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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,
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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
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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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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
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weather and the boat and the people and
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all that kind of stuff, that's uh that's
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all coming up in the future. I've got a
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load of kit videos to make. So, one of
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the kind of coolest things, one of the
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things that I, you know, was really nice
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this year is 03 decided to make me an
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ambassador. I've used their dry suits
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for for 20 odd years, and they're
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fantastic. So, when they asked me to to
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do it, obviously, it was a no-brainer.
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And I'm going to put together a a piece
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about why I think uh 03 dry suits work
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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
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some stuff about a sheer water or torch
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and another um light that I've been sent
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as well. So once again, tons and tons of
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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
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going to pull some out. I've been doing
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some more diving um that hasn't made it
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on into videos yet. So, I've got a whole
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load of stuff to kind of keep you going
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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
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who've liked, who've commented, and
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obviously if you've done all those
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things, you know, please remember to
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turn on your notifications so you know
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when my next one's coming out. But also
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the people who've supported me um you
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know through things like joining my
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YouTube channel, which you can you can
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do down the bottom there. Uh some people
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have done it on Facebook as well. Some
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people have bought me a coffee. Those
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kind of things are all um really nice.
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And you know, I guess when you're making
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videos and sometimes, as I say, you get
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disappointing ones where where people
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don't watch. Those kind of things are
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just kind of nice to know that, you
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know, there are people out there who
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care. So, um, thank you to everybody who
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cares. And thank you to everybody who
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has supported me through uh, one of
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those means. It is, it is really
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appreciated. And the thing that I'm
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going to finish up with, the last thing
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to say is if you wanted to do something
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now, you're sick of listening to me
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talking, why don't you go and have a
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look at one of those unloved videos that
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I mentioned and have a look at it. Give
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me some feedback and tell me uh, you
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know, what what you think it was about
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it that that people, you know, not so
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many people watched it. You know, how
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could I make it better? Because that's
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what I want to do. I want to make videos
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that that people like and enjoy and want
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to watch. So I really really appreciate
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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
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these up here somewhere as well. So um
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have a watch, let us know what you
