I went spelunking several times in NJ. Most of the entryway to several medium size rooms was done by crawling through tight cracks over muddy clay. Our only equipment was regular flashlights and beer & weed. I wasn’t terribly afraid at the time but fifty years on I’ll start shivering when recalling the experience. Delayed claustrophobia if such a thing exists. Even after a couple of washings, the embedded clay wouldn’t come out of our jeans and I threw mine out.
Carlsbad Caverns has the largest room in the U.S. Your Tennessee cave has the largest east of the Mississippi River. The world's largest are in Vietnam and then Borneo.
I have been to Carlsbad, and yes it is technically bigger. It isn't near as open like this though. It kind of snakes around and is more of a giant hall room, with pillars dropping down all over. You could fit things like an order of magnitude larger in this room. Carlsbad's big room is 8 acres this one is 5 acres. This one feels a lot bigger though. This is definitely the most open of the large cave rooms.
@@CaveChronicles The Miao Room in China is the world's largest cave chamber by volume, the Sarawak Chamber is the largest by area. Y'all should explore them someday. :) Also the room y'all explored here is called the "Rumble Room". Not sure why you wouldn't give credit to that in your description.
@@superduperspaceship Yes, and you should try some sometime. If crawling through water and mud in the cold and dark is not your thing, there are quite a few commercial caves that give a good taste of what caves are like, without the discomfort. BTW, caves aren’t rare. Where they exist they may be everywhere underground. It is entrances that are sometimes hard to come by!
Thanks so much guys!🥲 @@yankee2yankee It depends on the bedrock of the area. If you live in an area with limestone bedrock (especially if there is sandstone above the limestone) there will be caves everywhere. Most places they are few and far between though. The Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia region where we are is the most cave dense region in the world. Over 20,000 caves, and many more yet to be discovered.
"the eons each layer represents" Once you've begun to get your head around how long it took to build it all up, you then have to start again, contemplating the eons it took to erode some of that away again to form what we just watched. Deep, deep, deep time indeed ............. 🙂
@@MrDeathpilot Its Rumbling Falls cave it's just general caver etiquette to not share locations. This one I can share because it is public and popular but I don't want people to have the expectation for me to share locations so don't in general.
@@CaveChroniclesnot a caver, just wondering why its normal to not share locations? Is it because other people might damage the cave or for their safety?
For anyone wondering, when he throws the rock it falls for about 5 seconds, which means that drop is roughly 400ft, 120m, or 40 stories. The Bag fell even further, falling for about 6s by the sound of it. Making the drop it took about 576ft, 176m, or just shy of 58 stories.
Who needs movies anymore, that was more exciting than any movie from the last 20 years! I realise that the caving I've done is nothing like this! Awesome dudes!
Stumbled on to your channel a few days ago and have been watching like an addict. This particular one is truly intense and had me on the edge of my seat! Outstanding, and sorry I can only give a single thumbs-up.
Appreciate it brother! I definitely need to go back and film this one better. I had my Gopro pointed too far up and missed a lot of great shots. I also swore a lot, and was a bit loopy. I went into this cave with very little sleep the days prior and was running on pure caffeine haha.
22:24 That's a worrying sight for me..... indicates a fairly sizeable flow down there.... I wouldn't be surprised of flash flooding....Don't take your safety down there lightly.... I am also wondering if the spots on the roof that are flat are actually because running water reaches the roof frequently enough to have cut it level over the years. Kinda scary.....
I like to consider myself a brave enough person, I've done things that have made people say "wow, that looked really scary!" But you say to me "we're going 8 hours deep into the Earth" and my brain just goes 'nnnnnnnnnnnnope'. So much respect to y'all for having the sand to make the trip, and for documenting it and making it available to the rest of us. So cool
@@edwardfletcher7790 Caving is not an extreme sport. It's far safer than dirt biking, mountain biking, skiing, hiking, rock climbing, etc. The danger is probably similar to floating a river, if you know what you're doing. Floods are possible, but you can check the weather and plan accordingly. Falls are possible, but knowing your equipment and your limits is a nearly surefire way to prevent them. Rockfalls are uncommon, and can be avoided. Everyone thinks of John Jones, but Jones was an idiot. He crawled into an unknown passage headfirst working only on memory from decades prior.
Most of the movies are woke crap anymore and a waste of time. Paying $60 for a 2 hour indoctrination to a get ESG score approved lesson is not fun . movies should be like interesting like this and it’s why people are choosing not to go to the movies anymore. Sucks that TH-cam censoring is a thing although.
Growing up in the Mammoth Cave area as a kid, friends and I would explore every hole we heard about. Some 50 years later after seeing a video of a guy getting trapped head down and dying stuck like that fills me with anxiety to think of ever going caving again.
I too live in the mammoth cave area. Two days ago, we completed a 19hour trip into proctor cave in the park, pushing virgin leads to the south, towards the whigpistle cave system that’s just outside the park. It’s currently at 40 miles with tons of leads still left to survey
25:41 that's called Caustics . Optical phenomenon In optics and rendering, caustics refer to the optical phenomenon of light refracting and converging to form curved sheets of light. This can be seen in the shifting patterns of light and color on the surface of water, such as in a Mediterranean sea.
Sheeesh makes that "cavern" i crawled into once years back look like a grain of sand!!! This was pretty intense. Super adventurous!!! Thanks for sharing. 🤘😔🎸
I have watched way too many cave horror mini-documentaries and now even the thought of cave-exploring scares me. You're really brave, the shots where you had to maneuver in impossibly tiny spaces were so scary! The reward was worth it though, the room is truly awe-inspiring!
That moment when you arrived at the opening to the room, and it was basically a black hole, and the dust was swirling, and your voices were echoing, and the rock fell forever, and we knew it wasn't a movie and was all REAL... electrifying.
Thankfully this seems to be a well-known cave, the nooks and crannies may make a rescue near impossible, but only the worst of injuries would keep someone down there lol
Okay this is terrifying, im a large guy and watching this do this is filling me with anxiety, also if no one else has done the math, at 7:01 the rock impacted... something, and it took 5 seconds to do that... that is an almost 800 foot drop... *insert sid* "no thanks i choose life"
@DS-zj4xy sorry i thought it was 9.8 squared not just 9.8 D = 9.8^2 * 5 * 0.5 P.S. I think actually that gives you the amount of meters seeing how's it meters per second per second. 🤔
The dome couldn't be better suited for supporting the cap, than if the Romans had made it themselves! Love the stratifications, I am sure a geologist would have fun in there too. Stay safe, enjoy, keep filming and return to your children and wives!
You havent gone down the rabbit hole quite yet, ive seen some really truly ridiculous tight narrow anxiety inducing cave dive both above and below water. This is is just the beginning take the blue pill or take the red pill.
That room is breathtaking. When you were way up on the cliff it seemed scary and foreboding but once y'all got down there and lit up the whole thing it became absolutely awe inspiring. Like you're walking around inside the belly of god.
The video didn’t do it justice until one of the guys went all the way across the room to take a picture and we saw the third guy repelling down. That’s when the video opened up and we could see that the room is massive. I’ll bet this video doesn’t really do it justice to how massive the room really is in person. Great video guys!!!
This is amazingly cool, but I have a few questions: what is the name of this cave system, and what is the name of the chamber? I would love to read any research on it or see if they have any scans or dimensions for it!
I wished you guys would bring more prepped equipment to each level just in case. You guys are awesome just be smart tell me your bringing at least 5 or more lights
We had way more lights than you think than lol. Since we record we had more than any other caver probably ever has in there tbh. We all had at least 3 headlamps on top of other lights with a lot of batteries. We also only drain our batteries about half way because they dim, so we had weeks worth of light each on lower modes. The big lights are only for the camera we can still see, you can't.
You guys do NOT get enough credit for this. Holy crap. I could never do that. I think I would panik and die. But I enjoy your videos from the couch 😅 love from Denmark 🇩🇰
Honestly, this doesn't look as big as the main chamber in Carlsbad Caverns. It might be taller but when you consider the debris pile in the middle (identical as in Silver Dollar City's Marvel cave) you loose a lot of volume. The overall dimensions of Carlsbad Caverns is monstrous.
Where the heck is this? i can't find anything like it looking online. I'm interested to know how the heck a cave like that even forms, it looks so crazy!
It's weird to think that even if we nuke ourselves into oblivion that giant chamber will just still be there, untouched. I don't know why but I find that thought strangely comforting.
Ya who needs a multi million dollar end of the world pod? Just find a near by cave and store shit down there. In a few months odds are things will have settled down and you can thaw out and see if ur eyes still work.
Depending on how close a nuke hits to that cave, possibly not. All of those boulders on the ground are bits of the ceiling that collapsed, it's relatively stable but that doesn't mean it'll stay that way if it's subjected to enough shock. That's why actual bunkers are suspended from shock absorbers in tunnels with heavily reinforced walls...not even miles of stone above you is a guarantee. Chances are, a few bits of the ceiling will fall and the cave will still be there, just a few feet taller and not quite as deep. Best case, a few boulders fall on your head; more likely, you'll be buried under a dozen feet of stone. Those huge rooms form by repeated vertical cave-ins, along with an underground river to erode and carry away the remains of the former ceiling (and your bones!). Over the years, the cycle continues, until one day the ceiling will inevitably break through to the surface, and the chamber will just be an opening that unceremoniously erodes away while water and sediments readily fill the cave system until it plugs the underground river. Eventually the cave fills in entirely and leaves no externally visible trace, aside from the petrified remains locked away deep in the geological record. It's the death of a cave, in a way.
The first time I went skydiving, a group of retiring/retired ladies all were in the same class. There was 8 of them ranging from 64 to 74. They all said they felt the same way... until they did it. Some of them said it was life changing and they wished they had made the choice to do it sooner... wondering how much their life may have been different had they taken the chance. It's been 20 yrs since then and I always wonder about them all. They seemed different after their jump, almost like their eyes were fiery, even younger.
If you guys use a Sony A7S you would be able to see everything. The A7S has a huge sensor with giant photosites.. it can make nighttime look like high noon. It can see blue sky at night.
I need to get better camera equipment for sure, but also would be hard to use a full DSLR in a cave and keep it protected. Also a hassle to take it out and clean my hands every time to use it. Would be great for a cave like this though.
@@CaveChronicles Yes please get a better camera this channel would blow up even more because on a 65" tv it doesnt look as good as i know it can we love the videos though take care
This is epic. It's quite remarkable to think underground cave rooms like this even exist. It's astonishingly beautiful. It reminds me of an old TV series called Lost in Space, with all the rock. The wonders or our world are amazing.
oh man... what if that freaking rope breaks?! are there "backup-ropes" ?? I would be WAY to scared to go through those absolutely tiny spaces and try to squeeze myself through there - already WATCHING gives me anxiety hahaha - and also I hope I will not get nightmares form this. Yeah I am definately a "flat-land" and "above ground" type of guy! mountains, caves, all beautiful to watch, but nothing for me to step foot onto or into...
As long as it's rigged well, that rope will not break - it would hold up all of them and the car they drove to get there. Caving ropes are strong - it's bad rigging or abrasion that you have to watch out for. Or falling rocks.
WOULD LOOOOOVE to one day encounter a cave exploration youtube channel that utilizes binaural earbud mics (earbuds with a mic on each side) to truly record how the echo and general sound inside of these caves sounds like to you guys. It captures the delay between one ear hearing the sound and the other so it'd be quite cool in such echoy locations
I live in Missouri and there are a ton of caves here, it’s probably been 15 years since I’ve been in one but the feeling came back to me just watching this, you guys are fun to watch, curious and funny.
Magnificent. Cant believe you turned around where you did. I was going to say it looked like you had two gnarly rub points on that rope, but it seems you had rope protectors going on there on the way back up.
Amazing adventure thanks for sharing. That takes some serious courage. So glad you had the beast flashlights to really make it visible inside the large spaces.
14:05 I'm not missing the irony of a Yodel UNDER the ground and yet still somehow on top of a mountain at the same time
literal Undermountain
@@kingmasterlord it’s inside out mountain
Where’s the irony…?
Couldn't pay me to go in there. I'm glad you guys did, so I can experience vicariously. Amazing place! Thanks!
im only mildly claustrophobic, as long as i dont have to crawl or squeeze more than a foot or two im good
I appreciate including injuries instead of making caving look fun and risk free.
I went spelunking several times in NJ. Most of the entryway to several medium size rooms was done by crawling through tight cracks over muddy clay. Our only equipment was regular flashlights and beer & weed. I wasn’t terribly afraid at the time but fifty years on I’ll start shivering when recalling the experience. Delayed claustrophobia if such a thing exists. Even after a couple of washings, the embedded clay wouldn’t come out of our jeans and I threw mine out.
Men working in the mines don't like it, but it pays well. Why these guys do it is a mystery to most of us.
@@kingmasterlordwere you on the video?
Carlsbad Caverns has the largest room in the U.S. Your Tennessee cave has the largest east of the Mississippi River. The world's largest are in Vietnam and then Borneo.
I was about to post the same comment regarding Carlsbad Caverns.
I have been to Carlsbad, and yes it is technically bigger. It isn't near as open like this though. It kind of snakes around and is more of a giant hall room, with pillars dropping down all over. You could fit things like an order of magnitude larger in this room.
Carlsbad's big room is 8 acres this one is 5 acres.
This one feels a lot bigger though. This is definitely the most open of the large cave rooms.
I said the same thing
@@CaveChronicles The Miao Room in China is the world's largest cave chamber by volume, the Sarawak Chamber is the largest by area. Y'all should explore them someday. :) Also the room y'all explored here is called the "Rumble Room". Not sure why you wouldn't give credit to that in your description.
@@taipoxin They can't claim it's the "largest room in the country" if they tell you which one it is.
4:48 “This is what separates the boys from the men”
“well, yeah, the men would be bigger”😂😂
Yeah, this is awesome. I am 76 now used to go caving when I was younger. So great to see this with you guys.
Thanks a ton! I love it. Wish I got better footage of this one, will definitely be going back once the Tennessee caving season starts again.
Me too. I am now 70. Went caving all the time in high school NSS #17011
This channel should have millions of subscribers! These caves look unreal and the friendly banter is fun.
@@superduperspaceship Yes, and you should try some sometime. If crawling through water and mud in the cold and dark is not your thing, there are quite a few commercial caves that give a good taste of what caves are like, without the discomfort. BTW, caves aren’t rare. Where they exist they may be everywhere underground. It is entrances that are sometimes hard to come by!
Thanks so much guys!🥲
@@yankee2yankee It depends on the bedrock of the area. If you live in an area with limestone bedrock (especially if there is sandstone above the limestone) there will be caves everywhere. Most places they are few and far between though. The Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia region where we are is the most cave dense region in the world. Over 20,000 caves, and many more yet to be discovered.
@@CaveChronicles Noice!
fr 29k subs is an insult to these guys! SUBSCRIBE PPL
I find the constant "banter" distracting and annoying. I just want to see the cave.
The GoPro, somehow, is one of the most underrated inventions of the past 25-30 years
Truly!
Ymean a camera?
@@lilnova9661 A highly durable camera that straps to your head and reliably works for stable first-person footage? Yes.
I would love to hear a geologist talk about the many different rock layers we see here and describe the eons each layer represents.
I'll bet a geologist wouldn't avoid mentioning what cave this is.
"the eons each layer represents"
Once you've begun to get your head around how long it took to build it all up, you then have to start again, contemplating the eons it took to erode some of that away again to form what we just watched.
Deep, deep, deep time indeed ............. 🙂
@@MrDeathpilot Its Rumbling Falls cave it's just general caver etiquette to not share locations. This one I can share because it is public and popular but I don't want people to have the expectation for me to share locations so don't in general.
@@CaveChronicles I just was't happy that I had to go to the comments to find out the name so I could look up more info on it.
@@CaveChroniclesnot a caver, just wondering why its normal to not share locations? Is it because other people might damage the cave or for their safety?
Never ceases to amaze at what's under the ground we walk on. You just never know. Beautiful different worlds
For anyone wondering, when he throws the rock it falls for about 5 seconds, which means that drop is roughly 400ft, 120m, or 40 stories. The Bag fell even further, falling for about 6s by the sound of it. Making the drop it took about 576ft, 176m, or just shy of 58 stories.
That perspective is terrifying !
The bag may have taken longer due to friction on the rope
Yo conte 5 segunds xd
Isn’t a story 10 feet? Idk why ime asking I will just google lol. 😊
Most impressive calculations Sir.
Who needs movies anymore, that was more exciting than any movie from the last 20 years! I realise that the caving I've done is nothing like this! Awesome dudes!
Thanks so much!
Yea its like movie descent from 2005 that was awesome!!
Stumbled on to your channel a few days ago and have been watching like an addict. This particular one is truly intense and had me on the edge of my seat! Outstanding, and sorry I can only give a single thumbs-up.
Appreciate it brother! I definitely need to go back and film this one better. I had my Gopro pointed too far up and missed a lot of great shots. I also swore a lot, and was a bit loopy. I went into this cave with very little sleep the days prior and was running on pure caffeine haha.
22:24 That's a worrying sight for me..... indicates a fairly sizeable flow down there.... I wouldn't be surprised of flash flooding....Don't take your safety down there lightly.... I am also wondering if the spots on the roof that are flat are actually because running water reaches the roof frequently enough to have cut it level over the years. Kinda scary.....
the spot on the roof was open you can see the closing
"Have yall seen The Descent?" 🤣
I like to consider myself a brave enough person, I've done things that have made people say "wow, that looked really scary!" But you say to me "we're going 8 hours deep into the Earth" and my brain just goes 'nnnnnnnnnnnnope'. So much respect to y'all for having the sand to make the trip, and for documenting it and making it available to the rest of us. So cool
Seriously, they're too dumb to appreciate the risk 🫤
I've never watched a video of a bigger group of bro's go caving 🤡🙄
‘Having the sand’ you mean money?
Yeah, the more I learn about caving, the more it feels like willingly entombimg yourself. Brrrrr
@@ddp4923 pal you couldn't print enough money to get me down there, by 'sand' I mean the courage
@@edwardfletcher7790 Caving is not an extreme sport. It's far safer than dirt biking, mountain biking, skiing, hiking, rock climbing, etc. The danger is probably similar to floating a river, if you know what you're doing. Floods are possible, but you can check the weather and plan accordingly. Falls are possible, but knowing your equipment and your limits is a nearly surefire way to prevent them. Rockfalls are uncommon, and can be avoided. Everyone thinks of John Jones, but Jones was an idiot. He crawled into an unknown passage headfirst working only on memory from decades prior.
The masculine urge to sing the halo theme in here
👑
I don't even know what that means but perfect 😂
@@NickMirro which part, the masculine urge part or the halo theme part?
@@Grooveworthy I get the first part but what is the Halo theme? Is it a reference to the giant ceiling?
@@NickMirro 🤦♂
A gang of cave explores. This is better watching any Hollywood movie. 😊
@@philipwichman2075 absolutely! I’m totally obsessed!
Explorers
Most of the movies are woke crap anymore and a waste of time. Paying $60 for a 2 hour indoctrination to a get ESG score approved lesson is not fun . movies should be like interesting like this and it’s why people are choosing not to go to the movies anymore. Sucks that TH-cam censoring is a thing although.
So glad I got my caving done when my knees were good.
Agreed - this took my mind off politics, which hasn’t happened in ten years.
The Perfect place to store frozen Megatron!
Thanks for going there and recording this for all the people (like me) that would be too scared to do this. Amazing footage.
Nádhera . Když jsem byl mladší, prolezl jsem co se dalo .Čas dole utíká jinak než na povrchu země. Díky , skvělé .😊🇨🇿
It sure does, and thanks!
Growing up in the Mammoth Cave area as a kid, friends and I would explore every hole we heard about. Some 50 years later after seeing a video of a guy getting trapped head down and dying stuck like that fills me with anxiety to think of ever going caving again.
I too live in the mammoth cave area. Two days ago, we completed a 19hour trip into proctor cave in the park, pushing virgin leads to the south, towards the whigpistle cave system that’s just outside the park. It’s currently at 40 miles with tons of leads still left to survey
Floyd Collins?
@@jerdonsbabbler3515 he’s referring to nutty puddy cave. Give that a search
25:41 that's called Caustics .
Optical phenomenon
In optics and rendering, caustics refer to the optical phenomenon of light refracting and converging to form curved sheets of light. This can be seen in the shifting patterns of light and color on the surface of water, such as in a Mediterranean sea.
It's all fun and games until you disturb the balrog!
The delved too deep
What is this new devilry?
They have a cave troll.
The huh?
Sheeesh makes that "cavern" i crawled into once years back look like a grain of sand!!! This was pretty intense. Super adventurous!!! Thanks for sharing. 🤘😔🎸
I have watched way too many cave horror mini-documentaries and now even the thought of cave-exploring scares me. You're really brave, the shots where you had to maneuver in impossibly tiny spaces were so scary! The reward was worth it though, the room is truly awe-inspiring!
That crawfish could be a species undiscovered to man
Amazing how they can live down there.
@fumped they hid so far away and yet still couldn't escape the humans lol
What do they even eat down there.
@@HoseTheBeast Each other?
That moment when you arrived at the opening to the room, and it was basically a black hole, and the dust was swirling, and your voices were echoing, and the rock fell forever, and we knew it wasn't a movie and was all REAL... electrifying.
Very cool, looked like the rings on Jupiter.
the thumbnail legit looks like they are standing on one of Jupiter's moon
Totally insane and amazing. I could never make it to the room with how narrow. the entry is. I almost needed to medicate just watching you guys.
I agree was loosing my crap just watching
after splurging caving incidents gone wrong its nice to see positive and fun vibes on a trip :D
Thankfully this seems to be a well-known cave, the nooks and crannies may make a rescue near impossible, but only the worst of injuries would keep someone down there lol
Seems like a DSLR might provide some gorgeous long exposure photos.
This was so wholesome and absolutely incredible on so many levels. I would never have the balls. You guys had the time of your lives. Insane video!
Bro, the caves and cliffs update just dropped
Okay this is terrifying, im a large guy and watching this do this is filling me with anxiety, also if no one else has done the math, at 7:01 the rock impacted... something, and it took 5 seconds to do that... that is an almost 800 foot drop... *insert sid* "no thanks i choose life"
5 second drop = 400 feet, not 800.
@DS-zj4xy sorry i thought it was 9.8 squared not just 9.8
D = 9.8^2 * 5 * 0.5
P.S. I think actually that gives you the amount of meters seeing how's it meters per second per second. 🤔
It is 202' from anchor to bottom of rappell.
Захватывающая прогулка, спасибо что взяли с собой!)
The dome couldn't be better suited for supporting the cap, than if the Romans had made it themselves! Love the stratifications, I am sure a geologist would have fun in there too. Stay safe, enjoy, keep filming and return to your children and wives!
I would love to experience this in VR, since you'll never find me there in person
I wasn’t claustrophobic until I watched this 😳😂 Great video 👏👏👏
You havent gone down the rabbit hole quite yet, ive seen some really truly ridiculous tight narrow anxiety inducing cave dive both above and below water. This is is just the beginning take the blue pill or take the red pill.
Our. Amazing.Planet.
That room is breathtaking. When you were way up on the cliff it seemed scary and foreboding but once y'all got down there and lit up the whole thing it became absolutely awe inspiring. Like you're walking around inside the belly of god.
The video didn’t do it justice until one of the guys went all the way across the room to take a picture and we saw the third guy repelling down. That’s when the video opened up and we could see that the room is massive. I’ll bet this video doesn’t really do it justice to how massive the room really is in person. Great video guys!!!
2:50… is it possible to guesstimate the age of the waterfall by looking at the type and smoothness of the stone?
i assume yes
Supremely scary but absolutely gorgeous. Enjoyed watching y’all run around having fun. Stay safe!
5:39 ah no I just dislocated my shoulder in the middle of the earth... Dafuq is wrong with you guys? Why are you in there?
You certainly picked the more challenging entrance for this cave! Holy moly!
@@timov1138 Haha, not really if you’re going to the big room. The other entrance is like 8 miles downstream so would be like 16 miles of walking.
This is amazingly cool, but I have a few questions: what is the name of this cave system, and what is the name of the chamber? I would love to read any research on it or see if they have any scans or dimensions for it!
I believe it's the Rumble Room int the Rumbling Falls Cave, weird they didn't put that in the description :I
BEST video I've seen in a long while! You guys are brave.
The thumbnail kind of looks like someone photoshopped jupiter onto the sky above some mountain-ranges.
The final moment when you can see the surface and some sunlight must be the most enlightening experience after such a long subterranean adventure.
I wished you guys would bring more prepped equipment to each level just in case. You guys are awesome just be smart tell me your bringing at least 5 or more lights
We had way more lights than you think than lol. Since we record we had more than any other caver probably ever has in there tbh. We all had at least 3 headlamps on top of other lights with a lot of batteries. We also only drain our batteries about half way because they dim, so we had weeks worth of light each on lower modes. The big lights are only for the camera we can still see, you can't.
Thanks for letting me re-live my caving days! Do Wind Cave sometime 👍
You guys do NOT get enough credit for this. Holy crap. I could never do that. I think I would panik and die.
But I enjoy your videos from the couch 😅 love from Denmark 🇩🇰
Really helps to have people in the shot to give a sense of the scale.
Honestly, this doesn't look as big as the main chamber in Carlsbad Caverns. It might be taller but when you consider the debris pile in the middle (identical as in Silver Dollar City's Marvel cave) you loose a lot of volume. The overall dimensions of Carlsbad Caverns is monstrous.
I would never go down there myself, so thank you for taking us on this adventure with you.
So glad the internet exists so I can experience this, because I never would otherwise 😂😅
The masculine urge to scream into the dark abyss just to hear a sweet echo 😂
Where the heck is this? i can't find anything like it looking online. I'm interested to know how the heck a cave like that even forms, it looks so crazy!
I love this channel,many amazing cave so deep and beautifull.
Incredible video, i have headphones on and i could hear the camera mans heartbeat starting at 12:37
That is seriously one of the most incredible things I've seen on TH-cam. I want to go there.
It's weird to think that even if we nuke ourselves into oblivion that giant chamber will just still be there, untouched. I don't know why but I find that thought strangely comforting.
Ya who needs a multi million dollar end of the world pod? Just find a near by cave and store shit down there. In a few months odds are things will have settled down and you can thaw out and see if ur eyes still work.
Depending on how close a nuke hits to that cave, possibly not. All of those boulders on the ground are bits of the ceiling that collapsed, it's relatively stable but that doesn't mean it'll stay that way if it's subjected to enough shock. That's why actual bunkers are suspended from shock absorbers in tunnels with heavily reinforced walls...not even miles of stone above you is a guarantee. Chances are, a few bits of the ceiling will fall and the cave will still be there, just a few feet taller and not quite as deep. Best case, a few boulders fall on your head; more likely, you'll be buried under a dozen feet of stone. Those huge rooms form by repeated vertical cave-ins, along with an underground river to erode and carry away the remains of the former ceiling (and your bones!). Over the years, the cycle continues, until one day the ceiling will inevitably break through to the surface, and the chamber will just be an opening that unceremoniously erodes away while water and sediments readily fill the cave system until it plugs the underground river. Eventually the cave fills in entirely and leaves no externally visible trace, aside from the petrified remains locked away deep in the geological record. It's the death of a cave, in a way.
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapperwow you put some thought into that book lol
@@JamieMcKinsey I got carried away. It's a problem of mine lol
It’s so hard to get a feel for how large the room is, I can’t imagine how surreal it was actually being there man
This was fantastic!!!!!!
Thanks for taking us along, fellas. Most of us probably never would have seen anything like this.I know i'm too old.
The first time I went skydiving, a group of retiring/retired ladies all were in the same class. There was 8 of them ranging from 64 to 74. They all said they felt the same way... until they did it. Some of them said it was life changing and they wished they had made the choice to do it sooner... wondering how much their life may have been different had they taken the chance. It's been 20 yrs since then and I always wonder about them all. They seemed different after their jump, almost like their eyes were fiery, even younger.
If you guys use a Sony A7S you would be able to see everything. The A7S has a huge sensor with giant photosites.. it can make nighttime look like high noon. It can see blue sky at night.
I need to get better camera equipment for sure, but also would be hard to use a full DSLR in a cave and keep it protected. Also a hassle to take it out and clean my hands every time to use it. Would be great for a cave like this though.
@@CaveChronicles Yes please get a better camera this channel would blow up even more because on a 65" tv it doesnt look as good as i know it can we love the videos though take care
This is epic. It's quite remarkable to think underground cave rooms like this even exist. It's astonishingly beautiful. It reminds me of an old TV series called Lost in Space, with all the rock. The wonders or our world are amazing.
amazing video! Had a very great time watching
The coolest video I’ve ever stumbled upon. Thank you!
35:33 on the large rock to the left, your welcome.
Better there than on my face haha, never saw that spider.
“Hi guys, I’m in the video too!! Ahh spider
My shoulder slips out all the time. It’s a mother! I think you’re all super hero’s making it though those crazy passages!
How do you find these amazing places? It’s like another world!
Join the NSS and a local grotto if you want to cave :)
Wow that entrance gave me a good puckering.
Great job! And great Footage.
There's definitely some type of ancient eldrich horror hiding in that mountain.
I always watch these things with some amazement, knowing that I could never do it myself. At least not very easily. Balls of steel guys, well done.
oh man... what if that freaking rope breaks?! are there "backup-ropes" ?? I would be WAY to scared to go through those absolutely tiny spaces and try to squeeze myself through there - already WATCHING gives me anxiety hahaha - and also I hope I will not get nightmares form this. Yeah I am definately a "flat-land" and "above ground" type of guy! mountains, caves, all beautiful to watch, but nothing for me to step foot onto or into...
As long as it's rigged well, that rope will not break - it would hold up all of them and the car they drove to get there. Caving ropes are strong - it's bad rigging or abrasion that you have to watch out for. Or falling rocks.
Whatever way I saw that bag come up first I thought it was a head.😂 5:48
The shadow really gave perspective on the size
WOULD LOOOOOVE to one day encounter a cave exploration youtube channel that utilizes binaural earbud mics (earbuds with a mic on each side) to truly record how the echo and general sound inside of these caves sounds like to you guys. It captures the delay between one ear hearing the sound and the other so it'd be quite cool in such echoy locations
those crawdads were blind and then got blinded
awesome, though, boating down there would be sick!
I live in Missouri and there are a ton of caves here, it’s probably been 15 years since I’ve been in one but the feeling came back to me just watching this, you guys are fun to watch, curious and funny.
This was a great watch and I like the spirit of your team. Am going to put this on my to-do list with my buddies. Looks worth the effort.
It's crazy that structures like this exist under the earth.
Reminds me of the time I was in Iceland and took a lift down a volcano. Absolutely incredible seeing the layers of the world over history.
Tread lightly
Magnificent. Cant believe you turned around where you did. I was going to say it looked like you had two gnarly rub points on that rope, but it seems you had rope protectors going on there on the way back up.
Do you guys get creeped out by what may be in the water?
I do sometimes, specifically chemicals and contaminates that might be in the water.
Amazing adventure thanks for sharing. That takes some serious courage. So glad you had the beast flashlights to really make it visible inside the large spaces.
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, it’s hard to see without a good light in these big caves!
I would get so frustrated trying to crawl through those tiny spaces
you guys should bring a gold pan and try some panning. I'm sure very very few people have ever tried panning down there, Lol.
dope, excited to watch this
I am watching now your video..
From sri lanka
Good job I like.. it..
🎤🎶 blinded by the light
🎶it over comes the tormeent🎶🤘
Thank You for an Awesome Adventure to tag along with. May You's all have Safe Travels.
they should put a walmart in there
The acoustics in this cave is SOOO FASCINATING
where is this?
Its in Carlsbad, california, its called "The Big Room" hope that helps.
@@Impossible-sunit's really not.
@@robadams1645 Oh, my mistake sorry i was just answering off of google answers.
Insane cave and journey, I could never explore it with my claustrophobia, thanks for sharing your experience!
Look at all that stuff they're breathing in.
First one down - respect!!!