i dunno about anyone else but i really love when you guys do boating/water stuff. it really takes me back to when i was growing up on a live aboard with my parents.
also, pal YOUR HAIR. glorious. tall. floof.
water stuff takes me back to when you lived with your parents, too.
Those bleached corals make me kinda sad.
I don't think they're that bleached. Partially sure but they always edit the documentaries and stuff you see, in a way that makes them look more colorful and impressive.
In this episode of Burnie Vlog we trap our protagonist, his elf scout and a video game reporter on a boat in the middle of a reef. They must scuba and hunt in order to survive and make it out. Will we see advanced scuba levelling up by Ellie? Will they let Burnie drown or be eaten? Will Burnie level up himself?! This and more on this week's episode of Burnie Vlog.
Dat music though. Also, is there anything Ellie CANT do? 
... Back flip? No I bet gymnastics is the next video lol
Apparently keep down a scorpion, if we learned anything from Extra Life.
Texas is on the gulf so not a bad thing to know how to do on Z-day ;) cool video :D
I inspire to be like them. Straight role models they are.
Odd, i went there years ago on my honeymoon. It looks so different now, the reef almost looks bleached. I remember a LOT of red and greens on the coral.
Depending on the camera, the blue of the water can wash out a lot of the color without proper lighting. The video was actually pretty colorful despite that.
It is bleached and that is a serious problem.
Yeah. They're estimating over 90% of coral is bleached. The reef is 2300 km long (~1500 miles). There's still plenty (definitely not enough - esp. to maintain sustainability) of places to see colours. I doubt they would be promoting diving into a completely bleached part of it.
nice to see ellie before she died
I had a really cool experience at the beginning of september, Theres an Aquarium here in the city I live in (Manchester) called the sealife centre and It was my dads birthday in July and he loves going on experience days e.g. racecar driving, riding in a hot air balloon etc. So the aquarium has an experience you can do where you get to put on a specially prepared diving helmet(think a modern take on the old diving helmets that have a hose that goes to the surface. anyways I buy the ticket for my dad and give it to him on his birthday, he's pretty happy with it but its going to be tricky to book because summer holidays are here and my parents are looking after my sisters kids. But we eventually settle on a date and I get someone to cover my shift at the supermarket I work at. We get to the aquarium and my dad hands in the paperwork to the receptionist and a few minutes later two women in dive suits come out. Unfortunately my Dad has Diabetes( however thanks to a rapid change in his diet and exercise its very minor) so we find out that you have to fill in a seperate form and get it signed by a doctor. My dad is obviously disappointed but the dive team do suggest that someone else can take my dads place. Heres where I fit in. My dad immediatetly suggests me and i'm a little hesitant because I don;t want to to take this experience away from my dad as it was a present for him. Unfortunately the seawalk(as they call it) closes/closed down in october so even if we left and came back my dad wouldn't have been able to do it. I agree and as luck would have it me and my dad are of a similar enough build to where his swimming trunks fit me. we get sent through to the actual aquarium and then eventually find the area we're supposed to wait in to watch the tank where the dive happens. I go in and myself, another man(who turns out to be a professional diver) and an older woman and her granddaughter are all given an induction where we're taught the hand signals, shown the diving helmet and get our wetsuits. We then head into shower cubicles to put on the wetsuits because apparently they're easier to get on with warm water (to my relief they also have cords you can pull at the back to zip them up) after we're all suited up we get taken into the room above the tanks (which was pretty cool) and have ankle weights strapped to us to keep us on the seafloor/keep us level. I somehow end up the first to go down into the tank and have the helmet lowered onto me. I wear glasses so visibility was a little tricky + I ended up having to have extra ankle weights because I am gifted with an almost supernatural bouncy. everyone eventually makes it down onto the floor of the tank with a team of divers assisting us and pointing out the different sealife in the tank. They actually used the same hand signals as the guys in the vlog so it must be universal divers language. I ended up having a great time and I only wish my dad had gotten the chance as well.
TL;DR: Got my dad the gift of a seawalk, forgot to take his diabetes into account, ended up doing the seawalk myself and having a blast.
You havn't lived apparently until there's a sign put up about something you did.
i wonder what type of music burnie listens too
I thought no captain would let you scuba dive or rent you cylinders unless you are certified.
I got the impression that this was a guided experience
It depends. So, a SCUBA license allows you to go SCUBA diving by yourself. They also didn't go far from the boat before testing certain skills and we don't know if they were getting SCUBA certified (which requires 2 dives with a dive master). But before I got my SCUBA license, I "learned" to dive from a resort course in Mexico.
Bottom line though, Open Water SCUBA isn't that hard and if you are 30ft(?) or shallower you are fine. (I want to say you can go to 30 feet and immediately return to the surface. Deeper than 30 feet you need 1 to 2 stops to decompress.)
@Broadsword6 maybe its different in various places, but in New York I had get certified or be in the process of certification before anyone except my instructor could rent me cylinders. even then, I had to get over 100 dives and deep dives for Solo diver license so I could dive without a buddy or a dive master. :)
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