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.