Gotta admit, he is pretty good at talking underwater with a snorkel in his mouth

You’re a professional crocodilian trainer and handler but damn man you’re an underrated speaker. That’s a big component of what keeps me hooked to your videos.

I take solace in you bringing us along on your journeys. Thank you for sharing!

As a tech diver, I greatly appreciate your awareness and respect for cave diving. Its one of the most unforgiving but breathtaking hobbies, simple mistakes can cost your life. If you're interested in advancing your dive skills I would recommend learning how to properly run and use line. Getting scuba certified is relatively easy and from the looks of your free diving, it wouldn't be much for you. Getting certified for cave/tech is another story, The main thing you learn for caving is using line properly, keeping your body in good orientation which also means keeping your fins up and frog kicking or sometimes using one leg. Flutter kicking is great for free diving or out in the open, but you don't need to fly through a cave but more importantly, if you silt out a cave you are basically blind and you better hope you can find your line out. Good Line work and a planned out dive has saved hundreds.

This might be one of the best videos I've ever seen. I'm crazy about freshwater turtles. I live in the UK so would plan my holidays going to countries where I could find them. I'm mostly stuck in bed these days so "swim" with you as you discover them was the biggest treat. Thank you for all the info as well. :)

I love how he says he won't scuba dive in the caves because it's too dangerous, meanwhile he's swimming in muddy river water under sticks and vegetation with alligators nearby. I guess the danger you know is better than the danger you don't know!

Cool images, wonderful message and a reminder to look after our waterways. Very pleased you found the alligator snapping turtle. Congrats and thanks for sharing. Great video.

You got brass cajones my friend . Excellent footage and you are so calm and relaxed the whole time. Well done!

i could feel my breath shorten when you got deep into the spring lol, but its so cool!

What an incredible video! Thank you for sharing this with us.

Amazing... As a Floridian it is so cool to see what lies beneath the surface.

think the largest alligator snapping turtle on record was almost 250 lbs and was well over 100 years old

13:21 Man, this is awesome. It's a beautiful animal. Great job man.

Love the content. Much more relaxing than all the cave diving videos I’ve been watching too much of.

Man u are lucky af to have such pristine diving spots. Here in India, almost all urban water bodies are polluted and those which are not polluted are either in isolated rural areas, where locals prohibit any outsiders from any water activities or in protected wildlife reserves, where any and all access to water bodies is strictly prohibited to civilians

Really nice underwater cave? Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

The tranquility in narration is so awesome! Thanks for sharing defiantly subscribing

Exciting, original, educational and engaging. Thank you Florida's Wildest for this amazing content.

been diving 50 years. When I learned back in 1973 in Orlando, My instructor Jim Hollis said "There are no old cave divers"

Thanks for explaining the waters mixing. For a moment there I thought you crapped your pants 😆

Incredible footage, well done Chris! Cave diving is an incredibly rewarding experience, and you've certainly got the skill and the passion to master it and be safe while enjoying it. Remember that it's something that you can work up to, start small with other diving certifications and then approach it once you're comfortable! Would love to see that kind of content from you.

So amazing. Thank you for sharing this with us. I bet chris can hold his breath for like 5min

Totally amazing, thanks for taking us along with you, what an amazing experience!

Hey, Chris, I just watched and subscribed! That river [from your perspective] looks so serene and peaceful and pristine. Love turrtles, too!!! I've always thought them to be some really cute animals. And I'm soooo glad you spoke on the TRASH that people throw in the water. That's pretty disgusting and irresponsible!!!! Can't wait to see what you have coming up in the future.

I love this type of videos.. you take me places I'll never get to see! Thank you chris

Very cool, love doing this type of snorkeling as well. Thanks for sharing!

I loved this video, it was one cool thing after another! (How cute was that little nest-building fish?🥰) Thanks for sharing and as always, educating us along the way!💚

I have asthma and claustrophobia so the free diving parts were making my chest feel tight and my heart race. At the same time it’s so fascinating! I used to go swimming in springs in central Texas and was always a little bummed but also grateful that I couldn’t go diving in them.

I think I found my new favourite youtube channel! Thanks for the amazing content!!!

Really interesting! 💗 thanks for taking us along 👍

Just floored at how good this video is...super impressive a d educational. Thank you

Those Nesting Fish were cool, I’m loving the adventure / commentary !!! 🐊 🐟

I would never have the balls to do this myself, so it's cool to at least see some of it

I've been cavern diving in that spring with the log in it and its incredible inside. Definitely recommend learning and getting certified for it.

Gotta be honest here this dudes been very interesting to watch. I've been binge watching for a week lol

Wow, I love this. Thank you for sharing!!

I just subscribed. You popped up for me and I’ve been bing watching all evening. I love your videos. You do great things. Thank you. PS I can’t believe how you were all over that scary water. I was freaked out for the whole video. 😳😳🙈🙈🙈

Beautiful swim. I really enjoyed your video.

Love these videos ! That pipe in the river was a party foul tho 😂

How on earth do people get in those types of bodies of water voluntarily? Especially in Florida!? :D

I recently saved a big snapping turtle out back of my townhome. Kept hearing crows squawking. After 10 minutes of them, I opened my back door and see a murder of crows surrounding this big turtle who wandered over 200 ft. from the pond at the condos next door. About 6 more were across the way on the rooftop squawking. Well the ones flew off and Im like this poor guy or gal was way far from the pond. So I picked it up and carried it down and into a wet area by the ditch. The crows were not happy with me at all. But Slow--Poke 🐢 was happy. 😊 No worries... People put out food for the crows over in the small field and I've put stuff out....no breads! Fruits..veggies....and pedigree dog food. 😊

As a thalassophobe this is really interesting. To see someone so interested and passionate in something I'm terrified of is strange, not that I don't understand it. Also just watching this makes me a bit uncomfortable at times, especially in the cave or under the trees.

Your nuts sir. I would NEVER get in and under all of that. I wouldn't get into any water whatsoever. You got some bravery.

What an amazing video! This video was captivating. Thank you so much for sharing.

I actually found a baby alligator snapping turtle in my parents yard when I was cutting their grass and what was shocking was they lived about a mile away from the closest creek but I took the turtle to a pretty big pond and let it go.

Cool film! I enjoyed that. I recently just picked up a mask and snorkel to do some of my own underwater films. Love these Springs out here. Thank you for not disclosing your location.

Before hubby retired from police work, he moved a snapper off the road by getting it to bite his nightstick. It wasn’t as big as the one you saw, but it was quite large. He’s a big guy and had to use both hands to move it. Eventually it let go of his nightstick, lol,and paddled off into the river. We live in Delaware…

Great find. The exploration is what breaths passion alive.

Wow I love turtles and this was amazing. Thank you for sharing!

I'm with you about these cool backwater type waterways and all the natural beauty exploration (except that horrendous garbage of course!), Chris.........my wife would freak out but I could maybe handle 75% of this great exploration but also avoid those deeper dives and breath holding escapades........just like your 65 foot free dives with sharks.......give me nightmares!! Literally!! I hear what you say about practicing and technique but those free dives and some of this great video.....give me claustrophobic heebie jeebies beyond compare!! Great Florida river/spring alligator snapping turtle adventure!! Jim C.

New subscriber. Great visuals, great content/info, and great narration!

Great video. Really enjoyed it. Keep em coming

I had an alligator snapping turtle. His name was Gamera. He was vicious and he grew so quickly I had to let him go. When I first found him he was the size of a quarter.

Love these views. Nothing better than snorkeling

Love the video! Thanks for sharing. Please people! Do NOT throw your trash in the water. 💕💕

That looks like an incredible hobby ! Thanks for sharing

Great experience. Thanks for sharing. Wish I got into free driving in my my younger years.

She is so Gorgeous !!

Awesome find! Thank you for sharing

Thanks for sharing, what an awesome video! 👍👍

I wish we could get all our rivers and streams this clean. I just subbed. I live in NC and when I was 14yrs old I caught a Bowfin that was almost 14lbs. We call them Grendle or Blackfish here.

this is actually cool, wish to see more of this content

So cool to see all this, thank you for sharing

Obviously he is from Florida, that explains everything

I love this so so much, I honestly have never seen anyone do anything like this before in streams and the small waterways for the lil fellas 🐢🐟😫 (yes, I'm new here 😂)

I really love your adventures sir... I have a common snapping turtle in my house.

That was funny finding a pipe. I don't know how they got that thing lit down there.? I've never had any luck with that😎. Must be those new water proof lighters I've heard about😉

you know your in FL when your diving for turtles and you find a little bowl! love my state

When i Lived in Mississippi Alligator snapping turtles where extremely common to get on tree wires (We'd catch a brim & put it on a high tolerance wire tied to a thicc tree branch come back the next day). We'd set about 6 lines out hoping for 50 pound catfish (also common, we'd have huge catfish fries). Unfortunately we'd get around 2 huge ancient alligator snapping turtles every time. If anyone's interested the road to get to little local the river is called, River Road Drive, Gulfport, MS.

Extraordinary, congratulations. What an species. Snorkeling on that kind of rivers sounds a true freshwater safari.

I love AST's ! They're so primitive. Mine hangs out in his caves all day and comes out to hunt at night.

why is you voice so calming 😂

I love to scuba dive but I could never make myself enjoy places like the ones you are in this video🥴have in Florida. I'm in the Northwest we've got the nice cold clear Puget Sound and all kinds of rivers and nice lakes. I've never dove in water like this!! with all that creepy moss and already with a slimey squishy bottom. I don't know why..🐊🐢 everything just 🐍🦖looking creepy I've never been had any desire to dive in a river like. So that's why I like watching videos that you guys put out. I can see all the cool stuff and I don't have to let my feet get stuck in the muck. 💋Thank you for what you do

10:23 you took the turtles boof 😩

I love videos like this!

How beautiful I be been snorkelling I look down into the deep and think ….arregh can I go down there ? Nah! Your very brave and love the film so beautiful down there

I used to live on a lake and we had those cute little Sunfish out here in Washington state. They make perfectly circular nests that they made were spot-on measurement wise.. And then the little guy just gets in the middle of it and waits for his fair Maiden to swim by so he can show her how nice his place looks. They're so cute.. but they are tough... don't be messing with their pad.

Amazing video thank you for sharing!

Brave man Thank you for Sharing.

grew up camping here a few times a year great video

Good day of diving. I found a tagged AST 6 miles (as the crow flies) upstream of where you filmed this. Was lucky enough to find it out in good lighting, so got some footage.

I always wished I could swim under water and not have to breath. When I was young I tried a scuba tank breathing device and it caused an immediate phobia about my breathing so I never pursued it. I can hold my breath all of 10 seconds now so watching this guy stay down so long is worrisome.

Thank you.

Excellent video, thank you

I saw a large alligator snapping turtle in that area. the creek coming out of naked springs off of Suwannee river to be specific. Fifty pound turtle at least in 3 feet of crystal clear spring water. Amazing looking animal for sure. Be careful in that creek as there is a large alligator nesting area at the mouth of it.

Amazing footage! subbed.

When you showed your face after the thick darkness that give me a heart attack😂

That's so sad the alligator snapping turtles are disappearing. They used to be so common in Bonita and Estero! I loved growing up down there and we had to have assemblies on how to avoid posionious snakes and stingrays, alligators and were simply told don't swim in ponds as the alligator snappers can bite and it will hurt. ._. I do so miss the Florida from 90s and early 00s. Now everytime I go back home to the motherland it is so urbanized its ridiculous ;_;

That’s the best way to find them

Braver men than I go into a dragon's den without fear.

Totally insane video!!!!! ❤️

this area definitely looks like a paradise for all aquatic life!

Tbh the gars and bowfin really stood out to me. They are just really cool fish to me

Do you even pick up the trash you find on your journeys? Great video!

Awesome footage dude!

This is so dope! 👏🏻

Thanks for cool video. When I was little I snorkeled deep in some mangroves. It was ehh..... shady. But I saw some massive fish.

That actually looks similar size to one my grandpa brought to the surface while fishing. Freaked him out how huge it was.

I would probably think of a joke under the water and then drown... "Hey fish, how 'bout a hand?"

only guy to think seeing an alligator in water with you 'lucky'