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A sinkhole in central Florida hides a dive spot that looks fake until you’re standing in it.
Brandon Jordan, the angler and adventurer behind the YouTube channel Jiggin’ With Jordan, teamed up with Jake Koehler — better known online as DALLMYD, one of the biggest names in underwater exploration and treasure hunting — for a trip to Devil’s Den Prehistoric Spring near Williston, Florida. The video, “Exploring The Most Beautiful Place on Earth (Devils Den) ft.dallmyd,” follows the two down a wooden staircase into a collapsed limestone cavern and straight into 72-degree spring water so clear it looks staged. It’s a rare crossover between two creators who built massive followings doing very different things underwater, and the location does most of the talking.
- Devil’s Den is a privately owned karst sinkhole near Williston, Florida, formed when the roof of an underground river collapsed, creating an enclosed cavern spring.
- The spring holds a constant 72-degree water temperature year-round, with visibility clear enough to see submerged limestone formations deep below the surface.
- Jordan and Koehler access the cavern via a wooden staircase built into the sinkhole opening before diving into the subterranean system to explore the rock formations.
Two Channels, One Cavern
Jordan’s channel is built around fishing hauls and outdoor exploration, while Koehler’s DALLMYD is known for scuba dives into lakes, rivers, and rope swing spots hunting for lost phones, jewelry, and the occasional gun. Pairing them at Devil’s Den made sense: it’s a location that rewards exactly the kind of underwater curiosity both of their audiences already show up for, minus the murky lake water Koehler usually has to fight through. Instead of hunting for lost items in silty river bottoms, the collaboration became about the cavern itself — the geology, the light, the sheer novelty of a hole in the ground that opens into a prehistoric spring system.
The Unique Characteristics of Devil’s Den
Most Florida springs sit out in the open, ringed by cypress trees and tubers floating past. Devil’s Den is enclosed — the collapsed roof left a domed cavern ceiling with a single opening to the sky, so divers descend through what feels more like a cave system than a swimming hole. The water’s 72-degree consistency never changes with the seasons, and the clarity lets divers see straight down to limestone ledges and rock formations that would be invisible in almost any other freshwater dive in the state.
72 degrees, every day of the year, in a cavern most people would walk past without knowing it’s there.
That combination — enclosed geology, constant temperature, and unusual clarity — is exactly why it draws divers from outside Florida rather than just locals looking to cool off. It’s the kind of formation that shows up more often in caving communities than tourism brochures, closer in spirit to the sinkhole systems that attract serious cave divers to South Australian farms than to a typical roadside spring.
The Draw for Both Audiences
For Jordan’s fishing-first audience, the appeal is the novelty of a dive that has nothing to do with catching anything — it’s pure exploration. For Koehler’s followers, used to watching him work through lakebeds and quarries searching for lost valuables, Devil’s Den flips the format: there’s no treasure hunt, just documenting a formation few underwater explorers get access to since the property is privately owned and access is controlled. That combination of audiences is part of why the video traveled as widely as it did among viewers who follow underwater content in general, not just one channel or the other.
The trip fits a pattern both creators lean on — chasing water that looks nothing like the water most people have access to, whether that’s a spring cavern in Florida or a river run built for kayak camping like the kind documented on the Frio River in Texas. Devil’s Den just happens to be the version with a staircase leading straight down into it.
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