Hi I'm Matt and what you see is what you get, I'm just a guy that loves adventure ! (props if you know where I got that quote)
My motivation for this channel is to show you guys what life can offer you when you're prepared to take a little bit of risk. gotta risk it for the biscuit ... :s
I am so glad you got to see the seals. Lehua Crater was the first snorkel of my life. I jumped in, nearly sucked in water due to gasping at the number of fish I saw immediately. Picked my head up to tell my husband and was face to face with a monk seal…whiskers nearly touching my face. It was at that moment I regretted saying no to my husband’s request for an underwater camera. That was our honeymoon. All these years later he still gets a yes to all photography equipment requests. We have made that trip again many times. It’s a beautiful place full of amazing people and super cool wildlife. Will be going to the big island for the first time soon, to swim with manta rays.
My experience with a drysuit emphasized proper ballast weighting and the associated aux equipment. I always used a dedicated argon inflation supply for the suit with a wing BCD and double steel LP cylinders. The wing BCD did eliminate the rollover problem. The LP's are about as neutral as you can get a back gas supply to be. I never did any dives in cold or deep water that did not need the wing and doubles, plus a 80% deco bottle, so I can't recommend a single cylinder setup. In SW with a 7mm wet suit, I normally take 13# to be just about neutral at the surface and about 5# more with a drysuit. My suit was custom made to measure but I still had a problem with suit air migrating to my lower body. Adding gaiters did help. I did get really proficient in the tuck and roll. The suit was trimmed to keep a slight squeeze and the BCD did the actual compensation, biased more to the suit at depth. I'd never do a full dive without being progressively trained on every bit of gear and I'd never task a suit to be a BCD. Then only with it all in place, checked for function and cross-checked, would I step off. A lot of this is my training, NAUI & TDI, and my preferences. Stay safe.
BCD or drysuit why would you ever be trying to get positively buoyant? When drysuit diving for me I empty the BCD at the surface to sink, then add air to the drysuit as I descend until I reach my bottom and achieve neural buoyancy/ fend of suit squeeze. After that (towards the end of the dive or around reaching around 40 feet) It's a game of letting air out of the drysuit to manage the ascent. I'll only really make use of the BCD again after I reach the surface after the safety stop.
Hey Bjarke I was out on the Quino El Guardian, the video before this one covers a tour of the boat if your interested ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--CcnLr95Sps.html
Looks like some good diving -- very sharky! Not sure if it's the lighting or angle, but that one shark at 11:32 really seemed to have a different sheen than the others.
Hey Rob yup up to 10 species of shark around Revillagigedo, but if you haven't seen the next couple, there are plenty of other interesting characters to see *cough giant manta rays cough* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-frs0OJiLDaU.html
Hope you have a smooth trip with good diving! The boat looks pretty good. I started following your channel after seeing your Blackbeards scuba liveaboard videos, and really like your detailed tour of the boats. It may seem small or funny, but I especially appreciate seeing the bathrooms/heads on dive liveaboard boats, because that was actually my least favorite part of our (otherwise great) Blackbeards diving trip, so I like to see what I may be getting into - and almost all other scuba channels on RU-vid don't show those.
Hey Rob! yeah i started doing the boat tours because what its actually like on the boat was something I was very curious about but couldn't find anything on. So I figured this was some added value I could put into my videos that others might want to see as well, glad I was right about that haha! next video in this series is almost ready to go up btw
This is amazing! and thank you for sharing. I just watched all of your videos and I can't wait for my trip on this boat next month! Any good advice for me? I am coming along so I hope there are other solo divers as well that i can pair with. Also what gopro are you using?
Hi Nate, only real advice is don't over pack there is very little space and you only really need your dive gear, 2-3 pairs of board shots and t shirts and your camera/camera gear/ As for my gopro in these videos it was my hero 4, now a days I'm on a hero 7
@@ScubaSEAsons Cool! and thanks for the advice. What was your favorite dive site? and did you do more than 2 night dives (that will be a first for me)? Sorry for all the questions... I'm just super excited.
Thanks Chelly, let me know where you do your diving/ are planning to head next and ill try to make sure we have a few dive sites in the app ahead of time, at that point all you would need to do is add photos of whatever sea creatures you come accross on each of the dive sites you visit
@DiveGo I'm actually fairly close to you - I'm in the Pacific Northwest. Most of my diving is in the Puget Sound but I do travel a lot as well. Unfortunately there's no splashing in my immediate future due to a lovely injury.
Nurkuję od ok. 25 lat, prawie zawsze w zimnych wodach, z czego ponad 23 lata w suchym skafandrze. Jest taka zasada: jeżeli nie ma jakichś przepisów, algorytmów postępowania to należy oprzeć się nawet na instrukcji obsługi, w tym przypadku od suchego skafandra. Chyba żadna instrukcja nie podaje, że ten jest lub powinien być podstawowym źródłem pływalności. Za to dopuszcza się, jak najbardziej, wykorzystywanie go jako alternatywne - zapasowe źródło wyporu. Ma nam zapewniać komfort na dwóch płaszczyznach: termiczny i ciśnieniowy. Nie po to stworzono skrzydła w kształcie tzw. oponki w celu umożliwienia swobodnego przepływu powietrza, dla ułatwienia trymu, żeby utrzymywać neutralną pływalność dzięki skafandrowi, bo tak uczą w PADI...
Rob good to hear from you again its been a while hasnt it? Are you planning to head to Cozumel again? If so I have already manged to recruit a local (Tulum) as one of my apps field testers so the app will have stuff to show by 2023!
@@ScubaSEAsons Hi Matt, yes, Covid derailed a lot of travel plans, etc. By the way, if you have not already you should promote your app (and RU-vid channel) on the ScubaBoard forums -- huge number of divers there. Yes, I believe I'll be in Cozumel again in January or so. Went to Curacao for a short trip a few weeks ago, and while diving was good and lots of healthy coral, didn't see any super interesting critters diving there other than a turtle or 2. Any big travel coming up for you?
I haven't made and firm plans yet, still mulling a few different options and now kind have to think tactically since nothing is better to promote the app that to use it in person some place right? so where to go first is now slightly more complicated. Can you pass me a link for the scuba board forums? I'm happy to try any place at the moment to get to word out about DiveGo, but a link would help for quick reference since, I'm trying a lot of places right now and negotiating with fb group admins right now is taking a lot of my immediate time (well that AND my day job haha)
@@ScubaSEAsons I submitted the link in another comment but don't see it -- perhaps having the link caused it to get held in some type of spam filter. Hope you received it.
very beautiful! I went to high school with one of the kids of Bruce Robinson. Jimmy and I were good friends in high school and he invited me to Niihau. I never got to go though. About monk seals, when I lived on the Big Island, my ex would surf all the breaks. One time we hiked in to a surf beach and there was a monk seal laying on the rocks. I sat under a tree to read while my ex surfed and the seal was about 20 feet away from me, sleeping. Another time, my ex and I went to visit a friend who rented a house on the coast in Kona. Before dinner, close to sunset, my ex brought his surf board and dove in right off the back yard. When he was done surfing about an hour later, he glided up to the rocks in the back yard and right next to him was a monk seal. The seal was trying to play with him or something, it was so cute.
I think this question depends on what temperature your diving. If you diving in Canada but learned in the tropics, you should use your suit for buoyancy. But this also depends on how warm your undergarments can keep you, if your using neoprene or trilam, etc. This also depends on your tolerance to being cold or feeling freezing.
I honestly struggle to think of what naysayers are picturing when I say "buoyancy control" with a Drysuit, air goes in as I descend to at depth, after that I dump as needed coming up to avoid rocketing up. Do other divers spend a lot of their dives continually adding and dumping air over the course of a dive?
@@ScubaSEAsons for sure Ill have to add and dump depending on the bottom.. depending on how you dive. I was an instructor from the tropics and still consider myself new to drysuit diving, started last summer. I was told to just use your suit for buoyancy and your bcd only at the surface pretty much. When I tried using bcd for buoyancy, I got cold way faster.
Nitrox for these dives really isn't needed, I don't think we ever got deeper than 60 feet, most of the time 40 was the max on these dives, you can easily do an hour on plain old air at these depths
I wish you would coordinate with Mr Robinson. The island has a huge garbage problem and I'm sure he'd appreciate you guys taking some of it back to Kauai.
So, others have to help the Robinsons, who own Billions of dollars worth of Hawaiian real estate, take out their trash? From an island that we aren't even allowed to go to?
@@richarddeichler2172 It's not Ni'ihau's garbage, it's the worlds garbage washing onto Ni'ihau's shores. "Billions" of dollars worth of land, this is why native Hawaiians want houles off their land, because they live like slaves while you destroy the islands.
Awesome video, I was wondering did you dive in all 3 silos and was the crib work still in all of them? It seems most of the other have had all the crib work taken out by the scrapers.
Hi Russell, I'm not expert but I think the Crib work was still in place as far as I understand it, story was that it flooded pretty quickly after decommissioning. As for the 3 silos we dived 2 of them, the 3rd isn't actually flooded, they have pumping going on to keep it from flooding. We walked down into that one near the end of the video.
Still diving during Covid? We've done a couple of long weekends (Florida panhandle and South Carolina) and some local quarry diving, but have been missing the Caribbean -- not quite ready to fly yet.
Hi Rob a little but not much, trips are more expensive locally since the Vans can only take 1/2 the people. This video was from January so just before everything went nuts. Only other diving i have done was i decided to do my Rescue Diver back in Sept. Really want this to end though I want to do SE Asia badly right now...
@@ScubaSEAsons Hi Matt, my son and I took Rescue in August - I guess the lack of travel was good motivation to go ahead and take that class, and I'm glad we did. SE Asia would be great! We've become pretty addicted to Cozumel (dove there on 3 trips last year) so I'm really itching to get back there.
Hi, I have been using dry suits for almost 20 years and I also teach using them. I teach and use the dry suit as bouyancy for two reasons. 1 If you use the BCD you will be able to use less air in the suit which means less insulation If you are correctly weighted you will never end up with too much air in your suit. My suit is still a bit squeezed when I am perfectly bouyanced. 2. If you use air in both your BCD and suit, in case of an unwanted acend, or if you for some reason need raise up or move a bit shallower fast you will have to control the expanding air in both the BCD and the suit which is an unnecessary risk. To minimize the risk of getting air in your boots you see to that you get the correct size as well as filling the space with thick socks. Lastly it is important to learn and practice how to control the air in the suit, if you get too much air in your boots you should by reflex dip your feet in order for the air to leave the boots, getting light feet should never come as a surprise. Standing on your head in a dry suit for watching small critter, filming or taking photos is not a problem if you control the air in the suit. None of my students, dive buddies or another diver in the same group have never rushed to the surface with their feet first after completed the training in the course. Some have experienced light feet of course but the have handled it before it has become an issue. It all comes down to practice and always react fast on "light" feet.
Hi Kassor, I hope I didn't come off as against using the Drysuit for buoyancy because I was also trained that way and find managing the one air pocket far easier than trying to manage two. Its funny there's another instructor further below in the comment who is the total opposite: 20 years teaching and swears up and down that its wrong to use the Drysuit for buoyancy, he couldn't give a reason as to why its wrong (and I asked him for one) but oh well, doesn't hurt me any. My goal in this video wasn't to say if its right or wrong but more to lay out pros and cons as I saw them (via my own experience and some research I did beforehand) people can decide for themselves what they prefer.
Much safer to use both imo. I was taught that way and yes it is more to manage at first but you get used to it. You should only use the inflator to take the squeeze off. Unless you don't care about trim or looking like a blimp. If you ask any tech instructor or DIR there is only one answer and I trust their opinions since they are the top in our profession.
I’m currently taking the PADI drysuit course the way my instructor is teaching me starting out is on the surface use bcd on the bottom use drysuit! However if the drysuit malfunctions then use your BCD so technically you use both depending on the situation! Drysuit fails switch over to BCD to ascend but use drysuit to prevent suit squeeze and control buoyancy on the bottom
Hi Stephen, yep that's what I was taught as well. Typically the air I put in to get rid of "the squeeze" is enough or almost enough to get me to neutral buoyancy at the bottom, and im fairly buoyant (40 lbs) so it works out.
Lovely! We live aboard our boat preparing to sail around the world and have been cruising around the Channel Islands for the past year. Absolutely stunning!
Fish with dark vertical stripes and yellow body is called Treefish. Looks similar to Tiger Rockfish we have in BC, but it is actually different species.
Hey Rob, its not current, its the surge that was pushing us around, California is famous for surfing after all haha The water temp was between 15 and 18 C ,still cold water but you can do it in a 7m wet suit instead of a dry suit
@@ScubaSEAsons Brrrr! A bit cold for me. Our local quarry was still at 71 F last weekend, and that's starting to get chilly for me. Going back to Cozumel in December for the 3rd time this year, and I can't wait!
How cold is the water you dive in? I ask because the colder the water the more layers your going to need to keep warm and the more layers the more buoyant you will be, and finally the more buoyant you are the more weight you are going to need to sink. and that was the situation here, previously i was diving with 2 layers and froze, in this one i had just gotten a new set (3rd layer) and it increased my buoyancy by quite a bit. 34 to 40 to sink, still id rather take more weight than freeze but hey that just me.
I went to Ni'ihau in 1980 with Mr. Robinson. I was AD USAF, had just arrived in Hawai'i as my first military assignment. I knew almost nothing about Hawai'i. I was a gate guard (Kuntz Gate) at the back gate of Hickam AFB. Mr Robinson drove up to the gate, we chatted for quite a long time. He asked if I knew who he was. I didn't. He asked me if I would like to go with him to an island that most people will never be allowed to go to. I was a naïve 19 yr old from a small town in Michigan! He asked for my phone number, I gave it to him. he called me the next day, we made arrangements to meet and take the helicopter over to NI'ihau. I had no idea what a rarity this was! I do, NOW!
Thanks Andre! The Diving in British Columbia really is 1st class, amazing amount of diverse life, no 2 locations are even close to similar its all very different all over Vancouver Island. Just a tip the viz is best in winter, I didn't believe it until I did some dives in February but the diffidence is stunning.
