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Cave diving is one of those things that I am happy to only experience vicariously through the stories of others.

• guyzero 9y ago
  I couldn't make it very far into the article. I enjoy open-water diving but cave diving induces way too much claustrophobia.
• narrator 9y ago
  Or you can watch Youtube vids like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone.
  • javiramos 9y ago
    Not claustrophobic safe.
  • omnimus 9y ago
    Why would anyone do that?!
    • lgas 9y ago
      They enjoy it.
    • awalton 9y ago
      Adrenaline is a powerful endogenous drug...
  • dotancohen 9y ago
    > This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone. Off topic, but here is a viable contender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMHjDqHL_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMHjDqHL_Y There are videos of higher towers, but I believe that this video is the most thoroughly annotated one.
    • mfoy_ 9y ago
      Wow... they must really have to time these service trips with the weather... You'd be so exposed... Also surprising is the apparent lack of safety... the carabiners / clips just loosely hang around the occasional rung and are often completely unattached... I wouldn't trust that if he fell the clip would hold him.
    • knodi123 9y ago
      That video gives me physical discomfort in my balls. I wonder what the evolutionary explanation for that symptom is?!
    • freeflight 9y ago
      That's a real classic! A not as high, but way more reckless version is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc Guaranteed to induce acrophobia.
      • arcticfox 9y ago
        I really hope that guy practiced repressing the instinct to lunge at a bad throw when juggling. Extremely rare occurrence with such a simple pattern, but ooph! I feel like any of Alex Honnold's ropeless climbs deserves a link too, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phl82D57P58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phl82D57P58
      • qb45 9y ago
        > A not as high, but way more reckless version I expected to see these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2-l3aWCTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2-l3aWCTA
  • 77pt77 9y ago
    To anyone who suffers from claustrophobia: skip this one :)
• klipt 9y ago
  If I got an urge to map caves as a hobby ... I'd rather design robots to do it. At least that way failures aren't fatal.
  • benzofuran 9y ago
    That's Bill Stone's entire reason for existing these days - check these out: http://stoneaerospace.com/ http://stoneaerospace.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEPTHX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEPTHX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENDURANCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENDURANCE
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