Rubicon Point Lake Tahoe July 2014 Virtual Scuba Tour

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  • Опубліковано 9 лип 2014
  • !!VIEW IN FULLSCREEN HD for all details!!
    First time using moviemaker to throw together a fun little "First Person Virtual Scuba Dive." Filmed on a GoPro (thanks Seiji for lending). Also my first time scuba diving Lake Tahoe and first time visiting Tahoe in the summer. Needless to say I was very impressed.
    Music: ATB - The Summer, ATB - Beautiful Worlds, ATB - Remember. Non-commercial use.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 57

  • @scottgudsg
    @scottgudsg 8 років тому +16

    I dove Tahoe for seven years, twice a week year round. Most dives were at Rubicon point to Emerald Bay. I layed hundreds of yards of white guide line to swim throughs and cool formations. Many are quite deep. I stayed above 278 feet on all my dives, but they were all mixed gas dives with independent doubles, stage bottles, decompression gas and 100% o2. My dives were always over three hours long. I covered a lot of ground. I lived in Gardnerville, Nevada.
    It was great times, I miss it! Thanks for the fun video.

  • @michaeltaylors2456
    @michaeltaylors2456 7 років тому +10

    Great video. Not be a grump, but I dove there a few times starting in 1978. Conditions have deteriorated so badly since then. The dive we called the " "drop-off" had visibility of at least 120' . Very similar to good day in the Bahamas . The huge grey black speckled granite boulders were perfectly clean with zero green algae on them. Iron pyrite ( fools gold ) glittered all across the brilliant white sandy bottom as we snorkeled out from the beach. I guess it's still clearer than your average lake. My forest service friends attribute the algae bloom to the golf course fertilizer runoff btw. Thank you for posting .

    • @Jay-vr9ir
      @Jay-vr9ir 4 роки тому

      Sad , I recall going to Zadar in Yugoslavia (Croatia) and being able to look down 15 metres , in 1973.I wonder if the water there is still clear.

  • @adriancorneanu5796
    @adriancorneanu5796 2 роки тому

    Felicitări Incredibil de frumos.Pt tine Flavius!

  • @mtbalpinecounty
    @mtbalpinecounty 3 роки тому

    Love this!

  • @welcometoorefuge
    @welcometoorefuge 9 років тому +6

    No wonder the Cartwrights never had Hop-Sing cook them fish for dinner...there aren't any fish in Lake Tahoe !

  • @eventtrading
    @eventtrading 8 років тому +1

    Lots more marine life than expected; always a good deal. Loved the bubble attack.
    Nice wall; well done.

  • @welcometoorefuge
    @welcometoorefuge 9 років тому +5

    NO trash on the bottom...unbelievable! The video of Lake Mead the bottom is literally covered with sunglasses,beer cans and bottles,anchors everywhere,fishing poles. I guess the people that come to Tahoe are a little more responsible.

    • @bennettswigard1724
      @bennettswigard1724 8 років тому +1

      no they are the same here just the lake is huge and not many people party at rubicon bay

  • @darrelljacobjr2120
    @darrelljacobjr2120 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for showing us this great video of another world!
    Looks like fun, but i'll stick with my homemade ROV. If i were scuba diving i know i'd see something interesting just out of reach another 50' down and be tempted to go look. With the ROV i could retrieve an iPhone from the bottom 600' below. Plus stay down as long as my batteries allow...hours...with fresh ones topside. The only thing that restricts me is the length of my tether.

  • @scottgudsg
    @scottgudsg 8 років тому +3

    I might add that all my dives were while wearing a dry suit with extremely thick thinsulate undergarments. Also a custom neoprene hood that was up to 10mm thick, very comfy warm, when inflated with argon, while is the way I did it. I owned my own compressor and mixed all my own gasses.

  • @sistergoldenhair4595
    @sistergoldenhair4595 5 років тому

    Love 💕 your video ! The tree 🌲 hugging the stone amazing and the bubble attack of the cliff divers great 👍

  • @bethportesi3497
    @bethportesi3497 8 років тому +4

    lol i loved all the little comments in the video

  • @aldraw
    @aldraw  9 років тому +2

    55 Degrees is pretty chilly, requires a high quality 7mm wetsuit to be comfortable. Low end 7mm work too but you'll be cold toward the end of the dive. Diving Tahoe is a treat since the water tastes amazingly sweet and it is far clearer than the ocean where I'm usually diving.

    • @huntermorse3427
      @huntermorse3427 8 років тому

      +aldraw that doesn't seem right. A 6/5 mm wetsuit is made for waters 32 degrees and below

    • @drHeizakeit
      @drHeizakeit 8 років тому

      +Hunter Morse I dive cold water year round. 7mm wetsuit is what I use for anything under 60 degree bottom temp. A 7mm at 32 degrees is actually fairly cold and a drysuit would be much more comfortable.

    • @jquest43
      @jquest43 7 років тому +1

      shit.i do 300 400 ft dives w triox in tahoe
      You need to up yer game
      mr softy
      see tahoe tessie i quit diving tahoe after that..

  • @jessicalt4121
    @jessicalt4121 5 років тому +3

    Why can’t the state try to prevent the algae blooms (from fertilizer run off) that are diminishing the visibility of the water. Comments mentioned used to be much clearer in the past. This should be addressed.

  • @canuckpeoplerule
    @canuckpeoplerule 4 роки тому +1

    I can tell you that if you did that bubble attack to me and I didn’t know you were down there then you would have been filming a long brown streak behind me as I swam for dear life to the shore! I probably wouldn’t ever get back in a lake again, they’re creepier than the ocean.

  • @RideWithTheWolf
    @RideWithTheWolf 6 років тому +3

    Nice dive. But I want Coustoues view. I want to see what scared him.

  • @perryholmes8652
    @perryholmes8652 2 роки тому

    I remember Tahoe being much clearer when I was a kid ('60's and '70's).I have a question I've been wondering about for years: Does anyone know when the lake was first formed? Was it the Ice Age? Anyways, great video!

  • @mustanggun
    @mustanggun 3 роки тому

    Just 70'??? Anyway, beautiful water, I will dive there this summer.

  • @angelfigueroa310
    @angelfigueroa310 7 років тому +2

    I swam in emerald bay once .very cold

  • @billpynchon3929
    @billpynchon3929 7 років тому +2

    With all those small rocks around I would build a rock statue.

  • @IveGotChicken
    @IveGotChicken 9 років тому +2

    Finally a video with the original sound also included. That drop off looks amazing. I'm wanting to pick up scuba so I've been looking around at videos of Tahoe, how cold does 55F really feel?

    • @skyym3629
      @skyym3629 7 років тому

      IveGotChicken ....... 55F feels pretty darn cold. You would be smart to get a 7mm wet suit with hoodie and gloves. You are still gonna be cold, just not frozen. If possible, try and get a dry suit and take a class on it. You will be so much more comfortable and enjoy the dive 100 times more. Either way, it is better to dive and be cold than to not dive at all. Hope this helps.

    • @IveGotChicken
      @IveGotChicken 7 років тому

      +skyym3 ha wow forgot about this vid, I've since been certified and got about 25 dives under my belt. I've been in 59F and it's rough

    • @skyym3629
      @skyym3629 7 років тому

      IveGotChicken Right on. Diving is an awesome sport, huh. If you live somewhere near a spot that you can regularly dive, once you purchase all your equipment, it really isn't to expensive of a sport. Glad to hear you got your C-card and are enjoying the sport. The coldest I have been in was around 50F with just a standard 7mm farmer john wet suit. I won't do that at my age now. It was quite miserable and unplesant to say the least. It was a very large swimming hole in a snow melt river run off. It was beautiful, but I did not have the proper suit for it. Stay safe, Cheers

    • @sistergoldenhair4595
      @sistergoldenhair4595 5 років тому

      Cold enough to shrink your chimichangas!

  • @DavyDijoux
    @DavyDijoux 5 років тому

    The worst thing we have to fear, is fear itself

  • @murvyjones7464
    @murvyjones7464 5 років тому

    I dove here back in 1984. Great times but the visibilty was at least 300 feet. Sad. I heard its cloudy due to the amount of natural ice in the river

  • @jessicalt4121
    @jessicalt4121 5 років тому

    That man swam fast after the bubble attack. Funny! Would have been funny to grab his ankle but of course you can’t.

  • @DavidWilson-td1is
    @DavidWilson-td1is 3 роки тому

    I thought Lakes had fish in them I guess that's one of them yuppie party boat lakes

  • @matthewjsparks
    @matthewjsparks 3 роки тому

    First decent quake on that fault, and everybody in the basin dies.

  • @originalfallinggirl
    @originalfallinggirl 6 років тому

    I’m going to ask a dumb question but it’s sincere. Why are there so few fish? Has it been overfished or is this natural for most freshwater lakes, including the Great Lakes. I would love to dive fresh water and Tahoe looks like the place.

    • @cameronkramerr
      @cameronkramerr 4 роки тому

      Soi11 it’s cold and the bull sharks eat all the fish

  • @welcometoorefuge
    @welcometoorefuge 9 років тому +1

    Did you rent all that gear or did you bring it with you. You guys really missed a (America's Funniest Videos) golden opportunity by NOT messing with those cliff divers....they would have shit their bathing suits (especially the girls). Awesome dive!

    • @aldraw
      @aldraw  9 років тому

      Brought everything except the condo with the dock!

  • @christopherterrell1805
    @christopherterrell1805 7 років тому

    I have the same computer.

  • @davidboultinghouse3332
    @davidboultinghouse3332 2 роки тому

    Just seems like a dead lake for the size of the lake seems there would be more fish

  • @zephyrs.9399
    @zephyrs.9399 5 років тому

    Is it expensive to dive down there? I dont have my own equipment in the U.S and its almost wintertime now, just wondering if its like a million dollars a dive

    • @forestromero3469
      @forestromero3469 5 років тому

      Yeah it ranges from $800,000 to $1.9million. Very expensive

    • @bruceleez5292
      @bruceleez5292 Рік тому

      Upwards of 2.5 million for a single dive but worth it. I'll be going back for sure. Mr Mills will have a guide of his go for 2 million but he doesn't like wasting his time for anything less than 5 million a day so it's tough with him.

  • @zacharydeithorn4926
    @zacharydeithorn4926 9 років тому +2

    Where are the bodies ?

    • @USCisgay
      @USCisgay 8 років тому +3

      +zachary deithorn down deeper... the mafia knew where the deep spots were

    • @anthonybernard92
      @anthonybernard92 4 роки тому

      Round these parts they get rid of the bodies by eating them

  • @MorganHill8
    @MorganHill8 7 років тому

    but what was the pink thing at 9:50?

  • @wallybrown9509
    @wallybrown9509 4 роки тому

    MOD for 70”?

  • @flfisher8510
    @flfisher8510 5 років тому +1

    I have an unreasonable but paralyzing fear of swimming in deep water. As long as I can clearly see the bottom from the surface, it's cool. Otherwise... Pass.

    • @Jestrath
      @Jestrath 5 років тому +1

      Same here. I only like to swim in swimming pools or very clear natural water. I don't think it is irrational. In dark waters you can't see any of the numerous potential dangers that might be lurking around you.

  • @damienharabalja9071
    @damienharabalja9071 8 років тому +3

    Great video! You guys need to work on your buddies skills though. You're too far apart. If there is an equipment malfunction, you might not have enough time to get to your buddy. I recommend you take a GUE Fundamentals course.

  • @cilva7able
    @cilva7able 4 роки тому

    How are we supposed to hear the boat with that rediculous music?

    • @brandonkoff
      @brandonkoff 4 роки тому

      If you paid attention he put up the text ahead of things he was talking about. It was a few seconds after he wrote about it.

    • @cilva7able
      @cilva7able 4 роки тому

      @@brandonkoff Have fun listening to that garbage you call music.

    • @ettaplace6716
      @ettaplace6716 3 роки тому

      I liked the music a lot ! And the vid .. thanks