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  • I was there a few days ago - I counted 13 memorial plaques on the cliff face just off the beach. Not sure if every single one of them was attributed to deaths in the actual hole, but certainly a fair few of them were. Very humbling.

  • this is so sad i mean he died facing down i just cant imagine the pain that he went threw and all the thoughts that came to mind i hope he didnt have any children ...

  • From the minit 3 and 21 seconds till 3:41 you can see a shapes that seems a head sculpted in the wall... this thing add mistery to that place...

  • 1:04 is it a corpse?

  • @MissVaiio Very definitely a corpse, mate. Diving that deep is pretty dangerous, and deaths are not uncommon. That's the bloke that died during a rapid descent, I think

  • lol they just carry on like it's nothing

  • yes OIJJ30 and you can get good dive stories and videos on the net too. try the myscubastory site. type myscubastory into google and its the first one

  • @metelfann3: he didn't die from the descent due to failure to equalise; he died because he was diving on a single tank of air and experienced oxygen toxicicity and nitorogen narcosis. Diving on air nitrogen narcosis hits everyone on varying depths betweeen 20 (few) and 50 (almost everyone) metres. With 21% oxygene (air) oxygene toxicity also comes at depth.

    Nitrogen narcosis is close to being drunk. You get an elated feeling and disregard the dangers of diving, leading to casualities.

  • wow if they are going to leave him down there, they should at least name the dive after him

  • yes correct MrCrzy, But there are also good dive stories and videos on the net too! Try the myscubastory site. Type myscubastory into google and its the first one!

  • Before anybody plans on diving the "blue hole" they should visit the headland above it, it is dotted with the plaques and crosses left by relatives of the deceased. It chilling to read so many messages in so many different languages. The "Hole" should be treated with extreme caution, but also the memory of the people who lost there live should be treated with respect, r.i.p

  • Why did they leave him down there

  • @metelfann3 There are supposedly something like 70 or more bodies down there are generally they're left there because it's dangerous to go down there and the families have to pay to retrieve the body and that's a very expensive things.

  • How can you die from rapid decent as long as you can equilize fast enought you can go as fast as you want

  • @metelfann3 well maybe he is an untrained diver, he has 1 tank of air which may fit 250 bar but it takes much more to go down, maybe you can equalize fast enough but this guy couldnt

  • @Mzahaka1313 Actually, i know the story well. He was a certified instructor. He knew everything about diving and the dangers involved. Sadly he chose to ignore a very important rule DIVE WITH A BUDDY!!! This tragedy could have been avoided.

  • @mikeny13 but 250 psi isnt enough for that much the limit is 30 cz then you get sleepy and you finally fall asleep and die

  • shediver43 ..yea u can c more dive stories on google -type myscubastory into google and click on the first one I think

  • watch tha vid of him dieing i think he got draged down

  • @kidkush7044 Where is the vid

  • oh my god there is a dead guy there is a dead GUY! X(

  • @yingyangswirl lol :P

  • The sound of the breathing camera man feels amazingly soothing somehow. Especially with the beautiful views and soft music.

  • tri-mix ftw the blue hole is cursed no joke it has taken so many lives

  • I worked as a dive-instructor in Dahab in 1996 and 1999.

    The dead diver was not unknown. he was recovered the next day.The divers in this video were looking for him and brought a lot of air (some of it tri-mix) to be able to look for a long time if they would have problems finding him and to check the place out. I think I saw the remains of two other (much longer) dead divers in the video.

    To recover the diver, special arangments are to be made. That's why recovery was next day.

  • Diver at the bottom did not die of "rapid descent". That man or woman is unknown which is very good! Imagine being his/her relative and seeing this movie. This is also his/her grave and the Trimix Techdiver doing the footage is just a bloody Grave Disturber! Several shipwrecks, both war and civil, are marked as gravesites and diving are banned on them. It should be done to some other places as well considering stupid divers/UW-Photographers like this.

  • The body was not left there. They just marked the body attached the red marker you see the diver bringing to surface. Yuri was recovered the next day. The diver was a personal friend of his and did the recovery for the parents and out of repect for his friend. The parents had Yuri cremated and some ashes were place in the 'blue hole.'

    Yuri's name was put on the cliffs in memorial along with others that perished at the 'blue hole.'

  • depriemierend. wo bleibt da die freude am tauchen?

  • Well this isn't the least bit depressing at all :(

  • @MegaNattyboy at 66 meters air becomes toxic due to the partial pressure of oxygen reaching 1.6 ata. Oxygen is unforgiving, and one breath will make you either convulse or just black out. Depth + Inexperience = bad mix

  • is there some reason they cant take his body back to land??

  • @lucvaudar the female diver's mom requested that the body be left there and asked for no recovery so theey left it there

  • @mikelching where you there , or have you met the mother ? or in some how invovled in this ?

  • why is hw left there??

  • What a kick ass video! I can understand leaving the body there; but it seems to me that they should do something about the tank. At some point, it will get loose and torpedo itself to the surface- who fucking knows who will gets in its way! Whoa to that pooor soul as it will probably mean certain violent death!

  • @orgamikrikit

    A free AL tank won't rocket up to the surface. It will slowly float up, and stay mostly submerged, just the top skimming the surface. If the regulators stay attached, it will remain sunken.

  • fantastic place

  • what that Yuri Lipski??? at the bottom>.<

  • @serkseees no it's a girl diver

  • is tihs a dead man at 1:15  ?

  • @Nothingness100 no hes taking a nap

  • women :(

  • Holy shit.

    The guy was using a single aluminum 80 cu ft tank, thats totally ridiculous.

    You can see that he breathed it all the way down to nothing because its boyant.

    I dont use aluminum tanks because theyre crap, but I sure as hell wouldnt be using only 80 cu ft of air for a dive like that.

  • i hope they grabbed his wallet, that guy owed me twenty bucks

  • excellent dive

  • it's the body of a girl

  • For them to get to that depth and back up to the boat ALIVE is a feat in and of itself. Many people have died trying to bring bodies to the surface...it is very very very difficult. They would not have enough oxygen to get back if they had the added weight of a body to bring along with them. Also, this body has been there for roughly 10 years...it is just bones now. Many people have died here because they did not plan properly.

  • @Mobee211 and from trying to explore to deap using standard scuba gear... they die from lack of understanding and shear stupidity.

  • I don't anderstand why they leave the body of the guy there... o,o

  • A pleasure to watch the way a dive should be conducted. Well done

  • dude! a dead body!

    lets poke it with a stick and just leave it down here -_-

  • sweet dive, very soothing music

  • отличный полет

  • thats actually interesting and almost touching....having a body down there

    its way more of a reminder than "Ya...couple people died here, just be warned"....

    this way you actually see what can happen if something fucks up

    kinda like the near 200 bodies on mt everest

  • @CaptTroll actually only tek divers and stupid divers like that yuri lipski guy who are about to die are gonna see that... and chuck norris

  • frekaing creepy music

  • Пробираясь к ней, думаем о тех, кто мирно заснул на дне, убаюканный глубоким кислородом, о тех, кто восторгался сиянием арки в бреду азотного опьянения. Тут есть специальный мусорщик, погружающийся вниз и сбрасывающий зацепившееся трупы дайверов на самое дно.

    Погружение на 130, на дно blue hole.

  • @cliffedi "глубоким кислородом" так не говорят. глубоким воздухом. на 100% кислороде можно уйти не глубже 9 метров ниже парциалка более 1.6 отравишься.

  • Hope its peaceful at the bottom friend. RIP

  • Holy shit is that a real body?

    I wouldn't have been some calm about it!

  • Why didn't they recover the body.. they just left it down there ?

  • oh cool a dead body. lets poke it with a stick. whatever, lets just keep swimming, no biggy...

  • Beautiful.....................­.sounds veeeery Morcheeba................

    Last time I was there was 28 may 2008. Snorkled overthe blue hole with my fiance ( at 2pm) just at the moment at that my best friend , old partner, travel companion and wonderful friend was buried in sassenheim! RIP STEVE. Love Brenda & Chris xxxx

  • Not to be rude but you just have to pay attention to everything an instructor gives you. You have to realize that the deeper you go the more pressure on you psi. that's why subs don't descend at fast speeds although they could.

  • @hellifiedgangsta1234 Submarines descending fast is a very different story from the effects of pressure when scuba diving. Pressure affects all kinds of things - the quantity of air you breathe, the toxicity of the gases in that air, even the thickness of your wetsuit. When scuba diving you equalize the pressure in your body to the water, while submarines don't (making the hull withstand the difference). I haven't heard of an imploding diver as of yet...

  • yeah why didn't they bring the corpse? I don't get it ! can anyone answer that?

  • @umtata and Cyberbob: her (the diver's) mother asked for the body to be left alone there, she was against recovery.

    Besides, if anyone tried to recover it now, it would be more risk than it's worth... it's only bones and probably adipocere left inside the suit. Not to mention the tank could explode on resurfacing.

  • @bluenina

    thanx for xplaining. I totally respect that mom's choice!

  • yeah why didn't they bring the corpse? I don't get it ! can anyone answer that?

  • @umtata i can answer that...i am here in dahab and have dove the blue hole...Egypt got tired of ppl bringing up the dead body's so they made it who ever brings up the body must pay for all paperwork...and that gets expensive!!!! couple thousand USD....that is why you get dive insurance....and if the families wont pay they leave the body alone

  • There is something I don't understand... you leave the body there, decomposing... what about the human body respect using a tomb ? You couldn't take it on the surface ?

  • wow im about to get certified im 14 n i go free divin all the time here n florida man that body seems like it woulda decomposed by now i wonder if its still there today and who that is

  • Hmm, how long was that 5m safety stop? going to 100m will get you a long one i think? :)

  • LOVE EVERY BREATH

  • Dive in this place and know that a dead body is in it...brrrrrrr

  • ...no mention of what evidently appears to be a dead body and cylinder floating vertically?

  • is that a dead person at 1.10!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @FISHmann100 Yeah the object has a tank behind it and it has two leg-like objects, as well as a human shape. So its probably a dead guy. ;)

  • This is EXTREMELY technical diving.. I will soon reach this level of training.

  • the interesting places you can see are down to 20 meters. That's what I experienced.

    So, I don't see a reason to deep dive... if people want to do that, it's ok for me. But I'll never do that.

  • @simonttz , cool !!! man, I read people who say deepdiving is stupid cuzz its only dangerous, but I really think it must be cool!!! all the risk...I have ADD and people with add and adhd like lots of risk...cuzz its lots of funn pOq...

    comming summer, im going to florida and my parents will pay me for my lessons... Im going to take lessons from National Geographic!!!

  • Such a beautiful video.. Serves as a tribute to all who lost their lives scuba diving..

  • Was that a body at 2.13-2.16?

  • @tanidn , yes it was

  • Poor Dead guy...

  • sad ='(

  • how did he die and they didint

  • @JZepeda1231 well if you see the dead guy has only 1 tank probaly not equipped for the dive

  • Poor guy :(

  • I wonder whose body it is. Not Lupski or Dillinger.

    The video is beautiful as well as haunting.

  • It's Yuri Lipski's body!

    Such a dark grim reminder of the dangers awaiting beneath...

  • Does anybody know how cold is the water down there????

  • Anybody knows what is the audio track at this video............

  • "Ask The Mountains" by Vangelis & Stina Nordenstam is the track, you should have a pop up where the ad is at the bottom of the screen with that info.

  • disruptivegirl77 thank's so much..........i like Vangelis

  • i always dive with someone, and experimented one i never dive alone

  • The diver on the bottom is NOT Yuri Lipski

  • we say its a small world, but how small is it really if we cant even go underwater easily with out dying like this?

  • RIP Dahab Diver. Your story and existence will not be limited to your cold, murky grave.... brave man. What a loss.

  • There are brave divers and then there are old divers.

  • @Samurailord nice said..... like that!!!

  • I wouldn't dive any deeper than 12 feet and only in a swimming pool. I don't see the draw of the ocean. Personally, the ocean terrifies me, but I admire people who are skilled enough and brave enough to do this.

  • Look up "Charcarodon Megalodon", realize they might still exist, and you'll have enough reason to evade the ocean.

  • It probably wasn't the intention to be that deep, as i undestand it the arch comes out at about 55 which would be fine on air for someone experienced enough.

  • Actually 55m on air is not fine at all for almost any diver out there. You need to be robust and trained like a horse to dive properly with that much nitrogen narcosis. Thats what Trimix is for.

  • Which book did you read that out of? (so that i can avoid it)

  • Maybe you should try reading the theory instead of avoiding it. Might save your life one day.

    Pick any book on diving physics you want. They all tell you the same. -55m on air causes massive nitrogen narcosis. Fist effects can even be measured at -25m.

    Looking at you comment i assume you dont know about N2 Narcosis. So i suggest you start reading about that and then move on to other inert gases.

    Some Organisations like GUE even advice breathing Trimix for as shallow as -30 meters.

    Greetings

  • You can tell the diver only had one normal tank of air...no good for deep diving. Cant wait to take my tec skills into the arch!

  • thats a beautiful music, who sings it?

  • where s the body

  • that is really chilling.

  • How deep is this ?

    Omygod, shocking!

    I dived there as well, but 30 metres was enough for me!

  • that doesnt look like a diver at first. can somebody explain to me what is on his head? it look like a big piece of wood?

  • @fishy488 Looks like his cylinder is just floating like that above his head

  • was this you taking the video, if so please message me because i have some questions

  • very nice done..wow :-)

  • Deep blue and eternal peace for the dead diver.

  • its a body of girl whom family refeused to recover the body

  • they just left him there!

  • jesus christ, that has to be yuri lipski....what the fuck dude?

  • Thank you for yours comments, but as I watched some other videos here, some of the dead divers had been recovered from the bottom of the blue hole. Were there move favourable conditions to do so than in that particular video' s case?

  • I'm sure there are loads of other reasons to not try to recover a body that I haven't thought of. Best to leave it to the pros though.

  • Why doesn't anyone ascend the dead body? Isn't he/she wanted by some people outside? Does anyone know his/her name?

  • It's not safe to recover a body or anything else from that depth. There are many things that can go wrong. First there is no natural light at that depth which is why they have the torches. You'd probably be able to see the surface at noon but only just. If you move a body you'll disturb the very fine silt that is present at that depth and then you may not be able to see anything at all. It might be hard to tell which way is up at that depth due to nitrogen narcosis and other factors.

  • It's called a rope with a hook on the end from a boat. We have robots driving around on Mars but recovering something a few hundred feet underwater is beyond our abilities...?

  • Nayr747 Well you could go down there with a rope and a hook but again if you disturb the silt while attaching the hook you might die. If the body ascends on its own after you disturb it other people diving above might get dragged fast to the surface and get killed. When this poor divers tank gets to the surface, the pressure differential has changed ten fold and the tank (which will be somewhat corroded) may well explode. Having said that I am surprised the authorities haven't arranged recovery

  • In this depth (90m) u die in a few minutes if you breath "normal" air, cause the oxygen in it is compressed an kills u rapidly. Do u see, these divers are havin 4 bottles? Thats not to have enough air to dive a longer, no in each of the bottles aside are special mixes of gas, which make u survive this depth. They have less oxygen. To take something of this size up is very dangerous cause the smallest problem kills u. RIP the pour soul that died this horrible way. I dive too - its my nightmare.

  • Actually the tanks on the back are LESS oxygen.

    And the slung tanks are MORE oxygen: one travel mix, one deco.

  • Yes, your right :P Sry, was a bit unprecise...

  • Another reason is that the buoyancy of the body would change as you ascended if there was any gas in it. The pressure at that depth is about 12x atmospheric so the gas would expand on the way up so it would get more buoyant. You'd then have to decide whether to hang onto it and make yourself negatively buoyant or let it go. If you let it go it may get tangled in any surface lines or equipment that you left at different depths for decompression or could tangle other divers and drag them up fast

  • Thanks for the info. I was just being a smart ass. ;)

  • They left the body of the diver on the bottom????????????

  • hey adam if you'd read the info u would of know tht it was a dead body...... btw nice video and great music with it. a real nicely done way 2 feel sorry 4 him

  • is that some ones body inn 1.24

  • How deep is the deepest part of the blue hole

  • The deepest part is approx. 130 metres deep.

    And Steve Irwin did not die here - he was stung while snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef.

    The reason many people die here are because of "The Arch", a tunnel under the corals which leads out into open water. Try Wikiing it if you want to know more..

    Just saying - get your facts straight mate:-)

  • @Graabeck can you tell me how people die on open waters by an arch im interested about this stuff and i would like to know

  • @MegaNattyboy is it because of the arch they die. It is because The Arch is located approx. 52 m. under water. And when you dive with air-tanks, the air gets so compressed from the pressure of diving deep.

    Around 30-35 most will feel an effect like being drunk. Around 65 m. it is very hard to move and do a proper job. If you reach 100 m. you will go unconcious.

    So it is not because of The Arch they die. It is because they are inexperienced, and the drunk-effect surprises them. :-)

  • @Graabeck it is not because of The Arch. Nice spelling from me :-)

  • @Graabeck thx man i know aloot about the sea and i just wanted 1 mmore fakter bout it thx

  • @Graabeck ...The Arch is located approx. 52 m. under water. And when you dive with air-tanks... -then it means you are completely nuts to dive to such depths on air only and this is going to be your one way ticket to the bottom... amen.

  • @Den9082

    They do 70m dives in Vanuatu on air haha

  • exactly.. and I'm a tooth fairy :))

  • very cool 5 stars

  • This vid made me cry...

    what's the name of the track playing?

  • Ask the Mountains by Vangelis. A really great piece of music.

  • i dont think i could ever dive that far down, i just stick to snorkeling for now.

  • godamn there probably so narced

  • nope.. you use a different gas mix called trimix to prevent that problem

  • Is that really Yuri Lipski's body? When I went snorkeling there I tried to ask if his body was still down there but nobody would give me a straight answer. I mean I know this video is visual proof, but I'm just making sure it's really Yuri, cause that's so surreal, knowing that you're swimming above him.

  • My guess on the Dead Guy: 80cu of air lasts 10 minutes at 300ft,not including what is used to fill the BC, light off while clowning around, sinks too deep, gets narced, panics, drops light and tries to fill B.C., uses last of his air and sinks to the bottom... less than 10 minutes start to finish.

  • and why would they place this reminding sculpture at a place so deep that you would've already gone beyond your abilities when you're not good enough too see the reminder..

    Makes no sense at all. But i wasn't there, so i can't tell if you're right or not.

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  • Yuri Lipski is probably the dead man we see.

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  • This video is very mesmerizing, the music, the element of death and at the same time this total sensation of an experiencen almost otherworldly. Thanks for making this, and hopefully more divers will take less risk downthere.

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  • it is most probably a man who dived during the night with his buddy and for bigger excitement they turned of the flashlights... one of them founf out that his buddy is missing...

    huge excitement!!!! can't understand why some people don't respect their health and life...

  • Hmm... that's a little surprising. You'd think they would recover the body rather than let it decompose on the bottom.

  • At 3:25 it looks like there is a face in the stonewall

  • Its not evolution, its accident, can happen to everyone, most careful, smartest, strongest etc.

  • the song: Vangelis - Ask The Mountains

  • what´s the song???

  • Is this that Yuri guy who died there in 2000?

    Btw, does anyone knows how many decompression stops you have to make when coming up from 100m?

  • i would be reluctant to answer that - there is a lot more u need to understand before doing this...

  • I understand.

    But I'm getting into it.

    Lost a friend of mine 2 years ago in a diving accident too.But I guess he just wasn't prepared...

    But the feeling you get while diving is just...incredible.That's why i want to do this, just won't to do it right

  • no, that's of some woman, i can't remember her name. They recovered lipski's body. I do find it peculiar that no one ever recovered her body however. There is a whole youtube video dedicated to the recovery of lipski's body.

  • aight, i'll check it out some time then:)

    strange indeed that her body was never recovered.but perhaps, by now, who knows..

    tnx anyway, grtzz

  • I guess you mean Barbara D. she has been rescued from BH and died in the ambulance. I do not know whz so manz people thikn it is Barbara D. it is easz to be checked in google etc...

  • i could have swore that it was her, if it's not then who is it? i heard of someone whose body they just left down there. We know its not yuri because they dedicated a whole recovery effort for his remains. And if it's not barbara d, Then who the heck is it?

  • It depends on the time youre down there. But problably 6,

    18,15,12,9,6, and 3 meters