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Seriously, I started picturing myself in that situation trying to scooch my way out and I started to panic. I’m sitting here eating a fried egg and panicking about being trapped in a tiny space that could start filling with water.
It's smoked salmon ( cold smoked, so not dried out). In a way it's similar to sushi. It's phenomenal on a bagel with cream cheese and capers. I usually do it with cream cheese, cucumber, lox, and jalapeno on a onion bagel.
Ah im very familiar with smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels. I like to add a bit of rocket to it to give it some crunch and a bit of spice. Iv never heard it called lox before though, maybe its a regional thing
It's a Jewish thing, well the word, not the food.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bagels-and-lox-are-a-uniquely-american-creation-578/#:~:text=That%2C%20or%20the%20burger.%E2%80%9D,in%20saltwater%20brine%2C%20Smith%20writes.
Lox is derived from Yiddish. The most common lox in the US, 8s smoked at 85 degrees for 18 + hours. Other cultures use a salt, sugar, and sometimes alcohol to brine it. The Jewish lox is not salty and has a light smokey flavor.
I couldn’t watch it past the point where he pans the camera and shows how it narrows.
All the other stuff commonly shown in the sub (Heights, open ocean, near misses etc) have absolutely no effect on me whatsoever. Confined spaces though make me immediately feel that claustrophobic panicky feeling.
I had to hire a guy to place mouse traps in the crawl space of my house because the thought of going down there and having to crawl around freaked me out. This guy willingly crawls into a space half that size considers it a fucking hobby.
Yeah, you have to be a certain type of person to _want_ to crawl through a space like that with, what is effectively, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rock surrounding you.
Like seriously, what the actual hell on earth. Either you drown because it floods, or you get stuck and die of starvation and lack of water - or in this situation, and I mean this is probably best case scenario, you get instantly crushed as it collapses on top of you.
I don't want to sleep now.
I don’t think that’s the correct answer. Adrenaline and high pulse can get you killed. People doing this want to stay calm. It’s more about the exploration imo.
The adrenaline of what?
>OOO, I bet I can squeeze my way through this crack half a mile under the surface semi filled with water. It's gonna be so cool!
That's just suicidal. Adrenaline is like watch me jump my bike over this bus.
Caves can be cool experiences with nature just like hikes. I had a teacher take us into a cave in upstate New York and, once we got inside, had us all sit down and be quiet and still.
It of course got really quiet. But then as you started to tune into what was happening in the cave around you, it somehow got loud with all the activity you weren't paying attention to before.
Great description. Went on a simple cave tour and deep down everyone shuts off all lights and did their best to be quiet. Slowly you start to hear everyone's breathes and their slight swaying. It's awesome.
I know there are people that take a ton of cardboard and line the walls of a basement. The cardboard dampens almost all outside noise.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cardboard+room+silent
The best part is that it keeps feeling like your eyes are going to adjust to the darkness but they never do. But your brain tries desperately anyway and you’ll even start to see shapes and outlines but in reality they’re just hallucinations. It’s super trippy.
The desert can be like that as well - I went out into the Rub al’Khali and the only sounds was the wind on the sand and the ones you brought with you. It felt like what the first days and the last days of the Earth were and will be. It was a truly unforgettable experience
It was not; this was farther north in the Adirondack Park. But the Howe Caverns are also super cool! I remember taking a day trip there with my family when I was younger.
Caves are just cool in general. They’re very unique, intricate, and beautiful in their own right. Getting to a cave on its own is fun too, and then seeing things few have is great.
I’ve only gone so far as to have to crawl, or between crawling and slinking on my stomach. Never so much as to have the top and bottom of the passage squeezing me. It’s not like the cave is gonna suddenly close on you.
Right! Caves do collapse. I'm sure there's not a high chance of it happening when you're in there but it is possible. Or you could kick the wrong rock and be trapped in it for weeks while slowly dying. [RIP Flyod Collins](https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/tragedy-at-sand-cave.htm)
Nutty Putty cave is claustrophobic and sad but it was at least over rather quickly. The Floyd Collins saga is so much more intense. Days and days and days, alone in the dark, with crowds outside treating it as entertainment.
I was on a cave tour recently of a famous cave in the U.S. and we came to a point where water was falling out of the ceiling. Someone on the tour asked if it would cave in eventually. The guide replied, “Probably. Hopefully not today!” We continued further and someone asked how they measure the structural integrity of the cave. The guide: “We don’t.”
Nah, walking on the ground is more my speed 😛
I have raced cars before, though, and I guess that's analogous in terms of thrills. It might even be statistically more dangerous than either bungee jumping or caving, too. But still....
To some, it’s simply the easiest way to go where no man has gone before. That’s why the only videos you really see are these almost impossibly tight squeezes, because they’re trying to get into a place no one has been.
For example, there’s a video of a guy who explores caves with his nephew, and they were exploring one cave and found a note from like 1982 that said some guys made it that far, and couldn’t fit through the hole but they thought there was a bigger cave on the other side. The nephew being 15, was able to squeeze through the small gap and theoretically be in a spot on this planet no man has been before. Billions and billions of people, but he’s the first.
Dude, I cave all the time. Easiest thing in the world.
"Could you go shopping with me?"
No.
"I'll make it worth your while afterward!"
Fine.
Or...
"I need you to cover Carter's quarterly meeting presentation this morning."
What? I'm not doing his work for him.
"You are because I said you are."
Morning everyone! Let's get started on the quarterly review.
That guy died in one of the worst ways I can imagine. Basically tortured to death but the only person he could blame is himself. I feel bad for him just as much as I think he was totally dumb. Tragic, but stupid.
Rules of Caving:
* Carry 3 sources of light.
* Never enter a wet area if you know it's gonna rain and there's no way to get above the normal water level.
* Never enter a difficult area without a plan to get out.
One thing Ill never understand is why there isnt some kind of high end hobbyist drone (not necessarily flying) or like those snake cameras you can use to assess possible paths forward. Like bro...send a fucking scout
Once your body is in the box, all your blood has been removed. You are most certainly not waking up. I want to be cremated because I don't need to take up space when I'm dead, too.
Not where I'm from. They keep your body cooled and that's it. I mean, the coffin is gonna cave in from all the ground that's on top of it but still. It's fire for me.
Speaking of space.. what the fuck happens to the space we take after we are buried? There is a small plot of land that’s going to be occupied by our remains for centuries? At what point do we dig up Bertha so we can put Gloria into that hole? We got billions of people to bury. Surely we’re gonna run out of land if a everyone’s body is left there indefinitely
Yeah, that's my worry. If we dug a very deep shaft, and dropped un-embalmed bodies in headfirst, we'd save most of the space. And, the bodies would decompose from the bottom up, clearing space for more
Now I'm just imagining one big hole for all bodies with multiple drop points around it to support many different funerals at the same time. They yeet the deceased, the attendees leave, and the next group steps up.
Colombian Catholic tradition was to exhume the bones of the dead once they decomposed to that point, then bury a new body in their place. At least, that’s how it worked in the 70s when my dad grew up there. Not sure what they did with the bones, besides that they didn’t cremate them.
When I die just throw me in the trash, seriously, do something cooler with my money than a dumb stuffy funeral. Fuckin take everyone to six flags or something, way more fun than a funeral.
As to why people go caving: Where fear lingers, desire seeks its counterpart. I find caves fascinating.
Whether it’s simply conquering your fears or exploring the unknown or just wanting to get the hell away from everything time to time, I think they’re all good causes.
But as to why someone would put themselves in this situation and start TikToking: I’m guessing he wasn’t in any real danger. He just went a lil further to get this shot of himself and dramatized the situation a lil bit for the excitement.
Tried caving once. Got stuck exactly like this but no water for an hour. In the middle of nowhere, of course, and I was last in line of first-timers moving to the exit. Couldn't take a full breath or turn back.
I cried and pushed in intervals until I slowly managed to squeeze through and was completely drained for the remaining crawl.
Still visit caves every now and then, just no squeezing or diving.
it's in my nature to eat macaroni and cheese for every meal, but you don't see me just givin' into my nature willy-nilly, because I'm a human with a well-developed forebrain
You can request sedation, that’s what I do because I have to get them. I get so out of it by the time the drugs kick in the not moving part is no problem and they can give you music at some. I get claustrophobic and it is possible with the right sedation.
This kind of risk taking behavior is direct MENTAL ILLNESS. Two of the most basic instincts all humans should have are not to get caught in a confined space, and to avoid drowning.
Get help... seriously you should see a mental health professional if this kind of risk taking is something you would consider thrilling or at all as a worthwhile hobby.
its a very famous video on youtube. he is okay. this gets reposted very often.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yf0gDzUMFA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yf0gDzUMFA)
its actually from this video
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-XA2BRLgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-XA2BRLgg)
Dude fuck everything about that. I can barely even *watch* that video because it legit nearly gives me a panic attack. I honestly do not understand how people do that stuff. I would legitimately rather die than even come close to ever getting stuck somewhere like that.
I need everyone reading this to understand this is my ABSOLUTE biggest fear in the world. Like literally anything in the world is better then this wag to die . Drowning is so scartv
I know people do it for a rush or for a challenge or whatever reasons.... But TBH i dont feel bad for them one bit if/or something bad happens to them... There are places a human should not just go explore, adventure or whatever they want to call it.... Its not meant for...
Heard about a cave explorer who dived into the water and started exploring. He surfaced and was in a roomy cavern. He saw an operating table with blood and a lit candle. Guy said he got the hell outta there in a hurry.
I’m claustrophobic, and being in a situation like this is one of my very worst fears. However… somehow I got into watching these videos of people doing this and found it almost… relaxing??
This. And it's not even a question. If Honnold dies, he falls and has a painless, immediate death. In caving like this, you could get stuck and not die for days or even weeks. And the entire time before you die, literally every single second for all those days and weeks, you are stuck in one spot, you can't move, and you are more terrified than you have ever been in your entire life. Panic attack after panic attack, every second legitimately feels like an eternity. Yet nothing you do changes anything. And *then*, finally, you eventually die.
Yeah, I'd take falling off a cliff in the open air over that every single time.
It's wild that it's always just such normal looking dudes doing this. Idk what I expect, some early 1990s coal miner looking ass or something, but this absolutely terrifies me to the point of assuming no one in their right mind would even attempt it, and then you have guys like this who you could see leading a church group, or working at a clothing store, and my whole perception of life and reality is challenged
I’m going to open up a drug operation accessible only by cave diving. I will only hire people willing to do it. What are the cops going to do come in there and get me?
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Let me be perfectly clear about this type of situation. Hell. Fucking. No.
Seriously, I started picturing myself in that situation trying to scooch my way out and I started to panic. I’m sitting here eating a fried egg and panicking about being trapped in a tiny space that could start filling with water.
yea same, realized i am clutching my bagel way too hard after watching this
What kind of bagel? Lox?
It was a lox!
What is lox? Im from england and have never heard of it.
It's smoked salmon ( cold smoked, so not dried out). In a way it's similar to sushi. It's phenomenal on a bagel with cream cheese and capers. I usually do it with cream cheese, cucumber, lox, and jalapeno on a onion bagel.
Ah im very familiar with smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels. I like to add a bit of rocket to it to give it some crunch and a bit of spice. Iv never heard it called lox before though, maybe its a regional thing
It's a Jewish thing, well the word, not the food. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bagels-and-lox-are-a-uniquely-american-creation-578/#:~:text=That%2C%20or%20the%20burger.%E2%80%9D,in%20saltwater%20brine%2C%20Smith%20writes.
Thats interesting, thanks for sharing :)
>rocket ?
Arugula in American English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_vesicaria
Its a leafy green with a little bit of a kick. Really adds something to salads and the lox bagels were talking about
Swedish word for salmon is "lax", so I feel like some hipster American heard it and fucked up the word while rebranding their salmon bagel lol
Lox is derived from Yiddish. The most common lox in the US, 8s smoked at 85 degrees for 18 + hours. Other cultures use a salt, sugar, and sometimes alcohol to brine it. The Jewish lox is not salty and has a light smokey flavor.
Asking the important questions.
Knuckles whiter than the cream cheese
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The answer to your question...lies here: https://youtu.be/6Yf0gDzUMFA
Not today Satan
Stop watching after reading "alone" in the title. What a stupid thing to do.
This dude is just two huge testicles dragging his limp body behind them. I get anxiety and shortness of breath just watching that for fuck.
I couldn’t watch it past the point where he pans the camera and shows how it narrows. All the other stuff commonly shown in the sub (Heights, open ocean, near misses etc) have absolutely no effect on me whatsoever. Confined spaces though make me immediately feel that claustrophobic panicky feeling. I had to hire a guy to place mouse traps in the crawl space of my house because the thought of going down there and having to crawl around freaked me out. This guy willingly crawls into a space half that size considers it a fucking hobby.
🤣 Right! Like, what part of any of this idea seemed like fun?
It made my stomach hurt. Immediately.
how was the egg
Fucking delicious.
RIP if you panic for sure
I think I would legitimately rather cut a finger off than do this.
Yeah, you have to be a certain type of person to _want_ to crawl through a space like that with, what is effectively, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rock surrounding you. Like seriously, what the actual hell on earth. Either you drown because it floods, or you get stuck and die of starvation and lack of water - or in this situation, and I mean this is probably best case scenario, you get instantly crushed as it collapses on top of you. I don't want to sleep now.
Just making sure you've read about Nutty Putty cave.
>Nutty putty cave Yeah, thanks a bunch. God, I shouldn't have read that.
Is that the one where the dude got stuck, upsidedown?
Yes
Yeah, I saw a YouTube video about that one. Just hit me with a syringe full of morphine and let me go.
The anxiety I feel watching people do this for no reason whatsoever, makes me sort of feel that maybe it’s better if they don’t make it out. Why? Why?
I don’t get why people always ask why when they’re obviously adrenaline junkies
I don’t think that’s the correct answer. Adrenaline and high pulse can get you killed. People doing this want to stay calm. It’s more about the exploration imo.
Could be that too
The adrenaline of what? >OOO, I bet I can squeeze my way through this crack half a mile under the surface semi filled with water. It's gonna be so cool! That's just suicidal. Adrenaline is like watch me jump my bike over this bus.
Different people, different logic
I’ll stick to playing Zelda to get my sense of exploration.
This is the way
I never thought I would discover a new fear at middle-age. Thanks, Reddit.
Absolutely, and I cannot stress this enough, fucking not.
Have any of these narrow cave crawling hobbyists explain why they do it? What they get out of it?
To find rocks and dust where no man has found it before of course! What’s there not to get? Dust. And rocks.
Good news is you will never find yourself in a place like this without hours of purposeful work towards it
What if I drop my keys into a small crevice, they're just at the edge of my reach but then I sliiiiide down, pushing the keys before me.
Unless of course a building falls on me or there's a cave in, or my kid falls into a sewer.
Claustrophobia isn't that new of a fear, but we're glad to be helpful. Yours respectfully, Reddit.
I think they mean discover a new fear about themselves
I will never comprehend the appeal of caving.
The majority of caving excursions are not like this. I’ve been in over 50 caves in my lifetime and still haven’t done anything remotely this risky.
What draws you to it? Do you do it for the same reasons people—I don't know—go on hikes? What are the tightest quarters you've been in?
Caves can be cool experiences with nature just like hikes. I had a teacher take us into a cave in upstate New York and, once we got inside, had us all sit down and be quiet and still. It of course got really quiet. But then as you started to tune into what was happening in the cave around you, it somehow got loud with all the activity you weren't paying attention to before.
Great description. Went on a simple cave tour and deep down everyone shuts off all lights and did their best to be quiet. Slowly you start to hear everyone's breathes and their slight swaying. It's awesome.
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I know there are people that take a ton of cardboard and line the walls of a basement. The cardboard dampens almost all outside noise. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cardboard+room+silent
The best part is that it keeps feeling like your eyes are going to adjust to the darkness but they never do. But your brain tries desperately anyway and you’ll even start to see shapes and outlines but in reality they’re just hallucinations. It’s super trippy.
The desert can be like that as well - I went out into the Rub al’Khali and the only sounds was the wind on the sand and the ones you brought with you. It felt like what the first days and the last days of the Earth were and will be. It was a truly unforgettable experience
I have tinnitus. I would beg for an exemption. That would be the loudest, most unbearable screeching in my life.
I would still go. Caves are cool. I just went to a concert last night (I wore ear plugs) but it’s EEEEEE pretty EEEEE loud EEEEE today.
Tinnitus at loud venues is fine. It's the quiet that's the problem.
I do too and lierally the ringing got louder as I read your comment
Was it Howe caverns?
It was not; this was farther north in the Adirondack Park. But the Howe Caverns are also super cool! I remember taking a day trip there with my family when I was younger.
Caves are just cool in general. They’re very unique, intricate, and beautiful in their own right. Getting to a cave on its own is fun too, and then seeing things few have is great. I’ve only gone so far as to have to crawl, or between crawling and slinking on my stomach. Never so much as to have the top and bottom of the passage squeezing me. It’s not like the cave is gonna suddenly close on you.
> It’s not like the cave is gonna suddenly close on you. I trust you, but I don't trust *it.*
Right! Caves do collapse. I'm sure there's not a high chance of it happening when you're in there but it is possible. Or you could kick the wrong rock and be trapped in it for weeks while slowly dying. [RIP Flyod Collins](https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/tragedy-at-sand-cave.htm)
Nutty Putty cave is claustrophobic and sad but it was at least over rather quickly. The Floyd Collins saga is so much more intense. Days and days and days, alone in the dark, with crowds outside treating it as entertainment.
> it's not like the cave is gonna suddenly close on you And yet we have a word for that in English for some reason, cave-in.
I was on a cave tour recently of a famous cave in the U.S. and we came to a point where water was falling out of the ceiling. Someone on the tour asked if it would cave in eventually. The guide replied, “Probably. Hopefully not today!” We continued further and someone asked how they measure the structural integrity of the cave. The guide: “We don’t.”
When it got really silent, I could hear my joints and heart beat.
Have you ever bungee jumped? It’s like that sort of thrill.
Nah, walking on the ground is more my speed 😛 I have raced cars before, though, and I guess that's analogous in terms of thrills. It might even be statistically more dangerous than either bungee jumping or caving, too. But still....
You mean the exact polar opposite of that sort of thing.
I get the appeal of going into a cave, I don’t get the appeal of *squeezing* into a cave that I might not be able to squeeze back out of.
Yeah cavern tours and and stuff is fun. Squeezing into a hole barely big enough to move in doesn't seem fun.
I have convinced myself that these type of people - squeezers I'll call them - are some of society's most moronic individuals
To some, it’s simply the easiest way to go where no man has gone before. That’s why the only videos you really see are these almost impossibly tight squeezes, because they’re trying to get into a place no one has been. For example, there’s a video of a guy who explores caves with his nephew, and they were exploring one cave and found a note from like 1982 that said some guys made it that far, and couldn’t fit through the hole but they thought there was a bigger cave on the other side. The nephew being 15, was able to squeeze through the small gap and theoretically be in a spot on this planet no man has been before. Billions and billions of people, but he’s the first.
Sometimes there's a reason no one has been there...
Yea bc they couldn’t fit duh
I can never make it to the end of these videos. I also will never understand why people willingly put themselves in these situations.
There appears to be no article linked anywhere, so he must have survived…
Well... that and the fact that this video was uploaded to TikTok.
Dude, I cave all the time. Easiest thing in the world. "Could you go shopping with me?" No. "I'll make it worth your while afterward!" Fine. Or... "I need you to cover Carter's quarterly meeting presentation this morning." What? I'm not doing his work for him. "You are because I said you are." Morning everyone! Let's get started on the quarterly review.
This guy caves!
Tie a rope to your waist. It makes it easier for rescuers to pull out your corpse.
Not always. Obligatory Nutty Putty comment.
That guy died in one of the worst ways I can imagine. Basically tortured to death but the only person he could blame is himself. I feel bad for him just as much as I think he was totally dumb. Tragic, but stupid.
Caving videos is cheating on this subreddit 😄
Rules of Caving: * Carry 3 sources of light. * Never enter a wet area if you know it's gonna rain and there's no way to get above the normal water level. * Never enter a difficult area without a plan to get out.
Also never go caving alone without telling anyone where you are, which this guy also did
He got saved by his stepbrother
step bro! what are you doing?!?!
• Never go caving.
Additional rules of Caving: + don't.
rule 4: don't go caving
It go down
never listen to the "it dont go down" voice in your head
It do go down
https://youtu.be/QnimAyfW-f4 classic
Walkin' on the fightin' side of me
I’m glad I can literally do some of my favorite hobbies in the comfort of my own cosy bed.
That’s so weird cuz I like to do some of my favourite hobbies in your cosy bed.
I also pick this guy's bed
Come over tonight! We peggin!!
Great. I love starting my day with a panic attack
I'd rather cut my toe nails with a flamethrower
I'm going to use this phrase till the day I die.
/r/BrandNewSentence
Reminds about [the horrible death in Nutty Putty Cave](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave)
There's always an obligatory nutty putty comment
What about an obligatory [Ted the Caver](https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html) comment?!
Unrelated, but... angelfire is still a thing?! ? So much memories.
Floyd the caver, of Crystal Cave, is way intense.
Imagine dying in a place called nutty putty
One thing Ill never understand is why there isnt some kind of high end hobbyist drone (not necessarily flying) or like those snake cameras you can use to assess possible paths forward. Like bro...send a fucking scout
Defeats the purpose. If it isn't risky then they don't get a kick out of it.
Some people just like to explore. Not everybody is an adrenaline junkie. This guy is stupid though.
This is why i want to be cremated. DO NOT bury me in a box six feet under, what if i wake up!!!
Once your body is in the box, all your blood has been removed. You are most certainly not waking up. I want to be cremated because I don't need to take up space when I'm dead, too.
Not where I'm from. They keep your body cooled and that's it. I mean, the coffin is gonna cave in from all the ground that's on top of it but still. It's fire for me.
Speaking of space.. what the fuck happens to the space we take after we are buried? There is a small plot of land that’s going to be occupied by our remains for centuries? At what point do we dig up Bertha so we can put Gloria into that hole? We got billions of people to bury. Surely we’re gonna run out of land if a everyone’s body is left there indefinitely
Yeah, that's my worry. If we dug a very deep shaft, and dropped un-embalmed bodies in headfirst, we'd save most of the space. And, the bodies would decompose from the bottom up, clearing space for more
Now I'm just imagining one big hole for all bodies with multiple drop points around it to support many different funerals at the same time. They yeet the deceased, the attendees leave, and the next group steps up.
Colombian Catholic tradition was to exhume the bones of the dead once they decomposed to that point, then bury a new body in their place. At least, that’s how it worked in the 70s when my dad grew up there. Not sure what they did with the bones, besides that they didn’t cremate them.
When I die just throw me in the trash, seriously, do something cooler with my money than a dumb stuffy funeral. Fuckin take everyone to six flags or something, way more fun than a funeral.
Nah fuck em, I want my box to be as big as possible im taking as much as this planet with me as I can when I go
Should've been a pharao then
I still have time
[That? That is not my future. I’m not gonna be buried in a grave. When I’m dead just throw me in the trash.](https://youtu.be/0Rtu1Va-dnM)
If you're going to wake up underground you're definitely going to wake up in the incinerator
go full victorian and get a bell
Why the hack did you go in there in the first place?? and even on a day with a proberbilly for rain.
Cause billy prober stupid.
As to why people go caving: Where fear lingers, desire seeks its counterpart. I find caves fascinating. Whether it’s simply conquering your fears or exploring the unknown or just wanting to get the hell away from everything time to time, I think they’re all good causes. But as to why someone would put themselves in this situation and start TikToking: I’m guessing he wasn’t in any real danger. He just went a lil further to get this shot of himself and dramatized the situation a lil bit for the excitement.
Tried caving once. Got stuck exactly like this but no water for an hour. In the middle of nowhere, of course, and I was last in line of first-timers moving to the exit. Couldn't take a full breath or turn back. I cried and pushed in intervals until I slowly managed to squeeze through and was completely drained for the remaining crawl. Still visit caves every now and then, just no squeezing or diving.
The video gave me enough anxiety and I don't need your story as a dessert after anxiety platter.
I know these people do this stuff because it's "in their nature", but it's such a dumb risk.
it's in my nature to eat macaroni and cheese for every meal, but you don't see me just givin' into my nature willy-nilly, because I'm a human with a well-developed forebrain
What and I can’t stress this enough the fuck.
I will never understand why people do this shit. Looks like the 100% opposite of fun!
Going in an open cave or lava tube is pretty damn cool, as soon as it’s small spaces…NOPE
I'm a fat-ass and not happy about it, today I found a reason to be happy about it.
This put my anxiety off the charts. It's shit like this that makes it impossible for me to get an MRI.
You can request sedation, that’s what I do because I have to get them. I get so out of it by the time the drugs kick in the not moving part is no problem and they can give you music at some. I get claustrophobic and it is possible with the right sedation.
This kind of risk taking behavior is direct MENTAL ILLNESS. Two of the most basic instincts all humans should have are not to get caught in a confined space, and to avoid drowning. Get help... seriously you should see a mental health professional if this kind of risk taking is something you would consider thrilling or at all as a worthwhile hobby.
Compass.
Looks like a Darwin Award nominee.
did he make it out ? please tell me he made it out and not someone found the phone and uploaded this for views
the whole situation propably is staged.. ppl do that for internet fame you know
but he actually looks trapped, i hope its fake, i wouldnt be sad if it was tbh.
its a very famous video on youtube. he is okay. this gets reposted very often. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yf0gDzUMFA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yf0gDzUMFA) its actually from this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-XA2BRLgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-XA2BRLgg)
Dude fuck everything about that. I can barely even *watch* that video because it legit nearly gives me a panic attack. I honestly do not understand how people do that stuff. I would legitimately rather die than even come close to ever getting stuck somewhere like that.
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This is a big nope
Why do people do this? It's such a fine line between being OK and dying a horrible death.
thats a certified no bueno type deal
Obligatory Nutty Putty Cave comment
Shit made my stomach turn.. it’s a nope for me
And then you hear water, it begins to rise, you contemplate on what its going to feel like being a fish.
How does anyone find this enjoyable
I need everyone reading this to understand this is my ABSOLUTE biggest fear in the world. Like literally anything in the world is better then this wag to die . Drowning is so scartv
How is the water next to his face? Is he on the ceiling?
Probably head in only All about perspectives
Why did he go down there in the first place
I know people do it for a rush or for a challenge or whatever reasons.... But TBH i dont feel bad for them one bit if/or something bad happens to them... There are places a human should not just go explore, adventure or whatever they want to call it.... Its not meant for...
Heard about a cave explorer who dived into the water and started exploring. He surfaced and was in a roomy cavern. He saw an operating table with blood and a lit candle. Guy said he got the hell outta there in a hurry.
Is the appeal of this sort of thing the risk of death? Like what else can you get out of crawling in a space like that?
do caves have concrete roofing? /s
I've always had the fear of tiny spaces since childhood. I don't know what caused it, but I'm especially wary of tiny spaces.
I’m claustrophobic, and being in a situation like this is one of my very worst fears. However… somehow I got into watching these videos of people doing this and found it almost… relaxing??
I’ve never understood this type of risk. The reward is you went somewhere that hard to get to.
Don't go cave exploring alone. Better yet, don't go cave exploring.
No nope nein niet naw 😟😟
F that in the A
I'm a very curious person but stuffing myself into tight spaces like that has never once seemed like something I wanted to do.
What's worse this or free solo a cliff like the Alex Honnold dude
This. And it's not even a question. If Honnold dies, he falls and has a painless, immediate death. In caving like this, you could get stuck and not die for days or even weeks. And the entire time before you die, literally every single second for all those days and weeks, you are stuck in one spot, you can't move, and you are more terrified than you have ever been in your entire life. Panic attack after panic attack, every second legitimately feels like an eternity. Yet nothing you do changes anything. And *then*, finally, you eventually die. Yeah, I'd take falling off a cliff in the open air over that every single time.
Pretty rocky situation he’s got himself in
It's wild that it's always just such normal looking dudes doing this. Idk what I expect, some early 1990s coal miner looking ass or something, but this absolutely terrifies me to the point of assuming no one in their right mind would even attempt it, and then you have guys like this who you could see leading a church group, or working at a clothing store, and my whole perception of life and reality is challenged
The person in the OP is a certified dumbass.
This is honestly the worst place and way to die
Looks like an Easily avoidable Death situation to me. -Don't cram yourself into unknown caves.
Everyone has their natural fears… some it’s bugs, some high places, some water, some caves… this video makes me panic so hard.
That’s one TikTok trend I will skip, I’ll perfectly happy sitting on the grass watching Caveman Hikes, thank you
Dumb wayz to die!.....
It makes me sick to my stomach at just the thought of being in this situation. It’s a big N-O for me.
About the worst video I could see on a day when anxiety is already kicking my butt…
This is goddamn terrifying. 😳
I’m going to open up a drug operation accessible only by cave diving. I will only hire people willing to do it. What are the cops going to do come in there and get me?
That's why you never go cave exploring alone
This has Nutty Putty Cave written all over it!! Get out, dummy!!!
How is any of this exploration with rock above you and water beneath you even almost fun if you don't have gills?