Last summer I visited Rusper brick works, a quarry where my father worked as a very young man. It is now a lake, so I took a swim. I was floating above where my father had worked. Now He is floating above me.
"1994-2004, 21 divers lost their lives in the quarry." RIP. Great video, this location is obviously for higher experienced divers. Would love to learn to dive.
There’s so many platforms at different levels, so Dorothea is for all levels of qualifications. I started diving there during my Ocean Diver training - if you do the 20m tunnel dive route, there’s a floor below you, so there’s no risk of suddenly dropping to 100m or anything. I’d recommend going with someone who knows the quarry so they can show you all the best bits. I agree that many of the accidents there have been because of people diving beyond their training or not having the right equipment. For example, I know people who have bolted to the surface from 40m just because they had a freeflow. Totally avoidable.
Best inland UK quarry by far. I've done about 400 dive in this quarry from the nineties to a couple of year back, and the best viz was at the end of January one year when me and my buddy were at 48mtrs near the Pinnicles and we could see the surface buoys and the sun highlighting them and the rope. Used to pop down Henry's ridge and then over the the 48 hut, on the way to the submerged trees in the far corner; this was just one of my favourites and all free. Many happy days, but some sad one too.
One of the best diver vids I have watched. In my younger day, I bounced 75mtr on compressed air. I just wish I was still diving when mixed gas entered the main diving stream. I would have loved to view more technical information about the dive
This quarry had the last Cornish beam engine ever produced here in Cornwall. Guessing not much left of it now? Great video, really enjoyed that. Sending warm wishes from Cornwall.
a very good friend of mine and previous diving buddy from the mid 1990s lost his life there 20 years ago ..made me think hard about adrenaline sports and I gave up my climbing and deep diving shortly after ..I miss the ability to drift in space and the tinned buzz of pressure on ears and brain..but I don't want to do it again Now I would be forcing myself to do it to prove something to myself and I like life too much..it's weird seeing Dorothea again it's just the same as it was 25 years ago..only I never got down to 104metres..so these guys have had a proper grumage ..the water looks pretty good tbh and visibility seems somewhat better than how I remember it.. Anyway nice vid and be careful
Thank You so much for sharing! 😱 I must commend you on your Bravery! It’s literally a another world 🌎 deep beneath the quarry! A shame to see so much clutter and cars. Have they ever considered cleaning up the bottom of the quarries? Great 👍 Video.
I'm guessing by the adits and winch that this was also a mine as well as an open pit slate quarry. That was a cool little shack! I think the oddest thing was the BBQ and chairs that have apparently been there since sometime between the time the quarry shut down in 1970, the pumps were shut off, and since it is lower than the natural water table it filled with water. Glad you guys came out safe; between 1994 - 2004 21 divers lost their lives in that quarry.
Clyde Ceniza: Apparently they over estimated their abilities. British Sub-Aqua Club sets the safe diving limit at 50 meter. Parts of Dorothea Quarry are over 100 meter deep. 104 meter actually, thus the title of this video.
Duck Landes Damn! There was this video too in RU-vid that some Chinese tourists was already at the depth 56 meters (maybe im wrong) luckily a concerned diver was with them and warned them and they barely made it to the surface
Thanks for the link. That video proves that just because you can afford to buy the equipment doesn't mean you're smart enough to use it :> Deepest I've been was 30 feet (9 meter) when dredging for gold, which is only about 2 atmospheres. But I would stay down there about 8 hours, and I wasn't scuba diving, I was using a hookah diving system so had no worries with how much air I was using.
I live very close to here, and it was only recently I managed to walk on the footpaths and get close to the lake itself. Absolutely amazed at the footage you got, very interesting indeed. Must be a surreal experience. Great Work.
You should take a sample of the milky stuff on the bottom. It has to have a specific gravity of greater than 1.0 witch makes it heavier than water so it stays at the bottom and do the same with the black stuff on the cabin floor. You might not want to dive there after that.
i worked in quarries like this for many years and ive fished alkot of them also. ive never seen a mature flooded quarry with this much structure so devoid of fish. quarries are fish heaven
There is loads of fish in here, along with sponges, newts, snails etc. Harder to spot in winter when water is colder and they are normally in the shallows in summer
Hi, If you are ever in the area to dive again, we've just opened up a new hostel down the road from Dorothea called Basecamp Wales, about 2 miles down the road in Llanllyfni
Why does everyone think playing shitty elevator music makes it better it doesn't. Rather hear the regulators and bubbles type shit. Would of been great video had it had audio.
Tj RhdEg6 Because people think it's their God given right to bitch! Like in USA 1st amendment, Freedom of Speech. They bitch and moan so they don't have to deal with there own problems!
Thanks for the memory regularly dived here mid 80s Is the sign with skull and cross bones saying warning divers have died here still on the entrance to a cave
Thanks for uploading this! I am running an RPG and I'm about to send my players diving in a quarry (with a scary monster at the bottom, of course...). This gives me so much inspiration to describe the scenes for them!
Awesome video, it feels like this place flooded over night with some of these findings. But on the other hand a couple of those cars were very old models. I saw graffiti from 2005 but at the same time there was a house that looked from the Stone Age haha great video!
I saw a video discussing all of the diving-related deaths at the quarry but it didn't have any dive footage of the quarry. Seeing this, I kinda understand why lots of divers go to the quarry.
Is anybody else wondering why there's an Evo 5/6 at the bottom of a flooded quarry?? Check it @8:14. Nice dive btw, but the car guy in me is just curious.
Yea uh no.. Besides swimming down into blackness which terrifies me enough, I would be afraid of air bubbles or water movement (being that its mostly stagnant) disturbing lose rock formations and causing a rockslide... Specially in an old mine/quarry of more than 100m deep.. Awesome footage tho. Be careful fellas.
Oh no no no never were does he get his balls the open water I get but tunnels no no no was he born with huge balls or were they grown over time , hats off to him and a great video
This was a slate quarry until 1975 when the pumps that kept the bottom from flooding were turned off, and the quarry was abandoned. There should be some history of the quarry on the Internet.
This was a slate quarry until 1975 when the pumps that kept the bottom from flooding were turned off, and the quarry was abandoned. There should be some history of the quarry on the Internet.
