Wonderful video; sorry I missed the day of exploration! I have been going to Fallen Leaf for 70 years, and It's a terrific place. I created the contours which are in the Navionics Chart Viewer online. Navionics is now owned by Garmin. As this video describes, there is an incredibly flat bottom to the lake, with acres and acres of area which are between 385 and 397 feet deep. I think that's the deepest, incidentally, although the Lake Tahoe book says that it is 415' deep. If so, I don't know where that would be.
I could be wrong but I remember Tahoe and Fallen Leaf as having crystal clear water (back in the 60s). These images show very cloudy water. I was surprised. Is the water clarity degrading?
Fallen Leaf lake really is an especially gorgeous place to be, I've been coming there every summer my entire life, it's an honor and privilege to be amongst that kind of natural beauty
Barely any actual footage of the dive. Says they are over 5000 feet which is technically true but it is actually over 6000 feet. His statements about the trees don't ring true, those clearly grew there. What could have been a neat super long video of just underwater footage was instead a weird infomercial filled with incorrect information.
You are very lucky to live in America and be able to do projects. In Spain it is not possible. If someone makes a minibubmarine, it would be quite impossible to take it to the water; the fine would be huge. Just one example of how repression is here, a truck driver was fined €240 while he was driving his truck just for scratching his back with a fork because he couldn't with his hand. I would like to do submarine projects and I dream of it; but impossible to do anything without being fined or put in jail. Congratulations on your dreams come true.
Awesome program. Hope that they include girls and help girls deal with misogyny even as children when doing their science and technology programs. There will always be misogyny in a girl's life, even as a child. Learning to deal with it constructively is the only way to really change culture. Boys will learn misogyny from the media, their parents, etc... so giving girls the right attitude to deal with it is the best way.
I remember reading about the discovery of some enormous single-cell organisms in Fallen Leaf Lake in a science publication around 2004. Can’t find anything about it now.
You ever find whatever it is at the bottom of Lake Tahoe the made Jacque Cousteau nervously exclaim "The world is not ready for what is down there!" when he explored???
Lived in Tahoe 46 years, worked at Barton hospital and also plowed snow for El Dorado county DOT. One Season I spent 3 shifts opening the road covered with 3-4 feet of packed snow, from the gate all the way back to Stanford Camp. Knew many of the old timers and their stories. Back in the 1970's they recovered a steam powered launch from Fallen Leaf took it to the Bay Area and I heard they only had to replace a few fittings on the steam engine and cosmetics to put it back into service down there.
One thing that he left out thats important, he mentioned that there's rumors of pioneer and native American bodies in the lake, which is probably true, water that deep n cold dont give up their dead, but he didn't mention the horrible fact that there are hundreds of bodies of Chinese people who were intentionally drowned in the lake , seems the railroad didn't want to pay them so they placed them in boats chained them together and took them too the middle of the lake and pushed them overboard, its not a lake with a good history.
Just because you see something and conjure up an explanation doesn't mean you're right. You could certainly be right about the landslide, but not for the reasons you pretend. You're doing a disservice to science and the people who devoted their lives to science and analyzed that lake using scientific methods to draw their conclusions. I get that exploring like that is fun and all, but you haven't proven anything. There could be plenty of other explanations for those rocks. For example, there could've been a megadrought AND a landslide that displaced some rocks/trees. The rocks could've been there all along, and it's not uncommon for trees to fall over, exposing their roots and disturbing the soil & rocks even when they're above ground, without any landslides or anything. There even appear to be rocks in that little sunken boat, which ended up there well after any events that led to the trees being there. What you're claiming is far from science. It's very similar to the awfully bad logic that we see many anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists espousing these days. if you want to teach diving & exploration to kids or whatever that's fine, just say "this would be an interesting thing to study further" rather than just jumping to bad conclusions and discarding the hard science so willy nilly. "...and the rocks had digested away the roots" - wtf is that even supposed to mean?
I was with you until you had to drag your hatred of anti vaxxers into the conversation. The anti mandate people and people who are hesitant of this new vaccine gave been more correct than pro mandate or pro Vax. Please just stick to a topic and leave subjectivity out of it
This sounds like a great project, and getting information about your group is interesting. However it was a LOT more about your group and project than findings. And that frustrated me. PADI Advanced Open Water diver.
Scott Cassel you are the man! I pray your health is well. I'll never forget what an honor it was to work on your projects with you. Randy formerly Carl's welding service Napa ca
Pretty cool piece of equipment. Found a boulder, a stove hopefully next time we could enjoy some dinner. Old boat, maybe from pioneers. Pillars with steel cables maybe from mining and western days and beyond... Happy travels to 50 leagues under the sea (lake)
Money to burn...but well spent... Dive tables compensate for altitude, and its not that cold...but you would only have minutes on SCUBA with hours in deco, and I guess its actually easier to transport subs or ROVs than a decompression chamber with 2 or 3 lister 5120s for air and a giant bank of O2 for running potential treatment tables on divers if necessary..Surface supplied heliOx would also.require a large bamk of breathing gas for diver and standvy diver.. At first i thought it was a waste to bring a sub there but your right about it being most efficiant...and entertaining
This is fantastic! More videos, please! I have waited most of my life to see this. The elders warned us about the dead bodies. Do the deepest part of Lake Tahoe by Crystal Bay.
