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Diving a Florida River for Ice Age Mammoth and Mastodon Fossils
I dive a Florida river full of gators hunting Ice Age fossils, test a new hookah system and come up with mammoth and mastodon finds.
What’s in this video
This one is a fossil hunting dive in a Florida river full of gators. After we prep, I test a new hookah system and we start turning up mammoth fossils. A first time diver in our group found treasure too, and we pulled up a meg tooth and a mix of other finds.
We stop to identify the river fossils, joke around back at the boat, and I review an underwater scooter. Then we get a rare mastodon fossil haul and finish with a final dive. My dive gear list includes the Mantus Marine mini scuba, the Blu3 Nemo hookah and the Lefeet S1 dive scooter.
Key moments
- 0:00 River diving preparation
- 2:05 Testing new hookah system
- 3:27 First mammoth fossil finds
- 5:53 First time diver finds treasure
- 7:13 Meg tooth and diverse finds
- 9:05 Identifying river fossils
- 12:10 Fossil humor and boat return
- 12:56 Reviewing underwater scooter
- 16:18 Rare mastodon fossil haul
- 18:58 Final dive and success
Quick takeaways
- My river dive gear: Mantus Marine mini scuba, Blu3 Nemo hookah, Lefeet S1 scooter and a GoPro mask mount.
- This river holds mammoth and mastodon fossils plus meg teeth, but it's full of gators, so stay aware.
Gear from this video
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