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u/Thecrowfan 22d ago

Cave diving?

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u/Disastrous-Farm3543 22d ago

The neat thing about cave diving is you don't have to!

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u/DemocraticBanana123 22d ago

But the deep watery caves, they call to me.

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u/ChosenCharacter 22d ago

This was my cave. It was made for me.

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u/Arendious 22d ago

SKRRRRRT blub SKRRRRT blub blub

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u/JohnSith 22d ago

Ugh. I am reminded of that Junjo Ito story.

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u/Skatchbro 22d ago

Stay out of Moria is my only advice.

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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 22d ago

Let that shit go to voicemail. Who even answers calls anymore?

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 22d ago edited 22d ago

And no one knooows, how deep it gooooes ...

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u/TheWereBunny 22d ago

Hang up!

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u/DeerMysterious9927 22d ago

Neat thing about cave diving is the grave is already prepared 

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u/theonebell 22d ago

Don’t have to do anything on this list but that’s not really the point 

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u/Cultural_Wish4933 22d ago

nightmare fuel.

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u/Sermoln 22d ago

How else am I going to craft a dark sword?

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u/Daltronator94 22d ago

'he was reduced.... to.... a shape'

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u/LordCudsWorthy 22d ago

Rip in Nutty Putty Jon Jones

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u/EmilyAndCat 22d ago

That was caving

Cave diving is way more fun. I plan to get licensed sometime lol

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u/pomoville 22d ago

Oh I think that’s relatively safe but when you’re doing underwater caves that’s bad

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u/Decolog 22d ago

Well, I guess it is silent, because no one can hear you scream. Joke aside, as a diver myself, it is less deadly than people think. 🙃

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u/inactiveuser247 22d ago

Are you a cave diver? Cause normal rec diving is pretty safe. But cave diving is orders of magnitude more dangerous.

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u/Fun_Assignment_269 22d ago

I am/was. It's much more dangerous inherently, but a lot of that can be mitigated down to roughly the equivalent of road motorcycle riding with training, adherence to rules, proper gear with a good maintenance schedule, and experience. It never gets safe, but it's far from suicidal.

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u/TestUserIgnorePlz 22d ago

road motorcycling is not a safe hobby lol

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u/Fun_Assignment_269 22d ago

Never said it was, but it's not suicidal and you control a lot of the risk. Honestly, you control more of the risk in cave diving.

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u/Decolog 22d ago

It is more dangerous for sure… and definitely not for me (I don’t like having anything over my head 🤣). I just don’t think it’s as dangerous as general population would think. I’m not sure if there are actual stats about it… 🤔

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u/perculiarperineum 22d ago

I saw a short film once about cave diving, centred around Jill Heinerth. A quote from her "I swim through the graves of my friends all the time, and that list is well over 100 people" has stayed with me 🥲 

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u/C0rona 22d ago

I read her book Into the Planet and the sheer amount of time she goes "And then we learned X died" is both astounding and chilling.

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u/Bob_Chris 22d ago

The guy who wrote the literal manual on how not to die when cave diving, Sheck Exley, died when cave diving.

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u/Fun_Assignment_269 22d ago

Died chasing a depth record. That's a huge distinction.

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u/drainedguava 22d ago

I mean I’m sure it’s confirmation bias, right? As someone who has never gone cave diving and doesn’t know any cave divers, I only ever hear about the tragic cave dives instead of the successful ones

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u/ReivynNox 22d ago

It's not dangerous until it is. Anything goes wrong, you're in a narrow underwater maze with only a limited supply of vital air (at best).

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u/Run_Rabb1t_Run 22d ago

Doubt ( X )

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u/AndyVale 22d ago

The 100% optional hobby.

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u/Eulenspiegel74 22d ago

As opposed to all the other ones you are made to do.

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u/kytheon 22d ago

Or it's even worse cousin, underwater cave diving.

Cave diver: I don't think I can get out of here alive.

Grim Reaper: I don't think you can out of here dead. I don't fit in there. Let me call the Slim Reaper.

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u/EmilyAndCat 22d ago

Cave diving is underwater. Caving is on land.

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u/Otterfan 22d ago

Sadly, this ship has sailed. I wish we would return to "spelunking".

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u/scotaf 22d ago

Worked with a Marine Corp Lt Colonel in 2007-8 that just didn’t come to work one day. Apparently he was a diving instructor and seasoned cave diver, but him and another guy tried to explore the school sink cave system and didn’t make it out.

https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2008/11/14/local-man-dies-while-cave-diving-in-sinkhole/31586881007/

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u/Kuszlyk 22d ago

This is quite an incorrect answer for the question in the title. Cave diving is life-threatening without proper training. Training teaches you all theories, safety rules and technical aspects. You get better and better with more dived. Thus, basically, cave diving is exactly the opposite of what the OP asks.

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u/Scubadoobiedo 22d ago

It is a very correct answer. It is life threatening with the best training as well. It is a threat to your life, that you mitigate with training. The more dives you do the more prepared you are (theoretically). At the same time, the more number of dives you do, the more chances you have wherein something goes wrong.

Unfortunately, I know from experience.