Ben o Cam adventures. Mine exploring, Military Vehicle Restorations, Scuba Diving Adventures , Shipwreck Hunting, Paramotor Flying, and the odd Random Adventure along the way.
Have you accidentally commented on the wrong video Martin? This has absolutely nothing to do with the RNLI, they rescue people out at sea. Plus no one said anything about it being brave. Most people watch this and are just fascinated what’s underground which is still accessible by those suitably well trained and equipped (that would be us by the way)
Great video Ben, been in that upper adit to the winze a few times, Tried to get into deep adit when the tide was right out as the cave is dry then but no gear to get up to deep adit at the time.
Cheers Darren, been meaning to do this one for ages but that surround wall by the engine house has been on the move for a while. We had to leave it settle for ages and it doesn’t look quite so dodgy now 🙈
@@BenoCam We live in Tintagel Cornwall! We’ve watched your videos for years, we certainly share a lot of interests and we’ve been taking a further interest into diving. We love cave exploring as well so have checked out many of your videos!:)
Cheers glad you enjoyed it. Couldn’t leave the pigeons down there. 2 flew off but the other two were a bit past it. A lady came by and took the worse one to try and bring it back to health at home rather than leaving it for a fox etc
Very interesting, thanks. I did the tourist tour of the shallow workings a few years ago, but always wondered about what was down the 'real mine'. Now I know a little of it.
That take me back - 20 years ago - myself and a friend dropped from the window whilst another mate accessed the cliff breech via a dodgy path and an abseil plus traversing the coast a bit and secured a piece of cheap pink abseil rope there. A grappel hook chucked into the adit somehow caught enough to pull in on and secure with an old alpine piton in a crack. I have a druze of the quartz crystals (which were loose and hard to reach) in a box somewhere.. The old barrow and hobnail were great to see - there were a few fuses and old wet bang sticks somewhere too. Happy days! Loving the videos - keep up the good work.
The national trust not being okay with you going into an old mine makes little sense to me. Yes a random guy showing up with a phone light crawling in would be incredibly stupid but it's a different thing with experienced cavers doing it. Like mines are meant to be accessed by humans so must be more safe than a cave as they have all the same hazards but you can fit through all the tunnels (assuming they haven't collapsed)...
Maybe next time put spike into rock or leave rope to get grip getting into mine you almost ended up in the water 5 Minutes 54 seconds into your video I am .. Great Video so far. Like your Style sir
I love the comment "doesn't look like anyone's been in here for a while". I'm like no mate, you just abseiled off a cliff into a mineshaft and had to swing across into a tiny opening of course nobody else would be so insane...and then he finds a head torch. 😅
😂 pretty sure the head torch was dropped from above from that shallow adit and made its way down there with the water pouring down. No one’s been in that bottom bit for a while 🙂
This might sound like a pathetic comment but...... I watched Poldark, as many will have, and I thought I had a picture of what mining was like. To see these pictures showing what the situation looks like, I find completely mind boggling. To realize that the men who worked these mines, did it to keep their families fed and housed, beggars belief, and they did it by candle-light.. How lucky we are now. The younger generation, and I include my son in that, have no idea. Just incredible, thank you very much for the footage.
The Army used to have a demo team. They used to drive the machine full pelt down a jetty and off into the water as part of their routine. There’s a video somewhere.
I've wanted one of these since owning my own BP Exploration Dinky MANY years ago as a kid. Decided that it's far too impractical for where i live, so bought the next best thing: 101 Forward Control
Awesome,wish i could swim,let alone dive,too many fractures,breaks n' so on,love Cornwall,there on my big motor scooter,from the dreaded south east,as much as poss';diving wreck vids are fantastic;YHA Coverack,now closed,sadly,had the stairs n'so on,off a wreck you have mentioned,the SS Mohegan;i lived in Uganda,my father rescued the boat,The African Queen,after the film company left it as a wreck,he had it restored,sold it to a chap from the USA,who sold it to a HOTEL chain in Florida,it was displayed for American Cancer Research[CONDITION OF THE SALE],as Humphrey Bogart died of cancer,now it gives tourists rides around the Florida everglades,so,one wreck saved,a rare thing,love the mining vids too,i am a dedicated outdoors,fresh air landlubber,so never ever,ha ha
Hi, I saw what looked like a coastal adit along the coast path from Lands End to Nanjizal Beach, wondered if you knew about it? There's no obvious engine houses or workings nearby but I peered in and it goes in quite some distance. Got a google maps link here maps.app.goo.gl/p9GYSVTu8szXBbr48.
The chemicals under Portreath Airfield are the chemicals used to make Sarin nerve gas. There were also Rocket launchers under the sea bed off of the cliffs. I lived there twenty years ago, and a farmer I knew in the valley said that his animals were dying of gas as the ground moved over time. The engine houses at Chasewater were blown up by the American solders training to blow up under water tank traps on D-day. There is Anthrax buried under the school playground in Drump Road in Redruth where there used to be a Silver Mine. All this and photos were published in the local paper.
I can confidently say I do not have claustrophobia....until you are talking about crawling through a very tight crevice in a mine on not even your hands and knees but actually your stomach and then the panic rises and I am not so sure anymore.
Didn't the Levant mine have a serious accident? I seem to remember another mine flooding after the sea got in and killing a number of miners. Dodgy game tunneling.
Yes the beam engine broke and killed a lot of people. Done another seperate video on that. There’s also another mine near botallack called wheal owles that flooded and also killed a lot of people. Think they broke into older flooded workings
I don't know where the image at 1:48 was taken, somewhere in the Mediterranean? Sicily? Italy? But it's definitely not D-Day in Normandy to which you refer. Why do creators make such silly, irritating, mistakes?
Well because first of all, your the first person out of 18,000 viewers to notice, and secondly when you google images of D day that image comes up as one, even though you are right it looks too hot and sunny. Most importantly it’s hard to find a decent picture of D day landing with someone wearing a type of helmet the same as what we find in the mine. They were too busy running up the beach to stop and take photos.
