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It's the Deep Wreck Diver channel's anniversary! Join me as I reflect on the past year of incredible dives and the amazing channel content we've created together. I'll also be sharing some exciting updates and future content plans, so tune in for some dive talk and tec diving insights. Let's celebrate another year of diving adventures!
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*Highlights*
00:00 One year - 15,000 subs and 1.6 million views!
01:25 Disappointments
02:20 Fantastic interactions with people
06:13 Future Plans
09:35 More videos!
09:59 Final thoughts and a huge thank you
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Hello again everybody and welcome to my
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Deep Wreck Diver channel. I thought I'd
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do something a bit different on this
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video and the reason is because the
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channel is one year old. So, not
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entirely true, but as far as I'm
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concerned, it's uh it's one year old and
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uh and therefore this is my kind of I'm
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going to take a bit of time to be
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slightly self-indulgent, but also to
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tell you uh about some of the stuff that
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I've got coming up in the future as
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well. So, you know, it's been a fabulous
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year. I can't deny that. the the stats
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speak for themselves. You know, I'm
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absolutely blown away. I'm going to go
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through 15,000 subscribers very shortly.
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1.6 million views on different videos is
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just mindboggling. And I got an email
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from YouTube the other day to tell me
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that there's been 46,000 likes on
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various different videos. So, so
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absolutely incredible. So, I'm going to
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just take a bit of time to talk to you
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and and tell you about some of the stuff
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that I've got coming up, but also I
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think I I'd kind of like to look back on
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some of the stuff I've done as well and
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going to focus I think maybe on some of
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the things that I think have gone well,
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but also some of the things that I um
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I've been a bit disappointed with. So,
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you know, please bear with me and as
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always with any of my videos, please,
1:13
you know, give us a like, drop us a
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comment, all that kind of stuff. So, the
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first thing I just wanted to do is talk
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a little bit about disappointments cuz
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obviously, you know, the numbers are
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really positive, but you probably know
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people who watch my videos that that
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making them takes quite a long time and
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I put quite a lot of myself into them.
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There's quite a bit of research and all
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that kind of stuff. And some of them
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absolutely uh bomb and I'm I'm often
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really surprised. So, I've kind of some
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of them do really well and some of them
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bomb. and and I I I it's difficult for
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me to understand why those two things
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happen. So, uh what I've done is I've
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put together my five most disappointing
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videos. So, the ones that I um that I
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thought should should do really well and
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I've called them my unloved videos. So,
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what I'd be really keen for you to do is
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if you can go and have a look at my
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unloved videos and there's going to be a
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link up here or somewhere and and down
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here as well. So go and have a look at
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them and I'd be really interested in
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your feedback as to why they they didn't
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do as well as as so some of my other
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ones. So there's uh some
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disappointments. One of the other things
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I want to talk about is some of the
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unbelievable interactions I've had over
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uh the last 12 months.
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Loads and loads of different people. So
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um if you've interacted me and I don't
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mention your name, I'm really sorry
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about it, but I could go on forever. Um
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there's been so many of them. It's it's
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been great and I love that part of
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running a YouTube channel is, you know,
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this thing just comes completely out of
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left field or you meet some people and
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it's just really really nice. So, um I
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guess the first thing I probably should
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mention is um I put on some some diving
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trips in September and a load of people
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came and some people came from a really
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long way away. you know, we had people
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from uh Europe, so you know, Belgium and
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the Netherlands and Switzerland, and we
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had uh a guy who was over from
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Australia. We uh had a guy who was over
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from America, and we we did some uh some
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great diving together. Unfortunately,
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the weather was awful. So, it, you know,
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it's just uh it's one of those things,
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but we kind of the nice thing was that
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we we persevered and and we did actually
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get some great diving. So, so that was
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really really nice. And obviously I'm
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doing some more trips next year. We've
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got some mod 2, we've got some mod 3 and
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another recreational trip lined up as
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well. So I'm really looking forward to
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those and looking forward to meeting the
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people. Um probably the the uh the thing
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that I was uh I guess most not surprised
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by but which was the most useful is um I
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posted on my social media on uh Facebook
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and and YouTube and Instagram about a
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conundrum that I was having with solving
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the identity of a of a shipwreck. And uh
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loads of people offered advice and
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thoughts and those kind of things, but
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one person in particular, Sebastian
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Lowers, and apologies Sebastian if I've
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got your name wrong there. He dug into
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the newspaper archives and it was his um
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the you know the article that he found
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in the newspaper archives that cracked
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that that mystery, you know,
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definitively. It was a a brilliant piece
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of detective work and it wouldn't have
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happened without um you know the social
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media channels. So, just wanted to say
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thank you, Sebastian, uh, for doing
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that. And I don't I should have given
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you a name check on the video and I
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didn't. So, I'm I'm really sorry about
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that one. I guess someone else who who
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gets a quite, you know, regular mention
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is is Eric who does my overlays. He's
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done the sheer water one. He's he's most
4:32
recently he's done the vision one and uh
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that that's a fantastic piece of work
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and I'm really grateful. And obviously
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he's put it out there. So, if anybody
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else wants to put overlays on diving
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videos, uh, you know how to do that one
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as well. Coming up, I've got um a logo.
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Um obviously I've put a few uh posts out
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there and people have made suggestions
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about logos. Um a guy called Steve Jaway
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who does um who does this kind of
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professionally has has got in touch with
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me and he's supporting me and uh the
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logo is going to be coming I think uh
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pretty soon. And loads of people said
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they wanted the one with with me with
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the two yellow gloves. So that's the
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design we're going with and that's going
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to be out there. So, um, you know,
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hopefully, uh, hopefully everyone likes
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that one.
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Another great thing I did was was an
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interview with Russ Penfki, um, who was
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part of the team that dived the SS
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Nemesis in Australia in 160 m. Really
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enjoyed the couple of videos that I did
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with him. And, uh, it was just it was
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really nice to kind of speak to somebody
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else who's doing some really, uh, you
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know, you know, top end diving, really
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interesting diving. and um you know it's
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something I hope to do with with other
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teams in the future. And the last one
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I'm going to mention, although as I said
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there's loads more, is Brian Boltz um
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who did some took some footage with an
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Insta 360 X5 uh which is the kind of you
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know the 360 view one and um I've got
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all those videos. I'm going to use them.
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I haven't had the opportunity to do it
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yet, but they are coming. So a couple of
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the dives that we did on HMS and the
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James Eaggan Lane um I'm going to use
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those footage. So, thank you very much,
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Brian, uh, for that. I did mention some
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stuff about the future. So, I've got a
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whole load of things uh, coming up in
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the future that are going to turn into
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videos um, on this uh, on this channel.
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I think people will enjoy. I've got a
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trip to Scappa Flow in a few weeks time.
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So, going up to um, the Orcnes for those
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of you who don't know, right on the top
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of Scotland. The German high seas fleet
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was scuttled there in in 1919. And there
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is a ton of warships um lying inside the
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the natural harbor that is Scapper Flow.
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So I'm going to go up there hopefully um
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I'll get some some good video and and
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there's going to be a whole load of
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video about Scapper Flow Rex. So I'm
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really looking forward to that one. Many
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of you will have tracked um the attempt
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the gasperados attempts to go and find
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the tamper. We've we've been blown out
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so many times this year. It's been it's
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been really really misfortunate. But
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fingers crossed um next weekend, you
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know, fingers crossed we we've got an
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opportunity to go out there and maybe
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maybe finally put the mystery of the
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tamper to rest. But but who knows what
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else have I got? I am doing a interview
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with Richie Cola. I'm hoping to get
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together with him early next week and
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all being well that will be next
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Sunday's video. As you probably know, uh
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you know Richie Cola, really, really
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famous diver. You done loads of kind of
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really exciting stuff. shadow divers,
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lots of TV stuff. I don't think there's
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anybody who's dived the Britannic more
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than him and Evan Kovac, you know. So,
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uh, he's going to talk to me about the
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artifact recovery that they've done this
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year and some of the penetration they've
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been doing inside the Britannic. So,
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that's, uh, that's really exciting and
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kind of really really cool as well. So,
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that's coming up. I also have a an
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aspiration go to go back to the M1. So,
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the submarine big huge massive submarine
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with a battleship gun that sank 100
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years ago. I've got a uh White Enson
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that I'm hoping to go and put on it. And
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I'm also going to go and check that my
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theory about where the uh where the gun
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is. I I want to kind of confirm that one
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as well. So, um you know, if we get the
8:19
weather and the boat and the people and
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all that kind of stuff, that's uh that's
8:22
all coming up in the future. I've got a
8:25
load of kit videos to make. So, one of
8:28
the kind of coolest things, one of the
8:29
things that I, you know, was really nice
8:31
this year is 03 decided to make me an
8:33
ambassador. I've used their dry suits
8:35
for for 20 odd years, and they're
8:37
fantastic. So, when they asked me to to
8:40
do it, obviously, it was a no-brainer.
8:41
And I'm going to put together a a piece
8:44
about why I think uh 03 dry suits work
8:47
for me, why I like them so much, and why
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I think I'm probably on about my fourth
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or yeah, third or fourth. I used to use
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them uh at work and and now I um I use
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them for my own ding as well. So, I'm
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going to going to do a piece about 03
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dry suits. I've got some more Insta 360
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to come up and um I do have an Insta 360
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Ace Pro 2 that I will be able to uh
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offer as a giveaway. And so, you know,
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details of that will be coming up in my
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next Insta 360 video. And so you can
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hopefully win one of those um if you put
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your name in in the hat. I've got to do
9:23
some stuff about a sheer water or torch
9:26
and another um light that I've been sent
9:29
as well. So once again, tons and tons of
9:31
of kit videos coming up. And of course,
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as you would expect, I'm going to delve
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into my back catalog of videos and I'm
9:39
going to pull some out. I've been doing
9:40
some more diving um that hasn't made it
9:42
on into videos yet. So, I've got a whole
9:44
load of stuff to kind of keep you going
9:46
through uh through the well the northern
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hemisphere winter anyway. So, you know,
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hopefully that's that's plenty of stuff
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to kind of look forward to. Plenty of
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stuff that you can see in in the future.
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And I guess the the way I want to finish
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this is to say a big thank you to
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everybody. Thank you to everybody who's
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watched my videos. Thank you to people
10:07
who've liked, who've commented, and
10:09
obviously if you've done all those
10:11
things, you know, please remember to
10:12
turn on your notifications so you know
10:14
when my next one's coming out. But also
10:16
the people who've supported me um you
10:19
know through things like joining my
10:20
YouTube channel, which you can you can
10:22
do down the bottom there. Uh some people
10:24
have done it on Facebook as well. Some
10:26
people have bought me a coffee. Those
10:28
kind of things are all um really nice.
10:30
And you know, I guess when you're making
10:33
videos and sometimes, as I say, you get
10:35
disappointing ones where where people
10:36
don't watch. Those kind of things are
10:39
just kind of nice to know that, you
10:41
know, there are people out there who
10:42
care. So, um, thank you to everybody who
10:45
cares. And thank you to everybody who
10:46
has supported me through uh, one of
10:48
those means. It is, it is really
10:50
appreciated. And the thing that I'm
10:53
going to finish up with, the last thing
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to say is if you wanted to do something
10:57
now, you're sick of listening to me
10:58
talking, why don't you go and have a
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look at one of those unloved videos that
11:02
I mentioned and have a look at it. Give
11:05
me some feedback and tell me uh, you
11:08
know, what what you think it was about
11:10
it that that people, you know, not so
11:12
many people watched it. You know, how
11:13
could I make it better? Because that's
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what I want to do. I want to make videos
11:16
that that people like and enjoy and want
11:18
to watch. So I really really appreciate
11:22
any feedback you want to get give me. So
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as I say the link to do that is
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somewhere down here and probably one of
11:28
these up here somewhere as well. So um
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have a watch, let us know what you
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think. Thank you.