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Have you ever participated in potholing or cave diving?

Trilobit said:
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Would be interesting to see the statistics. Yet another reason to stay away from some extreme hobbies. 😧
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Yeah, probably some truth to it. Kinda like how chicks complain about only meeting abusive douch bag guys when all they do is go to dive bars. Duuuh!
 
I've done a tiny bit of caving in Malaysia. Didn't have to go through many tight passages, but that moment when you're pulling yourself through one, arms pinned to your sides and the roof touching your chest really gives you a moment. Especially when breathing and you can feel that unmovable rock pushing against you.

Seeing the continuous tight passages in stuff like Nutty Putty is insane, just get the sense of claustrophobia thinking about it.

Stuff I did was worth it as the passages were short and they sent me into some crazy big caves. They did smell bad mind and were full of bats.
 
falconhoof said:
I've done a tiny bit of caving in Malaysia. Didn't have to go through many tight passages, but that moment when you're pulling yourself through one, arms pinned to your sides and the roof touching your chest really gives you a moment. Especially when breathing and you can feel that unmovable rock pushing against you.

Seeing the continuous tight passages in stuff like Nutty Putty is insane, just get the sense of claustrophobia thinking about it.

Stuff I did was worth it as the passages were short and they sent me into some crazy big caves. They did smell bad mind and were full of bats.
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I won't lie, this made me uncomfortable to read lol. Just the thought of it drove me to speed up my breathing. A total nope for me.
 
Very sad. But there's no info as to how they all died cave diving. There's some mention of rough weather, but I don't see how it affects things underwater.

Five Italians have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, the foreign ministry in Rome has said.

"The divers are believed to have died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres (164ft)," the ministry said, adding that this happened in Vaavu Atoll.

The Maldives' military said one body had been found in a cave about 60 metres underwater, and the other four divers were believed to be also there.
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www.bbc.com

Five Italians die during cave dive in Maldives

Italy says the incident happened at a depth of 50m. Maldivian rescuers have so far found one body.
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Even going around 20m deep sets off a lot of "you probably shouldn't be here" alarms in my brain. At 50m too much can go wrong.
 
When I was in the British Army we went over to Wales ( Sennybridge ) for a week. There was a number of activities for us, and to be honest I cant remember much about it now, but I do remember the fucking cave diving. Not much panics me, but that shit I hated, now this would of been some low level cave diving but there was a couple of parts that just made me shit myself, I didnt break down or anything but I remember just thinking to myself " fuck this shit " and I couldnt wait untill it was over. Not for me.
 
EviLore said:
Even going around 20m deep sets off a lot of "you probably shouldn't be here" alarms in my brain. At 50m too much can go wrong.
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I did a cliff dive once where I sort of zenned out and didn't realize I had sunk down to 120 feet (40ish meters for you non moon landing folk). Had a bit of panic thinking I'd have to do a longer decompression stop and if I had enough air, but the reality is the tables are generous enough that it was ok.

I did ONE scuba cave trip and NOPE, never again. I found that the water makes my sense of direction almost useless so the instant you lose sight of the entrance......no mini-map to guide you back. F that.
 

F'n hell. Guy lost his wife AND daughter in that cave. Regardless of the wifes 'experience' a cave that deep is way at the edge of a recreational divers capabilities IMHO. Not that we'll probably ever know for sure, but I'd love to know what went wrong. Bad air? Strong current? They all died trying to save one?
 
jason10mm said:

F'n hell. Guy lost his wife AND daughter in that cave. Regardless of the wifes 'experience' a cave that deep is way at the edge of a recreational divers capabilities IMHO. Not that we'll probably ever know for sure, but I'd love to know what went wrong. Bad air? Strong current? They all died trying to save one?
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Rescue diver dies during search for bodies of Italians who drowned in Maldives caves

Staff Sgt Mohamed Mahdhee died while diving in the search-and-rescue operation, the Maldives government tells the BBC.
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And more life pointlessly wasted on this stupid shit.
 
Avid Reading Horse said:
www.bbc.com

Rescue diver dies during search for bodies of Italians who drowned in Maldives caves

Staff Sgt Mohamed Mahdhee died while diving in the search-and-rescue operation, the Maldives government tells the BBC.
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And more life pointlessly wasted on this stupid shit.
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just goes to show how dangerous this stuff is when even the pros are dying. I wonder how deep those caves go. Surely some rich fuck with some fancy drones or a minisub can motor his yacht over there and help out? I'm sure the greeks will show up in a few days to sort it out.
 
Heh. These are the Heaven's Gate sneakers. Not the cave diving sneakers. Try again, nerd.

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First images from inside Maldives death cave

Images published by DAN Europe show the eerie underwater passages where visibility vanished as rescuers searched for the trapped group more than 60 metres below the surface.
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Daily Fail said:
The Finnish divers found the cave near Alimatha begins with a first large, very bright cavern with a sandy bottom, Marroni told the newspaper.

At the end of this room is a corridor where there is little light, but 'visibility, using artificial lighting, was excellent', she said.

The corridor is almost 30 metres long and three metres across and leads to a second chamber of the cave, which is a large, round space with no natural light.

Between the corridor and the second chamber is a sandbank.

It is easy to get over the sandbank into the second chamber, but when you turn around to leave again, the bank almost looks like a wall, hiding the corridor, La Repubblica reported.

On the left of the sandbank is another corridor - only a few dozen metres long.

'The divers' bodies were all found inside, as if they had mistaken it for the right one,' Marroni told the paper.

If they had taken that corridor by mistake, 'then it would have been very difficult to return, especially with the limited air supply', Marroni said.

The divers were using standard tanks, meaning that, at that depth, they had very little time to visit the second cave, she said.
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Earlier MSN article said:
A grieving Italian scientist who lost both his wife and a daughter in the Maldives diving tragedy insisted Friday that something wildly unexpected must have happened because his wife was too experienced a diver to have taken risks.

"The only certainty I have is that my wife is among the best divers on the face of the earth. And that she's always been conscientious. Never would she have endangered the life of our daughter" or the others with them, Sommacal told La Repubblica on Friday.
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Don't Cave Dorks use glow sticks to mark where they've come from or something? Is that not a thing in the SCUBA variant?
 
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Even the best people make mistakes and get overconfident. And unpredictable shit can happen at any time.

I'm sorry for the dude, but that's a bit like saying that the 1996 Everest disaster was due to wildly unexpected factors when it was a combination of completely human and preventable things (hubris, sunk cost fallacy, rashness and carelessness, among others).
 
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