People like Donald only have one gear. He'll never change.
I do a lot of caving, and all I can say is that cave diving can fuck right off! I don't do cave diving, I like my oxygen! Caving is dangerous enough without the scuba part, IMO.
There is a saying: "there are no accidents in cave diving, only fatalities", and that saying exists for good reason. This hobby/sport has to have one of the highest fatality rates. There are some crazy stories out there about caving fatalities (diving or otherwise), it ain't for the squeamish.
Glad Donald is ok! He is lucky for sure.
So riveting
what does "IM figuring this the fuck out and then coming home!!" mean
Why did the term spelunking fall into disuse? Why did I bother to learn it in the 80s when everybody says "caving"?
The first time I read the word caving I thought for sure it was made up.
I thought he was speaking in the 3rd person using his middle name
Hah, I used the term "caving" mostly because people tell me I sound like a dipshit when I say "spelunking".
Although, I do like the terms "speleology" and "speologist"
The worst nightmare a cave diver can ever have. Losing your line out of the cave
and losing your buddy. It happens so often cave divers do not live long. Its the most
wreckless and stupid area of diving.
"Figuring it out" means he lost his line and way out of the cave. Its fucking terrifying.
Imagine being lost in a maze and its pitch black. Thats scary enough. Now imagine the
same scenario and you're beneath tons of rock and underwater and oh yeah... now you're
scared and breathing heavy and burning your limited oxygen supply even faster
In my younger days I was a commercial diver and even commercial divers have longer
life spans then fucking cave divers. The best in the world were guys like Wes Skiles
yes "were"... because he fucking died too. I grew up watching him and he was the Michael Jordan
of cave divers and even he couldn't avoid the inevitable.
Oddly though Wes didn't die in a cave... He died because of a malfunctioning "Rebreather"
which is a special tank for extreme diving
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_r9F5MJuTc
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He's not the kind of guy that's meant to see old age. Glad he's okay though
Play stupid games, win stupid clichéd internet forum comments. I don't dislike Cowboy, but his attention-seeking is a bit lame. I'm not saying he does this shit for attention, but he uses it to continually project an image he desperately wants to maintain and we aren't just talking a pro wrestling-style marketing persona.
Dangerous exploring for the sake of it can be fun, but if you are just doing it because you're an adrenaline junkie, it seems to me that a cheaper way of getting your kicks would be to just slap on a black outfit, a blindfold and some headphones and see how long you could jog down the middle of a highway at night.
Dangerous exploring for the sake of it can be fun, but if you are just doing it because you're an adrenaline junkie, it seems to me that a cheaper way of getting your kicks would be to just slap on a black outfit, a blindfold and some headphones and see how long you could jog down the middle of a highway at night.