Izayah Rush Hey little brother

When you're the best, you don't need to clickbait.

yes, yes we can. Everyone please a moment of silence for Mr.Ballen not clickbaiting

Lily Kane walker *shits pants*

CHET ! You realize you just fell for this clickbait right?

someone could kill you like this in a very sick and twisted way..

Right???

I gave a thumbs up to your comment simply because of your avatar and name. Jigglypuff is my all-time favorite.

No way in hell am I gonna do any of this.

@Andy Jonnson is this a wild guess? Or premonition? Scary comment my dude

Same girl--- or boy

"My child I love you. But don't expect me to be dragging your ass outta that hole if something happens to you. It's insensitive I know. But it beats being dead." Is essentially how I'll say it to my kids.

good luck with that

I just never understand why those dudes risked their lives and died for a damn skeleton.. he's gone. I understand the sentiment, but there's a reason the bodies on Everest stay there..it's not worth risking living people for a corpse. The parents should have told those guys it isn't worth it..i don't remotely understand why you would do that

@@Genshin_impact_stan or man - or woman

Yeah, cave diving is terrifying and while i'm curious, i'd never feel comfortable despite doing it despite being decent at navigation knowing that there's pretty much a random chance even in the safest caves, that no matter how skilled you are, there's always a chance that you could end up trapped beyond help or drown. And it's clearly a very terrifying way to die. Getting stuck, randomly feeling ill, water pressure, cavings, equipement malfunctions, decompression sickness, getting caught on something, getting lost, hell i'm sure some caves have some dangerous animals or whatever in them. And that's not even all of it.

@@Dice-Z just watching the film The Descent which is about ordinary caving is enough to put me off doing anything more dangerous than climbing the stairs in my house.

@@WakeyWakeyEggsandBakey lmaooo

@@WakeyWakeyEggsandBakey VALID

Sounds horrible

Just watch videos of successful cave dives, even the recreational ones, and you'll see

Because people only focus on the disasters….there are hundreds of successful caves dives that happen everyday all over the world.

@@Robert_H_Diver I like hearing that. You’re right. We “see though a glass, darkly” after watching too much of this stuff. Good to balance it out with comedy or something. Saying that though, I’ve never felt like that’s a fun thing to do for me. I’m fascinated by caves and hidden underground tunnels etc. so thanks to all the people who let me see inside places I’m never going to go to, you’re all bonkers, but you do you (and I’ll watch, lol, not in a creepy way!)

@@BeeLZBeeb 👍🏼

To each his own. I love what my husband says. "There is no way in heck am I going to jump out of a perfectly good plane".

Yeah. Seems like anyone who does caving or underwater caving should make it a point to train their mind to not panic and to think logically in stressful situations.

@@katatat2030 I would imagine so, and in such situations you should never deviate from the plan especially, if you are someone else's lifeline. Shane should never have followed Mike, as was the plan; he put Mike's life in more danger by doing so. It was a selfish move which cost him his life and luckily his recklessness did not cost others theirs.

@@ginglebret i still feel bad for him though. what a horrible way to die

Respect to mike

Yeah 👏👏👏

I would never cave dive either. But that sh!t is still terrifying

I only scuba dived a few times and it’s chilling to the bones to me to think about dying down there.

Right! I know for a fact I will never ever ever do that, but for some reason dying in a tiny underwater cave is one of my biggest fears. I'll never put myself in that situation, but I'm still mortified that it's going to happen to me somehow

@@hotfishfromsharktaleVSauce has a video here on KZfaq called “What is the scariest thing” where he analyzes common fears to find out which is the worst….it’s suffocation.

Wanna go hiking with me?

+Mephisto1991 - Unless you're Ant-Man, in which case, knock yourself out! 😁

Yep

Does make for a hell of a story though

Common sense but I guess diver's think "I'ma gonna be the first one" pushing too far

Facts. I'd also like to add the caveat that if you need to strap on 50+ pounds of gear to survive in an environment you should probably _REALLY_ think about your life choices thus far. Just sayin' 😁👍

Yep he's chillin & grillin like a villian !

@@jennyconner6047 The like button says only a villain

Donnie V. Right we all do it.....some not in the comfort of our own homes either

WORD!!!

@Donnie V. shut up

@@cloudstrifeification You could just send a device instead of a human?

Well that's where our living nightmares live I meant the creatures for example when it completely black underwater then you saw such a light that it's not looking like a flashlight it meant there's a creature I forgot what's its name but it has a light that can tricked people and bite that person 😖😖😖😖

@@Annie_nnn a angler fish?

Same reason people skydive or dont use condoms or......

@@aClownBaby- Wait yeah, why the hell are real people going into places like that.

Honestly I don’t get it. I think it’s dumb-why take such a risk just to retrieve a dead body. Why is having possession of a dead corpse so important to some people? He’s dead, bringing his body back won’t bring him back, and I can only imagine the state of the body after being underwater for so long. It’s sure as hell nothing you’d want to see. I never understood and never will understand why people place so much value in a “proper” burial. Now he’s dead too, his family grieving, and all for what? To try to retrieve an already dead body? Fucking stupid. Honestly a lot of “heroic” actions are stupid af, but this takes the cake. Why glorify this shit? How about just leave bodies where they are in situations like this?

@@katamine11 Exactly, they left John Jones in putty cave so why was this different. RIP

@@katamine11 This comment says a lot about you as a person. Do you have any idea how hard it is for a family to suddenly lose a child and not even be able to grieve and give their final goodbyes to him? Regardless of religious reliefs, funerals exist to give people one last chance to say their goodbyes and be able to come to peace that their loved ones are gone forever. What Shaw did may not have been the most logical and rational decision to make but it doesn't matter because what he did to bring Dion's body back must have meant a lot to Dion's family. Besides, I would rather be a dumb hero than be a rational dickhead. If you die as a dumb hero, at least you'll have people who will honor you for your bravery and the sacrifice you made. If you die as a rational dickhead, people will probably celebrate that you're gone and they'll remember you for being a dickhead and not for being rational lol.

The other thing is that Dion’s body was just that: his body - the head fell off and was left behind. I do think Dave Shaw was brilliant and pushed the limits, but I wished he hadn’t pretended that this rescue was only for Dion’s parents. Maybe he felt he was their only option, but unfortunately he thought he was invincible.

@katamine11 // I couldn’t have said it better myself, not sure how you don’t have more likes. I guess people just think that throwing your life away for sentimentality is somehow a good or noble thing

My dad just died 6 weeks ago and my best friend died from heroin overdosed 2-3 months ago... pretty shitty

@@Cognitoman my condolences my man.

@@starseed_Wanderer thank yeah it sucks, haven't even cried yet. I know eventually it will come.

@@Cognitoman My dad past away last year, it is painful yes. But, my dad is looking at me from the beyond, I have to stay strong. God bless you bro, you will have a bright future

@@Cognitoman You’re all right sorry for the loss stay up

@G Robinson if you don’t know something or where something in the ocean thousands of people could die so technically there saving a lot of people lives discovering these places

Yeah basically

Hmm smart!

Wise words.... and oh, that's what she said.

Omg so true but I'm skinny 😶

I knowwwww 😩 theirs might be the worst.. nothing you can do to prevent that.. nothing. Maybe a second exit?! But what if two cave in at once 🤣 SCREWED!

Yes, true that

Are we assuming that Bill died?

@@gge9824 nah, he made it to the spare tanks that saved his crazy ass, thankfully. Lucky guy.

@@shaybarfield1122 totally!

Your surname is unfortunate lmao

@@gunsmokegaloreyt6840 oh hell nah 😭😭

Exactly 💯

And then having those vivid images keep you up at night.

True but sadly just shows he a really good liar watch dive talk they interview the guy who was actually down there and this guy is actually making up lies just to get views what a fake 😂😂😂 look up dive talk react to Mr. Ballon’s claustrophobic horror

Yeah, I saw Mike Young give an interview on Dive Talk - another KZfaq channel - where they were reacting to this exact video, and while I'm sure mrballen is just recounting someone else's incorrect account of events, it's still sad how far off from what really happened it is. I'm going to link the correction of the story by Mike Young, Shane's dive partner, here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7ahbNdztqq5lWw.html A summary of Mike's statement for those who don't want to watch an hour-long video on another channel(but I do recommend watching, it's fascinating): Shane and Mike were both planned to be in the water that day(which was several days into their exploration, so they were already somewhat familiar with the cave that they'd explored so far), so Shane diving was him doing nothing less than what had been planned in advance. There was a restriction - a place so tight divers have to pull themselves through it - at 160~ feet deep that only Mike had been able to wiggle through so far; Shane was planning to accompany him that far. There were no real tunnels down there; rather, it was more of a vertical shaft full of fallen boulders from a cave-in that had gaps between the rocks big enough for the divers to wiggle through. (Mike compared it to squeezing through the spaces around tightly packed cars.) Mike was leading the way, not Shane. When they reached the restriction at 160~ feet where Shane was supposed to stop, Mike told him to wait there via hand signals (confirmed by GoPro footage, even) and then headed through. For some reason - Mike theorizes it was because they'd reached the end of the cave and Mike was down there to pull the line they were following, meaning Shane wouldn't get another chance to be down there, and he wanted to see the final parts of the cave - Shane followed Mike through the restriction, something Mike didn't realize at the time since it was happening behind him. The problem was that after that 160~ restriction, it was just an endless series of MORE restrictions after it every few feet. And Mike was wearing side-mounted tanks, making it easier for him to squeeze through these restrictions, while Shane was wearing back-mounted tanks that would make it harder to squeeze through narrow spaces. (Shane was only expected to have to go through one restriction at 140 feet, which he'd cleared the previous day with his back-mounted tanks, so he wasn't really ideally equipped for taking on a whole bunch of them.) Mike turned back before he cut the line (which he says saved his life) because he decided he wanted a picture of the end of the cave with Shane's GoPro. But when he headed back, he ran into Shane almost immediately, who'd passed numerous restrictions (Mike guessed 5) but eventually gotten wedged. Mike actually managed to get him unwedged and turned around, even though Shane was panicking, and sent him back up. While Mike was following Shane up the line, he suddenly lost the line when it was jerked out of his hands(at which point he panicked himself and had to calm down for a bit), and he had to find his way up by feel (there was no visibility due to silt) until he finally found the line again. At that point Mike felt Shane's hand frantically grasping around, coming through a hole about the size of a volleyball; he'd reached a hole he couldn't fit through and was panicking. Mike felt around and found a larger hole to the side that Shane would be able to get through, and reached through that hole to grab Shane's shoulder and guide him to the larger hole. (One can assume Shane was suffering tunnel vision in his panic, and was freaking out about the one hole he found to the surface not being big enough for him; he didn't have the presence of mind to find the larger one on his own.) Once Mike managed to show Shane the hole, Shane - still in full blown panic - starts crawling out of that hole, going underneath Mike to do it - but in his rush to get out, without letting Mike get out of the way, Shane wedges the both of them, head to feet. Shane obviously just panics harder at this and starts kicking hard as he tries to move forward and free himself, but since his feet are at Mike's head, Mike gets kicked a lot. (Shane actually kicks Mike's arm hard enough against the ceiling that he breaks a piece of Mike's equipment that keeps his dry suit from flooding, so Mike's suit is now filling with 52 degree F water.) Eventually Mike managed to clear enough space for Shane to get through, although Shane pulled off one of Mike's fins on his way. Mike basically falls into the hole Shane was just in halfway, then decides it's more feasible to just go into the hole fully, turn around, and pull himself out. He does this, but he's lost the line again because he went off to the side to help Shane. Mike has to take a moment to calm himself again, because by this point everything is definitely a mess. But he climbs out of the hole, and he finds his lost fin, and that little victory reassures him that he's definitely going to make it because at that point ANY victory would feel major. He starts working his way up by feel again, until he reaches a place where there's some visibility, which lets him visually find the line again. He could feel the line moving, because Shane was holding onto the line himself at some point on it. He's at a tie-off point in the line, where two lines are tied together. But he goes past the tie-off to follow the line up, and realizes the line's no longer moving - meaning Shane is on the lower line, BELOW Mike. Mike, finding random ways back up through the rocks without the guidance of the line, passed Shane at some point, so he's now ahead of him. Mike immediately turns around and goes back down for Shane. But then suddenly the line stopped moving, and Mike knew at that moment that Shane hadn't just let go of the line - that Shane had died. The GoPro footage apparently showed that what happened is that Shane, in his panic, was hyperventilating and overworking his rebreather(which functionally provides infinite air, but if you breathe too fast on it you build up CO2 faster than it can recycle it into oxygen, which is what was happening with Shane). So Shane switched to his backup tanks of air, which are finite, and when he ran out of air on those he was too panicked to think to switch back to the rebreather and drowned. Mike did go back for him and confirmed he was gone, then took off his gear to make body retrieval easier and tried to pull him up right then and there - but he quickly realized that with a flooded suit and tons of decompression time already on the clock, fighting to get Shane's body back right at that time was a poor choice, so he left him there for later retrieval. It's kind of incredible how the real story is even more dramatic and fraught with danger and drama than the misinformed retelling. If watching Dive Talk has taught me anything, it's that when it comes to professional, experienced cave divers, everything they do is INCREDIBLY deliberate and carefully planned. Most diving horror stories you hear are either 1) inexperienced divers biting off way more than they can chew and dying as a result, 2) experienced divers making poor decisions(because even the best can make bad calls sometimes), or 3) accidents that can't really be foreseen or planned for even by the most experienced divers, such as serious equipment failure(it has to be serious because they almost always carry spares and redundancies for everything they can). Obviously, Shane's death was caused by #2 - he deviated from the dive plan with equipment that wasn't right for what he was trying to do(because no one had planned for him trying to do it), and once things really started going wrong he wasn't able to control his panic as well as Mike could. (Lord knows Mike had almost as many things go wrong for him as Shane, but Mike was able to ground himself each time he panicked and that clearly seemed to make all the difference.) Anyway, I know this is a massive wall of text, but I just wanted to put the more accurate version here in the comments for people to potentially see if they're interested. No shame on mrballen for getting hold of an incorrect version of events, I'm sure there's dozens of mistold versions of stories out there and I know he always tries to get his facts correct. But it's probably a lot harder for mrballen to go right to the eyewitness in this case than it was for Dive Talk to do so.

Shane was trying to fake it till he made it while he made it all right onto KZfaq as a casualty edit: I probably shouldn’t of wrote that then again Shane could probably stay home that day so I like John what do you guys think about inverted Johnny

@@lymmea thank you for that. I've found this channel gets things wrong A LOT. I'm going to be generous and assume it's just poor research rather than being intentionally misleading. Either way, I wish he would work on it bc he really is a great storyteller. But I guess there's more incentive for YTers to pump out content quickly than having fewer, but more accurate videos.

@@anonmouse6337 For what it's worth, I've actually found mrballen to care more about accuracy than most KZfaqrs - he announces when he's not sure of a story's veracity or source, he corrects himself on mistakes he's made, and he seems to go out of his way to do a lot of research on his stories. I think the problem isn't a lack of diligence or effort on his part, so much as that sensational stories are likely to have multiple versions of greater or lesser accuracy out there, and it's not always easy to know what *really* happened unless you can actually talk to someone directly connected to the case. In Dive Talk's case, they know Mike Young and share a hobby with him, and they were able to reach out to him and get the story straight from his own mouth - mrballen didn't really have that opportunity. (And, to be fair, until the incorrect version came out, there may not have been much call for Mike to comment publicly on a distressing experience he'd been through.) A thing I have observed is that mrballen tends to cite already existing accounts, though - sometimes quoting direct phrases from articles, even. (Which is...maybe a little dubious, I'd prefer he stick to telling stories wholly in his own words rather than taking other people's without credit, but I digress. I've binged his channel extensively, so that might be old behavior he's already stopped doing; I'm not trying to drag him for it here.) So I can almost guarantee that this inaccurate account didn't come from mrballen himself, but is him recounting a *pre-existing* inaccurate account that exists somewhere - and I'm sure he had no idea it got a lot of details wrong. I think Mike mentioned that he and his crew only talked to the local authorities, and who knows who they talked to; what I take from that is that before Mike's interview on Dive Talk, there was probably only very fragmented factual information floating around, and they coalesced - either via lying, rumor, exaggeration, or guesswork - into a very false account over time. And without a true account to counteract it, that started getting circulated as the only account of the incident there was for people to find...and mrballen found it. Without any contradicting stories, how could he know it wasn't true? Obviously, misinformation is misinformation, and I do wish every now and then mrballen would do an extra little video on the channel where he clears up misunderstandings or inaccuracies about stories like this when more information comes to light after his videos come out. Just so he can reach his audience with any necessary corrections or retractions and show his commitment to telling the real stories. I know he's friendly with the Dive Talk guys, so I imagine he knows about that Mike Young interview. Just because I think he did as much due diligence as possible when researching his stories doesn't mean it's not important to go back and clear things up if mistakes managed to creep in anyway. But I have to acknowledge the difficulty of being able to sort out What Really Happened when researching stories like this, and I do respect the effort I'm sure he puts in. I just think the occasional retrospective video would be a good answer to the fact that mistakes will happen.

@@lymmea I guess it's a flaw in the way he presents these stories. The POV accounts are really engaging, but he can't say stuff like "some reports claim blah blah while others report xyz". I get that it's difficult to find the truth among so many different versions of the story, but I think Mrballen should step up his research game as his channel grows, and especially as he starts making decent money from it (and can therefore afford to hire a research assistant).

LoOL right?

I mean maybe a really good hiding spot for hide and seek I might wriggle through

Still a nope for me playa

😂😂😂

Good reason

Gay

And then: “may we map your forbidden section?” The owners: “no.”

"let's just have a robot map it out instead of sending people" - just as good of an ending

@@NikkiTheViolist agreed

Yeah but in that timeline it didnt get mapped till 2067, and I die in 2065 so wtf was the point?

I truly believe some of these ppl have a death wish.

@@meghanmisaliar that was said about all the people that ventured off into the sea to search for the Americas. We know of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci because they were successful in their voyages. But there were thousands of sailors that tried the same and failed. That's not a death wish, that's a passion for the unknown. Same can be said for the discovery of Australia, Antarctica, Greenland, the Moon, etc. It's that curiosity that set us apart from the Naenderthals, and the Naenderthals died precisely because of that; they didn't explore.

@@as7river I definitely don't think explorers can be compared to divers. Diving has such a small margin of error. Explorers had a lot more leeway in case things went wrong.

The majority of accidents happen from mistakes plain and simple. Pushing their limits, or ignoring safety protocol. Very few of these tragedies happen when everything is done right.

I have this thing if a expert in a certain activity dies..I ain't ever doing that

it's literally crazy

Ugh seriously. I have thalassophobia, fear of open ocean/deep water, so practically anything you could add water to freaks me out so bad. Caving is also freaky, not phobia levels, but still very uncomfortable to think about, so cave diving stories makes my anxiety skyrocket, I'll even start feeling like something is about to grab my feet even tho I'm on nice, solid and dry land. Yuck.

@@Britishhick what about lemonade 😏

God did

Ive kind cave dived it was without scuba gear so freediving 7 meters down a cave. It was the most peacfull ive ever felt. Ut was in a hotspring crystal clear water everything was deathly silent and so calm

When I was 17 I was at a house party in the woodish area where I have grown up and lived my entire life u till that point. Someone yells cops and my stupid ass runs even though I didn't drink (I didnt like it) It was a GIANT bust considering it was mid southern NH northern MA area. I was holding my friends hand but behind the house was a small river with steep banks. There were 2 apartments in a T sort of shape and the gentleman who lived in the back apartment turned off his lights in an attempt to give us all a chance. This was right as Dozens if not more kids were hitting the embankments of the small river. I was in flip flops as it was May but the nights got cold. Stumbling I let my friends hand go and tell her to run. I hit a patch of really dense pine saplings. It was pitch black, I mean no moon, dense clouds and it had rained earlier. No houses, cities or lights. I pull myself blindly through this patch of pine saplings in an army crawl and blindly start to sneak my way through the woods alone just seeing cops flashlights here and there, and I follow what I know is a porch light. I thought I had went back and right from where I was putting me on road A. But I had actually gone back and left and then back again! I had to climb a tree to see the shape of the mountain to get my bearings. And this was on land in a place I grew up my whole life. It still blows my mind to this day how I got so disoriented. So I can imagine it can be all too w6asy to have this happen under water.

@@Aw-ns1qx You are a very good writer! Your story had me on the edge of my seat. It's crazy how things happen to us and as time passes and we look back and it seems almost surreal. I agree with you 100%, it can be just as disorienting on land when you have to make quick decisions under stress. Thank you for sharing your story. 😊

and this right here, is the reason i dont go in water that i cant see the bottom or pull my ass out by walking up those beautiful stone steps at the 3 foot end lmao. im TERRIFIED of bodies of water. ill go jetsking, on a 3 seater that i cant fall off of or tip over, because im so scared of falling in and being eaten by the lake sharks i KNOW EXIST! you cant tell me otherwise, lol. but for real... bodies of water scares me like nothing else on earth, and knives, not a fan of that either

@@hollyshaw-elliemae SAME! I almost drowned when I was about 5 in the ocean at Ocean City Maryland because my dad always took me out but there was a huge wave that crashed over me and him even though he tried holding me above it and obviously I didn't understand to hold my breath so I screamed as the wave hit. Bodies of water, knives, and people in costumes are my BIGGEST fears.

@@brayaunnaklimas8129 I feel you my friend, I feel you

Seriously? You're living cringe. Stop.

That makes perfect sense actually.

Does it feel like a panic attack? I'd think running half a mile and breathing through a straw might replicate the inhale rate?

@@random6579 I’m no diver but it’s essentially like air weighing a ton

YES. I was trying to do my „fully flooded mask“ skill to get my scuba diver license and started hyperventilating. I was completely safe only 12m underwater with my instructor right there and still managed to panic. Yeah so much for my Diving career 🤣😅

I panic just swimming. Once when my daughter was in her teens ( last year) I went under water a little bit in deep water , and panicked in Folsom lake and we were really far out. She and one of my sons claimed me and had to float me on my back all the way to shore. I couldn’t do anything I was frozen. I would have died if they weren’t there. Especially my daughter.

Its not scuba diving. It's cave diving

Honestly try it. Cave diving is a specialty and as a scuba diver i can tell you i would never do some crazy shit like that...

@@samisoniosborne5288 same. Im inly 14 but i have my dive licence and i love it but i will never go cave diving

agreed.

Might be THE BUCKET

Same lol

but even in the end, he still held up to the promise he made to the family.

This might sound cold but sometimes I think people take sentimentality too far.

But he was succesful. That's the most touching part for me.

aimreyne I think if the person who has died, even a young person, could be asked, they would not want anyone else to die looking for their body. They aren’t there anymore. Depending on one’s beliefs, they are in heaven, or resting in peace. To lose another life seems a terrible waste to me, and causes the sorrow of terrible loss to ripple out to another family.

He is remedial. Why risk your life for a corpse🤦

You pass? But don't you understand you have to squeeze through 2 tiny holes to get in or out? How can you pass that up? ;)

Oh u deffinetly been mapped and explored hahahsha wink wink

And your right how can u pass that. Up lol

i have a fear of the ocean or lakes and stuff like that so its even worse with a mix of small spaces and huge mazes in the water

@@Samantha-kz9vq same

Lol nbs I wanna see him do a video on the North Pole

@@asantana617 Yeah that would be nice

Today I was walking on the street and tripped, I swear to god it was the like button looking for revenge.

This comment tho 🤣🤣👏👏

And the torture of the like button and it's livelyhood

Specially don't dive, they all die.

Do you know how to get to bell’s canyon?

I'd say that's accurate

This is the best summary lol

don't try to climb down a chimney

Hell yeah I’m using that it would be hey I would be happy to map out your forbidden section

what do u mean "we", any girl would be freaked out if a random person said that out of no were

@@ahmedharun1023 omfg shut up

@@ahmedharun1023 we, meaning, of course, me and the science team. You’re not fucking alone, are you?

@@mannofwar4455 🤣🤣

Well there is no expirience for beeing about to die, everyone would freak out underwater knowing he is about to die

@@morten8586 Especially when you know you're gonna drown while being fully conscious.

@@morten8586 I've become entangled in fast moving water and that type of panic comes on fast. It happened to me in 15 feet of water. You have to be able to control your fear in all situations. In an emergency situation if you loose you shit all is lost. Stay Safe.

I can only imagine bc just listening to these stories causes panic

@@srccde well, not really completely conscious. If you go far down enough you run out of oxygen which makes you feel like drunk. So, your whole perception is pretty much distorted.

Pretty much spot on. So not knowing anything about diving, wouldn't there be a way to carry way more air than needed? Or is it too much to carry? Very sad story

​@@vine2244I saw some videos where some divers tied extra air to the guide line or in caverns along the way. One guy was carrying extra air but had to abandon it because it was hard to get through the tunnels.

Im so sorry for your family's loss. Shane sounds like a someone who lived a life with the utmost zeal. Most of us would never have the guts to do any of the things Shane accomplished. Til you get to see him again, my condolences.

never ever doing it

that's because ghosts aren't fucking real

Yes for real like no f-ing way am I gonna dive in a cave with even a 1% chance of death Frick that crap

Shit i used my inhaler watching this

Ghost stories are wack.

Especially if it's underwater! 🤦🏻

@@WeRNthisToGetHer lol

Unless u dont have a choice

@@chandlerthoma9173 hell nah. I have enough fun watching these videos that I do not need to go get in my fat ass stuck in something because I thought it would be fun.

@@santiagocasier6436 hell nah, you always have a choice. Fuck that job

Hey that's cool 👍

I have zero experience with cave diving. But from what I've read, panicking is the worst thing you can do underwater because it clouds your judgement, and more often than not your judgement is the only thing that keeps you from drowning.

@@as7river panicing is always what gets you killed

If the first guy didn’t panic they would’ve both died

@@as7river Well panicking in any dangerous situation is bad. Say you’re in a packed nightclub to see a band play. They decide to use pyrotechnics in their show and it ignites a part of the polyurethane (highly flammable) sound insulation. Most of us will think a sprinkler system will kick on and take care of it, but there isn’t. After 30-40 seconds, the fire begins to spread a lot faster on the stage and smoke is starting to bank down from the ceiling. By now, Most of the crowd is going to panic and head for the door they came in from instead of looking for another door to get out, and a stampede results and blocks the main exit, while the stage area approaches flashover and the smoke layer rapidly descends to head level... ok I’ll stop now, but if you don’t panic, and assess the situation, you’ll realize there’s a fire exit across the room.

You and me both. No thank you!

You're right even a pool alone at night...I'm flipped if a piece of seaweed touches my leg ,when I 'm only waist deep, in full view on a glorious day...

I gag in the shower... I couldn't do diving even to save my life.

I'll stick to open water diving

Right?!

😆

I scuba dive and I’d totally cavern dive but NEVER cave dive

Knifehands sounds cool to me lol

Perhaps, you may live to tell a few more tales by never telling your significant other to calm down in an argument.....mwuahaha ;)

Gigglesnort. Funny cause it's true! Whenever someone tells me to calm down, I ask if they wanna put the shovel away or keep digging?! (it takes a lot to get me riled, so once I'm to that point I've already stayed calm as long as I could... and 98% of time my frustrations are completely justified) 🤣✌️

I was wondering how he had all of those details on the second story. It did not seem like anyone was going to survive. I kept expecting him to say he held up his sign and said what are we going to do and the other responded we're going to die.

yeah I do the same. Its stressful sometimes because I don't know if its thoughts or just a description.

YOUR PROFILE PICTURE IM DYING

I was thinking the same thing

His sacrifice? You mean his meaningless suicide? ^^’ The guy threw away his life for a dead body, let that sink in for a moment. Guy was an idiot

Yup. Saw it about 2 days ago and it’s really good. It does show the couple minutes leading up to his death. Shows how he recovered the body, and then what went wrong and they cut it off right before you can hear him take his last breath. 😢

That's a horrible way to die. Top 3

Same

What if it’s an endless cycle like one person goes after a body, dies then someone else goes after their body, dies then some goes to get that body, dies and it’s just an endless cycle

@@s0up_1223 which is terrifying but yet,this is why they do not take up bodies from caves or the highest mountains in the world. It is wild to think.

@@s0up_1223 yu

thank you!!

@@MrBallen #ballensquad

@Brandon Martin it’s at 202 now lol

@@MrBallen “It’s not just the story, it’s he who tells it” -Stephen King You got me on this one, I’ve been binging for 3 days now. This last story was gut wrenching, there were tears running down my face before I even knew I was crying.

Same!!

Because it was always the plan for him to go. There are a lot of parts made up in this story. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7ahbNdztqq5lWw.html

@@axelfolie761 Really? Would you say this story is inaccurate as a whole?

I would recommend watching Dive Talk's video on what happened, told by Mike Young! They clarify that the plan was for Shane to come in the water following Mike, but there was a stopping point at about 160 feet. Shane was also never in front of Mike, he was strictly following, besides when they turned to exit the cave. The story as told here is unfortunately innacurate.

@@chris_j3417 Mike’s account of what happened is just that. His account. Who knows what really happened? Was Mike Shane’s dive instructor? If Shane disobeyed the dive plan, why didn’t Mike thumb the dive?

@@E_Clampus_Vitus Shane Thompson had over 20 years of diving experience. He was also a scuba instructor.

😂😂 facts

Yep as I cannot even free dive to 10 feet

seriously? cave diving is risky asf but its also rlly cool

I won’t even do land caves if I can’t see the way out the entire time.

Facts

He sure did! His story really caught my heart for some reason! So very sad. My deepest sympathies to his wife and family!

He didn't fulfill his mission, he just got in there and drowned there. Congratulations to him.

@@Anthonybrother bads

@@Anthonybrother Shaw did fulfill his mission. Did you not listen to the video? Or are you partially paying attention because you're so distracted & anxious to display your a s s h ò l i s h n è s š online?

@@TopSecretInformations nah he's just trying to be edgy because he's insecure mate.

Dave

Yeah he is.... but also stupid he died for a corpse , thats never a good trade.

@@aaronsmith4940 o mean he'd lived his life.

@@aaronsmith4940 well I would wish my body was found so there's closure, but I would definitely feel guilty that someone died finding my body.

Shane was from the first story.(correct me if im wrong)

He didn’t attempt he did retrieve it but it got him killed as well

The embodiment of a hero.

@@chukob5 He didn't retrieve it. The definition of retrieving something means bringing it back. He got to the body but he did not retrieve it

riptaway how did they get it off the floor that many feet down you braindead

@@riptaway he basically did retrieve it because both of their bodies floated up to the ceiling of the cave and were able to be taken out by divers at a shallower depth. He still accomplished his task. He died doing what he loved and I'm sure would do it again if he could.

I know girl 🤣🤣🤣 SAAAAAME!!

Same!!!

i literally like tight places

Me too lol

“I am the danger.” -Breaking Bad

Amen to that, guy does it perfect

but he.. does have creepy music playing? lol

There is music playing, it's just ambience and a repeating deep note

@@minilabyrinth He does it tastefully tho

@@SavvyMuhon *shrriiiieeeeekkk*

Same

I didnt until I watched this

Every human has a fear of drowning of some sort, even if you don’t know. It’s a painful very painful slow death..

I am a big Claustrophobia patient...like I can't even hug someone for more than 5 minutes...at night...even my blacket chokes me...like I will fall asleep and suddenly I can't move a signal muscle and my breathing get less and less..until i make the courage to swing my hand really hard and take my blacket out..i won't be able to breath..this is why I am scared to sleep..and now I am an night owl..I don't sleep at night alone..my parents are scared..I might die by my sleep struggling without air...tbh...I really hate this...but we should always be positive 💜💙🧡

How do you feel?

I'm not religious but for what it's worth I pray for him too👍

@@dpatmessiessi938 I panic when i know he’s diving in shallow waters too. Ya just never know 😔

Most all of these diving tragedies could have been avoided. Usually due to someone pushing beyond their training. Chance of some freak accident is very low.

@@jodilynn9514 I mean how far does he normally dive?

@@l.t1330 I believe the furthest he’s ever gone was a little over 200 feet.

Bro same hah this video is way more scary than any ghost story f that shiz

This really scared me

@@N0TH3R3. bruh same lol

omg I'm exactly the same

Same

I think a normal cave is worse, I'd rather drown than be stuck and take days to die

@@youtubeyt5694 you sir definitely make bad desicions in life ....

@@sammysosa4124 I would never go in any cave, ever

Uh mine is definitely burning to death! I'll take water over fire any day!! Obviously they're 𝘢𝘭𝘭 horrifying but idk, imo claustrophobic drowning doesn't seem 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 as gruesome.

Same, especially one underwater.

Especially if it's tight

I’ve told this to a couple girls

You’re all disgusting.

My wife just slapped me when I told her this😟

@@alexshaw8167 Often jokes are pretty disgusting.

@@jasonbowman6931 So very sorry to hear this..

You took my thoughts and wrote them down for sure! Cheers!

I feel like it's way worse without water for some reason

@@bowserhoudini5588 nah water u only have some air and have all these events that can happen to ur body

@@bowserhoudini5588 Really?! I think with water is worse because it already puts you at a disadvantage, you know?

Exactly!!!

The parents were kinda selfish

@@rusty1370 they didn't ask him anything. Recovering bodies is a goal in itself in cave diving

@@tiberiu_nicolae Yep. Some do it for the glory.

@@tiberiu_nicolae bine, România peste tot ✊

Ok that’s horrifying and I’d love to hear more about this cave. Can you send any links or further information??? john@operatorsassociation.com

@@MrBallen absolutely! I’ve messaged you on Instagram before but I don’t use it often. Emailing now.

I seriously hope this makes it to a video... not for any bad reason, but simply because for reasons unknown to me I’m fascinated by this kind of stuff...

Christina Burke not cave diving particularly but hell I’ll try anything once so long as it’s within reason BUT... I’m talking more of having a fascination with the stories MrBallen talks about not actually trying something he talks about. Also I highly recommend never trying to discouraging people from doing things they are fascinated by or highly interested in... regardless of how dangerous, there is always an er of danger with virtually anything, sure some mite be much higher than others but regardless people still do it, so instead is discouraging people why not advocate for them to be as safe as possible when doing something potentially life threatening? Hell in the boat racing world when an accident happens we don’t go “OH NO! We are never going to race again!” No in fact we go “is the driver ok? 👌🏻. Ok then let’s review the footage frame by frame and see what we can do to make this less of a risk/possibly!” And simultaneously if it weren’t for those whom take the time to do said things than we wouldn’t have half of the incredible things we do in this world!

@@makinwaves8147 yep, you can definitely do some intermediate cave diving with no issues and it’s absolutely breathtaking. There are risks with every outdoor activity. Hunting, hiking, fishing, cycling, running, diving, skydiving, you name it, someone has died doing it. So the guy discouraging prior, don’t listen to him. But if a sign does say “Experienced only” in a cave, they’re usually talking about literal weeks of planning, serious knowledge, etc. I won’t even go black water diving again, there is no difference. You are swimming down between dead trees and more, no different than a cavern and you can’t see a thing in front of you. The only purpose was to well preserved Meg teeth, and I found better in the shallows.

Me either. Can't spend it if you're not alive. I'd probably die from fear.

i literally just had this thought to myself. im claustrophobic and have anxiety, no way i could do this. idc how much money is being offered

@@jarradlavoie I have no anxiety or claustrophobia but I still wouldn't do it!

A billion dollars you going in that hole. You may be ah hell no now but I guarantee if you knew that money was guaranteed in your bank account you going in.

@@alysgrant6732 If they have a billion dollars to just give away, they most certainly would be able trace you to make sure u do it

Summer Dare damn, right?!?

Bhahaha! Ur obviously smart,and u win best comment..😂 lol

👍🏻😂😂😂

It seems you are on the same KZfaq path as I am today.

100%

Thinking the same thing!

It didn't even take me watching inner sanctum. I'm an excellent swimmer and I wanted to take scuba diving in college so I did but the very first time down in the pool I couldn't even be seen by the other divers because of the multitude of bubbles from my panicked over breathing...😆 Last dive for me. I'm claustrophobic and the mask in addition to the other equipment made me feel trapped under the water

@@Justicia007 "Claustrophobic ". So am I. I don't really like getting on packed Buses and Trains for crying out loud.

@@Stephan5916 Agreed!!

Yeah, it’s like so many of the ultimate fears in one. Darkness, tight spaces, underground, underwater, inability to speak. Like… NO!!!!!

Is it weird watching these videos have made me want to get into diving

I enjoy teasing my phobias lmfao

@@ghoste_girll haha..same lol

Same

Me to! It makes me cringe thinking about that tiny cave

@@ghoste_girll lol same

No visibility, no map, easy to Get disorientated ! Major stupid RISK

But we wasn't a fish nor a mermaid,

@@Boss-si3zz true

Honestly his ego got the best of him. At 250 meters you find a corpse you document it and leave it there. There is no reason to risk a living breathing soul over a corpse

@@ROrneli I think the original comment is referring to Shane; you're referring to Dave Shaw.

What happened to him? If u don't mind....

Sorry for your loss Lindsey.

@@AndreaStote died

RIP

@@CEOofSleep lol