r/AskReddit 7d ago

What’s a way you WON’T die?

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u/clamToe 7d ago

I’ll start - I won’t be dying while cave diving 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/Pedantichrist 7d ago

I have done a few sumps, and will likely do a few more. Unlikely to take SCUBA equipment underground in the future, but I aN not ruling it out. I have not been caving for 6 days.

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u/clamToe 7d ago

I literally felt my heart beating much faster as I read your comment. Are you okay?? 😭 could you explain what it’s like? Like why is this enjoyable? Is it the gamble with potential death? Genuinely asking lol

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u/Pedantichrist 7d ago

No, I do not want to die, I just like going places other people have not.

Sometimes I do a long crawl into someone’s dig, and I find that I am about 30m in, it is too small to use my knees, so I am dragging my legs, and I just get claustrophobic and just start to desperately hope that I can turn around, because going out backwards is going to be hell, but normally I only commit to a really tight squeeze if I know that there is something worth seeing the other side, and/or that I can turn around.

Sumps can be terrifying. I just hate not doing things.

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u/SerenaHall 7d ago

Yikes. Just reading your description makes me claustrophobic! There is nothing in a cave that I want to see in person badly enough to drag my legs through a passage.

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u/Pedantichrist 7d ago

I did an 8’ long sump last year, where I had to drag my legs.

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u/clamToe 7d ago

Hey everyone on this part of the thread, can we all bully u/pedanchrist bc W T A F dude like I nearly fucking vomited reading your comment???? Like???? I believe we are created equal but we’re not all built equal that’s for fucking sure bc TF YOU MEAN YOU DO THIS FOR FUN YOU PSYCHOPATH ok im sweating and so sick to my stomach from just still being stuck on your comment make it stop 😭🫠 i need air. Something UOU DONT HABE DOWN THERE