The math is just so against you I can't imagine risking it, you have to do it correctly every time, and if you do it incorrectly you now have to be perfect in a scenario that you make every attempt to avoid to start with, with an intensely fallible human body full of counterproductive instincts that take over when you panic.

There was a case in I think Croatia where they thought there had been a group conspiracy to commit a murder in a cave diving group cause someone went missing out of a group and was then found with a knife in his chest, then it turned out after investigating all possible scenarios that he most likely just did it to himself after he realized he fucked up and was going to suffocate or drown for certain.

I would simply not die in a hole

I don't have claustrophobia but I know for a fact I would acquire it if I so much as snagged some clothes in a crawl-height cave

Cave diving has always struck me as a weird hobby because not only is it insanely high risk, it seems like insanely low reward, too. Great, you saw some rocks at the bottom of a pitch-black hole - doesn't seem to have the same thrill factor as skydiving and isn't as sexy as being a fighter jet test pilot. What evolutionary compulsion got twisted around enough to make you want to do this?

Filling these caves in with bakelite under world communism.

I’ve only been diving a couple times in my life and I think I’d snap if I was in a cave. I kept checking to make sure I knew where the surface was every now and then. I’d have to know I could swim up and make it to shore within a few hours or so worst case scenario to be ok with it. I’ve played enough subnautica smh

I am large framed, have claustrophobia, don't like going very far underground, and despite being a very strong swimmer, I have profound submechanophobia and don't like "exploring" under water beyond a snorkel float observing something from a great distance.

Ive gone down some rabbit holes on this stuff too and I think underwater cave divers have some really intense Call of The Void type shit going on in their brains that I cannot engage.

those probably fake signs on underwater caves like 'do it it'll be funny' are a fun idea though, critical support to mocking people making the most preventable mistake in the universe

There are a very large number of things I'd rather not do such as free climbing the Burj Khalifa or boxing a grizzly bear and I'd still rather do those than cave diving.

You think those are a trip look into free diving too. Once you get to 30m you become negatively buoyant and the ocean sucks you under 😵‍💫

absolute nightmare scenario. you'd think the stories would get around that community enough to stop people from these types of dives

I would just not do this

They literally have underwater signs with the image of a cartoon Grim Reaper telling you to fuck off from these things.

tangentially related but those bulky deep sea diving hardsuits the navy has are super cool and i would jump at the chance to get in one and face poseidon's darkest realms if anyone but imperialist militaries and oil companies had them.

If mice had human minds there would be professional mousetrap explorers.

I've done a little cave diving. Some of the coolest shit ive ever seen in my life. There are caves I would do again, and some I absolutely would not. Anytime you don't have a clear path to the surface it is butthole puckering for sure!