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It never fails to amaze me how easily these cave diving situations go from casual and relaxed from one error compounding into a new set of challenges, that seem to almost always cause even more errors to occur until opportunity is exhausted. Very sad.. and yeah, I can't imagine they were there to thieve metal.

I have to pause the video and just say I absolutely love your channel. The fact that you are willing to say that you don't know it all, and you're very clear where inferences are made or the best educated guesses are made, really builds my confidence that you do a lot of like work and researching these videos. I feel like if you ever wanted to go into a career with teaching you would be phenomenal. I appreciate that you are concise, to the point, and yet still managed to throw in enough side information to paint a clear picture. Kudos to you sir!

I met an amateur cave diver in NW Florida who used to go out to explore natural springs in a small john boat with his young (5- or 6-year-old) son with him. I can't imagine the horror and danger the child would have faced if he never came back.

I cannot believe they never had a cave reel, from what I'm leaning about diving that is like one of the very first things that is taken into consideration

There are so many cases like this, where cave divers die because they ignored things like having a cave reel, spare tank, helmet, etc. In one I watched yesterday, a pair of young guys insisted on going into a narrow space that had a lot of gravel on a slope leading into it--another diver seeing them, tried to get their attention, so he could communicate to them that they shouldn't go in--they either didn't notice, or ignored him...and neither made it out, of course. Took something like ten years for one body to be found, and twenty for the other, despite major efforts made to remove the gravel. Responsible people cemented bars across the entrance to that chamber, but someone else removed them and left a sign saying "you can't stop us from going in". Someone else will die in there, just because people are foolhardy idiots.

This story is new to me. Tragic turn of events. Well put together story!

Very well researched and put together, along with information I hadn’t previously heard. Subscribed and binged the other videos, looking forward to a new one.

No line reel, helmet or spare tanks! OMG

when i thought i had heard any diving related accident story thats worth telling, i found your channel and you have some i didnt know yet. thanks.

I love those stories. Thank you sir.

Thanks for the great work.

In the same vein as maddoctor99’s reference to the Incident Pit model of accident causation, there is another model I find useful called the Swiss Cheese model. There is a Wikipedia page with that exact title that gives a full description. It is usually used in aviation accident study, but it fits diving equally well. Basically, it involves lining up multiple slices of Swiss Cheese each representing an action that could be a precursor to a serious accident. So long as the next slice does not have a hole that lines up with the first, the potential accident path is stopped. However, if all the slices for a given accident sequence have holes that line up, then the accident will happen. Though mostly used for accident investigation, it can also work well for planning. BTW, I REALLY enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.

Man, i love your videos, but i did enjoy them when there was no music on the background or when it was so low that you couldn't realise it was there, like the old ones. gave a intensity which was second to none but please, keep up !

I found your channel today. Set down and watched every video. Amazing work, very well done. Subbed and looking forward to new content.

Excellent execution; esp so on an incident I never heard about. Much more that generic first impressions of a unique if boring little swim in a tall smooth tube. Facilities attached; rooms, corridors ... and an obstacle course of sharp obstructions.

People who make a mistake cave diving generally only do it once.

Me too dang you need more people your content is great !

Excellent quality! Very impressive.

Great content keep up the great videos

I'll never understand the thought process behind cave diving without a guideline/cave reel. In my mind that's as essential in any cave environment as the pressurized air itself is to any underwater environment (as well as triplicate light sources, ideally with backup chemical sticks, a dive tool/knife, and a pre-dive conference about basic safety eg thirds rule, safety checks, points of failure, emergency plans, etc before each and every trip into the water). The risk of a silt-out in caving is just too damn high and too damn dangerous to ever go in without a line. Not meaning to sound harsh here, as this was obviously a tragedy and much respect goes to Aidas for searching for someone he thought was in trouble. It's just hard to watch so many of these cases as a fellow diver and to and know that so much sadness is preventable with proper preparation and a respect for the fallacy of overconfidence and Murphy's Law 😔

4.40 there's a graffiti deck on the wall lol. Great content thanks

The Dutch, who’ve had centuries of battling the sea, have an aphorism: The water always wins.

Waterline you have to put out more videos at a higher rate. Your videos are so damn interesting, can't stop watching and now I've run out.

What exactly is etched in the round disc type object at timestamp 4:40?

It’s so easy to get disoriented and I’m guessing they had a back up torch if that goes it’s definitely game over . Always have a line

He was trying to find his friend. 😢 Very sad.

You must have see those young guys from Ukraine who try diving under Chernobyl with home made driving gear last year ?

What the hell were they thinking? Surely they could find somewhere safer to dive than a missle silo (especially an old, delapeted Russian one, Sorry Russia) and they were joking about how safe/unsafe it could be. It's a train wreck waiting to happen.

Cave diving is the epitome of fuck around and find out

I'll never understand why more tec divers aren't on CCR's

....where is the link!?! I checked the description...it's not there...???

I love Spelunking !! But doing it underwater?? Hard pass. It’s hard enough crawling around and making it out safe.

At least in the US, law enforcement investigates crimes. once it was largely confirmed as non criminal, a law enforcement death investigation stops. A coroner’s inquest may continue on until they are satisfied the death was accidental. Any further than that would be private investigators work.

I’ve dove in a decommissioned missile silo. It was awesome

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Who goes without a line? Thats just crazy.

You’d make a great video about the Kursk submarine disaster. I know it’d be difficult gathering evidence but your story telling style would make up for it.

If they were thieves it would be pretty stupid to film it and put it on YT. So seems unlikely.

Sad to say but I doubt that my home country has resources and necessary people to do any investigation without involving other countrys expert cave divers in extreme places as that

Why he had not helmet and they had no guide wire we'll never know. Maybe if they had those he may be home drinking vodka. I don't understand certian decisions

0:36 Those look like ww2 reenactors

Play Stupid games win stupid prizes

You can generally track back out of places on land or softer land. Take some sort of trail marker. Sad .

Why do I see fake film scratches on the video when I watch this? Is that something you have put on for effect, or something to game or defeat the KZfaq algorithm somehow? Or something else?

For lack of a cave line :(

Are you South African bru? 😁👏👋

Hmm. Interesting 🤔

Preposterous to make such a dive without a cave reel and line. It is literally your lifeline.

How can you dive without a line?

No Link?

Why aren’t the “ western Lawyers “ who are acting on behalf of these Somalia boat kidnappers charged with Aiding &Abetting criminal activity . Namely ,when they are acting as a“ Go-between “ in exchanging ransom money for the release of the ship & crew ..?? It would be extremely difficult to collect any financial ransom demanded for this criminal action .

Whule watching this video i farted the instant he talked about cabe divers and feecal matter tainted my pants .

Great clip, but a tip when referring to former Sovjet countries, they do not like the word comrade, compatriot or something might be better. For obvious reasons

You may not believe it, and honestly you may *NOT* Want To a believe It. However, You Must Look a at The Context of These Countries !!! Eastern Europe most assuredly is not comparable to Western Europe. They are not quite third world, but definitely not 1st world either !! All that metal down there !? Metal is worth a lot of money !! In a poor country !!? Metal theft is common in America / Canada / The Western World !! If it is common here, & valuable …. Imagine how valuable and common it is there !!! If they are getting even *SEMI FAIR* Prices from their buyer …. They are making really, *REALLY GOOD $* For Their Countries standards ! Hell it is good money in our country, so if they are getting semi fair prices then it is amazing money to them !!

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It's funny because when I make content citing people who "know what happened" I'm called a crank. But this guy, he gets away with it.

Top quality KZfaq account! May the Algorithm Gods be with you 🫡