Cave diving is one of those things that I am happy to only experience vicariousl...

narrator · on July 17, 2017

Or you can watch Youtube vids like this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg

This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone.

dotancohen · on July 17, 2017

> This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone.

Off topic, but here is a viable contender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMHjDqHL_Y

There are videos of higher towers, but I believe that this video is the most thoroughly annotated one.

freeflight · on July 17, 2017

That's a real classic! A not as high, but way more reckless version is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc Guaranteed to induce acrophobia.

arcticfox · on July 17, 2017

I really hope that guy practiced repressing the instinct to lunge at a bad throw when juggling. Extremely rare occurrence with such a simple pattern, but ooph!

I feel like any of Alex Honnold's ropeless climbs deserves a link too, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phl82D57P58

qb45 · on July 18, 2017

> A not as high, but way more reckless version

I expected to see these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2-l3aWCTA

mfoy_ · on July 17, 2017

Wow... they must really have to time these service trips with the weather... You'd be so exposed...

Also surprising is the apparent lack of safety... the carabiners / clips just loosely hang around the occasional rung and are often completely unattached... I wouldn't trust that if he fell the clip would hold him.

knodi123 · on July 17, 2017

That video gives me physical discomfort in my balls. I wonder what the evolutionary explanation for that symptom is?!

77pt77 · on July 17, 2017

To anyone who suffers from claustrophobia:

skip this one :)

omnimus · on July 17, 2017

Why would anyone do that?!

awalton · on July 17, 2017

Adrenaline is a powerful endogenous drug...

lgas · on July 17, 2017

They enjoy it.

javiramos · on July 17, 2017

Not claustrophobic safe.

klipt · on July 17, 2017

If I got an urge to map caves as a hobby ... I'd rather design robots to do it. At least that way failures aren't fatal.

benzofuran · on July 17, 2017

That's Bill Stone's entire reason for existing these days - check these out:

http://stoneaerospace.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEPTHX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENDURANCE

guyzero · on July 17, 2017

I couldn't make it very far into the article. I enjoy open-water diving but cave diving induces way too much claustrophobia.