Best movies about caving?

I mean actual caving, not retard horror films like "The Descent".

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'member that guy who stuck in a hole like this and they didn't get him out, letting him die?

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Heights>>>>>>>>>>>depth

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nutty putty caves somewhere in utah, dude was trapped upside down and they couldn't pull him out without breaking his legs which would have sent him into shock.

you mean this?

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Something is wrong with white people.

What an absolute horror.

>Nutty Putty Cave
How will he ever recover from this?

Life tip: If you give Nature enough chances, she will take you out.

Should have medicated him thoroughly and then pulled him out anyways.

>options are breaking his legs or letting him die
>they pick B
????

I don't find diving scary at all, even though it's apparently the most terrifying thing in the world to many people. Sure, there are some dangerous elements, but I can get over those. Most of the things people find scary about it I don't scary at all.
However, with caving I have absolutely no idea how those people who are into it enjoy what they're doing and don't NOPE as hard as everyone else. Is there anyone here who is into caving?

He had been stuck upside down for hours with all the blood rushing to his head. The shock from breaking his legs would have killed him anyway.

So instead you just do nothing and let him die? Just take the chance at least.

They didn't "do nothing". They were actually in the process of successfully pulling him out but the line broke and he fell back into the hole. After that he was too far gone. Pretty much a nightmare scenario.

being honest, i think a blair witch style found footage film about a caving incident could work well, blair witch style as in the format and its delivery rather than anything story-wise. I think it could play well on the body horror and claustrophobia aspects

something like a group of friends in the late 90s/early 2000s going caving and seeing their friendship before one of them is caught in a serious accident, either they're stuck somewhere or seriously injured and the rest of the film is the other friends attempting to get them out and back to the surface but ultimately failing to do so.

What kind of mental illness is this?

What did they tell him? Did they keep pretending to rescue him until he died even though they already gave up, or did they go just go "lol sorry bruh this isn't going to work out" and left him to die all alone?

I like diving and cave exploration but only when it's in the open water or in big open caves. When I was around 10 years old my school class took a trip to some dripstone caves and that stuff was really fascinating but fuck shit like the stuff in the OP. Same goes for underwater cave diving. I love diving out in the open water but I'll never enter a cave underwater.

After being upside down for that long, I seriously doubt the guy was even conscious anymore.

SPELUNKING

He was subconscious...
Get it?

he was unconscious for hours when it was decided.

The only one that comes to mind is Sanctum even though it's about cave diving.

>"I know you've been pushing so hard for so long. Why don't you rest for a minute and take a break, and then you can push again," she said.

>She felt good about that.

>She'd given her husband, struggling so hard for her, for his family, against something so impossible, permission to be at peace for a moment. Still, she was absolutely sure he was going to be all right.

>Down in the cave, though, John didn't respond, Kowallis said. He was already unconscious.

>He never woke up. At 11:56 p.m. on Nov. 25, a paramedic crawled into the cave and pronounced John dead.

>Emily couldn't understand how they could know John was dead -- they hadn't found a pulse on his legs for hours.

>She was terrified of leaving. What if he's not dead, and we all leave and he wakes up and no one's there? Emily thought.

>But John hadn't moved, spoken or breathed for hours.

>Kowallis said he had heard John dying.

>Emily forced herself to get into a car with John's family and leave her husband behind.

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I used to until I had a very traumatic experience where I was stuck for 6 hours in total darkness until help arrived. It wasn't in a section that was particularly narrow, but it freaked me out enough to never enter a cave ever again.

I can understand when you look at cases and pictures like in this thread that it seems insane, but most people don't explore unexplored territory and in real life it's easy to deduce where you can pass and not.

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The closest I can think of is Ace in the Hole, but that doesn't really feature on the cave diving much at all.

>white people

You guys can't even handle a dark room. No wonder you never go caving.

I know there was some creepypasta about cave diving that was made into a movie. It's probably terrible, though.

I didn't know they made a movie about that.

Ted the Caver. Yeah, the movie was no budget crap.

ted the caver, the original story holds up pretty well. cant say much about the movie as i havent seen it

I'm not even sure the movie exists. All that ever surfaced was a trailer. It's not even listed on imdb.

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FUCK you nigga

Me on the left

more caving horror stories please

WHY

This shit makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at it. I can't see how this would be remotely fun.

exploring caves is fun but why the fuck would you get in holes that small

wow i wasnt ready for this so early in the day... what an idiot too though
>have wife and kids
>decide to go exploring in unmapped section of a cave less than a foot wide

Why not bring a hammer or something?

No easier to die up there

wh*te people are crazy s m fuxxen h

Are you going to be spamming these threads everyday again, bad poster?

cumskins are literaly finna cave people baka

Come the fuck on some of these look fun, OP looks kinda unsettling though
What's wrong with exploring nature and challenging yourself

>the ones with water in them
Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle

Wtf, never knew this meeting happened lol

See

rowan atkinson in top right?

John Ogden and five of his friends were 3.2 kilometers (2 mi) deep into an unmapped part of England’s Mossdale Caverns in 1967 when the rain began to fall. For hours, they’d climbed and crawled their way through the dark, winding tunnels of the cave, exploring a part of the world no one had ever seen. Deep in that labyrinth of stone, they had no way of knowing what was coming.

In the downpour, the creek outside of the mountain was rising. Soon, there was a full-on flood. The entrance was buried under a rising lake, and the water came rushing into the cave through every pathway. Ogden and his group were crawling through a narrow tunnel when they heard the rumble of rushing water behind them. It spilled in, first rising up over their feet and quickly climbing to their necks.

The group’s only hope was a small crack in the rocks up ahead. Ogden forced himself up the fissure, pulling his head up to a tiny pocket of air at the top. There was no room for anyone else. Beneath him, the water filled the tunnel, and every one of his friends died. Ogden alone had his head above the water, trapped in a narrow crevice.

It took days before anyone found him. By then, he was dead, too, still stuck there in that narrow pathway, struggling for a last gasp of air.

Marriage and kids is a trap too user

Stuff like this fills me with absolute dread. Like how in the fuck does a person get an idea to do this and think "yes being stuck between rocks and with possibilty of dying horribly sounds like a good time".

At least pull the body out fucking savages

holy shit

Imagine being stuck there for the rest of your life.

In 2002, divers found M.K.’s body at the bottom of an underwater cave in Croatia, 54 meters (177 ft) below the surface. He was alone, but his diving mask had been removed—and there was a 30-centimeter (12 in) knife lodged into his chest.

At first, the police investigated it as a murder. M.K. had gone cave diving with friends, and the police began to suspect that one of them had stabbed him and thrown him overboard to hide the body. Forensics, though, revealed a truth that was more chilling than any murder.

M.K. had gotten lost in the maze of the cave, and his oxygen ran out. With no air left, he started drowning. He swam up to an air bubble between two rocks and tried to breathe it in, but it wasn’t enough to save him. He would die here, he realized, and it would be a horrible and painful death.

The pain of drowning was too much to bear. M.K. stabbed himself in the chest with his own knife to escape the agony.

Peter Verhulsel was a risk-taker. When he and his friends went cave diving through Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa in 1984, he ignored every safety guideline. There was a line through the water that they were supposed to follow, but Peter’s curiosity kept driving him to explore passages off the planned path.

The third time he did so, his friends couldn’t find him. Peter swam through a maze of tunnels and soon realized that he was lost. He was trapped alone in a cave with no idea how to get out, and his oxygen was running low.

In a stroke of luck, he found a small island at the end of a tunnel. He climbed out of the water and onto the island. Now, at least, he wouldn’t drown, but he didn’t have enough oxygen left to find his way out. His only hope was to wait for rescue.

Peter waited for hours before he gave in to exhaustion and fell asleep. When he woke, no help had come. He sat in a pitch-black cavern with nothing to eat and nothing to do but wait.

It took rescuers six weeks to find Peter. By then, his starved body had withered to bones. He left one final message behind for his wife and his mother. In his last days, knowing he would die, he scrawled in the sand: “I love you, Shirl and Ma.”

For real I've heard this story like 5 times but never got that bit
Always felt bad for the guy, turns out he's a fucking asshole. My uncle had a super bike that he loved to ride but he sold it within a month of having a kid. You take stupid risks at the peril of their future as much as your own.

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In January 2005, Dave Shaw was determined to retrieve Deon Dreyer’s body. Dreyer had been dead for ten years, lost 270 meters (885 ft) into Bushman’s Hole in South Africa, but Dave was going to bring his bones back to his family.

He found Deon’s body without a problem and hooked a line to it so he could bring it up safely. When he tried to cover the body with a body bag, though, the head snapped free. The body started to float away, and catching it turned into a vicious struggle.

Dave’s breath sped up. Soon, he was breathing faster than his rebreather could handle. The carbon dioxide it was supposed to filter out was coming back into his lungs, making him confused. His efforts to get Deon into the bag were getting wild and careless, and he was staying at it for too long.

After five minutes, Dave gave up and started swimming up, but his light got snagged on the cave line he’d attached to Deon’s body. Dave tried to get free, but Deon’s body was dragging him down. He panicked, his breath faster than ever. Dave was choking on his own exhalations. Dave passed out and died under the water, next to the body he’d tried to save.

>Rescuers concluded that it would be too dangerous to attempt to retrieve his body; the landowner and Jones' family came to an agreement that the cave should be permanently closed with the body sealed inside
>tfw youll never get a cave tomb when you die

Ryan Shurtz had been trying to save John Jones for 19 hours already that fateful day in 2010. John had gotten himself trapped headfirst and upside down in a narrow passageway in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave, and Ryan and his team were doing everything they could to get him out. While his men built a pulley system meant to yank John out, Ryan stayed with him, talking to keep him calm.

“I’m sorry I’m so fat,” John said. “It would be so much easier for you guys to get me out of here if I wasn’t so fat.” Ryan promised that he’d be his workout buddy when they got out. For now, the pulley was in place, and they were going to start pulling. John needed to get ready.

When they yanked him up, John shrieked in pain. They gave him a break, Ryan talked him through it, and they pulled again.

This time, though, things got worse. A natural arch through which the rope was fed shattered, and the rope broke. A metal carabiner fell and hit Ryan in the face, causing him to bite his tongue in half. John fell back down the hole.

Ryan had to get out. While blood dribbled out of his mouth, he promised John that he’d be back for him. Ryan’s team helped him escape the collapsing cave, and Ryan’s father went in to take over for him. “We’re going to get you out,” he told the man trapped inside. But John was already unconscious. He would never wake up again.

Kentuckian Floyd Collins found Crystal cave in 1917, and he was determined to explore every inch of it. For eight years, he squeezed through its passageways—until the day he got trapped.

His lantern had started to flicker, and Collins was trying to get out before he lost light. He was climbing his way up a tight passageway when he knocked a 12-kilogram (27 lb) rock loose. It came crashing down onto his ankle, pinning him in place.

For the next 17 days, rescue teams tried to save him, but nothing they tried worked. In time, they brought in miners to dig a shaft to him, believing the only hope was to make a new way out. While he waited, Collins was becoming a celebrity. Tourists from all around were coming to see his rescue, with hucksters setting up booths to sell food, drinks, and souvenirs.

The mine shaft took too long. On his 18th day in the cave, Collins succumbed to hypothermia, thirst, and hunger.

Fucking bad ass

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The group of 17 students who visited New Zealand’s Cave Creek in 1995 didn’t think they were doing anything dangerous. They weren’t exploring narrow pathways; they were on a guided tour, staying on a beaten path designed for tourists.

When they made it to a platform that overlooked a chasm, some of the boys couldn’t help but notice how flimsy it felt. As a joke, they jumped and shook it, marveling at how precariously it seemed to be built.

They figured it was all in fun. In an era of safety regulations, they assumed that it just looked flimsier than it really was—but they were wrong. The platform had been built by men with no experience in engineering. It was meant to be bolted in place, but they’d used nails instead, simply because they didn’t have a drill handy.

Under the weight of the students, the platform gave way. It toppled over and collapsed, crashing down into the chasm below. One student survived by grabbing onto the handrail and riding it down, but his classmates were hurtled overboard and killed.

Of the 17, only four survived. They were lifted out in helicopters. One had a fractured spine, but with 13 of her friends dead, she counted herself as one of the lucky ones.

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Expedition to retrieve shaw's body when?

In 1988, Andrew Wight was on a team of 15 people, exploring one of the deepest caves in the world. They would never see the bottom.

A freak storm hit. A flood of water poured in through the cave entrance, and the middle section of the entire cave collapsed. All 15 people were trapped underground, with Wight and a few others stuck on a small ledge.

It was hard to know what to do. The roof above them was getting ready to collapse, but the rushing water below them was too wild to enter. Boulders would fall off the cave walls and into the water, threatening to crush anyone who dared to step in.

Wight decided to try it. He swam through the water and managed to find another way out. Over the next 27 hours, he and others worked to send in line and lead his team out.

Gaia vore

How could the air in that place last long enough for them not to pass out from lack of oxygen? He was there like 8 hours.

Helena Carroll was warned not to go into Nam Talu Cave in October 2007. It was Thailand’s monsoon season, and there was heavy rain. If she went in, the locals warned her, she would not return. Helena, though, ignored their warnings.

She wasn’t alone. Her boyfriend, John Cullen, joined her, along with seven other tourists who didn’t see the risk. They soon realized the magnitude of their mistake. First, they heard a sudden roar behind them—and then they saw the water rushing in.

“John and I started climbing,” Helena recalled. “The first thing we saw was the tour guide and the German boy being dragged away, then the Swiss couple and their two lovely girls.” Helena nearly slipped, but John caught her and helped her up to a ledge. It was pitch dark in there, but they could hear the incredible speed of the rushing water below them.

“If we stay here, we are going to die,” John told her. He thought he could swim for help and bring back a rescue party. Helena stayed behind as he climbed into water. She watched as the love of her life was pulled away by the current.

Helena was alone on the ledge for eight hours before rescue came. When they brought her out, the bodies of the others were lying in boxes on the grass. She saw John’s body lying next to the Swiss girls. It was only then that she realized that she was the only one to survive.

Kai Kankanen was one of the last divers to go into Norway’s Plura cave. It was a cold winter day in February 2014, and the pond that led to the cave had frozen over. The divers had to cut a hole in the ice before diving in. Patrik Gonqvist and Jari Huotarinen went in first, and Kai’s group followed after.

The plan was to swim through the pathways of Plura and come out on the other side, where there was an exit in the mountainside. Kai had already made it most of the way when he found Huotarinen’s body. His friend had gotten trapped in a narrow passageway. In his panic, he’d swallowed water and choked. Now, Jari’s lifeless body was blocking the way forward.

Jari Uusimaki, one of the men with Kai, panicked. He started breathing too quickly and poisoning himself with carbon dioxide. Kai tried to save him, but he couldn’t get him to calm down. Jari was the next to die, and Kai was left alone.

Kai turned back. He swam through the freezing water and back to the pond, but he couldn’t find the hole they’d made. He had no choice but to smash his way through the ice blocking his way to the surface.

By the time he was out, Kai had been underwater for 11 hours. The other men in his group had made it to the other exit and survived. It would take nearly two months, though, for the bodies of their friends to be retrieved.

>tfw you'll never become a draugr and drown spelunking dickheads

Jesus Christ

>unable to do anything
>chance that you'll make it out alive is determined entirely by other people
>you make it halfway up, fall back down
>stuck in a narrow passage miles underground which is miles from civilization, knowing you will never be able to see another human being again and hearing the people leave, unable to see, move or do anything except think about what's happening to you as your brain slowly drifts into a comatose state

Is there a worse way to die

His body floated to the surface and was recovered.

Did you save that picture yesterday when I posted it with:
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>he was dead, too, still stuck there in that narrow pathway, struggling for a last gasp of air.

How could he be struggling for air if he's already dead?

The balls on that motherfucker

why do women pretend to like caving?

He became a zombie.

>tfw you'll never be as alpha as Andrew
Fuck.

Based horrific spelunking story poster.

> By then, he was dead, too, still stuck there in that narrow pathway, struggling for a last gasp of air.

I could see myself doing this, but I'd have to carry a suicide pill with me, at least 3 suicide backups.

What are you doing

Stop pls

Kiwis are clinically retarded

There's not enough money in the world to pay me to do this.

Caving is for pussies
Real men cave dive

the danger comes from when you go in you can see everything fine but as you go past you stir up all the dirt on the ground so when you turn around its a thick impossible to see through wall also I've heard stories of oxygen tanks malfunctioning and shooting the person up into the rocks above

But to answer your question

The Descent is a great movie about caving.

The Cave was neat movie for the first 40 min, then it turns into a fucking meme.

I was a professional gave guide and avid caver for almost ten years. Nowadays I have to be sedated to have an MRI taken.

Checked, and I think so.

nice try skeleton i know the gold is in there

This is a very bad sign, it's just going to make it more attractive to adrenaline junkies, aka the only people who actually cave dive.

Whats with all these stories where the rope breaks? Use a stronger fucking rope.

Someone should cross off the 300 and write 301...302...303...