This has NEVER happened! [Ep169 RED SEAS]

• March 09, 2025 by Sailing Red Seas |
• Language: EN
• Play Time: 00:22:22
• SAILING YOUTUBERS

🌊 We Had This World-Class Dive Site ALL TO OURSELVES! 🦈 | Sailing French Polynesia

After nearly 2 years of exploring the remote atolls of French Polynesia, we never expected to have one of the most famous dive sites in the South Pacific completely to ourselves! 🤯 No dive boats, no crowds—just us, our dinghy, and a breathtaking underwater world teeming with sharks, coral reefs, and marine life.

🦈 Diving Alone at South Fakarava Pass
Fakarava’s South Pass is renowned for its shark wall, where hundreds of sharks gather in crystal-clear waters. Typically, this site is busy with divers, but on this rare occasion, we had it all to ourselves. With zero surface support, we had to get creative—setting up our own drift dive without a pickup boat. The result? One of the most thrilling dives of our lives!

⚡ In This Episode:
✅ Drift diving with a wall of sharks 🦈
✅ Meeting Cookie, the curious shark and his friends 🦈👀
✅ Exploring hidden underwater caves and reefs 🏝️
✅ Dodging storms and navigating tricky atoll anchorages ⛵💨
✅ Running on fumes to reach the only fuel station for miles ⛽🚤

🔹 If you love sailing adventures, remote diving, and off-grid living, hit that LIKE & SUBSCRIBE button to follow our journey across the Pacific! 🌊

📍 Where are we?
We’re deep in the Tuamotu Archipelago, sailing full-time on our Leopard 47 catamaran. After 4.5 years and over 20,000 nautical miles, we’re still chasing adventure, exploring uncharted waters, and sharing it all with you! 🌏✨

#Sailing #ScubaDiving #FrenchPolynesia #SailingLife #OffGrid #AdventureTravel #SharkDiving #Fakarava #pacificocean

WATCH us dive with sharks AT NIGHT!
https://youtu.be/vYTxm9PjJkE?si=IG1QgDWj01LEtpcL

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⏰ Time Stamps ⏰
00:00 We never expected this
00:49 This never happens
01:39 Swimming with sharks
05:55 I can't believe this happened!
08:21 How to drift dive without surface support (rescuing our dinghy)
10:19 We're the last ones to leave
11:15 Finding shelter on a boat in a storm
13:44 Docking a 47 foot catamaran (shorthanded)
16:30 Filling up with diesel on a remote South Pacific island
18:04 Fuel capacity of our bluewater cruising catamaran
20:36 Setting sail to the lost world

🎵 Music 🎵
All tracks can be found at Epidemic Sound.

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📖 Our Story 📖
We're Iain and Brioni [The Reds] a couple of redheaded Scots who sold everything we own and moved halfway round the world to buy a boat that we could call home. We have a habit of finding ourselves in the most unusual circumstances, but that’s what makes life interesting! We live in search of the most remote places to live and sail so hit subscribe and join us on this adventure!

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Sailing Red Seas

We are Iain and Brioni, a couple from Scotland who have decided to sell everything, buy a boat and go where the wind takes us. We are the proud winners of the award for Best Emerging YouTube Channel 2023 and we share weekly episodes of our sailing travels around the world every Sunday. Living on a budget means we get creative about making our own repairs and we aim to explore the most remote parts of this beautiful world we call our home. We’re adventurous, tenacious and always up for a laugh. You can read more about us on our website www.red-seas.com and subscribe to our channel to follow the adventure. If you are inspired by any of the things we have shared, please consider joining our Patreon to allow us to keep saying yes to opportunities as they present themselves.

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This has NEVER happened! [Ep169 RED SEAS] Locations

• Fakarava (-16.3103178,-145.6245586)