ? and the flooded forest surely al the trees should be dead and rotten being in submerged in water for that long, great video quality though
Awesome video. Really made me feel like I was there and. I'm a diver. I wonder what that black/dark stuff is on the floor of the stone shack. Looks like a heavy liquid of some kind.
ThumperDelta Resistance I agree. I was commenting on the whiners replies. I love the sounds you hear underwater. Once heard whales when diving the southern coast of Mexico. Too cool!!
Last summer I visited Rusper brick works, a quarry where my father worked as a very young man. It is now a lake, so I took a swim. I was floating above where my father had worked. Now He is floating above me.
What, is he an air host now?
yo he mad high were can i get them drugs?
Swimming in a quarry is disgusting
I think they meant their dad is dead
Please don't swim in a quarry. It's very dangerous.
The thing that blows my mind is that water can easily cover up a whole nother world u would never expect the stuff you see down there
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U would be that nigga smh.......
Atlantis brotha
Shocking ;)
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Best inland UK quarry by far. I've done about 400 dive in this quarry from the nineties to a couple of year back, and the best viz was at the end of January one year when me and my buddy were at 48mtrs near the Pinnicles and we could see the surface buoys and the sun highlighting them and the rope. Used to pop down Henry's ridge and then over the the 48 hut, on the way to the submerged trees in the far corner; this was just one of my favourites and all free. Many happy days, but some sad one too.
Thank you, totally agree, many great diving routes there.
@@50mplusdivers67 I've seen other videos of the cars there. Does anyone know the history of them and whether missing people could be in there?
@@rainbowmom7582 there’s no bodies in Dorothea
@@LG-Musique that's good to know TY
I noticed the 'No Smoking' sign in that tunnel.
Obviously smoking is dangerous even under water.
JOHNNIE: LORD OF THE MungoidHen PEOPLE looooool
Juul in the regulator
it yused to b a funktoning kwary thats wy that sine was there lol..... (the spelling errors are intentional)
Drayek Broad ever heard of a joke
I've ordered my laugh and it says it will take 5-6 working days
"1994-2004, 21 divers lost their lives in the quarry." RIP. Great video, this location is obviously for higher experienced divers. Would love to learn to dive.
Highly recommend to try :)
Gets very cold in there. People were diving it without the correct gear and also diving past their limits all very sad loss of life
There’s so many platforms at different levels, so Dorothea is for all levels of qualifications. I started diving there during my Ocean Diver training - if you do the 20m tunnel dive route, there’s a floor below you, so there’s no risk of suddenly dropping to 100m or anything. I’d recommend going with someone who knows the quarry so they can show you all the best bits.
I agree that many of the accidents there have been because of people diving beyond their training or not having the right equipment. For example, I know people who have bolted to the surface from 40m just because they had a freeflow. Totally avoidable.
This quarry had the last Cornish beam engine ever produced here in Cornwall. Guessing not much left of it now? Great video, really enjoyed that. Sending warm wishes from Cornwall.
@9:15 i"m thinking, "What strange looking feet!" Then, the camera surfaces and it's a dog. lol
:)
Wow this is really awesome!! Cool as hell seeing that little shack with fireplace 🤜
One of the best diver vids I have watched. In my younger day, I bounced 75mtr on compressed air. I just wish I was still diving when mixed gas entered the main diving stream. I would have loved to view more technical information about the dive
Thank you,
I'll try to dig it (dive details)out one day
Thank You so much for sharing! 😱 I must commend you on your Bravery! It’s literally a another world 🌎 deep beneath the quarry! A shame to see so much clutter and cars. Have they ever considered cleaning up the bottom of the quarries? Great 👍 Video.
The 'clutter' is great for diving! We divers like stuff to look at and explore 😁
Thanks for a trip into a world I'd never get to see. Awesome!
You're welcome :)
1:55 - There's my keyboard! I've been looking for that damn thing everywhere...
You're welcome ;)
Great video and dive. Would love to see footage of Ft. Dickerson Quarry in Knoxville, TN.
Great visibility there too.
Thank you :)
Just what I'd expect to see in an old quarry, excellent video.
Thank you the tour! This was awesome.
Thank you :)
I love it. Very fun to watch while we’re stuck at home ❤️
Glad you like it :)
Very fun ? Speak English
7:25 says 2005 on the right side Carved into the rock
:)
The simplicity of elevator music is that it masks (pun?) the many video/audio cuts required for a smooth story. Thank you 50mPlus.
Thanks
This is awesome I regularly swim in Dorothea and it's nice to know what's below you 😂😂
Never swam there without the diving gear on, perhaps one day ;)
It's amazing how the clarity gets better the deeper you go
I love it too, it's almost guaranteed when deep...
I'm guessing by the adits and winch that this was also a mine as well as an open pit slate quarry. That was a cool little shack! I think the oddest thing was the BBQ and chairs that have apparently been there since sometime between the time the quarry shut down in 1970, the pumps were shut off, and since it is lower than the natural water table it filled with water. Glad you guys came out safe; between 1994 - 2004 21 divers lost their lives in that quarry.
Duck Landes why? What happened to them? There was almost zero current.
Clyde Ceniza: Apparently they over estimated their abilities. British Sub-Aqua Club sets the safe diving limit at 50 meter. Parts of Dorothea Quarry are over 100 meter deep. 104 meter actually, thus the title of this video.
Duck Landes Damn! There was this video too in RUclips that some Chinese tourists was already at the depth 56 meters (maybe im wrong) luckily a concerned diver was with them and warned them and they barely made it to the surface
Duck Landes ruclips.net/video/W30cufYc_ZI/видео.html
Thanks for the link. That video proves that just because you can afford to buy the equipment doesn't mean you're smart enough to use it :> Deepest I've been was 30 feet (9 meter) when dredging for gold, which is only about 2 atmospheres. But I would stay down there about 8 hours, and I wasn't scuba diving, I was using a hookah diving system so had no worries with how much air I was using.
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incredible footage guys, fascinating stuff!
Thank you
I live very close to here, and it was only recently I managed to walk on the footpaths and get close to the lake itself. Absolutely amazed at the footage you got, very interesting indeed. Must be a surreal experience. Great Work.
Thank you, there are many amazing walks around there too :)
8:12 looks like an Mitsubishi EVO IV in the lake. Wonder how it ended up there
probably insurance fraud
😢😭😭
Pushed /driven it in over the edge...
2:42 bottom left looks like the hand of a corpse ....creepy
That’s blue rope coiled up
🤣🤣
a very good friend of mine and previous diving buddy from the mid 1990s lost his life there 20 years ago ..made me think hard about adrenaline sports and I gave up my climbing and deep diving shortly after ..I miss the ability to drift in space and the tinned buzz of pressure on ears and brain..but I don't want to do it again
Now I would be forcing myself to do it to prove something to myself and I like life too much..it's weird seeing Dorothea again it's just the same as it was 25 years ago..only I never got down to 104metres..so these guys have had a proper grumage ..the water looks pretty good tbh and visibility seems somewhat better than how I remember it..
Anyway nice vid and be careful
Thank you, best wishes :)
You should take a sample of the milky stuff on the bottom. It has to have a specific gravity of greater than 1.0 witch makes it heavier than water so it stays at the bottom and do the same with the black stuff on the cabin floor. You might not want to dive there after that.
Finian Blackett 5:47 I believe is what they are referring too.
Someone explained it in the other comment here.
I'd love the stats on the dive. Mixture, deco etc.
Amazing video! After the cave rescue in Thailand I have a new respect for cave divers and the risks they take
Thank you.
Man that's deep. This was a top shelf video. Thanks for posting it
Thank you :)
Hey man start doing this again! Come to Fort Dickerson Quarry in Knoxville Tennessee
I love the music choice so much
What happens if the mud gets stirred up and you can't see while you are in there?
Move over or try not to stir it up ;), but if you do then you should be there in a first place 🤣🤣🤣
Hi, If you are ever in the area to dive again, we've just opened up a new hostel down the road from Dorothea called Basecamp Wales, about 2 miles down the road in Llanllyfni
Would love to visit your hostel.
Thanks
Thanks for the memory regularly dived here mid 80s
Is the sign with skull and cross bones saying warning divers have died here still on the entrance to a cave
Thanks , not sure about the skull ;)
That Escort Mk1 could be worth saving.
8.42 the amount of equipment needed is that because of the depth 🤔👍..looks amazing..
When you dive, neutral buoyancy makes you feel as though you're flying, particularly when the ground gives way below you and you're there...drifting.
Curious as to your dive tables and mix. Nicely done!
Can't remember now . OC not very efficient with gases, reb recommended.
Awesome video, really well done. I enjoyed it from beginning to end.
Thank you :)
visibility is amazing...
Love it too
There is a quarry in Ohio called Gilboa that offers scuba diving. Really neat stuff
Cool
i worked in quarries like this for many years and ive fished alkot of them also. ive never seen a mature flooded quarry with this much structure so devoid of fish. quarries are fish heaven
There is loads of fish in here, along with sponges, newts, snails etc. Harder to spot in winter when water is colder and they are normally in the shallows in summer
Hardly any life in there, unfortunately ;)
What was your bottom time and deco stops in total at what depths? Thanks
Sorry , can't remember now it's been a while.
If I dig it out I'll post in description.
Our quarries in Georgia have a good amount of fish in them , I did not see any fish in here. Or did I miss something?
It's hardly any life in there, unfortunately ;)
Awesome video, it feels like this place flooded over night with some of these findings. But on the other hand a couple of those cars were very old models. I saw graffiti from 2005 but at the same time there was a house that looked from the Stone Age haha great video!
Idk, but watching this I'm terrified. My breath suddenly fast paced.
Im glad you like it ;)
0:06 what’s thus music called?
Thanks for uploading this! I am running an RPG and I'm about to send my players diving in a quarry (with a scary monster at the bottom, of course...). This gives me so much inspiration to describe the scenes for them!
Thanks :)
Great dive guys ! Which Trimix mix did you used on the bottom gas of the O.C. ?
My max dive was 62 meters. One day I´ll get there... Congrats !
Thanks.
Can't remember the bottom mix now it's been a while,
That is so awesome!! I would not mind the extra training and proper use of equipment, but does it have to be freezing?!
5*C at the bottom.
@@50mplusdivers67 ustedes son una bola de locos!! This is where my love for diving, and hatred to low temperatures cross paths.
All the best to y'all!
Best wishes too :)
I used to dive here. Ended up buying a heated vest 😂
Wow you guys have a real sense of adventure. I'd be too afraid to enter that cave under water.
I'm with you, too scared.
Thanks :)
Would love to do this.....just curious, how do you remember your way out?
Up is out..
It's quarry (a bowl) . One way or another you will go up ;)
What's the back story?
Dorothea quarry, North Wales, UK.
Try Google ;) 👍
Great video, although I’d never dive a cave. What was your dive table and mix?
Thank you. It's been a while I can't remember.
What the history of this quarry..?did the miners hit a water vein and the whole place fill w water.? Im just curious.! Cheers🍻♻️😁
This was a slate quarry until 1975 when the pumps that kept the bottom from flooding were turned off, and the quarry was abandoned. There should be some history of the quarry on the Internet.
This was a slate quarry until 1975 when the pumps that kept the bottom from flooding were turned off, and the quarry was abandoned. There should be some history of the quarry on the Internet.
Some Beautiful Dive, is the Quarry still in operation??
No comentary? No discription?
Where is this place?
Why it's under water?
How did you prepare for a dive like this?
What where your feelings, reaching the bottom?
What was your equipment?
Not sure if you're still interested as you posted over a year ago. Its in the Nantlle area of North Wales. Its a former slate quarry which like most Welsh slate quarries extracted slate via tunnels which opened up into big chambers, as well as open cast working. Like any big hole it will fill with water which had to be continually pumped out. When the quarry stopped working-probably in the 1960's?- the pumping stopped and quarry simply filled up.
Dorothea quarry, north Wales, UK.
Want more info? Google it please.
It's been a while, can't remember.
Video made for personal record to come back to now and again.
Why does everyone think playing shitty elevator music makes it better it doesn't. Rather hear the regulators and bubbles type shit. Would of been great video had it had audio.
Mike Carr why do people complain about shitty music when then can turn the volume off and not have to listen it?
Tj RhdEg6 Because people think it's their God given right to bitch! Like in USA 1st amendment, Freedom of Speech.
They bitch and moan so they don't have to deal with there own problems!
Tony C you mean like you are now? About the USA? Get a clue you walking contradiction. Lmao
People like to bitch about the US out of jealousy. It's not perfect, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Each to their own.
Is there a guideline or are you laying one once inside the mine i.e. in a fully overhead environment with no natural light penetration? I didn't see any in the videos. If there isn't one that makes me concerned because the main reason for cave diving deaths is due to a missing or lost guideline from what I have read.
Maybe I'm just missing something about the dive site or from the video. Overall, looks like a fun dive
This is not a cave. It's an old quarry, but there are tunnels through the quarry faces.
If there are passages with no natural light coming in and an overhead environment it’s equivalent to a cave and the same procedures need to be followed. I don’t know how long those passages are. If they’re short, could be ok but it’s clearly visible that there’s a lot of silt and therefore no vis situation in an overhead environment is a real possibility.
is it 104 m length? or depth? and is it a lake or dam or sea?
It's depth, Dorothea quarry, in north Wales, UK
That quarry must have filled up quite fast, to have signs, especially no smoking, in that good of condition deep underwater.
Amazing video. What was buried deep in the mining?
Thanks
Used to see Keith, Graham and Tracy etc a lot at Dorothea 😁
How'd it get so full of water?
4:50 what an amazing looking building, that stonework is great. Too bad it's so far underwater.
The time stoped there....
It has a slight issue with damp, other than that, it's perfect.
@@TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles £750pcm 😜
Awesome video! Once my goals is to do a similar dive. VERY COOL!
It's definitely worth the effort ;)
I’m sure you know you thing perfectly but just be carefull guys! You’re content is bloody amazing!
Thank you :)
Where is it that you are diving?
Dorothea quarry, North Wales, UK
5:03 A little bit too much moisture in that sauna don't you think.
Just a bit.
Perfect for my liking ;)
Brilliant video, nice camera angles, I have no idea how you can look so fresh after carrying 5 cylinders up the hill.
Thank you :)
A good night sleep and Full breakfast will keep you going ; )
Ps. there were 6 cylinders, you forgot about dry suit system ; ) :P
Not a single living thing. Is the water toxic?
This is the coolest fucking vid I’ve seen in a long time thanks for posting
Thank you
Is anybody else wondering why there's an Evo 5/6 at the bottom of a flooded quarry?? Check it @8:14. Nice dive btw, but the car guy in me is just curious.
Thanks .
Neat dive. What’s the dog’s name though?
Joel Meyer....his name is cock
Dog was called Gypsy
I wonder why there are no fish seen in the video.
Hardly any life in there, unfortunately
Great videos, my son dives in this quarry 👍
Thank you.
no fish???
I saw a video discussing all of the diving-related deaths at the quarry but it didn't have any dive footage of the quarry. Seeing this, I kinda understand why lots of divers go to the quarry.
Brilliant video.
Thanks
Amazing video 👍👍 .
Thanks :)
How hard is it to breathe through the regulator under all that pressure.
It's hard if you push it below 50m on air ;)
350+ ft?! You are an absolute mad man with balls of titanium!
Beautifully shot : )
Thank you :)
I'm surprised you didn't find some cement boots.
Trust me , had the same feeling :)
I love diving dotty. Never been that deep though!!!!
I agree, great dive site.
This is a Smoke Free Building...
I know , right ?
No fish?
What was the gas mix?
Mordalo Tx 11/62
Good question ;)
6:05 looks like The sea of ice by Caspar David Friedrich
:)
Why is there so many cars instead of typical quarry machinery
Dumped in over the years, unfortunately
Very entertaining dive, well done, a great team there, good entertainment thank you for the great upload. regards from Paladon.
Thank you :)
For those Of Us Who Dont Understand the deeper perils of diving, How mainly Did 21 Divers die There? Thank You
I don't know all of them and details. But from a story of a witness diver I've spoken with "one of the bouys implode and the weight of a drop line took the diver all the way to the bottom " . Ever since I heard that kept away and not grab hold of it.
@@50mplusdivers67 Thanx 4 The Info
What was the temp of the water at them depths ? and the flooded forest surely al the trees should be dead and rotten being in submerged in water for that long, great video quality though
thank you :)
yes. trees are well preserved .
temp at the bottom was 6*C.
+The Wolf Pack Gaming water I think feels water feels a lot colder so idk😿
Awesome video. Really made me feel like I was there and. I'm a diver. I wonder what that black/dark stuff is on the floor of the stone shack. Looks like a heavy liquid of some kind.
ThumperDelta Resistance it's the exposed purple slate peeking through the brown dirt/silt. Looks really cool doesn't it!
What time is this?
@5.03
ThumperDelta Resistance I agree. I was commenting on the whiners replies. I love the sounds you hear underwater. Once heard whales when diving the southern coast of Mexico. Too cool!!
Thanks.
Some amazing footage. Are you still diving?
Great video 😊 You wouldn't want to do that dive OC now with the price of helium.... Bad enough 8 years ago!!!
One wrong flick of the fin in those confined areas and you'll be lost and lucky to find your way back.
But that's half the excitement
You have to be calm and carefull ;)
Is diving legal there now as for years it was off limits claiming a few lives I remember
Still legal I think, 'slightly' regulated now ;)