GOING ALONE | Are we ready? | THE FINAL TEST - Ep.97
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- Running Florence aground and a final test of our diving skills. It's not always easy, but it is worth it. We take a weekend break from our diving course to explore the deserted but difficult cruising grounds off of West Sumatra, before returning for our final dive of the course and a challenge. Can we find the sunken wreck of an old sailing boat, on our own?!?
We are a British couple who set off from England in 2016 to fulfill our dream of sailing around the world on our 37ft sail boat, Florence. Along the way we share the live aboard lifestyle with the highs and lows of travelling around the world by boat, our own little tiny house. Boat life out at sea on the ocean and off the grid.
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Reflection - www.hooksounds.com - Licenced
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Free Fall - www.hooksounds.com - Licenced
I had placed you guys so high on a pedestal that you guys being greenhorn divers made me smile ! Enjoy ! Its what made me want a real boat !
You clearly had a very good instructor with Marco, you both had fantastic trim and buoyancy, especially considering it was your first 4 dives.
Well done, diving is an amazing hobby.
Amy and Matt, you brighten my day. Thank you. Congratulatios on your undewater feats and diving accomplishments.
congrats on your new achievement - scuba diving certification. welcome to the underwater world.
Great again Amy and Matt, but as a Medic i am i was wondering what kinda first aid stuff you got on board! Can you make an episode of that;)!
Thank you for your continued episodes. Really helps our spirits pressed down in lockdown and/or in poverty.
Learning to dive was one of the best things I've ever done! It opens up so much of the world.
Go you sweet things. So proud of you both. I'm back in Australia, I sincerely thank both of your advice re sailing back here thru this covid BS in Asia. Cheers
You just made Good Friday a great Friday
I've enjoyed watching your personal growth facing the underwater realm. Thanks for sharing the journey.
well done you two!!, thanks Marco
Thanks for sharing. You do know that after watching all of your journeys. I'm going to have to see them all for myself. Thanks for the inspiration.
Please do!
COVID has been good to Florence!
You have become experts in Indonesia, learned to dive!
Very impressive indeed and your channel has transformed into one of the best!
Well done
Cheers
Just couldn't resist.. looks like your both having a "Ball"
Scuba is great! I am so glad that you were able to earn your certs. Oh yeah, glad the drone will live to fly another day. Everyone seems to have a few drone stories.
Always beautiful to watch. Thanks so much. Chris.
Great! Thanks! Really useful anchoring tips for when i arrive single handed. Keep up the brilliant videos. Amazing quality!
sailing and diving belong together like the air and water, cheers guys have fun!
Bravo. Looks like you're naturals!
That is all down to our fantastic instructor Marco :-)
Well done Matt and Amy, it's always good when you can accomplish something new.
All the love. You guys are awesome. Can't imagine how slow time must crawl for you but I promise - you are in a better place. Keep up the good work and keep taking care of eachother. You have compressed a life worth of companionship into a few months and seem to handle it. Cudos!!!!! (SY Alice, leasure, Sweden).
What an incredible tapestry the world shares with those who explore! Congrats on your PADI certification. Now you have time to explore so much more. Great video!
Truly beautiful place and made even more exclusive by (other than covid) needing advanced anchoring skills!
Congrats on the certification! Im sure it will be a game changer in you enjoyment of the seas. Your vids have just gotten so good, and the places so amazing that I just see much continued growth and success. Thanks so much for putting these together for us!
Congrats on accomplishing what you set out to do! New skills, new adventures!
Beautiful! I'd love to know more about your drone...you get such wonderful footage. What kind, what range, and how DO you keep from losing it? (I lost 2 in my own backyard)
Love your expanding abilities. Your drone footage is beautiful, and adding scuba footage allows you to now get close-up in your underwater adventures. Of course, Amy continues to be a skilled and talented videographer. Sadly, you also provided video proof that Matt will never become another Pelé - the famous Brazilian footballer. ;-)
Happy Easter
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Great sailing ⛵️ sailboat video! 😘⛵️😀 Mike from Missouri
Congratulations !!!!!!!!! on passing your scuba test. To be confidant on the water is one thing, now to be confidant under the water is a huge plus. Looking forward to where the winds take you next. Barnacle Bern 😎 SY Cadbri
I See every video from you and I like it so much . Chears from NORWAY 😊👍
Well done guys a great achievement!
Congratulations on dive certifications, just another repertoire to add to your adventures. Thank you for taking us along.
Congrads, and welcome to a new "underwater" world.
I got a warm fuzzy feeling for you when you surfaced right on target and Marco clapped you. I could see Amy smiling even with the dive mask on! Well done both of you. Looking forward to your next adventure.
Great video!!!
will have to get tanks and keep onboard now
You guys deserve so many more views!! The quality of content is simply amazing and y’all are so fun to watch.
Ah the drone is your 3rd camera man, but who was driving the drone during your dive, was it on auto hover? Must know details on how you do some of those trick shots. Fantastic!! You may go through a few drones before your trip is done.
Anchoring demo in such a beautiful location 👍🏻
Congrats with your OWD certification! Happy diving! Your underwater filming skills are already impressive.
Thanks for the anchor lesson I will try it on my fishing boat
Looks like you must have a new camera ...color is amazing ! Happy you are safe 🙏⛵️🙏⛵️
You wanna check out the Eastern part of Indonesia.... Flores/ Alor /Raja Empat
Well done buddies :-)
Amy - going to let you into a secret, bending over the bow in your short shorts doesn't speed up anchoring. Matt's a bloke, he'll stand there all day just watching.
Nice episode as usual. You do really good videos! Congrats on passing the scuba test!
Happy Easter to you both ☺️ always enjoy the ylogs
Wow. Did you two ever luck out to find Marco. What a gem that guy is. Cheers!
We were very fortunate that Marco contacted us through the comments here and invited us to stop in and fill up our water tanks before crossing the Indian Ocean. The way things have happened we have stayed longer and been made very very welcome :-)
@@SailingYachtFlorence Don’t you love it when things just work out??? Talk about serendipity! Cheers!
I actually felt a bit envious of you on that beautiful island amongst that gorgeous scenery for the weekend with great weather and no special plans !
You will probably find like most people that the Padi Open Water Diver certificate is perfectly adequate for most daytime, shallow water diving and just stay at that level although you can take a few short specialty courses which will give you more confidence and a broader range of knowledge, they are well worth looking up when you get the chance.
If you want to do deeper dives and night dives and generally bring your skills to a higher level the Advanced coarse does just that, you really get a feeling of achievement from that one and it gives a real boost to your confidence.
What have you changed about the video settings, I can't quite put my finger on it ? The image has less red overall, it seems the camera still set on underwater settings but it's the same with the drone shots, did you compensate in post production for the mismatched levels between underwater shots and shots in air ?
Thanks for sharing another interesting video...how did Marco’s boat sink?
Well done on a new step to a “deeper understanding” to our world.
I'm glad I'm subscribed.
Did you get a new camera, your underwater pictures were great. You will have more adventures and more places to explore.
I would think that your new talent in diving should be very useful if ever the anchor snagged on something.
I have been quite concerned about that since the beginning, but now you should have more confidence when having to drop anchor in deeper water.
9:15 as a Brazilian I feel your pain. Brazil?! Football, samba, right? Yeah, but no 🤣
Amazing
You were talking about having the island all to yourselves and then there was what sounded to me like a table-saw at 7:50 for about 30 seconds. Haha! I was expecting to see you walk into a construction sight.
I had to listen carefully over and over to figure out it was some kind of critter!
What was it?
This are cicadas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
Congratulations on your initial PADI qualifications and for re-kindling your enthusiasm with a 'new skill' : take care! Your video skills continue to be impressive.
Cool
Nice video guys and well done on your qualification! When are you planning on making the jump across the Indian Ocean? Cyclone season is coming to an end now I think?
Checking out in May, direct to Seychelles is the plan as cannot get permission for Chagos this year and other places are closed still.
@@SailingYachtFlorence wow that's a heck of a passage! A bit out of practice for that kind of trip now aren't you? 😉. Shame about the closures, there's a lot of places you'll miss out on. Mind you the Seychelles are beautiful 👍
@@SailingYachtFlorence The Maldives might be open by then, though I wouldn't count on it... Shame, coz you'd love the diving!
I really hope ya'll are as pleasant to each other off camera as you are on camera. I hate to hear mates yelling at each other. Dee and Deb
There are no padi failures. If you are alive enough there's a faint pulse and you can gurgle a little bit ... you win.
Are you planning to going to grad school? More certs = more experience, imho, a real good idea when diving.
Why don't you take sternlines to a palmtree ashore? This would also put your anchor to an advantageous angle to the seabed.
That would be a mighty long stern line, my friend.
@@MrBernie101 Yes, it would have to be very long landlines.
That was the plan but it was difficult to set the anchor in the right place so we would not touch the beach without that anchor having to be in 32m of water! Things rarely go to plan...
I guess the best solution is for us to try for ourselves and give our own feedback!
Matt " I got 100%". Amy, full of surprise " Really?"
A classic Venus and Mars situation.....
@6:30 no option to take a long line ashore?
Or a small anchor shoreside to avoid the main anchor twisting free?
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Aahh... Anchoring...
always fun!
Remember these 4 words when diving and things start to go wrong, STOP, THINK, PLAN, GO.
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It looks murky thought it would of been better viz than that