Damn straight. My first scare diving was when I was just new to the hobby. Being in eastern Canada I dive the bay of Fundy a fair bit. I was diving for scallops when out of nowhere a porpoise swim about 4 feet away from me and all I mentally think is "fml it's a shark", the second time I realized I had entered another food chain and I was possibly on the menu was when I was about 60-80 feet deep once again looking for scallops when it got dark in what is not the best visabillity to begin with. When I look around only to realize I was being shadowed by a pair of whales. Huge majestic things, that probably didn't even notice me. And the most holy shit moment was back in early 2000s when me and my dive buddy Dave joined a boat charter to dive off of Shelbourns, Nova Scotia to dive a grounded ww2 UBoat. You don't have a great deal of bottom time due to the highest tides in the world mixed with the UBoat being at or around 90ish feet deep at low tide. It's poor visibility again but once you hit 86-89 feet only then do you start to see what looks like a ghost from ww2 right in front of you. Very amazing yet humbling moment.
Not diving, but working the docks. During fog season, the visibility is about 5 feet. These huge cruise ships would be slowly creeping towards the dock. You can hear them, but can't see them. After about 30 minutes, they appear so quickly, it feels like a building falling on you. They discontinued the practice, i guess for insurance reasons. Ship has sophisticated technology, but others may not. I wish I would've recorded it.
That's so beautiful to see in nature. Ups to the diver for not disturbing it. It looks large, so it must be an adult, I'm wondering if it was out looking for food for the family, or if it's just roaming.
To those wondering why this never happens by chance with military subs, their sonographers can tell how much loose change you have in your wetsuit by how you jingle in the water from 4 miles away. They're not going to pass anywhere near where commercial/tourist divers can get a look at them and they don't have to.
Not necessarily true. There’s a dive resort in the Puget Sound in WA where it’s somewhat common to hear subs coming back into and out of port at Bremerton. My dive instructor heard them playing AC/DC one time. You could definitely see them if there was better visibility than the like 8 feet there is there
@@jaybiddy955 its not really due to equipment sound travels a lot faster and further in the water a submarine can in fact track a scuba diver depending on their gear
@@hubertnitkowski9583 no no you missed my point lol in other words if the Army can buy a rifle from the dollar store that barely does anything for you but your supposed to abuse and use it for 20 years and hand it off to the next dumbass who signed up to die and say hey bub I just did 20 and 3 deployments with this now its your turn. The sad part in this is I wish I was lying about this lowest bidder for equipment practice
@@jaybiddy955 I'm perfectly aware of how hand-me-down a most of our equipment is. I served too, not as an 11 bang-bang, but still. Im also telling you that from having worked with high value assets our military budget definitely goes somewhere, and that somewhere, form the top down tends to be Carriers Submarines Experimental Aircraft R&D Special Operations Everything between that and personnel Personnel. When a submarine is carrying a multi billion dollar payload of potentially world ending nuclear warheads and has the ability to start or stop world war III just by BEING somewhere its "not supposed to be", working at pressures where a single obsolete or faulty piece of equipment will not only cost us a multi billion dollar submarine but also its multi billion dollar payload of potentially world ending warheads, cause a nuclear spillage disaster, and potentially incite an international incident(even sunk a submarine can start a world war), and where having the best equipment available is going to increase said submarines ability to outmaneuver and outfight the OTHER GUYS Multi billionwhatever submarine... Youre going to outfit with the best equipment it can get. Again, as a grunt, I wouldnt expect you to be given access to the same equipment. You and everything you carrying on you, multiplied by however many of you were in your company, probably isnt as financially or strategically valuable as that single submarine is. Not to say grunts aren't strategically important. Nobody has a higher respect for warfighters than I do. I'm just saying if they had to choose between you guys and the submarine? Yeah...
Uh uh. Not me. No way. I'll take my chances with the SCUBA gear!!! If I'm gonna die doing something STUPID, I want to be in control of my OWN destiny!!!
@@dannycurtis2591, if you make the decision to take the tour on the sub and the unspeakable happens _[may the Lord grant you a long and happy life]_ it would still be you controlling your own destiny, wouldn't it?
@@JSB103 Never gonna happen, never gonna get on one. That's what choosing your own destiny is about. CHOICES. An act of God, whole different conversation.
There was one of those operating on the island of Guam when I lived there in the 90s . It was fun to go alongside and wave at the tourists looking out the observation windows . One of the dangerous aspects that divers were warned of about these Subs is that they had a positive buoyancy and submerged through the use of thrusters pushing them down this was a safety feature that allowed them to surface if they had lost power . The dangerous part for divers would be if they in position over one of these thrusters they could possibly be blown upward at a rapid rate of ascent which is not a good thing for a diver .
@3D Modeller it's a commercial sub for tourists not with a 235 decibel active sonar lol still if it was a military sub I would be outta there cuz yeah fun till ya lungs brains muscles and majority of your body go boom lol
@S It is "just" sound. Sound is energy that travels through matter via pressure waves. More sound energy equals higher pressure waves, and a loud enough sound can damage or kill you. Water also transmits acoustic energy much faster and more effectively than air.
imagine a nuclear submarine like the sea wolf class passing under you while you’re on a dive. i never realized how intimidating submarines could really be.
People say how scary of a sight this would be, what scares me is active sonar, at that distance a ping could boil and rupture all the blood vessels in your body.
I was thinking the same. But from what people say this is a tourist submarine so maybe they use something else than sonar to navigate or they just know where to go somehow and not need it
@DILLIGAF * It can yes. No one's sure how common it does though. Sonar is used as a weapon in ports against divers, so it can absolutely seriously injure or kill.
A sonar can kill divers because of the sound waves it produces. I honestly thought it was the microwaves it produces. But appearantly, it's the sound waves generated by the sonar. I think weather sonar uses much less powerful waves than what military has in store on their submarine. And that spectator submarine definately has a sonar machine, but just a weather one to detect storms. Pretty much harmless.
20 something years ago my grandpa took me to go on this Atlantis. People say it's for "tourists" but as a local it was quite fun being a submarine and seeing those underwater attractions.
@Peace Sells, But Who's Buying? it happens a lot in the French on the French costs and in the Channel, in Normandy u can even find some M4 Sherman tank
Imagine you passing under a US Navy submarine while swimming... oh, wait, no 'imagining' needed - btdt, how 'bout them Qual Sigs! US Navy Submarine Force '77-'87
Fantastic video! It's one of those commercial, tourist submarines likely in the Caribbean. My wife and I were fortunate enough to embark on one of those underwater tours. Very interesting!
Looks like the Atlantis sub... just a tourist sightseeing boat. Though I think it would have been funny if the SCUBA diver had dropped down on deck and leaned up against the railing... just waiting for the sub to surface... Tourists come out and the diver just waves... "thanks for the lift!" :)
The Rogue Admiral any dive above 15' and less then 30 min wouldn't. Just don't go up faster then the bubbles around you. When you plan a dive deeper then 15' you would want to stop for 3-5 mins at 15'. With the dives deeper then 120' and longer then the corresponding time for the max depth. Would require considerably more time at steps when going up. That more tanks would be left at the depth attached to a boat. The people who work at 500 ish feet will ride a pressurized container to their support ship then the pressure will drop over the next few days at a rate of 100' per day. Also anything below 120' requires mixed gases to prevent oxygen toxicity.
Wow that’s gotta be a once in a lifetime experience for anybody! If he hadn’t recorded it, nobody would believe him. At the end, it appeared to be diving into the murky darkness.😮
I was snorkeling off the shore of Maui years ago in about 50 ft of water. I looked down and saw two scuba divers walking along the floor of the ocean. They were wearing weights to stay down and had their flippers attached to their backs. The water was super clear and I couldn't believe my eyes.
For those who are wondering, that is a tourist submarine. They are typically only around 40-60 feet long, or about the size of a fishing boat. The water makes it hard to see how small it is
The people on the sub are like "And here we have the Subnauticus Dudicus in it's natural habitat. You can tell it from the Subnauticus You'rescrewedicus by it's bright coloring and festive curiosity. A largely peaceful resident of the seas, they don't startle easily, respond well to nonaggressive overtures, but can be aggressive when feeding. "
The one thing most people do not seem to know, is that this is actually a private sub. This is actually SOMEONE'S private submarine. So yes, yes if you are a billionaire you actually buy one for yourself.
Yes you are right ! this is a private sub ! But not for a billionaire. You can actually purchase this for around $250 because well, its remote controlled.
@@jaywhips This is probably a diesel-electric to yeah, it sounds quite loud (it is probably also by law that it can't be silent). And how do you explain it being the same size as her head yet being clearly behind her. Do you see the details on the deck? You think they make open ports on a toy. Those hatches look very functional to me, and those railings sure look like real polished or chromed metal. Way too detailed for just looks. Also it is clearly way too deep for a rc subamrine and I also can't find any submersible rc submarines that look anything like this. This thing is definitely for real dude. You just have to get your head around the fact that there really are people in this world rich enough to just buy their own private luxury submarine. And it is just *one* of their (multi-multi-multi-million dollar) toys. This one was probably somewhere between $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. Just a rough estimate based on my knowledge and I can't really judge it's size and luxury but this one doesn't too big, based on the size of the submarine versus the size of the hatches. For about 2 billion dollars you can buy a 928 foot long luxury submarine and this one doesn't even look close to that. So it will probably be more towards the 500 million. Which is perfectly doable price for those kind of people since plenty of private yachts have sold at that price point.
Ive been on one of those subs during a vacation to Maui when i was a kid. Couldn’t see anything out of the windows but it was still cool, still have the pin they gave me.
It's happened to me a couple times, once in Cozumel, had just finished a dive, waiting for a boat to pick me up. I don't know what got my attention, probably the noise, looked down and there it was. Another time in Maui, was diving on a sunken boat, found out that one of the tourist submarines frequented the wreck. We were told by the divemaster, don't give any obscene gestures, ha ha. I shot a video of the encounter, I might have even posted it on youtube. I can't remember the title, could have been "diving in Maui" or something, my youtube name is emptech, I'm sure you could search for it. The viewing ports for the passengers is on the underside, I don't know if they even knew there were divers overhead as they passed by. - Jim
Hey, cool story and neat video! I clicked through to your profile and it was the first video on your uploads! I expected the bottom of the sub to more fully match the deck, but I guess there’s no need for all that fancy white deck material down below. Thanks for the share!
I kept expecting a slew of henchmen with spearguns to come out on the attack, while their evil genius boss watches from the huge picture window at the front of the sub. ( while stroking a cat of course)
This looks like a tourist sub, like the one in Waikiki called Atlantis. They cruise around at about 80 ft deep and tourists can look out big side windows, like riding a bus.
I remember seeing one of them tourist subs on one of my dives. I had a sea scooter with me at the time, so I cruised alongside and waved to all little kiddies inside.
I've seen that sub. I live in Honolulu ,Hawaii and I have seen that sub being towed in and out of harbor. I didn't know that it could actually submerge. I always thought that it was only a partially submersed sub, more like a glass bottom surface craft.
A static, small tourist sub. The diver has a diver propulsion vehicle, hence the noise. If this had been a military sub, the diver would have been advised to surface due to loudness of the sonar (and sound travels much easier underwater).
I've been to HI twice and had experiences with these tourist subs each time. The first time, I went scuba diving on a wrecked ship off the shore of Oahu and one of the subs came by. All us divers waived to the Japanese tourists inside, snapping pictures through the port holes. My second trip, my wife and I went out in one of those subs off the big island. They're a pretty nice tourist attraction.
Sound waves are able to pass through water as it is able to travel through something think of it as putting your ears underwater while having a bath and hearing everything like your elbow being pushed against the side of the bath etc. The reason you cant hear sounds in space is because there's nothing for the soundwaves to pass through
Those subs actually take divers to wreck sites in the bay. The divers stand on top where the silver rails are. There's a video of it on here somewhere I think it's SVDelos.
That's a submersible for tourists that is likely run by Atlantis tours. I went on one in Barbados. They dive to around 100 feet. Great experience. I identified it by the conning type tower you can see is open at the front. This gives access to the stairs to the main pressure hull. It's not a military submarine.
jason keller eh I wouldn’t call it a sub. It’s like a semi sub. It maintains a positive buoyancy and submerges through electric propellers and I’m pretty sure there’s no dive plains. A real sub has a ballast tank.
My fellow diver: "Dude! We could have had awesome footage for RU-vid if you'd just filmed!" Me: "Sorry...I was too busy running...err...swimming...swimming away!"
@@maximusX_ They’re very dangerous to be near. One sonar ping and anything nearby including a human would be torn to shreds and be killed. It’s why divers stay away from Sperm Whales as they have a similar mechanism.
Came out of a wreck in Cozumel and the noise was loud in the wreck, then we all swam near sub and waved to the tourists, not a typhoon but it had 20 windows on each side, it was no toy. It was very cool
Kelp dive off San Diego. Out on a dive boat before dawn with my son. Thick fog, GPS piloting out of harbor, but captain says good diving. Suited up and jumped in. Put a strobe on the anchor chain. Visibility was better under water than on deck. Strange and beautiful dive. Surface was like a mirror. When the sun came up it was amazing stained glass cathedral through the kelp forest. Moments that make life enjoyable.
Seriously thought I was the only one imagine swimming along and seeing one of those big nuclear subs just sitting under there or having to board it. "Dick Marsinco founder seal team 6 boarding nuclear sub in New York harbor."
I had something similar happen in the Caymans. I waved at everyone in the windows. I could hear it coming a long time before I saw it. It was like an ultra loud vacuum cleaner underwater.
Atlantis Submarines has been sharing the magnificence of Hawaii’s undersea world since 1988 using the environmentally safe submarines that are battery powered, emit no pollutants, and quietly move through the water, disturbing no one. It’s the ultimate in sustainable tourism.
@@timbucktoo99191 I know. The wealthy do struggle with their eco guilt. They are the problem but they have a friend who says he will plant a tree for them to offset their flight and they book eco holidays! So no guilt! That is why they want us to own nothing and have a happiness mandate as an offset to their extravagant lives. Someone needs to load the bags on the plane and drive the taxis!
So, the power plants that charge the sub's batteries don't emit pollutants? The disposal of the old lead acid batteries it uses in the local landfill don't damage the ecology?
@@robinwells8879 I think I've traced that kind of elitism back to fear. Some rich people believe in wealth creation, others are afraid (possibly for good reason) that they couldn't cut it in the real world so they try to use manulipulation and corruption to transform the world into a place where a person can be wealthy only by knowing people or being born into it. That mentality results in "great reset" style corruption, not by the best and brightest, but by the politically connected. No wonder it's success would actually signal worldwide failure.
It would be awkward but it wouldn't terrify me if it was under me. Suddenly appearing right in front of me though, now that's something, and probably the only thing you can do before get slammed by a 10 tone metal giant...
Rode one off Oahu in 06.That was fun 115 ft. If you have trouble and have to evacuate with a breather and 66 passengers I believe it wouldn't work with one door that we knew of and no safety lesson at all.I really enjoyed it but hate to be in a situation I can't control or leave.
If I ever saw one of these tourist submarines I would have totally wanted to go onboard until they surface, but sadly I’m too scared to because of one thing.....THE PROPELLER
