Your preview photo was sooooo misleading.  I would go so far to call it click bait.   For shame.

Interesting. But click bait to get you to watch is really pissing me off any more. I am sick of it!!!!!!!!!!!!@

So a volcanic lake has volcano stuff going on at the bottom.  So shocked.

The thing that blew my mind about this place was the silence. It was swarming with tourists making no noise. People stand there in awe. Its a damn long ride from civilization to get there so you really have to want to see this place. The "postcard" you speak of is amazing but seeing the sheer scale of the grade of the cliffs doesn't really get you until you are there and see it. Strangely (I'm a photographer) I saw no real wildlife up there in there in early summer which is very odd for such a remote place. It is eerie, and you can feel it. I had a similiar feeling in only one other place I have visited in my life - and that was Devil's Tower. It makes me kind of sick really that so many people aren't ever going to make enough money to take their kids to these absolutely breath taking wonders of the universe.

I live near Crater Lake and have been many times. It is truly calming and mystical. I took friends from England that were world travelers, they said they had never seen a more beautiful sight. My ranch has imploded ash rocks from the eruption. This was a great expose on the history and revelations of this magnificent volcano.

The volcano that contains Crater Lake is not "dead," it is just dormant.

hate the click bait title but the story was great thanks...

I have a beautiful painting of Crater lake that was handed down to me by my grandparents. They visited there probably in the 1940s. That painting is a a precious treasure to me.
All of this information that you are giving in this video is so interesting.

I love learning about nature but please just use REAL people to narrate videos!

I visited Crater Lake only once in my life.  It was 1968 and I was two months pregnant with my daughter.  The new Lodge was not there at the time. I would love to go back and stay at the Lodge. It is a long way from anywhere.  So is Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico but worth seeing.  When I first visited the Grand Canyon it was 1973 and you could drive your car around and when we got to the Rim the sun was just coming up.  There were about 20 Japanese students there and not one person was speaking.  It was like being in a shrine. Incredible.Breathtaking just like the color of Crater Lake.

The first thing to understand is that until Robert Ballard searched for The Scorpion, The Thresher, and finally The Titanic, "going deep" was not an easy trip. And The Trieste will never go down again. And all these toys cost a ton of $, and must be flown in by helicopter. States won't afford it, and depending on federal government they simply couldn't care less.

Our family goes every year and hikes down Cleetwood Cove and swims in Crater Lake. The water is cold and you can see way across the lake. I swam out a little futher this time and all you see is deep, deep blue water. I decided to swim back. Because it seemed like a hole.  Kinda scary, I'm glad I went in because now the trail is closed for three years for repairs also when you are swimming you feel pockets of warm water, which is kind of nice in that freezing water.

People fish in that lake all the time, its actually free to fish there and there are crawdads near the shore.

Don't mess with the  "Old Man" , he's not a dead tree.

I've been there twice in the last 10 years...always breathtaking.

The old man was close to us last time we got good pictures of him. It is pretty scary swimming in that water and when you look down and see how deep it is, its like, I better get out of here. It's pretty but mysterious at the same time. I can't explain it.

When we visited Crater Lake in the late 1990’s, I stood near the edge.  It had the most eerie sense to it; as if it simply wasn’t a normal lake and tourist spot.  It was amazingly blue, unlike anything I’d ever seen, and have seen nothing like it since.

In the 1970s one could snowmobile up at the rim.  What a sight that very deep blue water contrasting with the white snow.

We talked to the park ranger about the microorganisms that were classified as XNA, not DNA, living in the lake. It's a very rare phenomenon.

I was born in Klamath County. This is my home. My ancestors, my life. The basin is incomparable. The myth for years was its bottomless.