Lived once a boy names Lucas, whose linguistic skills did spook us, but when locked underground, his tongue went around and around....til he was finally found safe and sound!
Maybe they were sending him a message?
“...he became separated...from 12 other members...” There’s the problem (wink wink). He was number 13!
I’m surprised experienced cave explorers missed him. It’s always a good idea to take a roll call before and after.
Once happened to me at the Coliseum in Rome. The workers didn’t do a thorough check at lunchtime and went off, padlocking the gates. Just me at the cats...
Go in with 13, come out with 12.
You would think someone would realize there was a problem.
There are speleologist and “urban explorer” websites, people who explore NYC subway stations that were shut down decades ago as well as abandoned mental institutions, prisons, ghost towns such as Centralia, PA, etc. It’s interesting, but dangerous and in most cases constitute trespassing.
“unaware that he remained inside”
Not a very good and tight group if 12 went in and the 11 who came out did not know where the 12th member was and just assumed he was out.
with a name like “Cavar”...
He needs better friends.
The only Millennial in the world without a smart phone?
My youngest daughter would go spelunking with friends while attending UCSC (Santa Cruz). We didn't know for a while, until she showed us some pictures. Lots of caves in the Santa Cruz mountains. They would squeeze through narrow openings to get to lower tunnels, and if not with others could get lost inside. Scared us that she was doing this, because if missing we would have no idea where she was. 19-year-olds do crazy things. She's older with her own daughter now and it's her turn to worry as a parent.
so he was the odd man out in the buddy system?
There is a common sense mine safety process, where each miner puts an ID card in a rack at the start of the shift BEFORE going underground. At the end of the shift, the supervisor scans the rack to see if there are any cards still in a slot. If yes and there is no ‘oops’, then the emergency crew goes into action. This amateur club needs a bit of that common sense and should be suspended from any further ‘adventures’ until they are better trained!
Brings to mind another lad by the name of Timothy......
Didn’t fare so well Timmy didn’t
Complacency. Always count before and after, each participant needs a battle buddy. The group leader should be fired.
The man nearly DIED because he couldn’t play Bejeweled!
Uhm, no. The last line has to rhyme with the first line, not the third line.
I’ve got to see the eye doctor. At first I thought he had been raped in a cave for 60 hours, oh my.
A caver who hailed from Terre Haute,
Fell in love with a she-mountain goat.
..The daughter he sired
..Was greatly admired
For her beautiful angora coat.
Been there twice. Once as a Boy Scout (way, way pre homo friendly days). Again with college buddies.
Also did Wayne's cave in Southern IN, which has a 150 ft crawl, called the torpedo tube, to get from the entrance to where the cave opens to huge rooms! Once in the torpedo section, there's no place to turn around. You either crawl forward or if claustrophobia gets you, ya crawl backwards to get back to the entrance!!! Beautiful cave when it opens up.
Another cave I explored, (not sure bout the name) Spencer's cave not far from Sullivan. Anyway, it's killed several people.
There's a rule: don't go into a limestone cave when it's raining outside!!! Almost found this out the hard way, exploring Spencer's.
It wasn't really raining, more like a mist/drizzle.......went in, worked down to a lower level, saw a 10 inch wide stream flowing along the passageway but paid no mind, kept walking till we heard what sounded like a waterfall.
Decided to backtrack to the entrance....meet a guy with wife & kids coming along the passageway.
Said Hi & told them what was ahead, found the place where we climb up to a higher level, at the higher level we could see the entrance AND a heavy rain coming down outside.
Decided to wait a while, for the rain to stop........ about 10 min later, suddenly there was a commotion at the fissure where we had climbed up...... we could hear the family we had seen earlier, frantically scrambling up out of the hole in the cave.
What shocked us was they were ALL WET.......the mom & dad were wet from waist down......the kids were wet too but not as much, cause mom & dad had been carrying them through the rising water. My buddies and I suddenly realized what we heard that sounded like a waterfall was surface rain water coming in to fill the cave. The cave had to fill some nearby basin before it would fill the passageway we had explored and the family must have raced just ahead of the flood before the passageway completely filled!!!!
Scarier still, a year or so later, someone my sister-in-law knew, was in the same cave (again during a rain) and drowned with a couple of others.
Sounds like Mr. Cavar almost became a Mr. Cadaver.