Underwater Cave Diving | Best Job Ever

when you tell people that you you do
tape tiling they say oh you must be an
adrenaline junkie but in fact it’s the
exact opposite
when I get underground and underwater
it’s a hundred percent focus and all you
hear is really the sound of your own
breath and you’re you’re in kind of a
for me what some people call the flow or
the Zen it’s this whole experience of
calmness when all’s going well all
systems go you just feel like really
you’re on this magic carpet ride through
the underworld you know the flip side of
being is the otherworldly environment
the danger and it’s a pretty good
challenge is to go into an underwater
cave and come out alive I’ve had a lot
of friends who died in these caves in
the moment you don’t let these outside
thoughts come in about stream danger you
really just focus on making sure all
your systems are going on navigating and
then you start adding the science the
building collecting data taking pictures
different sorts of sampling it’s really
a multitasking challenge
when people ask me what do I like best
about going into a cave or what’s the
neatest thing you found it’s less what I
found and the experience I guess the
greatest thing I ever found underwater
was an ability to keep myself calm and I
try to take that and bring it to the
surface I realized that we’re really
just scratching the surface of what is
really here I didn’t expect anything
that beautiful to exist