look at this isn't that beautiful down there there Are little holes and little passageways all the
way around here today we are at devil's den in williston florida it's supposedly an awesome
dive it's actually a spring that's deep down in the ground now in that big hole it drops down
to a big pool underground and that's the opening the beginning of the devil's den
spring here is the staircase going down to the devil's den it's really steep stairway
you have to be careful doing this with all the scuba gear on wow all right
be careful here it's a little wet look at this isn't that beautiful down there look at that
beautiful blue water there's a big platform that we can jump off of with our scuba gear
and start our dive look at this huge walkway this place is enormous i've always seen it in pictures
online but this place really is enormous there's probably 30 feet to that hole up there and this
whole cavern in here is probably like almost 100 feet in diameter it's really big all right i'm
going to take you to the edge really beautiful all the way around here feel like you're in this huge
cave there's little holes in little passageways all the way around here but most of them are
too small to go into now when you're down there there are some bigger caves that go off
into a cave system and it says warning do not enter unless you're cave certified
it's extremely dangerous and people unfortunately do die when they're diving in caves when they
don't have the proper training in gear so they put those signs up so inexperienced people
can't go into those passageways now up here in parts of the cave where it usually stays dry
you can see there's like stalactites forming some real big rock slabs up here that you can almost
climb up onto i don't think they want you to but there's a really old old barrel or something up
here it's like a real old-time crate all right now i'm in the center i'm in the open sunlight
check it out in here look at this there's all this moss and stuff hanging down in here
and it's real green because the steam coming off the water waters that all year round even in the
winter and it gets great sunlight in here this is a really beautiful spot when you're underwater you
can see the rays of light just beaming down the center of this place and it's gorgeous for this
dive i'm using my hog scuba gear definitely check them out i am using the hog hybrid pro bc and the
hog zenith regulator set on this scuba dive we are staying in the cavern area of devil's den
we are not certified cave divers so we don't have the training or the gear to actually go any cave
so although this may look like a cave this is actually a cavern and what that means is we're
always able to look back and see the natural light coming in from above as we drop deeper
in the devil's den the cavern widens out so people describe this as an upside down mushroom
to where it's smaller at the top and as you get lower it gets a lot wider and also you have kind
of this overhead environment here where you kind of feel like you're in a cave but if i actually
look off to my right i'm always able to see the natural light coming in from above we are diving
through the cavern in a clockwise pattern so the cavern wall is on our left and the open sunlight
is on our right however there are a couple of tight swim throughs which they do allow open
water divers to pass through but before they swim through and after the swim through there's always
access to the center of the cavern where the light is coming in from above so you can see there are
some fish in here and if i look off to the right there's the open sunlight coming down from above
the rays of sunlight coming down from above are so beautiful in that blue water
we're heading back out to the outer edge of the cavern for another tight swim through
so this swim through is kind of angled down so we're actually descending
as we go through the swim through and this looks pretty extreme but it's really not because just
before the swim through and just after the swim through i can always look off to my right and
see the light coming down through that open window now they call this a karst window so what a karst
window is is actually a section above a cave that cracks and it falls in exposing the cave below it
devil's den is actually an underwater river that is fed by a spring and the spring-fed water is
what makes this place so clear the water in here is absolutely beautiful it's pure water
it's coming in about 72 degrees so it's a little bit chilly and that's why we wear wetsuits now you
will see some debris floating around in the water and that's from scuba divers so as people are
scuba diving in here sometimes the wake from their fins bumps the floors and it stirs up the silt
and you lose a little bit of visibility but slowly the silt flushes out and you can see again
my dive buddy "Old Skool" has now dropped down to the deepest section of the cave which is
around 54 feet and i'm watching making sure he's coming safely back up we're going to continue
going around and we can always look up here and see that blue light but take a look this is the
bottom of the cavern floor and you can see this is all silty so here's what happens when it gets
stirred up this silt gets kicked up and you lose visibility for a while now this cavern is so big
in some places i can shine my light out and i can barely see the cavern walls it's pretty amazing
how enormous this place is underwater i'm dropping down here to check out this underwater canyon
there's actually a fence here which has fenced off a cave that shoots out from devil's den i don't
know the purpose for the fence it could be to keep open water divers out of caves it could also be
there to keep divers away from some of the artifacts that had been found at devil's den
so they called devil's den a prehistoric spring because they found fossils there they found couple
thousand-year-old human remains in the cave you can see back towards the center of the cavern and
that gives you an idea of how big this place is under water now we're staying along the outer edge
of the cavern here where all these beautiful limestone structures are now some of these
limestone bits look like they fell off the ceiling of the cavern supposedly these caves like this all
over florida have been formed from rain water that has carved through the limestone rock underneath
creating caverns caves all over the place here is another cave marked off by a warning sign
so we are just going to take a peek in there we're not going to go in there because we are not
cave divers and it would be extremely dangerous for an open water scuba diver like us to attempt
to go in a cave you can see here caves in florida are marked off by this grim reaper sign saying
stop prevent your death go no further here's one of my favorite features in the devil's den
it's this huge crack that's really tight and it goes really far back i'm not gonna
swim in there but i'm gonna stick my gopro on the pole way back in there you can see it's
really beautiful in there there's a lot of silt and that's one of the things that makes
cave diving dangerous if a diver were to kick up the silt they would lose visibility in the cave
moving along now in the devil's den and you can see there's some other
divers down in here and they're making their way through one of those tight passageways
this experience here at devil's den is pretty awesome i really enjoyed this scuba dive to me
it's a great way to get in the water underground and see some of the underground formations
without having to make a huge investment in training in gear like cave divers do there
are those other divers they've made it safely through the swim through and they are back
towards the center where the light's coming down from above now you can snorkel in here if you do
come to snorkel you do need to make reservations in advance and we called them about reservations
for scuba diving and they said you can just show up and come in and there's always going to be
a spot for scuba divers but look at this it's so beautiful in here now there are some fish in here
not too many that i saw i did see one turtle saw some bluegill and a catfish or two not much marine
life but this is more of a geological experience now i'm getting back up to the platform here
and it's awesome that they have these platforms it makes it so easy on divers
all right guys i hope you enjoyed the dive here at devil's den it was truly amazing if you
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