Botallack Mine. Whats still to see Undergrond? 

I watch your videos so I don't have to go down these places myself. Thanks for doing all the hard work for us.

Love watching your videos.

Many thanks, incredible insight into the lives of Cornish tin miners. What a hard life they had.

Still blows my mind the thought of those tunnels extending out under the ocean. It must have been some experience being in that scenario.

Brilliant guys well done 👍 been there many times but no way could I go down those workings lol .. your very brave 👍 Glyn

Brilliant! Those super tight places were sketchy as anything, that’s the bit I’d not do even if I did fit, which I defo wouldn’t 😂

Been there today! So loved watching this!

It's beautiful there, I love it, but my legs went like jelly when they first went down & walked over that bridge! Brave people 😮

Hi Ben, nice video, didn't Dominic Hudson dig this, I know he was on a long time but not sure if he finished it, when are you going to come to Rosevale? We are there every Saturday. Be good to meet you.

Always been fascinated by this place and its history. Great to see whats down there.... thanks guys. 👍

Hi Ben you could do another video there all about the higher workings open to surface

Hia Ben. I did that trip many years ago by roping down below the engine houses and it was then a 10 foot handline up to the adit, a definate low spring tide job, adit was in much better condition than now. The wooden bridge over Allens Shaft was also good, I just strolled over it with confidence. The shaft is also cut by an upper adit which you would have passed on your long abseil. Over the shaft was blocked, I heard about it being dug through a few years alter but did not get around to a return trip. Nice video.

often stood there ,and a few other sites and wondered,thanks guys, proper job, interesting colour in the backs, can see why they were there.

One of your best ever Benno! Punching out of that beach adit was really cool. Love your mine adventures, please keep them coming. Watching from QLD, Australia.

Oh good grief. . You chaps are brave . . . It must have been hard work in the past to drive those roads through that’s hard granite. . Thank you for the video 👍👍

Love this Ben, fantastic video to see what's still there and not flooded! If you're doing any more soon, I'd love to see you abseil down/where you go!

Love seeing the old photos, thanks!

Another great Cornish Tin Mine underground video!! You accomplished all of your missions & goals stated at the beginning

Great job ! With only an unhappy bearing and a couple of small leaks, I'd say a very great job ! Well done !!

Wonderful

Reminds me of caving with mates back in the ate 70's in Queensland. I was the skinny bloke and used to get a rope tied to my ankles and sent into narrow crawlways to see if a way through was possible. Great video and that is the BIGGEST figure 8 descender I've ever seen.

Thats amazing well done guys

Wish you would upload more lol.. I always get excited when I see one of your videos has been uploaded!

Brilliant...amazing to think what's under your feet in so many parts of Cornwall. Well done. Very good filming quality and dialogue .

Hi Ben, yes this mine is so famous but very few including me knew its name. Stunning location in beautiful Cornwall. This video is absolutely fantastic ! So interesting, entertaining & bloody scary too! I just love your videos they are some of the the best mine explorations I've seen. I thought they are never going to cross that rickety wooden plank bridge in the mine with the drop pf 100's of feet? Yes you did! Amazing Ben & team stay safe. ❤😊

Just watched a video by Cornish Xplora of the same place uploaded at the same time as yours - looks a fascinating explore, if rather dodgy! Botallack is one of my favourite places. Many thanks

Great place with breathtaking views too. I haven’t dared ever to go down that path and get close yet in all my years in Cornwall!

Great video Beno cam. The bridge of death was in such a huge chasm and Echo ey . The old timers removed so much rock , it's hard to get a scale on the Enormity . Thanks for uploading for all to see ❤ 🪖🔦🪜

Righton Ben. i hope the Carnsew Clan are all well. Been waiting for this one for a brev while. Cheers, Timmy R.

Yes good to see your new vid Ben

I was there a couple of weeks ago. Nice to see underground.

I always wondered what it was like down there mate what a great video

I read Cyril Noall’s book on Botallack back in the 1970s and still have it. A fascinating mine and my favourite part of Cornwall.

Its great down there. I got in a very long while ago and its nice to see some of it again.

we worked for Thyssens in '85 and put in the section in the Hazard adit held up with steel beams from 4.19 on, hence the airline as we cut the beams in with CP9s. The old beams from 1907 were still there. Plenty of attle above hanging like grapes (and probably below) so we used a fixed line to anchor onto, and loaded the rubbish into plastic bags and heaved up over the roof which was corrugated iron. The shaft water looks lower than when we were there, there was a bit of an incident using the sinking cage (which we used to get down from the surface, is still probably resting on hockey sticks at the top of the shaft) when the cage struck that bridge and nearly pitched the riders into the shaft.

very interesting . great job .

Been here so many times my favourite area of Cornwall there's an old zig zag path goes down the cliff which has eroded over the years must be more adits down on the beach

Fantastic video

That Bull was fierce.

Love it. The price of Tin will rise to a point where some of this will be viable again. Bloody good explore lads 👍

..You guys have had way too many spingo's haha Thanks for giving me vertigo 😨😨

If RU-vid had a “I’m Jealous”button I’d be pressing it.

Brilliant..

This is my fav place in Cornwall 😍 managed to climb the tower when I was there last but didn’t head into the mines as didn’t have a head torch - had no idea this was here

As always great content, it'd be awesome for you to give a tour at Crofty, while they're draining it!

i met some people coming out of there once they had no kit and had got lost in the mine they seemed very excited to have reached daylight againj

Very interesting

Even the props have history, as i believe they could well be from dismantled wooden ships...

Wonderful video, thank you for making it. I visit Botallack every year with my family and it is fantastic to see what part of the workings look like. You mentioned that the area has been "shored up recently" I was just wondering has that work been done by other explorers like yourselves?

Amazing video you gotta visit the box mine in corsham

Thanks + wild horses wouldn't get me to try and repeat that.

With great respect- you're mad !

Brilliant vid, thanks Ben. Just been upto Minions and had a look at some engine houses and Gold digging quarry. Was Botallack the mine the queen Victoria when down ?

Hazard by name, hazard by nature 😂

The way you came back up at the end has that way mostly been eroded now? I was wanting to go down to the lower area but there was a notice up restricting anyone to go down.

I made it down to just below the engine houses back in the late 70s before they were restored. Bit sketchy as it was a wet day and they are not the best rocks to scramble over. Never made it down to the beach as the tide had turned and was coming in. Didn't know there was a way in at the base of the cliffs which I should imagine must flood in the spring tides and storms. I believe that Botallack was always known to have "soft" rock and was one of the reasons why the undersea tunnel collapsed and flooded. You used to be able to see the red staining in the water when the seas were a bit rough but I understand that this isn't as evident nowadays - so has the breach sealed itself? Haven't been down there for nearly 20 years! Was planning a trip down to the blessed county in May with some planned photography around St Just and Pendeen but temporary health issues put paid to that!

I love it when you go undergrond

Interesting video. Do you know how recently the shoring up work was done?

Thanks

Great trip Ben & crew, There is and use to be a slightly easier way of getting into the main shaft under the head gear, It was not passable last time i looked, Entrance a bit further along, Do you know of it?

@8:48 Yeeeeeeeah

How do you if the air quality is good the deeper down you go ? It is clear from the video your comments say you can feel the sea breeze. But deeper down, if you do not have a air monitor, how can you be sure there is sufficient 02

Do you think the tunnels that extend out under the sea are flooded or could they still be dry?

Gonn meur ras a’th gwydheo splann. Byttegyns, nyns yw da genev an spasow mar dynn. Nebes ownek ov y’ga hever!😫

Hi Ben . any ghosts in these Cornish mines .?

Ok where can I do this for my birthday ? In January I’m in Florida

my wife just said to me , how do you not get lost , i explained the right hand rule...if you go riight right right ,,,its left ,left left to go back to where you came from

Who do you think shored it up?

whats that behind you at the start of the video

Ace

Interesting video, that's for sure. However, if you ever find yourself stuck in one of these holes, I will completely understand if there is no one willing to go in and search you. Sometimes you just have to take responsibility for your own stupidity.

Excellent video, thanks! I used to go caving with Plymouth Caving Club, but never got down to the Cornish mines. You should have eaten a pasty down there for tradition😊