I’ve seen too many memes as of late. I really thought this would have been Saddam Hussein without reading this first.
Heres one to add to your collection. Its a bit old but still kinda amusing.
Fun Fact: They never got him out, they sealed the cave with his body still there. Nutty Putty Cave is his grave.
Could you point to the fun part? 🙁
The fun part is that it’s called the Nutty Putty cave.
Just wanna insert a little word,
Nutty Putty🫸Grave🫷Cave
There, perf. 👌
Yeah they say that in the article… Which was linked
If anyone wants some nightmare fuel, here’s what happened.
I searched for an watched a YouTube video about it…and I regret it immensely.
I can’t wait for someone in 2077 to make a documentary about this by plagiarizing an article that goes hour by hour.
I have a feeling that someone will later make a 4-hour-long video essay calling them out for it
Okay this is clearly referencing something. Who is it
Hbomberguy called out Internet Historian for blatant plagiarism.
Internet Historian of all people? Well damn :(
Yeah, I was really disappointed to learn it too. It was blatant – the entire script is ripped from a well-written article about the experience, verbatim except for a few words swapped around.
To his credit, this was the only found bit of plagiarism on his channel. The other channels he calls out are wayyyy worse. But it’s blatant word for word plagiarism.
That wouldn’t be very nova, choom.
My god, my stomach hurts and my chest feels tight just from reading that. I went to Cave of the winds in Colorado a few years back and they had a smaller tunnel that you could crawl through to get a sense of what it was like. It was probably like 20ft long and big enough for the pretty hefty guide to get through. I got up to it and noped the fuck out.
So sad they were so close to saving him.
I know, if that rock hadn’t crumbled, he would probably have survived.
Brave people push boundaries so that less brave people can read things in books.
Edit: I assume the people downvoting this obvious truth think I’m calling them cowards. I assure you I will be right there with you curled up reading books about caving. Fuck all that.
Brave people push boundaries, stupid people purposely shove their entire bodies into a hole and die
Seriously. He could’ve shone a flashlight down there and seen it was a death trap before going down
I think a boroscope is an important tool he didn’t use
I think he was already fucked. His only option was to keep going in hopes a section lay ahead big enough for him to turn around and start crawling out
Brave people push boundaries, stupid people purposely shove their entire bodies into a hole and
dieexpect to live
Well, yes, but you can be brave and take precautions at the same time. He wouldn’t have died if he’d followed proper caving guidelines.
The question posed is “Why do it”
“Because it’s there,” I assume. But if you’re gonna have a potentially dangerous hobby, you should at least be sure to take the necessary precautions before risking your life.
Like having a good life insurance policy that pays out even if you die doing something stupid? And maybe having a fake tooth filled with cyanide so you can go out quickly instead of dying of exposure?
People who do this kinda stuff never think they’re actually going to die.
Book title: How I fucked around.
Epilogue:?
This isnt brave or pushing boundaries.
This is just an imbecile commiting suicide with extra steps.
And yet, here you are reading about it, reading others’ thoughts about it, and engaged in a conversation about it.
Think of it like a book club.
Cause the internet loves idiots who get what they deserve for being stupid
has nothing to do with bravery or boundaries.
I remember seeing a video of a dude exploring a cave and he was crawling through some narrow ass space tighter than under my bed. Why would one want to do this??? What if it was a dead end? How tf are you gonna turn around? Crawl backwards? I just can’t with any of this
You will never reap the rewards of being trapped under water for hours with that kind of attitude.
The Eternal Reward, that is.
I’ve seen such video. The dude struggled to move because he just barely fit in enough to still be able to breathe. There was water in there, and he said he has to return because it’s starting to fill with water.
Fill with water? Nope. Nope. Why would I go in such space.
Edit: Maybe this could be it: https://youtu.be/6Yf0gDzUMFA
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Funny thing is I’m terrified of spelunking, but actively working towards being certified for cave diving.
Fill it with water and I’m interested!
I think part of it is that I can’t get stuck as easily with scuba gear strapped on my back, and I don’t have to worry about gravity fucking me over.
And I’ll never go anywhere that requires squeezing my fat ass through a crack.
I can relate. I did some cave diving in Mexico, and it was incredible. Having said that, there are some locations I would dive again, and some I definitely would not.
Those guys got blessed by the algorithm or something I recognize the channel and video. Don’t know why YouTube decided I would be interested in spelunking but their videos are pretty entertaining at least. Personally I’ll take heights over tight spaces anyday.
How about this, there’s people that do this underwater. They take the tank off their back, push it out ahead of them. If they get stuck, they don’t have 27 hours to try and figure their shit out, they have a couple hours at best
That’s where I draw the line.
Normal spelunking, minimal vertical work, the occasional belly crawl no smaller than a manhole. That’s actually a pretty good time. You get wet, dirty, have a few laughs with your friends, and then shake it off with some beers back at the campsite. No need to go aggressive with ridiculously tight crawls and/or 100’s of feet of vertical work, etc.
Cave diving? Let’s take an activity where it’s very easy to loose track of time, and add SCUBA which requires time management down to the minute for your health and survival. Nevermind getting lost, disoriented, or wedged underwater somewhere. I get that this is very intrepid stuff, and the very distant corners of cave systems are being explored this way. But it’s a big no for me; the risk does not justify the reward, IMO.
SCUBA is even worse because any movement kicks up sediment, so that visibility quickly turns to nil. Cave diving has a very, very high mortality rate; BASE jumping is safer.
at least in a water cave you die with a predictable speed.
Not to mention unexpected currents that can either smack you against nearby rocks or sweep you further downward in an uncontrolled manner.
I used to go spelunking… I honestly can’t answer you. Kinda neat but mostly just being in the total dark in a tiny space surrounded by rocks.
On the plus side i can basically fall asleep in an MRI
I don’t think the main problem to fall sleep in an MRI is the small space.
True. They are very noisy but the nurses all seem initially concerned with claustrophobia.
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Don’t forget the spiders
I mean, the moment you see a passage that barely fits a child and you think to yourself “Hey, I should get in there!”, you’re just aiming to be the year’s winner of the Darwin Awards.
It’s what I think on the rare occasions I get a look at my wife’s genitalia.
🤣
I love to watch caving videos: much better for someone younger and foolhardier than me to actually do the climbing and clambering with their gopros. I’ll continue to enjoy things like air, vast open spaces, and vicarious experiences.
People take a lot of safety precautions now, reasonably, but every once in a while the cavers on YT will do something just stupid and it baffles me. “The water’s ice cold and up to my nostrils, but I really want to see where this tunnel goes! Going to turn my lamp and camera off for now to save battery, see you in a few hours!”
I love caving videos as well but would absolutely not do it. I like these guys videos: ActionAdventureTwins
This video is wild, they drop down like a 600’ pit in a cave. https://youtu.be/eULp72P0pNM?si=mi6Wc3_aMBC7Xrdy
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Im a fan as well, their videos are excellent and they often do trips with other cavers, so you can find other small channels through them if people want more “cave content.”
What trips me out is towards the end of each video where they’ll be like, “Alright, Brad is heading back so I’m going to wrap up too. We’ve been in the cave for 12 hours, probably a good time to head up.” 8+ hours of squeezing through cold, dark passages sounds like actual nightmares I’ve had!
This hole… it was made for him
Drrrr drrr
Thank you for making me claustrophobic in my biggest room.
Well then you dont wanna hear bout my recurring dream about being burried alive unable to move my arm enough to protect my face from the rats gnawing at me
So specific it might be a past life/death experience.
Oh now why did you have to make that an option😭
Well. If it was and you are alive now. Perhaps this will help you let go and the dream will eventually stop happening.
This photo gave me the heebee geebees… I’m left asking why and do I have claustrophobia now as a result?
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therapist?
Two ways to find out!
I’m claustrophobic and shouldn’t have seen this post before sleeping…
God I hate the idea of that being your last days… Why do people just purposely wander deep into caves?
Who knows? Some people would crawl up their own colon if they could.
Adventure log day 2: It has become increasingly dark, hot, and humid… And it smells like ass!
I know lots of people who crawl up their own ass
Honestly, they’re pretty neat. I’ve gone through tours of Mammoth Caves that require waivers, and they strongly recommend that you not take that tour if any part of you has a circumference of more than 42", because you won’t fit. There was a spot that was about 12" high, and 72-ish wide that you had to crawl through that took a sharp right; you had to take your helmet off to get through. But then you get out into this enormous cavern filled with rock formations that are seen by less 100 people/year.
But if I didn’t know that that crack was passable, that I’d be able to get through or get back out again? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.
Maybe it’s because I live in a place with a lot of earthquakes, but I think I’m good off putting my head between rocks that could slightly shift and obliterate me.
But I’m glad you enjoy it!
The Appalachian foothills in Kentucky are pretty geologically dead; there aren’t any fault lines anywhere close by. It’s about as safe as any cave network can be.
I do recommend going to that are and taking some tours, especially in the middle of summer where you can see the inversion layer where the air goes from being 95F to 60F. Even the fully-accessible tours that don’t go through any tight spaces are pretty cool.
I don’t mind going inside caves, I just won’t be squishing myself into any crevices that require me to take off my safety gear to get through.
Granted, if it shifts your safety gear likely won’t do shit but still. I’ll stay in the bit of the cave where I can stand, or at least crouch/crawl.
I like snuggling up with a good book
its fun
Fun.
Nutty Putty Cave jesus who the hell names these caves?
Nutty putty people
SADDAM HUSSEIN
Guy should have brought a fan
He most likely pissed himself on his face.
Who hasn’t been waterboarded with their own piss?
Ah but what if a nervous stomach (from being trapped upside down in the dark near death) provided some extra liquid for the water boarding
Clothes probably soaked most of it up.
Most. But not all
He was in there so damn tight I doubt much if any liquid made it to his face. If he were that loose he could have just gotten out.
Doesn’t have to be a 360 snug fit. Jagged rock can still keep you in place. In fact look at the picture.
Piss, er, finds a way
What I don’t get is neither path is very deep, so shining a light would reveal both dead ends. Can’t think of a worse way to go tho. And the fear and panic realizing you’re doomed.
He likely got to a point where he couldn’t turn around so he decided to just push forward and hope there’s an exit.
