30 Minutes Of Cold Water Magic In A Monterey Bay Kelp Forest | Relax, Chill, Ocean Therapy
This past weekend was as good as it gets in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay-ocean sunfish (Mola mola) patrolling the dropoffs, rockfish schools lazily hiding among the columns of the kelp cathedral, millions of pyrosomes washing up with the currents among the other jellies; and all of it bathed in the clear jade-blue waters of coastal California at its best.
With everything going on in the world, I figured I'd throw together a long-form video of the highlights. There's no music, just me breathing-though, as a photographer, I'm using my breathing as buoyancy, so it may or may not be very relaxing. If it is, great! If not, mute this video and play some more fitting music alongside. Enjoy!
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I guess I will kelp coming back to this relaxing video
Came here after playing Subnautica. The Kelp forests on planet 4645B are considerably more terrifying, but no less beautiful.
Hey Frond! 🌊🐚🐠 I've gotta say I Love this. I use it to force naps upon myself lol And even study. Thank you for the cold water magic!!! Listening to your rhythmic scuba breathing is so steadying and calming as swell.
Doing my scuba diving courses now. Can’t wait to get involved with experiences like this
@bujubra2594
2 жыл бұрын
stay safe
this is so nice! better than subnautica. I wish you well, underwaterpat!!!
i love 30 minutes of cold water magic in a montery bay kelp forest . this is my new way to calm down when the world is crushing me under its weight. i am sad all the time except when i watch this. never could i have imagined that it would be so meditative and relaxing. peace out peace and love on planet earth
ちょうど大きな海藻の中を泳いでる動画を見たくなったところだったから助かる
Stunning! I am moving away from the area and am going to dearly miss these kelp forests. Thanks for sharing. Great videography.
Amazing. My cat loved it so much that he jumped up on the fireplace to swat at the fish.
That's got a good healthy dose of Vitamin Sea.
Thank you, you made me want to play Subnautica again 🥽🏊
@hami5655
2 жыл бұрын
Same.
Makes me miss being a divemaster
This is fun and relaxing to watch. Thank you for sharing this experience. :) I watched before sleep, hopefully I will dream it.
looks stunning! thank you so much for not putting any music in the video!
Phenomenal! This is just about the best of Monterey and why I love diving here. We were off Pt Pinos likely the same day this was shot...as good as it gets. Thanks for sharing
Been long time since I scuba dived in kelp ! Scary lol
I have to thank you for this 💚 It helped me calm my anxiety and feel safe 💚 Kelp forests are my favourite, thank you again 💚Edit: ohmygod is that a seal?! i'm gonna cry 💚 💚
Hey, you guys have shot some beautiful pictures of this kelp forest. I wanted to ask informally if you would mind me using some of your footage in my class? I am a teacher for primary school and would like to show this to my kids and make some improvisational dance out of it (I especially like the scene with the fish between those two strands of kelp). I will always refer this footage to you and your channel and I won't use it in any public performances outside of the subject. Have a good time, and keep on with what you are doing! Greetings
@underwaterpat
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, go for it! Thanks for the kind words!!
Absaloutely gorgeous, we gotta do what we can to look after these places 🍃
Absolutely stunning! Kelp is so beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful, makes me miss my Divemaster life 🐚
Beautiful! This shows why diving here is so incredible.
Magical!
Looks like another world 😍
Stunning!
Stunning footage, excellent work!
Looks like subnautica!
Thank you for sharing Great movie!
No better diving in the world!!!
so relaxing
Just what I was looking for!
What a Рнаптаstic video, thanks
Damn, that is beautiful
Great Stuff
eery, but beautiful
This just unlocked a deep fear of mine that I didn’t know existed 😳
@Finnie1203
3 жыл бұрын
I have thalassophobia (fear of the sea) but kelp forests are an exception, as long as theyre not deep id love to dive there sometime
@SixesSeven
3 жыл бұрын
@@Finnie1203 lmao im the exact opposite. When i go to the sea im not scared of the deep but when i go swimming in a lake and its like 3m deep with kelp in it it looks like it's about to drag me down
@baguette4607
3 жыл бұрын
I can’t stand deep or shallow kelp. Kelp freaks me out, and that’ll never change.
@trevonduncombe5866
3 жыл бұрын
@@baguette4607 the fear of seaweed is Fykiaphobia & I have it too 😭
@w0omer
2 жыл бұрын
same nobody seems to be talking about it
Redwoods of the sea 🌊
The sea always scare me but sometimes its so calming
Wish we had these in New Jersey!!Wonderous 💗💗💗
@helenpruzan6970
3 жыл бұрын
@Frank Silvers It is
Very wonderful and amazing
Scary beautiful 😍
Wow.
Im in spokane and used to live in chemaquita park santa cruz mountains this makes me miss carmel bad!
Amazing…
stuff of nightmares!
Great video :)
It gets really dark below that creepvine there. Kinda like under a tree canopy but the water also absorbs the light too
Subnautica on RTX.
@orbitingsentientsatellite4361
3 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine how terrifying the reaper would be irl, or the ghost leviathan.
🎉🎉
A place where mermaids come to play hide and seek.🥰
Watching this on mute, playing the music of the video game Aquaria just enhances the magic of Alec Holowka's soundtrack. Thank you Mr. Holowka. Rest in Peace.
Set this up in my den with 72in screen climb up the couch and light up a cigar
16:33 개복치 타임
I am terrified of kelp forests- two seconds in and i dunno if i can unpause the video-
@trevonduncombe5866
3 жыл бұрын
I’m Terrified of seaweed in general 😭
Reminds me of Subnautica
Is this typical of the visibility in this area or and exceptional day? Where exactly is it? A boat dive or a shore dive? I'll be visiting soon and would love to dive this spot.
@underwaterpat
2 жыл бұрын
Shore dive, "epic" visibility days we get int he fall and winter when the plankton blooms subside, Carmel, CA
What is that wondrous floating object that shows up at 24:50? It is exquisitely graceful yet very mysterious, like some alien creature.
@underwaterpat
2 жыл бұрын
Apologies for the late reply! Those are Thetys vagina salps in their gonozooid chain form. Salps are incredible filter-feeding, gelatinous plankton related to tunicates ("sea squirts"). The chains are sequentially hermaphroditic from female to male as they age, and the eggs they produce become solitary individuals called oozoids that lay the chains by cloning themselves. Solitary Thetys vagina salps have two long tails, hence "twin-sailed salp" as another common name.
@rr7firefly
2 жыл бұрын
@@underwaterpat Thanks for your answer. I intend to look into that in greater detail. I'm an artist with an architecture background so I am always intrigued by biota that do not fit the usual profile of lifeforms. // I'll add that my favorite spot on the California coast is the kelp forest tank at the Monterey Aquarium. It has a profoundly intoxicating effect -- I have been known to stand in front of it for a very long time. One day I'll take the plunge (I hope).
this stuff is scary tho
Oh magic conch shell, what do we do to get out of the Kelp Forest?
I’m a new diver in the area and looked at your pin drop is that the kelp forest just to the north of the beach really want to dive here next month
@underwaterpat
2 жыл бұрын
Heya yes this was north side of Monastery Beach!
its scary
@lexl6120
11 күн бұрын
Looks like a forest, but it was in the sea.
What time of year was this filmed?
@underwaterpat
2 жыл бұрын
October and November 2020
what's the bottom temp around mid-summer?
@underwaterpat
3 жыл бұрын
Varies between lower to mid 50s!
How on earth do you handle this?! The seaweed is so dark, and spindly…
am i the only one thinking about reaper leviathan might comes up out of nowhere
Sabnautica
I'll bet that SubNautica made this video popular. 😀
Is that sun fish at 17:00
@underwaterpat
Жыл бұрын
It is yes! This is a popular cleaning spot for them
Just insane. Awesomely creepy as a closet thalassophobe
What are those furry rod things??
@underwaterpat
2 жыл бұрын
Pyrosomes! They’re a colony of filter-feeding animals that wash ashore low and again if the currents push them to the beach
I don’t find this really relaxing since it feels like I am drowning.
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Yeah. Nope, nope, nope, nope
I like eating seaweed, but I don’t like SEEING seaweed.
In my opinion I'm scared of kelp so this is not really relaxing for me
May I use this footage for a beamer projection on the background of an art-video for my instagram. ?
@underwaterpat
3 жыл бұрын
Sure thing!