And we are about to "repay" Mr Ballen by reacting to TWO of his videos...we haven't recorded them so I'm not really sure how they'll come out, but we are very excited to record these.
I don't understand why you guys are getting criticized for reacting to these videos.. Listening to your opinion and expertise is the reason the vast majority of us come here. Keep up the great work guys. Much love from the U.K.
@@Great_Lake_Surfer I believe some in the comments get upset when they stop the video to comment .. but for me and I think the vast majority of us, that's why we come here. To here there opinions on what there seeing . In my original comment I don't think I explained that properly. My bad..😀
Some reacters pause videos to dodge copyrights or to take a bite of food.....when you guys pause you spill nothing but pure facts and knowledge....i dont feel you ever need to apologize for pausing! love it
It sounds like you might be receiving a lot of criticism for pausing videos. If it helps, when I click on a video that says, "react" in the title, I am expecting a reaction. If I just wanted to watch the original video then I would go find it elsewhere. I am here for your expertise and commentary, not to simply watch people be miserable for my own entertainment
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other youtubers limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes) .
One of the great things about RUclips is that it hosts an ever-growing community of content creators. These creators, within reason and the bounds of community guidelines, may produce and post the content they are inspired and excited to share with others. Creators do so at their own will. Yes, there is audience input for channels that are dependent on ad and patreon revenue, but for many channels it is a privilege for us to be able to hear and view the perspective and knowledge the creators have to share. As a consumer, is our prerogative to pick and choose what content we consume. We are not beholden to finish a video, we may at any time and for any reason stop watching and switch to something else. If the creator asks for input creative input or critique, then by all means go wild.
I know you mentioned that you make these videos to react / learn and that’s the reason you stop the video and talk often. But I wanted to say I watch your videos to hear you talk / react. So I think you’re doing the BEST job in all your videos. Don’t ever change fellas you’re great
Thanks Dave! We always like to share the link to the original video so people can go watch that one non-stop and without interruptions if they like that approach.
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other youtube reaction videos limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes) .
The whole point of reacting to a video is to pause talk about it. So I think you guys do a great job with your videos. The people that don’t like when you pause the video can just go watch the original. I enjoy hearing your opinions and discussions about the video!
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other reaction videos limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes) .
@@electrictroy2010 Agree, I'm on a binge right now and this dude just talks way too much. Gus keeps it short and to the point, but Woody just goes on and on and he keeps repeating the same stuff. Also, stop bitching about people commenting that you pause too much. Either do something about it or shut up, they do it multiple times in every single video so far and it really annoys me.
@@electrictroy2010 Just watch something else then. An expert predicting and being right is interesting, an expert being wrong and then talking about why they were wrong is interesting
Omg woody you introducing yourself made me smile. You just always seem so positive and happy to be doing this. You and Gus have such a great relationship you are both so likable :)
Not sure why people get upset when y’all pause videos to discuss. That’s what a reaction is lol. Thank you for such incredible content. I just found your channel the other day. Completely hooked.
Last month, I went with a dive master down to 26 m (+- 85 ft) for 10-15 min. in the Caribbean. We were visiting, in the outside, a WWII small 1 canon American ship purposely transformed into an artificial reef less than 20 years ago. I'm a beginner open water diver and I was scared at first, but I'm glad I did it. It was fun!
Great channel. I was around 15, a friends dad took us for a group recreational dive; first dive ever in Acapulco, Mexico. About 45 minutes of briefing before dive: some hand signals. and equipment intro. After a while in the water I ran out of air. It just kept harder and harder to get air in. I could not believe it, maybe I was doing something wrong. I don´t know why I did not panic. The guide was near, I did the signal, finger back and forth across the throat. He dashed like a torpedo, yanked my cylinder off, and put his on me and signalled for me to go up.
Mr. B has me forever hooked on these two amazing dudes!! I was very scared of all the “what if” situations. Y’all have taught us so much, for free!! This is priceless education. Thankyou 💓
Thank you for recognizing this as it’s the purpose of our channel. We know we stop and pause a lot but we stay true to our purpose. It’s a delicate balance and we are trying to improve all the time.
Stay calm and carry on in the extreme. The fact that he still managed to figure out his tables, in that situation and carry out successful ascents and stops... nerves of steel. Hats off to both lads.
Woody, don't apologise for stopping the videos. You always have a lot of useful stuff to say. I have been diving since the late 1970's and i almost always learn something through your and Gus's commentary. I don't do any diving where there's an overhead environment as I'm severely claustrophobic, but I love your cave diving videos.
Please keep stopping and putting in your two cents. The commentary is the best part. Don’t listen to the haters. If it bugs them that much they can fast forward the video or the speed.
My brother narced out at 120 feet in the Red Sea back in 1978. We were with a British military diver. He was so calm, got my brother to the surface eventually and made it all look easy.. Cool as a cucumber 🙏🏽
2:43 I might be misunderstanding you here, but WW1 ended in 1918, so the commander was probably worried about the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles going south and another global conflict happening in the aftermath. Instead the treaty was signed just a week after the fleet had been scuttled.
Dive Talk saves the day! I had one of the shittiest days since couple years now today, i came back home pissed, lit up a cigarette while throwing things around, worrying about dept, health insurance, expensive medication, expensive doctor, job contract, education.. i felt so freaking suffocated i found no where to breathe and the world seemed grey, so i found myself thinking: i wish Dive Talk uploaded a video today... and to my surprise... you did! THANK YOU, you made my day, now i'm happy thinking about diving in the future, smoking my pipe instead of cigs and having a brew.. To business: 1) Gus & Woody you should definitely start a Patreon or any kind of financial support page, Hey i'm a broke ass student in a foreign country eating instant ramen most of the time, but hey! i would be more then happy to pay you guys 10 euros a month as a patreon or a donation because i damn think it's worth it, you're my primary source of entertainment ( joy ) & dive education and if it means participating with a 10 euro a month would mean that you might take this full time and be able to do more contents, higher quality .. then hell yeah! it is so worth it for me as for so many other people, this channel easily acquires loyal fans due to Woody being the most likable human on earth who happens to be insanely knowledgeable, and Gus is the Internet crowd expert that would sail this ship smoothly through the rough waters of internet humans & Gus is lovable and he knows when to listen. 2) i was checking out other 1 million subs RUclips channels the other day and wondering about: what's the difference between the 1m youtube channels and dive talk.. nothing but higher quality videos with better gear, Flashy well made intros, Insanely legendary editing, and most of all Creative freedom and that's why I'm suggesting Patreon or fan based $$$ support. #WoodyTrooper #Woody4life
i love the style of these videos. it's so authentic. when people are overwhelmed by a large following the quality seems to change as the id more pressure probably to maintain the following. i dunno- i'm happy with the channel the way it is.
Back in those days (and to some extent, today) the NEDU-Navy Experimental Dive Unit (Navy divers), were the group who made the Dive tables that every civilian diver used. The problem was, Navy divers were in great shape, both mentally and physically. Yet, many civilian divers were not...that led to a few problems back then!
Exactly...I was talking to Edd Sorenson yesterday about this, I loved his take on this he was like "All these numbers are based on the 'Average Person', well Gus, have you ever met an 'Average Person'? What is that? Height? Weight? Smoker? Non-Smoker? People vary tremendously from one to the next, so when I hear something that says it has been created based on an 'Average Person' I always have to try for myself and see how it applies to me" And of course I said "Well Edd, you are not an 'Average Person', this stuff is for normal people like me, not cave diving savants like you" :D
@@DIVETALK That is 100% truth right there! Edd is for sure, nowhere near average in the water! Haha!! It's always better to be on the more conservative side of diving, because of this! I have said the same thing, "What or who is AVERAGE"? I wasn't average in the military and I'm not average now as a civilian (Different kind of shape now, haha)!
My old man was a diver back in thise days, A few guys he knew got bent following the US navy tables, Dad always backed off by a fair bit and when the sport diving tables came out he was bang on
My initial thoughts are : that was a really really heavy door. Almost impossible to move off him underwater and it broke his leg in 6 places. Some of the outside doors on WW2 battleships were as thick as 20" of hardened steel to not be a weakness in the armor.
Standard battleship hull armour was typically 3" thick, the belt armour of the Iowa class was 12.5". Conning tower armour on Iowa was 17", but none of those doors are external.
they were WW1 battleships scuttled at the end of the war while waiting for the treaty of versailles. something that ultimately didnt amount to much as WW2 started ten years later with a new fleet of ships and WW1 didnt continue like they feared.
WW1 ended 1918. WW2 started 1939. That’s not 10 years apart, unless you’re using common core math (not hurting the student’s feeling more important than the correct answer). The gap was basically one generation (20).
Fantastic video - I really love the stops and discussion with Woody and Gus. Back in the day safety protocols were almost non existent, and full respect to both divers. They stayed calm and even were able to use the dive tables without panicking and forgetting how to use them. Today with dive computers, surface support and better technology it's so much easier.
I like the pausing and the comments it makes for a longer video and I see nothing bad about that, scuba diving is beyond technical and needs solid thorough explanations. I appreciate the knowledge you guys are sharing with us for free so many thanks to you Sir's
I just want to say thanks for all these videos. I have no diving experience nor do I plan to dive. I'm not sure what brings me to your channel or how I stumbled upon it, but I love these videos! Keep up the great work! Cheers from Indiana!
Mr. Ballen brought me here. From his cave stories I was like “I will never go cave diving!” And from your videos, I will still probably never cave dive, but I appreciate your love for it. :) I like hearing about safety issues that lead to a lot of accidents that could’ve been prevented. Don’t flip a fin into a cave you less you have the certification.
I remember when I first came across your channel I was slightly annoyed by the long pauses but as I listened more and more I started looking forward to the pauses and your reactions. Chances are, the people complaining just haven't had the pleasure of watching a lot of them.....yet.
Those doors are INCREDIBLY heavy and since he was close to the sea floor and it fell on top of him it makes sense it trapped him before he could get out of the way. And when I say Heavy, I mean we are talking steel dense enough to qua lied as ARMOR which could take directs from munitions up to a certain (Fairly large) size.
The door was likely hundreds of pounds in weight or more and having that come barreling down ontop of you in the water, it effectively would pin you in place as you both fall together with this guy under its position. There would be too much force ontop of you with hundreds of pounds of this door along with the weight of the water to your back and at the speed of this massively heavy door come barreling down theough the water, you’d have no hope of coming out from underneath it while moving, sadly, until you hit the bottom. If your top speed with swimming while geared up in the water is likely a few miles per hour at best, so if you get pinned under a heavy object that falls faster than you can swim through (heavy) water, you’re gonna be stuck between the object and the water itself that your being pushed through.
Keep finding Clips of trapped people!! These will blow up guaranteed. Love your content when both of you Are watching together. Stay at the grind and yall will make a living of this💪
Insane what adrenaline can do for you, he literally could not lift the door again with surface air, while diving lower% of air hard to exert insane force... insane insane miraculous heroism. Side note: I definitely have been binge watching and I am trying to comment and thumbs up every videy I watch! This channel should be in the millions of subs.
enjoying this channels content so much you guys. You really sparked an interest in me for cave diving and diving in general (although cave diving is especially interesting to me) So thank you for being so honest, passionate and informative about everything. One thing I want to get across is the meta- talk about "reacting". I can tell you probably had some comments on your videos telling you how often and for how long to pause videos and talk. I appreciate that you want to consider this but in all honesty the authenticity you guys radiate is most of the time what makes this talk great to me. So I really think being evenly authentic in the way you comment on things (when, how often, what) should only be a matter between you two guys and not the random comments complaining about it. Anyways you will get your flow synced - just trying to embrace your own judgement on it. I think it would greatly benefit your confidence in this topic and also make the times where you acknowledge this meta occur less often ( those often take away my feeling of having a nice watch-along with you guys, and remind me of sitting here alone watching a video anonymously ) Again thank you for making these videos. I'm gonna watch many of the upcoming ones in the future and can't wait to see this channel continue thriving. Cheers :)
Oh wow, I appreciate the comment and encouragement. We deeply care about our subscribers, we want to share what we've learned over the years and keep people entertained, of course we do get comments about how to organize artifacts on the screen for better viewing and those complaints about the fact that we talk too much so we care about the feedback, we rarely see positive comments telling us to continue to do what we are doing so this comment (and several others like this one) are really great to see and very encouraging. Thank you.
Same, but it's the irrational fear of sharks for me. I've had a hard time swimming despite loving it and knowing just how low the risk of a shark attack is.
I watched this right after the video about the lost navy diver and it really hit me how much panic can be deadly. I would hope any dive buddy I had would be like these gentlemen.
I have no idea how I came across your channel but I'm glad I did. I can't even swim, but these videos are so fascinating and educational. 😁 Staying on land for now..lol
@SonOfGalactus Same here. I need their commentary to understand what's happening. I'm not a diver, and I recently found DiveTalk, so I'm actually learning about depth, hypoxia, compression sickness, the equipment, and more. Never knew any of this prior to tuning in.
Hi Gus and Woody, nice to see my local dive spot mentioned on one of your videos. They are amazing wrecks on a good viz day. If you can suffer the cold it would be a nice trip. Also would be cool to see you guys here!
Thank you...we were supposed to go diving on the wrecks on the Great Lakes in August but I won't be able to make it, I believe Woody is still going though. I really wanted to experience the drastic change in temperature, I believe it is expected that we will start on the boat on the 90s and be on the 30s by the time we get down to the wreck! Crazy.
Divers really stand on the shoulders of giants... all the knowledge we have now and all the stuff they go over in trainings is because we've learned lessons from people that either died or fought through really difficult situations.
I first found your channel a few days ago as part of an internet rabbit hole I was going down about diving accidents. Found your video about Yuri Lipski and promptly binged another 20 videos and subscribed. I know nothing about diving, but I'm now a fan. I look forward to the videos to come :)
I don’t know what was the situation in the US, but back here in Europe DSMBs weren’t a thing until the beginning of the 2000s. Even when I got my OWD in 2005, the PADI instruction book didn’t make any mention of DSMBs. Anyway, I’m happy it all ended well for those 2 divers. Scapa Flow is on my diving bucket list. Most wrecks have been salvaged, following the scuttling of the imperial German fleet in 1919 after WWI, and nowadays less than 10 warships are left. Time is ticking and if I want to see them I’d better go in the next 3 years, as those ships are treasured for their nuclear bombings uncontaminated steel...
A couple things come to mind when I watch this. One is we used to carry lift bags when we dove which at that time would be used as SMB's if required. Potentially a lift bag could have been deployed to help lift the door. The other thing is on charters out of my local dive shop they always hung a drop tank at 15-20' on the down line with a couple second stages on it. They always emphasized don't be shy to use it if you need to extend your safety stop and you are low on air.
Another amazing reaction. And shockingly, Scapa Flow is one of my bucket list dives, something that is a goal for when I get Tech certified and this has not changed my mind. It reinforces safety first and staying calm. If you guys haven't read it, Under Pressure by Gareth Lock over at The Human Diver is an amazing book about how to think about dive safety differently
It seems like a diver may face the hardest descions ever that have to be made so quickly. What a mental mess that could be. I have so much more respect for diving since learning more about it
Hey guys! keep going with these videos they r so educational and I love em. I respect so much the work u do concerning people with the dangers of the complex dives but also letting them know that with proper training its possible as well. Greetings from the Canary Island from a marine biologist in his formation pathway
Really like your channel guys, I am also here from the Mr Ballen stories about cave divers and scuba divers, made me amazed by all the technical issues that can go wrong down there, and I just signed up for open water lessons (to begin with), your videos are very educational, love the banter too!
And also from Mr. B. Love your work. And as a respiratory therapist, I appreciate the ppo2 and, so many other equations and laws that I had to learn. I will likely never dive, but I do love your work Gus and Woody. Thank you for the education and entertainment. Fan for life :)
I found your channel Gus and Woody, because I was watching a video about the Sewol Ferry disaster in South Korea. Dive Talk popped up on my reccomended. I love cave diving videos anyways but I found a home here with you guys! I love this channel so much. I love to learn, even though Im not a diver and likely wont be, i live to swim more than anything else and you guys are just amazing!!!
As a british technical diver who has been to Scapa and dived the Kahlsruhe I have some thoughts to add a bit more general context. The Karlsruhe is a light cruiser from WW1 (not a destroyer). The control tower in question is the forward armoured control tower - ie the door itself was an armoured door so VERY heavy. You can see the control tower in question in this video wreck tour from the author Rod Macdonald: ruclips.net/video/FhYSF1JU3Cg/видео.html In british diving we don't have divemasters or instructors on the boat by default. You are expected to be a competent buddy pair of divers capable of planning and executing your dive independently. The dive boats up there typically have a captain and a deck hand along with a cook who are generally divers themselves, but in the main you are on your own and they only help you on and off the boat (nowadays they all have diver lifts, so ladders aren't used except in case of mechanical failure). Liability wise they are a glorified taxi service with the onus being on personal responsibility. The cruisers are shallower than the battleships so they are often used as checkout dives before the deeper battleships (which are max 45m/147ft). The flow itself is a protected natural harbour so the risk of getting washed off the wreck in the current is minimal but still modern divers all take DSMBs with them just in case they can't make their way back to the permanent shot lines (the cruisers tend to have a single, the battleships have 2 shots, bow and stern as they are so large). Tech divers over here generally do things the opposite way to US divers. We generally carry 2 reds and 1 yellow, the red means all's good, the yellow means something's wrong. The temperature of the sea there isn't actually too bad. 8-14c is typical depending on time of year, so definitely not freezing, but drysuit territory like most UK diving. The wrecks in Scapa are not particularly challenging. There is limited opportunity for penetration and they aren't tidal. They also tend to have reasonably good vis. Any diver with nitrox, 40m experience and familiarity with drysuits should be good to dive them, but a bit of early deco training would let you get the most out of the deeper wrecks. Final thought on rapid ascents...you can potentially cure bent, you can't cure dead.
Love the channel guys! Wanted to provide some feedback. I actually love the frequent stops you guys make to explain things. It's the whole point I watch you! I would not enjoy you guys sitting silently through the whole video only to comment at the end. Keep doing what your doing becuase it's working! Just wanted to provide some counter feedback to some of the criticisms you seem to be getting. Don't change keep it the way it is!
I’m not a diver and have always been a little scared to but you guys are such a joy to watch (MrBallen brought me here!) and y’all have made me extremely interested in learning!
Have you ever dove around Canada? I’d love to see you guys do some diving around BC. They also have amazing open water diving between the rich channels between Vancouver and Vancouver island. I’m sure there are many many mountain caves once you are on the mainland as well
Looks like the show '999!!' It gave many a child nightmares in the 1990s, but we loved it!! By the way, there was an episode about a group of children on a trip, which involved the kids ducking under water inside a cave. One child ducked too far down, and ended up inside an underwater cave that no one knew was there. The child survived in an air-pocket until they were eventually rescued. You might find it interesting.
12:30 The question you guys are talking about. I think I would maintain my deco because if you can't go back down you are probably going to lose a lot/all of the time you saved by not being able to lead the rescue divers to the injured diver. But I kinda agree I'd blow a short deco for this. This is why you don't touch stuff in or on wrecks. 😰😰 These guys handled it well. 👏 Though I don't see how it's a "chance in a million" an ancient bulkhead door on a hastily scuttled wreck has rusted through its hinges....
You are way louder then woody. So i recommend to use your cool mixer in the background to equal your audio levels. You have a cool channel and it adds quality to it when ppl can hear you both at good level. ;)
Hi Gus and Woody. Greetings from Australia. I'm also here from Mr Ballen. I'm now binge watching all your videos. I'm not a diver but they are fascinating
Here you guys go again being all reactive in a reactionary video! How rude! All jokes aside, people really do that?! That's a damn shame. I think I speak for the vast majority when I say we love the way you guys present these videos. They're both entertaining and insightful and best of all, they include Gus & Woody. And frankly, that's all that matters. Keep up the great work, fellas!
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other youtubers limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes) .
I love your content, I love to hear what you have to say about this stuff. I always walk away feeling like I have learned something new. If nothing else, get educated and do something fearless (with special emphasis on getting educated 😉)!
A commenter said “priceless education” and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve learned so much- even though I don’t dive this all feels like useful information. 🖤🖤🖤
Just to say these guys were from a university dive club. Often times students are very new to diving, many people first learn to dive at these uni clubs in the UK. NB heartbroken you guys aren't coming to see us in the frozen north!😂
Thanks for your amazing content! I have no diving experience at all, but your channel is fascinating. One question: from some videos / articles, I got the impression that one of the primary rules of diving - be it nature or wrecks - was "no touching". According to what I've learned, touching could damage reefs, damage historic sites or even detonate unexploded ordinates. Is that actually a serious thing to adhere to or more something backseat divers like me "learn" from one another? Because it seems like the incident in this video might not have occurred if they hadn't messed with the door. Oh, and one point of feedback: I've watched a few videos of yours now and the audio volume is often unbalanced. In case you haven't fixed this in more recent videos, that would be something to improve your content even further. Regardless, I'm having a great time and subscribed immediately. Keep up the good work! :)
I'm also kind of a fan of Josh Gates in his "Expedition Unknown" and "Expedition X" series. In a couple of episodes he find unexploded ordinance left over from WWII, and the diver he's with (full face masks for TV) has an absolute FIT "Don't mess with that! It's a friggin' BOMB!" SO yes. Unexploded ordinance certainly SEEMS to be a thing. They even claimed to call authorities and report one in the English channel, if memory serves... He gets into (on purpose?) some pretty weird and "hairy" situations on that show. You might find it fun. ;o)
First and foremost I appreciate both Woody and Gus on providing safe principles on how to dive correctly. I’ve only snorkeled, though I think it’d be awesome to dive with both of you who understand everything, at one point. Thank you for a channel that provides safe diving tips for those who do go under the water. Im curious, have either of you ever dived at all at Eagles Nest? I’d love to go explore the ballroom of eagles nest at one point in my life, I don’t care to go beyond the 130ft mark into the deeper area but I think just looking around the ballroom, the feeling of being in space, would be sick. I’m proud of you two and wish for the best whether in a cave or on land. Thankyou for spreading good practices to the public! I appreciate both of you for what you are doing, keep on going!
Thank you Thomas. Yes, we both have been to Eagles Nest although not all the way to the end, we’ve only been to around 205 ft. I do understand the lure to go check it out but I would ask you to please don’t go unless you are cave trained. I understand that technically if you don’t go inside the cave you don’t really need cave training but Eagles Nest is another level, you can die without ever leaving the ballroom. The ballroom is humongous, you can definitely get lost and drown, please don’t go there. I love that this is a goal of yours, it was my goal too, and I only went there after I had all the training and expertise needed to do it safely.
Ok at the 22:37 mark, one of the guys said "where the hell have you been? You're 23 minutes late!" I'm just assuming they all should have arrived at roughly the same time, but as a non-diver I could be wrong. I understand deco times are different. But would everyone really just sit on the boat for 23 minutes not thinking there could be an emergency situation down below? Maybe send a diver down to check? This part really bothered me
Just because of the wording, I imagine Gus having Woody gear up, selling him to someone, shipping him off, arriving in a box at someone’s office, cutting into the box, and out pops Woody! Then, he stands on the corner of the desk as still as a statue in his best diver action figure pose lol.
I’ve seen yall mention on several occasions that you don’t like doing cold water dives, I’d love to see a video talking about your coldest dives and just cold water diving in general. Forgive me if this video is already out, I couldn’t find it. Thank you both!
Woohoo .. caught one fresh out of the gate! EDIT my takeaway, wreck diving is a no joke proposition. Better have your act together, bring your 'A' game, and have at least one way to alert the surface of problems. Of course we all know that, one is none and two is one. So yeah, be damn careful!
@@DIVETALK I live on the east coast and I used to swim in the ocean but I find it to be a scary world under the surface but I do enjoy your videos and have actually watched some cave diving videos and I do see the attraction, although I do live in the mountains now and have seen some cave entrances within walking distance of my house and after watching other videos I'm thinking there might be a lot more to it then the small opening I'm seeing.
you should get into swimming!! idk where you live but if you can...its very fun and great exercise.. i just got into snorkeling / free diving and its sooooo much fun
I love your presentations! Great education and entertainment. I wouldn't change anything about your engagement with the stories, each other, and viewers.
Late to the party, but don't worry about stopping the vid--the explanations & thought processes & AARs are great! Also, Gus' reference about Cerrone @ 18:08 😂😂😂
Forever grateful to Mr Ballen since he started me on my diveing binge to which lead me to this phenomenal channel.
And we are about to "repay" Mr Ballen by reacting to TWO of his videos...we haven't recorded them so I'm not really sure how they'll come out, but we are very excited to record these.
Same! Stoked to see y'all cover his material!
@@DIVETALK Ha! That sounds great, tbh Mr Ballen brought me here too I would love one of those videos 🤣🤣
I found these guys because of Mr. BALLEN TOOO... GREAT CONTENT... THANK YOU AGAIN
Same love both channels
I don't understand why you guys are getting
criticized for reacting to these videos.. Listening to your opinion and expertise is the reason the vast majority of us come here. Keep up the great work guys. Much love from the U.K.
Thanks for that
They're getting criticized? I don't see why, their videos are not only entertaining, but very informative as well
@@Great_Lake_Surfer I believe some in the comments get upset when they stop the video to comment .. but for me and I think the vast majority of us, that's why we come here. To here there opinions on what there seeing . In my original comment I don't think I explained that properly. My bad..😀
@@thedarktowercometh9989 You explained just fine and I agree with you, the comments are pure gold and I get much more out of the videos as a result.
@@angelachouinard4581 thanks Angela.. and I agree 100%.😀
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Some reacters pause videos to dodge copyrights or to take a bite of food.....when you guys pause you spill nothing but pure facts and knowledge....i dont feel you ever need to apologize for pausing! love it
It sounds like you might be receiving a lot of criticism for pausing videos. If it helps, when I click on a video that says, "react" in the title, I am expecting a reaction. If I just wanted to watch the original video then I would go find it elsewhere. I am here for your expertise and commentary, not to simply watch people be miserable for my own entertainment
Thank you!
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other youtubers limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes)
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@@electrictroy2010it’s called a react. That’s the point. Don’t like it just watch the source video, or just skip ahead when he pauses.
I know you mentioned that you make these videos to react / learn and that’s the reason you stop the video and talk often.
But I wanted to say I watch your videos to hear you talk / react. So I think you’re doing the BEST job in all your videos. Don’t ever change fellas you’re great
Thanks Dave! We always like to share the link to the original video so people can go watch that one non-stop and without interruptions if they like that approach.
@@DIVETALK all bases covered then! Great stuff guys. Looking forward to the next one :)
Lmao
Agree!! It is A REACTION video after all. I very well enjoy the content. Also new subscriber here.
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other youtube reaction videos limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes)
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The whole point of reacting to a video is to pause talk about it. So I think you guys do a great job with your videos. The people that don’t like when you pause the video can just go watch the original. I enjoy hearing your opinions and discussions about the video!
I love it when they stop to comment too!
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other reaction videos limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes)
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@@electrictroy2010 Agree, I'm on a binge right now and this dude just talks way too much. Gus keeps it short and to the point, but Woody just goes on and on and he keeps repeating the same stuff.
Also, stop bitching about people commenting that you pause too much. Either do something about it or shut up, they do it multiple times in every single video so far and it really annoys me.
@@electrictroy2010 Just watch something else then. An expert predicting and being right is interesting, an expert being wrong and then talking about why they were wrong is interesting
@@electrictroy2010bro then go watch the original
That guys' buddy tapped into full "mother lifting car off child" power. Amazing story.
Yes!
Omg woody you introducing yourself made me smile. You just always seem so positive and happy to be doing this. You and Gus have such a great relationship you are both so likable :)
You're the best!
Not sure why people get upset when y’all pause videos to discuss. That’s what a reaction is lol. Thank you for such incredible content. I just found your channel the other day. Completely hooked.
This is why I avoid underwater German battleship graveyards...
lol that was very funny! Laughing !!!
Woody
This is why I avoid graveyards. Period ;-)
I avoid German battleships, or any vessel resembling battleships
Last month, I went with a dive master down to 26 m (+- 85 ft) for 10-15 min. in the Caribbean. We were visiting, in the outside, a WWII small 1 canon American ship purposely transformed into an artificial reef less than 20 years ago. I'm a beginner open water diver and I was scared at first, but I'm glad I did it. It was fun!
Great channel. I was around 15, a friends dad took us for a group recreational dive; first dive ever in Acapulco, Mexico. About 45 minutes of briefing before dive: some hand signals. and equipment intro. After a while in the water I ran out of air. It just kept harder and harder to get air in. I could not believe it, maybe I was doing something wrong. I don´t know why I did not panic. The guide was near, I did the signal, finger back and forth across the throat. He dashed like a torpedo, yanked my cylinder off, and put his on me and signalled for me to go up.
why did divetalk not like this? glad you made it out!
Probably because 45 minutes of training is insufficient. But glad he did not panic. Saved himself with composure.
Mr. B has me forever hooked on these two amazing dudes!! I was very scared of all the “what if” situations. Y’all have taught us so much, for free!! This is priceless education. Thankyou 💓
Thank you for recognizing this as it’s the purpose of our channel. We know we stop and pause a lot but we stay true to our purpose. It’s a delicate balance and we are trying to improve all the time.
Stay calm and carry on in the extreme. The fact that he still managed to figure out his tables, in that situation and carry out successful ascents and stops... nerves of steel. Hats off to both lads.
Woody, don't apologise for stopping the videos. You always have a lot of useful stuff to say. I have been diving since the late 1970's and i almost always learn something through your and Gus's commentary. I don't do any diving where there's an overhead environment as I'm severely claustrophobic, but I love your cave diving videos.
Please keep stopping and putting in your two cents. The commentary is the best part. Don’t listen to the haters. If it bugs them that much they can fast forward the video or the speed.
They're British, of course they stayed calm! Great, fascinating video, thanks guys👍
My brother narced out at 120 feet in the Red Sea back in 1978. We were with a British military diver. He was so calm, got my brother to the surface eventually and made it all look easy.. Cool as a cucumber 🙏🏽
BY FAR THE BEST SCUBA DIVING CHANNEL ON RUclips
Big props to Adrian and Chris for staying calm and making it out alive.
2:43 I might be misunderstanding you here, but WW1 ended in 1918, so the commander was probably worried about the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles going south and another global conflict happening in the aftermath. Instead the treaty was signed just a week after the fleet had been scuttled.
Dive Talk saves the day! I had one of the shittiest days since couple years now today, i came back home pissed, lit up a cigarette while throwing things around, worrying about dept, health insurance, expensive medication, expensive doctor, job contract, education.. i felt so freaking suffocated i found no where to breathe and the world seemed grey, so i found myself thinking: i wish Dive Talk uploaded a video today... and to my surprise... you did! THANK YOU, you made my day, now i'm happy thinking about diving in the future, smoking my pipe instead of cigs and having a brew..
To business:
1) Gus & Woody you should definitely start a Patreon or any kind of financial support page, Hey i'm a broke ass student in a foreign country eating instant ramen most of the time, but hey! i would be more then happy to pay you guys 10 euros a month as a patreon or a donation because i damn think it's worth it, you're my primary source of entertainment ( joy ) & dive education and if it means participating with a 10 euro a month would mean that you might take this full time and be able to do more contents, higher quality .. then hell yeah! it is so worth it for me as for so many other people, this channel easily acquires loyal fans due to Woody being the most likable human on earth who happens to be insanely knowledgeable, and Gus is the Internet crowd expert that would sail this ship smoothly through the rough waters of internet humans & Gus is lovable and he knows when to listen.
2) i was checking out other 1 million subs RUclips channels the other day and wondering about: what's the difference between the 1m youtube channels and dive talk.. nothing but higher quality videos with better gear, Flashy well made intros, Insanely legendary editing, and most of all Creative freedom and that's why I'm suggesting Patreon or fan based $$$ support.
#WoodyTrooper #Woody4life
i love the style of these videos. it's so authentic. when people are overwhelmed by a large following the quality seems to change as the id more pressure probably to maintain the following. i dunno- i'm happy with the channel the way it is.
The reason I like their reactions is because they take the time to break it down don’t apologize for the pausing!
Back in those days (and to some extent, today) the NEDU-Navy Experimental Dive Unit (Navy divers), were the group who made the Dive tables that every civilian diver used. The problem was, Navy divers were in great shape, both mentally and physically. Yet, many civilian divers were not...that led to a few problems back then!
Exactly...I was talking to Edd Sorenson yesterday about this, I loved his take on this he was like "All these numbers are based on the 'Average Person', well Gus, have you ever met an 'Average Person'? What is that? Height? Weight? Smoker? Non-Smoker? People vary tremendously from one to the next, so when I hear something that says it has been created based on an 'Average Person' I always have to try for myself and see how it applies to me"
And of course I said "Well Edd, you are not an 'Average Person', this stuff is for normal people like me, not cave diving savants like you" :D
@@DIVETALK That is 100% truth right there! Edd is for sure, nowhere near average in the water! Haha!! It's always better to be on the more conservative side of diving, because of this! I have said the same thing, "What or who is AVERAGE"? I wasn't average in the military and I'm not average now as a civilian (Different kind of shape now, haha)!
My old man was a diver back in thise days, A few guys he knew got bent following the US navy tables, Dad always backed off by a fair bit and when the sport diving tables came out he was bang on
The CDC has measured the American population to determine the average weight, height, etc
My initial thoughts are : that was a really really heavy door. Almost impossible to move off him underwater and it broke his leg in 6 places. Some of the outside doors on WW2 battleships were as thick as 20" of hardened steel to not be a weakness in the armor.
Standard battleship hull armour was typically 3" thick, the belt armour of the Iowa class was 12.5".
Conning tower armour on Iowa was 17", but none of those doors are external.
they were WW1 battleships scuttled at the end of the war while waiting for the treaty of versailles.
something that ultimately didnt amount to much as WW2 started ten years later with a new fleet of ships and WW1 didnt continue like they feared.
@@azrasashima3733 how much do you think the door weighed?
WW1 ended 1918. WW2 started 1939. That’s not 10 years apart, unless you’re using common core math (not hurting the student’s feeling more important than the correct answer). The gap was basically one generation (20).
@@electrictroy2010 I think the US started scuttling ww1 battleships after the London Naval Treaty in 1930
Fantastic video - I really love the stops and discussion with Woody and Gus. Back in the day safety protocols were almost non existent, and full respect to both divers. They stayed calm and even were able to use the dive tables without panicking and forgetting how to use them. Today with dive computers, surface support and better technology it's so much easier.
I like the pausing and the comments it makes for a longer video and I see nothing bad about that, scuba diving is beyond technical and needs solid thorough explanations. I appreciate the knowledge you guys are sharing with us for free so many thanks to you Sir's
I just want to say thanks for all these videos. I have no diving experience nor do I plan to dive. I'm not sure what brings me to your channel or how I stumbled upon it, but I love these videos! Keep up the great work! Cheers from Indiana!
Thanks Gage!
Mr. Ballen brought me here. From his cave stories I was like “I will never go cave diving!” And from your videos, I will still probably never cave dive, but I appreciate your love for it. :) I like hearing about safety issues that lead to a lot of accidents that could’ve been prevented. Don’t flip a fin into a cave you less you have the certification.
Just stumbled across cave diving and subscribed to your channel the other day this is a great channel
I remember when I first came across your channel I was slightly annoyed by the long pauses but as I listened more and more I started looking forward to the pauses and your reactions. Chances are, the people complaining just haven't had the pleasure of watching a lot of them.....yet.
Those doors are INCREDIBLY heavy and since he was close to the sea floor and it fell on top of him it makes sense it trapped him before he could get out of the way. And when I say Heavy, I mean we are talking steel dense enough to qua lied as ARMOR which could take directs from munitions up to a certain (Fairly large) size.
I'm thinking 850-1200 lbs. Just a guess. Could be wrong though.
The door was likely hundreds of pounds in weight or more and having that come barreling down ontop of you in the water, it effectively would pin you in place as you both fall together with this guy under its position. There would be too much force ontop of you with hundreds of pounds of this door along with the weight of the water to your back and at the speed of this massively heavy door come barreling down theough the water, you’d have no hope of coming out from underneath it while moving, sadly, until you hit the bottom.
If your top speed with swimming while geared up in the water is likely a few miles per hour at best, so if you get pinned under a heavy object that falls faster than you can swim through (heavy) water, you’re gonna be stuck between the object and the water itself that your being pushed through.
Keep finding Clips of trapped people!!
These will blow up guaranteed.
Love your content when both of you Are watching together. Stay at the grind and yall will make a living of this💪
Appreciate it!
Hard decisions at Sleets Gill. Diving out 2 trapped dry cavers stuck on the far side of a sump.
🤣Hope there aren't enough "trapped people" to *be able* to make a living out of it😳😜
@@annabizaro-doo-dah yeah I’m like huh?.
If Mr Ballen is any indication, yes you can make a RUclips income talking about people who did dumb stuff & drowned (or almost drowned)
Woody, I always want to hear your reactions. Feel free to pause! That's what I come here for!
The message I got is, do not touch any parts of a wreck, especially if they are very old anything can come off and kill you
Insane what adrenaline can do for you, he literally could not lift the door again with surface air, while diving lower% of air hard to exert insane force... insane insane miraculous heroism.
Side note: I definitely have been binge watching and I am trying to comment and thumbs up every videy I watch! This channel should be in the millions of subs.
We appreciate that! Thank you.
enjoying this channels content so much you guys. You really sparked an interest in me for cave diving and diving in general (although cave diving is especially interesting to me)
So thank you for being so honest, passionate and informative about everything. One thing I want to get across is the meta- talk about "reacting". I can tell you probably had some comments on your videos telling you how often and for how long to pause videos and talk. I appreciate that you want to consider this but in all honesty the authenticity you guys radiate is most of the time what makes this talk great to me. So I really think being evenly authentic in the way you comment on things (when, how often, what) should only be a matter between you two guys and not the random comments complaining about it. Anyways you will get your flow synced - just trying to embrace your own judgement on it. I think it would greatly benefit your confidence in this topic and also make the times where you acknowledge this meta occur less often ( those often take away my feeling of having a nice watch-along with you guys, and remind me of sitting here alone watching a video anonymously ) Again thank you for making these videos. I'm gonna watch many of the upcoming ones in the future and can't wait to see this channel continue thriving. Cheers :)
Oh wow, I appreciate the comment and encouragement. We deeply care about our subscribers, we want to share what we've learned over the years and keep people entertained, of course we do get comments about how to organize artifacts on the screen for better viewing and those complaints about the fact that we talk too much so we care about the feedback, we rarely see positive comments telling us to continue to do what we are doing so this comment (and several others like this one) are really great to see and very encouraging. Thank you.
So many Mr.Ballen fan that watch this channel love it can't wait for a meet up. Good to see to countries getting along.
The more often I watch your Channel, the more I'd like to start with snorkeling for the beginning to overcome my fear of water
Make it happen!
Same, but it's the irrational fear of sharks for me. I've had a hard time swimming despite loving it and knowing just how low the risk of a shark attack is.
I watched this right after the video about the lost navy diver and it really hit me how much panic can be deadly. I would hope any dive buddy I had would be like these gentlemen.
I have no idea how I came across your channel but I'm glad I did. I can't even swim, but these videos are so fascinating and educational. 😁
Staying on land for now..lol
Welcome aboard!
If u can't swim u should leave
I am not a diver, I love your videos! I appreciate all the stops in the video to teach me what's going on! Love your content
right?! this is why i love these guys!!!!
@SonOfGalactus Same here. I need their commentary to understand what's happening. I'm not a diver, and I recently found DiveTalk, so I'm actually learning about depth, hypoxia, compression sickness, the equipment, and more. Never knew any of this prior to tuning in.
I love when they both react at the same time it’s so organic keep up the good work guys your awesome 👊🏻
Don’t ever apologize for stopping the vid for your input! That’s why we are here!
I truly appreciate your support on this. Thanks!
Hi Gus and Woody, nice to see my local dive spot mentioned on one of your videos. They are amazing wrecks on a good viz day. If you can suffer the cold it would be a nice trip. Also would be cool to see you guys here!
Thank you...we were supposed to go diving on the wrecks on the Great Lakes in August but I won't be able to make it, I believe Woody is still going though. I really wanted to experience the drastic change in temperature, I believe it is expected that we will start on the boat on the 90s and be on the 30s by the time we get down to the wreck! Crazy.
@@DIVETALK thats too cold for me
I love learning. The more you comment the more I identify with you and learn. Thank you for being absolutely stellar educators. Even to non divers. 🤭
Divers really stand on the shoulders of giants... all the knowledge we have now and all the stuff they go over in trainings is because we've learned lessons from people that either died or fought through really difficult situations.
I first found your channel a few days ago as part of an internet rabbit hole I was going down about diving accidents. Found your video about Yuri Lipski and promptly binged another 20 videos and subscribed. I know nothing about diving, but I'm now a fan. I look forward to the videos to come :)
Thank you Katherine!
I don’t know what was the situation in the US, but back here in Europe DSMBs weren’t a thing until the beginning of the 2000s. Even when I got my OWD in 2005, the PADI instruction book didn’t make any mention of DSMBs.
Anyway, I’m happy it all ended well for those 2 divers.
Scapa Flow is on my diving bucket list. Most wrecks have been salvaged, following the scuttling of the imperial German fleet in 1919 after WWI, and nowadays less than 10 warships are left. Time is ticking and if I want to see them I’d better go in the next 3 years, as those ships are treasured for their nuclear bombings uncontaminated steel...
A couple things come to mind when I watch this. One is we used to carry lift bags when we dove which at that time would be used as SMB's if required. Potentially a lift bag could have been deployed to help lift the door.
The other thing is on charters out of my local dive shop they always hung a drop tank at 15-20' on the down line with a couple second stages on it. They always emphasized don't be shy to use it if you need to extend your safety stop and you are low on air.
Very smart and safe practice.
In that era surface markers were used on the surface if you were separated from the boat, they were not deployed from underwater.
Can't say it enough, for us non divers the breaks give us context which helps improve our understanding of the video great job.
I’m so happy you recognize and appreciate that. We are trying to find the perfect balance and will continue to improve.
Another amazing reaction. And shockingly, Scapa Flow is one of my bucket list dives, something that is a goal for when I get Tech certified and this has not changed my mind. It reinforces safety first and staying calm. If you guys haven't read it, Under Pressure by Gareth Lock over at The Human Diver is an amazing book about how to think about dive safety differently
You can do it!
It seems like a diver may face the hardest descions ever that have to be made so quickly. What a mental mess that could be. I have so much more respect for diving since learning more about it
Hey guys! keep going with these videos they r so educational and I love em. I respect so much the work u do concerning people with the dangers of the complex dives but also letting them know that with proper training its possible as well. Greetings from the Canary Island from a marine biologist in his formation pathway
Thank you so much!
Reason #38 why I will never scuba dive - Iron Doors! I have 3,765 reasons why I will never cave dive! lol. Love you guys!
Really like your channel guys, I am also here from the Mr Ballen stories about cave divers and scuba divers, made me amazed by all the technical issues that can go wrong down there, and I just signed up for open water lessons (to begin with), your videos are very educational, love the banter too!
Thank you!
And also from Mr. B. Love your work. And as a respiratory therapist, I appreciate the ppo2 and, so many other equations and laws that I had to learn. I will likely never dive, but I do love your work Gus and Woody. Thank you for the education and entertainment. Fan for life :)
@@nicolebraunschneider710 made my day!
I found your channel Gus and Woody, because I was watching a video about the Sewol Ferry disaster in South Korea. Dive Talk popped up on my reccomended. I love cave diving videos anyways but I found a home here with you guys! I love this channel so much. I love to learn, even though Im not a diver and likely wont be, i live to swim more than anything else and you guys are just amazing!!!
As a british technical diver who has been to Scapa and dived the Kahlsruhe I have some thoughts to add a bit more general context. The Karlsruhe is a light cruiser from WW1 (not a destroyer). The control tower in question is the forward armoured control tower - ie the door itself was an armoured door so VERY heavy. You can see the control tower in question in this video wreck tour from the author Rod Macdonald: ruclips.net/video/FhYSF1JU3Cg/видео.html In british diving we don't have divemasters or instructors on the boat by default. You are expected to be a competent buddy pair of divers capable of planning and executing your dive independently. The dive boats up there typically have a captain and a deck hand along with a cook who are generally divers themselves, but in the main you are on your own and they only help you on and off the boat (nowadays they all have diver lifts, so ladders aren't used except in case of mechanical failure). Liability wise they are a glorified taxi service with the onus being on personal responsibility. The cruisers are shallower than the battleships so they are often used as checkout dives before the deeper battleships (which are max 45m/147ft). The flow itself is a protected natural harbour so the risk of getting washed off the wreck in the current is minimal but still modern divers all take DSMBs with them just in case they can't make their way back to the permanent shot lines (the cruisers tend to have a single, the battleships have 2 shots, bow and stern as they are so large). Tech divers over here generally do things the opposite way to US divers. We generally carry 2 reds and 1 yellow, the red means all's good, the yellow means something's wrong. The temperature of the sea there isn't actually too bad. 8-14c is typical depending on time of year, so definitely not freezing, but drysuit territory like most UK diving. The wrecks in Scapa are not particularly challenging. There is limited opportunity for penetration and they aren't tidal. They also tend to have reasonably good vis. Any diver with nitrox, 40m experience and familiarity with drysuits should be good to dive them, but a bit of early deco training would let you get the most out of the deeper wrecks. Final thought on rapid ascents...you can potentially cure bent, you can't cure dead.
Awesome insight Lloyd!
Very interesting thank you.
Love the channel guys! Wanted to provide some feedback. I actually love the frequent stops you guys make to explain things. It's the whole point I watch you! I would not enjoy you guys sitting silently through the whole video only to comment at the end. Keep doing what your doing becuase it's working! Just wanted to provide some counter feedback to some of the criticisms you seem to be getting. Don't change keep it the way it is!
Awesome. Thank you for the great feedback.
Yesssssss an other video!!!! I love you guys. Keep up the excellent work
Thank you! Will do!
I’m not a diver and have always been a little scared to but you guys are such a joy to watch (MrBallen brought me here!) and y’all have made me extremely interested in learning!
Awesome! I hope you pursuit it Jenna!
Love to see this channel is blowing up
Have you ever dove around Canada? I’d love to see you guys do some diving around BC. They also have amazing open water diving between the rich channels between Vancouver and Vancouver island. I’m sure there are many many mountain caves once you are on the mainland as well
We have not. We look forward to it!
I love harrowing yet happy endings.
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999 was a terrific show! I think I remember watching the original showing on BBC 1. Great video guys!
It really is too bad we don't have video of the guy getting almost aten by the whale. I would love to see that discussion between you too LOL
Looks like the show '999!!' It gave many a child nightmares in the 1990s, but we loved it!! By the way, there was an episode about a group of children on a trip, which involved the kids ducking under water inside a cave. One child ducked too far down, and ended up inside an underwater cave that no one knew was there. The child survived in an air-pocket until they were eventually rescued. You might find it interesting.
Whoa I’m loving woodys new setup, the lights r dope af
Thank you...I finally invested some time and money to improve the other side of the desk. :)
Gus
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The question you guys are talking about. I think I would maintain my deco because if you can't go back down you are probably going to lose a lot/all of the time you saved by not being able to lead the rescue divers to the injured diver. But I kinda agree I'd blow a short deco for this.
This is why you don't touch stuff in or on wrecks. 😰😰
These guys handled it well. 👏 Though I don't see how it's a "chance in a million" an ancient bulkhead door on a hastily scuttled wreck has rusted through its hinges....
You are way louder then woody. So i recommend to use your cool mixer in the background to equal your audio levels. You have a cool channel and it adds quality to it when ppl can hear you both at good level. ;)
I kinda think its their mic's Gus may be useing a better quality mic than Woody is.
Hi Gus and Woody. Greetings from Australia. I'm also here from Mr Ballen. I'm now binge watching all your videos. I'm not a diver but they are fascinating
Thank you! We love Australia and would love to dive this cave some day!
Here you guys go again being all reactive in a reactionary video! How rude!
All jokes aside, people really do that?! That's a damn shame. I think I speak for the vast majority when I say we love the way you guys present these videos. They're both entertaining and insightful and best of all, they include Gus & Woody. And frankly, that's all that matters. Keep up the great work, fellas!
On the next one I’m gonna react a ton. Screw it. I gotta be myself and get it out, lol.
THE BALD GUY PAUSES TOO MUCH. If he just waited, the video would answer his question. 10 minute videos end-up being 30 minutes. (Other youtubers limit their pausing, so the total time is only 15 minutes)
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Never had a tank on my back but much love for Woody and Gus .You Men make Me proud.
I love your content, I love to hear what you have to say about this stuff. I always walk away feeling like I have learned something new. If nothing else, get educated and do something fearless (with special emphasis on getting educated 😉)!
We appreciate that!
A commenter said “priceless education” and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve learned so much- even though I don’t dive this all feels like useful information. 🖤🖤🖤
Let's go another vid, keep it up guys!
It wasn’t a broken leg, it was shattered. Another great piece of video commentary from you guys.
Stay calm and watch Dive talk 👌
Glad you enjoyed it
Hey guys just wanted to let y’all know I love the vids. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for letting us know! We appreciate the support.
Just to say these guys were from a university dive club. Often times students are very new to diving, many people first learn to dive at these uni clubs in the UK. NB heartbroken you guys aren't coming to see us in the frozen north!😂
Thanks for your amazing content! I have no diving experience at all, but your channel is fascinating.
One question: from some videos / articles, I got the impression that one of the primary rules of diving - be it nature or wrecks - was "no touching". According to what I've learned, touching could damage reefs, damage historic sites or even detonate unexploded ordinates. Is that actually a serious thing to adhere to or more something backseat divers like me "learn" from one another? Because it seems like the incident in this video might not have occurred if they hadn't messed with the door.
Oh, and one point of feedback: I've watched a few videos of yours now and the audio volume is often unbalanced. In case you haven't fixed this in more recent videos, that would be something to improve your content even further.
Regardless, I'm having a great time and subscribed immediately. Keep up the good work! :)
Thanks for the comment and yes no touching is a definite rule.
I'm also kind of a fan of Josh Gates in his "Expedition Unknown" and "Expedition X" series. In a couple of episodes he find unexploded ordinance left over from WWII, and the diver he's with (full face masks for TV) has an absolute FIT "Don't mess with that! It's a friggin' BOMB!"
SO yes. Unexploded ordinance certainly SEEMS to be a thing. They even claimed to call authorities and report one in the English channel, if memory serves... He gets into (on purpose?) some pretty weird and "hairy" situations on that show. You might find it fun. ;o)
First and foremost I appreciate both Woody and Gus on providing safe principles on how to dive correctly. I’ve only snorkeled, though I think it’d be awesome to dive with both of you who understand everything, at one point. Thank you for a channel that provides safe diving tips for those who do go under the water. Im curious, have either of you ever dived at all at Eagles Nest? I’d love to go explore the ballroom of eagles nest at one point in my life, I don’t care to go beyond the 130ft mark into the deeper area but I think just looking around the ballroom, the feeling of being in space, would be sick. I’m proud of you two and wish for the best whether in a cave or on land. Thankyou for spreading good practices to the public! I appreciate both of you for what you are doing, keep on going!
Thank you Thomas. Yes, we both have been to Eagles Nest although not all the way to the end, we’ve only been to around 205 ft.
I do understand the lure to go check it out but I would ask you to please don’t go unless you are cave trained. I understand that technically if you don’t go inside the cave you don’t really need cave training but Eagles Nest is another level, you can die without ever leaving the ballroom. The ballroom is humongous, you can definitely get lost and drown, please don’t go there.
I love that this is a goal of yours, it was my goal too, and I only went there after I had all the training and expertise needed to do it safely.
Man surely it's really hard to control your breathing without screaming gasping when yiu have a broken leg and are pinned to the ocean floor
Ok at the 22:37 mark, one of the guys said "where the hell have you been? You're 23 minutes late!" I'm just assuming they all should have arrived at roughly the same time, but as a non-diver I could be wrong. I understand deco times are different. But would everyone really just sit on the boat for 23 minutes not thinking there could be an emergency situation down below? Maybe send a diver down to check? This part really bothered me
Another good one guys... How about selling Woody as an action figure? Would fit perfectly on my desk 😁
Just because of the wording, I imagine Gus having Woody gear up, selling him to someone, shipping him off, arriving in a box at someone’s office, cutting into the box, and out pops Woody! Then, he stands on the corner of the desk as still as a statue in his best diver action figure pose lol.
@@Texan1981 Love it 😂
YAS, both of you. With the relevant safety gear :)
WAIT
Woody and Gus as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
Love it.
A channel with 9 thousand subscribers with the quality of 900k subs. Can’t wait for this channel to blow up you guys really deserve it!
Thanks Dwight!
Reason #38 why I will never go scuba diving - Iron Doors. I have 3,785 reasons why I'll never go cave diving lol.
Awe...you won't find any iron doors inside caves, come on, join the family!
@@DIVETALK I'll hang out on the boat and make snacks
@@JJbIrd0608 I wish we had people on our boats making snacks :D
I’ve seen yall mention on several occasions that you don’t like doing cold water dives, I’d love to see a video talking about your coldest dives and just cold water diving in general. Forgive me if this video is already out, I couldn’t find it. Thank you both!
Woohoo .. caught one fresh out of the gate! EDIT my takeaway, wreck diving is a no joke proposition. Better have your act together, bring your 'A' game, and have at least one way to alert the surface of problems. Of course we all know that, one is none and two is one. So yeah, be damn careful!
Glad you are here!
Never was gonna dive and never will. I’m hooked on this channel!❤️ So interesting to listen to Woody & Gus!
What you guys do is awesome but I think I'm staying on land.
Join us!
@@DIVETALK I live on the east coast and I used to swim in the ocean but I find it to be a scary world under the surface but I do enjoy your videos and have actually watched some cave diving videos and I do see the attraction, although I do live in the mountains now and have seen some cave entrances within walking distance of my house and after watching other videos I'm thinking there might be a lot more to it then the small opening I'm seeing.
I like when you guys pause it and give your opinion/take on the situation.
Thanks Robert!
Gus no beard!
It's gonna suck when eventually I've watched all the dive talk videos and have to wait for new ones to be uploaded.
Fortunately they come out twice or three times a week!
Am I a cave diver? No
Am I any type of diver? No
Do I even like swimming? No
*binges cave diver reaction videos anyway*
you should get into swimming!! idk where you live but if you can...its very fun and great exercise.. i just got into snorkeling / free diving and its sooooo much fun
@@chronicawareness9986 oh yes it’s fantastic exercise! I’m just not a water person lol 😂
This is one of the most underrated channels on RUclips. Another epic review.
I love your presentations! Great education and entertainment. I wouldn't change anything about your engagement with the stories, each other, and viewers.
Late to the party, but don't worry about stopping the vid--the explanations & thought processes & AARs are great!
Also, Gus' reference about Cerrone @ 18:08 😂😂😂
OMG just recognised the 999 theme, used to watch this show as a child, that guy was a boss though, saved his pals life.
OMG I'm so happy they stayed calm and had a great result, Adrian a real hero
PS Outstanding re-enactment video!