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Published: 2017-09-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAO9qXaBFBg
mmhm would you take it to make a discovery of a lifetime whose husband a question that I had hundreds of times four I'm one of those guys that law was to discover things I love about going color something that I know you might as I was saying never touched before and I thought to myself how to one increase my him you I had this shoveling him
willingly pushing my and how can I go into areas that no one has ever been before so learn about scuba about thirteen years ago and I thought Hey you know what if I were able to go under water if I were able to Ellen areas in regions of the world but no one has been before I can possibly increase my Yamaha and very he'll look for
Calgary because I'm really passionate about fossils unfortunately you know scuba on most people think about discover as like this tropical vacation embodies amazing fashion call reads but the areas that I was interested they were completely black they were swamped they were river system separate cutting through of ancient formations and exposing all these amazing off pants but you had to go into these places and it wasn't
a tropical place it was very very different very dark this is this is my tropical vacation you know here's a hold me in in that area and Virginia where I could increase my and there's a huge risk involved with being in these places there was a time when I was diving down in one of these river systems and I'm probably along the bottom Peto it and
and it's it's it's a little different because %HESITATION it's not really like scuba gear we think of where you you know your split on a relief heads he'd come to sing yourself down to the bottom hung on the way and here to you have a screwdriver in your porn yourself when the bottom of the river and you're navigating and your world his exchanges in front of
me even with him most intense lighting and some cases it's complete blackness total dark and you're moving along here probably along the there was a case where %HESITATION a mood in this river system and you know it navigating I'm fine in a couple of things why they wasn't going did right and you know I need to get I hear so I started to rise phone behold
I came upon a ceiling so I don't know if any of you dive or if you ever does it did really half technical diving you go into caves imagine if you're a black water and you have to see I mean it's like you're hitting this and you don't know where you're at so what do you do in this predicament I thought to myself you know I
have you know I get panic I could %HESITATION I didn't really know what to do I was thinking of like how much gas you move WTF I'm in a partisan I've never been before and how I reacted duration so I got my bearings strain I mean inflated might we see how was pasted to the ceiling I thought to myself okay how do I get out of
here my life I shine to the ceiling and I can just barely see the particulates of the river is pushing a current and I decided sick Hey when I went to the water I knew which direction the river was going and if I wanna to my right maybe I can find so a few minutes later fortunately I found my way out I never do that now
area again I %HESITATION there's other there's other ways that you take in these situations and close to the same spot in this river system there's a bull sharks come on through the river and they they navigate the the title waters of shoreline and I moved again I'm moving along the driver and I just look search approach thing fame comes up and slams into side of me
and my knee jerk reaction was like I get the and now I turn my life and all I see is the silver body and I never was a for traction and get these rivers I kind of went to the service %HESITATION had no idea I decided you know what if I did you know what what happened what the power of the sharp react so I just
huddled sat there for a little bit about five minutes had meandered on that one among them long my business and along the whole of the not long after I found a really incredible find was that published and this is these are bones from an ancient wailing these are some of the all this remains of Wales enough stern atmosphere so that was my drive was like that
was what put me and that so while I could bring this back show the world this this new fine with this this answer this missing link and sign and that would drive me to the next five and to keep pushing myself I'm I'm under a month perforated of snakes ha ha other folks choir but there's something about how when you're dying it black water and been
to us because it's right on the shore for our and I mean literally bumping into it and that is your down there thirty feet out I'm sure the snake is saying why are you you're not thinking I get that why are you here and a little bit worse cases rather than running to again you can freak out here in the darkness here to get your bearings
straying and not far from this site find someone other other other amazing fossil discoveries one of which is a walrus tusks it's about five to six million years well as this megalodon to spank is my your heart was throbbing you're like oh my gosh you're the first one to see and touch them and bring it to the service and you show people %HESITATION mind goodness that
is Mason something like this X. and it's just lay in their in these reversals and these so what was it like down there so I'm telling you about this illness top and I'm trying to get you to match what it's like to be in the condition it's really good screwless rails take you're really there you're you can talk about it but if you even if you
just close your eyes and you try to feel your way around you have trees you have current you have fish line you have glass yeah Calvert's yeah we get animal so you don't expect be there are not thinking about your world is right here and occasionally get smacked in the face by some and of foreign to Brady then says announcer reverses and some you know seat
we just wrapped around you think this is weird feelings I kind of freak how do we can capture this to share this with everyone so I have reached out to this guy Robert can't Sharon and I told him I said what I'm doing down there is absolutely in credible how do we share this with the world and so the only way we can this kind of
film and if you think I'm nuts crazy to go in this duration here's a guy carrying a camera he has no control over anything and he's trying film one I've seen so is it worse shape than I and so the first hummable with what Robert %HESITATION within thirty seconds he lost me people reading know where you are best again other and almost ten so as a
sin target for him to hold the camera you can't see me and he does have gas or I'm not so the likely were able to film some of these activities have here %HESITATION is a film of myself again on Monday night great whale skull and literally I didn't see it might have and now Robert was able to and when you see you know just blackness that
the conditions at that particular time were extremely good Blackwater you just completely wiped out by the zero visibility and you know I pop up and with the help of a body bag the police department uses we're able to uncover a whale skull and it was pretty amazing because this is first time that we have a record in anything in these conditions and brought up some a
large dot again the risk for recovery famous is featured on National Geographic really cool find at they shared their stories there's also these conditions where most people would even dare to go again but wouldn't dare to go into a small reverse when and when I'm sitting there watching my curry came and the dove currently let's I'm thinking yes this is a super exciting moment this is
the time to get down in these rivers because wiping out all this Breen you go down there and I I'm all the silt so these are examples of what it looks like an flooding condition had this condition this was down in North Carolina and there was this whale skeleton just everywhere there's his bones everywhere I can take my hand and it's rough on how long for
the ribcage the way now you have a list to the well this is the the bomb that those skull rotates on so just lay there I mean literally there's houses alongside this river and have no idea that there's a whale city now wait copper there's other situations where in some cases the river current is repeat so much Serena partake just one written by little brown again
you have the stuff find your face and swallowed hard and I n't my ladies the thing is this close and with a lot of time hold myself to try to record this dear Mrs really cool precursor to eliminate surprise we have found your song just wait a minute river it's amazing I all the stuff just lay there just waiting to be self to go into those
situations others cases where okay so there's not so much particulate we have a lot of really sandy bottom and it's really hard to hold onto their softball on again and they're waiting to be this is amazing gallery megalodon I just remember so would you put yourself in that position would you put yourself really nasty situation to make that discovery senior frogs I think it is a
video and I'm ready in the water again like isn't but if you pay attention to it took a few you look to see why am I so heavy heavy curl the whole on but your hardest I mean amazingly ex so exciting and then I'm sure you're familiar with the script so I don't put myself in the situations hi with alligators and to be in the I
have heard all they always tell you if you're a diver if you're always come middle of the river why is that but alligators like to and now edge so if you come up in the center most likely you're not gonna have an alligator stare at the heights what has happened to me then there was nine foot alligator prize staring at me in the face I public
about an event like this little turbo pump there water and if we do that situation what are your options so other than going to my pants you know I can make myself look bigger than the Gator it's what I did I there is money BC V. played it myself and I never try to make myself look big I have some talent back now there this particular
alligator was from the difference I'm running one into a hole inside sure when I came this is approximately a ten foot alligator it was nine when I when I went into a whole so it was in the water when I was so I came out it was there I can just imagine was going through my head so honey now ideas continue to drive died by one
or two other supplies and not far from the and another now the public did prehistoric whale skull and Pellington logical study not marketing nasco was another this one right now is currently under way here for publication how cool is that unlike the tool and ready to get back and finally so I leave the residence everybody has something in life that they strive there something that you
