Sucked into unknown cave | The Ricard and Denisio Diving Disaster

Big props to third man overcoming social pressure effects and saying no.

The guy that left because there was no guide rope was the smartest one. Better safe than sorry🙏🏻

Massive respect to the rescue divers who put their lives on the line to save "professionals" who were foolish and reckless.

My brother went underwater cave exploring. His headlight went out. He became disoriented and had no idea which way to go. By pure luck he brushed the flipper of a fellow diver and was able to get out with him. Cave diving is no joke.

I’m liking the friend who recognised just how recklessly irresponsible Ricard and Denisio were being, and had the good sense to turn back and gtfo. Finally someone sensible in these videos!

So… what part of this “sucked” them in to an “unknown cave?” Seems they willingly wiggled in there according to your story.

I find cave diving and splunking more horrifying than any scary film ever made.

As an ex-scuba diver with many years of experience, the primary mission of putting a dive-line (life line) into a place where you have no direct access to a safe and unobstructed ascent above you (and an umbilical from you to it if you feel unsafe) should be something of a no brainer... Being an action junkie is all cool, being reckless is not. Also, plan the dive and dive the plan. If you're having second thoughts when you are there regardless of life line or not, go back. There are no medals awarded anyways.

There is an ENORMOUS skill gap between diving, and cave diving, and a big gap between cave diving and cave exploration(where no lines exhist and no maps have been made.) Most people dont realize how dangerous it is. There are only a handful of cave explorers in the world that are skilled enough to do it semi regularly and still be alive.

The 5 of us used to go caving. I thought it was fun. Didn't have a problem with small spaces. Until I got stuck in a crevice head first. After 10 minutes of being stuck, my friends managed to pull me out. Still have the scars on my shoulder blades. I will NEVER, EVER go into a small space again. I'm actually getting very claustrophobic watching this.

Broke virtually every rule in Sheck Exley’s book “Basic Cave Diving”. A book literally written from the mistakes of divers who dived in caves. Miraculous that anyone survived and that none of the rescuers were killed.

Those rescue divers are heroes.

If that third friend ever needs a kidney, Denisio better step up and donate one. The friend going with Corporal Agiri to help with the rescue was incredibly risky and selfless, especially since he’d tried to talk Ricard and Denisio out of going in the first place

No one mentioning how they managed to get a near death, sedated man back through the underwater passage that was barely big enough for one diver to get through. That's the hero moment and I'm baffled that it isn't explained here.

Diver that left was a true professional. He knew without the dive rope they could very easily die

at this point i've seen so many videos about cave diving deaths, i'm amazed that anyone does it at all still.

They dove into a cave without a guide line?? Just THAT proves that they were utterly incompetent to undertake such a venture. I want to go diving with their friend, the one who had the common sense to turn back when he realized that what they were doing was stupid. I never like to hear of someone dying, but it's just so difficult not to think, what exactly did they expect to happen?

When I told my mom I was interested in cave diving, she told me no freaking way, that I'm free to snowboard, do parkour, skydive, and whatever other extreme hobby I like, but stay away from cave diving. I promised my mom no matter how much I want that adrenaline rush cave diving would bring, I wouldn't do it. Finding this channel made me realize how dangerous cave diving really is.

I doubt they "took a long look at each other gave a thumbs up then kept swimming inside." A thumbs up means you're going to ascend. The editorializing and "dramatic language" in these stories just annoys me.

They forgot the guideline. That’s like forgetting the parachute when skydiving.