"Drowned 4 or 5 martinis... Downed. Excuse me."

Dark, bro.

This is great. You don't often see creators admit when they're wrong, and even fewer take steps to correct themselves. I think you guys did a great job honoring Shaw's story

If my son was down there, I would never be selfish enough to ask someone to risk their life to bring back his bones.  I would know my son died doing what he loved, I know where he is, please let him rest in peace with his gear, the gear he cherished.  I would rather him be in that ocean than a box in the earth.

One fact not mentioned is when they pulled David's body out, Deon came with him so he did recover him like he said he would.

Hearing them talk about the decompression time differences reminds me of the time dilation in Interstellar

Tragic story. Also worth of mentioning is the fact, that few days later, while recovering all the gear and equipment laid out for the recovery mission, Deon's and David's bodies actually were entangled to the line which David had with him and the rescue team were able to bring them to the surface. Closing the recovery mission as a success, giving a sort of a bittersweet ending to the story.

💐💐RIP David John Shaw (20 July 1954 – 8 January 2005) (aged 50) you will truly be missed and my prayer goes out to you and your family and all the divers that lost their lives. 💐💐

I’ve become obsessed. I’m not a diver, never even seen the ocean. You two are killing me, I’m either going to have to learn to dive or potentially lose my mind. Thank you for
The amazing content guys! Much love from Missouri!

My wife made me dive on our honeymoon in Aruba. Never been more nervous in my life. Only went 30 feet down, open water dive. I’m confident after watching so many of your videos, it was probably the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done, mainly because of lack of instruction. I’m sure I would’ve been more comfortable with instructors like you two. Good job on video re do

One of the reasons Dave died was because deons body wasn’t a skeleton. His body turned into a fatty soap which made him boyant but his tanks were buried keeping him in place. When Dave tried to put the body in the bag the body broke loose from the ground and started floating and twisting which  got Dave caught up in the lines. Deons father said his body was in such good shape that it was like he just died. I don’t think his head and hands were skeletonized, Dave was just mistaken in that.

In October of 2017 I was recovering from surgery and stumbled upon a documentary about him. Throughout the doc I didn't know he died until the end. I cried. It just broke my heart. David Shaw was just a great human being.

I'm glad that you corrected the incorrect assumptions you made in your initial reaction. I admit that after coming across your reaction, I felt that Shaw was "reckless" in attempting the rescue. It didn't really sit right with me because the documentary made the dive look a lot more prepared than you seemed to imply. The real story is indeed a true testament to the courage of the divers and how much they knew.

This correction was handled eloquently and in the best manner possible.

While I understand everyone involved had good intentions, I still think this was crazy risking so many people's health and lives for a body recovery. If you're going into such a dangerous cave system, there really should be an understanding that if something happens and the recovery is risky you're staying down there otherwise you're going to end up with situations like this where one person died, and another almost did. If it was me, I wouldn't want multiple people to potentially die trying to get me or someone I cared about out of there if they were known to be deceased. Shaw died and had a family himself who now had to live without him and was a top rescue diver. How many more alive people may he have helped if he lived? The guy they went down to recover had been there so long he was now a skeleton. His family weren't going to get to see him again given the condition of the body. They might have some bones to bury if they pulled the recovery off, but a memorial plaque at the site probably would have been the better option. Really sad outcome

I remember watching this documentary. I remember crying because it was so sad knowing their plans just went  badly.  I remember seeing part of the video of his own footage as he was dying.  Such a sad,  awful loss of wonderful amazingly big hearted divers that risked their own lives to save another dead  diver. Such a sad ending though

I'm a pilot who's afraid to be underwater lol.  But it's interesting, because in aviation we learn about how "external pressures" can cause us to make unsafe decisions.  For example, let's someone has a buddy in town for one day who they want to take flying.  But there are thunderstorms in the area.  Normally they wouldn't attempt the flight, but because they don't want to disappoint their buddy, they go ahead anyways, which results in an accident.  It sounds like divers can also experience many forms of external pressures too?  This video possibly being one example.

So sad but so courageous as well

I love the fact that you've handled this the way you guys have. So much respect.

The actual secret cave divers never share is how they get their ginormous solid steel balls into their wetsuits.

It shows the worth of a person admit and apologing for mistake i have every respect for you