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Divers Unsealed the Blue Hole After 40 Years. Then Disaster. (nightmare fuel)

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Published on 17 Sep 2023 / In Film & Animation

The Blue Hole of Santa Rosa, New Mexico is a popular scuba diving location that has a series of caves beneath it with a dark and mysterious past. After diving students lost their lives in 1976 the cave was sealed for 40 years. It was reopened in 2016, only to claim yet another life. The diving disasters that have happened there are terrible, but the stories are little known. In this episode we look at the tragic death of elite diver, Shane Thompson.

0:00 - The 1976 Blue Hole Death
2:38 - ADM Exploration Foundation Gets Access
3:32 - Shane Thompson and Mike Young Plan to Enter
4:49 - Moving Deeper into the Blue Hole Caves
6:14 - Mike Leaves Shane
6:58 - Mike Reaches the End of The Line
7:33 - Mike Bumps Back Into Shane
8:02 - Mike and Shane Are Reoriented
8:20 - The Guide Line Snaps
9:10 - Mike Finds Shane Again
11:52 - Mike Resurfaces

Photo Credits: Autopilot - EMDX - Lyn Turner

Dive Talk Full Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq9tBQDUe8

Mike’s Website Kiss Rebreathers: https://www.kissrebreathers.com/mike

#bluehole #divingdisaster #amazinghistory

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sbseed
sbseed 7 months ago

interesting a RL example of a true labyrinth...

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Take a ton of high explosive, float it up to the top of the big cave roof, and collapse the whole thing into a pit.

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sbseed
sbseed 7 months ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: that would collapse the entire cave system sadly... interesting though though.

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sbseed
sbseed 7 months ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: would be more practical if you want to be able to explore the cave with fewer issues to create stanchions and the like to prop up the ceiling of the cave... at the same time would have to try to remove as much debris as possible.

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@sbseed: It's the mineral type that the cave goes through - me thinks lime stone... it's dissolving away from carbolic acid in the water and the roof is coming down in huge chunks... and a fine mineral snow of sediment that becomes a dust storm of suspended mud.... that basically it's a death trap.

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sbseed
sbseed 7 months ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: true, still interesting places.... if only we where invulnerable and strong enough to shift a mountain, then we would not have to worry about exploring any place lol....

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@sbseed: Have you ever done any technical diving like this? They are pretty hard on everything being right and kind of planning it like a space mission, because they cannot afford to fuck it up themselves, and they need to build in surviving the mission, for what might happen way down in the water, way deep in the cave, way under ground.... because when things go wrong, even simple things, people die. - Have at it.... https://www.youtube.com/result....s?search_query=cave+

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@sbseed: Lets get off this topic - it's fucking awful....

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bigintol03
bigintol03 8 months ago

Damn, never knew about that! Pretty cool!

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Fuck that - as in ALL of it. Cave Diving - yeah in my cheap 10' childrens wader pool in the back yard. The fucking horros of the deep - no thanks. https://myportablesplashpad.co....m/cdn/shop/products/

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bigintol03
bigintol03 8 months ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Totally agreed, I ment it was cool to watch, I'd NEVER go down there myself...EVER!

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