Antarctica Diving McMurdo October 2012 

that jelly fish looks gross

And you haven't even been to the secret Nazi base!

Tell me where in the world do you have that "cloudy weather" I'll move there

I thought the same thing- like standing on a hill when a tornado is about to form.

I cant its cold

*Antarctic…not Arctic

Pretty much all the sounds you hear are from Weddell Seals

Abdo M wow maby Jupiters moon europe look like that.

If i hear those sounds, without the video, i would say it's some kind of 'digital' transmission... o.O

Foley Artist hired by them to sound more interesting

Fantastic! I hope you didn't find any oil or mineral deposits.

there may be the odd leopard seal a few tens of km away, but I am not aware or any elephant seals within hundreds of miles

Hubert Staudigel I meant in Antarctica in general, not sure of the distribution around Antarctica for each species.

They killed a diver by ripping him into peaceses while He was Alive ripped apart 💀🥶

I just need to emphasize this. NOPE.

And those SOUNDS....... BIG NOPE. But in all seriousness, mind blowing video guys, just sensational.

well it's touched now ...

and filled with sonar pollution

Untouched? Plastic is literally everywhere on the planet.

Did you end up getting the ice diving certification?

Sharath Padmanabhan I'd also like to know an answer to these questions..

+Sharath Padmanabhan No, you don't really need any special permission, other than being allowed to go there by your own government (if it is a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty). Of course you have to get there too. This video is in McMurdo Sound, not the peninsula where most of the tourist cruises go. As nobody owns Antarctica you are free to use any dive site you like once you get to the continent. Just remember the hardest part of diving under the ice is actually getting to the water, which in October is under about 2 - 3 m of ice. Many of the dive sites have holes drilled by specific nations, and the US program often has a dive hut over the hole to keep it open. You would need permission to enter their dive huts. We (NZ) always have a second hole outside the hut, which I guess anyone could use, but then you would need to know where the hut was. There are sometimes cracks where the ice grounds or at pressure ridges, but we don't normally dive them. Also as a tourist you could be up to 200 km from the hut depending on where your ship was and where the ice started. If you go there as part of a scientific program which is not scheduled to be diving you would be very unlikely to be allowed to dive as a non researcher, no matter how experienced you are. You also don't need special permission to video seals if they come to you (which they do all the time). The Antarctic treaty does not allow you to come closer than a 100m (I think) to any wildlife, but if they come to you that is a different matter.

Under maritime law you must be able to surround a land in order to own it. This is why Antarctica is the only continent that no one owns. It's also the highest continent in elevation which it has to be in order to hold in the oceans of the earth. The azumithel equidistant projection map shows you what Antarctica looks like.

@@CriticalInception LOLNO

It is

Now that's a cool thought!

when it is light, you can actually see the ice hole and you can orient yourself by remembering the underwater landscape. We also have a little mooring with some strobe lights so you can see the flashes.

+wannago94 I was wondering the same thing! No lines in an overhead environment sounds risky!

I guess if desperate, you could always steal one of the seal holes too.

You guys also could use a cave diving reel... lol I’m a cave diver but haven’t been to Antarctica yet. That looks so awesome, but cold

Good Question 😂😂

If you see the sand and its size (granulometry) you may conclude that thing is middle size, 30 in ?

this is a lion's mane jellyfish

It's a sea anemone that I was trying to think of - I did a couple google searches. It was in a marsh on the land, and it was very small, and bright red.

lion's mane jellyfish