The Terrifying Last Minutes of Wedged Caver | High Anxiety!

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In this video we will be looking at 3 horrifying caving stories that went horribly wrong!
The second one, in particular, resulted from excessive display of over-confidence coupled with self-loathing arrogance. Conversely, the first incident was an unfortunate case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time... As always, viewer discretion advised.

00:00 Culverson Creek Cave Tragedy
05:10 Huccacove Cave Nightmare
11:40 Manchester Hole Tragedy
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#disaster #horrorstories #caverescue

[eucliduschaumeau]

The second case was infuriating. Never follow an arrogant person with anger management problems into a dangerous situation. He’s lucky as hell that guy went in to extract him. Sounds like he was at death’s door.

[GoonieLord]

Who here is watching this from the saftey of their warm home. While wrapped up in a warm blanket

[michealhacker]

The thing is that the people who don’t get enough credit in all these stories are the rescuers who risk everything to try and save these morons. These are the people who need to be respected.

[magnetdesignandadver]

Stay above ground. This is where we belong. This is our realm. Lots of exciting things to do right here!

[ethandevine]

Cave divers hearing cave names like "Dead man's crawl", "keyhole pass" or "Satan's urethra" be like: *Hmm, yes*

[Del-Canada]

In the late seventies we were exploring a tunnel/cave. With no gear of course, didn't tell anybody where we were going to be(bunch of idiots we were). We came to a point we had never been to before. It was narrow and sloped on a steep angle. I couldn't hear any of the pebbles hit bottom. One of us wanted to go down it anyway, head first. I told him, if we attempt this we'll be tonight's 5 o'clock story. I said this will be our doom.

Finally convinced him and we went back. We later found out that was a sort of hand dug cross tunnel to access an old well. That steep drop was the drilled well(It was open above it also, same deal, no light, just darkness. Likely filled it mostly at the top. and it was 120 feet deep. That still scares me. We ran across it one day, was overgrown by decades of brush, grass and so on. You could walk over and not see it. We were "lucky" to have found it.

This was in Manitoba, Canada. 1978 I guess maybe it was. For any young people that think they are in control of everything and know everything, you aren't and you don't. Don't be these people. Live to see another day, or several more decades like we did. We would have rotted down there and nobody would know where we were to this day. We'd be a missing people story on reddit or something many years later. All it takes it one second to change everything. The shockwave from our loss would have hit our families, friends, even people we didn't know.

Be safe out there, get trained, study the terrain and caves. You can still do these things, but in a much safer manner.

Ultimately I joined the army, remustered to the navy. Became a navy diver, dove wrecks, caves and did some ice diving. Served during the 90/91 Gulf War and I got to do it all because of something we chose NOT to do in 1978.

Sorry about the wall of text. Regards.

[chriswurzinger]

The picture advertising this video shows "Jammed Neck". Where was that anywhere in the video? The video wasn't bad but I just hate misleading clickbait stuff.

[this_is_my_stop]

I honestly love the animation of these videos, with the people seal-sliding face first through the caves. I legitimately enjoy picturing people caving that way. And that's about the only thing I enjoy picturing about people caving...

[alien-ann]

Fear is not a weakness it is a survival instinct

[cuzr]

I can’t believe a school would take 8th graders into any cave.

[mnirwin]

Story #2: I'm glad that for once we hear the admission that the person's arrogance and ego played a large part in what happened.

[Born_Stellar]

1:10 actually they had 3 choices, they could have turned back.

[robg]

The fact that there are hundreds of these videos tells me this is a highly dangerous activity

[athanasiosproathanasiosdud]

Caving is insanely fun i went a lot of times guys, but only when the caves are big and no crawling is needed just straight non decending caves are okay

[waynepayne]

I don't understand the point of caving. The risk is you die a terrifying agonizing slow death, and the reward is you get to crawl through a wet dark hole in the dark?

[TheClassifiedMan]

Imagine being deep into one of these tight caves and heavy rain begins to fill it and you’re stuck…..

[Psycho-goyr]

Caves absolutely terrify me. I've only ever been in one, and it had established walkways, handrails, and electricity. At one point, the guide ushered us into a chamber, had us grab onto the railing, and then briefly turned off the lights so we could experience cave darkness... It's a whole different kind of dark. The thought of spending my last moments in such a situation, stuck, shivering, and alone is nightmare fuel.

[joeymonroe]

I once ventured under my bed to retrieve a sock. Never again.

[mattjek]

My favourite part of these videos is where the cavers turn into earthworms and slither through the cave without the use of their arms and legs 😅

[Chingloves]

These idiots think they're Lara Croft. Difference between her and them, she can reload the savegame.