Cave Exploring Gone WRONG | Antarctic Iceberg Cave Incident

Cave exploring gone horrifyingly wrong. This is the story of Jill Heinerth and the B-15 Iceberg Cave Dive.

Extreme hobbies require extreme caution and can have extreme consequences if they are not performed by professionals with the proper training and equipment.

Attributions/Special Thanks for Photographs
Giuseppe Milo, Robert McClellan

[ScaryInteresting]

It does contain spoilers, though, so I’d recommend waiting until after to watch it. The two other things I mention are in the description and labelled (also contain spoilers). Have a great weekend!

- Sean

[junusavior]

Never thought I would discover an activity that made regular cave diving seem reasonable.

[_Dreamer]

Their amount of combined luck is utterly astounding. They had multiple second chances. Every single dive resulted in a near death experience yet they continued on.

[KuroshiKun]

They really nearly died 3 times and were like "nah let's get even more pictures and go for a 4th time" like that's INSANE lmao

[KnightsWithoutATable]

They almost died in that ice cave 3 times. Wanting to go back the fourth time was pure madness.

[joshgravitt]

I cannot believe nobody died in this. They tempted fate so badly.

[saintmichael]

This is the equivalent of burning your hand on the stove and then touching it 2 more times to see if it's still hot.

[def]

frankly there is a fine line between courage and stupidity

[atumanov]

Imagine going through all of that to film a documentary that no one can find anymore lol

[enkiimuto]

"that was the type of mistake that put everyone in danger" -- the member of the crew that decided to go back there again

[viyorel]

When I heard "after that close call..." I had REALLY hoped that it was going to be a "they decided to call off the dive" so I absolutely grimaced when they decided to go for ONE MORE!!! AAA

[dragonlover]

cave diving in an iceberg really does feel like a perfect mix of all of the worst things

[shadoninja]

The documentary that covers these dives does them absolutely no justice. In a 50 minute documentary, they gave the divers and the underwater footage maybe 8 minutes of air time. The danger of the dives went almost completely unmentioned.

[turtleduck]

I feel like the iceberg collapsing when it did was some divine being's way of saying "for heaven's sake STOP IT!"

[zarasbazaar]

Diving in freezing waters with a hole in your suit seems like a ridiculous mistake to make for someone this experienced. I imagine the pressure of the expense of the expedition and the limited time to video the ice before it disintegrated pushed her to make a rash decision.

[seanmchugh]

Don't go to icebergs, don't go caving, don't go diving. Most assuredly don't go iceberg cave diving.

[ThePosino]

Don't know how many close calls these people need before they understand just how recklessly they were behaving.

[artur]

They literally asked for something bad to happen.... three separate times, and wanted a fourth life and death situation. Quite frankly, for a bunch of "pros" they sure did behave like complete idiots. "My suit is leaking and im antarctic waters ? Better to continue diving further". They clearly had more luck than common sense.

[nessyandtot]

Love your videos! Just one thing, they for sure were NOT using wet suits, but dry suits instead. Wet suits let water in creating a thin layer of water between your skin and suit, you'd body heat eventually warms the thin water layer, which warms you. I'm really cold water your body can't warm the water so you use a dry suit which let's no water in, that's why it was such an issue that they had leaks.

[abhiwankenobi]

Ah yes my weekly dose of claustrophobia