FACT: 90% of divers give up just before finding something really neat in an underwater cave
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those that find it don't come back because it's just so neat
Ooo a cool rock! Worth it!! dies
Aside from some fish which evolved with no eyes (which is kind of cool), the only other thing you are likely to find down there is a dead body that everyone decided was too dangerous to recover.
I've played Subnautica. You don't need to warn me about cave diving.
I dunno, the open water can be a bit worrisome too.
That’s a fact. Salvaging those ship wrecks gave me such anxiety. I died a few times by getting lost.
There's nothing in this cave worth dying for
That's precisely what someone would say if there's stuff worth dying for in there.
Theres a good podcasts by stuff you should know on this. A scary thought to me is about kicking up sediment, causing zero visibility and they cant even see their hand in front of their goggles
I've done training dives in man made quarries under zero visibility conditions. There's no way in hell I'd go into an actual cave under those conditions.
It was bad enough when you'd almost run into a purposefully placed sculpture or bathtub in that flooded quarry.
You had to do a scavenger hunt to find stuff to pass your training and it was super disorienting.
I don't know if PADI still does that sort of thing or if it was unique to my training center conditions but it was wild.
I'll stick to open water, thank you very much.
Oh those sorts of training conditions absolutely still exist. I got my rescue diving certification in an old quarry much like what you said. Really helps make you appreciate the conditions when out in the Caribbean and you have >100 ft of visibility in every direction.
Oh, I totally agree with you. It's literally like night and day. You just transported me from those murky depths to those absolutely crystal clear Caribbean waters... So many fun memories in every condition.
New fear unlocked
This feels like a metaphor for mistakes I've made
You took it further than I would. I'd listen to the sign these days, but there was absolutely a time that, that sign would have just been a challenge.
Edit: for you grammar nerds. Do I need that comma? It seems like it should be there, but it also seems superfluous at the same time.
With the "that, that" the comma helps, but you actually don't even need the second that for that sentence to make grammatical sense.
I feel like if they replaced the first "that" with "when" it would read smoother. "...a time when that sign"
You son of a bitch, I'm in!
i'm confused as to what qualifies as internet funeral now
Yeah, this place has quickly diluted into "literally any image with text in it."
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There’s nothing in this cave worth dying for
There’s nothing outside it to live for. Show me the damn cave
109 billion people have died outside of underwater caves. I'll take my chances.
If those spelunkers could read, they'd be very upset.
Yeah but that's for other people, not me.
I believe this is one of the caves at Ginnie Springs. If so, I know a guy who died in there. Cave diving is no joke.
https://youtu.be/or92IMcLoIc?feature=shared
I know it's Rogan but the guy telling the story about what he went through makes you want to stay on dry land.
The best part about underwater cave diving is that you don't have to go!
You have to ignore many different warnings to even get to the area youre not supposed to be in! First and foremost, humans by design do not breathe water, therefore we have no reason to be under water.
Farther is the correct word, and has been confused with further for so long (over a hundred years), that they both mean exactly the same thing nowadays, so not sure why people are taking issues with it.
Unless I'm missing something?
I don't see any comments of people taking issue with it. But words do mean things, and some people like to speak with precision.
Words apparently don't mean things anymore, Merriam Webster added a new definition for "literally" this year
Merriam Webster is a descriptive dictionary. They don't tell you how words "should" be used, they say how words are used.
Using literally as an intensifier goes back literal centuries. The earliest written citation we've found of that usage goes back to 1769. It can be found everywhere from Dickens to Brontë.
It's also hardly the first word to go on a similar path towards becoming an intensifier. Very originally meant "genuine", really meant "in fact", absolutely meant "completely", etc.
But who complains about sentences like "I was really bored to death", or "I was absolutely rooted to the ground"? Does saying "it's very cold" just mean "it is a genuine fact that it is cold"?
Literally still means what it means. You can't use literally to mean "yellow", for example. People aren't generally confused when they come across the word.
Language is a complex and nuanced subject, but it often helps to remember that "all words are made up."
Idioms and hyperbole are both used extensively in language to imbue feeling to statements, most people would roll their eyes at someone who interjects with a "there's no actual evidence that boredom can be lethal" or a "I highly doubt that vendor would accept human limbs as payment," but somehow lots of people stan for "literal" snobbery.
If it makes you feel any better, you can think of it as a homophone from the same root: "in a manner related to literature," speaking to artistic yet inexact use of words in a sentence.
Am I the only one for whom prefacing a statement with "FACT", makes said statement less credible?
What’s so dangerous that it was able to kill instructors? Sediment and visibility?
It's dark so requires torches (more than one as a backup) and very easy to get disoriented. You can easily get lost and run out of air. Risk of being blinded by silt even with a torch, leading to more risk of disoriented and getting lost. If anything goes wrong such as equipment malfunction then you don't have the option of going to the surface as you do in open water (albeit with the risk of a bend). It's often cramped with places to get stuck, snag equipment, or get tangled in your guideline. There are sharp rocks you can hit your head on.
Basically yes. Once you go inside a cave like this, it gets dark real fast. You can't tell where "up" is and you can't find your way back. So these people often drown or suffocate.
In cave dive training, you learn how not to do that.
Correct, with no visibility it's very hard to orient yourself
I reckon it was all the water that killed them
They've convinced me. I'm going in.
Well, I'm convinced.