the deeper you got into a cave the more anxious I got.. this sport looks like so much fun but terrifying.

@crimetimeAU

Жыл бұрын

same.... anxiety triggering.

first rule of fight club.... is never think you can free dive a cave because you can hold your breath in the shower while washing your hair

5:38 "JEN" written on a rock. That's awesome.

my family whould have cook outs there when I really young great vid takes me back too my child hood

Men you guys rocks, I been going to blue spring many years i go to the sign and never saw the cave like this. Thanks great video.

I literally go here about 3 times a week and your "Shocker route" is fucking terrifying in person, I'm still working my breathing capacity as I'm just getting into freediving. But, maaan the side cave where you come out is always complete darkness when I go look inside.. yall are awesome for that (have watched this video 100 times)

Never knew this existed in Florida. Wow....brave! Amazing video! Took my breath away!

Thank you for this footage otherwise I would never have seen how amazing it is down there.

2Brians , gentleman you are the greatest!

I think I had about 6 different anxiety attacks during this video

Thank you for such a beautiful informative video. I am glad you made it. Yes, it is very dangerous. I have had some near misses freediving there including going up through the side cave and going into an opening that was too small and having to back out. I also went up through the cave from under and once had a scuba diver sitting on where I was supposed to come out. I calmed myself and as you said, "there is no going back". I am sure he was shocked when a hand pushed on his butt from under him but it worked. We can't be responsible for foolish people who watch a video and try to do what is out of their league. Thank you for such a great effort. Loved it.

So beautiful -- and so scary at the same time. Thanks for sharing.

You move so well and easy underwater - relaxed and natural. Most freedivers could learn a lot from you.

This inspires me so much to get better. I just fell in love with free diving and have only been to ginnie springs & this place is one for the books!! 🙏🏼💙🌀

Amazing... One day I will visit Blue Springs.. Thanks for the videos

I love this video, I've watched it multiple times. Great quality and awesome dives. I'm slowly working my way deeper and love to watch your videos to scope out the areas before I go!

@769brian

9 жыл бұрын

floridaboy Thats the way to do it.. learn the cave one foot at a time and ride the current back up to the surface

@floridaboy1131

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. I've seen you in the videos you're great! I just got my Cressi fins and mask in yesterday..an improvement from my speedo set haha. Tried today but the park was full, can't wait to try them out.

Just insane stuff! Amazing.

Love Blue Springs It's where I first started and still love going. It only being about 25 to 30 minutes away helps as well. I have to agree that you have to overcome some major fears at Blue due to the darkness. I didn't have a flashlight for over a year, but what a major difference once you can see where you're going. Great video, keep'em coming.

Dude doesn’t even need weights to dive. His balls of steel keep him negatively buoyant

You guys are amazing and may I say a little crazy!! I could never work up the nerve!!

@TakeTheWaters

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, you could. Baby steps is how I did it. Not saying you should though lol. -Brian

Great job on the video. Anxious to see the rest of them. One thing I like about the back route is you can make a left turn at any point and bail out on the dive when it starts to get uncomfortable. This is such a fun place to dive but be sure you do it with someone that has dove it before.

Great work! Love the video. Great shots and good music. Great to see the different routes through the spring. Gives me some good ideas for videos once we start traveling. Thanks for putting this together. :-)

Amazing video, I LOVE Blue Springs and can't wait to make the trip from Miami just to go back. It's paradise there!!!

So inspiring :] I am anxiously awaiting the sequel!

Thank you for this video. I’ve been thinking I’m a little crazy to want to do more free diving in blue holes. This is the first video I’ve found to be truly Inspiring! Safe adventures!

A shout out to all freedivers. There's a fledgling Facebook Group called Freediving Fanatics. I created it as a networking tool for freedivers around the world to post their photos and videos. It could also be a great way to find freediving buddies and to share info on dive locations. Although there isn't anything to this group as of yet, we can make this group page something big while promoting our own KZread channels, Facebook pages, instagram, websites, businesses, you name it. Please help me turn this into something we all look forward to checking each day.

Thanks brian i love exploring all the springs in florida.im going to alexander springs this week.

How terrifying yet amazing that you have the ability to do that!

Really cool video, taking my boys tomorrow. We will definetly take it in baby steps.

Awesome video, Brian! I really enjoyed it. Great work!

I also do free diving and it does take a lot of practice. I am not a pro, and I have been to some other springs and it is kind of complicater get into a the caves with cold water. It takes a lot of time to get use to it. Great video guys.

@haroldestevez4803

9 жыл бұрын

+Brian Russell i can't stop watching the video. you guys did a great jobs on this one. keep it up. what kind of flash light do you guys use? could you send me a link? thanks. again i would like to see more from you guys.

Killer video and location

Pretty cool i found this channel!we met at blue springs last week.

yea it was very fun, I love all your spearfishing vidios

Was there this weekend. Hit 35ft (and felt pretty good about myself!). You guys are wild. I'd love to get where you're at. Stay safe and have fun!

@FordFalcon54

2 жыл бұрын

There's literally zero way to stay safe free diving a cave with 1' cracks. You're literally playing Russian Roulette and any cave diver will tell you. This is like ripping down an interstate at over 100 miles an hour. You can have a long streak of luck. It only takes one issue to appear like lets say the oh so common threat of a black out and you're dead. If you value your life don't ever do this. Honestly imo this is more dangerous than jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit.....because at least there you have the right equipment.

@FordFalcon54

Жыл бұрын

@@Subterfugeo Whether you take my word for it or not no there's plenty of others with much much more experience than myself that will say the exact same thing I'm going to say. No certified cave diver would ever encourage or support free diving a cave. The number of things that could go wrong leading to a death or multiple is too darn high. Like I said in my pervious comment it's basically flirting with death. You do you just understand the risks.

Whoa! Sick Vid, scary shit, you guys are nuts! and people think I'm crazy for floating around in oceans for hours on end all over the world in all kinds of conditions surfing waves, but this has gotta take the cake right next to the free climbers and those batsuit dudes, you guys are RAD! Big balls! Never would want to do it myself ,but thanks for sharing your experiences, be safe and god bless.

Very cool great footage and courage

Wow this is insane!! You did well!! 😊

awesome dives, very inspiring

@manueldelgado5186

7 жыл бұрын

Christopher Rochs atolladero

Great video!

One of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Jesus Christ, it looks like Gates into the Abyss... I'll never try this. Too dangerous :\ But GREAT footage!

Awesome video, looks really professional! I was just there a couple days ago

Holy Cow!! Thats Intense!!

just went there this watching this week is totally different than attempting to get near the entrance lol terrifying

wow going there this Tuesday this place seems so amazing

awesome video much thanks

I love Blue Springs 😌 Best state park ever!

❤️ blue springs!

You guys are sick! Thanks!

O, my god! 👍 It's Awesome 😃

you know this is the sickest vid

Double wow from Fiji!

OH HECK NO. Total respect, but you can have those caves.

Wow!

Straight G, unreal

Amazing.

Was proud of my self for swimming the full length of the tree at the mouth of the cave 15 to 20 ft. This is nuts lol.

@madhiker4667

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. No effing way for me.

instant like!

Cool man. I love and have been.to.all the. State run springs. I'm trying.to.find the.hidden ones now.

This springs is beautiful I went today I live in Orlando and I can say I will be coming back every weekend water was freezing tho💕

@mattnasty3919

5 жыл бұрын

It’s so nice there but 72 degree water all year round

uallll Really Nice !!!!

I take great pride in saying among the few people on Earth who has dived to the bottom of this spring

uw topics kick ass. Cool.

Hats off tot you dude I can go like 10 feet before needing a to breathe

wow.. I would like to try that

I love U all, guys ))) the best video

Dope!! Would love to try that. But i live in Indonesia which is far away from there. But i have lot of diving spot here, which is nice :)

I can't believe this local spring is on yt

i go there very often and I like going in the 2' cave with the 80' long tree sprawled across and In one of my dives I signed my name down there but I didn't see it in ur video

Claustrophobic me disagrees

I have totally seen you at blue springs.

I do not want to say that you are wackee in the head but OMFN goodness what a great video! I like.. I subscribed. and thank you for sharing...

just came back to look at that giant log by the entrance to the cave i wrote my name on it when i was a kid!

OMG!... can you breath underwater??!Good vid. ;)

Brian, I see that you replied but I am having trouble seeing the full message. This is my concern with promoting this. Certified cave divers carry three sources of light, for a reason. If the flashlight fails somehow, hit on a rock, bulb goes out, batteries die, you're in trouble. You could have some scuba diver in your way on one of the exits. What you do is your own business, I am not telling you to stop, not my place. What I am saying is please consider the possible result of this. I spend a lot of my time gaining and keeping access for certified cave divers at sights like these. Nothing threatens access like a death, like this site just had three weeks ago. Even though the person was an open water diver or a free diver the newspaper will say "Cave Diver". Its sets my sport back in access and restricts sights to us because "Cave Diving" is dangerous. Most of the fatalities in caves are not certified cave divers, they are open water diver, and now possibly free divers. I am sure you don't want to read in the paper about some 15-year old who decided free dive through the shocker restriction, and didn't make it. Then to find out they closed the site to diving because it too dangerous.

@SylvesterMuller

9 жыл бұрын

***** I agree with you in principle, unfortunately I can point out several instances of wrongful death lawsuits that don't follow the personal responsibility guideline. Lastly, I do my best to keep open water scuba divers out of the cave zone, where they are not supposed to be. Here we have free divers going into a cave zone, it breaks no laws, but it violates standards set up by certifying agencies and sites like Blue Springs. Its one thing if you want to violate safety standards yourself, the worst thing that could happen is we would come out a recover your body, we have to try to keep the site open, and the newspapers will write about another "Cave Diving Death". Its another thing to film yourself violating safe diving standards and broadcast it.

@SylvesterMuller

9 жыл бұрын

***** I do care about people staying out of cave zones. I am the vice chairman of the largest cave diving association in the world. We install grim reaper signs, put lines in caves, train cave divers, and educate untrained divers to stay out of cave zones. When we strated in the 70's there were about 30-40 deaths a year. I have personally assisted in body recovers, and the post-accident analysis. This is a relly bad idea and should not be promoted, that's it, there no way to sugar coat it. These guys are very good free-divers I get that. Going into a cave zone with just one source of light or no light is on a breath hold will qualify you for a darwin award.

@martinfroelich7193

8 жыл бұрын

I agree with Sylvester. The trouble with doing such an extremely dangerous thing over and over again, is that after a while the danger of it is no longer felt by the participants. Then it is only a matter of time before the inevitable accident. People like Sylvester are left with the dirty work of collecting bodies, and negotiating access for those who dive responsibly. I get the adrenaline rush, really I do - but there must be other ways of getting that. Life is too precious to risk like this. It's selfish and extremely short-sighted.

@squarecracker

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinfroelich7193 Free diving is fundamentally different than scuba. Free divers KNOW that we don't have any oxygen. If you are going down into the caves, you know what you're getting into. It's entierly different than someone going down with oxygen and getting lost or disoriented.

Insane

Awww :) Manatee and a calf

6:48, right to the diver's left is a small, narrow opening. I went a little ways in it, but not to the end: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJh5s9ZqgaW1qLA.html

Awesome video dude! Very well put together and looks like loads of fun too I for sure want to check pug blue springs now! I mostly swim at the springs on the wacissa. If you had advice for learning to go that long without breathing what would it be? Awesome footage. James

@thegameofhearts

9 жыл бұрын

***** thanks Brian, will be sure to check it out Excited to check out blue springs and see your next video!

I think I dove with your buddy there before. Really nice guy. I love the video. So great! You've done the swim through at Alexander Springs, correct?

Brian. I would to to dive with yall sometime. Always diving Ginnie and Itchitucknee as I live in Orlando!

Haja fôlego.

Great video! I was just at Blue Springs Yesterday! I only got about 30ft before I had to go back up. What is the background music you're using for this video? I love it!

I go there with my family every year

Who was filming ahead of you?

Scary as hell

What kind of diving lights do you recommend or use? Love ur vids man they are very inspiring

God I would only like to go in caves relatively close to the surface I would never be able to dive in such deep dark caves like that in be so scared I’d get lost and drown

wow you guys are amazing, i choked on a wave going down five feet, i like the 15-20 free dives. i would like to do a spring. what florida spring is best for easy, fun ?

@matthewnoble8580

3 жыл бұрын

Ginnie springs devils ear spring is pretty easy

it looks awesome, i need to check it out. how deep can u go in the bleu spring? how deep is this cage?

Nice edit Brian. I love freediving Ginnie and Blue Hole at Ichetucknee. Headed to Blue Springs this weekend. Any other recommendations on good free diving springs?

Awesome video! What flashlight are you using? I need to get a more streamline and brighter light like yours.... Thanks!

a while ago i went snorkeling with the manatees at sister springs Florida, it was really beautiful.

@yesseniacabrera7674

8 жыл бұрын

Omg i went to Kelly river las week and I didn't know about spring wow I have to go back,good that I live in Miami is 4 hours.

Was just there this past weekend -- live in Gainesville and enjoy freediving the springs there. Blue Springs is totally worth the 2 hour drive. What is the song you used on the first dive? This is a fantastic video, I hope you make another one. I always have issues planning the shots I want.

@DevinCarmichael

7 жыл бұрын

Tyler Carney I was there too on Saturday, not an excellent free diver myself but I'm conditioning myself. I was diving about 40 feet. I'll be back this Sunday for a dive!

@tylercarney2560

7 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to the new video! I am a senior at UF and Ginnie is great but it is insane when classes are not in session. I have a state park pass so I frequently dive at state parks. I really enjoy Blue Hole at Ichetucknee.

@tylercarney2560

7 жыл бұрын

40 feet is better than most! I can do about 60 feet. Just gradually make progress, don't push it too hard. Safety first!

His brain said "stop" at 70 feet? My brain would've said stop the moment we got to the park lol - I wouldn't mind filming down there though as long as I have some oxygen... it looks beautiful!

@shantaetime7855

7 жыл бұрын

lol

Yeah, this looks insane. I would try wingsuit flying before I did this.

What kind of fins do you guys use for the springs

I was gonna make a dubstep joke, but i "dropped" it Also, this is really cool, when i go back to Georgia for snorkel lessons ill try and see how long i can go

How long are you able to hold your breath? I like to try freediving but not go down too far. This is intense. I live in NYC so not too many choices.

@TheMoldydog

5 жыл бұрын

visibility underwater is usually pretty bad around NY coastal waters. South shore of long island is clearer but I decided to do scuba so I can explore longer otherwise its hard to see much.