NZ habitat fun 2020
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Correct video this time! Apologies to everyone who watched the corporate video I uploaded last time...this one will be of much greater interest!
The 2020 Pearse Resurgence push dive to 245m required a large team to help install 4 decompression habitats, heating cables, communications and CO2 scrubbers. This light hearted video looks at the process...
That's amazing I always wanted to see what it looked like in those habitats, thank you so much this video was very informative. Mahalo
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've been a commercial diver for 12 years and never knew this was a thing! You guys seems like a good time haha dive safe
How would you know not know that???
@@GideonTheKing4 no doubt he knows... OP was referring to the diy nature
That is passion, taking body to the limit, in a “safe” way but a little mistake cost life. How much i love this.
After the Tham Luang cave rescue mission, there is no need to introduce yourself and Craig to the world...sort of.
I m not into all these risks taking adventure but surely enjoy the beauty. Thank you for allowing people like me to appreciate your exploration.
- KL, Malaysia
What a phenomenal setup. To have a fully oxygenated miniature baro chamber you can just swim into and then sit there and chill in until you’ve decommped is just amazing. Thanks for sharing this with us guys. Absolutely brilliant 🤘
I love your sense of humor. Amazing what kind of effort you put in for diving so deep and very interesting how long the decompression time actually is. So cool and a totally different way of diving 😎 😀
Watched you on dive talk and you were fantastic. What you did for those trapped Thai kids was simply amazing. 🙏
Wow that is awesome! Those habitats are such a good idea, I was imagining you were doing 16 hours deco in the water, this looks way more comfortable..
Oh, !!! You're sitting in water. I just saw that! You guts always heros!
You and Craig have so much personality. You two were fun to listen to
Great video that enlighten us on this
matter. And you both are so funny!! Thanks a lot lads
Mann this is awesome I just discovered your channel from Dive Talk. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Just watched a Jimmy Carr special …. Then happily stumbled across this masterpiece! This was way more entertaining ! So good to see Craig chatting . Have read your book, seen both docos/ Movie ( wished Craig was featured in 13 Lives ) , and been to Tham Luang about 6 months after the rescue . Awesome to see couple of Aussie legends having fun 😂😂🇦🇺🙏👌☝️
Great habichat! Looking forward to more of them. And you, Craig and the rest of the Mules have an open invitation to come and try out ours any time!
Thanks Andy, I'll be coming one day!
This has to be the coolest video i have ever seen. Gonna need to build a habitat now. How cool is that.
What a fantastic video. I've been following your adventures for years, first just the maps but now the video. Keep the content coming!
I am binge watching your videos and the pearse resurgence story. I don't do anything even remotely like this, but it's so interesting to me.
Wait, Craig can smile ? 🤣 - Great to meet him at the Exmouth cave rescue exercise.
It is incredible all you let us know, things that we just can dream of. Thank you both Doctors for Being so special
So glad you posted this video. I’ve always wondered what the habitats were like on the inside. I never thought I would get the chance to see, so thank you.
You guys are incredible, crazy as hell but incredible, the depths you are at and boundary pushing is amazing. Great to see how it goes for you guys.
Thats either amazing or completely bonkers. Havent made up my mind.
Thanks for sharing
You guys are a hoot!! Thank you for sharing. 🤗
Our pleasure!
New subscriber here. I see that it won't take very long to get through the uploads since there was about a decade long gap in them. Lol. I hope that you will be uploading many more.
Stay safe gentlemen. I know that in most things there are acceptable risks associated with them, but we need our explorers, risk takers, and those that move the technological boundaries forward to be able to continue to work together.
Be well and keep up the good work.
I just finished your book so I came looking for the cave that you described in the book. I can see why you both enjoy cave diving so much. It looks so peaceful especially with the fact that it isn't the type of thing that draws a lot of people in so it would never be crowded like some of the hiking tracks in that area do. It also made me wonder if that cave was caused through glacial movement as well. Especially when you consider the area and the fact that it is the South Island as opposed to the North which has all the volcanoes on it. The south tends to specialise in the glaciers
If you are interested in how the caves form in that area, read this article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03036758.1982.10419437
You guys are delightful.
you guys are a blast cheers mates, always stay safe!!
truly amazing, you all are rockstars, and super heros. all the respect mates!
How to entertain yourself during extended deco stops. 😂😂😂. This was amazing
Absolutely fascinating, this is real exploring. Thanks for sharing!
Love bringing the cap down here.
I just heard Craig on Dive Talk say you guys might be going back in February 23. That will be awesome!
You mean Harry , font you?? Harry was on dive talk talking about that.
Super interesting to see how this works. Thanks for sharing!
Jeez, never seen anything like this! Insane! ... I thought sitting under an umbrella staring at a fishing float for 24 hours was an extreme way to get away from the wife !
Fishing is the best way to escape wives
Funny, my 1st comment was asking you to do this video then I found this, thanks for including us!
Another cracking video 😆👍. Good to see the 03 suits - local to me. Keep the content coming.
Thanks, wouldn't dive cold water with anything else! 👍
This feels a lot like the golden age of mountain climbing
Holy Shit you guys are the heroes of Tham Luang ! I just finished the book !
What book? 👍
“Thanks dude….” Funny bastards. Great episode.
Hilarious and so incredibly fascinating, thanks for sharing this video!! And who would have thought cave divers were so social and chatty when down so deep😂
Great video. Really interesting and informative 👍
Thanks for uploading Richard! (will watch it tonight after dinner but was keen to say thank you early on :)
that was a great watch! thanks so much for uploading. You guys are incredible.
Are those habitats left in the water permanently or set up for each dive? Seems like it would be a massive job just in its self. love all the content by they way, always looking forward to new vids
No we clean out the cave after each trip. It takes 5-7 days to set up the cave every year and then usually do another few days of build up dives before the exploration dive.
@@DrHarryH that's some serious dedication
@@DrHarryH how do you get the air pockets into the habitat like that??
@@johndreyer9730 fill them up from SCUBA tanks until the pressure inside ,equals the surrounding water pressure. Hence we can sit inside them and be at the same pressure for our decompression.
Are you able to do multiple dives likes this back to back or do you need to wait months or years to tackle it again?
Wtf a 16 hour dive?! This is unreal, you men are a lot braver than me, glad you guys keep each other entertained. Safe diving! 🤿
Where is the coffee maker? Hot soup and chocolate is nice but there is no need to rough it chaps. 🤣
More of this sort of stuff please.. fascinating
I cant help picturing a fish stumbling upon a floating orange ball that seemed to be talking to itself.
I like to imagine that making this video was the only thing keeping you guys sane during a 10hr+ deco
Wait... why does the inside look 5X bigger than the outside? 😂🤣 There's like some diver magic going on!
By the way what you guys are doing in Pearce is amazing work, thats a DEEEEP cave and you just have to wonder how far it goes. Can't wait to see what you find next!
I'd totally watch livestreams of ur dives, you can talk to chat while stuck in decomp
The pressurised atmosphere has given them comedy accents.
This is amazing......
Incredible video!
G’Day Harry, great work on the Habichat… Fine example of the incredible teamwork that goes on in the Cave Diving Community. I have two queries for your consideration.
1/ What is the ratio of support people to one dive team per dive? I suspect that you stay in the camp there for several days support other divers and wait for your turn to dive that way everyone who can get a dive to their level of experience.
2/ Is spending 16hrs TDT with Craig Chalmers in the New Zealand Pearce Resurgence affecting your Australian accent?? I unfortunately noticed a possible New Zealand lilt to both your voices and my mind went to worst case scenario that you might have an allegiance to those horrid All Blacks..
Best wishes to you all.
Tone
Based on your sales pitch, it looks like a great place to stay.
But, I can't find it on Book a Bach!!
Regards Paul in NZ
You have to look in the - 5 star listings.
You really know your stuff!
any transparent material durable enough for a better deco stop view instead of orange?
Amazing content
Amazing! Thanks for this!
Me and my wife are watching this video wondering, if the habitat some how got a punture in it if it would implode👀
It wouldn't implode, it would just leak and we'd have to refill it which is easy. If it suddenly broke loose or split right open, it would indeed be a very bad day :-(
@@DrHarryH thank you, i honestly didnt know
You guys are awesome legends.
You guys kill me!! LOL. I hope you stay friends .....
Recommending you both for the first manned Mars expedition. That guy leaning looks like Mike Rowe btw.
Cant wait for part 2 hehe
Woah!!! I'm very curious what the outside of that looks like! Are you able to sit in there? &Thank you for sharing this! After watching the video of the dive through the cave, I had to know what a habitat was for! I'm a novice SCUBA diver (60 dives), but hope to one day (after a LOT of training) be as cool as you guys. Thanks for the video! 😁
Many thanks for sharing all of this. I did a handful of recreational dives many years ago. Your videos about this particular exploration dive, as well as the Dive Talk reaction and interview, have been a fascinating introduction to the technical side of the sport. You mention at around the 2:25 mark that you have an earlier video filmed in the 16m habitat. Does that live online anywhere at the moment? If not, any chance we could convince you to add it your channel here?
Didn't know Clark and Dawe even dived
Warm hands, warm hearth is so true 😁
Awesome videos!!! 😍
You're incredible
Simon sounds a lot like the adults on any of the Charlie Brown cartoons!!!
Alot of info here, love it
Two questions:
1) can you talk about how you ‘go to the bathroom’ during the long deco stops? I know about drysuit P-Valves, but would think voiding while suspended in the same water in the lower habitats would not be polite, and it doesn’t answer the second void problem. Adult diapers like the astronauts wear maybe?
2) was muellermatic-like device ever considered during the Thai cave rescue?
Good questions! Yes the P-Valve answers the first issue and well frankly, you get to know each other pretty well for 16hours in the water together! You can drop int the water a bit for a wee or just wave it away! Regarding the 'other', the Fourth Rule of the Wet Mules states "if you shit in your suit, you are off the team". We find this rule highly motivating to avoid such incidents. The Mule - O - Matic 5500 was far too advanced for the cave rescue. Actually CO2 was never an issue in Tham Luang. Other Rules of the Wet Mules include Rule 1 - Have fun, and Rule 2 - Don't kill Ken.
Sherwin glad you asked because I was wondering the same thing. And this answered my question about eating and drinking while diving.
@@DrHarryH Non diver here. So I just googled a P Valve. It’s basically an external catheter? What do the women do? Do they make a valve for them? Being a woman I would love to learn.
@@DrHarryH Also who is Ken and why does he inspire such homicidal rage?
@@rustyshackleford4822 Google She-P and Shewee. Then prepare wax, razors and glue. That's all I know sorry!
Awesome, thanks for posting
I'd love to know how the Triton rebreathers are. I love thier small size but have no experience with one. How do you like them and do they work well as a main rebreather? Thanks
Hi I have dived mine as a stand alone unit quite a few times. I especially enjoyed it diving wrecks in Truk Lagoon in the warm water. The French manufacturers have done some major cave dives on them I believe. Not sure I would do that!
You guys should start a fundraizor and maybe get enough funds to built a habitat in which you can bbq...you guys deserve a nice meal after such a dive.
hey i was wondering if there is actually a difference in the time needed for decompressing in the ocean or in a cave, i feel like a cave would actually need less time since the limited amount of water filling in the cave.?
No it's all the same unfortunately! Pressure is pressure, no matter what the type of liquid that is generating it. The only factor that can change things is with a dive performed at altitude due to the lower atmospheric pressure.
@@DrHarryH Are there any caves at a high altitude that people cave dive??
Glorious!
Were the first few "habitats" filled with water? That was surprising to see. Seems uncomfortable to have to wait for hours like that
No, they are full of air or nitrox.
wow this is great, thanks for the vid!
what are you breathing on deko inside the habitat?
In the 16m and 7m habitat, we breath the habitat atmosphere itself. We have a fan forced CO2 scrubber in there, and bleed oxygen intermittently into the 'room' to maintain a PO2 of about 1.3. We have cells and a dive computer in there to monitor this. The PO2 changes very slowly due to the volume of gas in there, so it works very well.
these guys are rockstars
You mentioned in another comment about the effects of oxygen toxicity on your lungs for your bottom mix. I assume you guys are running razor thin margins in PO2 on bottom for decompression reduction reasons but what is the physiology of how the toxicity is damaging your lunch? I thought the only real risk of high PO2 was convulsions. Would be fantastic if you had any public research on the matter!
Hi Adam, we don't push the PO2 too high especially during the deep parts of the dive for a couple of reasons. Firstly the PO2 at depth doesn't affect deco times nearly as much as it does in the shallows, due to the lower fractional content that the oxygen represents of the total breathing gas. Secondly, high density at depth increases the risk of CO2 retention which is a risk factor for CNS oxygen toxicity (seizures). In terms of the lungs, (OTUS, UPTDs) it is unlikely to cause permanent damage but it certainly produces symptoms which can take hours to days to go away. And this transient lung damage might theoretically impact the efficiency of the lung's ability to clear the inert gas. Have a look at this and other recent articles: gue.com/blog/pulmonary-oxygen-toxicity-expanding-our-understanding-with-two-new-models/
How do you ballast your habitat? There would be a lot of buoyancy to counter-act.
What's that mule-o-matic thing for? Haha
Carbon dioxide elimiination
All you need now is a 12 volt Bar fridge, tv/dvd player and a toaster oven....
This is like listening to a Martin / Molloy skit, if Mick Molloy were replaced by a second Tony Martin, and both Tonys Martin suddenly developed a strong fondness for cave diving.
I take this as a great compliment!
@@DrHarryH It's very much intended as one, I could listen to the two of you riffing for hours! I hope you do more of these habichats in the future, and I can't wait to see your next excursion through the Pearse.
Hi, how do you monitor the air mixture in the habitat? How do you know when the Gas in the habitat is consumed? And change the air? Thanks
Part of the scrubber setup has a couple of oxygen sensors and a display built in. The O2 declines very slowly. We top up the oxygen from a cylinder by simply cracking the valve intermittently. Simple, but effective.
Good dry suit choice
I am a massive fan of O'Three suits, warm and dry! And great people to deal with.
Just brilliant!!😂
So cool 😎
Lol, nice one!
That's a party at habitat ;)))
Full credit for pioneering exoedition effort, but reality, two blokes sitting in a tub, watching co2 levels, filling diapers. Sounds like work to me....
Nice habitat, did you book it on air BnB or Agoda?
Harry, I've watched this video about 8 times now. The more I learn about diving, the more things I find in the video. Cheers to Craig! A question. That is rather a deep dive. I know you said some trembling. What else at those depths in the Pearse make it so challenging? How will it affect future exploration?
I imagine you could come across gold veins or untouched alluvial deposits.
No no no, get back down there, i want to see more
Does the cold temperature add to the deco time. Next year I would like to see a live podcast wired headsets are so last season
The things some people do for fun...