They Ignored The WARNING SIGNS | Cave Exploring Gone WRONG

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This channel has taught me 3 things: never go into a cave, never go scuba diving, and never EVER combine the two

The first warning sign they ignored was the ominous music at the cave entrance.

"Where the beer cans ends is a 30ft depression" Straight up brother

These rescue personnel are a special breed of human.

I love that Mike and Roman both survived their harrowing experience.

Agnes Milowka was an extremely skilled cave diver, but more importantly, she was an underwater cave explorer. She mapped out thousands upon thousands of metres of new cave passages and also was the first person to ever make the connection between Peacock Springs and Baptizing Spring, laying over 9,800 feet of new lines across new passages. Unfortunately it was her extreme desire to continue pushing the limits when exploring and mapping new passages that ended up being her demise, but it’s also what made her such a legend… few people have mapped as much new passages as her.

I get the whole schtick behind caving but still will never understand how people do it without that little itch in the back of your head like “maybe this is a bad idea…” I remember being like 12 years old with my friends and we found an open manhole leading to the sewers underground. As soon as I saw the ladder leaning down my brain was like “nope I know you’re an idiot but you’re not that dumb” lmao

In 1998, I was 14 years old, and I nearly Nutty Putty'd/ Wildcat Cave'd myself in a dry section of Bronson Cave at Spring Mill. I thought I was some kind of an expert because I'd been technical caving a whopping total of three times! Took me about an hour, one long, exhausted hour to contort my body and back myself out most of the way. Much of that time I was consumed with panic, hyperventilating, praying, and at one point sobbing profusely. Of course I had tackled the passage by myself and hadn't told my friends where I was going. They didn't locate me until I had nearly gotten myself out. And thankfully they did, because try as I might, I couldn't back out of the final section due to exhaustion, angle, and gravity. A couple friends were able to hear my shrieking, and after some of the smaller guys could get to me, they were able to pull me out by my ankles. Even at the age of 40, I still have an occasional nightmare about it.

"They thought they could tackle it without ropes" Me: Oh noooo.

I don’t like to hold on to blame/judgement when hearing stories like this, but damn, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing in that second story. I hope the young man is living a full life now, still, it boggles my mind that anyone would think they were a good enough climber to scale a wet, vertical wall without equipment. The other man was exceedingly lucky imo, bc there comes a point when no amount of skill can overcome the basic structure of a cave. I’m glad they both survived and cheers to the rescue team for helping despite the tricky circumstances

Mike's a real fucking friend tho. What a homie

For me, all the cave diving videos are claustrophobic. Swimming around rocks and caves is just not my thing.

Me and a few of my friends went pot holing on our way to Edale, Derbyshire England. It’s in the Peak district. We had no gear, just lights and a camera. We had no experience, just dumb kids in the 90s. We spent hours down there squeezing through tight gaps. How we didn’t get lost I’ve no idea. I remember one of our friends was petrified. Which prompted us to leave. Hearing these stories makes me realise how lucky and stupid we were.

As another of your viewers once said " the great thing about caving is that you don't have to do it"

It's always really heartwarming to hear that other cavers are willing and ready to use their experience and expertise to rescue others, regardless of how they got there. I suppose some part of you always recognizes it could be you needing help, regardless of how prepared you are.

Your cave exploration videos are the most terrifying ones to me in a way none of the other ones are. The disappearances and terrible fates are awful, and the mountain ones sad, but the cave ones chill me to my bone. The guy in the second story was so lucky to survive and be successfully rescued. Thanks as always, Sean.

I've heard of Agnes and her story before. I always thought the same thing every time i heard it. With the way she always followed the safety rules of cave diving, bringing more equipment than necessary for redundant safety, it always bothered me when i heard about her dive buddy being too big to fit into some of the passages that she could. I always wondered why she didn't just find a smaller dive buddy since the majority of her dives were in tight restrictions discovering new passages and tunnels as she was mapping out the cave. If 80% of the time, your buddy can't follow, he's not a whole lot of good. If he were there with her when she got stuck, he could've helped dislodge her so she didn't burn thru her oxygen doing it alone. At least she was doing what she loved. She lived more than most.

Major lesson in all this: NEVER assume that you're too skilled to die. NEVER assume that you, "don't need," equipment. People more skilled and better equipped than you have almost definitely died doing less dangerous spelunking and diving expeditions than you.

there is a reason why humans left caves and started living in houses they built they selves.