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I'm going to give kudos to people who, trapped unexpectedly underground by flood waters, with limited food, for three days managed not to completely freak out a
by archgoon 8y ago
I'm going to give kudos to people who, trapped unexpectedly underground by flood waters, with limited food, for three days managed not to completely freak out and just kept doing the original exploration they set out to do.
- robohoe 8y agoI can only imagine the sort of terror most people would feel being trapped hundreds of feet under ground. This reminds me of the miners and especially the Chilean minders who were trapped underground for 69 days. There is something to say about people who willingly spend hours or days in caves and mine shafts. It's certainly not for the faint.
- Mister_X 8y agoThat's the calm Caver mentality, without it one could perish during unanticipated events. Years ago, 8 of my friends had just entered a cave for a multi hour exploration/survey trip when an accidentally kicked boulder fell, blocking all of them inside, leaving myself and two Park Service seasonal employees outside. I told them to go on with their survey and I'd have the passage dug open within the 5 hours we allotted. They calmly went off to do their survey, I set to work digging them out and just about 5 hours later I had the passage open and they arrived on scheduled quite happy I'd dug them out. They all told me they knew I'd have them dug out by the time they returned. In July we're meeting in Sequoia National Park for the 30th anny of the discovery of that cave.