245m Cave Dive in the Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand 

What really stands out in this video is that you run through the dive in a meticulous and complete manner. Never boring. no rubbish music track. Just plain cave diving. beautifully done. Simple and complete!

As someone who will never cave dive, I am fascinated to watch your adventure. Thanks for sharing.

Saw you on Dive Talk. Hopefully you get some financial support from the Dive Talk community to help offset some of the costs. I know it isn't much, but hopefully you will get lots of small contributions that make a real difference when combined. I have 💯 % respect for you.. lost my 5 year old son to brain cancer, and pediatric Anesthesiologists played a big roll in the 12 brain surgeries he went through while fighting it. You are a gift to humanity.

I grew up cave diving in Florida, USA. Stopped about 30 years ago. I can't believe how far the sport has come since then! 245m! Wow.

wow 40 min of dive and a total of 16hrs to decompress. you guys are amazing. can you make a decompress video time laps sometime

Absolutely incredible; watched the whole thing on the edge of my seat. It’s so refreshing to hear commentary (honest commentary) rather than daft Europop in the background. That end point looks amazing- can’t wait to see where you go next. 🙏 thank you.

Wow, some really breathtaking shots there. I appreciated the time you spent discussing the frustration over getting split up and how that affects dives, and that you almost stopped the dive because your mind wasn’t in the best place. Very cool.

That last cavern and the shaft to the left with silt blown out must have had you planning the next dive, awesome video thank you so much

Wow that was absolutely amazing to watch! Thanks for putting that together for us. Great achievement, congrats to both of you. Im sure that little separation must have racked up a decent amount of deco time.

Amazing, I couldn't stop watching, and your commentary was the best, especially explaining the hardships that you ran into and how you and your dive buddy overcame them. There is a lot to learn from that, for all new divers to experienced ones as well. And the honest remarks in your commentary is spell binding, so damn glad i found your channel :)

I read about Pearce Resurgence in Martyn Farr’s The Darkness Beckons but this gives me a whole new level of appreciation. Thank you and thank you for sharing and narrating this video.

Keep up the good stuff Richard! You and dive talk have gotten me hooked on learning about scuba and all the science that goes into it. Thank you!

I will never understand the desire to go deep into the earth be it diving or walking. I can appreciate the determination to do so, the ability to keep calm under stressful situations and frankly the courage to do it. Me personally, I havnt lost anything in those holes and I dont plan on the first thing I do lose in one to be my life. Stay safe down there!

You guys are absolute mad lads - how you kept going after getting separated at 180m is beyond me - keep enjoying what you do!

Awesome video Richard. What an amazing place and you surely are very lucky to be able to be the first ones to see that cave. Looking forward to the next one 👍

Amazing! Really well thought out and presented video. Thanks so much for sharing.

No way…..one of the dive vids I have seen……bloody amazing……..will watch again and again….just wish it was longer….best Nicky C

I was literally captivated. It’s so so lovely to watch. You guys must have nerves of steel. I can see where the years of training and practicing have come in to play. You make it look easy. I can’t even touch the bottom of the deepens in my local swimming pool. I had to subscribe because this is stinkin’ rad! 🤿 💯 👍🏾

amazing video Richard! Thanks for sharing this remarkable experience. Dive safe and have fun!

Thanks for a nicely presented dive. I wish you many more safe and happy cave dives. Greetings Robert.

I'm quite happy living vicariously through you blokes, it just seems like a no-win scenario going places few people have been, the dangers just out weigh the rocks in the water. More power to the ones willing though, hope you stay safe.

Richard, this is a crazy human feat! Crazy good you kept pushing on! Please be extra extra careful when you go back beyond 245m!

Thank you so much for this video. Can't wait to see what you and the whole team will achieve with further exploration in this amazing cave system.

Super cool video, guys! Congrats!!! Looking forward to more!

I'm 61 now. Much has changed since my SCUBA diving days in the 80's and early 90's. My deepest 140' dive was a measly 42.5 meters. Great job and great video.

I couldn’t be happier coming across this video. It takes real titans to go explore into this territory. I am a novice cave diver having learnt to cave dive in Mexico, watching this really gave me thrills. I was really on the edge of my seat. Only a cave diver would appreciate the type of complexity these sort of dives have to offer. truly amazing job.

You guys are awesome and incredibly brave for doing these dives……great video!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing. Diving right up at the physiological edge. Awesome.

Astounding! The depth and length of this dive, beautifully narrated too 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 The skill and preparation needed to safely explore the depths of the Earth water passages never ceases to impress me. The bravery of these great explorers is utterly impressive too! 😊👍👍

I've never done any sort of diving and I still found this spellbinding. Cave diving seems very challenging and rewarding. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing footage! Look forward to seeing where this goes.

I can't fathom the feeling of being so isolated and deep down in a hole filled with water in which one mistake can literally kill you, and there is no help. this is bravery on another level. This is very intense to watch, especially if you can tune into the facts mentioned above. Thanks for sharing this video!

Absolutely Brilliant. Can see why you two are the Dynamic Duo. Beautiful clean dive perfectly executed. Well done. Cheers from Michael. Australia,

i felt like i was there with you bud. well done to you both. thanks.

' What a great dive guys!¡!!!!! Looking forward to watching more!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!

I've never been diving in my life and this is honestly one of my favorite videos on YT.

This is the first cave diving video I’ve watched and I can totally see why people pursue the sport. It was just beautiful and there must be such a sense of excitement when you get to unexplored sections and be the first people to ever see them. Subbed and looking forward to seeing more of your adventures. Thank you so much for sharing!

Wow! Just watching this video scares me. Diving through so many crevasses in total darkness to that depth of 245m but the length of dive was 600m in total and to spend 16hrs deco is amazing. I'm only ow with prob 20hrs dive in open ocean. You truly are on an extreme level of diving! Thank you for a great video!

this is such an amazing video, love your narration and the abundance of the information you are sharing!

What a great video, thanks for sharing and the step by step narration!

Absolutely amazing shots. Iam just getting into Tech Diving but this seems to be on another level , really interesting video !!!

I would personally love a series of more technical videos discussing your planning and risk assessment for dives like this.

Thanks for the great video! I really enjoyed watching

This is just incredible ... I cannot imagine the feeling of diving in caves and in such depths ... mesmerizing ...

Amazing video and great dive! Do you have a video on the ascent explaining the deco habitats? Thank you.

I've just discovered your channel and it is stunning, your videos are amazing, I can't stop watching them all! Btw I want to congratulate and thank you for all the effort you are putting on these, I hope you continue with these long videos, I watch them in my TV as if they were films. Thank you, ( An average diver, who in the future would love to do cave diving, cenotes, mines etc)

I'm speechless, amazing video!

Thanks for the detailed video and audio coverage of the dive. Simply wonderful footage and so clear with the low silt levels in the cave. I hope you 2 are friends again after all the decompression stops.

I really enjoyed it this video! I watched it on Dive Talk earlier today, including the interview. I had to visit your channel and watch the whole video, and I'm not even a scuba diver. Even if I were a diver I don't think I'm cut out for this extreme depths in tight spaces so I really appreciate that you give me a chance to watch places that is so inaccessible. I find it interesting from an technical point of view and the only thing I missed in this video more details about how the habitats works, why you get shaky hands on these depths, and so on. I understand that this video is primarily made for other divers that know all this already, but a little bit more detail for those of us non-divers would be great. In this case I got a lot of details from the Dive Talk reaction and interview. I have smashed both the like and subscribe button. Greetings from Norway. 🙂

Where to start…. Wow. So many things I loved about your video. 1. We have arguments underwater lol, our confidence gets shaken, we need to regroup, and there’s always something you didn’t talk about on the surface. I really love how you included that. I just did a dive to 65M and my dive partner and I had a similar“thing”. 2. Second guessing and about as relaxed as you can feel… yeah. 3. The footage is awesome, really great commentary 4. GoPro? Do you have a special housing? Mine won’t go past 55M. 5. Loved your explanation on the gear. I’m sidemount still and building up experience… dual rebreathers? Omg… so above my skill set currently. Just awesome video. I’m starting a channel so if you want to see some basic stuff lol

Absolutely stunning! You gentlemen have my deepest appreciation for a place I will never see, along with billions of other people! Just amazing! Thank you!

I love the commentary. Can’t say much more than that other than thank you for this beautiful dive! Legends

Wow this was fascinating, thanks for sharing. I wish I had the gonads to do this sport cause it looks absolutely mind blowing. Sadly I don't like water, I'm scared of the dark and mildly claustrophobic so it's probably not a great fit. Thanks again, Richard!

This is absolutely incredible footage!😍

Awesome Dive Richard, thanks for sharing and pushing that cave!

That is just an epic cave. Thanks for sharing with us, your commentary is great.

Awesome footage, and an amazing achievement, never realized how deep it was. I assume you will be planning another trip to explore further?

Saw this on vimeo, all I want to know is, when are ya'll going back? This is an awesome cave!

Came over from Dive Talk. Amazing dive! I couldn't ever cave dive myself. Had a ruptured brain aneurysm. But I love watching someone else do. Subscribed. Thanks for sharing this.

shout out to dive talk

Would love to see more on this cave! Do you plan to film more explorations on this case in the future?

Nice video and great narration. The separation part was interesting to hear your thoughts - certainly throws a wrench into things. Glad it was able to be recovered. I haven't dove since I was a kid (got my license @ 14? or maybe 15?) and im in my mid 30's now. I like to watch these cave diving videos. It would be cool to get back into diving again, but it just feels so much more difficult to motivate myself to do so. Thanks again for the video!

THIS, is excellent. I love everything about being in water but I know way more about the dangers of diving than a non diver should, which will keep me from ever doing scuba. I'm so glad that there are brave awesome souls like yourselves that do this for fun and take the time to video it and share with us non-divers. I love it!

really enjoyed this video. gotta figure out how to get dive talk to react.

16 hours??? you get 40 minutes of fun and then spend 15 hours in that water going back up??? what?? some more explanation of that would be amazing I am so intrigued how that woks, thats SO long

Wow, fantastic stuff. Congratulations.

Absolutely awesome - thank you!

I wanna learn to dive after seeing this. So crazy that it takes that much to decompress. How deep do you suspect this to go??

New to watching cave diving videos- but just wondering why noone’s laying a new line earlier in case the place gets silted out? Awesome video though. Well done!

FANTASTIQUE!!! Thank you very much for this great video that took us almost there

Brilliant video with brilliant commentary. Thank you and well done.

Amazing video with very informative commentary. Thanks for sharing!! There is something I have always wondered... Is the water pressure in caves the same as in open water, or is it a little lighter due to less water being above you?

Thanks!

This is easily one of the most mind-blowing things I've ever seen. Wow. My hat is off to you, gentlemen.

That was pretty awesome thanks so much for the post and walk through. 🍻

Amazing! How long was your deco? How deep do you think this cave was?

I honestly have a real trouble to understand how so insanely trained cave divers manage to do so many elementary basic mistakes of cave diving... To a point that watching this video is just stressful... - Buoyancy control is inexistant fins are banging all over the place. And even if in a high flow cave it's less of a concern... How about conservation ? - Diver #2 passing in front of diver #1, in addition to flood light on DPV (reducing ability to communicate with primary lights) which lead to team separation (it's already bad on an easy cave dive... But gosh that dive is fairly extreme...) - You guys get near entangled multiple times - Diver #1 deploys a reel with absolutely no tie offs... It's floating and turning around... The line would just be useless in case you need to follow it by touch contact ... - What happens to "keep a continuous guideline to exit"? ------ I understand sometimes rules can be bent to adapt to the environment... But come on... What kind of example does it set? Not even the worst cavern student would do even half of that... And the thing is... Given how insanely trained you guys are. You know all of that, you consciously decide to ignore and publicize extreme diving while ignoring the most elementary rules of cave diving... And with that you make video to teach people "which gas to use" or "which primary light to pick"? Seriously... What kind of role model do you guys set... Please do as I say, not as I do... People like you (so trained, so knowledgeable) should do better. You have a responsibility to foster save diving practices! You may be okay with that risk level, you may be comfortable breaking rules where you believe it is sort of safe. Your videos will inspire someone to swim in a cave without a line, to disregard buoyancy (for safety and conservation), that having a team separation is no big deal (you can always come back and find your mate). What you do privately, I don't really care. Please understand you are not sharing this video with your mates, and your recklessness may influance someone (probably far less trained) the wrong way... Anyway...I wish you to stay safe...

WOW this video had me on the edge all the time. Can't recall the last time that a video made me feel like that!

A delight to watch. Well done and very exciting. I'll look for other videos in your collection to see if you and your team ever went past the 245m mark either going straight ahead or down that interesting hole. Bottom line: great job.

Amazing work. Fantastic video.

Enjoyed the honest commentary a lot. Congrats on a good dive.

Every minute of this is riveting. Great vid

Awesome dive, love the commentary. Nice and clean

This was absolutely phenomenal to watch

Thank you for sharing your dive!

Hello. These deep-sea dives are always impressive! But what a show! ! Many thanks to all the contributors for your deep dive. Sincerely.

That was insane depths. Cool video

WOW . Frightening yet Incredibly challenging. Thankyou for sharing.

Cave Diving! Guaranteed goosebumps and claustrophobia! Thx for this very well detailed narration. 😵‍💫

Incredible dive. I get scared at 40M in open water without arguments. You have some serious composure and control operating with all that gear in confined space. Legend.

Really nice shots, clean diving. Congratulations on the new tunnels - can’t wait to see what’s down that hole 🕳!

Thanks for sharing this. Please continue sharing future adventures

Looking forward to seeing deeper into the cave

I take my hat off to you guys, you guys are great, I have a lot of respect for your work, thanks for a great film.

I usually tense up watching cave diving videos, your comentary made it relaxing and it looks stunning!

Absolutely incredible. Pretty sure my mouth was wide open watching this

absolutely fantastic, thank you! greetings from Italy!

Amazing. Massive respect guys, wow 245 meters down. Nice to see you just filmed the dive, simple. I scuba dive for fun, dived a few cenotes in Mexico ,but this is a different league ,literally😂. Great video. 👏👏👍

What a fantastic video and the commentary is also very honest and interesting 🤘🏻

Great video, love the narration!