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#368 - Cave Diver on “Ice Age” Girl Discovery, Diving Pyramids & Thai Cave Rescue | Gus Gonzalez

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6909 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 177 minutes

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SPONSORS: 1) RIDGE: Take advantage of Ridge’s Biggest Sale of the Year and GET UP TO 47% Off by going to https://www.Ridge.com/JULIAN #Ridgepod (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Gus Gonzalez is a prominent scuba instructor and technical cave diver, widely known as the co-host and producer of the popular YouTube channel and podcast, "Dive Talk GUS's LINKS: - YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UCb9sy84UQUOAL5To0IPotpw - IG: https://www.instagram.com/divetalkmedia/ - X: https://x.com/DiveTalkMedia - WEBSITE: https://divetalk.com/ JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 – Intro 01:36 - Diving in 2018, cave diving, Iceland, Silfra, wetsuit vs drysuit, nitrogen narcosis 13:03 – Dry suit danger, off-gassing, decompression sickness, stigma, first dive, 250 dives 24:08 – 10k cave divers, gatekeeping, technical vs recreational, oxygen pressure 34:02 – Commercial diving, certifications, deepest dive 58:47 – Cavern to cave diver, guidelines, Gainesville, 4k ft lines 01:06:42 – Virgin caves, danger, Thai cave rescue, Rick Stanton 01:26:22 – Rick Stanton, Sheck Exley, narcosis, near death 01:35:13 – Mental training, problem solving, lifelong commitment 01:43:18 – Rogan cave story, lost line, backlash, ocean vs freshwater 01:55:36 – Artifacts, bones, Blue Hole Belize, bodies 02:04:09 – Blue Hole depth, rescues, Edd Sorensen, robots can’t dive 02:19:51 – Orcas, sharks, expeditions, Titanic sub 02:31:38 – USA migration, Venezuela 02:40:30 – Bonne Terre Mine, DiveTalk, private caves 02:53:16 – DiveTalk mission CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef - https://www.instagram.com/joeydeef/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 368 - Gus Gonzalez Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Okay, okay.

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With a sausage sandwich for just... Let's see. Nine and Nampi. Six chigger mcnuggets for just... Nine and ap. Fine. Get Grinch deals every day in the... McDonald's app. 18 plus app only. Ends 24th of December. One use per offer. Fees apply to delivery. Participation varies. Cave diving is not for super humans, it's just super dangerous. My favorite exploration was in Casumel called El Diablo. You pop into the cave, the entrance is complete zero visibility, and every rock is like blades. Touch something, you get caught. But then the water has this thing called hydrogen sulfide. It was used as a weapon in

0:37.7

like World War I, which is like acid. I mean, the whole cave is trying to kill you. And I remember I was really close to probably dying. Like it was, it was, it was bad. I was underwater and I was tied with lying somewhere in my tanks that I couldn't reach. Like I was a fish caught in a net. but if nobody would have helped me, I would have potentially eventually drowns.

0:55.3

And we trained for this. There was a discovery in one of these Mexican caves where they found the body of a girl next to like a giant sloth, like woolly mammoth, cybertooth tiger. Yeah, unbelievable. There's a bunch of divers in the blue hole of the hub in Egypt. People die all the time there.

1:11.0

That's why it's called Divers Cemetery.

1:12.2

What makes this one so dangerous?

1:14.4

At the bottom, there's...

1:15.4

Whoa.

1:16.1

You never had anything like that.

1:17.5

I found...

1:18.4

Hey, guys.

1:20.1

If you're not following me on Spotify,

1:21.9

please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review.

1:24.4

They're both a huge huge help.

1:25.8

Thank you.

1:43.6

So you got into cave diving back in 2018. This wasn't something you did growing up and everything. And then you just went like

1:45.1

full force into it. No, in 2018, I learned how to dive. I didn't get into, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't

1:51.5

get into cave diving until 2020. Um, because cave diving is, it's a, there's a progression. I

2:00.6

equal it to martial arts. It's like you don't, if you,

2:03.7

if you say the cave diving is like the black belt of diving, then you don't start a black belt,

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