This has NEVER happened! [Ep169 RED SEAS]
🌊 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 ⛽🚤
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📍 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! 🌏✨
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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
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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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- Fakarava (-16.3103178,-145.6245586)
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