So we're in Cozumel a couple weeks ago and one of my old you could almost call
him instructor he's taught me a lot of what I know about diving today we go
three or four days and somebody's in mind that we're down and goes Mel just
went through some ships went through some... like it's the coral reef just
playing around down with them and then we go into a serious dieties he's
getting a little bit older his mind is still very very very sharp but his motor
skills don't keep up with him much anymore right and again in cave diving
it uh it's very necessity that you need so we jump in this cave let's rewind
twenty minutes I just kissed my girl in my new baby
and she's I don't normally want you to go like right I don't he just I don't
want to say his name but the guy you're going with like I'm worried mm-hm
I said what are you worried about I said I'm coming home dumb this is what I come
home every time coming home I don't know so I pick up another I order another
cylinder of air just fresh so I have to originally I'm going with order another
cylinder air just I told her just for just first just to fucking have it
right no one's ever died because they have too much air in cave diving you
dive in third so if we have 300 psi we'll do a thousand psi n we'll do a
thousand psi out and we have a thousand psi in case something fucking happens
also in cave diving they have lines you run these in a cave they'll already have
a line run a bunch of guys like me Tech divers have gone into caves they
discovered them they mapped them they named them and they put put lines so you
can follow them in case something happens right get in and get out lines
and lines in none of the lines really connect effort like the main lines
they'll have like three or four main lines down big channels of the cave
those caves are huge right from an entrance to the main line usually no one
has a cave you have that you have to make it what's called a jump you have to
make your own own line because they just don't want
someone listening on here today to go find a cave jump in and swim down and be
able to get in and out and get lost in there and also we have a Thailand
incident we're fucking winning this a people so we make a jump tie off
you put these direction arrows down they're called cookies right pointing
out towards the direction out of the cave that way if something happens you
come out when you make a jump you take your light you wrap it around your neck
and then you have two hands that work on the line the guy I was with didn't
follow some of our rules and in cave diving it's kind of an unwritten fact
that you only worry about you I'm coming home right I'm fucking staying alive so
Joe you mean I would cave diving me something were to happen I'm not going
in there to get you no reason for two of us died when only ones in there can die
so he tries to tie off his buoyancy fucking he hits the roof of the cave
kicks his feet spins and now us on this line that's supposed to be tied off
which is our fucking lifeline is now wrapped around him so I swim over to him
and I try to help him unhook this line and he goes in the panic and panic kills
everybody involved everybody involved dies the panic and something that I
can't express enough so he starts fucking freaking out hitting the roof
spinning silt fucking over and I just back out take about four or five big
strong steps back when I grab ahold of the main line now it's silting out now
and I say something silty now there's all this like set them into ends on the
bottom of these caves and you're in like a little tiny room so if you kick your
fin hard it kicks up like dark dust mud sediment silt you can't fucking see
anything blocks down so I back out of the silt I grab the line and I see him
and they're fucking freaking and panicking spinning and rolling around
getting all caught up in this and his line and I'm like fuck I just stay calm
this was the exit I know where it is because I know where I am there's the
exit he was making a jump to go down another tunnel there he is now what'd I
just tell you about the rule that someone comes home right I broke the
rule and I went in to get him I said fucking down so I let go of the line and
I go in to get him because his light fucking is off now and I'm thinking
goddamn he spun up in this line his lights off did he drop his regulator is
he have air is he okay soon as I go into the silt, fucking lose everything man lose
my way, where I am, my up, my down, I don't know where I am, I'm fucking panicking now
I'm panicking, fucking freaking out more than any I've ever... breathing hard, bang,
hit my head on the fucking ceiling, and I just closed my eyes I'm like god damn it
Cowboy calm the fuck down, calm the fuck down, calm the fuck down, breathe. Can't
even see my hands in front of me I have two watches on they're glowing right
those are my dog let me know my death my time everything where I have to to to
dive computers I check them look calm I check my light I got to turn my light
and burn burn my are pressure gauges they're glow-in-the-dark right so I
charge with my light and I look at okay err check my second one
okay err I know my third ones good because I haven't even opened yet that's
just just in case I breathe down I fucking think and I can't see my hands
in front of me and to this day I close my eyes and it gives me nightmares right
now just thinking about it cloudy dark can't see anything all I can
see is the home of my light so I turn my light off I'm not trying to think like
fine just just just calm calm yourself figure this out where's where's our
partner I start feeling around and he's nowhere to be found, right, nowhere to be
found so I'm now calling myself a little bit
and I start feeling the walls and I start moving around I'm trying to think
where am i but I don't know because we haven't been down this channel yet so I
don't visually haven't made an imprint of oh there's that there's this right
kind of like a mental imprint in my mind because that's what we're doing as we're
coming in landmarks right I don't have any of those I don't have
any feel I don't have any touch and I move around moving around I took a
compass reading of the direction of the front when we tied off with the first
jump right so I know 126 degrees is the way out but in a cave they twist and
they move and they're up and they're big and they're deep and they're low right
they there's no like rhyme or reason how the water made the cave so it's kind of
a direction I can think of the first thing comes my line and I start swimming
that way now I hit a wall boom and I go down and hit a wall and I'm fucking in
panic mode again I fucking swim now just are swimming and kicking and fucking
going crazy I make my way out of the silt and I fucking turn on back on the
main line right grab find the main line to the cave again which is eight hundred
yards to the front to the door I grab a hold the main line I fucking reel it in
eeeh okay now the entire behind me deeper into the cave is free it's no
problem silt free I can see everything's good
more I need to go is fucking silt it out and blown gone completely fucking wash I
can't I couldn't see you sitting there but I can see everything behind us can't
see you I have the main line but I don't have the jump line to get the fuck out
so I started thinking I was looking the cave maps trying like before we went
just try get a vaporizer of the direction I'm trying to remember
landmarks but I can't see anything and I can't feel and I'm like fuck there was a
split up here so I start I go back and back into the silt again and I start
feeling around and I'm feeling and I find a hole and I'm like is that the
right way is that the one I want to go down where does that one go
okay maybe remind remember I remember that's that's not okay let's go to this
next one going to the next one and now this is this is where I Scott to be I'm
going but all of a sudden I'm swimming against the current and I remember when
I came into this cave there was this very slow current which is why the
entire cave is now washed out from that point on right
the current is taking us all like fuck you're swimming against the current so
you're going the wrong way I somehow work that into my fucking
panic mind like we're swimming into the car swim in the car that's all going the
wrong way so I fucking turn swim back I'm back on
the fucking main line again right to find the main lines clear out into the
clear main line fuck fuck fuck I start like hyperventilating panicking and I'm
thinking man are you fucking you piece of shit this help he will die what the
fuck are you right and I'm keep her mind kissing my wife to keep my kids saying
I'm coming home today I'm coming home coming home so I do it again fucking
venture into the fucking great unknown fucking abyss total blackout another
panic another panic fucking freak out can't find my way hey my head kicking
losing air by the fucking second bro because now I'm breathing hard I'm
breathing fucking irrational and I'm sucking my tanks dry right mind you I'm
on air so I don't have there's no there's no answer to this after I
breathed my last breath keep checking me think keep keeping my time look in
Direction time time air time fuck slow down slow down slow down DOM and pitch
fucking black can't see anything trying to figure out where I'm at what I'm
thinking what am i doing okay we're running out of air how much
time do we have cabbie we're at 28 feet I know we're at 28 feet I can probably
breathe on this for about another hour on this tank another hour so we got
another hour okay we've been in here fucking 38 minutes already how what are
we gonna do start trying to find my way out I can't trying to find the way out I
can't now I started thinking what am I gonna do I'm not gonna drown Joe
drownings like my biggest fear of my life so ever thing that's called a B C
and we carried on our back it's buoyancy control device that's how you that's how
you control your buoyancy when you're scuba diving right it probably holds
20 big huge strong breasts so I feel that motherfucker up
this is my plan the film IBC up which throws me to the top of the cave bunk
right now I'm only now I got a flip upside down have like crawl on the
ceiling trying to figure out where the fuck I am how am I now I got to get out
of a cave upside down and I'm thinking alright we've switched to our last bit
of air how are we gonna do this cowboy what are we gonna do filled our BC up
when I run out of air I'm now thinking in my mind how am I gonna die Joe right
tell my wife tell my kid I'm not fucking I'm coming home now I gotta fucking
realize how am I gonna die I have a notepad that you carry in your pocket to
draw on right on I'm thinking what what what are you gonna say what's your
what's your letter gonna be your writing fucking death letter you're awake you're
a fighter we figure this out don't fucking find a way to quit you fucking
bitch this is a conversation I'm having one myself well I'm in fucking complete
panic mode in complete darkness thinking that there's no this is how people die
what the fuck are you doing you're gonna write a letter to your fucking kid and
tell her how you how you fucked up I'm sorry daddy's not coming home so I'm
fucking thinking I'm not gonna drown I'm not gonna breathe my last breath so I'm
gonna breathe this b/c that I just filled up with air and I'm a fucking
breathe it until the oxygen level no longer happens and I just pass out
that's that's my that's what I've come to realize how I'm gonna die I'm gonna
fucking just slip away and pass out keep breathing the same air until I go away
and I start thinking you fucking piece of shit you you're giving up you're
having like a legitimate conversation with myself while fucking in complete
panic like you're gonna quit that you're writing a letter and you're gonna
fucking breathe your last air to you pass out you fucking pussy you're a
fighter figured the fuck out so I'm upside down I'm crawling on the ceiling
I remember when I came in we came in the big cave there's like a huge fucking
crack that runs along the top turn both my watches off now at this
point because they're giving off light and I kill my light I said that crack
gonna fucking lead to the surface that cracks gonna fucking give us something
so I just call start panicking me panicking again because I'm panicking I
don't know what to do I'm sucking air and I'm fucking breathing hard and I'm
hyperventilating I'm crying on something crawling on the ceiling looking for this
fucking crack and goddammit I found it I found the crack and I followed the crack
and the crack got bigger and also I see fucking glow like green glow Krong Krong
Krong find it try to get up my tags are too big I can't fucking get out of the
little hole can't get out of the hole I'm fucking big be big big fucking
hating screaming freaking out calm down can't like calm down carry
this is the way calm the fuck down reel it in reel it in
we're here we made it grab control follow the crocs more opens up out boom
there's the cave fucking I'm out made it you're coming home
you were talking about wow that was the feeling meanwhile my guys out there I
can't be mad at him because he panic he grabbed a line he fucking ran out the
hole he looks at me and he says so we're not diving together ever again are we
I said no that was it that was it and I text my girl love you baby
and today was a fuckin scary moment but daddy's coming home
it was fucking so crazy because that was I mean I've almost died numerous times
but almost dying slowly was puts it in perspective me like these guys on death
row what I always thought like yeah fucking kill a murderer man that's
fuckin dude knowing the time and how much time you have left
that's your scary shit Joe knowing that you have two hours left how much air do
you have left at the end maybe another hour probably hour and
some change but could you imagine how I had to talk to myself how I was gonna
die like to me that fucked me up that fucked me up really bad
like I probably had to go do some mushrooms and ask myself the questions
now because that fucked me up bad but the inner me the fighter that you do new
fear at the fuck out but was I gonna write a letter I was fucking damn close
to writing a letter it was crazy man is wild hope that I explain that good for
everybody you explained it like a mother
was there dude that is crazy yeah man and I'm gonna do it again like I'm not
scared of it like that it just needs to be done better I'll run my own
motherfucking line shows you how important it is like what your wife was
saying yeah can't she you know she knew something
she had a sense like right when people fuck up a lot or when they're just that
person that just can't keep it together you got to be real careful around those
people yeah yeah fucking crazy shit man I mean that's why people kill those
people in war yeah you know they just like look we can't do this yeah we had
everybody killed yeah your your your panic is sure yeah Joe yeah you're not
hanging in there you you've become a detriment
Fuck dude, that is one of the craziest stories I've ever heard of my life. I'm
glad I got to share it with ya. impressive let's move
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