Cave Diving Depth Record Gone Wrong | The Zacaton Sinkhole Incident

Подписаться 1,1 млн

Просмотров 1,5 млн

50% 1

Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 60% OFF of your subscription➡️Here: go.babbel.com/t?bsc=1200m60-y...
On April 6th, 1994, diving legend Sheck Exley was attempting to break the diving depth record in the Zacaton sinkhole when something went horrifyingly wrong. This is his story.
Podcast ➡️ www.spreaker.com/show/scary-i...
Story Suggestion Form ➡️ shorturl.at/mqAK3
Discord ➡️ / discord
Instagram ➡️ scaryintere...
Attributions/Special Thanks for Photographs:
KzooKy Vlogs, Stephan Fehringer, CCR diver
Video showing Zacaton - • 😎¡El cenote más profun...
Writing and research by Jay Adams
jayadamsdigital...
This video contains light dramatic reenactment but no actual footage or pictures of anyone being harmed or who has been harmed.
And a huge thank you to the Scary Interesting team of writers, editors, captioners, and everyone else who makes this channel possible.
DISCLAIMER: The pictures, audio, and video used in the videos on this channel are a mix of paid stock, by attribution, royalty-free, public domain, or otherwise fall under the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement is intended. All rights belong to their respective owners. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to sean@scaryinteresting.com. I will respond immediately.

Развлечения

Опубликовано:

30 май 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 1,7 тыс.

@ScaryInteresting 5 месяцев назад

Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 60% OFF of your subscription➡Here: go.babbel.com/t?bsc=1200m60-youtube-scaryinteresting-dec-2023&btp=default&RU-vid&Influencer..Dec-2023..TATAM..1200m60

@abysscallstoabyss55 5 месяцев назад

I seen this on Eskify… a month ago. So I’m just commenting here. It’ll still give you a “view”. But I’m not viewing. 👌

@LevelEarthWD 5 месяцев назад

❤ great

@handsomedevil7072 5 месяцев назад

I prefer talking with the faceless voices in my head but cool..

@abysscallstoabyss55 5 месяцев назад

@@handsomedevil7072 Wait a minute… 🤔 Why, you’re not handsome at all! 😳 Hey everybody! This guy’s a phony! A great big PHONY!

@paulwright8378 5 месяцев назад

French is mandatory in the uk too, even for the the folks that were in all the thick classes like me

@Purin1023 5 месяцев назад

You know its over when the story suddenly starts being told from the perspective of the other guy :(

@shazzthedon 5 месяцев назад

It’s both scary and interesting

@Beach_nvgga 5 месяцев назад

You know the story is over when the haunting/mystic music begins to play

@Richardlizhu 5 месяцев назад

@@shazzthedon You could say it's scary interesting

@619G_ 3 месяца назад

@@Beach_nvggaomg yes

@CleverUsername69420 2 месяца назад

@@Beach_nvgga Fr… I heard that music and just knew someone was dying

@Tnullid 5 месяцев назад

Breaking your buddie's previous world record because you he asked you to accompany him on re-breaking the record, but he died during the attempt is a whole new level of survivor's guilt.

@BType13X2 5 месяцев назад

yes and no I imagine its a lot like high altitude mountaineering where you get used to seeing your friends die and are greatful it didn't happen to you. Sad that they are gone but understand that this is the game you are playing and you cut things too fine.

@Rubellite-jq2kg 5 месяцев назад

@@BType13X2 as much as you'd be grateful that you weren't the one who died on an expedition/dive, you'd still feel an inexplicable sense of guilt that the deaths of anyone you were with were caused by you or that you could've done something to save them

@alastor8091 5 месяцев назад

Lmfao yeah. Goddamn, what a blunder.

@BType13X2 5 месяцев назад

@@Rubellite-jq2kg You say that but if you read the books written by high altitude mountaineers, they are sad about what happens to their friends. But they don't feel guilt that they survived but their friends didn't. For instance The Boys of Everest by Chris Bonnington, guy buried a lot of his friends, the only guilt he has is inviting people on an expedition that they died on. Ed Viestur's was on Everest with Imax in 1996 his 2 good friends Scott Fischer and Rob Hall died. He doesn't feel guilt that he couldn't save them he went up to try and the storm rolled in. When you are doing these sorts of ventures you need to kill that part of your humanity or you will never climb the highest mountains. It is not your fault that your friends died unless you specifically did something to cause it. When you climb mountains or cave dive you will lose people, extreme environments beget extreme results and all you can do is analyze what happened to your friends so it doesn't happen to you.

@yangsrealm2536 5 месяцев назад

Re word that please. I literally lost brain cells reading that bro.

@Batmann_ 5 месяцев назад

Aside from ALL the dangers with these caves and diving...It's the return that would stop me from doing this. A 12 minute dive means you have to spend 10+ hours doing decompression? No thanks.

@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather 5 месяцев назад

And that's assuming that all your gas has been selected and mixed correctly AND that all your equipment works. A NOPE from me.

@Lorric101 5 месяцев назад

And way more before that with the practice dives and preparations.

@VictorGarciaR 5 месяцев назад

Adrenaline from the feeling of discovery is more than enough. Being the first to do something or to be somewhere are good reasons for many

@TheGoonsies 5 месяцев назад

Makes me think of mountain climbing - a lot of the stories are people with summit fever not thinking about the trip back down

@GH-or7lx 5 месяцев назад

Anyone foolish enough to participate in this type of endeavor for the "thrills" thoroughly deserve their Darwin award. Don't know if there is a stupider pastime than cave diving, I doubt there is though.@@VictorGarciaR

@Politely_Indifferent 5 месяцев назад

Knowing he was going to die and so tied himself to the rope so those who recovered him would be in less danger, now that's a real man.

@velocitygaming9398 5 месяцев назад

sounds like suicide to me, he did say its the "last dive"

@wyattrogers8689 5 месяцев назад

@@velocitygaming9398he had a family and the whole reason it was his last super deep dive was because he was scared of an accident like this happening

@velocitygaming9398 5 месяцев назад

Yeah he also had witnessed multiple lives including his brothers end in the same way, seems a little to coincidental to me. But it is just speculation.@@wyattrogers8689

@velocitygaming9398 5 месяцев назад

Furthermore how do you explain him having time to tie a rope around himself to allow the others to pull his body up. In a real emergency or HPNS episode you would not do this. It shows clearly that he knew this was the end imo@@wyattrogers8689

@cornellcornell1 5 месяцев назад

@@velocitygaming9398he said last extreme dive. Sounds like someone who doesn’t want to die and out his life at risk anymore.

@progiddalamdenport 5 месяцев назад

Decompression stops are the scariest moments to me. I cannot imagine being idle surrounded by scary sounds, low amounts of air, and my mind telling me that my friend, below me, is most likely dead.

@lilithowl 5 месяцев назад

Yes, awful

@helder4u 5 месяцев назад

except that there are no scary sounds - only natural ones , like breathing and bubbles rising from your air - the scary sounds only happen in films for thrilling effect.

@amdy7783 5 месяцев назад

There is no low amount of air, there are staging bottles left at these levels

@AsaSpadeSS 4 месяца назад

@@amdy7783Low amount compared to being on the surface...

@Chuniekun 4 месяца назад

And with the thought of you 10 hours straight

@angelofmusic1992 5 месяцев назад

This was a sad one, Sheck coming up with safety measures to prevent tragedies like this brother, his wife's cry when she realized he was gone, and everyone coming together to celebrate him after he died tugged at my heartstrings. He sounds like a great guy.

@manz7860 5 месяцев назад

The people who risk their lives doing this nonsense are incredibly selfish/dumb.

@AnyaFowler 5 месяцев назад

SPOILERS DUDE - I was halfway through the video!

@huggablepenguin1465 5 месяцев назад

@@AnyaFowler dont read the comments then??

@ThyPandora 5 месяцев назад

Ahh, the internets.

@Masterspam1 5 месяцев назад

@@manz7860 Both apply. There are no people more suited to developing safety procedures than those at the frontier. Though they're also the ones most likely to break them in pursuit of further accomplishments.

@joefawcett2191 5 месяцев назад

Can't think of anything more horrifying than finding out a close friend died and then having to spend 10+ hours underwater on your own for decompression just coming to terms with that fact

@blazednlovinit 2 месяца назад

Sounds surreal and traumatising. Then be told you beat his record too must add another layer of miserable feeling.

@bunnywavyxx9524 2 месяца назад

I always wonder what goes through their heads when someone else has died or they themselves are waiting to die. No wonder they do this in partners. Cave diving is just so lonely. It's dark, cold, and you're alone with your thoughts in an extreme environment with the possibility of death if you DON'T wait. It's so sad.

@Edax_Royeaux 23 дня назад

Given the extreme danger of their profession and the fact they were gunning for a world record, tells me they likely thought about the possibility of death for many more hours before and after the dive.

@polinatalmeltzer450 5 месяцев назад

The fact that he tied himself to the rope in order to make the recovery of his body easy tells everything you need to know about this guy. RIP.

@blazednlovinit 2 месяца назад

Seems like nice guy. I question the merits of risking your life for fun though. That goes for any extreme sport/hobby with no practical merits.

@polinatalmeltzer450 2 месяца назад

@@blazednlovinit, yeah, that’s certainly something to think about.

@ZeroSpawn 2 месяца назад

Yeah, you never hear accolades of divers. Only the divers community. But everyone will remember the dead ones.

@TheSauceDisher 28 дней назад

Bro kinda stole a comment but changed it up

@F_Print 5 месяцев назад

Good thinking from Jim, turning back when he realized it was getting too dangerous.

@MikeBarbarossa 5 месяцев назад

Wrong mix of gas Miscalculate gas needed have a fumble with equipment equipment failure entering any one of the physical states that disables or confuses you problems with the descent/ascent mechanics damage to equipemnt caused by bumping/ yanking etc Any of that happens , you're dead

@Dahmer_Jeff 5 месяцев назад

@MikeBarbarossa no room for error. No pressure. Pun intended

@kats9755 5 месяцев назад

I gotta say, in spite of the massive HELL NO that runs through my mind when I think about cave diving, the community of cave divers seems to be an extremely strong and close-knit one. In spite of how awful a lot of these stories end, I'm always amazed at how ready other divers are to lend a hand however they can when another diver needs it.

@lilithowl 5 месяцев назад

True!

@saikiiiii 5 месяцев назад

same. makes me feel like such a coward. these people have my respect because that’s gotta be one of the most dangerous jobs

@twohoursintotuesday 2 месяца назад

I noticed this too, I guess some of the thinking is brotherhood but also- they’d want it done for them, so they’ll do it for you

@Entheogenics Месяц назад

@@saikiiiii it’s not cowardly, it’s the human condition. People who deep dive KNOW the risk of another human life is in play - it’s quite selfish, especially if they have families to leave behind. It’s a tight community because it’s so small - and it’s small for a reason.

@tomi6242 Месяц назад

So it seems until something goes wrong. Then they panic and drown like any random guy would. Thats scary. Pressure must be huge.

@zoura3113 2 месяца назад

i feel like any time someone says "okay this is my last one" before doing something extremely dangerous thats just a sign of bad luck

@dis8791 12 дней назад

I feel like it's less a sign of bad luck, and more a sign of overcommitment. The moment the video got to the 'announce to the diver community' part I went oh no. With an announcement like that, to the whole community he's spent his life in, he's going to feel like he has to make it count. Even if he notices that something's wrong, he might hesitate on turning back before breaking his record.

@user-mg8fn1bq9d 11 дней назад

Snowboarders consider it bad luck to call "last run" at the end of the day.

@Chrysriph Месяц назад

Buddy of mine drowned when he fainted in a hot tub. He was clinically dead for at least three minutes, possibly as much as ten minutes, before being resuscitated. He was in a coma for more than a month, but woke up and made a full recovery. I just went hiking with him earlier this year, he’s doing great. Always do CPR on drowning victims!

@aaronyeomans5799 13 дней назад

He was not dead homie.

@OwlyFisher 13 дней назад

@@aaronyeomans5799 clinically dead

@brie3679 10 дней назад

@@aaronyeomans5799He was. There’s two different types of death. Brain death, and clinical death. Clinical death can be survived if oxygen is still being given and the heart manually pumped via CPR. Their body functions have stopped. They essentially being kept alive manually by CPR. They’re dead. Brain death is when a person hasn’t received enough oxygen for too long and brain function has ceased to a point where they can never recover. Clinical death is death.

@tothepast 5 месяцев назад

If I understand it correctly, Sheck has seen 3 underwater deaths one of which is his brother. Being this engaged in the safety side of the sport, he must have studied a lot more underwater deaths. Imagine the level of acceptance when he was entangaling his body to the rope. Whatever happened to him, he probably knew mathematically what was coming. He died in the harness at his own record dept in the hight of his career. My condolences to his loved ones. The way this man went out is poetic.

@AArdW01f 5 месяцев назад

He probably did. Though even Shek, who had an otherworldly resilience to the effects of pressure, would have been fairly intoxicated beyond 700ft from people I've spoken to who knew him. He could handle it tho. Cavers are taught to work the issue down to the last moment. Don't panic. Address the issue and work towards resolution until you actually croak. And I think he did use his last ounce of strength to make sure someone else wouldn't be tempted to die trying to recover his body. Edd Sorenson got into a situation where he was mathematically certain he didn't have the gas to make it back to his spare tank and, according to him, he simply chose to spend the last few moments of his life enjoying the sport he loves in a beautiful cave. He apparently relaxed so much he was able to sip his tank until he made it and survived. These dudes are built very different.

@xenosfur 4 месяца назад

That Edd story is amazing @@AArdW01f

@WoobaOne Месяц назад

It is interesting to read his basic cave diving book...and then go on to additional reading where you find that some of the stories he told in basic cave diving (of divers doing stupid things and almost dying) were his own experiences.

@rude_wredne 4 дня назад

There's nothing poetic about death. It's not an anime.

@eaban93 5 месяцев назад

That guy was part fish...I totally believe he tied himself to his rope. He was all about safety and I'm sure the thought of people risking their lives to recover him, crossed his mind.

@Industrialitis 5 месяцев назад

I think so too. I bet he realized he went down way too fast and started to feel one of those affects and had the clarity to tie himself up real quick before he went unconscious. Maybe a few seconds to make a decision and he was gone.

@jake12466 5 месяцев назад

@@Industrialitis *effects

@Industrialitis 5 месяцев назад

@@jake12466 Thank you

@user-wn1kq8jx5q Месяц назад

@@jake12466you must be a blast at parties

@Rfflllss 5 месяцев назад

The decompression wait is the worst part of this. It’s like riding a roller coaster then waiting in line for 10 hrs after.

@demo2823 5 месяцев назад

Ugh, the thought of needing to be underwater trapped in all that equipment for ten hours AFTER you have already finished what you had come to do, is as horrifying as dying down there to me.

@meredithgrubb4497 5 месяцев назад

It makes me so uncomfortable even thinking about how shit it would be.

@artemis1993 5 месяцев назад

@@meredithgrubb4497 This is why i don't get why some people like diving so much. I fail to see how shit like is is worth it

@GGrev 5 месяцев назад

@@meredithgrubb4497 yeah, how do we shit then?

@ieatthestage 5 месяцев назад

and the whole 10 hours you're monitoring gauges and fighting for your life. Doesn't sound fun at all

@SoulMusic51 5 месяцев назад

If you've been diving you understand, but basically it's not all that unsettling at all. The gear becomes a lot less cumbersome once you're underwater, and it's a generally pretty easy task with a lot of really cool experiences to be had. @@artemis1993

@ericsandberg3167 5 месяцев назад

Sheck was a great guy, made a few dives with him back in the 70's in the springs around the Gainesville Florida area. What he established for cave diving and the creation of NACD makes this a safer sport even to this day. Sheck along with Tom Mount, Dave Fisk, Paul Heinerth and a host of others have really expanded our knowledge of the aquifer systems around the world and have opened our eyes to a wonderous underwater world.

@NatureLover-62 5 месяцев назад

@ericsanberg3167, what an honour that you had in diving with Sheck and seeing his greatness up close!! I am feeling a great sense of deep respect, passion, inspirational and love that Sheck and other divers like yourself have shown to cave diving. May your time with Sheck be an event that helps you as your dives continue to grow and evolve as an exceptional diver as well!!!

@notkevt 4 месяца назад

Did you know Dana Turner?

@truthseeker2095 2 месяца назад

@@notkevthe knew no one all BS

@milodrinker174 Месяц назад

@@truthseeker2095d1 hater lmaooo

@ChickenJoe-tq6xd 3 дня назад

@@truthseeker2095 I've seen u on multiple youtube comment sections hating with your narcissist attitude, are you really that miserable and do this all day? We can talk about it if you're in a bad place and just need someone to talk to

@RightsForZombies 5 месяцев назад

I had no idea that Sheck’s career basically came about as result of his brother’s death even though I’ve heard so much about his career and eventual death.

@user-ge2to1me7f 5 месяцев назад

One of the reasons he became so involved in cave diving was that he suffered from terrible sea sickness and therefore made relatively few open water dives. I believe that when he was acting as a safety diver for the air depth record he had taken anti sickness medication which has side effects at depth. Given the medication and the stress of trying to affect a rescue, the depth he achieved was remarkable and probably equated to a much deeper actual depth.

@phoenixrambles 5 месяцев назад

Actual free diving competitions are done with many, many safety divers and a cable hung down with a weight so that the diver can clearly see the shortest route back up to the surface even when slightly impaired. Incidents like Sheck's brother's death are evidence for why all that is done.

@DingusMcRingus 5 месяцев назад

Yeah and you're probably still dead if something goes wrong... no matter how many people are there.

@user-co8uy5rb2s 5 месяцев назад

I see a lake, I don't think of diving to the bottom. I see fishing. 😅

@user-co8uy5rb2s 5 месяцев назад

@@DingusMcRingusoxygen is so necessary to live, a human on average is in mortal danger after 7 minutes.

@markmcgoveran6811 5 месяцев назад

Here's what we've run into on the free diving. In the beginning it was a matter of self-discipline and training to miss the discomfort and pushed farther and you could be injured a little. As the years went by and the physiology of the divers changed and it began to sort out people who were built to do it they pushed farther faster and harder and most of all deeper. As the record keep going deeper and deeper the probabilities of a pressure injury of some variety occurring increases incrementally with each foot of dept gained on the record. Eventually we'll get to the point where there is a lethal depth 50. We're half of the free divers Perish from something pressure related and the other half make a small gain. The wingsuit people are flying through air. The odds on a wingsuit fatality when your base jumping on mountains and stuff is one fatality for 500 flights. This free diving competition is getting real close to that level of deadly results.

@TheQueenOfSheba 5 месяцев назад

@@DingusMcRingusnot as many mistakes since it’s not just two dudes going back and forth.

@Aranimda 5 месяцев назад

What I learned from this channel so far: Go cave diving: You die. Go anywhere else: you probably die as well.

@oceanbytez847 5 месяцев назад

honestly, i think it's more along the lines of if you roll the dice enough, despite your best efforts to reduce risk, your card will eventually be punched. Fact of the matter is activities like this are never risk free. As such it isn't shocking that someone who does so on such a regular basis will eventually find such a fate. Still, 45 years old as a world record diver and wrote the book on cave diving as well is rather astounding. He lived a very healthy and full life worthy of history books.

@jamesm3471 5 месяцев назад

This channel has, hands down, one of the best narrators on the platform! In my humble opinion anyway.

@shannonhill3356 5 месяцев назад

Him, Cadaber, and Barely Sociable are absolute, top-tier, constantly reachable videos just for comfort narration during work type content. Phenomenal. I began with Mr. Ballen cave diving stories, but grew tired of some of his style. The thing about Scary Interesting is the volume of dive specific content in the beginning. Glad to see the branching series’ he’s putting out now too, as there’s only so much cave content.

@delilahboa 5 месяцев назад

I totally agree James

@Pooki2024 5 месяцев назад

@@shannonhill3356Mr Ballen can make a 2 min story last 2hours, loves the sound of his own voice too much and just goes on tangents about things that have nothing to do with the main topic

@TJ-W 5 месяцев назад

@@shannonhill3356Also Lemmino and Mustard. Agreed about Mr. Ballen. Dude knows how to stretch a 60 second story.

@AJBa83 5 месяцев назад

@@shannonhill3356Mr Ballen soundslikehe'sreadingonelongparagraphwithouteverpausing ... for breath. Couldn't unhear it once it became noticeable. This channel is so much easier to listen to.

@cupidsbow517 5 месяцев назад

I thought that first story was going to have a bittersweet ending, because he actually really helped people and honored his brother’s memory. And then you said “cave diving” my face just dropped 😭

@ArchangelExile 5 месяцев назад

"Cave diving" is in the title...

@cupidsbow517 5 месяцев назад

I was so baked when I watched the video and wrote the comment, I think I forgot how to read lol

@MrTehRave 5 месяцев назад

@@cupidsbow517😂😂😂

@catscanhavelittleasalami 4 месяца назад

Your face dropped? You might want to pick it back up, sounds dangerous.

@biazacha 4 месяца назад

I saw the amount of video yet to go and was immediately sad for the guy.

@toscadonna 5 месяцев назад

His body told him at Bushman’s Hole that that was his last deep dive, and he didn’t listen.😢 His poor parents and family-to lose 2 sons to the same dangerous hobby.

@rhythmandblues_alibi Месяц назад

I thought the same thing. He got a warning, he just didn't heed it.

@jus10lewissr 5 месяцев назад

A thousand feet is really mind-boggling when you think about it. That's literally the RMS Titanic, bow to stern, with over a hundred extra feet added to it. I was already having trouble getting my mind wrapped around how deep 1,000' would be to dive down to and when I found a way to put it into perspective, it actually made it even harder to imagine a person diving at such depths.

@UnXplainable1 5 месяцев назад

I might be the same way in terms of trying to wrap my mind around that measure. I think of 1,000 feet and I'm like, "Eh, it's not that far." Even with your great comparison to the Titanic, my brain wants to think that it's not a crazy distance. When I think of it in terms of the Twin Towers (just a few hundred feet higher than 1,000 feet) or the Bank of America building in Atlanta (just a few feet higher than 1,000), it suddenly clicks for me. It is wild how hard it is to put that measurement into context.

@SouthernGospelMusic 5 месяцев назад

it’s also a straight down drop, no curves or anything. very eerie since it’s an inland sinkhole

@U20E0 5 месяцев назад

i don't think most people intuitively know how long the RMS Titanic is

@Fpl8646 4 месяца назад

Bro still thinks the Titantic was big

@rebelgaming1.5.14 3 месяца назад

@@Fpl8646For the time she was. She weighed in at over 52,000 Gross Registered Tons, almost twice as heavy as your average Dreadnought at the time. 887 feet in length is also pretty large for a ship. While today most large vessels tend to exceed 1000 feet, that wasn't the case for decades after Titanic.

@LordMarcus 5 месяцев назад

The nice thing about caving, diving, cave diving, and dive caving, is that you don't have to do any of them.

@JosephStalin9252 Месяц назад

And mountain climbing too

@evie7982 5 месяцев назад

There's something about cave diving that freaks me out so much more than any other setting. Mountains, forests, deserts, roads? No problem. Normal caving, and normal diving? Eh, unsettling at best. Put the two together? Worst nightmare.

@stevencoardvenice 5 месяцев назад

It's very dumb. You shouldn't dive when u don't have access to the surface of the water at all times

@ValerieEnriquez 5 месяцев назад

Places where I really, really don't want to die: 1. In a cave 2. Underwater 3. In a cave under water 4. Underwater in a cave

@metronorthwtrain1452 5 месяцев назад

Same with climbing Everest or K2. A man has got to know his limitations.

@cavediver2579 5 месяцев назад

To each their own, I love cave diving and can’t imagine not doing it.

@davidt3563 5 месяцев назад

Same, I absolutely get why people do it, humans LOVE to push records...but I absolutely get that everyone is different and I celebrate that, because if everyone was just like me we wouldn't be where we are today.

@Morbos1000 5 месяцев назад

Inhuman breath holding ability and resistance to nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness. Literally wrote the book on cave diving safety. Dies while cave diving. THIS is why I will never go cave diving. There is no truly safe way to cave dive. You are always at risk of a disaster.

@gabrielmaisonet7485 3 месяца назад

yeah but we're all dead in the end anyway. if you don't have a love for something, maybe you shouldn't do it. and if you do it, know the risks, be prepared for any disaster, since it's always a possibility

@skynotaname2229 5 месяцев назад

Moral of the story, always beware the "past dangerous thing" you plan to do before retiring. Its a trope for a reason, sometimes its better to forego having "one last hurrah" for the certainties of safety.

@CGR89 5 месяцев назад

This channel has taught me that diving is dangerous, cave exploration is dangerous, and cave diving is probably the most dangerous thing you could possibly do

@luciusaurelius209 5 месяцев назад

Over ten hours underwater is astounding. I'm actually struggling to understand some of the logistics. It must be difficult not to eat for ten hours. And I guess some people only move their bowels once a day but you would have to be on such a reliable BM schedule to make sure you don't have to drop a log in your wetsuit. If that happened, you can't just surface and change, you have to continue the slow 10-hour journey. Also, i'd never heard of HPNS before despite having heard every diving incident video out there. Thanks for covering such a vast scope of subjects and for all the research you do! Cheers

@tristariker6630 5 месяцев назад

You eat. While you are on the decompression line you can eat small things. Snickers bars are a favorite. Was weird to me too when learning. Thinking how the hell do you eat. But you absolutely can and they do. Bathroom stuff is weird. Especially in a dry suit for cold water. External catheters and diapers are some solutions.

@timlong1462 5 месяцев назад

Eat Metamucil or some sort of ffliber supplement. Changed my active life only having 1 BM in the morning. Then eat 1 meal a day at dinner and you will be amazed at the regular nature of your movements. Never have to consider or worry about it.

@KuK137 4 месяца назад

How often you people shit? I do it every 2-3 days and the comments from people saying they can't wait tiny 10 hours are utterly bizarre to me. Ditto with food, I eat nothing for 12-14 hours between dinner and breakfast and somehow aren't starving to death when I wake up...

@Drymarro 4 месяца назад

@@KuK137 that doesn't seem healthy

@a64738 3 месяца назад

Military Pilots doing long missions solo eat special food for several days to avoid having to do any pooping during the mission and eat special food during the mission.

@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart 5 месяцев назад

Even in the hopelessness of death at his door he tied the rope around himself to make it easier for people to retrieve his body so that no one else would have to lose their life, the truly good ones are taken from us way too often

@Vok250 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely wild that it takes 10 hours of decompression for a second at the bottom.

@marshallevans8219 5 месяцев назад

Ever since I saw the Dive Talk episode covering this incident, I've secretly been wishing you would post an in-depth analysis on it. I was not disappointed! 😊

@carlalindsey9371 5 месяцев назад

I love Dive Talk!!!!

@ArchTeryx00 5 месяцев назад

I am far from any sort of expert on technical and trimix diving, but based on what you said, it sounds like part of what happened was that Sheck's descent got out of control, and since the gas mixtures were so important, diving at out of control speed was a guaranteed death sentence. Part of the mystery to me was why his dive computer wasn't screaming warnings at him the moment his descent rate got too fast, in time for him to slow himself and readjust the gas mixture. Maybe it did, and by then he was already partially incapacitated and couldn't adjust his gas. But it sounds like he was still alive when he hit the bottom, and had enough time to wrap the rope around himself before he passed out. So many things could have gone wrong...

@1ericedwards 5 месяцев назад

It is incredibly telling that Sheck likely tethered himself to the rope KNOWING he was going to die. It is telling because he was a safety instructor, and he knew very well the life-risking danger other people would be in trying to recover his body. He didn't want someone ELSE to die trying to recover him. He also spared his family the compounded grief that whole process would entail.

@Rickswars 3 месяца назад

Knowing he was going to die and so tied himself to the rope to be rescued ..takes a real man!!

@BooktownBoy 4 месяца назад

Best channel on YT for this sort of content. No ridiculous amped up commentary, over egged suspense, just the truth of the matter delivered very well and handled sensitively. Nice one.

@danidavis7912 5 месяцев назад

As a former cave diver, this one really hit home. I remember when this happened. Everyone in the dive community was talking about it. Another great video!

@johnstreet797 5 месяцев назад

Back in the 60's when I learned to dive an old mossback told me two things " Always end a dive at the surface", and "You can only handle one emergency at a time underwater so don't bring any with you." When I learned NITROX I put a loop of surgical tubing around my secondary reg mouthpiece, which would keep it in my mouth if I took an oxygen hit at depth.

@TheUncleRuckus 5 месяцев назад

It's crazy to me that he knew he was going to die down there and his final action was to tie himself to the guide rope so no one would have to risk diving down there to collect his body. 😩

@bluejediforce 5 месяцев назад

Yeah that part somehow hurt the most

@whoshotdk 5 месяцев назад

Damn I should know better than to expect good outcomes. Rest in peace Edward and Sheck.

@curator3539 5 месяцев назад

Sheck tying the rope around his own body so that he could be recovered without anyone else being at risk sounds like something someone who spent his life working on diving safety would do.

@spaghettiking7312 Месяц назад

His story ended where it began, with his brother. His contributions will never be forgotten.

@clara5924 5 месяцев назад

I’m afraid of deep water, so there is no way I will do any kind of diving. But I can see the thrill of it. But not even a pro is exempted from any dangers. RIP Sheck 💐

@emilyoftheemeraldcity 5 месяцев назад

Wow! Why does the sink hole have perfectly round tufts of grass islands floating in it! How would those even be formed like that-? They are so perfect- a rare sight in nature for sure.

@SuperPickle15 5 месяцев назад

they are free floating islands made of floating plants.

@bluejediforce 5 месяцев назад

Free floating clumps of plants, the wind and possible currents causes them to spin and bump into each other and that sort of rounds them out like a river rock!

@foxywhitetip7387 13 дней назад

I thought so too ! Beautiful and unreal !

@rencarnation 5 месяцев назад

As an experienced recreational diver, these videos are my favorites of yours with how humbling and horrifying they are. And a great reminder that I never need to cave dive in my life

@InquisitorXarius 5 месяцев назад

First Rule of Very Dangerous Sports: Never, never believe you are above the danger or its risk, especially when it comes to cave diving

@emilyoftheemeraldcity 5 месяцев назад

Second rule: Don't go cave diving.

@fandroid6491 5 месяцев назад

@@emilyoftheemeraldcity Rule 2.5: Or caving Rule 2.9: Or diving

@MadeleineHardy 5 месяцев назад

@@emilyoftheemeraldcity🎉🎉r pop🎉😢😮😢yup F I fit yep fit yo

@pavel9652 5 месяцев назад

Some two million people visit caves every year in the US. The risk of death is fairly low, like 1 in a million. First rule is never produce silly rules. Technical diving and cave diving are dangerous, though.

@drdrew3 5 месяцев назад

To do this “safely” you need a support team that includes rescue divers at the target depth and all along the way. Since it’s too deep for traditional divers a series of diving bells or submersible vehicles could be used. I’m sure they considered this but likely decided it wasn’t logistically or economically feasible. I’d be interested to see how this was overcome with subsequent record attempts. Or did they also take the crazy risk of no true support at the extreme depths

@cassiebattaglia1369 4 месяца назад

I think the saddest part of this is when Sheck had that scare wirh HPNS on a previous dive. If he'd taken that as a sign that his body just wasn't up to those intense dives anymore, he wouldn't have died that day.

@winstonsmith3685 4 месяца назад

I do not understand the attraction. Best case scenario, you spend a second at the bottom of a dark hole.

@spencerkleiman5035 5 месяцев назад

The first part of this with the free diving had my heart pounding on the edge of my seat. I felt like I was there going through it with him.

@BigPanda096 2 месяца назад

I remember this day, I had actuallyet Sheck when we did our DO training in the military, he was one of our instructors. Very nice man, very knowledgeable. To many of us it was inconceivable a man that thorough about his gear and the conditions he would be in could even make a mistake, let alone one grave enough to cost him his life. He was a walking encyclopedia of dive knowledge.

@DanielCacic 5 месяцев назад

damn i never knew shecks brother died in that horrific way . this makes this whole thing look really "dark" but damn what a guy what a legend . R.I.P

@Mirrale 5 месяцев назад

Stories like this make me wish I believed in heaven. If there is a heaven, I’m sure they’ve done a couple of dives down to hell and back together.

@juciymiddle3102 Месяц назад

I cant imagine the torture jim had to endure, knowing your friend has died and youre alone, in the dark, cold and no one to comfort you, for hours with just your thoughts...

@mandalorianmama 5 месяцев назад

I can't imagine what those decompression stops were like for the people that loved him. What a sad one

@MaiyaRo_Spazzy_Space 5 месяцев назад

Wakulla springs is very much not warm, the swiming area and the section you can dive in is an old sink hole and natural spring. Even in the summer the temp rarely gets above 70, and where they were diving it would have been much colder making their free dive skills all the more impressive.

@handsomedevil7072 5 месяцев назад

You are grinding mate, thank you for amazing content. Your voice is perfect for this type of content without all that edgy grunting and whispering, and writing is very good too..

@vanCaldenborgh 5 месяцев назад

Part of a real record is not only the diving to a certain depth, but also the controlled rise to the surface again, I would suppose.

@invaderhorizongreen8168 5 месяцев назад

no matter how well versed you are, and no matter how careful you engaging things that can and will go wrong happen.

@Elemarth 4 месяца назад

"The warm waters of Wakulla Springs" someone has never swum in a Florida spring before. From what I've heard, you could make an entire video of deaths in Wakulla Springs, though. Also, I remember a water safety training where it was strongly emphasized that you should never hyperventilate before going underwater, because rather than giving your body extra oxygen, it actually dulls your sense of needing it, so you feel like you can go deeper than you can. If his brother did that, it might have contributed to his death.

@kiddeath1302 4 месяца назад

Thank you !!!! The water is not cold. As a Tallahassee native I was like wtf is he talking about . Also the damn gators should be deterrent enough .

@annag1935 2 месяца назад

The extra oxygen isn't the problem with hyperventilation, it's the lack of CO2, which is the trigger to breathe. Hyperventilation "blows off" (reduces) the normal residual amount of CO2 in our blood.

@unconquered82 5 месяцев назад

If you've never heard of it, check out the murder sinks on the Aucilla river about 30 miles east of Wakulla springs. Two teenage divers discovered a human skull with a bullet hole in August of 1977. I went to school with one of the divers sons. It's covered in the book "Twisted Justice" by Rube Waddell.

@adamrice2847 28 дней назад

Tying himself to the end of the rope so no one would put themselves in danger trying to recover his body has got to be the most selfless expression I have ever heard in your last moments before meeting your maker!

@DrekiTech 5 месяцев назад

I remember reading Dive by Gordon Korman as a kid (got it at the scholastic book fair, hello fellow canadian!), and it talked a lot about decompression and the bends. I never wanted to dive after that, but I've always had the fascination to read/watch more about it. Gives me the feeling of looking over a high cliff, like you're going to jump...

@eletricksity 5 месяцев назад

i got the island and everest series by korman from book fairs! excellent books

@bmxscape 4 месяца назад

one of the only book series i ever read is the 3 dive books

@christianb9172 4 месяца назад

Brilliant author. I read Island, Dive, Everest, and On The Run as a kid. No idea how he had all the expertise necessary to craft those stories. Definitely one of my favorite Canadians.

@eddy73 5 месяцев назад

I find it quite scary people do this cave diving as if it’s something peaceful to do…. Just seeing the visuals and other details to this story makes me feel out of breathe…. I am afraid of drowning so that’s probably why…. Amazing video once again dude! The narration and organization of the video was awesome! 🥇 ❤ Keep it going champ!

@stee8345 5 месяцев назад

This is the perfect example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should "...

@Rocinante808 5 месяцев назад

It goes to show Sheck may’ve had a gene mutation which allowed his body to do better w/ Nitrogen narcosis but he wasn’t immune to helium issues.

@DecrepitBiden 5 месяцев назад

You can hold the WR for whatever you do. Ain't no way I'm gonna try to break your record by diving into a dark, watery hole. My boring life will long live your short, exciting life.

@logangoulet7522 5 месяцев назад

Why you have to put it like that😂

@JoshuaTootell 5 месяцев назад

I'm not a diver, but I'd rather burn out, than fade away.

@JamesKelly89 5 месяцев назад

One of the things that sets this channel apart from others is the atmosphere.

@bambinosbalaclava 5 месяцев назад

I found your channel from one of my business partners and I am not disappointed, really quality narration, great storytelling, and some seriously in-depth information! Very well done sir, if you do all this completely by yourself without a team that’s extremely impressive, you’ve gained an instant subscriber out of me hahaha. I don’t have a lot of time for watching videos anymore with my business venture, but I will watch your videos when I do have spare time. Thank you for the hard work you put into these videos. 🙏🥂🤜🤛

@danielgeci4513 5 месяцев назад

I haven't watched this yet, but I saw 1000ft on the thumbnail and immediately had the thought that is 1/3 the depth of the Titan submersible that imploded on its way to the Titanic. That is an insane depth to go in a dive suit!! It's probably more dangerous than being in space wearing a Space suit

@gyallis4life617 5 месяцев назад

LOVE TO SEE YOUR CHANNEL GROW. I usually let 2 or 3 videos pile up before watching and every time I return you've gained thousands. 🎉🎉 Road to 1 million

@cake4dragons 5 месяцев назад

This was a great video! I'd love it if you did more videos talking about record setting dives or climbs, regardless of if something went wrong. The way you explain the technical details and challenges is so clear and easy to understand. While I would never go cave diving, I now love learning about it because of your videos.

@ramenboii978 5 месяцев назад

The fact that he would still try to put himself in that much danger when he saw not only his brother but others die from the same thing is mind boggling…as much as I’d like to appreciate him for his contributions to cave diving, this man was purely idiotic to have done that

@user-mg8fn1bq9d 11 дней назад

Think about how much further behind humanity would be in terms of advancements without men like him pushing the limits.

@thurayya8905 5 месяцев назад

This was just incredibly sad, perhaps because I am hearing it at a festive time of year. It is especially sad thinking about his friends and wife, alone in the water with their grief, for hours.

@sacjs 5 месяцев назад

It's always the "one last one" that seems to get the great ones

@gregevans6044 5 месяцев назад

The quality of your videos is incomparable. You do an amazing job… thank you!

@equious8413 4 месяца назад

This guy was crazy. You don't continue to casually do an activity that has killed multiple people around you. Absolute lunacy.

@abumohandes4487 5 месяцев назад

I've been to 190 feet on regular air, the limit where O2 itself becomes toxic. Never again. It's just not worth the risk.

@DarenMiller-qj7bu 5 месяцев назад

How long was your deco?

@mirandahotspring4019 5 месяцев назад

At 190m feet the pressure is still less than 7 atmospheres so partial pressure of O2 would only be a bit less than 1.4 atm, still well within safe limits. Partial pressure of N2 would be about 5.6 atm so you'd be experiencing nitrogen narcosis. Oxygen toxicity would be a problem at depths of 290 feet or more.

@abumohandes4487 5 месяцев назад

@@mirandahotspring4019 These things are not absolute nor hard threshold. I was definitely narced, it was like time was slowing down 10 fold. I would have happily spend 20 minutes down there, if it wasn't for my computer urging me up.

@abumohandes4487 5 месяцев назад

@@mirandahotspring4019 The narcosis was really heavy and weird. I was monitoring my depth gauge as I was going down (in meters). 38, 40, 42, 44, 56. Wait, what? 12 meters over the last second? It really felt as if time stood still.

@mirandahotspring4019 5 месяцев назад

@@abumohandes4487 Yes, but you were well within the bounds of oxygen toxicity. Narced is something completely different.

@nekonomicon2983 5 месяцев назад

Imagine looking into a deep blue void of nothingness and believing it's a good idea to dive in.

@Israphel776 4 месяца назад

On the newest episode of "Dipshit dies doing stupid shit" Love these.

@lambchopz817 5 месяцев назад

You bring these stories to life,....EVERYTHING is perfectly timed, & layed out for my brain to accurately bring it to life,...you make things understandable 🎉 TY ☮️❣️🙃

@DingusMcRingus 5 месяцев назад

Nobody thought that he wouldn't come back from a dive someday? That's silly... dude is going 1000 feets down into a pressurized death trap... that's the first thing I think about when I hear these stories. You HAVE TO KNOW that someday you might not come back... don't be silly. Cool video and channel.

@jadenthemonster 5 месяцев назад

Whoooooo time for my daily routine, hot pockets and scary interesting videos! Keep up the amazing work ❤

@bushraa1445 5 месяцев назад

I thoroughly enjoy this captivating and eerie channel. The cave diving stories are truly thrilling, and the narrator's voice is soothing to the ear. Additionally, the music is exceptionally well-chosen, effectively heightening tension and adding to the overall suspense.

@user-rf8ns4tz1r 5 месяцев назад

I can save you the suspense. If it involves cave diving, 9 times out of 10, it ain't a happy ending lol

@bushraa1445 5 месяцев назад

😔@@user-rf8ns4tz1r

@shadowprovesunshine 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Sean- I need to finish decorating for Christmas and will reward myself by getting to watch this in its entirety after I finish! ❤

@williambreeze2659 3 дня назад

Thanks for the upload!

@talbino7821 5 месяцев назад

A deeply tragic story, I salute all the cave divers out there who've managed to conquer their fears and achieve impossible feats. But i really get tired of these beliefs or ideas that people around them hold - that nothing could hold Sheck back, no one could imagine Sheck being in that much danger, Sheck was unconquerable... etc. Sheck himself wouldnt have approved either! I'm sure as a cave diver, he appreciated that nothing could ever be bigger than the cave he was diving in, and there was always a huge risk of death diving into this sinkhole. He paid the ultimate and greatest sacrifice trying to achieve an unachieved record, and showed the world what he was made of while doing it. 🙏

@floboboman 5 месяцев назад

The first time i saw a scarry interesting you tube video was like love at first sight.

@AndreGreeff 2 месяца назад

honestly this is one of the most gut wrenching and awe inspiring story I've ever learnt of.. there have been some absolutely amazing people in this world.. now their story can live on in my memory too, for whatever that's worth.

@duwanbradley8329 5 месяцев назад

Please continue to upload more stories ScaryInteresting. I knew these stories were going to be tragically good and its always very well documented. I LITERALLY learn something educational from your videos every time I am listening like High-pressure neurological syndrome for example I had no idea what that was. It doesn't matter how many times you've explained how serious and safety precautions you have to take when it comes to scuba/cave diving. Drill it to our heads because you just never know you might actually save someone's life someday because they've taken what you've said in account before making decisions not even discouraging anyone you're also spreading out knowledge for viewers who didn't know, or for up comers you just never know 🤷🏾‍♂️💪🏾

@Just_Send_Itt 5 месяцев назад

Please more cavediving videos. Nobody gives me my fix like you do!

@Dan125ize 5 месяцев назад

Interessting indeed. Keep up the good work. I know you put a lot of time and effort into this

@jimhenderson387 5 месяцев назад

What a sad but fascinating story and what a stellar telling of the story! You, sir, are a pro!

@jonbonesmahomes7472 5 месяцев назад

So ,let this sink in. 10 hours deco stop knowing your friend is dead.

@patriciarowe6685 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for all your hard work. Have a wonderful Christmas ❤

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri 5 месяцев назад

❤❤🎄🎄

@patriciarowe6685 5 месяцев назад

@@MaryDoyle-xl2ri Have a wonderful Christmas 🤶 Mary ♥

@Nturner822 5 месяцев назад

Sitting on a deco stop after your buddy drowned has to be up there with the worst of feelings

@kylemitchell6866 4 месяца назад

Love your channel! Glad to hear you are a fellow Canadian as well. Keep the content coming, your narration, topics, and video content is great to listen to and watch. Thank you.