have you ever had any close calls getting stuck - /out/

Anonymous07/25/26, 18:52No.2875724

Have you ever had any close calls getting stuck in a cave?

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Anon07/25/26, 19:41No.2875726

Anon07/26/26, 15:21No.2875805

why did zoomies have to resurrect this meme. the story was so painful to follow.

Anon07/27/26, 23:58No.2875894

Anon07/28/26, 22:07No.2875977

I've never been truly stuck before, but I have been in sections of cave where I could not get out under my own willpower. In particular, there was one moment where we had to go downstream from the convergence of two underground rivers. These rivers dumped all of the sediment in the cave to one location. This resulted in mud/silt that was waist deep and pretty much the consistency of quicksand. We had a four-person survey crew, and the biggest guy was already stuck, so I went out to go help. It took a third person grabbing on to me (while I was holding on to the big guy) and pulling in order to free us.t. Career Caver

Anon07/28/26, 22:21No.2875978

i went in this cave in guatemala. it was fricken wild, you had to swim from one cavern to the next underwater. only light was candles https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q2w9iB6Xs&pp=ygUWc3VtZWMgY2hhbXB5IGNhdmUgamFrZQ%3D%3D

Anon07/31/26, 08:43No.2876230

Had a passage that I was surveying during Valentine's Day that was a bit troublesome. >Nearly a mile back into the cave, past several squeezes and obstacles >A passage ~3ft tall, ~2ft wide, at the base of a wall >Passage is in the stream and covered with mud >A true worm tube >I'm in front setting the survey stations >Instrumenteer behind me, sketcher behind them >Too narrow to bellycrawl, so we lay on our sides and push forward with our legs >No room to turn around >5 stations in, the passage slightly widens >Enough room to lay on stomach >Sketcher pauses here to draw the map >Instrument and I continue on to collect data >Station 8, passage narrows, becomes taller, and starts zig-zagging >Must contort my spine in weird angles to progress >I can no longer turn my head from side to side >Instrument taps out due to nerves and size >The passage keeps going >Only way out is to back out, blindly feeling with legs >Sketcher must crawl over instrument to pass >It is station 13 >ididnthearnobell.webm >I fight for traction as I push deeper into the passage >3 sides of my body are touching the muddy walls >Feels like a human glue trap >I am no longer compelled by recreation >I will be the first to discover this shitty place >With white-out and a modified laser rangefinder, I set stations and collect data >My body and the angles of the passage muffle my voice to Sketcher >I must yell to relay the data "Station 14 to 15: Foresight 3.6; 124.7; 0.2" "LRUDs: 1.1 ; 0; .8, 2.3 " >I slither up to the 15th station >The survey device now resembles a muddy brick "15 to 14: Backsight 3.4; 204.4, -0.2" >A distant shout affirms the data >Proceed >Eventually met with a slight widening >Wide enough to actually turn around >Sweet rapture >It ends in a 90° turn into a sub 2x1ft passage choked with mud and rocks >Finally, humanly impassable >Do a 360° human u-ey >Crawl over Sketcher, still drawing >Meet with Instrument, still backing out >Fully regroup at the passage entrance >Call it a day

Anon08/01/26, 08:00No.2876344

All the cavers must be stuck and dead because there are no threads here or in extreme sports

Anon08/05/26, 14:11No.2876766

>hey look, its "Satans spiky asshole" the 2 inch wide unknown side passage that no one has ever returned from, BETTER GO EXPLORE IT >aaaaah help me im stuckcavers are the biggest darwin award winners on the planet beside divers and russian conscripts

Anon08/07/26, 01:48No.2876930

We dropped a rope down a vertical cave in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico to help people get back out. We really should have had vertical gear, but we were told you could free climb it easy. That swasn’t true. From the entrance to where we stopped was probably about 70 ft, then there was a little ledge, then another 150ft drop. I was the last one out.We had tied knots into the rope to help people shimmy up, well one of the knots was a little too far from the other and I couldn’t reach it. I ended up having to pull the rope and “jump” for it. I almost lost my grip and if I would have fallen, I probably would have at least broken my legs, if not rolled off and gone down the 150 ft pit. Mortality isn’t a good thing to think about as you hike back to the car.

Anon08/07/26, 08:30No.2876940

Why would you post this

Anon08/08/26, 10:55No.2877057

Why didn't he turn 360 and crawl out?

Anon08/08/26, 15:52No.2877063

only a retard would do that without a team of professionals by his side

Anon08/12/26, 22:42No.2877462

No, because caving is fucking retarded. You're suicidal if you deliberately shove yourself headfirst into some hole smaller than your torso can reasonably accommodate.

Anon08/15/26, 03:36No.2877641

I've been in a few caves before, but when it gets to the point where you gotta crawl on your belly with your backs squeezed against the ceiling I say nah you can do that, I'm gonna wait right here.Or in another one where there was part where you had to go crawl and hold your breath under water, I'm like nah fuck thatWe also found the entrance one cave while out on a hike where I could have maybe squeezed through the entrance of if I tried hard enough, but if it was this hard to get in it'd probably be even harder to get out, so nope I wasn't gonna try that either.Caves are cool but like, if it gets to the point where both you back and your front are touching a solid rock wall at the same time it's time to turn around.

Anon08/19/26, 00:11No.2877923

yes. I used to cave a lot in indiana, great limestone caves. there was a one way micro tunnel that did a U and I tried to send my gf down, she was too afraid despite being 2/3 my size. I ditched everything but my helmet and went through. it was small enough my head had to be sideways with the helmet and at one point only the fact that I have pretty severe pectus excavatum (dip in my sternum) let me bend through the last part (way past being able to go backwards) without damage. It wasn't long but it was tight enough that looking back I could have easily had a real problem and it was just me and her. I get chills thinking about it now that I'm not a stupid kid anymore.

Anon08/19/26, 01:06No.2877928

Not to mention all the destruction caused by the explorationEvery time one of you goobers gets stuck they drill and blast the caves to rubble trying to get your dumbasses out, then fill the fucking things with concrete so your dumb ass corpse can rot alone by itself.

Anon08/19/26, 02:17No.2877933

Does it count that I got stuck in a clothes chute once? I was real scrawny and flexible as a kid so it was a party trick to fit through small passages. Tried to show off and take the clothes chute to the basement but my arms got trapped almost immediately. I refuse to do narrow shit anymore.

Anon08/19/26, 13:41No.2877964

Kept bumping the sides of this cave but never was really in danger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxBFiRCULuk&t=50 (not me in the video)

Anon08/19/26, 20:50No.2877988

I honestly dont understand how this rescue failed. >go to nearest harbor freight. >buy generator, compressor, air chisel and all the air hose they have. >carve out the ledge at his ankles >pull him out The compressed air from running the air chisel is going to blow all the dust away from the rescuer and stuck dumbass so breathing wouldnt be that big of an issue. Pretty sure thats better than just being left to die in a hole. And whats it going to take, an hour? 2 on the high end? We're not talking about excavating a collapsed building. All they had to do is widen a hole that the guy literally already fit through. Ive chiseled apart an entire chimney in an hour, brick by brick.

Anon08/19/26, 21:10No.2877991

i haven't done any real speology with ropes and such but once i was in a pretty horizontal cave where you can just walk, like 1km long or so, and it formed into a stream at the bottom but i tried not to get wet so went stepping only on the edges and eventually i was basically climbing with one foot on each wall and using my hands against the walls and so on, it was fun and at some point i must have slipped and from one instant to the next i was head down with my shoulder stuck against a wall, my arm under water, and my legs against the other wall, and completely dark because my headtorch had turned off with the impact, and it was one of the biggest adrenaline hits i ever had. then i managed to free myself wihtout getting too wet, but later i ended up just stepping inside the river so as not fall againi remember that day very fondly, back then i had only recently started going /out/ and it was a really good adventure. that whole cave had lots of other great moments, i will mention the one that was actually dangerious, at one point towards the entrance i didn't find the way so i tried a high ledge to get over some boulders but it was shit and not even stable, i stepped on a big half formed stalagmite that broke a bit and my feet was this close slipping completely, and at the very least it would have meant broken legs in a cave alone with no phone service

Anon08/22/26, 22:45No.2878271

Back to our regularly scheduled caving discussion, has anyone ITT had any experience with cave survey? Tomorrow I will be heading out to a spring cave that'll have us fully immersed in 55°f spring water for the day. I'm thinking it's going to be a double wetsuit kind of day. The other sketcher had to back out so I will be the one compiling the data and drawing the map itself!I am told that further back into the cave there is a prolonged low airspace (one foot or less) that requires one to float on their back and go one at a time to minimize splashing. We've been waiting all year for the driest part of the season to tackle this one, so it shouldn't be THAT bad, but it's still gonna be a hell of a doozy keeping our survey books and instruments dry-ish. Supposedly it opens up into a room with formations, but since the passage is unmapped, that remains to be verified. Will report back with what we find.

Anon08/22/26, 22:50No.2878272

Today, I got to attend a state park-led training on cave biology where we learned about the different bats located within the cave in the park, identifiers of their various communication profiles on digital amplifiers, and taxonomic features to identify which genus or species we may encounter. It was a good day! I even got to feed one of the little bastards!

Anon08/25/26, 03:30No.2878481

>holy shit its ANOTHER tunnel with even MORE rocks

Anon08/26/26, 13:43No.2878620

I've never heard of a black man getting stuck in a cave or falling of a mountain, nigga druids got 18+ wisdom

Anon08/27/26, 16:04No.2878711

who will star him in the movie