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Good Sphere posted:The exciting thing about getting stuck in a small-crevice cave and never found again, is that you have the chance of getting fossilized into the rock for millions of years. That’s why you should always carry your phone when spelunking even though you don’t get signal, so that future archaeologists can have some idea of what destroyed our civilization
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Any of you guys visited the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park? I'm not old enough to have gone back in the day, heard it was wild tho.
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:/ i got lost in a deep and complex cave system once and barely made it out alive haven't talked to your mother since then
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DicktheCat posted:Any of you guys visited the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park? I'm not old enough to have gone back in the day, heard it was wild tho. Last I heard they had auctioned off the land for oil drilling. Thanks, Brandon!
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Aug 25, 2023 22:27
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I went on a guided cave tour with a small group in Cheddar, home of delicious cheddar cheese. We crawled through a tiny hole called the nutcracker and ended up in this chamber with a low ceiling that was a pit hollowed out by water. The guide told everyone to hold their breath and turn off their helmet lights, and those moments in the silent dark were pure existential terror. e: also there was a spooky skeleton 
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Aug 25, 2023 22:50
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People piss and poo poo into those holes
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Aug 25, 2023 23:45
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I wonder at what depth within the Earth is the deepest that anybody has ever hosed
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Aug 26, 2023 02:20
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See? Genuinely terrifying. It could happen to any of us at any time. Caves are only a problem for cavers.
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I think caves are very cool as long as I don't have to be inside of them and die i hear they often contain treasure as well
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Aug 26, 2023 04:30
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Remember when poo poo used to have content unst ad if just being YouTube dumps? Lol cool thread OP great job
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Ahundredbux posted:I think caves are very cool as long as I don't have to be inside of them and die hard to get at the treasure when you are beset by cowardice as you are however
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Nooner posted:Remember when poo poo used to have content unst ad if just being YouTube dumps? Lol cool thread OP great job Caves
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Aug 26, 2023 04:51
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I normally can't stand this style of video but the narrator sounds like Principal Skinner so I made it through to the end
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OP did you make this thread because recently Youtube has been shovelling a lot caving horror stories into your recommendations in the past month, because it's been doing it to me despite having never watched a single video of caving disasters in my life.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:OP did you make this thread because recently Youtube has been shovelling a lot caving horror stories into your recommendations in the past month, because it's been doing it to me despite having never watched a single video of caving disasters in my life. No, I actively searched for it in the past couple days, simply because I felt morbidly curious.
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kind of wordy but interesting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/what-lies-beneath-mossdale-caving-disaster-794268.html
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The Akiyoshido cave system was one of the first places I stopped by on my bicycle tour across Japan. It was incredibly cool, and I'm glad I brought an old point and shoot so I could set stuff manually with long exposure after setting it down with a timer. I only did the 1km main path but I saw lots of gated off areas, along with some paths I read as being "advanced level" I think. The tour guide also gave me her number to do some more spelunking later.   
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Gravid Topiary posted:kind of wordy but interesting Oh fuuuuuuck no. Caving and drowning all in one?? quote:The omens look good for making a discovery. Then one perhaps mutters – is it a joke? – "Eh, what's that rumbling? Not the stream going up?" It is every caver's nightmare – lying flat-out in water, not a joke that cavers like. But now everyone hears it. Unmistakably, sickeningly, the water is surging; the draught whistles like a gale. As far as anyone knows – no one has tried it – Mossdale Caverns floods completely. Still they do not panic. They are the country's best cavers. Surely it cannot happen to them? The roof is a few inches above their prostrate bodies. They instinctively crawl faster, yet each of them knows there is nowhere to go.  Coxswain Balls posted:The Akiyoshido cave system was one of the first places I stopped by on my bicycle tour across Japan. It was incredibly cool, and I'm glad I brought an old point and shoot so I could set stuff manually with long exposure after setting it down with a timer. I only did the 1km main path but I saw lots of gated off areas, along with some paths I read as being "advanced level" I think. The tour guide also gave me her number to do some more spelunking later. This is actually super duper cool! Fantastic pictures by the way. Yeah, feel free to relay actual awesome cool cave adventures and pics too. Caves!!
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:hard to get at the treasure when you are beset by cowardice as you are however what the hell am i supposed to do with treasure
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Last time I went caving we did a four day trip to a super wet dome+pit complex with a ton of waterfall climbs trying to find a connection between these two caves on different ridges in Kentucky. It was about 8 hours of stoop-walking and climbing to get from the entrance to the campsite, and about 3 hours of shimmying through a 11 inch wide canyon and swimming through a underground river with 6 inches of air space to get to the climbs we were exploring. On the way out, I was absolutely wiped out tired and the team was spread out over about a mile of big borehole passage when I slipped on a muddy spot and fell onto my side. This would normally not be a problem, but there was a slight incline and I continued to slide until I fell into the canyon at the edge of the passage, falling about 10 feet and landing on a pile of boulders. That pile of boulders are my favorite pile of boulders in the whole world, since if they hadn't been there to break my fall, it would have been 30 feet. Anyway, since the rest of the team was strung out over this mile long passage there was nothing to do but put one foot on each side of the canyon and climb out again.
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I love caving because once you get in there deep it's so clean. Maybe you're covered in mud, but it's pure mineral mud with no deer pellets or garbage.
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les enfants Terrific! posted:Cave diving is the horrible combination of claustrophobia, drowning, and certain death that keeps me awake at night. There was a kid in my year back in school, I think his name was Lee? Never had classes with him but what few times I did speak with him he seemed a good sort, someone who never gave anyone any poo poo and was liked by pretty much across the board, he sometimes worked on the news stand at the nearby tube station, always busy up to something. He wasn’t into regular sports but he was into potholing, he loved the exploration aspect, and would typically head off somewhere each month. Then one week the school announced he had been swept away and found drowned a while after and that was that. Everyone was understandably devastated. Between that, The Descent, and that dude who famously got stuck at some weird angle and couldn’t be saved, I ain’t going near a fuckin’ cave ever. Still, I did get his job out of it so swings and roundabouts, all part of life’s rich tapestry, etc.
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Sentinel Red posted:There was a kid in my year back in school, I think his name was Lee? Never had classes with him but what few times I did speak with him he seemed a good sort, someone who never gave anyone any poo poo and was liked by pretty much across the board, he sometimes worked on the news stand at the nearby tube station, always busy up to something. He wasn’t into regular sports but he was into potholing, he loved the exploration aspect, and would typically head off somewhere each month. You killed him
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I dont go in caves because that's where bigfoot lay their eggs
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Gravid Topiary posted:kind of wordy but interesting That's the stuff of nightmares. Jesus, just the sheer terror they must have felt.
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Good Sphere posted:The exciting thing about getting stuck in a small-crevice cave and never found again, is that you have the chance of getting fossilized into the rock for millions of years. I went to a tourist-y cave like a decade ago and at one point there was a section deep in the cave where the tour guide said they'd found a fossilised human jawbone, estimated to belong to a ten year old, and described how you often don't find human remains this deep because this is where the animals like bears would be and humans typically only stayed up at the mouths. They decided to illustrate the most likely fate of the kid by turning out all the lights and playing the sounds of animals growling for a solid minute.
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Speleothing posted:Anyway, since the rest of the team was strung out over this mile long passage there was nothing to do but put one foot on each side of the canyon and climb out again. When I was about 12 my buddy Max and me were exploring the back of a decent sized boulder entitled Suicide on the front face. Max slipped and fell, out of my sight about 20ft up. I screamed and yelled and after a few seconds he's like "Yeah… I'm OK… got winded, but." I had never been so scared for that 5-15 seconds in my life. Took me about 2 minutes to scramble down around the back side to find him walking out from a side crack underneath the front face.
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Gravid Topiary posted:kind of wordy but interesting cool read. makes me want to go caving again honestly lol
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cumpantry posted:cool read. makes me want to go caving again honestly lol How?
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I wouldn't go into any cave where I had to get down and crawl, no matter how cool it looked inside.
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Pyrotoad posted:I went to a tourist-y cave like a decade ago and at one point there was a section deep in the cave where the tour guide said they'd found a fossilised human jawbone, estimated to belong to a ten year old, and described how you often don't find human remains this deep because this is where the animals like bears would be and humans typically only stayed up at the mouths. They decided to illustrate the most likely fate of the kid by turning out all the lights and playing the sounds of animals growling for a solid minute. that is actually real funny
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sajobi posted:How? i dunno, just all the focus on leakey and eyre, their exploits and daring, the insistence to never go to that cave but rising to the opportunity to mount a rescue cuz they knew what the hell to do--and both lived after. yeah i obviously dont have an interest in mossdale any time soon but not every cave is so terrifying. i'll just have to trust myself to not squeeze into narrow tunnels on rainy days + the cave cartography stuff, mapping a cave sounds super cool
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ngl after reading some of these caving horror stories I kinda want to start caving too for some mentally ill reason I can't quite explain
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simple fun to be had in a hole
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The most frightening thing about the videos in the OP is the bizarre tonal shifts and emphasis of odd words in the narration. Edit: lmao, the second one's onscreen text makes it feel like a parody. Just random words from the monologue thrown up on screen. Why are people so bad at this. Rev. Melchisedech Howler fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Aug 29, 2023 |
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I like skydiving and climbing mountains but cannot at all see the appeal of crawling in a muddy hole barely big enough to fit in for long periods just to maybe see cool rocks or die And cave divers? Lunatics all
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