Cave Exploring Gone WRONG | The Shaft Cave Disaster

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I'm beginning to be convinced that scuba divers and cavers are the only members of the human race who are truly built different. Imagine being an intelligent fish, building yourself a breathing machine for dry land, and deciding that climbing Mt Everest was an exciting proposition. That's essentially what divers do.

One lesson I've learned from all these cave diving stories is that if you're in a cave diving team, being the person that decides it's a bad day to go into the water is the easiest way to not die in a cave.

It would be so scary to be diving in a dark cave and then suddenly there's an extra person next to you that turns out to be a corpse. What a nightmare!

Imagine being the first diver to enter an uncharted body of water in Australia. God knows what creatures from hell could have been in there!

God I can’t imagine the pain Glen went through losing his brother and sister in an instant, being unable to do anything about it. I’m surprised the land owners let anyone go into The Shaft after that tragic incident where 4 people died and their bodies were stuck in there somewhere, but I’m glad the filming crew were able to find them so they could be safely recovered and given a proper resting place. Whole thing is heartbreaking tho.

Being underwater is one of my greatest fears, let alone being trapped underwater in a cave. I will never understand why people enjoy it.

Dying in the freezing, dark abyss while slowly starving of oxygen sounds like one of the worst ways to go. I really feel for these divers, but the brother and sister holding one another at least gives somewhat of a comforting thought.

Imagine being Glen, watching his sister swim off and deciding to surface without signaling her, and then never seeing her again. The survivor's guilt he must have 😢

I love that unlike other channels that recount tragedies, you don’t try to dramatize them. You say what happened without having to play horror movie music in the background and you don’t tell the stories as if every single one is a ghost story with malicious actors. Just respectfully telling of tragic events and always remembering to warn the viewer that these activities should be carried out by professionals.

Cave diving is like entering a labyrinth that is going to kill you if you can't find the exit in time.

Hey everyone! You may have seen this one before, but hopefully, this visualizes it unlike any other version you've seen. Have a great week!

Good thing I now know to turn around during cave exploring once I hear this music

My pop was a cave diver (founding member and president of the CDAA) and he was a big part of this rescue/retrieval. He worked with the police as a professional cave diver to do most local rescues and retrievals. Cave diving is a beautiful and intriguing skill. There were lots of accidents (unqualified people who didn’t take the danger seriously) prior to this and as there were very little regulations (it was the 60’s and 70’s after all), it was required that there was a national board who could verify if divers were qualified and could safely conduct dives. As mentioned, these people were all qualified in diving but not cave diving. They’re insanely different. I feel very lucky to know the cave divers I do and live in Mount Gambier. It’s a beautiful area and I’m really glad that the CDAA exists to ensure accidents like this don’t happen (and that if they do, there is people like my pop to help those below water to save them or bring them home to rest).

A good number of my classmates (Geology) were avid cavers. Everyone one of them knew first hand of someone who died while cave diving or being caught in a flooding cave when a storm went by. It seems like one of those activities where the margin of error is so insanely thin, any little hiccup can be fatal. I had to do some caving as part of my class work. Never got a taste for it even in dry conditions.

As someone who dived to 42 meters/ 137 feet (for PADI Deep Diver Certification), I could feel how dissolved oxygen becomes as you go deeper... it's like the air you breathe isn't filling your lungs the same way and your breathing rhythm goes a lot faster because your lungs never feel full. Plus, nitrogen narcosis also does take effect impairing vision as discussed in the video. We only stayed for 2 minutes to practise a few things with my instructor. And then slowly resurfaced. My jaw just dropped when I heard of these poor people going all the way down to 185, with each second, they are getting higher on nitrogen narcosis, having difficulty properly breathing. Everything around them is pitch dark, it's like out of a horror story. It's so shocking and tragic that they took such a risk. RIP to all the crew.

Out of all the cave diving stories, this one disturbs me more than most. I'm not sure if it's just the large loss of life or just thinking about the idea of each diver coming to the realization they are about to drown one by one in span of just a few minutes of eachother.

You showing who was back up and who was still down was amazingly helpful. On the stories with large amounts of people please keep doing this going forward.

I have heard about this disaster before, but I learned in your video why that strange rock pile was under the hole. For some reason, that makes this story even spookier. The divers literally have to swim past a huge pile of rocks tossed in in an attempt to close the hole and make this situation safer.

My heart rate skyrockets during these cave diving accident videos. Geez.