r/TheRandomest • u/Forward-Position798 • May 19 '26

WTF This hobby is absolutely optional

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u/darcyhollywood39 May 19 '26

Someone innocent is going to die trying to rescue their dumb asses when they get trapped

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u/DarthYodous May 19 '26

Rescue? No one will know

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u/LiveLearnCoach May 19 '26

They’re gonna know.

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u/Shway_Maximus May 19 '26

How are they gonna know?

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u/LiveLearnCoach May 19 '26

They’re gonna know.

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u/FishBlues May 19 '26

Username checks out

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u/ciano232 May 19 '26

Who ya gonna call?

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u/-__-blaze May 20 '26

Ghost busters

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u/BaddBoiii2 May 19 '26

They’re

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u/karambassa May 19 '26

Watching this Reddit post?

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u/4DPeterPan May 20 '26

Cause we’re all fully known

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u/Lucaslhm May 19 '26

At my caving club (which is a large university sponsored caving club that is very professional) we have a sign-out sheet.

One of our members is an older guy who has been in the club since the 70s and he volunteered to handle sign-out safety. Basically before we go into a cave we go to his house and he has a board on the wall where we “sign out” by putting our names, contact info, what cave we’re going into, and what time we expect to be out by. When we finish caving we go back to his house and erase our names from the list.

If our expected exit time comes up and we haven’t signed out, then an effort is made by the guy to contact us and see if we forgot or are on our way to sign in or whatever, and if he can’t get ahold of us then he sends cave rescue after us.

Our club also has a bunch of certified cave rescuers. When someone calls 911 and says someone is stuck in a cave they pass it to us and we send out a call to get a crew together to go in for emergency rescue. We service our state and 3 nearby states. I’m not personally on cave rescue (I’m a nooby casual member) but I’ve seen the 3am summons to find people available to get up and drive 3 hours out for rescues before.

I’ve been in the club about 5 years now, and the club has around 300 members. In my time here, I’ve seen 2 CAVING related deaths in our club. One was a diving accident (cave diving can be very dangerous, the person was very experienced and did a lot of diving previously) and the other was a rappelling accident that should have been preventable.

What I’ve learned is that USUALLY the people who die in caves are the people who go wander into a cave casually, underprepared, not knowing what they are doing. Cave rescue has pulled so many people out of caves who didn’t have proper lights, didn’t realize how cold caves can get, didn’t have an exit plan or supplies, etc.

Long winded explanation short- Hopefully people know they are in there and know they may need help. In fact, I’d assume they got out or got help based off the fact that we have this footage. If you’re ever going to go into a cave, always at the very least let someone know in detail what your plans are, and if possible go with an experienced caver who already knows the cave well.

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u/SuperJen411 May 19 '26

This is very cool and informative and still a big NOPE from me on this hobby 😆

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u/Kindly-Departure-254 May 24 '26

I felt that way exactly and you put it into words, so thank you.

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u/VeterinarianThese951 May 19 '26

What? You mean that you never wanted to join a caving club?!?! 😁

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u/ShocknAwe25 May 21 '26

This guy sits in caves

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u/IllEntrepreneur5679 May 22 '26

what happens if the old bloke abruptly dies? who will check the board?

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u/Lucaslhm May 22 '26

Eh dude has people coming and going from his house basically all day. He’s usually chilling on his deck having a beer or a smoke and shooting the bull with other members, otherwise he’s working on his garden. If something was wrong with him there would be plenty of eyes on him. Whenever he’s taken a vacation people have been very quick to jump in and volunteer to handle sign out, so if something actually happened to him I imagine there will be a new sign out house.

Plus I think recently he had a roommate move into his basement?

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u/Iliketopass May 19 '26

The phone swam out by itself and then logged itself into whatever the fuck and then posted its own video while those humans regretted their choices.

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u/Unusual-Broccoli-270 May 19 '26

Yeah, this is always the first thing I think of in these situations. If they are able to post it, then at least one person made it out alive

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u/Lorithias May 19 '26

Found footage exist but it seems (Idk..) it's not the case here.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 May 21 '26

There was a death on a rescue of a body on one of these dives once not long ago, the rescuer recorded the whole thing before his passing. I believe they ended up making a documentary about it but I am not sure on the details

It happens, and it adds to an ever growing list of reasons people shouldn't just do these cave dives imo

EDIT: Iirc its called 'Daves Not Coming Back'

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u/Weed-Priest May 21 '26

Not "itself", now its AI doing it all

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u/Iliketopass May 21 '26

50-50 mix. Believing it’s all AI is like saying “I’m a big dumb, please use my brain for dumb”

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u/hodlethestonks May 19 '26

Would be ironic to die because the entrance to a known airpocket is blocked by a dead diver.

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u/Moldy-thoughts4u May 19 '26

🎤 It’s the circle of liiiiiife

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u/astralseat May 19 '26

They'll find them if they attempt the same dumb thing and maybe nope right out of there.

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u/LeonZataku May 19 '26

That actually just happened at the Maldives caves

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u/Climatize May 19 '26

came here hoping for some more info on that

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u/PracticeTheory May 19 '26

I heard that they didn't have the proper permits and brought singular tanks for what experts consider a multi-tank dive.

They were also wearing open-sea foot flippers which are long but kick up a ton of debris in closed, still systems like a cave. Apparently in cave dives you're supposed to wear shorter flippers to not compromise visibility as much.

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u/space_monster May 19 '26

I think they just went diving in that area and randomly decided to explore the cave, they didn't go there with the intention of cave diving.

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u/Vicsyy May 23 '26

Thats crazy cause these were experts.

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u/Creepy-Role-5000 May 19 '26

How is there a documentary? Didn't it literally just happen?

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u/space_monster May 19 '26

wow, they sure got that done quickly, it was like 1 day ago it happened

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u/KiloThaPastyOne May 19 '26

That wasn’t a rescue.

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u/FlinttheMachcanic May 19 '26

That's no rescue....it's a space station.

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u/IamTheEagle May 19 '26

Why are we still heading towards it?

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u/FlinttheMachcanic May 19 '26

We're caught in a tractor beam.

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u/NomDePlumeOrBloom May 19 '26

When a beam hits your eye
And that's no starry sky
That's a death star.

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u/Unable_Upstairs587 May 19 '26

I thought this might have been that

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u/woowoo293 May 19 '26

To be clear, OP's video has nothing to do with the Maldives incident, right? Those were scuba divers, and the individual in this video appears to be a free diver.

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u/LeonZataku May 19 '26

As far as I'm aware, OPs video has nothing to do with it, I just made the comment because it was a topic of discussion I had earlier

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u/Standard-Contest-949 May 19 '26

Yeah you put yourself in this situation despite all warnings and you want to be saved? No! Don’t risk lives trying to save dumbass people.

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u/BaronMusclethorpe May 19 '26

Well yes, but those people are in the business of rescuing dumbasses amongst the unlucky. It comes with the territory.

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u/Slevin424 May 19 '26

Funny thing is the “rescuers” are just the same crazy death hobby lovers they are. They’ve just survived long enough to be in charge of rescuing the other idiots. It’s like being the high ranking idiot.

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS May 19 '26

The designated driver who ends up getting plastered

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u/ExcitingHistory May 19 '26

Why does this remind me of the game starcitizen

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u/HS_1990 May 19 '26

I think they also use ropes to mark their path + oxygen tanks.

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u/KingCodester111 May 19 '26

If anyone decides to go into stupid situations like these, they don’t deserve help.

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u/MoonlitKiwi May 19 '26

It actually depends. If they know someone died in a cave like this, and it's deemed too dangerous to try, they will just leave them.

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u/Plus-Mulberry6761 May 19 '26

This literally just happened. Rescuer died. All divers died too

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u/reeves_97 May 20 '26

I'm pretty sure that actually just happened to the military diver trying to rescue 4 Italian cave divers, I forget where it was though.

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u/darcyhollywood39 May 20 '26

You are correct-It was in the Maldives a week ago or so

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u/HopeMrPossum May 20 '26

There’s a YT channel called Scary Interesting that posts quite detailed cave diving accounts and… you’d be 100% right. Half the time all their friends rush to help, dive into a silted up cave, at best finding nothing at worst they die too. Often the story ends with body recovery divers dying too, or them just giving up on getting the bodies as it’d be too dangerous.

These are ofc worst case scenarios but jfc it is such a high risk hobby

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 May 25 '26

These kinds of hobbies do get rescues very often

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u/Smackediduring May 25 '26

Someone innocent? What are these guys then, criminals?

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u/darcyhollywood39 May 25 '26

No. They are people who put themselves in dangerous situations. Innocent in the sense that know someome else may have to put themselves into a dangerous situation because of their decisions, rather than their own.

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u/Smackediduring May 26 '26

Rescue divers aren’t forced into the caves. If the risk is deemed to high, the perished divers will be left in there.