Caving in Cwm Dwr - South Wales
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2012
- The Cwm Dwr Entrance to the OFD cave system starts as a climb down a shaft and then follows some tight crawls to enter the heart of the mighty Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system. From this point a maze of passages can be explored leading to the lower OFD I section of the cave and via the streamway to the upper OFD II part of the system. This video was taken during a caving trip with Dudley Caving Club on Sunday 19th February 2012.
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there's not a force on earth that could get me in those caves
A sinkhole.
Petra Quartz XD. GOT EM
😂😂😂😂😂😂
webster hallman haha 1 year later but sammmmmmmeeeeeeeee
you woulndt go through for a million dollars??
I prefer Batman's Bat Cave. It's much larger, much more comfortable.
+Chris B. i prefer your moms cave more. so much room in there
Good for you, fam. :)
hungry african child 😂😂😂
hungry african child I prefer your dads cave
Dumb comment. Get a life, dweeb.
I'm quite happy staying in bed with a nice cup of tea
+Crichjo32 Some days I feel the same.
+Crichjo32 :I don't understand why everyone seems to feel discomfort watching this.The most beautiful views of the world can be found in caves. Plus nobody freaks out in the elevator or in the middle of a concert (and you have way less space then).
+Calimero Hœnir
i wish i could explain...if you tell me heaven will be at the other end of the cave i wouldn't go.
It's simple really. To be able to truly explore most caves you need to be relatively small. Don't be afraid of the dark or claustrophobia. But mainly, not everyone can make the trip to many of these places, so they enjoy seeing other people make the trips. Elevators are also a bit different, since you are so far underground. Because of this some people are more scared of caves than elevators.
bvg
Total respect… but my worst nightmare. The idea of getting stuck, panicking, especially with someone behind me who is going to have to rip my dead body out to get past :I
David Bradley getting scared is the worst thing you can do. When caving keeping a level head is key. Yeah
It's only the tight spaces that make me panic, I'd be worried of getting stuck then dying a grueling death. Someone died in nutty putty cave that way and they could never retrieve his body so they just sealed up the place. Scary
saw the same story.... imagine dying after being upside down for 27 hours with your arm pinned under your body, looking at a dead end, with no way to push yourself back up, all while having your chest under pressure from the squeeze your in. there aren't many worse ways to die than that.
The difference between these two situations is that the caving shown in this video is with experienced cavers who know the route and the one at Nutty Putty, they just guessed and went for it. The latter strategy not ending well.
John jones
Pretty sure they got the body out since people cave there now
@@adventuredanee3556 They left the body and poured the entrance full of concrete so no one else could enter.
bollocks to that! claustrophobia is a life saver
Good grief nearly had panic attack just watching this !
A.J Manning me 2
I can't help but admire the mental fortitude of those that do this. There is something to learn here and it's about more than just caves.
Don't accidentally commit suicide by cave.
overgrow00
Wow,finally someone reasonable who doesn't hide his lack of understanding and guts under cheap sarcasm.
I salute you sir.
nice post!
@overgrow00 good point, but i think the question revolves around why anyone would to this. It looks like no fun what so ever. Just a boring grind. Got to be something more use full you could to to face fears, take risk and control your mind, rather then crawling trough caves.
@overgrow00
exploring what. it's an empty dark wet hole. what are you expwcting to find in there? elvis?
for all of you claustrophobes, imagine waking up in the middle of the night in here....
Famey Don't say that ):
Famey 😂😂😂
Famey NO
Famey you stop that right now
Famey spend hours trying to get out only to realise that you have gone in deeper...
I'm sweating just watching this video...
Anyone else :D
Same
I'm exhausted after going caving yesterday!
WillTheOtherOne what’s it like
If sweat is the only thing that you're experiencing, then you are good to go >>> I have every vital sign abnormal.
Im eating a spicy pizza
That moment when you wanna leave.
And the door is locked...
ThrummerOfLove and the lights go off
And you can't move
And the rocks start to collapse
PredZ then you gota poo
I would rather free climb a building or mountain then do this. And im scared of heights
Lol hell yea! I have a very extreme fear of heights, and id rather skydive than be in there and shit
On Dat good Red Strain skydiving is actually fun especially if you jump with a group!
Uhh.. using the word "then" instead of "than" gives this sentence a very different meaning. Like you wanna free climb first.
So fascinating yet so terrifying.
Hi Silvia. Caving is a fascinating sport and only a little bit frightening.
must be all the rain You get outside in Britain. seek the sun my friend.
I feel the same way about diving, except that drowning or being eaten by a shark is a thousand times better than if something goes wrong during cave exploration.
Ok
Ok
9:58 NONONONONONONOOO
I had the same reaction mate ahah
i started to panic and sweat when i saw that part lol.These ppl are crazy
drthsons Dot
drthsons Dot 😂
Yoooo😭 same reaction they can send a robot instead of going in themselves
2 options
1) get a bulit in the head
2) go to these caves and spend a day
I would choose bulit straight in the head donot even try to miss the shot i dont wanna wake up in the coffin
this was better at scaring me and making me squirm than any horror film a lot of respect to you keith and your mates
I really like the idea of spelunking, and I can do "versions" of it. I'm not really claustrophobic, but tight squeezes half filled with water, or squeezes that require crawling are out of the question for me. I don't ever want to get stuck in a position that isn't upright, or in a position that can fill with water.
We always take novices on easy trips to begin with and then people progress to the level they are comfortable with.
That makes perfect sense. Appreciate your responses to my comments.
Congratulations, you aren't bat shit crazy :)
Jon jones
Speluking lol what a shit word
My palms are sweaty just watching this! I went through a comparatively huge cave in Hawaii called The Cave of Refuge and nearly had a panic attack!
Brittany Golden I guess it's not for everyone. For me it is the challenge that makes it so enjoyable.
I could certainly enjoy the challenge. But the idea of becoming hopelessly trapped far underground is just too scary a risk.
I'm literally about to get sick all over my office desk. You guys got some mad balls putting yourself through this. Me, I would probably pass out and die by the first tight squeeze-through. Living with claustrophobia this is my therapy.. Watching your crazy asses. The elevator ride up to the office doesnt seem all that bad now, cheers! Good job surviving.. I guess...
Hi. I just wanted to see whether you‘re going to answer me even after 5 years
I'm sorry but I missed the part where they were having fun.....WHY ? JUST WHY WOULD YOU THAT?
I would do that
Fear is like a drug
Matheus Menarim Moers it’s getting lost (not literally the figurative kind just going further and further) into the depths. There’s an odd wonder lust too it, exploring.
@@sirrivet9557 yeah I’ll do that in a forest, not in a crevice
Great video! I have a gently growing obsession for caves. I love the weirdness of a whole underground world that few people get to see. If my spine wasn't messed up I'd love to go caving again :) thanks for the upload!
+doodlebugwithlove Pleased you like the video. There should be more in the New Year. I'm having a short sabbatical due to a messed up pelvis.
You are braver than i am....i would go crazy being in such tight places. I get anxiety just watching this lol
Hi Bryan. It's not as bad as it looks.
Lol i get all panicky when im on a bus or skytrain thats to full. Im sure i would lose my shit going into places like this. I have a ton of respect for those of you that do it though.
Bryan Becker omg me too can't handle it
@@staceyalices I can't even shut a toilet door, let alone do this!
your videos are always entertaining and informative, thanks caver keith. for doing this so I don't have to!
LOL. Thanks for your great comment Lonesome. More videos coming soon.
good stuff :)
I just developed claustrophobia watching this! :-)
Hi. I just wanted to see whether you are going to answer me after 6 years.
@@RelaxingSounds-fr1yn Of course I am! Still uncomfortable watching that video! 😅
@@AngrierGorilla
😂
If I wanted to partake in a extreme pastime I'd choose something much safer like heroin or meth I can't believe this is legal and I struggle to understand the appeal but at the same time WOW
+Andy S It is addictive - quite like a drug really.
+Keith Edwards (Caver Keith) what amazes me is thinking about what drove the first person to think I want to wriggle into the unknown, do you think there are many more undiscovered places ?
There is definitely lots of cave still to find. New discoveries are being made all the time.
A few grams of mushrooms would do the trick
@@giggoty4926 LOL, nah, just harmless cave spiders, bats, crickets, millipedes, salamanders, etc
I am so claustrophobic and fear from this that i want to try it! :O It's like a magnet...
Antiqwiz maincube
Me too
I agree
You are not claustrophobic. A claustrophobic has panic with elevators, he would never be able to even watch such a video.
Nope...
I know the feeling. The best way to free up from a terrible working week. I use to visit caves every week. Inside the earth you can find the energy.
Watching that crawl bit at the end brought back my own memories of when I did it, it was a great feeling after. Great video guys.
Thanks Geoff.
how do you NOT panic.. i dont undestand how you cavers do that.
Anders Johan Larsen I guess we are just different from other people.
like aliens?
Anders Johan Larsen i would cry.
If you've been doing it since you're young like me you get used to it pretty soon
Keith Edwards I'm not even claustrophobic, I can crawl in messy maintenance corridors and above ceilings amongst live wires, crawl in the darkest crawlspaces with only a little handheld flashlight. But damn these caves are.. it's like they want to eat me or something. Another anxiety to conquer! As a danish person who lives in Denmark, without all the crazy caves and the likes, how could I try caving without travelling to some expensive place? I really want to conquer this fear.
Don't watch this before bed
oh no
Too late
@John the sheets suddenly will feel thight and heavy...
I like spelunking so...
I can feel the anxiety just watching. Especially as someone who's a big lad
You do a great job narrating the cafe and the explorations of your fellow spelunkers. I enjoyed this video immensely! Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to comment. It is appreciated.
i would rather shit in my hands and clap.
haha!
Id rather you shit in my hands and clap
I’d rather shit on my cat and eat a macaroni sandwich
dank stinkz same
dank stinkz one of the funniest shit ive ever read lmaooo
I enjoy those caves above land that are called houses and are warm with food.
बोहोत बोहोत बोहोत सुंदर आपने अपनी हिम्मत का परिचय दिया है 🙏🇮🇳💕
Thanks again. Having caved for many years with ordinary caving lights, the Scurion was a quantum leap. I know it is ridiculously expensive but as you can see not only is it a fantastic caving light, it is great for video too. I haven't regretted making the investment.
what happens if you encounter someone on your way back?
Shrimp Man you can hear Someone crawling before you get in
No way just one way they know they're supposed to go in. I would hope so.
Lol....
as others have said, this makes me feel uneasy just watching this, but i have to ask.....does doing this give you an adrenaline rush considering this is another form of an extreme thing to do. like those people that that loves finding those dead drops in the sea and plunging as far down as possible or Skydivers going as high as possible and waiting as long as possible before opening their chutes(the sky diving is the only one i could do of those 3)
icynok We just do it because we like doing it.
Its definitely an adrenaline rush
I ask myself why I go caving every single time and I still can't figure out why I like it. I think its the feeling of exploring somewhere or finding a place where no one has been.
I need a breath of fresh air now!!!
Azor
I prefer much more dangerous sports like pool and darts.
Top respect to the girls and boys who can do this,I couldn't do it,I'd be too scared of getting stuck.
Great video,thanks.
Liked and subbed.
As scary as it is it watch once you actually are doing the crawl it’s very relaxing and feels rewarding at the end of it , great sense of achievement
NOPE NOPE!!!
YES YES !!!!!
Keith Edwards nuh uh.
I prefer my COVID confinement at home...
My friend you are very right
If you get anxiety or whatever watching this than your not a cave crawler. Great job fellas 👍!!
there's no way I could no this.... it makes me feel claustrophobic just watching it in the comfort of my home!
Would it be dangerous to spark up a fatty in there?
+Lusky_42 Possibly.
One earthshake dude, one earthshake
O Balls dead!
Your hard work and sacrifice deed make a known how dangerous a caves is. Respect!
these videos scare me but your voice is so calming for some reason
Obviously the most needed tool down here is a flashlight. I'd think I'd bring about half dozen of them with plenty of batteries!
Paul Avery if lights go out you're pretty much done for so yea lol
Yeah usually you would take a good quality head torch, a good quality spare head torch, loads of spare batteries, and then some other torches for an emergency
looks like a nice cave with some fun squeezes, would love to get there to do some of the stuff you film but it's unlikely due to the fact I'm on the other side of the world in Tasmania. Thanks for the great quality caving vids. I love the sight of gumboots disappearing into small holes in front of me.
You have some genuinely stunning caves in Tasmania, albeit the powers that be are perhaps excessively strict on access. That said, I had a very near miss in Niggly Cave narrowly avoiding an 80m plummet. A very scary cave
@@hyweldavies936 It can be. We do have some pretty fantastic caves, and relatively few require permits, but can be challenging to get to.
I just hold my breath watching the video....salute sirs...
I have no clue why i watch these videos as they freak me out so much. But at the same time, oddly satisfying...
Each to there own i guess, but to me this is just the shit nightmares are made of.
Are you going to answer me after 6 years ?
@@esseel7896
Give me your address where you live
@@esseel7896
Ok wait a day or two
this is crazy! you must have balls of steel!...or rock
or titnanium
Oh my God i can not take breath.. So much hard work😁
Let’s just imagine a nice cafe that’s playing calming music and with very spacious rooms.
So this is how Steve feels when he mine at night
i couldn't go in those caves...
React how you should, proud! This was an awesome caving video. Absolutely gorgeous!
Are you going to answer me even after 9 years ? 😁
Thanks for the feedback. If you think it sounds bad on the video then just think what it's like when you're there! In the later videos I've lowered the sound level when over suits scrape on rock.
Don't think I'd be able to to get past my claustrophobia to check this cave out.
I've never considered myself claustrophobic, after this I'm starting to wonder...
awsome video would absolutely love to try something like this keep up the good work
The photo of "Mark" in the letterbox squeeze was eerie - there is a squeeze seemingly identical to that one in North Wales. Excellent video - I could easily have been watching BBC1 and not known that it wasn't a full-bodied, high budget, full production documentry. Great job :)
10:32 panic
No thanks. This isn't for me.
I've watched a fair few amount of caving videos, and my fear has gotten much better.
I have watched the Descent and when you cave with the people I cave with then nothing else can scarier.
caving is the one last thing on earth that stumps me as to why people do it, must require a lot of nerves, any one care to help me understand what thrill/enjoyment is gotten from caving? perhaps im just ignorant about it
bring a blunt, jus incase you get stuck for a bit
haha
Not enough oxigen 😪😪😪
Ok this would be so much fun! In alot of videos I watch, thyme caves are super super small and it looks super uncomfortable. This is the perfect balance between ocean passageways and tight crawlspaces
I'm glad these people go there and film it, so that I never feel the need to.
I'v already done something like this, and it's way funner than it looks!
More fun not funner
i think caving is not for me but nice video anyway
I hear ya on that
I went on a trip about 6 years ago to a indoor climbing and caving centre (cant remember where it was) and it was a crazy experience we did a few of the harder trails and it was brilliant but scary. As scary as it was, it felt safe as it was man made. I couldnt imagine doing it in a real cave must be an amazing experience though and you must get such a great sense of accomplishment and a huge buzz.
Do these caves lead to an exit or do you have to work your way back the way you came?
It is an amazing experience and yes, we do get a great feeling of accomplishment. Most caves have a single entrance so we have to go back out the same way that we went in. A few caves have multiple entrances and incredible through trips can be done. This cave has three entrances and the through trips take around 5-6 hours of very varied caving, including following an underground stream. In some single entrance caves it is possible to do round trips.
Every time I have to slip under a low HVAC vent in a crawlspace for my job, that's all the caving excitement I can take.
I find it hard to watch this.
Vengo de un poco de todo xd
Those guys are so brave that they crawled through caves wearing wellie's! Bloody awesome!
Please tell me what is so fun about seeing if you can squeeze through a hole
You've got to have courage
6:16 Big Shaqs Area
No bloody gloves either Keith. Bob Saunders and I did OFD3 unguided. In a long forgotten life long ago :)
OMG! just watching I feel like I cannot breathe? have you ever been terrified whilst being stuck and, how did you overcome it?
Hi Molly. I can honestly say that I've never been worried about getting stuck. A couple of years ago I was caving with a young lady who got really badly wedged. Fortunately she remained calm and we were able to free her. She said that she was calm because she had faith in us and our ability to get her out.
my luck that last guy would be me
Hi Curtis. Mark is a glutton for punishment. He's been through tighter things than this since - including some very tight squeezes today!
i don't understand it....i understand big game hunting, sky diving, running with the bulls, extreme rock climbing but this just looks dumb
Thanks. This video does seem to be getting lots of views. It's impossible to know which of the videos are going to be popular.
That Instant Replay was *Deadly*
i WANT TO BE STUCK THERE FOREVER
Mike Nelson really?????????
Why
Yeaaa I think....
I’ll just stick to Minecraft caves😂😂
Awesome video. I’d love to try this sometime. Looks incredible.
Thanks, and it is.
Exploring by drone or rc car is one thing, There aint enough money in the world to get my 6'3 220 poung Italian ass down in one of those caves, Even when I was younger and more thin I still would had been terrified.
One earth tremor and youre a pancake.
Joe Love nah mayne the caves have probs been through a lot of earth tremors if they were going to close they would have done it by now
Living vicariously through others. Awesome. Keep up the great work, mate. (Cringes internally.)
Thanks.
Bahut hi sarahniya kaarye ko anjaam diya hai
Superb 👌 superb 👌 superb 💪🙏💞💕😘
Its strange how im quite claustrophobic but have been caving in very tight spaces and loved it. I hate watching these videos but when you are actually doing it for real its not bad at all.
I can't wait to hurry up and get out of that cave and I'm just sitting on my bed watching this
Its easy to watch knowing that's not where I'm going tomarow. Lol. Good show
Reminds me of the time the tour guide at the Jenolan caves told the story about 2 Swedish girls stuck very deep (steady now) inside the caves, no English, panicking, no way back ONLY forward. Screaming, crying, down there for a long time with limited battery life left and Nobody wanted to do that in the pitch dark. incidentally he turned off the lights for 10 minutes on our tour and said after a few hours you start hallucinating thinking up is down etc. FUCK that! Respect for cavers pushing it to the limits. felt my heart beating faster watching this video. I've started watching more videos like this while trying to calm myself.
Watching this is making my anxiety levels go up🤣