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FACT: 90% of divers give up just before finding something really neat in an underwater cave
those that find it don’t come back because it’s just so neat
FACT: 99% of gamblers quit just one spin away from a jackpot!
I’ve played Subnautica. You don’t need to warn me about cave diving.
That’s a fact. Salvaging those ship wrecks gave me such anxiety. I died a few times by getting lost.
Are you sure what you’re doing is worth it?
Theres a good podcasts by stuff you should know on this. A scary thought to me is about kicking up sediment, causing zero visibility and they cant even see their hand in front of their goggles
I’ve done training dives in man made quarries under zero visibility conditions. There’s no way in hell I’d go into an actual cave under those conditions.
It was bad enough when you’d almost run into a purposefully placed sculpture or bathtub in that flooded quarry.
You had to do a scavenger hunt to find stuff to pass your training and it was super disorienting.
I don’t know if PADI still does that sort of thing or if it was unique to my training center conditions but it was wild.
I’ll stick to open water, thank you very much.
Oh those sorts of training conditions absolutely still exist. I got my rescue diving certification in an old quarry much like what you said. Really helps make you appreciate the conditions when out in the Caribbean and you have >100 ft of visibility in every direction.
New fear unlocked
Here is a clip from Donald Cerrone on the Joe Rogan show where he tells a story like this. I really loathe Joe Rogan but this story is fantastic. Nightmare fuel.
https://youtu.be/or92IMcLoIc?si=0CemG6Qopl_-Bl8d
I dare you to watch this and not get absolutely freaked the fuck out, lol.
If this is the clip I think it is it’s been the joke of the cave diving community. Cerrone has almost reached meme status for this interview. Watch the Dive Talk video reacting to this clip if you’re curious.
Am I the only one for whom prefacing a statement with “FACT”, makes said statement less credible?
FACT: ArcaneGadget thinks this statement is less credible.
I believe this is one of the caves at Ginnie Springs. If so, I know a guy who died in there. Cave diving is no joke.
i’m confused as to what qualifies as internet funeral now
Yeah, this place has quickly diluted into “literally any image with text in it.”
Internet funeral funeral
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But what if there really is something valuable, wouldn’t they put a sign just like this to prevent people walzing in?
Yeah but that’s for other people, not me.
You took it further than I would. I’d listen to the sign these days, but there was absolutely a time that, that sign would have just been a challenge.
Edit: for you grammar nerds. Do I need that comma? It seems like it should be there, but it also seems superfluous at the same time.
If those spelunkers could read, they’d be very upset.
109 billion people have died outside of underwater caves. I’ll take my chances.
What’s so dangerous that it was able to kill instructors? Sediment and visibility?
“There are older and fouler things than Orcs, in the deep places of the world…”
–Gandalf
Basically yes. Once you go inside a cave like this, it gets dark real fast. You can’t tell where “up” is and you can’t find your way back. So these people often drown or suffocate.
In cave dive training, you learn how not to do that.
It’s dark so requires torches (more than one as a backup) and very easy to get disoriented. You can easily get lost and run out of air. Risk of being blinded by silt even with a torch, leading to more risk of disoriented and getting lost. If anything goes wrong such as equipment malfunction then you don’t have the option of going to the surface as you do in open water (albeit with the risk of a bend). It’s often cramped with places to get stuck, snag equipment, or get tangled in your guideline. There are sharp rocks you can hit your head on.
There’s nothing in this cave worth dying for
That’s precisely what someone would say if there’s stuff worth dying for in there.
The best part about underwater cave diving is that you don’t have to go!
Okay, they almost had me convinced. But the second to last sentence is just crying out for a treasure.
