@@mish375depends on the cave, if I can see what's around me like in Mexican cenotes, hell yeah. Absolutely beautiful But muddy zero vis caves with restrictions? Yeah I agree I have no desire to dive these. Wreck penetration on the other hand, is amazing.
Diving is pretty safe down to 100 feet or so. In an absolute worst case scenario, you'll still be able to reach the surface before you asphyxiate. You risk injury from holding your breath or the bends, but you'll probably live. You have a backup regulator, and if that fails you can grab someone else's backup to breathe off of their tank. So if you're diving with a buddy, a lot needs to go wrong for you to not have air. Cave diving, on the other hand, that can kill you dead no matter how deep you go :)
Oh, his tanks were mysteriously only half-full and his diving buddies decided to wait over 2 hours after the expected end of his dive to say something? I’m sure that’s just a tragic accident, nothing sus here
They were going to wait until the next day to look for him! Thank God for his girlfriend who immediately wasworried when she noticed the time yet hadn't heard from him.
@@TheTuttle99 Not like she knew that tho lmao. Should she just have thought "well he prolly dead so why bother" instead? It's good that she was worried when she hadn't heard from him, that's what you're supposed to be lol
I cannot imagine how terrified Bob was, probably thinking "someone is looking for me" when in reality they all, let him die alone. That's shameful, how could you call yourself someone's friend and know the danger they could be facing in a cave for more than 12x longer than the planned dive.
@Indigo00124 I joked in another thread that one of them probably wanted to bang his girlfriend, but the idea that none of them did and they all just sat around drinking Coors and not bothering is frankly more disturbing to me. I can understand lust and avarice, but that level of indifference is terrifying.
That first incident is suspicious as fuck. Dives "accidentally" with half-filled tanks, and his friends who knew he was missing just chose not to call emergency services? That's insanely suspect.
It's the last rule that really is an important one in my book. Maybe I'll compromise on the guide-rope length or how much air I have, buuuuut 'not being featured here' is definitely not an option!
Who is possibly ready to jump into a technical, challenging cave dive with an hours notice? Even if a rescue team is somewhere nearby, can they even fly there and put their gear on, let alone locate him, in time?
First guy was definitely murdered. He looks experienced by his age and the way his "friends" reacted to going back to get him a day later and not contacting the police, super sus.
Seriously! What better way to murder someone than to go diving in a cave that's famous for the mob dumping their murdered bodies in, under the guise of attempting to find a long-lost body of some random person, only for there to be a fatal "accident" that for some reason raises absolutely zero concern in the two other people who accompanied him. They brought a person to the murder-hole so they could murder them, did it in an insanely suspicious way (he went down with only half-filled tanks, how could none of those 3 have double-checked that they were full??), weren't even trying to act concerned once the authorities arrived, and then the police were like "I guess he must have made an oopsie and got all tangled up! Nothing more to look into here!"
@@tombingus3984what a weird guess lol. The girlfriend was the only person who expressed concern when he wasn’t back on time and sought out emergency services
Dude, that last one is terrifying. Stuck at the bottom of an underwater cave, just waiting to drown or suffocate while your own dry suit is squeezing you into a pulp.
I feel like if he had some sort of emergency button (that alerts people at the top), maybe he could have been saved? Or like, take 2 half tanks of argon instead of one big one? I'm always shaking my head at these stories. Surely there's ways they could improve things..
Cave systems should REALLY use the minecraft cavediving method. Have permanent reflector markers drilled into the walls so that the path to the nearest exit always has the white side of the markers illuminated, and the red side guides the path deeper into the cave system. You don’t even have to place them often, just often enough that it wouldn’t significantly impact a dive time if someone has to turn around between markers. I can’t imagine it would be too difficult to implement this, or expensive, and it would save lives and bring a ton of peace of mind. Not to mention make it WAY safer and easier to map out unexplored cave systems.
@@kiloyardstare Anything with a dead end would be easy: the red side of the reflector will always face away from the direction of a dead end (so you see red if you’re traveling towards the dead end, aka deeper into the cave), and the white side always away. As for the multiple entrances: again, have the white side of the reflectors visible while you’re traveling towards the _nearest_ (or easiest) exit. If you get lost, you might not come up to the surface where you expected to, but you will make it to the surface. A little above-ground confusion is a very small price to pay if it means you make it out.
Excellent idea, but you forgot 1 IMPORTANT thing. SILT, which is all the crap, crud that has settled. When it's kicked up, you can't even see your hand in front of you, let alone a reflector 3 feet away. I'd say guide wire is the best way. Hook yourself to it. Descend. If you need to go back, just turn around in the opposite direction.
When you think there couldn't possibly be any more cave disasters, Scary Interesting reminds us why we're wrong. This channel has given me about 1000 reasons why you'll never find my ass in a cave.
I've run out of air once. I did it on purpose in 2m/6ft of water just to see what would happen and to be prepared if it ever happened accidentally. Well... There's hardly any preparing for that. One moment I was breathing a lungful of air, the next I was sucking at nothing. Pushed up from the bottom, but it was hard to stay at the surface as I had negative buoyancy. Released my weight belt ready to dump it, but managed to pass it on to my mate waiting on the dock - and I was good. To have this happen in a cave would be absolutely terrifying. And deadly.
@@bandolierboy1908 It's like exhaling, covering your mouth and nose with your hand and trying your best to breathe while counting to, say, 20 - except underwater you don't know exactly when it'll happen and you'll need to surface or get to your buddy's spare mouthpiece to get rid of the "hand". Uncomfortable enough... So what I learned from my little experiment (aside from the instructors telling me), it really is absolutely important to get out with air to spare and not risk actually running out. Because the number of seconds without breathing, when exhaled, before you have to remove your hand, is the number of seconds that would separate you from drowning when diving.
You'd think going right instead of left would be easy, but one time I did a shipwreck diving certification. We went in a shipwreck only once but oh boy you don't realize how incredibly disorienting it is to navigate a 3D plane IRL with overhead obstacles. It's so much easier in a video game. We barely got inside for a couple feet and we'd have gotten lost if we hadn't a guiding line with us. In the end I got certified but I'm never using that wreck certification haha. Still diving in open water, though!
I appreciate your insight, but I rarely think I'm smarter or more dedicated than the people in these stories. In fact that's precisely why I don't see the point of doing it for pleasure. It seems like you make one perfectly understandable error and you're dead.
@@tamlandipper29 Heh, for even more terror... being 100% certain you're right side up isn't a given. :p Maybe you went the wrong way... because what should have been left wasn't.
The game Descent did a good job at tight spaces and could get you disoriented like that. There are ways to find your way out of 3d mazes, but not with the limitations of time and air that diving put on you, especially when you can lose your horizon orientation so easily. Aircraft pilots can even lose track of it without visual ques very easily. Our inner ear only works if we're attached to a solid surface to reference off off is why, so unless you have solid ground or a horizon to look at, things just drift.
I wish you many happy dives i hope you never end up a story like these stay safe. I can't swim ive nearly drowned 3 or 4 times over my 43 years and one accident was actually aired on t.v here in the UK on a programme called saving lives at sea you would think I would stay away from the water but my younger brother drowned and being next to the water relaxes me and i feel a little closer to my brother be careful guys when your near deep water it only takes a few seconds and you can lose your life be sensible 🏴💙👊👊👊✌
Came here to say i discovered your channel just one week ago and your content has enterer the depths of my nightmares. You have terrified me beyond what any scary movie could accomplish and in a weird way, I wanna thank you for that. As an avid swimmer and someone who is fascinated by caves, i can say without a shadow of a doubt that the threat of such activities is more real to me now and i will simply never put myself in any sort of situation ever again. I have made reckless decisions in the past that only in looking back i am made aware. Never again.
That's what I thought too. As horrible as sinking while in pain from the suit which is now like a boa constrictor & not being able to move or help oneself would be, at least if he just slipped into unconsciousness while experiencing nitrogen narcosis... which supposedly causes a drunken feeling & some euphoria... beats feeling the drowning!
If I get to a cave and I hear that music, I'm calmly B-lining for the exit immediately. It'll be a cold day in Hell before you fine me on one of these videos. Actually, you might see me in one of these videos... but I'll be the guy talking to the police sayin', "I told them niggaz not to go in! Best case scenario is a cave monster ripped them limb from limb. I done TOLD 'EM nothing good happens in caves!"
A lot of stories sadly never get published and also this guy has covered hundreds of cave diving disasters. Thank God it's getting harder to find them.
@@arielthepomboring. He needs to cover work accidents. Theres a ton of horrifying ones. I even saw some videos on the darkweb. Its horrifying how some people die
I think at this point I've watched every video you've posted, and i honestly can't get enough. For someone with claustrophobia and fear of drowning, I sure am obsessed with cave diving. Thanks for giving me a safe way to get a little thrill of fear every week!
Yup. More than likely all three went in but his 'friends' made sure his tank would run out of air before they were done. When he realized that he'd run out of air and tried to surface they held him in the water until he suffocated. I'm thinking they also tangled him in the debris to make it look like he got stuck by accident.
Absolutely. They didn't call emergency services when he didn't come back, they were going to return THE NEXT DAY for him. Not to mention the half-filled tanks...
There are a few "divers react" channels, sometimes they have unique perspectives that I (who has never done anything like this) would not think of. Goes both ways - sometimes they find an "accident" suspicious where I first saw nothing, and sometimes they present normal explanations for incidents that seem weird to me.. (dunno if anyone has done this exact one, but probably, is there anything not covered on YT lol)
Let's not forget this is a place KNOWN for dumping bodies.....when the 2nd diver didn't pass Bob on his way in nor see him (supposedly) that alone should of been enough for him to turn around and call authorities. IMO 🤷🏼♀️
When I watched videos like these I always wondered why people do these dangerous activities, yet when I visited my first cave earlier this year I found my answer, curiosity really is a killer.
I started climbing and omg it is my THING andevery once in awhile someone says something about risking my life and I'm like oh yeah I mean I guess technically... but there's so many things we do to make sure nothing goes wrong. Yes people can make mistakes and gear can fail, but if you're properly trained and doing your safety checks, probability is greatly on your side. So many of these awful stories are people who didn't know what they didn't know, and it killed them. How many stories are about well-trained, well-equipped people who respect the situation and stay within their limits?
Right?! Soooo happy to have my blanket, a cup of tea, my cat making biscuits on my leg and scary interesting videos to remind me why I don't do stuff like this
I agree. Some people might say we are cowards, but we are just thoughtful, reasonable, careful and aware. Without people like us, humanity would have already died out in accidents like these...
@@Jonniz2000 Ye, listen to 2 months ago and the video now. There is this static robotic and sound chipping in the new video that is clearly ai voice sampling.
Yay finally something from Europe! I keep watching these and I'm always excited to see our local caves being mentioned. Especially (unfortunately) Polish crews. It sounds wrong to be experiencing positive feelings about local tragedies, but there's not a lot of channels that decide to cover them so it's more about having access to a well made video that honours the tragedy and carries on a legacy of someone local. Thank you
I’m so used to the dates being late 60’s, 70’s or even earlier. Everytime I hear a cave disaster in “2017” or later from you I always get shocked…. Goes to show, you always have to be careful. Even with how far we’ve come and how much we’ve learned.
Cave diving always is dangerous. Modern technology and more advanced gas mixtures only INcrease, not decrease danger. When you can dive longer, deeper and farther, the risk of something going wrong only increases.
It's getting harder to get diving stories... because prospective divers are watching your videos and saying "Hell no... I'm gonna stay home and play Subnautica on my PS5"
Not trying to spark anything up but the first story sounds WAY too suspicious, did the police do any extension investigations on the death of the diver?
High chance I’d they did, they could not rule out human stupidity as a cause. Humans make dumb mistakes all the time, and the whole not reporting clearly can be explained as humans when confronted with stressful and traumatic events take a hefty wisdom penalty. So yeah it a case where Hanson razor makes things very confusing.
I'm sure you can branch out into other disasters and mysteries of history, like the Donner party incident, and I feel like people would still watch. The way you present - your storytelling, your voice quality, all the little details combine to make for a creepy atmosphere that's quite unique.
I’m a dry caver, I have cave diver friends. The amount of mistakes it’s easy to make and how hard it is to tell where you are in a cave makes cave diving completely not worth it to me. I know personally I’m not a detail oriented enough person to be a cave diver. One simple mistake or wrong turn that would be no big deal in a dry cave is so quickly fatal in a submerged cave. Good for them but not a risk I’m willing to take!
His friends didnt call emergency services? Just assumed he was gone and was like "yeah we will just go in ourselves and find him tomorrow" Some friends. He was expected to come out at 1:30pm . If it was 1:45pm i would have dialed immediatly
It almost sounded like a sabotage... The police should have investigated if one of the guys owed him something or would gain from him losing his life... "Hey Bobs girlfriend, Bob has enough air for 90 minutes, but we are coming back tomorrow..." ?😢
It does look like foulplay might have been involved with Bob's death. Unless there's a good explanation for why he went in with half full tanks, it sounds like either air was let out (deliberately or accidentally) or the dive shop failed to properly fill the tanks.
Your channel is so good, and you're so very smart for finding this niche and owning it. I am jealous, because I'm going to sub and watch it all lol. Props to you and your team, assuming there is a team.
About the second story. One more tragic thing was that when Team B turned around in order to go back, they were only around 20 feet or so from an exit to the cave. If they had continued a little further they would all be alive today.
@@birgittabirgersdatter808220 feet more after the 60 ft jump line the guy who scouted used. So 80 feet in total from where the line they were following ended as I recall.
@@joec4997yea that’s absolutely insane also his air tanks were half full that’s weird why would you wanna dive with only half full air tanks like I would want them bitches all the way full
Okay, no one apparently can use basic reasoning. If he breathed calmly he and ran out of air at 12:30 he would have had to have only half a tank. He was stuck at the bottom flailing and panicking so he used up his oxygen twice as fast. His friends suck but it was a tragic accident. There is no way the other diver would be able to tangle him up under water. It's just not realistic.
@@somethinginthenothing You forget that he was sent down with half a tank - there's really no way around that - and another guy went down there after the time that Bob would have already run out of air and drowned. Maybe that other guy then tangled Bob's corpse up in the wires, in order to make it look like it was an accidental drowning. So, it's possible that Bob's friends sent him down there with half a tank to drown, and then the one staged the scene afterwards.
To get Dive certified, you should have to watch every caving/diving post on this channel in a classroom setting. Also, all established caves should have a permanent placard system at any fork to denote how far away you are from any cave entrance, what direction you are going from any/all cave entrances. ALSO! Emergency air supplies attached to an emergency signal that notifies the local EMERGENCY services when accessed.
ALL OF THIS! Dude, seeing the map of the system on the second one is a horror story in itself. It's like trying to get out of a hedge maze with no air.
Exploring caves seems dangerous enough as is. Cave diving sounds like just a list of the most awful ways to go in the scaries environment. Just a big nope all around. It's crazy people do it willingly for no reason.
I thought the same. They were just going to come back the next day? Totally not worried at all? And likely had easy access to his gear right before the dive and the guys trust? Seems very sketchy
Would have liked you to discuss the first incident more. In particular the thing about the people with them not calling cops and just planning to come back the next day makes no sense. Also, is it normal to dive with half filled tanks? I'm not a diver but I can't imagine going without a full tank. I'd want to give myself as big a safety margin as possible.
That is also why I couldn't help but wonder if it was a murder attempt but he ended up dying by himself anyway... that would explain half full tanks and lack of 911 call earlier.
As a certified diver, no it is not normal to dive with half filled tanks. It's also a completely ridiculous idea to dive without a partner; literally the number one rule of dive safety is to never dive without a buddy. Bob was murdered and his two "friends" wanted him gone.
@Kingdok10 It was stupid and reckless for him to go alone as all practice states you never should. Hubris and a need to set records was what killed him. Even though he went alone, he was still actually prepared for the dive and had enough gas and air. He didn't attempt it with half tanks. That's where the kicker lies, also the fact that his group called the authorities right away instead of "yeah we will just show up on our own tomorrow". Or did you forget that part?
Always love your videos! Despite the intensity of the stories, the way they are told is very calming and relaxing. They're fascinating,impacting, and educational. Thank you for making these videos, i often watch them to relax, and the replay my favorates to help me fall asleep.
My friend, I gotta tell ya... not only are your stories terrifying as well as VERY interesting, and your narration is top-notch, that background music REALLY adds to the experience! Unlike some other UA-camrs' videos, the music isn't overpowering or distracting... and it's placement throughout the stories is so perfectly timed! And the choice of music is PERFECT! I can't explain it but just hearing it, before you even start speaking, immediately sends chills up my spine & like Pavlov's dog I've heard it & associated it with your videos so much that the second I hear it it puts me in the exactly right frame of mind to start getting heavily spooked before having heard any part of the story. It sets the tone to a tee! The music, story, & your narration of them is a formula that equals brilliant! ❤
Anybody else convinced a lot of straight up murders happen in these dives and are easily dismissed as accidents, or the guy "lost" his air tank, or got "disoriented" and drowned ... hmmmm, kinda sus
I get the appeal of skydiving, flying, hiking or other dangerous sports .. But underwater cave diving I just don't get. Sounds as fun as laying in a wet coffin.
Tons of people do it safely everyday across the world, but a few tragically die, often due to their own ignorant behavior. Sounds like a lot of other things, like driving on the highway.. Except way more people lose their lives doing that.
I believe something similar happened to the diver in training at Lake MacDonald in Montana. Her wetsuit squeezed her to death and caused her to sink uncontrollably.
Cave diving is absolutely insane. People saw that scuba diving and caving are two dangerous sports and then decided it would be fun to combine the two.
I dont know why i watch these, i have clausterphobia and im terrified of diving into open water. Yet i guess i enjoy the fear these videos give me. Thanks for a great video
When Bob & Dan didn't pass each other in the dive as they were scheduled to do; that's when alarm bells should've begun ringing. Instead, the attitude seems not to have been, "Where the hell is Bob..?" so much as, "Oh well, never mind, he's probably having a smoke; let's just carry on..."
I haven't gotten through all your videos yet, so my apologies if you've already done this topic, but do you think you'll ever cover some nuclear accidents? Your voice is very relaxing, and I enjoy having your videos on while I'm doing chores and stuff. Also, poor guys! I never had interest in diving, but after your videos, I know for sure I never will.
Everyone is pointing out how weird it is for Bob's friends and first responders to not make any rush to rescue Bob. However, it's worth noting that with diving like this, when a diver doesn't surface it's almost a 100% chance of being a body recovery than an actual rescue.
I just discovered your channel abt 10 days ago and I'm obsessed. Haven't really vebtured into this genre before but you are now my regular bedtime story before I zzzzzz 😊
I mean this in the kindest way possible, but it's a *good* think you're running out of cave dive disaster stories. That means we're learning our lessons on making it safer.
I would love for the channel ‘Dive Talk’ to do a reaction video - your retellings are amazing and you do a lot of work researching the material but it’s interesting for certified cave divers to discuss common misunderstandings about these dives in detail (way more than would be practical to cover for your episodes anyway). I love your work, thanks for another great video!
@@breakingbadest9772 I'm on board with your comment here, donating to the laziest content creators is mind blowing. I will donate to creative, thoughtful and well made content. But also... 20 bucks??? For this shit? I watch these, but it would be one of the last videos I would donate to. They're just about entertaining.
The nice thing about caving, diving, and cave diving, is that you don't have to do any of them. You _might_ have to be a miner, Navy diver, or murder victim, though.
If I had a quarter every time the dive support team sees that the diver should have surfaced by now but decide to wait an extra hour or two past that before doing anything...
That first story sounds like murder. Hey officer that diver has 90 min of air, we'll be back tomorrow. Sounds like they were just making certain he was dead. Police should've looked into who had something to gain from his death. As someone with hilariously horrible luck and even worse timing, I think I'll stay on land.
One of the best channel, great narration, great stories, love the ambiance with the soundtrack 👌 At toss between Scary Interesting and MrBallen for my favorite channel
Really can't get into MrBallen. He stretches things out sooooo much to extend the video length and then interrupts the stories with ads. I can see why he's popular but just doesn't work for me.
I saw some divers react to the Cenote story. They pointed out that navigation signs could just be put in popular caves, but divers deliberately don't do it. Which is basically an admission that they want to make it dangerous on purpose and it's about ego and thrillseeking. So yeah, whatever happens to them down there happens. I don't cheer their deaths but it's partially self-inflicted.
@@diegomorenaro I'm sorry, I meant that signs could be put in the caves showing the divers how to get out or find certain parts of the cave. I'll edit the post.
@@fafddzfaf I think leaving bodies and equipment when people die in places that are almost impossible to access is a worse defacement than some removable safety reflectors here and there. If you didn’t want to deface a natural location, you wouldn’t go there. Tourism is as much a defacement of a natural location as signs or anything else. If you really truly wanted to avoid any and all defacement of the space, you’d leave it alone entirely.
Im from Louisville and the Mammoth caves are MASSIVE, they have yearly Christmas light hanging and you literally DRIVE through it. Its hard to describe just how big it is.
It's the little details in the quality of the presentation that sets this channel above the others. For example the little skull animation at 15:26 does a little bounce, instead of simply rising and stopping. We notice these details bro!
My requirements for cave diving: 1. No cave diving. 2. Less than no cave diving. 3. Walking a nice hiking trail on land feeling the oxygen blowing through your hair.
The last story I felt really let down like “wow this just seems like a run-of-the-mill cave dive accident” but after watching it, boy was I wrong. That is truly horrifying
Thank you for your entertaining channel. Cave stories are my favourite. And thank you for not using an AI voice. It’s increasingly hard to find content created by humans.
I know nothing about diving, but i often watch videos like this. It's only recently that i discovered that dry suits can kill you by compressing your chest, in case there is not enough gas between the diver's body and the suit, and if the diver keeps descending (either on purpose, or accidentally).
I used to do ocean diving but we stopped over Covid when I started watching diving disaster videos - I have been in the water since…. I just can’t do it and I don’t miss it either
@@ashnicole6096 I feel like 'going into an unlit confusing space where you can't speak and can't breathe without time-limited equipment' is pretty high on the spectrum of dangerous things though
Well, here goes my anxiety. There's nothing like hearing a nightmare. People who get lost under water in a cave just freaks me out. The only thing more horrific is someone getting stuck under water or losing their way and running out of air. WHY! do people do things like diving and being under water in places where you can't come up from underneath the water because it's water all the way to the ceiling. 😮😱
Ego, that's all. The more dangerous, the more they feel cool each time they succeed, until the one day that they fail, of course. I think such 'sports' are actually in part from a lack of imagination. The lower hills and valleys around Mt Everest are going to be FAR more beautiful than the mountain summit and with infinite exploring potential, but nope, the hard guys all want the rocks and ice and shortage of air etc.
Yes, technically, but it really didn't get started until we Americans got involved. Imagine how many Dunkirks there would have been if we hadn't jumped in?!
@@HarryLime-ge6dc "It really didn't get started until we Americans got involved"???! The fuck?! I'm sorry but this is some classic "shit Americans say".
Oddly, the most haunting ones are the "got tangled up in junk" for me. I trip over my own clothes. This feels like nature telling me I would definitely die if I went to those places.
@@Badficwriter Too true. I get the creeps when I see a video or read about divers going inside of wrecked ships. The possibility of getting disoriented and lost, compounded by the amount of jumbled wreckage to get tangled or trapped in is horrifying.
Took an open water diving course in Tulum once where we practiced in a cenote prior to going into the ocean. The instructor made it very clear that we were not to venture into any of the underwater tunnels leading away from the main body of water.
It’s so odd, because anyone who hears the details of Robert’s death agrees that it is disturbing and suspicious. Or his friends were truly that stupid.
Regarding the last story-I thought the entire reason for having a support network on top was so that if you weren’t back in time, a couple of them would immediately come to find you? I don’t understand why someone didn’t immediately go in at 5:45 when he wasn’t back?
Yeah turned out to be just an audience... like "psychological support" instead of willing divers able to offer support. "If I have issues, make sure you find a diver to help (tomorrow)" 😳
Caving: no
Diving: no
Cave diving: hell no
I will never understand the appeal of cave diving. Narrow passages, easy to get lost, and your air is constantly running out...that's not fun at all.
@@mish375depends on the cave, if I can see what's around me like in Mexican cenotes, hell yeah. Absolutely beautiful
But muddy zero vis caves with restrictions? Yeah I agree I have no desire to dive these.
Wreck penetration on the other hand, is amazing.
The secret mine lake was like: dumped tons of trash and bodies.
and later it became a DIVING SPOT?
Diving is pretty safe down to 100 feet or so. In an absolute worst case scenario, you'll still be able to reach the surface before you asphyxiate.
You risk injury from holding your breath or the bends, but you'll probably live.
You have a backup regulator, and if that fails you can grab someone else's backup to breathe off of their tank. So if you're diving with a buddy, a lot needs to go wrong for you to not have air.
Cave diving, on the other hand, that can kill you dead no matter how deep you go :)
😂😂😂😂
"Bob didn't come back and he only has an hour and a half of air"
"He's probably just chilling, we'll come back tomorrow"
Extremely sus
He's chilling up until today with Patrick Start.
@@DeanFredericks-cz9vrwho is this Mr Start you refer to, boy??
Yeah lol I like how it just glosses over the fact that those dudes 100% murdered him
@@helldad4689you’re an idiot lol
Oh, his tanks were mysteriously only half-full and his diving buddies decided to wait over 2 hours after the expected end of his dive to say something? I’m sure that’s just a tragic accident, nothing sus here
Yep, nothing to see here, everything's just fine, move along please.
Why yes. This IS the only part of the ocean that does not smell fishy.
They were going to wait until the next day to look for him! Thank God for his girlfriend who immediately wasworried when she noticed the time yet hadn't heard from him.
@@lilnuggetheadd???? It's not like it saved him or made any difference at all lol why would you say that?
@@TheTuttle99 Not like she knew that tho lmao. Should she just have thought "well he prolly dead so why bother" instead? It's good that she was worried when she hadn't heard from him, that's what you're supposed to be lol
I cannot imagine how terrified Bob was, probably thinking "someone is looking for me" when in reality they all, let him die alone. That's shameful, how could you call yourself someone's friend and know the danger they could be facing in a cave for more than 12x longer than the planned dive.
Easy; one or all of them was banging Ms.Bob
Right? It's better to be embarrassed that the guy only popped up 30 mins late with the cops there already than to wait HOURS to even contact anyone :(
@Indigo00124 I joked in another thread that one of them probably wanted to bang his girlfriend, but the idea that none of them did and they all just sat around drinking Coors and not bothering is frankly more disturbing to me. I can understand lust and avarice, but that level of indifference is terrifying.
Those "friends" murdered him for sure
Air tank mysteriously half empty? Refusing to call the authorities? Those "friends" totally murdered him.
That first incident is suspicious as fuck. Dives "accidentally" with half-filled tanks, and his friends who knew he was missing just chose not to call emergency services? That's insanely suspect.
My requirements for cave diving.
1. 2 years worth of air tanks
2. 5000 miles of rope.
3. Not to be featured on this channel.
It's the last rule that really is an important one in my book. Maybe I'll compromise on the guide-rope length or how much air I have, buuuuut 'not being featured here' is definitely not an option!
That would be a LOT of air tanks, rope to haul around in those caves. I think ill drop to dive in em in the first place.
5000 miles of nope.
@minipup1 My requirements for cave diving
1. There isn’t any because I wouldn’t do it! Terrifies me!
@@glassdiamond2185 But then you'd have to be in orbit on the moon! O-o
Average diving time 1-2 hours.
First responders when Bob was missing: "Yeah we're gonna give it a day or so and then search for him"...
Bravo
I would almost think that he was set up and murdered, intentionally reducing his air and then waiting a good long time for him to be 100% drowned.
I thought the video was going to continue talking about the murder but then we just jumped to the next story.
That dont pass the sniff test
That sounds exactly like what it was a tragic miscalculation that unfortunately lead to the end of this brave gentlemen's life
Who is possibly ready to jump into a technical, challenging cave dive with an hours notice?
Even if a rescue team is somewhere nearby, can they even fly there and put their gear on, let alone locate him, in time?
First guy was definitely murdered. He looks experienced by his age and the way his "friends" reacted to going back to get him a day later and not contacting the police, super sus.
Seriously! What better way to murder someone than to go diving in a cave that's famous for the mob dumping their murdered bodies in, under the guise of attempting to find a long-lost body of some random person, only for there to be a fatal "accident" that for some reason raises absolutely zero concern in the two other people who accompanied him.
They brought a person to the murder-hole so they could murder them, did it in an insanely suspicious way (he went down with only half-filled tanks, how could none of those 3 have double-checked that they were full??), weren't even trying to act concerned once the authorities arrived, and then the police were like "I guess he must have made an oopsie and got all tangled up! Nothing more to look into here!"
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say in some wacky coincidence, one of his "friends" married his widow. Just a guess.
@@tombingus3984what a weird guess lol. The girlfriend was the only person who expressed concern when he wasn’t back on time and sought out emergency services
@lexinicole4317 the perfect alibi 🧐🥸
@@tombingus3984 🤦♀️ 😂
Dude, that last one is terrifying. Stuck at the bottom of an underwater cave, just waiting to drown or suffocate while your own dry suit is squeezing you into a pulp.
When I think I’ve read all the horrible ways you can die cave diving, I find out your suit can kill you.
...while freezing to death and being narced out of your mind after switching back to air that deep.
@@Bassalicious oh damn yea, he was probably tripping hard. I didn't even think about that
I feel like if he had some sort of emergency button (that alerts people at the top), maybe he could have been saved? Or like, take 2 half tanks of argon instead of one big one?
I'm always shaking my head at these stories. Surely there's ways they could improve things..
Cave systems should REALLY use the minecraft cavediving method.
Have permanent reflector markers drilled into the walls so that the path to the nearest exit always has the white side of the markers illuminated, and the red side guides the path deeper into the cave system. You don’t even have to place them often, just often enough that it wouldn’t significantly impact a dive time if someone has to turn around between markers. I can’t imagine it would be too difficult to implement this, or expensive, and it would save lives and bring a ton of peace of mind. Not to mention make it WAY safer and easier to map out unexplored cave systems.
Whoever you are, you need to be the person to make it happen. You got this 💪🏽
Very surprised that quite simple safety measures are not taken
That cave system had multiple entrances and dead ends. Your system could lead to just as much confusion in a complex system.
@@kiloyardstare Anything with a dead end would be easy: the red side of the reflector will always face away from the direction of a dead end (so you see red if you’re traveling towards the dead end, aka deeper into the cave), and the white side always away.
As for the multiple entrances: again, have the white side of the reflectors visible while you’re traveling towards the _nearest_ (or easiest) exit. If you get lost, you might not come up to the surface where you expected to, but you will make it to the surface. A little above-ground confusion is a very small price to pay if it means you make it out.
Excellent idea, but you forgot 1 IMPORTANT thing. SILT, which is all the crap, crud that has settled. When it's kicked up, you can't even see your hand in front of you, let alone a reflector 3 feet away. I'd say guide wire is the best way. Hook yourself to it. Descend. If you need to go back, just turn around in the opposite direction.
When you think there couldn't possibly be any more cave disasters, Scary Interesting reminds us why we're wrong. This channel has given me about 1000 reasons why you'll never find my ass in a cave.
Never ever.
N. O. P. E. 😰
Right?! My thoughts exactly . Just when I think it's another of the same cave accidents it's always different.!
@@megansimplystitch
Never go in.
Openly prevent entrance
Phone the rescue team
Expect casualties.
I visited an old salt mine that was deep underground and it was so beautiful it was definently worth it
I've run out of air once. I did it on purpose in 2m/6ft of water just to see what would happen and to be prepared if it ever happened accidentally. Well... There's hardly any preparing for that. One moment I was breathing a lungful of air, the next I was sucking at nothing. Pushed up from the bottom, but it was hard to stay at the surface as I had negative buoyancy. Released my weight belt ready to dump it, but managed to pass it on to my mate waiting on the dock - and I was good. To have this happen in a cave would be absolutely terrifying. And deadly.
😂🎉 congratulations 🎊 your obviously not very smart. Try that shit again, and you'll prolly hear the scary interesting soundtracks in the background
Just reading that made me anxious
Does it hurt or is it just horribly uncomfortable?
@@bandolierboy1908 It's like exhaling, covering your mouth and nose with your hand and trying your best to breathe while counting to, say, 20 - except underwater you don't know exactly when it'll happen and you'll need to surface or get to your buddy's spare mouthpiece to get rid of the "hand". Uncomfortable enough... So what I learned from my little experiment (aside from the instructors telling me), it really is absolutely important to get out with air to spare and not risk actually running out. Because the number of seconds without breathing, when exhaled, before you have to remove your hand, is the number of seconds that would separate you from drowning when diving.
@@TTFerdinandWhat does "The Hand" mean? That sounds terrifying
You'd think going right instead of left would be easy, but one time I did a shipwreck diving certification. We went in a shipwreck only once but oh boy you don't realize how incredibly disorienting it is to navigate a 3D plane IRL with overhead obstacles. It's so much easier in a video game. We barely got inside for a couple feet and we'd have gotten lost if we hadn't a guiding line with us. In the end I got certified but I'm never using that wreck certification haha. Still diving in open water, though!
the game Subnautica has shipwrecks like that, its confusing and I died so many times when I got confused
I appreciate your insight, but I rarely think I'm smarter or more dedicated than the people in these stories. In fact that's precisely why I don't see the point of doing it for pleasure. It seems like you make one perfectly understandable error and you're dead.
@@tamlandipper29 Heh, for even more terror... being 100% certain you're right side up isn't a given. :p Maybe you went the wrong way... because what should have been left wasn't.
The game Descent did a good job at tight spaces and could get you disoriented like that. There are ways to find your way out of 3d mazes, but not with the limitations of time and air that diving put on you, especially when you can lose your horizon orientation so easily. Aircraft pilots can even lose track of it without visual ques very easily. Our inner ear only works if we're attached to a solid surface to reference off off is why, so unless you have solid ground or a horizon to look at, things just drift.
I wish you many happy dives i hope you never end up a story like these stay safe. I can't swim ive nearly drowned 3 or 4 times over my 43 years and one accident was actually aired on t.v here in the UK on a programme called saving lives at sea you would think I would stay away from the water but my younger brother drowned and being next to the water relaxes me and i feel a little closer to my brother be careful guys when your near deep water it only takes a few seconds and you can lose your life be sensible 🏴💙👊👊👊✌
Came here to say i discovered your channel just one week ago and your content has enterer the depths of my nightmares. You have terrified me beyond what any scary movie could accomplish and in a weird way, I wanna thank you for that. As an avid swimmer and someone who is fascinated by caves, i can say without a shadow of a doubt that the threat of such activities is more real to me now and i will simply never put myself in any sort of situation ever again. I have made reckless decisions in the past that only in looking back i am made aware. Never again.
23:14 perhaps that is a good thing, dying in caving accidents are horrifying.
That's what I thought too. As horrible as sinking while in pain from the suit which is now like a boa constrictor & not being able to move or help oneself would be, at least if he just slipped into unconsciousness while experiencing nitrogen narcosis... which supposedly causes a drunken feeling & some euphoria... beats feeling the drowning!
top 3 rules of diving safety:
3. never dive impaired
2. never dive alone
1. never dive
0. never
4.* Noo nutty putty
Agreed.
People always forget number one
-1.
"You are crazy, caves don't have music"
DUN UN UN NN.... DUN UN N N ....
Yeah, I don’t understand why there are so many cave diving accidents! Just turn around when you hear the danger music, duh
Hahahaha
If I get to a cave and I hear that music, I'm calmly B-lining for the exit immediately. It'll be a cold day in Hell before you fine me on one of these videos.
Actually, you might see me in one of these videos... but I'll be the guy talking to the police sayin', "I told them niggaz not to go in! Best case scenario is a cave monster ripped them limb from limb. I done TOLD 'EM nothing good happens in caves!"
just leave if u hear a skeleton rattle duh
Love the music 😂
I'm glad you're finding it harder to find stories on cave disasters; I guess it means there's less tragic accidents.
that means we need to start diving more :O
Or less divers returning to tell the tale
A lot of stories sadly never get published and also this guy has covered hundreds of cave diving disasters. Thank God it's getting harder to find them.
He can start with mountain climbing trasgedys next
@@arielthepomboring. He needs to cover work accidents. Theres a ton of horrifying ones. I even saw some videos on the darkweb. Its horrifying how some people die
“Its becoming harder and harder to come across caving stories” says the guy single handedly preventing them from happening 😂😂
I think at this point I've watched every video you've posted, and i honestly can't get enough. For someone with claustrophobia and fear of drowning, I sure am obsessed with cave diving. Thanks for giving me a safe way to get a little thrill of fear every week!
So does no one else think that first guy (Robert Thomas) may have been murdered.....
Yup.
More than likely all three went in but his 'friends' made sure his tank would run out of air before they were done.
When he realized that he'd run out of air and tried to surface they held him in the water until he suffocated.
I'm thinking they also tangled him in the debris to make it look like he got stuck by accident.
Nothing but red flags!
Absolutely. They didn't call emergency services when he didn't come back, they were going to return THE NEXT DAY for him. Not to mention the half-filled tanks...
There are a few "divers react" channels, sometimes they have unique perspectives that I (who has never done anything like this) would not think of.
Goes both ways - sometimes they find an "accident" suspicious where I first saw nothing, and sometimes they present normal explanations for incidents that seem weird to me.. (dunno if anyone has done this exact one, but probably, is there anything not covered on YT lol)
Let's not forget this is a place KNOWN for dumping bodies.....when the 2nd diver didn't pass Bob on his way in nor see him (supposedly) that alone should of been enough for him to turn around and call authorities. IMO 🤷🏼♀️
When I watched videos like these I always wondered why people do these dangerous activities, yet when I visited my first cave earlier this year I found my answer, curiosity really is a killer.
You died?
Ghosting writing at its finest 🫡
I started climbing and omg it is my THING andevery once in awhile someone says something about risking my life and I'm like oh yeah I mean I guess technically... but there's so many things we do to make sure nothing goes wrong. Yes people can make mistakes and gear can fail, but if you're properly trained and doing your safety checks, probability is greatly on your side. So many of these awful stories are people who didn't know what they didn't know, and it killed them. How many stories are about well-trained, well-equipped people who respect the situation and stay within their limits?
@@moonw0rtLoL....😂...riiight, I know...seems likely the outcome the more of Scary Interesting I watch...
Not me, hell naw...
@@sarasmr4278alot of em... almost all I've watched are from experienced, veteran divers..
Each story makes me appreciate my cozy blankets more than the last. 💙
Right?! Soooo happy to have my blanket, a cup of tea, my cat making biscuits on my leg and scary interesting videos to remind me why I don't do stuff like this
@@nyxspiritsong5557Same here, except with coffee. Did you say, your cat making biscuits on your leg??
Hang on... your moggy can make biscuits? Colour me impressed
Yessss. My warm cozy blankets and coffee from the comfort and safety of my home 🏠
I agree. Some people might say we are cowards, but we are just thoughtful, reasonable, careful and aware. Without people like us, humanity would have already died out in accidents like these...
Definitely prefer these videos without AI images. Hope you keep to your other usual visuals in the future :)
Oh no you are not ready for what im about to tell you. The whole video, the story, the voice, the pictures are ALL AI.
@@breakingbadest9772Really? Even the VO? Damn, then I've been fooled. Hmm, we'll see if I keep interacting with the channel then
@@Jonniz2000 Ye, listen to 2 months ago and the video now. There is this static robotic and sound chipping in the new video that is clearly ai voice sampling.
@breakingbadest9772 I'm not sure about the voice and the pictures, but I looked up the stories and they all check out as true stories!
@@breakingbadest9772do you mean the stories are fake?? that’s terrible
Yay finally something from Europe! I keep watching these and I'm always excited to see our local caves being mentioned. Especially (unfortunately) Polish crews. It sounds wrong to be experiencing positive feelings about local tragedies, but there's not a lot of channels that decide to cover them so it's more about having access to a well made video that honours the tragedy and carries on a legacy of someone local. Thank you
I’m so used to the dates being late 60’s, 70’s or even earlier. Everytime I hear a cave disaster in “2017” or later from you I always get shocked…. Goes to show, you always have to be careful. Even with how far we’ve come and how much we’ve learned.
Cave diving always is dangerous. Modern technology and more advanced gas mixtures only INcrease, not decrease danger. When you can dive longer, deeper and farther, the risk of something going wrong only increases.
Goes to show I will never let anyone take me into an underwater cave for any reason ever
Dawg look at the last 2 presidents of the USA and say we have "come far" one more time 😂
@@thatpachoomg shut up
It's getting harder to get diving stories... because prospective divers are watching your videos and saying "Hell no... I'm gonna stay home and play Subnautica on my PS5"
Have you watched Dive Talk?
They react to these kind of videos and have actually made me want to try for diving
Such a great game. That’s how I get my fill of underwater exploring
@@em84c *Note to self = NEVER watch 'Dive talk' *
@@madquest8I am sure that if you have at least +90 IQ you won't have such thoughts.
I'm a prospective diver, and maybe it's also because the ones who don't get scared away will never not have this at the back of their minds 🥴
Not trying to spark anything up but the first story sounds WAY too suspicious, did the police do any extension investigations on the death of the diver?
High chance I’d they did, they could not rule out human stupidity as a cause. Humans make dumb mistakes all the time, and the whole not reporting clearly can be explained as humans when confronted with stressful and traumatic events take a hefty wisdom penalty.
So yeah it a case where Hanson razor makes things very confusing.
Totally thought the same thing it screams suspicious
@@kellysnowden2376 "yeah we were just gonna go look tomorrow, when hell def be dead"
When I finished watching the first story I wanted to go into the comments and say “so… we all agree that this guy got murdered, right?”
@@wes748 Same.
It sounds very much like murder.
I'm sure you can branch out into other disasters and mysteries of history, like the Donner party incident, and I feel like people would still watch. The way you present - your storytelling, your voice quality, all the little details combine to make for a creepy atmosphere that's quite unique.
I’m a dry caver, I have cave diver friends. The amount of mistakes it’s easy to make and how hard it is to tell where you are in a cave makes cave diving completely not worth it to me. I know personally I’m not a detail oriented enough person to be a cave diver. One simple mistake or wrong turn that would be no big deal in a dry cave is so quickly fatal in a submerged cave. Good for them but not a risk I’m willing to take!
This video was not just Scary Interesting, it was Horrifyingly Intriguing
Not to mention gruesomely absorbing
These are great channel name suggestions
dare i say creepy alluring
And heavily plagiarised...
Morbidly curious
His friends didnt call emergency services? Just assumed he was gone and was like "yeah we will just go in ourselves and find him tomorrow"
Some friends. He was expected to come out at 1:30pm . If it was 1:45pm i would have dialed immediatly
It almost sounded like a sabotage...
The police should have investigated if one of the guys owed him something or would gain from him losing his life...
"Hey Bobs girlfriend, Bob has enough air for 90 minutes, but we are coming back tomorrow..." ?😢
It does look like foulplay might have been involved with Bob's death. Unless there's a good explanation for why he went in with half full tanks, it sounds like either air was let out (deliberately or accidentally) or the dive shop failed to properly fill the tanks.
@@TheAnswer70 The police definitely did investigate that. The police know much better how to do an investigation than UA-cam armchair detectives.
@@David-ud9ju Police have made serious mistakes in other cases, NO-ONE is infallible.
@@David-ud9juyou have far too much faith in the police.
Police suck at their jobs.
Ah, my monthly reminder to stay away from caves has arrived.
LOL!! I agree
Now i can lunch
I thought my mom bringing me on cave tours as a kid would be enough, but well here we are 😂
Natural selection at work!
I also have a monthly visitor right now😊
Your channel is so good, and you're so very smart for finding this niche and owning it. I am jealous, because I'm going to sub and watch it all lol. Props to you and your team, assuming there is a team.
Cave Divers
10% planning
300% ego
0% help
About the second story. One more tragic thing was that when Team B turned around in order to go back, they were only around 20 feet or so from an exit to the cave. If they had continued a little further they would all be alive today.
A mere 20 feet?! That’s truly awful.
@@birgittabirgersdatter808220 feet more after the 60 ft jump line the guy who scouted used. So 80 feet in total from where the line they were following ended as I recall.
@bifrostbeberast3246 what a very kind way to eulogize real people. let's hope you never make any crucial mistakes.
The most tragic thing is that this video is made with ai voiceover...
One thing that never changes are edgy depressed incels that don't mind making fun of tragic events
Bob was murdered. Half the breath, nobody calling 911?!
Don’t worry they were gonna get around to checking him the next day
@@joec4997yea that’s absolutely insane also his air tanks were half full that’s weird why would you wanna dive with only half full air tanks like I would want them bitches all the way full
Okay, no one apparently can use basic reasoning. If he breathed calmly he and ran out of air at 12:30 he would have had to have only half a tank.
He was stuck at the bottom flailing and panicking so he used up his oxygen twice as fast. His friends suck but it was a tragic accident. There is no way the other diver would be able to tangle him up under water. It's just not realistic.
@@somethinginthenothing You forget that he was sent down with half a tank - there's really no way around that - and another guy went down there after the time that Bob would have already run out of air and drowned. Maybe that other guy then tangled Bob's corpse up in the wires, in order to make it look like it was an accidental drowning.
So, it's possible that Bob's friends sent him down there with half a tank to drown, and then the one staged the scene afterwards.
if i ever get trapped in a cave I'm gonna start hearing the scary interesting cave music in the background
😂😂 if u hear that it already means ur fucked beyond rescue
To be honest I’d be in that butt, but that’s just me tho
This is so funny and eerie at the same time and I love it
To get Dive certified, you should have to watch every caving/diving post on this channel in a classroom setting.
Also, all established caves should have a permanent placard system at any fork to denote how far away you are from any cave entrance, what direction you are going from any/all cave entrances.
ALSO! Emergency air supplies attached to an emergency signal that notifies the local EMERGENCY services when accessed.
Nooo thanks
ALL OF THIS!
Dude, seeing the map of the system on the second one is a horror story in itself. It's like trying to get out of a hedge maze with no air.
The best part about this hobby is that you don't have to do it.
Everyday i wake up with a smile and greet the sun and say: "Glad i'm not going cave diving today"
I do my caving/cave diving vicariously through UA-cam... And I like it that way.
If you wake up greet the sun every day, you obviously don't live in England.
Exploring caves seems dangerous enough as is. Cave diving sounds like just a list of the most awful ways to go in the scaries environment. Just a big nope all around. It's crazy people do it willingly for no reason.
7:03 Nahh his friends set him up bro
@@Vantablack_25 Wut?
I thought the same. They were just going to come back the next day? Totally not worried at all? And likely had easy access to his gear right before the dive and the guys trust? Seems very sketchy
@@Vantablack_25 I’m half black, does that count?
@tonylittleton8549 it's just a joke
Did his buddy get with bobs mrs … ?
Would have liked you to discuss the first incident more. In particular the thing about the people with them not calling cops and just planning to come back the next day makes no sense. Also, is it normal to dive with half filled tanks? I'm not a diver but I can't imagine going without a full tank. I'd want to give myself as big a safety margin as possible.
That is also why I couldn't help but wonder if it was a murder attempt but he ended up dying by himself anyway... that would explain half full tanks and lack of 911 call earlier.
Bob was murdered, that's the only thing that makes sense.
As a certified diver, no it is not normal to dive with half filled tanks. It's also a completely ridiculous idea to dive without a partner; literally the number one rule of dive safety is to never dive without a buddy. Bob was murdered and his two "friends" wanted him gone.
@@crmzoncomet8643Yeah, but Rafael did the same thing, and we know he wasn’t murdered.
@Kingdok10 It was stupid and reckless for him to go alone as all practice states you never should. Hubris and a need to set records was what killed him. Even though he went alone, he was still actually prepared for the dive and had enough gas and air. He didn't attempt it with half tanks. That's where the kicker lies, also the fact that his group called the authorities right away instead of "yeah we will just show up on our own tomorrow". Or did you forget that part?
Always love your videos! Despite the intensity of the stories, the way they are told is very calming and relaxing. They're fascinating,impacting, and educational. Thank you for making these videos, i often watch them to relax, and the replay my favorates to help me fall asleep.
My friend, I gotta tell ya... not only are your stories terrifying as well as VERY interesting, and your narration is top-notch, that background music REALLY adds to the experience! Unlike some other UA-camrs' videos, the music isn't overpowering or distracting... and it's placement throughout the stories is so perfectly timed! And the choice of music is PERFECT! I can't explain it but just hearing it, before you even start speaking, immediately sends chills up my spine & like Pavlov's dog I've heard it & associated it with your videos so much that the second I hear it it puts me in the exactly right frame of mind to start getting heavily spooked before having heard any part of the story. It sets the tone to a tee! The music, story, & your narration of them is a formula that equals brilliant! ❤
Anybody else convinced a lot of straight up murders happen in these dives and are easily dismissed as accidents, or the guy "lost" his air tank, or got "disoriented" and drowned ... hmmmm, kinda sus
I’m not sure, we should go for a dive and talk about it😎
Diving is dangerous. People are going to die and get hurt. I don't see any conspiracies.
@ionisius I agree. I feel the same way about natural disasters.. especially hurricanes, blizzards, wildfires.
@@JennHayden Do you think that HAARP is a weather control machine?
Only if u go first! Don't worry, ill check all your gear for you too! @@dthomaswilliamson33
Cave diving is just people working really hard to fit snuggly into a deep dark grave. It's insane.
They're mentally ill with a death wish. Can't convince me otherwise.
Well said
I get the appeal of skydiving, flying, hiking or other dangerous sports .. But underwater cave diving I just don't get. Sounds as fun as laying in a wet coffin.
@@AdamsOlympiait’s beautiful down there in a lot of the most sought after locations.
Tons of people do it safely everyday across the world, but a few tragically die, often due to their own ignorant behavior. Sounds like a lot of other things, like driving on the highway.. Except way more people lose their lives doing that.
I believe something similar happened to the diver in training at Lake MacDonald in Montana. Her wetsuit squeezed her to death and caused her to sink uncontrollably.
That was a crazy story that poor girl sunk like a brick and the instructors barely noticed until it was too late she must have been terrified 💙👊👊👊👊✌
I actually learned of this story through this channel
Cave diving is absolutely insane. People saw that scuba diving and caving are two dangerous sports and then decided it would be fun to combine the two.
I LOVE sundays - For having a Scary Interesting video to enjoy; but all the more when it's about cave diving.
Love the content, Sean.
Thank you, Mr. Interesting, for researching these obscure stories. You really are a gem in this corner of youtube.
It's crazy that I've been following you since 100k subs. You've taken off brother. Every single video has been on point. Proud of you G
He has
I started watching him a month or 2 ago because he randomly popped up in my recommended, ever since I'm glued to these stories
Hells yeah man me too!
Wait what the hell?! Since when did he have a million subs?!
I came here just weeks ago but I love how he is THE one to watch for this stuff because of the overall production quality.
Newbies noobs😂
That first incident regarding Robert..kinda suspicious if you ask me.
I dont know why i watch these, i have clausterphobia and im terrified of diving into open water.
Yet i guess i enjoy the fear these videos give me. Thanks for a great video
When Bob & Dan didn't pass each other in the dive as they were scheduled to do; that's when alarm bells should've begun ringing. Instead, the attitude seems not to have been, "Where the hell is Bob..?" so much as, "Oh well, never mind, he's probably having a smoke; let's just carry on..."
When that scary music drops into video, you know they are f*cked. Tan tan tan. ten ten ten.
😅😅
Spends about a few minutes giving the backstory..
Que ominous *Tan tan tan… ten ten ten…*
Check ur regulators, shit is about to go down.
This channel is one of the best. Excellent stories, narration, video, and the music is PERFECT.
I agree
I haven't gotten through all your videos yet, so my apologies if you've already done this topic, but do you think you'll ever cover some nuclear accidents? Your voice is very relaxing, and I enjoy having your videos on while I'm doing chores and stuff.
Also, poor guys! I never had interest in diving, but after your videos, I know for sure I never will.
Agreed, I would love some nuclear accident topics like rtg orphan sources ,3 mile island,castle bravo incident, chernobyl, and more
Everyone is pointing out how weird it is for Bob's friends and first responders to not make any rush to rescue Bob. However, it's worth noting that with diving like this, when a diver doesn't surface it's almost a 100% chance of being a body recovery than an actual rescue.
This is my favorite cave diving channel. The errie background music sets the tone quite well.
Your narration is very good! I usually just listen while I do something else. Keep it up!
"So, grabbing some extra tanks-"
A line so rarely heard in these stories.
Because extra tanks are an encumbrance.
I just discovered your channel abt 10 days ago and I'm obsessed. Haven't really vebtured into this genre before but you are now my regular bedtime story before I zzzzzz 😊
Welcome to the crew!xx
“This is a good video to fall asleep to”
25 minutes later : “I need to stay away from caves
I had to stop because I was having a panic attack and watch something soothing to fall back to sleep lol
That was already my plan so I slept fine. 😂
I mean this in the kindest way possible, but it's a *good* think you're running out of cave dive disaster stories. That means we're learning our lessons on making it safer.
I would love for the channel ‘Dive Talk’ to do a reaction video - your retellings are amazing and you do a lot of work researching the material but it’s interesting for certified cave divers to discuss common misunderstandings about these dives in detail (way more than would be practical to cover for your episodes anyway). I love your work, thanks for another great video!
They've done the second story, IIRC, recently too.
I think they reacted to a couple of his videos if I'm not mistaken
Thanks! You do such a great job with these videos
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoy them!
You just donated 20 dollars to a completely ai generated video. WHAT!
@@ScaryInteresting Why are you making videos 100% out of ai, man? And why are you allowing donations? It's sickening.
@@breakingbadest9772 I'm on board with your comment here, donating to the laziest content creators is mind blowing. I will donate to creative, thoughtful and well made content. But also... 20 bucks??? For this shit?
I watch these, but it would be one of the last videos I would donate to. They're just about entertaining.
The nice thing about caving, diving, and cave diving, is that you don't have to do any of them.
You _might_ have to be a miner, Navy diver, or murder victim, though.
sheesh the last story is crazy. There are so many things that could go wrong, and to believe that nothing will go wrong is wild in my opinion.
If I had a quarter every time the dive support team sees that the diver should have surfaced by now but decide to wait an extra hour or two past that before doing anything...
Their one job is being overly cautious and seeking help ASAP at the slightest notion.
It’s unbelievable.
That first story sounds like murder. Hey officer that diver has 90 min of air, we'll be back tomorrow. Sounds like they were just making certain he was dead. Police should've looked into who had something to gain from his death. As someone with hilariously horrible luck and even worse timing, I think I'll stay on land.
I can’t believe something went tragically wrong for cave divers exploring dangerous caves. So strange….
How does this keep happening?
@@muchtestedIt's rare.
@@T-Vexed As if chances make any difference
One of the best channel, great narration, great stories, love the ambiance with the soundtrack 👌
At toss between Scary Interesting and MrBallen for my favorite channel
Really can't get into MrBallen. He stretches things out sooooo much to extend the video length and then interrupts the stories with ads. I can see why he's popular but just doesn't work for me.
In the first story, the fact that his friend's unwillingness to report it right away is the biggest reason he wasn't saved..
Your voice makes the videos even creepier I love it
I’m so glad I’m watching this at home in bed
I saw some divers react to the Cenote story. They pointed out that navigation signs could just be put in popular caves, but divers deliberately don't do it. Which is basically an admission that they want to make it dangerous on purpose and it's about ego and thrillseeking. So yeah, whatever happens to them down there happens. I don't cheer their deaths but it's partially self-inflicted.
is that why? I would think it’s to prevent people who have no business being there from trying
or maybe you’re right
@@diegomorenaro I'm sorry, I meant that signs could be put in the caves showing the divers how to get out or find certain parts of the cave. I'll edit the post.
Divers don;t want to deface natural formations.
@@fafddzfaf They already put signs outside caves underwater and leave guidelines in the caves. The signs could even be non-permanent.
@@fafddzfaf I think leaving bodies and equipment when people die in places that are almost impossible to access is a worse defacement than some removable safety reflectors here and there.
If you didn’t want to deface a natural location, you wouldn’t go there. Tourism is as much a defacement of a natural location as signs or anything else. If you really truly wanted to avoid any and all defacement of the space, you’d leave it alone entirely.
Im from Louisville and the Mammoth caves are MASSIVE, they have yearly Christmas light hanging and you literally DRIVE through it. Its hard to describe just how big it is.
It's the little details in the quality of the presentation that sets this channel above the others. For example the little skull animation at 15:26 does a little bounce, instead of simply rising and stopping. We notice these details bro!
The ambient music in these vids always gives me great chills!
My requirements for cave diving:
1. No cave diving.
2. Less than no cave diving.
3. Walking a nice hiking trail on land feeling the oxygen blowing through your hair.
The last story I felt really let down like “wow this just seems like a run-of-the-mill cave dive accident” but after watching it, boy was I wrong. That is truly horrifying
Thank you for your entertaining channel. Cave stories are my favourite. And thank you for not using an AI voice. It’s increasingly hard to find content created by humans.
It is ai. The voice IS ai...
I know nothing about diving, but i often watch videos like this. It's only recently that i discovered that dry suits can kill you by compressing your chest, in case there is not enough gas between the diver's body and the suit, and if the diver keeps descending (either on purpose, or accidentally).
Amazing stories! I love how u put these videos together! ❤ & The music 2 ... Really a great touch & happy that u haven't changed it along the way!!
I used to do ocean diving but we stopped over Covid when I started watching diving disaster videos - I have been in the water since…. I just can’t do it and I don’t miss it either
Then it was never really for you anyway. There’s danger in everything we do.
@@ashnicole6096 I feel like 'going into an unlit confusing space where you can't speak and can't breathe without time-limited equipment' is pretty high on the spectrum of dangerous things though
How to not die according to UA-cam.
Don’t go cave diving
Don’t go deep water diving
Don’t go to Everest
Don’t go to a theme park.
Steer clear of Arctic exploration as well…xx
Don't go into water.
Wow u just released this 4 hours ago and already over 6k views Very happy for u!
Some caves are absolutely beautiful, but I won't be cave diving any time soon. Thank you Sean 💠
Some of the most terrifying and brutal ways to die are also 100% avoidable.
Exactly. Adrenaline junkies are something else. I don't feel that bad for people who die from these types of accidents. You knew the risks.
yes and its not even mandatory, like no one is forcing them to do it.
Well, here goes my anxiety. There's nothing like hearing a nightmare. People who get lost under water in a cave just freaks me out. The only thing more horrific is someone getting stuck under water or losing their way and running out of air. WHY! do people do things like diving and being under water in places where you can't come up from underneath the water because it's water all the way to the ceiling. 😮😱
Ego, that's all. The more dangerous, the more they feel cool each time they succeed, until the one day that they fail, of course. I think such 'sports' are actually in part from a lack of imagination. The lower hills and valleys around Mt Everest are going to be FAR more beautiful than the mountain summit and with infinite exploring potential, but nope, the hard guys all want the rocks and ice and shortage of air etc.
Very well put together video. Not just what happened but the history of the location
This channel is insane bro keep doing EXACTLY what your doing 👏🏾
2:54 ww2 started in 1939
I think he meant the point at which the USA entered the war.
Yes, technically, but it really didn't get started until we Americans got involved. Imagine how many Dunkirks there would have been if we hadn't jumped in?!
@@HarryLime-ge6dc "It really didn't get started until we Americans got involved"???! The fuck?! I'm sorry but this is some classic "shit Americans say".
US declared WW2 on December 7 1941
President Roosevelt was the one who came up with the term "World War" in 1941. The war started in 1939 but wasn't considered a world War till then.
It's perplexing that so many of these cave diving tragedies involve diver mistakes or equipment malfunctions.
Oddly, the most haunting ones are the "got tangled up in junk" for me. I trip over my own clothes. This feels like nature telling me I would definitely die if I went to those places.
@@Badficwriter Too true. I get the creeps when I see a video or read about divers going inside of wrecked ships. The possibility of getting disoriented and lost, compounded by the amount of jumbled wreckage to get tangled or trapped in is horrifying.
Never been this early keep up the work
In cave diving mistakes don’t add up, they multiply
Took an open water diving course in Tulum once where we practiced in a cenote prior to going into the ocean. The instructor made it very clear that we were not to venture into any of the underwater tunnels leading away from the main body of water.
Judging by the comments, I’m easily not the only one that think lot of shade was present on that first story.
It’s so odd, because anyone who hears the details of Robert’s death agrees that it is disturbing and suspicious.
Or his friends were truly that stupid.
Regarding the last story-I thought the entire reason for having a support network on top was so that if you weren’t back in time, a couple of them would immediately come to find you? I don’t understand why someone didn’t immediately go in at 5:45 when he wasn’t back?
Yeah turned out to be just an audience... like "psychological support" instead of willing divers able to offer support.
"If I have issues, make sure you find a diver to help (tomorrow)"
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