Completely optional activities

"extremely optional activities" lmao

Fr, it is wild how many people treat rescue teams like DLC for their bad decisions. You wanna do hardcore survival mode hobbies, cool, but own the risk and the bill when it goes sideways.

Cave diving disasters are a guilty pleasure of mine. One thing I hear very very often is that cave divers have an unspoken agreement of "self-preservation." Every diver is responsible for their own survival and never sacrifice your own life to try and save a panicked diver. There are some crazy cave diving stories out there.

If people want to go down in underwater caves for whatever reason, I think they should have the freedom to do that. However, when it goes predictably wrong, you can’t expect someone else to come save your ass.

I love the format of using his videod head crop as a pointer; 10/10! 🤣

LOVE how this starts with an emphasis on EXTREMELY OPTIONAL activities.

At the beginning I thought he was trying to recreate the album cover from Funkadelic's Maggot Brain.

So this is not fully correct apparently. There were a handful of incidents at this cave, the one with the most fatalities only saw two of five divers die. The remaining three got decompression sickness, and the country shut down the cave altogether. A team of 19 diving buddies of those first two guys took it upon themselves to retrieve the bodies, which they did without incident.

So two guys go in, then three follow them after the sediment dies down. A long way in, when they’re kinda close to the end of the dive, home #2 got caught in the line and panicked. Homie #1 tried to help and gave him a fresh cylinder of gas to breathe, but #2 accidentally got a mouthful of water while changing masks and died right there. Homie #1 fucks off to the cave interior where there’s a crack he can climb out of.

Then the B team got there. First one along the line sees the dead dude and figured fuck it, lemme squeeze past. He makes it through and out the other end but gets the bends because he was running out of air and had to surface too fast. It took too long to figure out how to get past dead homie #2. When the fourth hommie shows up to see the dead guy, he panics and gets tangled and dies. Last homie peaces out and swam back to where they came from, which was a frozen river that they had to chip a hole into to get through in the first place. Well, surprise surprise, it froze over. He made it out after diving for 11 hours (it was supposed to be a 5 hour dive).

The three survivors also dove with the retrieval team, which is just fucking crazy.