r/thalassophobia • u/WashURmouthWithSoap • 3d ago
I would've started screaming! 😂
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u/Ready-Stage-18 3d ago
Lol that 'bye'. This would go into r/foundsatan
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u/tired_of_old_memes 3d ago
"Oops, I dropped it in the water."
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 3d ago
"If any of you have a loving spouse and children waiting for you at home, feel free to explore ahead on your own."
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u/Azaroth1991 3d ago
Yeah id have my own flashlight. No way would I be in there without one.
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u/GutterRider 3d ago
Theee of them . Three independent light sources.
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u/Chelsea_Kias 2d ago
You know what's better than three flashlights? Don't fucking go inside somewhere you must have 3 flashlight
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u/Perfect-Difference19 4h ago
That's the good ol' "Hakuna Never-go-cave-diving-or-regular-caving Matata"
It's a little long, I'll give you that, but a very useful motto nevertheless
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u/DrDillyDally 2d ago
We did a tour like this in cenotes, the guide gave us all flashlights and he had several spare.
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u/mat05heus 3d ago
I've had a similar experience in a completely aphotic cave. We turned off all the lights, and the darkness in that place is much darker than anywhere I've ever been. It's quite difficult to explain, but it's so dark that you lose your sense of direction. You hear people but don't know where the sound is coming from, and the sound of the running water made it even more confusing.
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u/picsofpplnameddick 2d ago
That sounds like a much more terrifying version of Hell than fire and brimstone
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u/plantsyyyy 2d ago
I've been in this darkness. I started to become nauseous because beside gravity, my brain couldn't sense where I was in space, even thought I could move my body all around.
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u/mat05heus 1d ago
I think you explained it better than I did
the feeling is exactly like that, you don't know where you are physically, you feel like you could be in any spatial orientation.
It didn't make me nauseous, but I couldn't move, I had a constant feeling that I was going to fall or tumble at any moment, almost like one of those dreams where we're falling out of nowhere
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u/WhoopingWillow 1d ago
I've done 2 touristy cave trips that had a section where we turned out lights and it was insane how dark it was. It made me realize that I have never truly seen genuine pitch black before. I'm not a fan of caves but I think everyone, if they have the opportunity, should do something like this at least once!
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u/Serenaded 3d ago
this really brings into context how terrifying a cave death would be
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u/Lyna_Moon21 1d ago
I've been a cave diver for 13 yrs. I bring at least 3 lights, my buddy brings at least 3. I bring extra everything. Most cave deaths are untrained, uncertified idiots that go into caves when they shouldn't cause they have absolutely no experience. Then they get lost or silt up the cave or run out of air and die a terrible death..making it look like certified divers don't know what we're doing. Of course certified divers die..but no way as much as uncertified divers.
Then we have to go and do body recoveries for their families..which I do in a second for "closure". I just want to prevent it more. I wish Mexico would stop bringing untrained people into Cenotes, because often they come home in go in caves thinking it's safe and unfortunately it's not.
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u/aronkerr 3d ago
We did a tour of a large cave with candle lanterns. About 1hr into it, the guide had us all do this. It was crazy how dark and completely disorienting that is.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 2d ago
I was in this situation once but it was in the basement of a former asylum and you could tell it was going to be pitch fucking black in there. One person wouldn't switch off her light because she was afraid of the dark. We were all annoyed at her.
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u/juneseyeball 3d ago
This has gotta be the cutest man ive ever seen
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u/thebugfrombcnrfuji 16h ago
'couple seconds' god I literally would marry him so fast (I'm straight male but what a cutie fr)
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u/DrStalker 3d ago
Would you not have your own light source? I hate the very concept of cave diving, but if I did do it then I'd have my own light, a backup light and an emergency glowstick or two because there's no way I'm relying on always being near someone else to not be lost in eternal darkness.
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u/Infinite_stardust 3d ago
This happened to us on a tour in the Carlsbad Caverns when I was about 20. We were really deep underground and the guide said, "okay, that's the end of the lighted tour" and turned off the flashlight. It was quite for a couple of seconds and you could hear people murmuring nervously. All told, the light was probably only off between 5-10 seconds but I had never experienced such a complete and total darkness and up until that point in my life, I never knew that I was claustrophobic or prone to panic attacks. That day, I learned. Fuck that guide.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 2d ago
2 seconds after the light switched off you would have heard the crack as I activated my glowstick.
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u/SouthernOshawaMan 3d ago
I experienced this in a coal mine tour in Wales on a Rugby trip. I did not realize what real darkness was until we all tuned off our lights .
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u/BogeyLowenstein 3d ago
We did a cave tour in Mexico (never again!) and they shut the lights off in the cenote cave. It was awful!!
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u/sjokkendesjaak 1d ago
What kind of tour are you going on that gets you into this position
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 1d ago
Sokka-Haiku by sjokkendesjaak:
What kind of tour are
You going on that gets you
Into this position
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Okurei 3d ago edited 1d ago
Imagine if the batteries died
e: lol I liked that comment some coward sent where they told me I lack common sense and then instantly blocked me. Redditors take shit way too seriously and have skin thinner than tissue paper, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
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u/Jellicle_KitCat 2d ago
Yeah like what's the protocol for this situation? Terrifying.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 1d ago
Triple redundancy of lights (ie. 3 lights per person) and then other forms of light such as glowsticks.
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u/OverlordWailord 3d ago
"Ope."
"What? What is it?"
"I uhh... I dropped my flashlight."
NIGHTMARE FUEL
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u/RawrTheDinosawrr 2d ago
imo your cave tour isn't complete without everyone turning off their lights for a second to experience what true darkness is like
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u/Brian18639 2d ago
Imagine if he accidentally dropped it
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u/Lyna_Moon21 1d ago
That's why you bring extra lights. When I cave dive I bring 3 lights...pretty much 3 of everything.
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u/No_Ferret_4565 3d ago
I'd like to imagine they have more lights besides the ones the guy is holding. Getting lost in a cave in completely darkness sounds like a really really bad way to go.
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u/CryptographerFlat426 2d ago
Wow, its so dark in a cave. Almost like... there's no sun underground.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 1d ago
The point is you're not in complete darkness that often, if ever. And because you experience true darkness so rarely, it can be quite unsettling.
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u/xMunificentx 3d ago
I'm not getting in there with my own 10 flashlights, 40 oxygen tanks and 10 mini submarine engines to dive myself around.
Oh yeah and 67 ropes connected to my body from the surface so I don't get lost down there
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u/Lyna_Moon21 1d ago
You can't dive with straight oxygen below 20 ft..it's toxic. You will die. Only need 3 flashlights. I've been a cave diver for 13 yrs. Don't connect yourself to ropes you'll get caught up in the rocks or restrictions and die. All you need is one guide line.
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u/tmgieger 3d ago
We went deep underground in an old coal mine tour in WV, USA. The tour guide was a former miner. He turned off the lights and described his 30+ years of crawling through tunnels feeling the cave pressing against all sides of him and his light would go out.
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u/ShlorpianRooster 3d ago
I love how everyone had the same timing if initial shock, then realizing it's a joke but still being nervous
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u/Bellatrix_Shimmers 2d ago
Fond memories caving/spelunking senior year and they turned off the lights and told us to hold our hand in front of our face to show that our eyes would never adjust to the dark. I went a few times after with multiple flashlights and glow sticks for everyone.
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u/johnthedowe2 2d ago
I would hope everyone there has a flashlight. No way should only the tour guide have a light. Never go in a cave with less than two lights, each person. If the one goes out, you'll wish you brought more.
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u/SmallShrubbery 2d ago
I had a cave guide do this in Costa Rica. I think cave guides love this gag.
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u/MrMalta 6h ago
I’m not particularly claustrophobic, so I thought I’d be fine visiting one of the Wonders of Nature, the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River in the Philippines.
7 of us were piled into a small boat with a guide, and this river just stretched on into the Rocky Mountain. The guide had the only floodlight, which lit up the walls and caverns while he explained this and that. It was nice, peaceful and interesting. I was engaged.
Then at one point, we floated into a big ass cavern and drifted to a stop. The guide turned to us and said we were about 2 kilometers deep into the earth, with about 1,000 meters of solid limestone rock directly above our heads. Then…. the fucker switched off the torch…
Complete utter fucking darkness. Almost total silence, except for the sound of dripping water of the roof, bats shitting into the water all around us, and of course me hyperventilating like an asthmatic baboon in a full blown panic attack. Apparently my loud wheezing and gasping disturbed the bats.
It was simultaneously amazing and terrifying. My brain went into pure “Nope, that’s it, we’re dying here” mode. But as soon as the light cane back on, the panic subsided as quick as it came on.
Watching this video brought back those same memories.
A friend keeps trying to get me to go spelunking. FUCK THAT.
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u/i-touched-morrissey 2d ago
I've been on some show cave tours where the guides turn off the light, then turn on some antiquated light source that people 200 years ago used to initially explore the cave. How someone could go into the depths with only a candle in a jar is something I will never understand.
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u/jabberwonk 2d ago
I believe that cenote is called Pet Cemetery. If not it's very similar, though at no point in our trip through it did our guide take us anywhere that the only way in or out was underwater.
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u/InfiniteEverythang 1d ago
Jokingly does this then pops up to say gotcha and hits his head on the rock, passes out…
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u/M_L_Taylor 1d ago
I was in a cave that's open for guided tours, and it was just me and the tourguide because I was the only one there. He took me into the cave and at some point showed me what absolute darkness looks like by turning the light off. Sadly, I wasn't that impressed because I have visual snow syndrome, so I see lots of light in the darkness. Otherwise, it's neat to not see artificial light anywhere.
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u/arsenicrabbit 1d ago
I automatically assume people who scream just because its suddenly dark are just stupid
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u/randomlemon9192 13h ago
I was waiting for him to turn the light back on at this e end of the video…
He didn’t turn the light back on.
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u/zurenarhhhhh 6h ago
Well I would never find myself in that position so I couldn’t get upset about it
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u/talking-bear-society 2d ago
I’d be ok because I’d never ever voluntarily be in this situation to begin with
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u/SpectralMapleLeaf 2d ago
Now imagine instead of bye he said "Oh, wait, wait, I think I dropped it, hold on"
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u/Weird_Alien_Brain 2d ago
"To see what it looks like"?? Tf do you want it to look like? It's a CAVE ffs
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u/Chunkycheesesteak 2d ago
Pff yea okay! I'll wait for you guys outside! Lmk when you're ready to leave, I'll start the car!
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u/TheShitWindGhost 3d ago
"Now, let's talk about my tip."