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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Cave divers are notorious for going into small holes without any plan for removing themselves from there
Cave diving/exploring is an inherently dangerous sport. Many caves require tight squeezes— some as small as 16cm wide. Being a tight squeeze poses a challenge for both divers and possible rescuers.
Tight underwater caves also frequently have silt and sediment at the bottom, which, when kicked up by the slightest movement, can block someone’s vision completely for hours on end.
There is also danger in the bends— or coming up too fast. Divers take decompression stops which can take many hours in order to not have side effects or death when they get out of the water.
Divers also need the mental acuity and fortitude in order to not panic (which often results in death) in hours of intense, stressful situations. Nobody is immune— not even Navy SEALs, many of which have died during rescues. In the Thai cave rescue of a grade school sports club, a Navy SEAL died in the process of rescuing the kids.
In short: Lately on youtube a lot of videos with cave diving incicents started popping up, there is a lot of them and they are very popular.
All of them consist of people going into incredibly tight cave spaces where it seem to be barely humanly possible to squeeze in, sometimes specifically closed because you can get stuck there, sometimes without propper preparation and then getting stuck. It became quite a meme.
Read that as cave spiders and thought it was a minecraft meme
I guess the meme jokes about cave divers having the insane tendency of shoving themselves into any unexplored hole without thinking how they’re gonna come back out.
Nutty Putty flashback
Cave explorers/divers be like:
https://youtu.be/PiCXeSOZIAs?si=QyECMNxr3258YFHC
https://youtube.com/shorts/eVqZr-nZ7zc?si=3t7GY7pJsnRkWhhd
https://youtube.com/shorts/-lQVyrGj5o0?si=wA53Bp0VrUEeqQb8
https://youtube.com/shorts/4iNBe_99Ilc?si=mXSFeEXV-fYGs9-i
https://www.brandonkowallis.com/2024/02/the-nutty-putty-cave-rescue-the-death-of-john-jones-one-rescuers-perspective/
https://youtu.be/8VtvoYQzmuk?si=eTtuKWtehMgXiAra
“The best thing about cave diving/cave exploring is that you don’t have to do it” – a wise man
Here’s a video from Lessons in Meme Culture explaining it:
https://youtu.be/PiCXeSOZIAs?si=CHjRaRk3SuolAabQ
You don’t understand the “crawling into a small hole and dying” grindset.
Mocking cave divers for throwing away their lives cramming themselves into an utterly mundane hole containing nothing of interest
Ahhh diver in the wall now you’re talkin my language
Cave divers are memetically hyperfixated with entering tiny openings and spelunking into dark, enclosed spaces so they can die in caving accidents.
cave diving is axly *diving* in a (flooded) cave, the lroper term is cave exploring/ spelunking
All I watch of an evening is caving / cave diving deaths , gained myself a new fear
Watching youtube videos about cave diving incidents
Gives me horror
Remember you forgot?
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