Just discovered your videos. My great uncle was wounded in the battle of Saipan and didn’t come back the same. I’ve been there and Tinian. I’ve lived in Guam many years and love to explore the ocean. I love this series!
Hello My Dear Friend, During June 1981, I was a member of Bravo Company 1st Bn 5th Marine Regiment temporarily on Unit Rotation to 3rd Marine Division, Camp Butler Okinawa. Our actual Home was Camp Pendleton California. During our Unit Rotation to Okinawa We performed a mobility exercise with the Air Force. We flew to Titian and did a Air Assault and Expeditionary Airfield Capture. After the 2 day exercise We stay for (1) month basically doing everything that could be done to keep a Marine Unit busy. Needless to say the tempers were hot as the weather. We slept on the west end of the runways that face Saipan. Rats were everywhere. We explored the entire island except We were not allowed to go to the Suicide Cliff area. Only Our Senior Officers went there. There was a Japanese Fishing Boat wreck beached on the end of the island by the small village..... It was so incredibly Hot there.... I thought about all the People who died there. Both Japanese & American.... Each believes that there life and culture philosophies are superior. So much blood shed and death happened on those Islands.... Americans do not understand the cost for their freedom..... Thank You for your incredible work.... Sgt Curtis L Cains
One of the best freediving projects by far. Not only sharing some great dives but rather trying to connect your/our passion with something bigger. Well done mate ! greets from GER
My dad was there and helped load the bombs into the planes with his crew. Radio Tech and maintenance. This was Top Secret for a long time no pictures were allowed but dad's friend, a flyer, privately took pics that he sent home to mother and I ended up with a couple but my dad died in 1961 suddenly in our home. Daddy and Shaumacker along with other good friends that flew the aircraft wouldn't let him go along when they dropped the bombs due to his poor vision in the event they crashed plus, he had a wife and child waiting on him at home. They had taught my dad how to fly the planes and he could do it if needed. Too bad there is no option to upload pictures he is a part of this amazing history.
aaaah my friend, what can I say, what an artistic well thought through ending to your series. 08:23-11:15 is just bliss, from the choice of music to the lovely link of the drone to the free dive shot. beautiful stuff, i truly got goosebumps all across watching your video in bed last thing before i sleep. I genuinely appreciate your work and the effort and thought you put into it. Thank you
Thanks for sharing your adventures on Saipan and Tinian. I've visited both several times to do still photography to document some of the history there. I post them on flickr. I find it amazing that one can find World War II artifacts where they fell over 70 years ago. They are rapidly disappearing, hence all the more important to capture them digitally to help preserve the history and in the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice there. I can't be 100% certain, but I believe your homing tower site is actually the Japanese radar site on Tinian's Mt. Lasso. There was indeed a homing tower nearby. While I find the blues of the sea and skies around Saipan and Tinian to be amongst the bluest I've ever seen, I agree that the drone polarizer does push them a little too far :-)
Well i had a couple of tears coming out while seeing the part where the bombs were kept in Tinian Island. You have quiet a talent for all this, thank you even much more for this last one.
Congratulations!!!!!! What a great series. The combination of drone use and diving, plus your constant mention to historical facts and remembering the sacrifices made by the service men in the defense of Freedom is highly commendable. LEST WE FORGET!!!!!!
I really appreciated this wrecks of saipan serie!! I'm very thankful for what you've done, your videos are such an inspiration for me, thanks a lot Dean, keep freediving man, you're the Best!! "Let us never forget"
My grandfather was one of the B-29 crewmen based there. He also was part of a crew to clear the area for the four runways and the US base. He was a recon photographer and actually took some of those photos you see of the two bombs being loaded onto the two B-29's. This video really brings to life what my grandfather saw and where he lived while he was there. Great video.
I hate the sea, I hate sharks, but goodness me I love your videos! Utterly fascinating videos and wonderfully beautiful filming! Been here a long time, yet to be disappointed :D
Hey. I really like your videos with dives to sunken objects in the Pacific ocean during the Second world war. Very cool and cool. I want to do this kind of diving myself. Can you advise what kind of fins should be used for such dives? What kind of fins are you using?
My fins are not longer in production. But the brand is C4. You could try something like Cressi Gara Pro, that would be a fairly common easy to get fin.
The other bomb was called 'Fat Man'. This is a great video with some lovely footage, although it would have been nice if you'd given a bit more mention to the impact these bombing raids had on innocent civilians in Japan. People always focus on the fact that they ended the war (which is far from cut and dry), but having been to Hiroshima and seen the devastating aftermath of these raids in the museums, there is another side to this story. The US had very little information about what effect nuclear explosions would have in the long term - indeed they sent out scientific teams to study the effects in the years following the raids. So Hiroshima and Nagasaki were effectively nuclear test beds. Millions of people have suffered with ill health effects and genetic problems over the years since then. To quote the lyrics of Enola Gay: _"this kiss you give, It's never ever gonna to fade away"_
Hey man! Great series. I see your vids pop up a lot while looking at places to visit. Would love to colab with you sometime. Hit me back and we'll talk!
OK so i have recently become fascinated with breath holding and regularly practice in swimming pools with my mates.I really want to get involved with free diving but i live in London and i dont know anywhere to go to thats within range ,what do i do?The places you go are amazing but as im a teenager they are out of reach for now. HELPP . Love the vids.
not sure. There are 3 more wrecks in Saipan which I did not dive... so I could try and dive them, and make a kinda season 2. I have some Guam videos which are still not released, so i still need edit those and release them. I also want to do another deep dive at the American Tanker, focus on swimming through the wreck, a more pure freediving vid.. There is a deep wreck on the island of Rota which I wanna try (very deep and dangerous and never freedived before, so need to consider the risk)..... biggest issue is that these videos cost $$$$ to make, and the return is $, so... need to decide carefully where I spend my money.
My dad flew P-51 Mustangs off of Iwo Jima to escort the Tinian bombers over Japan. Your videography is amazing and your narration shows respect for the history. The interspersed clips work well too. Will you ever go to Iwo?
Ed, thank you so much for that feed back. I wish I could go to Iwo, but it's not easy as its not open to the public. You are the second person in 2 weeks to come forward and talk about parents flying from Tinian over Iwo.
Few understand why these islands were so important to ending the war. The bombers were sitting ducks without fighter plane escort. The P-51 Mustangs had less fuel range, so Iwo Jima was necessary. Hence the great sacrifices to take these islands.
I did not realise that myself, I was not sure what state the Japanese airforce was in by that time in the war - it seemed after the battle of the Philippine sea - the Japanese air force wasn't up to much. Thanks for your support earlier today, really nice gesture. If you go through my channel there videos of various world war relics, like the Guam Amtrak, and Palau Seaplane, though they don't have the narration.
Yes, at this point in the war, most of the Japanese fighter planes where in defense of the homeland, hence the increase in danger to the US bombers flying off Tinian and the need for US fighter plane escort. BTW, an hour roundtrip squeezed into a P-51.
As for my donation, I thought about what this video was worth to me, much more personal and multifaceted insight that most documentaries don't quite do.
Very nice footage and beautiful scenery. I understand the grief japanese people suffered at the end of the war but let's not forget that the Japanese Empire (allied to Hitler's Nazism) invaded and enslaved most of it's neighbor countries with ruthless barbarism. The reaction of the Allies was logical and not disproportionate to my criteria. Let's not forget as to not repeat errors of the past. Peace out.
This video is not color corrected. I only color correct my underwater shots. If you are refering to the drone video, its using polarising filter, which gives the sea and sky a very vivid look.
yeah in the drone video the sea felt way too bright. maybe lower some stops on the polarising filter ive possible. thanks for the series, keep up the good content
Came here and subscribed for freediving... left because these videos turned into history lessons... bring back the diving and leave all the history crap for another channel.
The "depth" of my channel comes from the historic value of the wrecks I have dived.I freedive to visit historic sites - nothing has changed since 2012. I don't care about shooting fish, or getting a max depth to show off with. In the Saipan I freedived 4 wrecks sunk fighting to get this island - not make this video showing what they were fighting for, and how significant it was - that would leave a massive hole in the story for me.
Was pretty hard to speak standing next to those pits....
Way to death of thousands people begun here....
Thank you. Your videos are beautiful and very inspirational. I appreciate your reverence to the islands and their wrecks.
Ends the Channel or ends wrecks of spain
KrümelKekse Good question...... cause I am running out of money to continue this channel.
Freediver HD ever considered making UA-cam a career?
Just discovered your videos. My great uncle was wounded in the battle of Saipan and didn’t come back the same. I’ve been there and Tinian. I’ve lived in Guam many years and love to explore the ocean. I love this series!
Hello My Dear Friend,
During June 1981, I was a member of Bravo Company 1st Bn 5th Marine Regiment temporarily on Unit Rotation to 3rd Marine Division, Camp Butler Okinawa. Our actual Home was Camp Pendleton California. During our Unit Rotation to Okinawa We performed a mobility exercise with the Air Force. We flew to Titian and did a Air Assault and Expeditionary Airfield Capture. After the 2 day exercise We stay for (1) month basically doing everything that could be done to keep a Marine Unit busy. Needless to say the tempers were hot as the weather. We slept on the west end of the runways that face Saipan. Rats were everywhere. We explored the entire island except We were not allowed to go to the Suicide Cliff area. Only Our Senior Officers went there. There was a Japanese Fishing Boat wreck beached on the end of the island by the small village..... It was so incredibly Hot there.... I thought about all the People who died there. Both Japanese & American.... Each believes that there life and culture philosophies are superior. So much blood shed and death happened on those Islands.... Americans do not understand the cost for their freedom.....
Thank You for your incredible work....
Sgt Curtis L Cains
One of the best freediving projects by far.
Not only sharing some great dives but rather trying to connect your/our passion with something bigger. Well done mate !
greets from GER
My dad was there and helped load the bombs into the planes with his crew. Radio Tech and maintenance. This was Top Secret for a long time no pictures were allowed but dad's friend, a flyer, privately took pics that he sent home to mother and I ended up with a couple but my dad died in 1961 suddenly in our home.
Daddy and Shaumacker along with other good friends that flew the aircraft wouldn't let him go along when they dropped the bombs due to his poor vision in the event they crashed plus, he had a wife and child waiting on him at home. They had taught my dad how to fly the planes and he could do it if needed. Too bad there is no option to upload pictures he is a part of this amazing history.
My grandfather was on the island as a radar technician and still talks about it to this day.
Best free diving Chanel out there btw.
Thank you for bringing history to life through your stunning films.
aaaah my friend, what can I say, what an artistic well thought through ending to your series. 08:23-11:15 is just bliss, from the choice of music to the lovely link of the drone to the free dive shot. beautiful stuff, i truly got goosebumps all across watching your video in bed last thing before i sleep. I genuinely appreciate your work and the effort and thought you put into it. Thank you
this video almost brought me to tears! such powerful content... i have become a Patreon supporter.
Summary : There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky
Incredible. I love your videos and this series was spectacular. The ending gave me chills. Well done brother man, well done.
Thanks for sharing your adventures on Saipan and Tinian. I've visited both several times to do still photography to document some of the history there. I post them on flickr. I find it amazing that one can find World War II artifacts where they fell over 70 years ago. They are rapidly disappearing, hence all the more important to capture them digitally to help preserve the history and in the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice there.
I can't be 100% certain, but I believe your homing tower site is actually the Japanese radar site on Tinian's Mt. Lasso. There was indeed a homing tower nearby.
While I find the blues of the sea and skies around Saipan and Tinian to be amongst the bluest I've ever seen, I agree that the drone polarizer does push them a little too far :-)
Very nice piece of history and great footage. Thank you, please keep it up!!
Great video as usual. Well done on a fantastic series. Can't wait for the next series.
Thanks for your continued support. I really appriciate it.
Great way to show Saipan's existence. I live on Saipan. Awesome channel too!
I hope to come back to Saipan next year and do a few more videos. Still have 3 wrecks sitting in the bay that i did not visit.
Im from Guam been watching your videos thank you! Well documented!
thanks anthony. I will have some more videos from Guam in the future... so stay tuned.
Well i had a couple of tears coming out while seeing the part where the bombs were kept in Tinian Island.
You have quiet a talent for all this, thank you even much more for this last one.
Congratulations!!!!!! What a great series. The combination of drone use and diving, plus your constant mention to historical facts and remembering the sacrifices made by the service men in the defense of Freedom is highly commendable.
LEST WE FORGET!!!!!!
Very touching video, thanks! Great job!
Great, great Job Dean. Keep making this amazing vids!
I really appreciated this wrecks of saipan serie!!
I'm very thankful for what you've done, your videos are such an inspiration for me, thanks a lot Dean, keep freediving man, you're the Best!!
"Let us never forget"
such a paradise , such a horrific past , very much enjoyed thank you
My grandfather was one of the B-29 crewmen based there. He also was part of a crew to clear the area for the four runways and the US base. He was a recon photographer and actually took some of those photos you see of the two bombs being loaded onto the two B-29's. This video really brings to life what my grandfather saw and where he lived while he was there. Great video.
Awesome video thanks for sharing.
Very interesting place! and of course a good guid :D Thank you!
love your videos man
greetz from austria
Great work dean! Love watching your edits, keep doing what you doing! Whats next for freediverHD ?? Dive safe!
Amazing History, for whatever it is. Thank you.
learnt more in these series than in history class
This videos are amazing. Thanks for sharing the experiences and wish good luck in future endeavours.
thanks for sharing these great videos and wreck visits with all a great but sad story behind it from the times there was much cruelty
I hate the sea, I hate sharks, but goodness me I love your videos! Utterly fascinating videos and wonderfully beautiful filming! Been here a long time, yet to be disappointed :D
freediver hd you got me into free diving and inspired me to do it thank you
love your videos
Nice to travel around to see WWII relics. Take a lot of planning and funds.
I admire you sir, I only have one thing to say.. Living the dream.
So emotional :'( yet amazing video
Hey man love the vids and I'm subbed I was just wondering what do you film with?
Thanks!
Hero 4 Silver
is the #1 loading pit and #2 close to each other?
Yes. Not within 10 feet close, but easily within 100 yards.
Very very nice channel. Russia is watching. I put a lot of likes to you. Hope you'll find the opportunity to continue doing it
Hey. I really like your videos with dives to sunken objects in the Pacific ocean during the Second world war. Very cool and cool. I want to do this kind of diving myself. Can you advise what kind of fins should be used for such dives? What kind of fins are you using?
My fins are not longer in production. But the brand is C4. You could try something like Cressi Gara Pro, that would be a fairly common easy to get fin.
@@freediverhd Thank you! I really like your videos on Saipan, GUAM
what camera do you use for this video man ?
all done on the Hero 4 silver. And the drone shots of DJI Phantom 3 Advance
I swear, that has to be the bluest water I have ever seen. The island looks gorgeous.
Its hard to imagine all this happening especially on the landing beach, seeing all the ships and lvts coming in.
The other bomb was called 'Fat Man'. This is a great video with some lovely footage, although it would have been nice if you'd given a bit more mention to the impact these bombing raids had on innocent civilians in Japan. People always focus on the fact that they ended the war (which is far from cut and dry), but having been to Hiroshima and seen the devastating aftermath of these raids in the museums, there is another side to this story. The US had very little information about what effect nuclear explosions would have in the long term - indeed they sent out scientific teams to study the effects in the years following the raids. So Hiroshima and Nagasaki were effectively nuclear test beds. Millions of people have suffered with ill health effects and genetic problems over the years since then. To quote the lyrics of Enola Gay: _"this kiss you give, It's never ever gonna to fade away"_
Hey man! Great series. I see your vids pop up a lot while looking at places to visit.
Would love to colab with you sometime. Hit me back and we'll talk!
OK so i have recently become fascinated with breath holding and regularly practice in swimming pools with my mates.I really want to get involved with free diving but i live in London and i dont know anywhere to go to thats within range ,what do i do?The places you go are amazing but as im a teenager they are out of reach for now. HELPP . Love the vids.
jordan lee also in London and getting into free diving!
what do we dooooooooooooooo
Whats the name of the last song??? The Japanese one. Ty and great video as always!!!
la fille de pekin
Speechless...
Now that you're done with this series what do you think your gonna do next?
not sure. There are 3 more wrecks in Saipan which I did not dive... so I could try and dive them, and make a kinda season 2. I have some Guam videos which are still not released, so i still need edit those and release them. I also want to do another deep dive at the American Tanker, focus on swimming through the wreck, a more pure freediving vid.. There is a deep wreck on the island of Rota which I wanna try (very deep and dangerous and never freedived before, so need to consider the risk)..... biggest issue is that these videos cost $$$$ to make, and the return is $, so... need to decide carefully where I spend my money.
Hey John
We are moving to Taiwan! Would love to meet you there someday! And go freediving with you! Love all your videos!
cool
7:06 on top is text No.1 Atomic bomb loading pit, but on sign it said No.2 Atomic bomb loading pit. What is right?
woops. well spotted.
My dad flew P-51 Mustangs off of Iwo Jima to escort the Tinian bombers over Japan. Your videography is amazing and your narration shows respect for the history. The interspersed clips work well too. Will you ever go to Iwo?
Ed, thank you so much for that feed back. I wish I could go to Iwo, but it's not easy as its not open to the public. You are the second person in 2 weeks to come forward and talk about parents flying from Tinian over Iwo.
Few understand why these islands were so important to ending the war. The bombers were sitting ducks without fighter plane escort. The P-51 Mustangs had less fuel range, so Iwo Jima was necessary. Hence the great sacrifices to take these islands.
I did not realise that myself, I was not sure what state the Japanese airforce was in by that time in the war - it seemed after the battle of the Philippine sea - the Japanese air force wasn't up to much. Thanks for your support earlier today, really nice gesture. If you go through my channel there videos of various world war relics, like the Guam Amtrak, and Palau Seaplane, though they don't have the narration.
Yes, at this point in the war, most of the Japanese fighter planes where in defense of the homeland, hence the increase in danger to the US bombers flying off Tinian and the need for US fighter plane escort. BTW, an hour roundtrip squeezed into a P-51.
As for my donation, I thought about what this video was worth to me, much more personal and multifaceted insight that most documentaries don't quite do.
Lesser than 1min of freediving. WHAT!?!?
Amazing
I would like to visit this place. Lot of history there
Went to the island in 2017. Those two buildings that you question for ammunition storage are actually Japanese air raid shelters.
Great end to the series
May everyone be able to learn free diving or is this just possible for special body tipes?
For each almost healthy person it is possible to dive to 20-30 m and stay underwater up to 2 minutes after some time of training.
everybody can freedive, you have to do a course with a professional freediver and practice
The pit is ominous as hell.
if your shirt is the flag of Estonia?
I'm surprised that there isn't Higgins boats destroyed on the islands.
Very nice footage and beautiful scenery. I understand the grief japanese people suffered at the end of the war but let's not forget that the Japanese Empire (allied to Hitler's Nazism) invaded and enslaved most of it's neighbor countries with ruthless barbarism. The reaction of the Allies was logical and not disproportionate to my criteria. Let's not forget as to not repeat errors of the past. Peace out.
why are there no people?
Между ними расстояние порядка 8-11 км. С Сайпана ночью хорошо видны огни Тиниана
come to guam!!
definitely this year
aweesomee :)
go easy with your color correction
This video is not color corrected. I only color correct my underwater shots. If you are refering to the drone video, its using polarising filter, which gives the sea and sky a very vivid look.
yeah in the drone video the sea felt way too bright. maybe lower some stops on the polarising filter ive possible. thanks for the series, keep up the good content
Too sadly story :(
Came here and subscribed for freediving... left because these videos turned into history lessons... bring back the diving and leave all the history crap for another channel.
The "depth" of my channel comes from the historic value of the wrecks I have dived.I freedive to visit historic sites - nothing has changed since 2012. I don't care about shooting fish, or getting a max depth to show off with. In the Saipan I freedived 4 wrecks sunk fighting to get this island - not make this video showing what they were fighting for, and how significant it was - that would leave a massive hole in the story for me.
I will not change my opinion against to USA until it is apologize from Japan !