Ever seen inside Crete's Elephant cave? Amazing cave diving! скачать в хорошем качестве

Ever seen inside Crete's Elephant cave? Amazing cave diving!

Experience scuba diving, cave diving, and true underwater exploration inside Elephant Cave near Chania, Crete—one of the island’s most iconic and unique dive sites. This raw-style dive video captures the atmosphere of entering and exploring the cave with only the sound of our bubbles as we pass through its spectacular formations and ancient history. Elephant Cave sits just off Cape Drapano and was discovered in 1999. After swimming through the submerged entrance tunnel, the cave opens into a breathtaking chamber filled with towering stalagmites, massive limestone columns, and beautiful red-and-white formations shaped over thousands of years. Above the waterline, in the air-filled dome, you’ll see stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and on the cave floor lie fossilized elephant bones—remains of an ancient endemic species once native to Crete, documented by Greek palaeontologists in 2000. These finds give the cave both its name and its scientific importance. This dive includes: • Entering the submerged tunnel • Exploring underwater stalagmites and natural columns • Visiting the air chamber lined with stalactites • Viewing the cave’s prehistoric elephant fossils • Exiting back into the blue Aegean Despite its dramatic appearance, Elephant Cave is accessible to all certified divers, including Open Water level, when accompanied by trained professionals. Local dive centers in the Chania region offer guided tours and boat trips to the cave, making it safe and manageable for divers with a wide range of experience. The Cave entrance is at around 8-12 meters, and we started by swimming in a 40 meter long completly submerged tunnel, before we reached the air chamber. Here the dive continued between 0-3 meters, just under the surface, with breathable air just above you. The air chamber is around 125 meters long and up to 25 meters wide. At the end of the air chamber we broke the surface, and looked around and swam on the surface back to the tunnel leading outside. If you enjoy raw underwater footage, cave diving environments, or discovering unique geological and historical sites beneath the surface, you’ll love this dive! Let me know in the comments if you’d like more videos like this, or if you would prefer it if I added some music or a voiceover explaining what's happening! Filmed with GoPro hero 13 black in a GoPro underwater housing, with a single video light. 00:00 Entering elephant cave 00:45 Fully inside, going deeper 02:08 Diver silhouettes 02:53 Fossilized elephant bones and excrement 04:08 Air chamber 04:59 Second look at excrement and bones 05:25 Leaving the cave 06:08 Cave opening silhouette! (very cool!) 06:35 Outside and happy divers!