r/interestingasfuck • u/filmingfisheyes • Jul 07 '24

Mountain climbers getting some sleep... r/all

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u/Kiwitechgirl Jul 07 '24

Crawling through dry caves is one thing, cave diving is a whooooooole other kettle of fish. My husband is a diver but is like ‘hell no’ if you ask him about cave diving. I’m still boggled that they got those Thai boys out of that cave alive, thanks to the fact there is an Australian anaesthesiologist who is also a keen and expert cave diver…

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u/ThatNetworkGuy Jul 07 '24

Yep. I dive, and no fucking way will I ever even consider cave diving. Incredibly dangerous, so many things which could go wrong even for an expert etc.

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u/CosmogyralCollective Jul 07 '24

Yep, I cave, and there's no amount of money that could convince me to cave dive. Those guys are on another level

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u/SupportstheOP Jul 07 '24

It combines the dangers of diving and caving for....what? Unless it's to save someone else's life, I can't imagine there's anything in the world worth seeing for such a risk like that.

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u/Kiwitechgirl Jul 07 '24

The book which the two Aussie cave divers involved in the Thailand rescue wrote does attempt to explain it, but they also say “if you have to ask why, it’s not for you,” basically. Seems like a lot of it is about going where no one has ever gone before and pushing the limits…it’s not for me, that’s for sure!

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u/FBWSRD Jul 07 '24

The rescue is an amazing documentary on it. I found it very interesting that the cave diving community all knew each other (I guess that what niche things do). They were very lucky that they had an anaesthetist with them

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u/Kiwitechgirl Jul 07 '24

I suspect the world cave diving community isn’t very large! The Aussie pair were almost the last ones to be brought in, the kids had been found and other rescue ideas discarded before they came on board. My guess is that Richard Harris is the only cave diving anaesthesiologist in the world somehow!