Antarctica Diving McMurdo October 2012

[@Comp3630]

This is one of the most scariest and beautiful scenes I have ever seen.

[@danceballetacro]

that jelly fish looks gross

[@MWcrazyhorse]

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

[@dizapointed6041]

Ive lived in florida almost all my life so i haven't even seen snow before but here you are diving in the arctic. Humans can go so far in life

[@LarryBrownleesanteropaganismo]

I cant its cold

[@AirborneAnt]

*Antarctic…not Arctic

[@samglobetrotter541]

I had not realized how shallow the water in that area is. The ice lies on the seabed and there are very narrow parts. Still, there is a lot of marine life. The video is wonderful, the picture quality is excellent.

[@RandomAds]

This footage is so amazing, it almost looks like a Pixar animation!

[@TheFunnygym]

I'm terrifed of things like this, but at the same time it's so beautiful. And those seals are so cute :3

[@michaelsamo2849]

At 4:45 it looks like outside the water regular scenery shot with cloudy weather.

[@gabrielbay9739]

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

[@Krista2882]

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

[@williamtopping]

I actually thought it was the clouds on the thumbnail. So you're not wrong there!!

[@Life_Is_A...]

Which life forms are causing these futuristic sci fi like sounds ?

[@hstaudig]

Pretty much all the sounds you hear are from Weddell Seals

[@nesy3634]

Abdo M wow maby Jupiters moon europe look like that.

[@marcelobellissimo]

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

[@xkambing]

Foley Artist hired by them to sound more interesting

[@thegloriousmoodman2152]

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

[@donnielee8556]

Its amazing how the ice resembles so many different versions of our sky. From sunset to severe storm and tornado. Amazing scene

[@Paulie_O]

Fantastic video! So clean and peaceful.

[@talxlaohxra1238]

Trippy as hell. Fantastic footage.

[@arcticablue]

7:38 is fantastic! Weddell seals are so beautiful! Oh, the sights and sounds of life under the ice in Antarctica is so breathtakingly beautiful!

[@NymNym-hs9lh]

I love it the seals memorize that area too and all the twist and turns. Seals are very intelligent.

[@williamclements50]

This is some amazing footage you've got here! Like from another planet! Those seal sounds were tripping me out! Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@1992gus2991]

Fascinating stuff! One would think there wouldn’t be life under such extreme temperatures

[@---nu4ed]

Well the water can't go under 0 degrees so it's much warmer than the world above.

[@hogo1]

those whistling sounds you hear are the sounds of seals. The cold dense water allows sound to travel far. There are crabeater, weddell, leopard, and elephant seals there.

[@hstaudig]

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

[@hogo1]

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

[@xUnleadedx]

Sounds like the seals are hunting you with lock-on capabilities. lol Really cool sounds of the life that lives there.

[@DGFishRfine1]

Those seal vocalizations are INSANE!

[@minhschimmelmann7094]

Thank you for sharing with us your secret playground. It is such a beautiful world!

[@rlt94]

They could sample those seal sounds and create techno music.

[@MrSwanba]

This is epiccccc! Thank you for sharing. This is a dream of mine!!! Walking to the South Pole at the end of this year. Drawn towards those amazing blues... 10/10 video

[@Tetra84]

This is how I imagine it looks like under the ice of Europa, sounds and all.. just darker. :D

[@m777howitzer4]

Frozen tides. Mesmerizing. But also those sounds seem alien. Wonderful

[@skullcandy005]

love the submarine sounds effects that produce ice and water

[@realpocahontas1776]

Also I can never get over how cute seals are 🦭 and the tiny starfish ❤️🥰

[@Your_good_Days]

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

[@spqrdigo8504]

truely untouched nature.

[@CyclingDoggo]

well it's touched now ...

[@spunkmire2664]

and filled with sonar pollution

[@aaaaaa2206]

Untouched? Plastic is literally everywhere on the planet.

[@cambodianriverpig7613]

The more we explore other planets, the more I appreciate life here on earth. Life is SO RARE!

[@flyingscalpel7]

Just amazing. It's a whole other world down there. This is on my bucket list!

[@7071t6]

So clean, i wonder how deep is the deepest part under the water, after all its all land and covered with ice/snow, also what are the main minerals found ,like diamonds, oil, gas and other minerals which are mined? Its it me, or the extreme cold water diving suits are made so much better that they look like normal diving suits these days, the suits they put you in just to get into the water are pumped with warn water to keep your body warm, like those divers which work in deeper water like on oil rigs etc, fixing them up welding and plumbing etc. :) Sitting in portable pressure tanks for 3 weeks before hand and after so not to get the bends ?

[@Khartoum29]

wow this is some amazing footage this is actually what it sounds like under the ice its amazing.

[@BladeDoomer86]

Almost passed out when the camera first showed the darkness under........

[@BladeDoomer86]

I just need to emphasize this. NOPE.

[@BladeDoomer86]

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

[@realpocahontas1776]

The fractal ice crystals are so mesmerizing

[@mcjr652]

Easily one of the most fascinating diving videos out there. Kind of makes you wonder how the underwater environment on one of the ice covered moons in our solar system (e.g. Europa might look like). What struck me most while watching: 1) the incredible visibility while diving - the water is enormously clear. It nearly seems like on land with the icy surface looking a bit like clouds 2) giant jellyfish is amazing 3) you are diving without a line on a single tank (nitrox?) - how do you find the way back to the hole you came from? Is there any further information on the dive available somewhere on the web? Truly fascinating journey to one of the last unexplored spots on the map.

[@n8ryder]

Now that's a cool thought!

[@n8ryder]

So you can only be specific researchers to do this? I would love to join you. This is absolutely beyond incredible. Ice diving certification is next on the list for me. I can either get specialties now or go into instructing. I think the former wins this contest!!!

[@ob1831]

Did you end up getting the ice diving certification?

[@terryzammit7605]

Amazing, love that at least the sea life is thriving and really hope it stays that way

[@sharathpaps]

This is one of the most amazing videos I have ever seen. Thank you so much. A few questions, 1. Do you need special permission to dive here? Are these sites accessible for diving for a non researcher? 2. You mentioned a special permission to videograph the seals. Why so? Who gives these permissions?

[@Tetra84]

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

[@leestream]

+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.

[@CriticalInception]

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.

[@BigTallLankyDude]

@@CriticalInception LOLNO

[@portal2passion]

Awesome ! Thank you for sharing.

[@wannago94]

How did you find your way back to the hole you started from?

[@hstaudig]

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.

[@The_Hillbilly_Hacker]

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

[@reticulator]

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

[@charlesg7926]

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

[@mudimabiriani6467]

Good Question 😂😂

[@towedarray7217]

WOW. Real diving. Face skin exposed to the water. Wetsuits and not hard hat saturation diving suits with hot water sloos lines. Real recognize real. The sound the ice makes (or is it the seal’s echolocation clicks & coda?) is terrifying. Extremely cool video. Thank you for sharing.

[@mikea5745]

None of the divers in the video were wearing wet suits. A wet suit in water this cold would be incredibly cold, and would only allow for a short dive. All the divers were wearing dry suits

[@02CARD]

Wow, great footage, fantastic,

[@charliejohnson5581]

Anybody have any idea what the crystal objects were?

[@mudimabiriani6467]

Mudi Mabiriani Alikuwa Hapa Greetings From Dar es Salaam , Tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🌍

[@mcridercgirl1370]

Omg that ending was terrifying!!!!!!! 13:06

[@polemicalpepe1022]

that's enchanting. So beautiful and yet so terrifying.

[@lautnerlu]

So beautiful one of the best videos ever

[@ainsleymason852]

What are those black spots on the ice at 13:30?

[@mikea5745]

That's exhaled gas from the divers. It looks black because of how light reflects through gas in water

[@MaKKoG5]

That seal is adorable :3

[@YoursTruly78887]

Please upload more Hubert!

[@CrysalisHooper]

was that jelly around 6:00 really that big or was it just the camera angle?

[@Kryptoniano-n6m]

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

[@sorn_trumpet7005]

this is a lion's mane jellyfish

[@aldrinsantos8333]

10:30... Wow...

[@austinacmes]

What are the white fluffy things on the ocean bottom? There are a lot of those.

[@savannahraine6281]

The sounds are really interesting. Like laser guns and creaky sounds.

[@ajhproductions2347]

Those divers have some real serious balls, I don’t think I’d ever do something that scary!

[@XxKrAzYLeTTexX]

3:38 *WEEEEEEE* :D

[@LowfDog]

Have you noticed how much frozen surface water looks like mammatus clouds from underwater?

[@lessismore9138]

Stunning !

[@lylecxi7298]

What's the organism at 5:30? Some kind of jelly?

[@Pllm30]

How do you not get lost? Where are your holes at? I don't see them now.

[@dmitrykolevatih4692]

OMG this unreal!!! Other planet!

[@newbies3562]

It’s like a whole other world out there!

[@tevinarmstrong8025]

It is

[@Heavy-Metal-Robbie]

From the moment of 11:56 its looks so special and it looks like the surface isn't that deep , like if there had walked people hundreds years ago And now its flooded

[@fie4426]

Could there be similar crittera in one of Jupiter's icy moons? PERHAPS??

[@frankpinmtl]

13:54 look how thick the ice is, that they had to cut through. if you lose that hole and you can't find a seal hole to fit through...

[@jasonbenoit7986]

This place is incredible

[@chananahar992]

wow! i would love to go under there! & i'd love to know what all of the creatures are by name

[@inesdalmey312]

Sheer beauty. Thank you.

[@tricktop9064]

I love scuba diving but I have no clue on what To do at those temperatures

[@tijltrienen]

How do they know how to back to the hole

[@onionhasayo9033]

What happened to the corals?😢😭

[@Krista2882]

are all those weird squeaking and buzzing sounds from the seals?

[@BaldursPicketFence]

Incredible!

[@TheCallRocks]

its so clean and untouched by garbage ;D SO AMAZING

[@ghastlyKlownz]

That almost looks terrifying O_O

[@divecurrent]

Truly untouched... until this guy touched it.... ridiculous...

[@Wootiify]

amazing video! thank you :)

[@dimitryrusu4022]

Awesome experience

[@hasanafi1]

looks more stunning than a sci-fi cgi. The lonely jellyfish looks like a scary alien

[@Allyourbase1990]

I would love to go there its so ominous looking but so addictive

[@itwasaliens]

I wonder what the sea life thinks of the strange creatures hanging out for a bit

[@marjelaniesvlog]

Nice dive

[@Hsehdiis]

Breath taking

[@dines1687]

amazingly contemplative

[@levelhorizons397]

incredible

[@en273]

This is beautiful but is there a reason you aren't using lines? Is there a possibility of lines damaging the environment you're studying? Could they injure the seals?

[@levinb7181]

Beautiful

[@grandmasterfresh]

What if you lose directions? :0

[@itsolivier]

Wow , just the sounds alone are like another planet but just below us , where you would never expect it , just seen them play under water is sonething we here can say we are the first humans to see such a sub arctic frolicking scene

[@TylerHerson]

Stunning!

[@serafinmoreno5168]

you need more subs this is amazing

[@davidcox4980]

Amazing!!

[@mdev61]

How old is that mega-jellyfish-like creature?

[@sorn_trumpet7005]

lion's mane jellyfish

[@eagledove9]

It would be so easy to get lost underneath that ice, and not be able to find the hole to get back out. Also, I'm seeing these things that I don't remember the name of. I want to say 'medusas,' but that's probably not it. It's like a little tree stalk, with worms of waving hair on top of it. I saw something like that, but it was red, and it was very tiny, and it was in Millbrook Marsh, here in the middle of Pennsylvania. I climbed down off the boardwalk and into the mud of the marsh, and I saw this thing with little red worms on top of it, and all the little worms sucked back down in, as though they were tentacles. I have looked, and looked, to find the name of this thing, and surely, it is a rare and endangered unusual species to find in a marsh, on the land.

[@eagledove9]

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.

[@Kryptoniano-n6m]

11:27 Literally a scene in a dream

[@TAZ0300]

Holy shit that was fucking amazing!!!! I do a lot of crazy things but no way in hell you would get me in a wetsuit under the ice... great job to those scuba divers 👍🏼amazing footage👏🏼

[@jeffjohnsisland5551]

Probably a dry suit.

[@WangleLine]

Where do those sounds come from? o:

[@vaggelis1348]

Imagine if you cannot find the hole to get back into the surface

[@danielapetkovakotova8775]

da 9.53-10.32 tra 10.22-25 sec. se visualizare immagine di Oceanici fenomeni da Ciclono in su e in giaciare/ice ciclone in sotto di Oceano. Circulazione di articile,che stabiliscono rugie di pietra parlare che in antico epoca essere prove per inizio di vita come tempo.Tempo in memory.

[@wildeyestudios5]

are all the sounds real? or added in postpo?

[@michaelpayne8419]

That's the seals communicating.

[@Midwesternhighlights]

What if there are horrifying currents and sweep them away

[@larrymasterspowerbuildingc4477]

Amazing

[@pedrovieira-ri7lk]

A truly alien world...