this is me about to jump in an ice cold lake to find a GoPro I lost seven years ago and although my suit may look cozy trust me when I say that I'm about to freeze but to understand why I would put myself through this we have to go back to when I just turned 15. as an aspiring YouTuber who just grounds up enough yard work and birthday money for a new GoPro I was ecstatic to finally get my hands on a camera fit to capture my passion of extreme sports the Pinnacle of which for me was cliff jumping so when it came time for our yearly family vacation and I got the chance to film jumping off of actual Cliffs it felt like the stars had a line I spent the entire first day capturing all the new tricks I wanted to try and I even got my family to jump with me then as this memorable day was coming to an end during my final jump I came up out of the water and noticed my GoPro was no longer on my handle my heart sank I'm always so scared that the GoPro is gonna somehow fall out even though there's like no way I instantly went beneath the surface to see my beloved camera rapidly syncing with all of my footage I swam down towards it as hard as I possibly could and I kid you not I will never forget this my fingers grazed it when I came up out of the water as my mother put it you would have thought someone had died I don't remember if I cried but everyone on that boat definitely got to see through my teenage tough guy persona if you're wondering how I'm showing this footage with my GoPro lost at the bottom of a giant Lake well I can explain once we figured out that the water was 65 feet deep and there was no chance of getting the camera my mother being the wonderful person that she is drove me an hour to the nearest store where I got a new GoPro in the form of a loan from her and the next day in support of her heartbroken son she let us return to all of the spots and film The jumps again mom you're the best and I hope that I've since paid you back although that trip turned out fine my inner 15 year old has always wondered if there was any way I could get that GoPro back so when I was recently invited on a cliff jumping trip to Hawaii I realized a few days before my flight that this could be my chance to learn to scuba dive and finally be able to search for it I immediately drove to the nearest dive shop here in Kansas which I did not expect to exist and signed up for some lessons I just signed up for scuba diving and I leave for Hawaii in two days what am I doing bro luckily since it's 30 degrees out they can get me in first thing tomorrow but I still have to do the entire online class by tonight I stayed glued to my computer until I completed the course in what had to be record time and then left early the next morning for my final exam somehow I passed on the first try which meant all that was left to do before Hawaii was my pool Dives after getting in my wetsuit and putting on all the heavy gear for the first time I knew I probably looked ridiculous but I kind of felt like a Navy SEAL or something it was pretty cool when it was time to get in the water I walked up to the deep end did the giant stride they taught me and was officially scuba diving and although I was just sitting in a pool the fact that I was breathing under the freaking water had me already starting to love this the very next morning I packed up my new scuba gear and set out on my 17 hours of travel long flights have never been my favorite but as I was landing and I set my eyes on the bright blue water I knew it was going to be worth it look at this place look at it I feel like this whole place is one big flower this is so sick I arrived at the hotel just in time to catch the sunset and get a jet lag mediocre half night of sleep before the rest of my training began so it's my first morning in Hawaii and I am learning to scuba dive today but first I gotta fly to one of the other Islands apparently it's like the best for it let's do this foreign once I'd landed yet again my instructor got me from the airport brought us straight to the boat and after signing my life away I was ready to do this for real oh my God look at that look at that well I guess here we go I just got a waddle over here in three two one to get my lifetime scuba certification I needed to complete four separate Dives the first one started out with some basic skills on the surface but then suddenly took a scary turn when I was told I had to go over 40 feet to the bottom none of the things I learned in that six foot deep pool could prepare me mentally for this descent after 20 minutes half my oxygen tank and difficulties fixing my intense ear pain from the pressure I eventually made it and took my first step onto the sand but since I took so long to get down I had to go right back up so that was the end of my first dive I made it down faster during my second dive but because of my ear pain I was still a bit too slow and I ended up stuck watching the other divers go get to play with a sea turtle by the time I'd made it down and finished my drills the turtle was gone and since this was my last dive of the day I realized that I'd miss my chance well it's 6 a.m and time for more scuba diving I guess every diver gets up at the crack of dawn great the next day came dive number three this time we headed to a beach where I'd be doing my first Shore dive luckily my ears felt completely fine today I must have finally cleared my sinuses earlier [Music] in less than 10 minutes under the water we found some of the cast of SpongeBob a giant school of fish and whatever the heck this thing is but just then my instructor tapped me on the shoulder [Music] getting to swim right alongside these majestic creatures was surreal I instantly forgot about anything that was worrying me as I watched them glide through the water right in front of my eyes I was completely entranced but during the mask draining exercise that followed the worries came back we were 20 feet underwater when I tried to drain my mask by blowing out of my nose but I accidentally breathed in and began choking on the salt water I eventually got all the water out of my mask but not my throat how you feeling so good so I had to go ahead and end dive number three there there also when I flooded my mask at the end felt like I was gonna die for it but he killed it with all of my training tasks now complete we got to spend our final dive just exploring and soaking it all in [Music] your boy is scuba certified for life [Music] don't let your ego get get too big I thought these were gonna be my last dives in Hawaii but knowing that I was going to be in a cold dark Lake soon made me want to get just a bit more practice by doing a night dive and amid the boat right out to the spot I got a pretty good feeling I was gonna get to see some new creatures while there was still daylight we went down to check out the underwater campfire area where we would hopefully get to see some giant manta rays later then after venturing out to my new furthest depth of 65 feet we actually came across a smaller one that came up to say hi Oh my God that was so sick once the sun had finished setting I did my last Descent of the trip and headed for the campfire what I saw next was legitimately one of the most amazing things I've ever gotten to experience a swarm of seven absolutely massive mantas spanning up to 16 feet wide were flying just above our head the way they move seemed as if they were putting on a well-rehearsed harmonious performance it was insane look he just did a backflip and they were so big that the force of their wing-like fins would knock me over when I wasn't holding on to a rock the 30 minutes we got to spend with these Angelic animals flew by but it was certainly something that I will never forget and I never thought I'd say this but I think it topped the sea turtles well they said I couldn't fly for 18 hours after scuba diving I hope this doesn't count I had to kill some time before I could fly to the cliff jumping Island because apparently if you don't you can get what's called decompression sickness it happens when you undergo change in pressure too quickly which causes nitrogen bubbles to form in your blood and other tissues the symptoms of which aren't the best it's for this reason that scuba divers have to come up and down really slowly thankfully the pressure change from parasailing is minimal which meant I was able to try it for the very first time [Music] this is insane [Music] let's see if a shark will come up and grab us [Music] really make me want to get my skydiving license right now this is sick [Music] once I was safe to fly again I set out to meet up with my friends Ryan and Reagan we traveled to the biggest island in Hawaii and with the most land comes the most Cliffs we hit a few really fun spots over the first couple of days we spent together but there was one located on the largely uninhabited southernmost tip of the island with a panoramic view of the ocean and it's my favorite cliff jumping spot of all time and with this being my first time coming back in over five years to say I was excited is an understatement five years later same shorts [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] although Southpoint was a blast and will always have a special place in my heart there is one thing it doesn't have and for that one thing we would have to go to the other side of the island and start hiking foreign [Music] 45 minutes and some minor injuries later we arrived or so we thought yeah that's a person I I don't think so this waterfall was way too big and completely inaccessible but if we found one surely there were others nearby well this is definitely the furthest I have gone out to jump off a cliff let's see if it's worth it spoiler alert it wasn't it would have been if we just wanted a pretty spot to jump but the real reason we came all the way out here was for the Frog no no not broth the froth it's the bubbly area where the weight of the falling water breaks up the surface and creates pockets of air making for a far less painful Landing it's basically Nature's foam pit but to truly experience this effect we were going to have to find a bigger waterfall and after going on what we hoped would be our last hike we hit the jackpot when we discovered a waterfall approximately 50 feet tall the water was deep enough to jump off to the side but we still needed to check directly under the Falls if we wanted to land in the froth that's where my scuba goggles came in clutch and when I realized just how powerful a waterfall this side actually is with the safety check complete we made it back up to the top just as it began to rain and before the Rocks could get too slippery I turned around on the uneven ledge and started the countdown [Music] off our waterfall in Hawaii it felt amazing oh everything I dreamed of dry camping waterfalls and there's nothing in dance [Music] well I couldn't have asked for a better ending to such an 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I am gonna find this GoPro but there was still one major obstacle finding someone willing to do this with me I spent several days calling multiple dive shops and professional divers but unsurprisingly they all declined the scuba diving man with 40 years of experience that sounded pretty promising just called me and said that the mission was too dangerous and that he uh needs to back out that should tell you something son regardless I didn't make it this far just to abandon the dive and accept defeat I was already in way too deep [Applause] and so I dialed the number of the last Pro scuba diver I'd been told about hello hey is this Neil it is hi Neil this is Tanner braungardt this is the moment I realized just how absurd this plan was sounding coming out of my mouth and so I was wondering if that sounds of any interest to you wow yeah yeah it's a lot okay uh oh um I think I'm gonna say yes let's go heck yeah man super excited well sounds like I'm gonna be in a cold lake with a stranger well the perseverance had paid off but since Neil had holiday plans coming up we only had a small window to make this happen so I quickly learned how to use my dad's fishing bow and got fitted for the thickest wetsuit I could rent before we met the very next morning and got everything ready for the five hour road trip [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] our plan was to stop for the night so that we'd be well rested for the Expedition but after getting the last hotel room available I realized that I wasn't going to be able to sleep [Music] it is entirely too early and our army veteran Scuba Pro has already left the room he's waiting in the truck and we're about to get in this freezing cold water and it's freezing outside great [Music] [Music] number 26 that blue square we're looking for number 25 so that means we're close and I can't feel my fingers we're not even in the water [Music] right there that is the ledge I took off so where it gets dark is the old water level and that is why you always check under where you're jumping oh my God man that would really impale you wouldn't it that would you would die so I got to ask are you really scuba diver if you don't scuba dive in November that's true are you you're probably just a smart one this is what we're gonna bring the GoPro back in hopefully holy cow all right so he is in a dry suit so only his hands and a little bit of his face are wet everything else on him is dry in his suit everything on me is going to be wet because this is a wetsuit I'm not qualified to use one of those so it's gonna be a little worse for me oh it's already cold oh it's so cool oh oh man this is gonna suck all right well before I put all my scuba gear on might as well hit the cliff jump right actually by hitting the cliff jump I'll know exactly where I landed last time and then we'll just go straight down from there three [Music] two one well it took seven years but I was finally doing it aside from the freezing temperature we felt optimistic right off the bat because the bottom was made up of rocks like we had hoped everything was covered in Grime but it was still better than something like mud where we'd probably never stand a chance we laid a line across the area where I had landed and began searching back and forth slowly going down the first thing we came across despite checking before I jumped was another giant pointed tree a few feet away from where I just landed if any of you go cliff jump I hope that you'll be smarter than me I also hope you'll be smarter than what seems to be Cliff jumping's main demographic the drunken uncles you know the same guy that dumped the tubing children at 60 mile an hour by the looks of it I think everybody had the same uncle as we began to get deeper the light invisibility was starting to get worse but I did get to see one fish and I can't believe I'm saying this but it definitely topped the manta rays then I saw this log that I thought was a giant animal about to kill me by now we'd already been searching for about 45 minutes and although I was really cold that wasn't the main issue we had descended to the point of complete darkness and to make matters worse there was way more Grime down here which made it impossible to see even an inch in front of us I couldn't see or communicate with Neil in any way at this point and I'm not gonna lie it was pretty terrifying while trying to remain calm and rational In This Very unfamiliar circumstance I realized that the visibility wouldn't improve unless I stopped stirring up the dirt so in an effort to do that I did what I was trained to do by adding a little bit of air to my vest until I began to lift up but since I couldn't see anything I didn't realize that I had put in too much air and because air expands as pressure is alleviated I began to rise faster and faster until I popped up at the surface in a matter of seconds I'm guessing the sudden change in pressure ended my GoPro recording but I do have Neil's perspective after he ascended at a safe rate I employed in my vcd too much and then I couldn't see anything and then all of a sudden I was at the top thankfully it wasn't that deep how deep were we 41 feet 41 feet Jesus my chest hurts a little bit how dangerous is it to come up that fast pretty dangerous because I kind of hurt like I don't know what I should do in my [ __ ] chest hurts but I would be concerned about is an air embolism you can look too fast if you're not breathing you can rupture your lungs how bad is it it's not that amount of pain it's not the worst actually you want to get out yeah see what happens yeah the chest could also mean because you're cold like I literally got this feeling like as I was coming up and I was lost I was like dude is this how I die like where am I going like this I genuinely thought that I was freaking out that's scary well I guess it's successful because I didn't die but he's still gonna search for a couple hours down there maybe we'll count them away with the GoPro but I'm not getting back in once I was out of my wetsuit and finally got warmed up we waited eagerly until Neil resurfaced with the verdict there's some goodies in there but uh mostly trash that's up to you if you're too cold then we can get out and we can head back I'm starting to get pretty cold yeah that's okay yeah that's fine I feel bad we didn't find it Well I guess there you have it despite all of our time spent training coming here and giving it our best shot we were just going to have to accept defeat and let my younger self down or at least that's what I thought until Neil said something suspicious well I don't know you can go through that there's a couple of okay maybe two neat things in there okay let's check out the neat things and that's when I realized that he had pulled the greatest prank of all time foreign JK yeah we didn't find it but hey let's see what's in the bag of goodies anyway what do we got we got a pair of sheets disgusting flop oh my God it's rock hard a nice water shoe a nice old looking kind of artsy at least we did a little bit of a cleanup I almost lost another GoPro for you oh yeah it slipped off oh shoot there we go I'll just use that footage we found it oh yeah it's pretty cool definitely the coolest thing rusted shut new title seven years ago I lost my favorite knife and we found it all jokes aside of course I would have loved to find the GoPro and see if the footage was somehow still on it but how could I be bummed when this video idea has allowed me to hang out where humans shouldn't even be able to go in what literally feels like another dimension scuba diving is something I was definitely intimidated by in the beginning but I'm very thankful I didn't turn back and I'm looking forward to doing it again as soon as possible just maybe not in this but for now I'm gonna be spending most my time on land because I've got some good news I am finally opening my trampoline gym to the public that's right you're finally going to be able to come jump and hang out at the flip pad for our business hours and more information just visit t-burger.com we'll follow the flip pad on Instagram with that said thanks so much for watching I'll see you in the next one or at the flip pad let's go