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mobby_6kl posted:Holy poo poo, the Dahab Blue Hole is the most dangerous dive site??? I did my Advanced OWD there lol. If it's the one I remember reading about, the wider site is absolutely fine and not particularly dangerous, the danger is entirely in terms of "there is a pretty tunnel to explore and swim through which will absolutely kill you if you don't have specialist equipment for it" and a bunch of dive shops that don't really discriminate between tourists who want to rent gear
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das_bill posted:I've done events with honnold and he is overall p. chill. You can tell he's handling whatever spectrum rainbow he's on better these days. On another note some women asked for him to show her his abs. And we kindly said, "No, please back away from the climber" so he didn't have to say the same. People have no loving boundaries. Apparently he got married back in September, too! I'm really glad to hear this guy is still alive and not soloing anymore. There is just no way to keep doing that and survive to old age. Happy that he's still climbing of course (I mean what else would be do). Belayed and roped and protected climbs are still a little risky I guess? But it seems more like in the category of SCUBA diving risk where as long as you keep your gear maintained and follow the rules you're almost certainly ok. Something a person with permanent interpersonal commitments (marriage, being a parent) could do in clean conscience.
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I used to surf quite a lot. The ocean scares the gently caress out of me. I've been held under, pulled out to sea, scraped over barnacles, broken boards, gotten cut by random bits of glass in sands. Recently, an old guy that I knew disappeared while surfing, and I am about 100% certain that the end he met was not pleasant. The sea is not so much evil, it's just well, the sea. It is billion of tons of water roiling around near coastlines and it will murder you even if you are careful, prepared, and not some adrenaline seeking dude bro who doesn't give a gently caress. The first time I ever went boogie boarding solo, I was wearing a wet suit. I was having fun on the beach, and out of nowhere, I ended up in a rip. And I could not get out of the goddamn rip. Eventually, I realized that I was just wasting energy, so I let it pull me out to sea. My guess is I ended up 300-400 yards off the beach, paddling along before I could get back in. Thankfully, the added flotation of the wet suit (and the fact I wasn't dying of cold because of it) made it so the much easier, but it was downright exhausting. Once I finally got back on the beach (like a half mile from where I started), I walked back to my car, drove home, and slept for sixteen hours straight. After that, I got a lot more comfortable with the surf. I used to straight up hop on rips with a surf board and just ride it out to sea, but the third or fourth time I did this, I ended up way the gently caress out there. Thankfully, a dude on a jetski just happened to roll up on me contemplating a solid mile swim and get me back in. Since that time, if I ever find myself on the coast (and able to surf), I veeeeery carefully contemplate the wave forecast, and size up the beach when I get there (and look up it's reputation as well), and then have a set amount of time I'm gonna be in the water before I get back.
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Uncle Enzo posted:There is just no way to keep doing that and survive to old age. See: Ueli Steck
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There's no way Honnold is done, those people don't do that
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mobby_6kl posted:Holy poo poo, the Dahab Blue Hole is the most dangerous dive site??? I did my Advanced OWD there lol. I haven't been there but I think it's just the cave that's dangerous! Something about it looking just right to be really tempting for a casual poke around, only to realise it's actually really deep and you can't get back safely.
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After reading this thread I'm never leaving my comfort zone of 0 to 10 meters above sea level ever again
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Another one bites the dust: https://abenteuer-berg.de/en/us-climber-alex-goldfarb-is-dead/ "What we do in the mountains – we mostly do for ourselves" - at least he sounds pretty realistic. According to his son: "he never gave up".
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Watching those cave diver snuff videos on youtube is really depressing. Maybe because it's so anti-climactic. Just a faint gurgle, and then nothing.
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Rojkir posted:Another one bites the dust: I misread this as 'he never grew up' then thought, no, no I didn't. What a waste of a loving life.
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quote:Of course we want to impress girls, I'll take "Dumbest reasons to climb" for 500, please, Alex.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'll take "Dumbest reasons to climb" for 500, please, Alex. I'd argue that most of human exploration is due to this, at its core There's a reason most adventurers / thrill seekers are men. They are all tremendous horndogs that want a good bar story
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Isn't that some evo psych poo poo, that men are driven to riskier behaviour when there's a shortage of women? That's one of the theories behind the viking's explorations iirc
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busalover posted:Isn't that some evo psych poo poo, that men are driven to riskier behaviour when there's a shortage of women? That's one of the theories behind the viking's explorations iirc I thought that was more "first born son gets everything, so every landholder's son other than that else needs to go find wealth somewhere else if they want to be marriage material" poo poo
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Azathoth posted:I thought that was more "first born son gets everything, so every landholder's son other than that else needs to go find wealth somewhere else if they want to be marriage material" poo poo Could be wrong, but I think the leader/chief had the option of polygamy, which made it harder for the other men to find a mate
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Really glad we nipped that derail about mountains in the bud so we could get back to talking about cave diving. This thread isn't explicitly everest climbing, or mountain climbing, so much as it's a journal of rich people who took littering to the absolute extreme.
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Strategic Tea posted:I haven't been there but I think it's just the cave that's dangerous! Something about it looking just right to be really tempting for a casual poke around, only to realise it's actually really deep and you can't get back safely. From the books I've read, people don't realise the distance of the tunnel, it's a lot further than it looks
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busalover posted:Isn't that some evo psych poo poo, that men are driven to riskier behaviour when there's a shortage of women? That's one of the theories behind the viking's explorations iirc Though higher testosteron levels have been associated with higher risk taking I would argue that most risk seeking behavior throughout history is due to social and cultural factors like the one posted above. These social and cultural factors also have an effect on related biology such as testosterone levels. However, that males more commonly have a physiology which both make them more suited to some high risk endevours and makes them more willing to take risks probably just works as a positive feedback mechanism for aforementioned social and cultural factors. Azathoth posted:I thought that was more "first born son gets everything, so every landholder's son other than that else needs to go find wealth somewhere else if they want to be marriage material" poo poo It might be part of this too but arable land was really scarce, so any population boom basically meant that surplus population needed to settle new lands. And the options boiled down to find new lands and take new lands.
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Trying to get your dick wet, all the way to the Americas
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Paladine_PSoT posted:This thread isn't explicitly everest climbing, or mountain climbing, so much as it's a journal of rich people who took littering to the absolute extreme. Everest: Extreme Littering World Series 2021
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Platystemon posted:It’s less disconcerting to be diving in a black void than to be diving above a black void. You're right, I find that photo more terrifying than the videos of people dying at the bottom of a hole.
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Another thing you could do that's pretty macho and cool is the Dakar Rallye every year. Occasionally people die, you can drive/ride through the desert, stunning scenery, potential death. Costs money.builds character posted:DAY THIRTEEN
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ante posted:Trying to get your dick wet, all the way to the Americas The Niña, The Pinto, and the Santo Dios!
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I’m trying to figure out what the hell that guy was trying to do on that dive, nothing makes any sense. I did some more googling. If he was trying to do the arch and had an equipment failure or got lost he doesn’t act like it, and was still only equipped to go at most in the event of like a rescue 40 meters, though you could probably get away with 50 or maaaybe 60 but the that’s reckless as hell, like BASE jumping but just stupid instead of challenging and stupid. He was also weighed with waaaay too much weight for no apparent reason. If he was trying to go deep for some sort of record he was unbelievably poorly equipped, like he may as well been trying to EVA in space with the recreational diving equipment, his survival odds are about the same at 100 meters. Like nothing makes any sense.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Like nothing makes any sense.
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busalover posted:Watching those cave diver snuff videos on youtube is really depressing. Maybe because it's so anti-climactic. Just a faint gurgle, and then nothing. Definitely better when you can hear their final tortured screams for sure.
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I guess the best explanation I found from a guy on a technical diving forum that seems to know what he’s talking about was that this diver just wanted to go deep to show off, since he seems to be intent on filming his dive computer. That also explains why he had like 3 times too much weight and never dropped it. As far as him being a diving instructor I thought that meant dive master but he’s probably just a dipshit with a few slightly more advanced than average certs that didn’t know enough to realize he effectively committed suicide somewhere around 60-70 meters and would have nitro’ed away his ability to save himself on regular air at the pressure. I remember seeing a big bolded box in a diving manual that said “IF YOU ARE DIVING ON ONE CYLINDER YOU ARE NOT TECHNICAL DIVING” and I guess Yuri showed them. Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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Someone make a cave on Everest and fill it with water so we can have a twofer
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George H.W. oval office posted:Someone make a cave on Everest and fill it with water so we can have a twofer I wanna be the first person to die of the bends and HAPE at the same time
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The dakar owns even if it's a little less cool that actual Dakar isn't the end point but I'm not sure what that enormous post has to do with the thread.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:I wanna be the first person to die of the bends and HAPE at the same time Have those
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Rich people dying doing extreme sports?
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My new life goal: first naked climb of Everest followed by the first wingsuit descent. Please donate to my kickstarter...
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:I wanna be the first person to die
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PostNouveau posted:IIRC, some dude tried to snowboard off Everest and was never seen again. I think he made it down one side, and then wanted to try to do the other side. If I remember correctly, someone told him it was stupid and he said something like "F you old man" and then took off never to be seen again.
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