That’s why I always declined those job offers. Divers stuck on a leaking water jam too.
Unless you know exactly what you’re doing, those are death traps.
Source: I was a NAUI Instructor Trainer and I did train “some deep deep diving” but, not caves and I never weng near a Dam.
Sunnydaysomeday on
Jesus. Cave diving is terrifying.
Regular diving is amazing.
Guns_and_Tea on
TLDR/ELI5 how these deaths happen?
NarrMaster on
The coolest thing about cave diving is I never have to do it.
tommytraddles on
There comes a point when you’re just feeding divers to the caves.
Villag3Idiot on
You’re swimming in pitch black chambers needing to be very careful not to disturb the soil. If you do, sand gets mixed in the water, you can’t see anything and have to basically be still waiting for the dirt to settle back down before you continue on.
You also need to stay calm because if you don’t, you burn though more oxygen.
All this time, you’re watching your oxygen, the amount of life you have left, slowly trickle away.
If you get lost, your lights goes out, something happens to your oxygen, etc, you’re very likely dead. You won’t slowly succumb to oxygen loss though. One moment you’ll be breathing and the next sucking in water, flail about trying to breathe, and drown.
dachshundie on
Leave the bodies.
Why should other people lose their lives for this?
Comes with the territory if you’re going to do risky nonsense.
TinyMonsterBigGrowl on
Sacrificing living people for bodies? Yeah that’s smart
hgihmi on
At some point in the future a YouTube video auto plays in the middle of the night and it’s a cartoon style graphic and voiceover will talk about this event and how dangerous cave diving is, while playing ominous background music.
R.I.P to the rescue diver you didn’t need to risk your life for this.
Boring_Photo_537 on
This might be a dumb question but could you take like a bag of coagulant with you in case the sediment gets disturbed or would that just not work at all?
seanseansean92 on
Just wait it out we gonna have robot ai diver soon
misfitgarden on
As much as I loved diving even at night, it was a no to caves.
LegitimateCounter434 on
A hero nonetheless.
Standard-Contest-949 on
See if you go and do something that dangerous I don’t think it’s ok to put someone else in danger.
GISP on
Shows how it can wrong for even the best trained and professionals.
EvryArtstIsACannibal on
I’ve seen enough episodes of Scary Interesting to know this is a terrible idea.
chancefruit on
This is too sad. 4 beautiful people lost (and 2 others I guess not pictured).
No-Common-1801 on
How could the people he was searching for be alive?
sharipep on
BBC is paywalled now?!?
capacochella on
Just sad. No persons life should have been lost recovering corpses. Especially after reading those that were diving did in bad weather conditions and weren’t suppose to be in those damn caves.
Ch1Guy on
Something is really wrong with this story.
“Five Italians died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of around 50m (164ft) on Thursday. ”
You dont use normal diving air below around 150 feet…. let alone in a cave. Below 150 feet is specialty diving with extra tanks, long decompression stops it can take hours to come back up.
Normal dive tanks are oxygen and nitrogen. When you get below 150 feet you have to start using exotic gasses like helium.
“They recovered a body in a cave at 197 feet deep.”
Now its just getting absurd…. diving at 200 feet? Wtf were these people doing? Let alone being in a cave?
Recreational divers do not go to 197 feet. You are at about 7 atmospheres of pressure. To fill your lungs it takes ~ 7x the air.
SilvyValeMead on
Dumb question maybe but why not use ROVs?
Egbezi on
This is just sad. Please stop the search for these people. We can’t loose anymore lives. RIP
bloomdecay on
Can’t wait to see who ends up dying trying to retrieve his remains.
EverSoInfinite on
> Shareef said recreational scuba divers were only allowed to dive up to a depth of 30m and it was not clear why the Italians went into a cave that’s **60m under water**.
Too deep, Too dark, far too dangerous.
Antique_Sky_8834 on
F caves man.. I still don’t understand fantasy of diving there .. there are lot of docs which tells it’s not cool…
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That’s why I always declined those job offers. Divers stuck on a leaking water jam too.
Unless you know exactly what you’re doing, those are death traps.
Source: I was a NAUI Instructor Trainer and I did train “some deep deep diving” but, not caves and I never weng near a Dam.
Jesus. Cave diving is terrifying.
Regular diving is amazing.
TLDR/ELI5 how these deaths happen?
The coolest thing about cave diving is I never have to do it.
There comes a point when you’re just feeding divers to the caves.
You’re swimming in pitch black chambers needing to be very careful not to disturb the soil. If you do, sand gets mixed in the water, you can’t see anything and have to basically be still waiting for the dirt to settle back down before you continue on.
You also need to stay calm because if you don’t, you burn though more oxygen.
All this time, you’re watching your oxygen, the amount of life you have left, slowly trickle away.
If you get lost, your lights goes out, something happens to your oxygen, etc, you’re very likely dead. You won’t slowly succumb to oxygen loss though. One moment you’ll be breathing and the next sucking in water, flail about trying to breathe, and drown.
Leave the bodies.
Why should other people lose their lives for this?
Comes with the territory if you’re going to do risky nonsense.
Sacrificing living people for bodies? Yeah that’s smart
At some point in the future a YouTube video auto plays in the middle of the night and it’s a cartoon style graphic and voiceover will talk about this event and how dangerous cave diving is, while playing ominous background music.
R.I.P to the rescue diver you didn’t need to risk your life for this.
This might be a dumb question but could you take like a bag of coagulant with you in case the sediment gets disturbed or would that just not work at all?
Just wait it out we gonna have robot ai diver soon
As much as I loved diving even at night, it was a no to caves.
A hero nonetheless.
See if you go and do something that dangerous I don’t think it’s ok to put someone else in danger.
Shows how it can wrong for even the best trained and professionals.
I’ve seen enough episodes of Scary Interesting to know this is a terrible idea.
This is too sad. 4 beautiful people lost (and 2 others I guess not pictured).
How could the people he was searching for be alive?
BBC is paywalled now?!?
Just sad. No persons life should have been lost recovering corpses. Especially after reading those that were diving did in bad weather conditions and weren’t suppose to be in those damn caves.
Something is really wrong with this story.
“Five Italians died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of around 50m (164ft) on Thursday. ”
You dont use normal diving air below around 150 feet…. let alone in a cave. Below 150 feet is specialty diving with extra tanks, long decompression stops it can take hours to come back up.
Normal dive tanks are oxygen and nitrogen. When you get below 150 feet you have to start using exotic gasses like helium.
“They recovered a body in a cave at 197 feet deep.”
Now its just getting absurd…. diving at 200 feet? Wtf were these people doing? Let alone being in a cave?
Recreational divers do not go to 197 feet. You are at about 7 atmospheres of pressure. To fill your lungs it takes ~ 7x the air.
Dumb question maybe but why not use ROVs?
This is just sad. Please stop the search for these people. We can’t loose anymore lives. RIP
Can’t wait to see who ends up dying trying to retrieve his remains.
> Shareef said recreational scuba divers were only allowed to dive up to a depth of 30m and it was not clear why the Italians went into a cave that’s **60m under water**.
Too deep, Too dark, far too dangerous.
F caves man.. I still don’t understand fantasy of diving there .. there are lot of docs which tells it’s not cool…