00:02 John Daub: Greetings everybody! We're about to depart on another diving adventure and I'm gonna do a live stream just to say hi because it's been a couple of days. This is a kind of a larger dive boat than they have in Ogasawara. Usually the boats are a little bit small especially for snorkeling but it's about average and the company we're going with is Fisheye. You can see down here there's a logo in reverse. Today we have pretty much a full boat and we're gonna be going three dives today. I'm ready for this. It's gonna be a long day. We're departing at 8:40 and we'll be back around 3 o'clock and I'm gonna do another live stream at the Shark Burger restaurant which can be pretty cool. So today's gonna be a lot of fun. I just wanted to show you the ocean. There's another dive boat on the way out. That one's really full but you can see all of the tanks on the sides of the boat. BCDs and regulators also attached to the tanks.

01:06 John Daub: Thank you for the chest hair compliments. What can I do about it. I'm not a wax kind of guy. A couple of things I wanted to talk about. Diving here is a little bit pricier than Thailand like three or five hundred percent more but it's worth it. The average dive is about 7,000 yen or 65 to 70 dollars here but a lot of the resources are coming from quite far away and this is the thing with diving in all remote locations. Thailand and Honduras were two of the cheapest places that I ever went diving. As a dive master usually get a 10% discount on top of it because we are dive masters and we know what we're doing supposedly. Although a lot of dive masters aren't practicing dive masters they still might get the discount. I guess it just depends if you're registered or not. I haven't been registered in 15 years.

02:16 John Daub: The sea here is just so blue. Never mind looking at me with the backlit shadow just look at the sea out there. It's incredibly blue and this is the inner harbor but there's an original color here called Bonin blue. Bonin blue and Bonin is the Bonin Islands, the name of these islands here. Bonin blue is this really deep sea blue even in the deepest parts usually where it's like black in the Atlantic Ocean and some parts of the Pacific it is like this really spectacular blue color and it's very hard to describe it you just have to see it. I think you'll be able to see it in the drone shots I'm gonna be taking today but you're not gonna see the drone shots until I put up the video later on. But you can see in the harbor this is shallower water and you can see just how beautiful it is. All around it outside of the town it's pristine nature. I really love that.

03:24 John Daub: I'm gonna go down now and show you the dive boat. Look at that there's another dive boat there's a dive site just over here that's where we saw a couple of reef sharks and I believe there's a wreck a sunken ship from World War II on the side there which is pretty gnarly. And there's the captain. See if we can get a hello from him. Good morning. Where are we going today? We're going to Minamijima. Thank you. It's the captain. He says we're going to Minamijima which is the South Island which is a protected area so it's gonna be absolutely beautiful and stunning but I cannot use my drone there because it's a protected area and I'm gonna go down below and show you some of the dive boat. On the hatch. Today we have a lot of university students.

04:30 John Daub: This is where the diving all takes place from the surface this is where we jump in. I'm gonna show you some of the tanks I'll show you my rig here. Hajimemasu. So I've rented all this equipment it's all pretty good stuff it's good enough for me just the BCD. We set this up the day before and I don't like doing that so usually you have 200 bars I only have 160? That's not right. I'm gonna have to get a new tank. I hate it when we set up tanks the day before because we lose oxygen because these are old BCDs and they leak a little bit just enough where the tanks are not good. There's a whistle this is a BCD and this is the regulator. The regulator if you're not sure with diving this is everything. This is attached to the tank and this is where the oxygen comes from the tank through the tubes. This BCD here if you push this it will inflate you see? And if you push this it releases the air so you always have a vest that you can control your buoyancy a little bit. But we also have weight belts to keep you down. Yeah here's my fins.

05:58 John Daub: Didn't you close the valve yesterday? I closed the valves but somebody opened it. I don't know. The other thing that I'm not really like is that the dive master will do a lot of things for you and that's like omotenashi (Japanese hospitality service). But I like to do it myself so I know what's going on. I like to turn the valve I like to set it up myself. And that's something annoying with diving in Japan but you know you take the good with the bad you smile and then you just do it again. Most people rent their equipment here. But some people if you live in Tokyo they bring it with them. I got the equipment back in Tokyo but I have so much camera gear it's just better to rent the equipment because then I don't have to carry it.

06:52 John Daub: The wind noise is probably going to start to get bad but you can see we're really surrounded by beautiful waters. Already we're getting closer to the Pacific outside of the harbor. Once you get out of the harbor the waves start. So far the sea is very calm. The water temperature is 28 degrees Celsius which is like 86 degrees Fahrenheit. It's really warm. It's almost like bath water. It's absolutely too hot for full wetsuits. And that's what I'm wearing a full wetsuit 5.5 millimeters which is ridiculously too much. But the reason why the bigger wetsuits are better is because we're going to some wrecks some sunken ships and you have more protection so you don't get scratched if you go across metal. Let the wetsuit do all that work take the scratches and I'll take the healthy skin afterwards. But it is a little bit hot.

07:58 John Daub: Most dives are about 30 to 45 minutes. Around the 35 minute is simply the average here. This is going to be my ninth dive on the island. Nine ten and eleven we're doing three dives today. Yeah so it is a really beautiful area. Now you're starting to see that we're getting deeper and the water is turning the Bonin blue a little bit. I don't know if you could pick that up in the live stream but you can see just how deep blue on the side here. It's definitely and sometimes you can see the blue mixed in with the white as the boat cuts through it. It's really really beautiful. And you don't see that when you're swimming and when you're taking the boat through Tokyo Harbor. There's just too much pollution there. Here the water is alive. It really is alive here.

08:52 John Daub: We got free coffee. You can take a mug and usually dive boats will have Japanese dive boats have water and mugicha (barley tea) or tea. So you can take either tea or water. Just pretty cool. These are my bags. There's my camera bag. There's my live streaming camera bag. And then underneath here is my drone. So we're going to do some drone shots today. And this is the inside of the boat where you can sit and throw up if you need to or something. But this is a toilet and the toilet's pretty clean here. There's some coffee that you can help yourself with.

09:36 John Daub: I'm going to take you upstairs again. It's going to get a little windy I apologize. But I want to tell you a little bit more about the drone laws here. One of the reasons that I'm diving an extra day is because the drone laws here are very very strict. And a lot of people have been asking me is because this area of Tokyo is protected. It's a World Heritage Site and they really want to protect the marine life. But it's also a breeding ground for turtles and birds. And they don't want the drone to interfere with the mating of the birds. Now a lot of people probably are not going to understand that. But it's sort of the same blanket rule that you have with tattoos and all that kind of nonsense. It kind of makes sense. If you ban it for everybody then there's no problem whatsoever. If you allow people to use it a little bit then they just go crazy. And this is just a way to make sure that the island remains kind of flight free for most people.

10:55 John Daub: The shortcut is that you can launch drones from the boat. You can't launch from land. So if you launch from land you're breaking the law. If you launch from the boat then you're following the law. But you cannot encroach on the breeding ground. So there's a line. And I'm going to fly my drone today in the not prohibited areas I'm going to fly my drone in the allowed areas the legal areas. But I'll be able to get a view down into the breeding grounds a little bit because it's 4K. I'll be exporting into HD so I get a little bit of a zoom. It should be good. But if you do come to Ogasawara you're going to fly your drone please keep in mind that you could get in big trouble because they will report you.

11:40 John Daub: Ogasawara had a chance to have an airport and they turned it down because the airport would bring more people and more chances to spoil the nature. They didn't want to turn it into a tourist attraction. They wanted to keep it as a nature preserve. And I really respect that. And that's what makes this such a beautiful and attractive island. But at the same time a lot of you are going to be like I don't have one week to travel for two full days. It takes two full days to travel here. It's not only your flight to Japan but you also have another 24 hours on the ferry to get here. So for most tourists it's like yeah no I'm going to pass. But they call this the Galapagos of the East. And it's just too beautiful. It really is worth the trip.

13:53 John Daub: Ah you can see now straight ahead you see that beach? We're coming up to a beach. It's super super beautiful. Just imagine lounging on that. There's nobody there. You can hike there. It takes you about three four hours to hike there. And then you can go to the beach. And then you have the whole beach to yourself. This is what I'm talking about. It's so beautiful. I see somebody let Peter in here. Somebody let Gretchen in. How you doing Gretchen? I see Jason's here. Hi Jason. Ramseyance. Kendra. Firecracker. Diver. Linda. Chiotaku. Hey guys. Yorkshire. Nice to see everybody here. OCD Steak. All right. Mike Gallen's here. Great to see you guys. Do click the like button if you like these kinds of content. I might change the subject. I'm going to stream one more time from the sea. I like it when you like it. Me likey when you likey. Look at that beach. Seriously. I just want to jump in the water and swim to the beach and say come get me later. But I got some diving to do.

15:15 John Daub: The wind might not be as bad here. Sorry about the shadow guys. So I'm here for another four wait till they say eight nine ten eleven twelve. I leave on the twelfth and I come back to Tokyo on the thirteenth. I still have a lot of work to do. I still got a lot more shooting to do. The diving part of it will be done today which is really cool. And then I got to finish the island's history and meet some more local people. I have to meet some local people and get some interviews. But you're pretty good. I am PADI certified. I have a dive master's license. I have been diving since 2002. My first dive was in the Maldives which is like amazing. But this is like a very different experience. I've been diving since 2003 very close second to the Maldives. Or maybe it is I don't know. But I also dived in the Galapagos and I dived in Easter Island. So I'd say this is up there in the top five by far.

16:15 John Daub: Easter Island was cool because they had the Moai under the water because the crazy clerics from Europe when they came to Easter Island they saw the Moai and said how dare they worship these idols? And they pushed a lot of the Moai into the sea. And that created an amazing experience. And it's an amazing dive site where you're just diving around Moai which is just like mind blowing to see under the sea. Oh hey Cassie thank you. I'm going to have I'm going to use that for my shark burger for lunch. I'm going to try to do a live stream at around 3pm Japan time between 3 and 4pm Japan time. So check it out. That's going to be at the shark burger place. Maybe slightly controversial but sharks are no friends of mine. And apparently they don't use a lot of shark meat because I ate it before. I guess you could call that eco. I'm going to wait until the boat stops and I'm going to show you just a little bit of the sea before I got to suit up and get out of here.

17:25 John Daub: I'm going to set up my wetsuit now. Have you guys ever worn a wetsuit and like it makes you feel like a superhero to start up? It makes you feel powerful. So that's why I think superheroes they have uniforms that look like wetsuits. There might be a reason why. Wetsuits full body wetsuits make you feel like superheroes. I think it's because it takes all your muscle and smashes them down. Wow. All right. Now we're getting closer to Minamijima and the signal might die out I apologize. There's John's beach named after me or another John. I'm guessing another John. This is where I took the video from Instagram. If you take a look at that three days ago some stunning blue tropical looking water. Go take a look at Instagram. Only in Japan TV is the Instagram handle and you're going to really love that video.

19:37 John Daub: I just don't have words so much. Maybe Peter would say it better. Welcome to a tropical island of paradise where the waters are blue and bluer and even bluer. I can't do it. But over there you can see where it's got that very clear like tropical like water and then the beach on the left side of the screen. And over there is the protected area. That's I think where we're going towards. The temperature is about 30 degrees Celsius 31 degrees Celsius. It's a lot cooler than it was last month but it's still warm. We got beautiful weather very little wind because a typhoon passed and that means it kind of settles down. There's a high pressure system nearby. So while Tokyo had storms we had sun. That's up because we're a thousand kilometers or like 600 miles away from Tokyo.

20:45 John Daub: We're going to start getting ready. I'm going to put the wide angle lens on this side. Wow. I can't believe you guys can still see this. This is just amazing. Wow. Look at this water. You can see down to the bottom. This is why I'm here. It's almost surreal to be here. It's like what am I doing here? How did I get here? Oh and then I remember the ferry ride. You kind of earn it when you get here. This is your reward. Seriously. You can see down to the bottom. I don't know if it's might be too pixelated but this color of blue when the sun hits it we're in a shadow now when the sun hits it it's just the most extraordinary blue color. Oh look at that. Can you see on the bottom? You can see. Apparently the reason why we have such good 4G here is because there's like really big satellites bringing in the signal from NTT and I'm using docomo for broadcast. Softbank isn't good. I believe that's Minamijima which is a protected island. You can see all the green on there. That's where the birds will mate. And right now I see three birds but you might not be able to because I don't know if it's HD.

22:26 John Daub: There's some rocks out there. The rocks make some really good diving. It's wall diving all along the wall of the rock going down to the bottom is full of coral and the coral means that there's lots of marine life that you can check out. Makes them really good diving and it's easy. It's easy to do a wall dive on a rock like that. You see it in the middle because you can't get lost. You just keep going around the rock when you're done is when you see something again that means you're done. So this here is Ogasawara live from a dive boat. It's still pretty insane that we have 4G. 4G signal out here. I think you could see up there is a 4G satellite. One of the towers maybe that's why up there on the mountain. But seriously the 4G here is better than in Tokyo. It's like crazy good. I can't believe how good the 4G signal is. Maybe because I'm the only one using it. That's probably true.

24:05 John Daub: Hey guys have any of you ever been scuba diving? Does anyone have a diver's license? Why don't you write in where the best place you've ever been scuba diving is? And let me know what some of the best dive sites are. What's your dive? If you're dive master open water advanced you can write in the comments or just chat and then it'll stay in the record of this video forever. It's kind of cool to see what everyone's experiences and where their favorite places to dive are if there are any divers. When you do PADI which is a certification level for scuba diving there's open water which is the beginning. Then there's open water advanced rescue diver and dive master. Or you can go master scuba diver which is almost the same as dive master. Dive master is a professional. You can take people on tours. A master scuba diver is just can do everything. And I took the professional route because you can make money with it. The more licenses you need the safer you feel when you go diving. So far I've been down to 40 meters twice and it's just for a couple of seconds to take pictures of the aquatic life on the ground there.

25:31 John Daub: We're going to be diving here. So we're going to get ready now and I'm going to say goodbye. When people start coming down that means get ready. All right. So thanks for joining me. Thanks for the super chats. I'm going to be using that towards the shark lunch. So tune in at 3 p.m. Japan time. Between 3 and 4. I'm not going to make a promise. But I will. I will go and eat that shark burger for you. I'll see you then. Okay. Bye bye everybody. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of Ogasawara.