Drowned While Squeezing Through - Plura Tragedy

On February 6, 2014, tragedy struck inside the Pluragrotta cave as two Finnish divers lost their lives, while three others suffered from decompression sickness. Norwegian authorities enlisted an international team to retrieve the bodies, but the operation was deemed too challenging, leading to a diving ban on the cave. Consequently, the three surviving divers took matters into their own hands to recover their friends.

The cave is located in Rana, Norway. It is the deepest cave in Northern Europe.

They ultimately recovered the bodies and it was documented in the film "Diving Into The Unknown." The diving ban was lifted on March 31, 2014.

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CREDITS:

[GeddyRC]

The fact that the deeper you go, and the longer you linger, you lose the ability to quickly exit without long decompression stops makes this even more insane and terrifying. It’s like, even if you somehow manage not to get trapped in an icy underwater cave, and you decide you want out ASAP, you still have hang around for HOURS.

[denhideous]

These situations almost never happen to coin collectors.

[astrusalemezzocuore]

They didn't "find themselves" in a horrifying situation, THEY ACTUALLY PUT THEMSELVES in such predicament

[skybot]

A 5 minute delay means a 1 hour decompression so all of those divers had to make it through the system with very few if any delays and even if they have the oxygen there is the cold that will kill you. Definitely not worth the risk.

[heavypeatandsmoke]

I already panic when I can't unwrap my legs from my cozy blanket fast enough.

[saidalex]

I think the part where you have to use the chain saw to enter the water says it all.

[indadrops]

Cave diving is crazy enough but cave diving under frozen water is just plain nutz

[Johnno]

There's nothing in a frozen cave worth dying for.

[NotFallingit]

This is most peoples worst nightmare. Trapped in a tight place underwater, drowning and panicking. How absolutely terrifying.

[Eviltto]

Speaking as someone who is claustrophobic, the idea of going into a narrow cave is terrifying. My brain can't even process the idea of doing so _underwater._

[Swaber]

This is an extremely underrated channel with high quality videos you deserve more subscribers

[novittucrafty]

As a finn, i read about this in the news. If i was a diver, i'd go to some tropical place and dive on shipwrecks max 10 meters below the surface.

[leonardbacalzo]

They couldnt have picked a safer hobby like stamp collecting

[.M]

You dont have to worry about retrieving my body from a cave. My ass ain’t going.

[silvercloud-ug]

No mitigating circumstances. No cave collapses. No floods or currents. No equipment failures. Just panic that created another panic. First guy got his scooter cord momentarily caught on a rock. Incorrectly faults a tank for blocking him. Gets his cord clear of the rocks, but by that time he's too frustrated and scared calm back down and catch his breath. The second guy died of sheer dreed.

[munequa]

The frozen lake blocking the entrance should’ve been a sign.

[JackIsNotInTheBox]

"Yo, wanna go cave diving this weekend?"
"Nah, I'm good."

[fizalex]

I’ve seen the videos of people drowning while diving and the sounds they make are so hard to listen too, it’s a horrible sound, the fear is palpable.

[EuclidFusionSupernova]

As an experienced cave diver (though not CCR), I still don't understand how other experienced divers make such strange (reckless, danger-inducing) decisions after repeated dive planning goes on. I'm particularly critical of the lack of dedicated surface support personnel considering the ambient winter temperature and myriad deep diving risks, the preplanned(?) decision to rehearse a bail-out procedure at the deepest stretch requiring increased decompression stops without having the requisite air to accommodate if even a slight delay takes place, among other avoidable problems....

Cave diving is THE most dangerous kind of diving... add to that depths requiring Trimix/CCR, winter temperatures in Norway, diving a new (reverse) route in a cave with narrow passages. Accepting risks is one thing -- ignoring them is another!

[djdoc]

Cave diving is so dangerous, that I keep getting new random YouTube videos in my feed, telling the exact same story, and it's never the same person:

dived in cave, lost/stuck, died in terror/despair.

Feels like there is no end to these.