re: Caver trapped forever - The Nutty Putty Tragedy

This guy was a med student that crawled head first into a tiny crevice, he probably would have endorsed the vaccine too.

I regret reading this thread but my morbid curiosity got the better of me. Fuuuuck.

Caves like this freak me out.

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Been a firefighter nearly 30 years

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I was one in my younger days and never realized how claustrophobic I was until a training day we had one time that dealt with a "simulated collapse". They had us doing a blind right hand search and 4 or 5 guys take two mattresses wrapped in chainlink fence and lay it on top of you and hop on and you're supposed to get to your radio and call for help and activate you're emergency beacon. Not fun.

Then it got jacked up to a 10 on the panic scale with confined space rescue training. Jeez. I just wanted to walk into the flames and spray it with the hose. Didn't really think about going into culverts and shite with a bunch of ropes when figuring out what I wanted to do for work as a kid.

As one who did a lot of spelunking when young, I can visualize the tightness he experienced.

I have done a 150 yard crawl in a space barely large enough for a slender person to get through. It can be almost terrifying. I made that crawl 6 times in my lifetime, 3 each direction. I never could get it out of my mind when underneath all that rock, "what if an earthquake hits?" It was an almost obsessive thought while under that enormous slab.

My brother was with a group that had a member fall into a crevasse. He survived with a broken leg, but it was a 27 hour rescue. It didn't take that long to secure and remove him from the crevasse once the rescue team reached him. Getting the wire basket he was strapped in through the cave and to the surface was another story.

Spelunking is a lot of fun, but it is a very dangerous sport. A cave rescue is probably the most difficult scenario out there. One slip or misstep can mean disaster.

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In high school, 3 of us went to the Blue Grotto in Florida and dove with scuba 120' down to the cave entrance.

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I’ve read a few books about the guys that dove some of those underground underwater caves in Florida. That’s a whole lot of nope for me.

Friggin nuts man.

Holy shite, that is disturbing. I made it a couple of minutes and had to turn that off….

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Now, Lost Sea I could probably do. That was fantastic.

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I freaked out as a kid over Lost Sea to the point that Pops stayed outside with me and went back in with another group of ours. I've never liked holes in the ground my entire life. I did eventually go years later and it was cool, but it took some doing on my part.