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• #27752
I think he had carked it before hand...
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• #27753
Read Blind Descent by James M Tabor. Fantastic book about deep cave exploration. Fascinating and horrific in equal measure.
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• #27754
This poor chap was stuck in a drain at road level. Died of hypothermia.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/11/weather.world?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other -
• #27755
Nope. Nopenopenopenopenoooooo.
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• #27756
Woke the baby laughing. Thanks a lot.
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• #27757
I'm not sure ripping her feet off and leaving the rest of her in the hole is the best move.
Sounds like a legendary night to me, how many dwarves are we talking about here?
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• #27758
And fuck caves, why the fuck would you even? 😱
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• #27759
One at a time. I'm not THAT greedy.
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• #27760
Because, no one else has been there...
I used to explore under houses and in storm drains but never really had any caves anywhere I could get into. Not sure any are big enough now anyway. Maybe I could just walk along the Grand Canyon. Widen it a bit.
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• #27761
It's a big fat nope from me. No offence, etc.
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• #27762
Few years ago we went climbing in a quarry somewhere in Somerset, there were caves underneath, not cute ones, rough damp ones. A guy slipped on the ladder on his way into the cave and broke his hip or pelvis. Either way, despite being right at the entrance it took nearly 4hrs to get him out. Poor fucker.
It’s the cave divers who are properly unhinged. Apparently there’s a psychological condition called ‘The Rapture’, where perfectly healthy divers will suddenly take off all their equipment and just swim off into the abyss. Happens worryingly frequently apparently.
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• #27764
Likely due to oxygen toxicity. The water column at +16 meters in open water exerts enough pressure to impact the way gasses exchange at a celular level in our bodies. Moving too quickly on the way up risks The Bends. Moving around too much on the way down, or going too deep without the right kit and skills, risks oxygen (toxicity) or nitrogen (narcosis) [corrected terms].
There’s several ‘blue hole’ dive spots where this happens more frequently. Divers lose most frame of reference for depth except their pressure gauge, which they ignore, then don’t even realise they aren’t thinking straight anymore and all they want to do is get just a little deeper to see that thing over there. Sadly once they’re at a certain depth any attempt to stop them or save them physically would likely get the rescuers killed by the same issues.
Cave divers have it even worse because the tide can add height to the water column, and on uncharted, tight caves they sometimes don’t have much choice of going in.
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• #27765
This gave me panic attacks when I read i t 20 years ago. You'll love it.
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• #27766
that's a tough read.
I was crying by the end of it.I watched 'The Deepest Breath' on Netflix a while back, about free divers (an extra level of insanity) with a tragic outcome.
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• #27767
Did it a few times when I was younger, we are pretty close to the mendips and there are a few good caving spots. The thought of it now fills me with dread, definitely and age thing because I used to rock climb and now suffer vertigo at heights I would have not bothered with as a teenager.
One particular part of Goat's Church cave always freaked me out a little, it was a thin 'tube' that led to a chamber that only a couple of people could crouch in.
for most visitors, in a thin phreatic tube known as 'The Drainpipe' or 'The Bunny Run'. This is a long tight wriggle through 30 ft (9 m) of passageway that is only practically navigable whilst travelling forwards, something that is of relevance due to the Drainpipe terminating in a small blind-ending boulder chamber; meeting another caver halfway is not a pleasant experience.
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• #27768
I'm even getting a bit panicky reading your post, I'm deffo not a cave guy. 😱
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• #27769
Strong nope from me too... not claustrophobic as such, but the idea of being below ground and hemmed in gives me the shivers even sitting at my desk. I want nothing to do with it.
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• #27770
All this spelunking gives me the willies. There's a bit in the film The Descent (2005) that really captures the "hell no" aspect of caving.
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• #27771
The locals don't think much of the new takeaway.
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• #27772
I went caving once.
It was enough.
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• #27773
Never shat in a takeaway box though.
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• #27774
I have shat in a takeaway box, once was also enough. I have never been caving.
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• #27775
How about if you pledge to go caving then I'll pledge to shit in a takeaway box?
I feel sick every time I read about that. It really speaks to a primal fear.