I'm genuinely surprised that he actually did it, I saw the title and thought it was going to be a simulator or Minecraft, props to Jackson for not click baiting.
I almost wish he hadn't. Second hand claustrophobia is apparently a real thing and this was low key terrifying. I'm practicing my breathing exercises because this is horrifying. An actual nightmare.
@@opheliamunroe1110that’s so true. Literally just thinking about those super tight caves makes it harder to breathe, let alone watching someone actually traverse them
I hate how much I can relate to parents giving you their number and asking you to call them if anything happens to you, just to literally never have their mobiles on them.
I definitely understand the feeling of thrill from getting out of a stressful situation, but I already get that from a lot of video games and I DON'T have to risk losing my life for it.
It's because people like this live a relatively easily life, so they need something worth the "fight". Where as regular people who live in crime/war/famine/prison/ poverty/injuries etc. are already dealing with the "thrill" of their lives
Caving seems like alot of fun in well explored areas with a guide and a group, but def never something I'd do alone. And I would hate doing those tight squeezes.
The other day I went into a cave in the middle of West Virginia, and it had a squeeze that I got stuck in for 15 minutes that was about a quarter of a mile long. I could barely breathe the whole time. Then I had to go back out. Never again.
As someone who is from West Virginia, I could never do what you did. Been on a lot of school field trips to caves, have several family members who were coal miners, and have stood in the entrances of many abandoned mines to know the earth does not mess around and I don't need to find that out.
This is the first video I’ve seen of this channel and the entire first 10 minutes i was scornfully thinking “what does he know? He’s never been caving. He doesn’t understand the epic highs and lows of mid-tier death traps” Well played, sir. Touché
1:15 a good way to remember is stalactites are clinging ‘tight’ to the ceiling and stalagmites ‘might’ reach the ceiling (something along those lines I can’t be bothered to word it better)
My rules about caves is simple: if the tour doesn't list flip flops as appropriate footwear I'm not going. If the tour isn't handicap accessible I'm not going.
I went to the Shenandoah Caves in Virginia once. Wide spaces, high ceilings, handrails even. That is only sort of caving I will ever even consider. If I have to get on my hands and knees for even a single inch, that's a hard no.
4:30 - Fun fact, those are Harvestmen not spiders! They are related, as arachnids but they lack a second body segment, Fangs, and venom glands - they are omnivorous (they'll hunt critters smaller than them sometimes but often eat plant matter and decaying material). They pose no threat to people, but their spookyish appearance can often get them the fast pass to the afterlife (RIP lil bros) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
The commitment for this video was absolutely insane and I am truly so happy you actually followed through. As a fellow aussie, this was an absolute joy to witness. You make us proud king.
I appreciate how the pupper is interested in the diagrams at first and then just "nope"'s out. This looks too scary. It's funny how the dude was like "you gotta tuck everything into everything" but water just got everywhere, anyway
I feel so called out 😭, I literally adore going caving, I don’t go that often but for me it’s that feeling of getting to the main cavern or wherever your going underground and just being there, obviously it can be quite dangerous and I understand why people don’t like caves (claustrophobia and everything) but for me there is just something I find so comforting about being under the ground in a cave and I always find it so amazing just how ancient and interesting a cave’s geological history can be.
I hear it's nice. I did a bit of "tourist caving" not real caving, but I enjoyed the cave vibes (smell, cave temp, and the when our group was still the quietness). I remember cave experts talking about it, saying it's like you have a space all to yourself. If it was safer/wasn't so intimidating people would enjoy it, but the difficulty helps keep it being your own. Plus with how easy it is to disrupt a cave's ecosystem it's probably for the best most shy away from it. It's your special thing and you can keep it safe :)
@@LostGirl04it could be so you dont disturb the silt layer (idk if thats what its called) in the water, because it can reduce visibility to zero if disturbed, clouding up the water, and that leads to getting lost underwater (with a ticking time limit on your tanks…😅)
@ kind of both, but mainly the rock. The actual cave you don’t need to worry about, but the rock formations that can only happen underwater take thousands of years to make, and can be damaged if bumped
2:42 This was one of the best usages of the "Subtle Foreshadowing" memes I've been seeing. Kudos to you for actually trying out caving and experiencing it first hand!
My dude, if there would be a way to like this one twice - I f-ing would. Being somewhat claustrophobic as well I was shocked by the level of caving you decided to start from. You are a hero to me since this video, to overcome your fear like that is astonishing!
I did this once. It was super fun. I am scared of spiders, but there were just a few tiny ones up above near the entrance of the cave, so I made it through the phobia. The only tight passage was a tiny little one at the beginning to test if you could easily go everywhere and we all passed. Nothing in the cave came that close. It was a lot of fun, not at all scary, even when water reached our waist at one point. It wasn't cold, or maybe we were just already so wet, it felt fine. It was pretty peaceful having all of us together in the water. At the end, we all put a hand in front of the other and turned our lights off, following each other through a passage with no cross sections. I was at the front and we started singing songs. We heard the other group also start singing somewhere else once they heard us. We started being dumb and singing stuff like the national anthem. At the end, we all went to McDonald's or something covered in water, sand, and who knows what. I have never been this dirty since, but it was absolutely hilarious the whole way through. 10/10 would do it again.
After watching many incident videos about this sort of stuff: 1) Just don’t. 2) If you skipped step 1, be sure to not skip step 3. 3) Make sure someone knows exactly where you’re going & exactly when you’re supposed to be back (Preferably someone not in danger). 4) If you skipped step 3, good luck & I hope to not watch a video about you 👍
Honestly, Wow. You have my respect for going through with this Jackson. Like ACTUALLY experiencing THIS YOURSELF, Is just mindblowing. Godspeed man, Godspeed.
Bro I went caving and we had to crawl through a ½ by ½ meter gap DOWN I just said no so the rest of my class went on when I waited for them to come back then my head torch died so i waited in complete darkness when the class came back they took me out and told me that it turns out the cave collapsed 5 minutes before we went to the caving zone so they came back earlier than expected. oh and there was water about 3 cm deep where I was sat
Good video. I am like why someone would do caving ? Then I remember I do boxing and I shut up. Some people just have some type of craving, that either is growed inside them, or they just born with it simple as that.
I love that you're willing to try new things, even if you're pretty sure you won't like it. I've been trying to do that more often too, even in small things, and its made life very enjoyable 😊.
i’ve been seeing clips but never this intense. thank you for your dedication so i could experience this vicariously though u cause i could never lol great job
Whenever I think of caving, I immediately think of the guy in Utah who got stuck upside down for 28 hours til he died of cardiac arrest. Congrats on the new experience, glad you didn’t get stuck.
Oh, I always remember it because the M in stalagmite is spikes pointing up, and the T in stalactite is a little line pointing down from the ceiling. Pneumonics are fun lol
Glad you had fun caving! It really is not for eveybody, but I like the fact that humans went caving even during the Upper Paleolithic Period (roughly 25,000-10,000 years before present). Cave paintings are almost always found within the deepest parts of the cave, sometimes people had to squeeze through tight spaces and travel hundreds of metres into the caves to reach where they drew those beautiful paintings.
I get the feeling people weren't cave diving hundreds of thousands of years ago. There's a good chance the caves were wider and more shallow during there time and as the Continental plates shifted the passage got narrower and deeper. To say caveman effectively went cave diving for no reason but to paint on some walls with no actual archaeological evidence of that is just ignorant. Hubris.
@@darklightimagesI don't think continental plates have shifted significantly enough during human kind's time on this earth for this to be a satisfying explanation, especially considering how many different caves this happened in. If anything, water erosion might better justify the change in cave shapes, if it happened, but in any case, you should probably be a little less arrogant when saying absolute buffooneries.
@darklightimages I can refer you to many articles published on the subject, if what you are looking for is evidence. Also, note that I said 25,000-10,000 years before present, not hundreds of thousands of years. As far as archaeological evidence can show, it would seem that human interactions with caves is a relatively recent thing.
I have an incredible fear of both heights and tight spaces, but if I was forced to choose one absolutely skydiving over caving that looks absolutely miserable oh my god eff that entirely.
Damn dude impressive as hell, especially for someone who's struggled with claustrophobia. First bit of long form content I watched from you, massively entertaining.
I‘m glad you did this with an instructor and proper safety measures. I‘ve seen videos by other content creators I enjoy who didn’t do so, and while they made it out ok, it really does a disservice to the sport. Because yes, it is dangerous, but that’s the exact reason the safety precautions exist, and they‘ve been written in blood. With them in place, the risk becomes miniscule.
I do it for the experience and to map areas that haven’t been seen before, being able to add 95 meters to a cave in South Australia was pretty rewarding. It’s also a great challenge and makes photography pretty interesting especially with a proper camera. You have to think twice about your movements and how to get your mapping and photography equipment through some chambers. We have run into some maze caves with half filled passages and gone for a swim to explore more aha, not expecting to find an entire maze section unmapped as the water level has dropped in the region since the 80s. Spent more of my university years caving than actually attending classes at one point 2 years ago.
Watching you caving reminded me of the straight up most insane experience I had this year... So we went to a climbing park with our class, I never did that before so I was stoked! One of those courses (which btw also was 12m up in the air and the highest climbing path they had) featured a longboard you had to balance on while pulling yourself along a wire... I naturelly lost my balance, fell and just hung in the safety cable attached to my gear. Now: There where people coming over who where supose to help me. They Artikel and basiclly said: "you gotta get back up", so in my head I was on my own just hanging there 12m in the air, classmates in front of me, behind me and down on the ground beneath me. I gathered my thoughts, took all my strength and actually managed to get my footing back and get to the next solid bit of ground. First thing I did was just hugging my friend to calm my heartbeat but honestly: Looking back it's been a hell of a experience and I regret nothing about it!
I'm scared of heights but not depths or tight spaces so caves are strangely comforting to me. Getting trapped in a flood sounds pretty terrifying but that's why it's a really good idea to check weather and flooding risk before going.
This is definitely the one of the best and most entertaining video I've watch on youtube, deserve so so many more views. Good one chief, glad you made it
I did Caving once at 14, it was an outdoor club ish, we did hikes, ski, camping. And one event was Caving, it was cool, we went down a rly deep well and then walked around a little, into one squeeze spot, it wasn't that much of a squeeze but the helmet made you feel like it was tight. But it was cool overall. Would I do it again? Yes, would I carefully choose the cave? Absolutely
I'm claustrophobic. I'm watching this anyway because I love your content. And I want to see your experience. I want you to understand my struggle through this. My palms are actually wet from sweating. I'm so unsettled. I'm so uncomfortable.
huge massive props to doing that with claustrophobia, you can barely even get me to step under the roof of a huge open cave lol. just watching you slip down into the cave would be enough to give me a panic attack- i swear my claustrophobia gets worse by the day
Thanks for the crocheting mention, thats me lol. Coz its funny hearing this from an Aussie, as whete Im from, stereotyped as wanting to just go on dangerous adventures.
you describing stuff that’s scary in the moment, but you can’t stop thinking about afterwards, is literally type 3-4 fun! I’m not a caver but part of the reason why I rock climb, white water paddle etc. are for the suffer fests. it’s way more fun when you work for it!
Ah the spiders are fine, they're just hibernating, but get this, these caves have WATER in em! Australians are the only people more scared of a wash than they are giant spiders.
Skydiving wasn't scary, not for me at least. When I was sitting in the plane and were the next one up the training kicked in. Walk to the exit, place yourself correct, look at the instructors hand. When that hand turned to a thumbs up I just pushed myself out, as trained. Not even free falling was scary. The wind grabbed me so hard I couldn't think of anything other than stabilizing myself, as trained, and it was so high up that no sense of height grabbed me. The rest was just fun. Spelunking sound insane, though.
Love how right after I revisit The Descent this Halloween for you to release this video. Kudos and I would’ve never had the courage to go inside that cave.
Well done on giving it a go, that's a strange sort of cave as it looks to be sandstone? Most caves are karst and are therefore limestone. I have done according to my log book 590 trips now and I am still alive and in all that time needed rescuing once (though I sorted myself out before the team got there), caving is safe if you know what you are doing, check weather forecasts and are properly equipped. Re spiders, I live in the UK and they are harmless, however, laughably I know several cavers who really don't like spiders and will scream, now that I find a little strange if you suffer from arachnophobia to take up caving. However, once you get deeper in you won't see any, they only live near the entrance. Yeh if I lived in Aus like you, I think I too would be bothered by spiders.
🪨 This reminds me of the first time caving with my mother and cousin, I originally thought it was going to be a short thing, like just walk under some boulders and such, but I was so so wrong as I saw what looked like the depths of the underwrold staring at me and me stressing about my mom and cousin.
I'm genuinely surprised that he actually did it, I saw the title and thought it was going to be a simulator or Minecraft, props to Jackson for not click baiting.
I almost wish he hadn't. Second hand claustrophobia is apparently a real thing and this was low key terrifying. I'm practicing my breathing exercises because this is horrifying. An actual nightmare.
@opheliamunroe1110 I feel you
@@opheliamunroe1110that’s so true. Literally just thinking about those super tight caves makes it harder to breathe, let alone watching someone actually traverse them
Thank you haha I’m glad I didn’t disappoint
@@TheJacksonField cool video. Weird question whats that on your shirt I swear i've seen it before but its driving me mental not being able to recall
Man, Mason would have a heart attack, not one handrail
Funnily enough they do put handrails in lots of the wider caves that are more for curious people rather than spelunkers.
@@brendonhavenercaving tutorial level.
here's my 10 step guide on surviving caving.
Step 1. Don't fukin go caving
Step 2 to 10. refer to step 1
Step 11: if you go caving any ways just dont
Step 12 if you think about Caving refer to step 1
Step 13: If asked / invited / challenged to go caving, refer to step 1.
"That's step one... what about steps two through ten?" ass moment
Step 14: If you accidentally fall into a cave, refer to step 1.
Wanna know what's even worse than caving? Cave diving.
Bungie jumping without a bungie
@@mr.gandersson2835I love jumping anywhere
Russian roulette with an automatic pistol
when i've been feeling too safe for a while, i go read stuff about cave diving to bring my anxiety back
Caving with a time limit & low visibility, basically hard mode.
Jackson can just use his jawline to chisel out a way from the cave in case of emergency
That’s so true
Exquisite comment
r/beatmetoit
@@mememachine269 r/ihavereddit
Or he can just call up edgar to help him out of there
I hate how much I can relate to parents giving you their number and asking you to call them if anything happens to you, just to literally never have their mobiles on them.
I definitely understand the feeling of thrill from getting out of a stressful situation, but I already get that from a lot of video games and I DON'T have to risk losing my life for it.
It's because people like this live a relatively easily life, so they need something worth the "fight". Where as regular people who live in crime/war/famine/prison/ poverty/injuries etc. are already dealing with the "thrill" of their lives
Caving seems like alot of fun in well explored areas with a guide and a group, but def never something I'd do alone. And I would hate doing those tight squeezes.
Exactly there’s this one channel called the adventure twins and they go by themselves. Once the dude went without a friend and found a knife and blood
First rule of caving: Never go alone!
It's a funny rule, that a lot of spelunkers seem to disregard.
You're not even supposed to go hiking alone, let alone caving.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jackson in a state like the one he was in at the end describing the worst parts as audibly as humanly possible.
The other day I went into a cave in the middle of West Virginia, and it had a squeeze that I got stuck in for 15 minutes that was about a quarter of a mile long. I could barely breathe the whole time. Then I had to go back out. Never again.
See, this is one of the biggest reasons I will never go. If I can sack up the courage to do it once, I don't want to have to do it again to leave.
I'm to big of a guy to even think about it.
@@1Zac96harythere are big caves
As someone who is from West Virginia, I could never do what you did. Been on a lot of school field trips to caves, have several family members who were coal miners, and have stood in the entrances of many abandoned mines to know the earth does not mess around and I don't need to find that out.
Out of curiosity, which cave was it? (I'm a caver/NSS member in the VA/WV area)
"Get a normal hobby, like crocheting." I am crocheting watching this. 😭😭
Great job on not risking your life!
Crocheting is metal
This is the first video I’ve seen of this channel and the entire first 10 minutes i was scornfully thinking “what does he know? He’s never been caving. He doesn’t understand the epic highs and lows of mid-tier death traps”
Well played, sir. Touché
There's not enough wealth in the world to get me to try caving. Dying trapped in an enclosed area underground has got to be a terrifying way to go
Seriously and i know its not recommended but I’ve seen people go in solo which has to be a horrible way to die
26:16 "i entered a boy"
That's how i heard it too lmao
Boyboy moment
Let's make this to 69 likes
I was not claustrophobic when I started this video. I am now claustrophobic. Thanks.
1:15 a good way to remember is stalactites are clinging ‘tight’ to the ceiling and stalagmites ‘might’ reach the ceiling (something along those lines I can’t be bothered to word it better)
Another way is that there's a 'c' in "stalactite" (ceiling), and there's a 'g' in "stalagmites" (ground).
I had only ever heard the tight to the celeing one but then I would think or wait are they useing might to hold onto the celeing??
My rules about caves is simple: if the tour doesn't list flip flops as appropriate footwear I'm not going.
If the tour isn't handicap accessible I'm not going.
I went to the Shenandoah Caves in Virginia once. Wide spaces, high ceilings, handrails even. That is only sort of caving I will ever even consider. If I have to get on my hands and knees for even a single inch, that's a hard no.
I’m too much of a wimp to even try caving once lol. So, kudos to you dude
More like thinking rationally cuz only the crazy people have these kinds of hobby
I feel like thats less being a wimp and more having a survival instinct lmaoo
@@skyethenerd1054 true I would rather be a cave dweller in my room and not in an actual cave
No, you are the fittest (smartest) that survived. The others are Darwin Award recipients.
I love how everything looks like loose boulders that could easily roll around all over the place
With enough pressure most of them can move
4:30 - Fun fact, those are Harvestmen not spiders! They are related, as arachnids but they lack a second body segment, Fangs, and venom glands - they are omnivorous (they'll hunt critters smaller than them sometimes but often eat plant matter and decaying material). They pose no threat to people, but their spookyish appearance can often get them the fast pass to the afterlife (RIP lil bros) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
Always nice to see more nerds in comments
poor little fellas :(
The commitment for this video was absolutely insane and I am truly so happy you actually followed through. As a fellow aussie, this was an absolute joy to witness. You make us proud king.
It's so hilarious that he made himself the sadahm Husain diagram
i can’tttt💀😭
Maybe he is Sadam Hussein?
@@Rashed1255 Shhhhh!
that made me giggle the whole video lmao
This shit killed me lmfao
I appreciate how the pupper is interested in the diagrams at first and then just "nope"'s out. This looks too scary. It's funny how the dude was like "you gotta tuck everything into everything" but water just got everywhere, anyway
I feel so called out 😭, I literally adore going caving, I don’t go that often but for me it’s that feeling of getting to the main cavern or wherever your going underground and just being there, obviously it can be quite dangerous and I understand why people don’t like caves (claustrophobia and everything) but for me there is just something I find so comforting about being under the ground in a cave and I always find it so amazing just how ancient and interesting a cave’s geological history can be.
Dwarf found.
Don't get stuck you freak
@@mabogibo525😂
I hear it's nice. I did a bit of "tourist caving" not real caving, but I enjoyed the cave vibes (smell, cave temp, and the when our group was still the quietness). I remember cave experts talking about it, saying it's like you have a space all to yourself. If it was safer/wasn't so intimidating people would enjoy it, but the difficulty helps keep it being your own. Plus with how easy it is to disrupt a cave's ecosystem it's probably for the best most shy away from it. It's your special thing and you can keep it safe :)
People who discoverd the paths through the caves💀💀💀
They probably use drones or other safety stuff, ain't no way they send human straight away.
@@fridgefreezer9529 theres people that love going through undiscovered ones blind
@@fridgefreezer9529 These days, sure. Imagine all the people before though lol
@fridgefreezer9529 No lmao, people just go blindly in, using drones are a waste.
@@twitchy_bird Not even these days.
You should see some of the underwater caves you can scuba dive in. You aren’t allowed to touch the rocks, and it’s very easy to get lost in
Why can't you touch the rocks, exactly? Is it like a "this can damage your equipment" issue or a "we don't want to damage the environment" issue?
@@LostGirl04it could be so you dont disturb the silt layer (idk if thats what its called) in the water, because it can reduce visibility to zero if disturbed, clouding up the water, and that leads to getting lost underwater (with a ticking time limit on your tanks…😅)
@
Not me when I forget sand, lmao.
@ kind of both, but mainly the rock. The actual cave you don’t need to worry about, but the rock formations that can only happen underwater take thousands of years to make, and can be damaged if bumped
@@LostGirl04 It's because the rocks have intimacy issues and really hate to be touched by strangers in weird wetsuits
2:42 This was one of the best usages of the "Subtle Foreshadowing" memes I've been seeing.
Kudos to you for actually trying out caving and experiencing it first hand!
My dude, if there would be a way to like this one twice - I f-ing would. Being somewhat claustrophobic as well I was shocked by the level of caving you decided to start from. You are a hero to me since this video, to overcome your fear like that is astonishing!
I thought this was clickbait, it kept being recommended and now I’m 28 minutes in and you made it out even with no handrails. Amazing work!
I did this once. It was super fun. I am scared of spiders, but there were just a few tiny ones up above near the entrance of the cave, so I made it through the phobia. The only tight passage was a tiny little one at the beginning to test if you could easily go everywhere and we all passed. Nothing in the cave came that close. It was a lot of fun, not at all scary, even when water reached our waist at one point. It wasn't cold, or maybe we were just already so wet, it felt fine. It was pretty peaceful having all of us together in the water. At the end, we all put a hand in front of the other and turned our lights off, following each other through a passage with no cross sections. I was at the front and we started singing songs. We heard the other group also start singing somewhere else once they heard us. We started being dumb and singing stuff like the national anthem. At the end, we all went to McDonald's or something covered in water, sand, and who knows what. I have never been this dirty since, but it was absolutely hilarious the whole way through. 10/10 would do it again.
I can't believe you did this with a camera with you the whole time 😭 incredible.
After watching many incident videos about this sort of stuff:
1) Just don’t.
2) If you skipped step 1, be sure to not skip step 3.
3) Make sure someone knows exactly where you’re going & exactly when you’re supposed to be back (Preferably someone not in danger).
4) If you skipped step 3, good luck & I hope to not watch a video about you 👍
🪨 That seems utterly terrifying 😰 You’re a brave soul. Also, super glad there were no spiders in your experience (that we saw)
This has been the most effective anti caving PSA I have ever watched
As someone with claustrophobia, this was extremely hard to watch... holy cow this is on a list of things I'd never do.
Honestly, Wow. You have my respect for going through with this Jackson. Like ACTUALLY experiencing THIS YOURSELF, Is just mindblowing. Godspeed man, Godspeed.
I felt nervous just watching that but good job for being brave
Nervous? My heart was hurting from anxiety. Caving is not for me 😭
Bro I went caving and we had to crawl through a ½ by ½ meter gap DOWN I just said no so the rest of my class went on when I waited for them to come back then my head torch died so i waited in complete darkness when the class came back they took me out and told me that it turns out the cave collapsed 5 minutes before we went to the caving zone so they came back earlier than expected. oh and there was water about 3 cm deep where I was sat
13 likes YAY!!!
Oh _JOLLY!_
"cAvInG iS fUn!"
-people who died on scary interesting youtube channel
Thanks for traumatizing us with this video, never want to think about caves again
I genuinely don’t understand why people actually do this for fun. All props to you jackson, another amazing video👍❤️
Good video.
I am like why someone would do caving ?
Then I remember I do boxing and I shut up.
Some people just have some type of craving, that either is growed inside them, or they just born with it simple as that.
I love how Frank is just walking around and looking at Jackson’s diagram for part of it lol 😂
We love Frank ❤️😂
I love that you're willing to try new things, even if you're pretty sure you won't like it. I've been trying to do that more often too, even in small things, and its made life very enjoyable 😊.
i’ve been seeing clips but never this intense. thank you for your dedication so i could experience this vicariously though u cause i could never lol great job
Whenever I think of caving, I immediately think of the guy in Utah who got stuck upside down for 28 hours til he died of cardiac arrest.
Congrats on the new experience, glad you didn’t get stuck.
He mentioned that lol
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that story isn't that guy was trying to like "I feel like brave today" and challenge himself going there?
nutty putty 😨
Stalactites are the ones pointing down from above, because the stalaCtite is on the Ceiling, and the stalaGmite is on the Ground.
When I asked my father, he just said in the driest voice possible "It's easy to remember. Tits hang down."
I've heard "mites crawl up, tights fall down" lol
Stalactites hold on tight from the ceiling
Oh, I always remember it because the M in stalagmite is spikes pointing up, and the T in stalactite is a little line pointing down from the ceiling. Pneumonics are fun lol
This one's very easy in Dutch because the "tiet" in "stalactiet" means "boob" lol
I get a bit claustrophobic sometimes when I go caving in Minecraft. Props to you for actually doing it irl!
Glad you had fun caving! It really is not for eveybody, but I like the fact that humans went caving even during the Upper Paleolithic Period (roughly 25,000-10,000 years before present). Cave paintings are almost always found within the deepest parts of the cave, sometimes people had to squeeze through tight spaces and travel hundreds of metres into the caves to reach where they drew those beautiful paintings.
I get the feeling people weren't cave diving hundreds of thousands of years ago. There's a good chance the caves were wider and more shallow during there time and as the Continental plates shifted the passage got narrower and deeper. To say caveman effectively went cave diving for no reason but to paint on some walls with no actual archaeological evidence of that is just ignorant. Hubris.
@@darklightimagesI don't think continental plates have shifted significantly enough during human kind's time on this earth for this to be a satisfying explanation, especially considering how many different caves this happened in. If anything, water erosion might better justify the change in cave shapes, if it happened, but in any case, you should probably be a little less arrogant when saying absolute buffooneries.
@darklightimages I can refer you to many articles published on the subject, if what you are looking for is evidence. Also, note that I said 25,000-10,000 years before present, not hundreds of thousands of years. As far as archaeological evidence can show, it would seem that human interactions with caves is a relatively recent thing.
27:53 imagine you saw him pulling those expressions alone in his car no context
27:55 yeah you really became a man child
The Descent has given me a terminal fear of caving
i respect the "why would anyone do this" to finding out why they do it actually trying out attitude you have! :) couldn't be me tho stay safe
it's like the earth's continental crust is giving you a lil hug
4:37 wait, an Australian afraid of Spiders!?😱
I am Australian… and I have arachnophobia 😂😭
Australians know a fear of spiders we can only dream of
Cave exploring is awesome. Just take the lift down and walk leisurely through the well lit cave, maybe have a Picknick at the waterfall.
I have an incredible fear of both heights and tight spaces, but if I was forced to choose one absolutely skydiving over caving that looks absolutely miserable oh my god eff that entirely.
Damn dude impressive as hell, especially for someone who's struggled with claustrophobia. First bit of long form content I watched from you, massively entertaining.
I suffered just watching you go through that, kudos to you, you are committed and made another great video !! 👏🏻
I‘m glad you did this with an instructor and proper safety measures. I‘ve seen videos by other content creators I enjoy who didn’t do so, and while they made it out ok, it really does a disservice to the sport. Because yes, it is dangerous, but that’s the exact reason the safety precautions exist, and they‘ve been written in blood. With them in place, the risk becomes miniscule.
I do it for the experience and to map areas that haven’t been seen before, being able to add 95 meters to a cave in South Australia was pretty rewarding. It’s also a great challenge and makes photography pretty interesting especially with a proper camera. You have to think twice about your movements and how to get your mapping and photography equipment through some chambers. We have run into some maze caves with half filled passages and gone for a swim to explore more aha, not expecting to find an entire maze section unmapped as the water level has dropped in the region since the 80s. Spent more of my university years caving than actually attending classes at one point 2 years ago.
That cave could use some handrails
Awesome video, loving the long form content and the being so committed to the bit you end up in a cave
It's so funny that I was literally crocheting while he said, "Get a normal hobby, like crocheting"
Watching you caving reminded me of the straight up most insane experience I had this year... So we went to a climbing park with our class, I never did that before so I was stoked! One of those courses (which btw also was 12m up in the air and the highest climbing path they had) featured a longboard you had to balance on while pulling yourself along a wire... I naturelly lost my balance, fell and just hung in the safety cable attached to my gear. Now: There where people coming over who where supose to help me. They Artikel and basiclly said: "you gotta get back up", so in my head I was on my own just hanging there 12m in the air, classmates in front of me, behind me and down on the ground beneath me. I gathered my thoughts, took all my strength and actually managed to get my footing back and get to the next solid bit of ground. First thing I did was just hugging my friend to calm my heartbeat but honestly: Looking back it's been a hell of a experience and I regret nothing about it!
11:12 , The most beautiful part of the video. So poetic.
I'm scared of heights but not depths or tight spaces so caves are strangely comforting to me. Getting trapped in a flood sounds pretty terrifying but that's why it's a really good idea to check weather and flooding risk before going.
That clip of you shimmying under the boulder through the water made me feel so sick insane props to you for actually doing that oml
I am also claustrophobic and this entire experience would probably make me cry lol 💀🪨
Holy moly Jackson you are so brave, I could never 😂 This has got to be one of my favourite videos you’ve made so far!! 💕🪨
28:25 Next video, cave diving
3:00 because we have to wake up to survive and the higher ups make us go to work so we can buy water shelter and food to survive.
Next time you should bring Mitch and Frank, they’ll show you how it’s done 🪨🧗
1:35 “What could possibly convince someone to do this-“
Cuts to a YT ad for donating to a children’s hospital.
The timing was just too perfect
Yes I also love putting myself in vulnerable positions!
he has such a way with words 28:01
This is definitely the one of the best and most entertaining video I've watch on youtube, deserve so so many more views. Good one chief, glad you made it
That intro is what we call subtle foreshadowing
Amazing video as always! I’ve been waiting for this one ever since I heard you talking about it on the podcast
Can’t wait for the next one!!! 🪨🪨🪨
I did Caving once at 14, it was an outdoor club ish, we did hikes, ski, camping. And one event was Caving, it was cool, we went down a rly deep well and then walked around a little, into one squeeze spot, it wasn't that much of a squeeze but the helmet made you feel like it was tight. But it was cool overall. Would I do it again? Yes, would I carefully choose the cave? Absolutely
2:54 subtle foreshadowing
I'm claustrophobic. I'm watching this anyway because I love your content. And I want to see your experience. I want you to understand my struggle through this. My palms are actually wet from sweating. I'm so unsettled. I'm so uncomfortable.
24:52 I thought you were gonna say minutes 😂
“Only and idiot would go cave diving”
*proceeds to go cave diving*
5:02 “genre”
No joke I was crocheting when he said that 5:46 😂
Whos up Jacksonning their Field rn
She Jackson on my Field till I Mason.
huge massive props to doing that with claustrophobia, you can barely even get me to step under the roof of a huge open cave lol. just watching you slip down into the cave would be enough to give me a panic attack- i swear my claustrophobia gets worse by the day
2:45 subtle foreshadowing
Thanks for the crocheting mention, thats me lol. Coz its funny hearing this from an Aussie, as whete Im from, stereotyped as wanting to just go on dangerous adventures.
Thanks Jackson for confirming my beliefs that I will never do this. Horrifying :)
you describing stuff that’s scary in the moment, but you can’t stop thinking about afterwards, is literally type 3-4 fun! I’m not a caver but part of the reason why I rock climb, white water paddle etc. are for the suffer fests. it’s way more fun when you work for it!
16:00 What da dog doin
Ah the spiders are fine, they're just hibernating, but get this, these caves have WATER in em!
Australians are the only people more scared of a wash than they are giant spiders.
Skydiving wasn't scary, not for me at least. When I was sitting in the plane and were the next one up the training kicked in. Walk to the exit, place yourself correct, look at the instructors hand. When that hand turned to a thumbs up I just pushed myself out, as trained.
Not even free falling was scary. The wind grabbed me so hard I couldn't think of anything other than stabilizing myself, as trained, and it was so high up that no sense of height grabbed me. The rest was just fun.
Spelunking sound insane, though.
Love how right after I revisit The Descent this Halloween for you to release this video. Kudos and I would’ve never had the courage to go inside that cave.
Plot twist: the stream running through the cave is actually all the piss the cavers had before entering.
Well done on giving it a go, that's a strange sort of cave as it looks to be sandstone? Most caves are karst and are therefore limestone. I have done according to my log book 590 trips now and I am still alive and in all that time needed rescuing once (though I sorted myself out before the team got there), caving is safe if you know what you are doing, check weather forecasts and are properly equipped. Re spiders, I live in the UK and they are harmless, however, laughably I know several cavers who really don't like spiders and will scream, now that I find a little strange if you suffer from arachnophobia to take up caving. However, once you get deeper in you won't see any, they only live near the entrance. Yeh if I lived in Aus like you, I think I too would be bothered by spiders.
Best part of the video: that piss of all pisses. Truly the stuff of dreams. Also f**k caving
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This reminds me of the first time caving with my mother and cousin, I originally thought it was going to be a short thing, like just walk under some boulders and such, but I was so so wrong as I saw what looked like the depths of the underwrold staring at me and me stressing about my mom and cousin.
Hi Jackson I'm Jackson
Hi Jackson I’m not Jackson
Edit: what have I started
Hey Jackson I am not not Jackson
Hey Jackson im not not not jackson
Hello Jackson I’m not not not Jackson
Hello Jackson I'm not not not not Jackson
I'm kinda surprised i managed to watch this whole video with my claustrophobia, i was hyperventilating through it, but i did it, yay me.