How to dive at ALTITUDE - DIVING in LAKE TAHOE 🥶

Lake Tahoe is a gem for learning how to dive at altitude! Learn the basics and see some beautiful footage of exploring the mountains.

Dead bodies and treasure? Interested in learning how to explore mountain lakes all around the world? Check in with Sarah after to learn the basics on how to dive at altitude thanks to our friends at Tahoe Dive Center! We're high in the mountains and Lake Tahoe diving is a cold, fresh water adventure. Sarah has her van and sidemount dive gear. Let's go!

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[bryanhauschild]

Love the bass in the music at the end.

[Teampegleg]

I did exactly one altitude dive on Lake Mead. Because of the location of the marina used and the route required to get back to the hotels, we had to be extra careful, as we would be ascending over 3, 000 feet. Dive planning on the surface was simplified thanks to Shearwater automatic altitude compensation. Though apparently your tanks will test at a lower oxygen level. To increase our margin of safety we did are deco on oxygen but did the deco schedule for back gas only, and then added an extra 5 minute safety stop on oxygen.

I still kept my oxygen deco bottle in the front seat with me. Next time I will stick to sea level diving, it was like a blast furnace there, and we were in dry suits as the bottom temp was high 50s.

[aliciazinn]

Lol "The more you know" 🤣 I learn so much from you on such a cool level. Like you teach in a really understandable level. Like not so complicated we don't understand.

[ChatdeauX]

The more we know ! Thanks !! I was suprised by the wetsuit at the end haha, you are great ! I would love to watch more footage and explanation about of fresh water diving and sidemount too.

[RahulKalvapalle]

Your videos are fantastic, engaging and informative! Which is why I'm gonna make a request lol for a video on different kinds of currents and how to deal with them :D That'd be so interesting and useful

[mattiboymdc]

This was exactly what I was looking for thanks

[aliciazinn]

Finally we get to see where you were planning to travel to!! Very cool!!

[anthonylacy]

Wild, You scuba and do the van life! Same here. I also rock click, ice climb, dirtbike, motorcycle road race and more.
Anyway. Im from Colorado and dive high altitude a lot in the past. Recently been out east working for 2yrs and wandering my way back home for a vacation then back to traveling to the east coast to work at Vortex Springs, FL or Ft. Myers and do some underwater boat maintenance.
Estes park lake I am prepping to dive as well as a few others at 12-13k ft in altitude while back home.
I will post more taw and edited videos on my channel once around good cell service.
Currently near Henderson Mine in Colorado prepping to dive a lake a few miles back in the mountains.

[mjb]

I did tahoe this last summer and it was awesome. Highly recommend the heritage trail at emerald bay

[vnoockthebrain]

Greetings from Austrian Alps! We have some altitude here :-)

[SeattleRingHunter]

I just dove Lake Cresent in Eastern WA at 1, 100 feet ASL for the first time. What a treat that was. I was shocked how clear the lake water is and low silt levels at 90 feet deep considering how many forest fires and ash are constantly in that area. Absolutely refreshing dive! Cheers, #SeattleRingHunter

[jonasbjerga]

I have not dived squba in altitude. But I'm on a comerisel dive job at about 950 meters now. Very informative and good video 👌🏻

[ReefRangerSCUBA]

Great Content. I know because I dove at 12, 500 ft above sea level.

[wallybrown]

I dive at 6, 000’ 3-4 times a summer here in Utah. I live at 4, 600’, so I got that going for me. Decompressing while driving to higher elevations is very true. Our stratagem is, camping out the night before the dive at 9K feet in the Uintah Mountains on the way to the dive site (Flaming Gorge Dam). Then in the morning head down (20 min away) to the dive site at 6K feet. I’ve gone as deep as 190’ on air for 2-3 minutes (dark and cold), then come back up to rec. depths and play. Good times.
I really want to dive L. Tahoe (on the bucket list).

[timgosling]

I once arrived in Addis Ababa (7500 ft) and that afternoon was challenged to a squash game; I didn't survive the warm-up. It actually takes the average person about 2 weeks to become fully acclimatised to those sorts of altitudes because the body has to make a whole load of extra red blood cells. As you say most dive computers have an adjustment for altitude, but if you want to go to Titicaca you may want to check the upper limit of adjustment as most only go to 10, 000 ft. Obviously the change in atmospheric pressure is greatest at lower altitudes but usually doing your sums as if you are going to dive an extra third of a metre deeper for every thousand feet works pretty well.

[AdventureTravelandScuba]

I live near the Rocky Mountains Calgary Ab 1045m most of my diving is @over 1300m so altitude diving is pretty much norm. Only diving at sea level is when i travel to southern destinations.

[tomtom]

A lot of the adaption to the very modest altitude of Lake Tahoe is the body loses a little bit of alkali. The cardiovascular system is very sensitive to acid/alkali balance and decreased blood pH increases breathing (helpful if blood CO2 is raised) and increased blood pH suppresses breathing. Altitude sickness (adaption) drugs like diamox work by helping flush out a little bit of cellular bicarbonate (by inhibiting carbonic anhydrase). Adaption to living at 6, 300 feet is more a blood pH balance thing than the slight increase in red blood cells.

[bulljohnson]

Hey Sarah, could you do a video about bump helmets?

[downdirty]

Your in the US. Come to Lake Ozark in Missouri.