Things I Don't Understand: Caving

I enjoy watching caving videos even though they are quite hard to watch at times, but I still never understand how people like to do this
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[@Rowann1]

Cavers when they get stuck in a cave after trying to find the tightest part of a cave 😲😲🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Cruncher_Of_Cookies]

Real

[@Based4Life]

Not fake 🗿

[@theironrubberduck]

Not Not real

[@EruseanPug]

Nah fr

[@justawendigowithinternet8224]

Cavers trying to not die in a horrific way

[@DebiohTBT]

One tectonic plate movement and then strawberry jelly

[@SuperBootsTheDog]

Caving on a fault line go brrr

[@PG-hq7bf]

When Lewis found and started using this background song a few years ago, he really found something special. This song often starts playing in my head randomly

[@MartinM1605_]

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[@chewy99.]

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[@WinterX20]

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[@remakefreddy9170]

I’ve been watching him since 2018 and have never heard the background music

[@user-mu5sl4vh7m]

You might be schizophrenic

[@goldswaggamer4007]

I feel like it has to be some crazy daredevil stuff or for the mega adrenaline because I would probably suffocate and drown from all of the hyperventilating and crying I would do

[@weirdmagicpiggy]

Claustrophobic or not, nobody in their right minds would EVER do this. Caving should’ve never been a thing.

[@SPACEDOUT19]

there was a documentary about a guy who died in one, had wife and a kid also

[@venomshot2815]

You're telling me there's underground tunnels stretching thousands of miles and you don't want people to go there? Most caves are safe, the viral videos just all have insane things

[@kantz7375]

Or, hear me out, this might be insane, but how about let ppl do what they want

[@hejhejaske]

@@venomshot2815that’s not what he’s saying tho, what’s stupid is people just looking at tight corridors that they might not be able to get through and deciding to get stuck in them for no gain

[@respectfullyright]

@@kantz7375lol

[@xav3436]

Couldn’t think of a more fitting topic for the “Things I don’t understand” series

[@MassiveMaleMonkey]

They should make people bring diamond pickaxes or doors to make air bubbles

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

I don't think a door would fit down there with you. 🤔🤪

[@januaryfantasy]

​@@CivilEngineerWroxtonthat's what the diamond pick axe is for

[@massive_dick_gaming]

​@CivilEngineerWroxton you don't get the joke

[@unnamedweirdo3804]

Or just a load of water breathing potions and respiration helmet

[@heming7395]

i had the first panic attack of my life inside a cave, i couldn't fathom doing what these guys do

[@orange_turtle3412]

As someone who has been caving multiple times, I dont understand why anyone would want to go caving

[@scrubbyrubberducky]

Then why did you do it? And once wasnt enough, u had to go multiple times.

[@scpagent086]

@@scrubbyrubberduckytrying to find diamonds

[@orange_turtle3412]

People spraypaint some crazy shit in them.

[@Ryan-et3sx]

​@scpagent086 how many feet below sea level do diamonds spawn in? asking for my friend Steve

[@orange_turtle3412]

@@scrubbyrubberducky Cuz I went with friends

[@ZOZOYOYO69]

I can understand why people used to do it, but after they added the warden and the deep dark, I have no idea why anyone would continue.

[@marcusaurelius8030]

that Nutty Putty incident made sure I would NEVER go spelunking

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

Yep, me, too. To think that guy's remains are STILL down there in that cave gives me the creeps and makes me feel so bad for his two sons. What in the world was he thinking when he decided to do something so dangerous when he had a wife and two children at home? Absolutely irresponsible.

[@NukeisAfriKaner]

@@CivilEngineerWroxtonI guess. But that’s sorta like saying it’s irresponsible to hike mount Everest when you have a family

[@Based4Life]

@@NukeisAfriKanerNah that’s a terrible comparison

[@NukeisAfriKaner]

@@Based4Life Give me one reason how. You’re doing a dangerous task for sake of entertainment. It’s literally the same thing, you can’t convince me otherwise. Your comment is kinda stupid buddy.

[@Spectrum0122]

His comment is exactly right, yours is the stupid one. Climbing everest is just as stupid, dangerous, and irresponsible as the nutty putty incident????????!!!!!!............

[@RetroCiri]

Whenever I think of caving, I'm immediately reminded of that dude who got stuck and died upside down in Nutty Putty Cave. I can't imagine what a nightmare it would be to be stuck like that.

[@R3cycl3dGoods]

I've been in a cave, it was very open, no small crevices or anything. I will say it is a really cool experience to be in a cave and see all the things down in that environment. That being said, you'll never see me climbing and crawling through a cave to see any of that

[@TheBighi]

Wow, this video completely blew my mind! I've always been so curious about caving, but I never realized just how complex and mesmerizing it is. Your sense of wonder and adventure is infectious, and it's got me seriously considering taking up caving. Thank you for unveiling the mysteries of this underground world and reminding us of the endless wonders that await beneath the surface. Can't wait to dive deeper into this incredible journey

[@Partizani99]

calm down mate

[@prxmeez]

-chatgpt

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

I'm thinking that this is pure sarcasm and I love it. I do the same level of sarcasm when I am SERIOUSLY put off by something. I've been in several caves when I was MUCH younger and enjoyed it, but they were all caves that a person can walk through. I'm not talking about the kind of caves with walkways built through them and lighting is installed and all that kind of thing. The caves I've been in are still just raw caves that have uneven walking and damp, silty walls. They're just very large caves because there is NO WAY I would EVER go through any cave that has the chance of flooding or is so tight that I have to squeeze through it and it is so tight that if I had ANY more weight on me, I just wouldn't fit through it. People who go into caves like that are nuts.

[@TurboClashShowdownss]

This series is goated you gotta continue it

[@Killbayne]

the music stopping with that agoraphobia scream is pure gold

[@spingleboygle]

i chuckled because if i blew into laughter i would be dead

[@ANormalName.]

You can actually find really good loot down there, Lewis. Of all people, I'd assume you'd know since you're a "Minecraft pro."

[@xyghost9302]

That part at 5:00 had me in stitches lmao funniest thing I've seen in a while

[@funnemonke2]

i wasn't paying attention until he did that and it made me start wheezing

[@grzyb11]

same mate

[@gioegi7898]

This presentation is quite rather amusing; it is honestly mind blowing how far Levi's has come!

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

"Levi's"? 🤔

[@deadinside44123]

@@CivilEngineerWroxtonyes levi, aka polarsaurusrex, that’s his name it’s levi

[@gio_ozz]

​@@CivilEngineerWroxtonLewis made a video about how Mr Beast has a horrible comment section, and showed some of the comment types he hates, Then people thought they were funny (at first, yes, but now, no) by replicating those comments on this channel, but replacing Jimmy with Lewis, Then people thought they were even funnier (never was funny IMO) by replacing Lewis with names that start with the letter L,

[@threeriversfamyt6189]

@@deadinside44123nah it’s Lewis

[@wvlf3146]

Cavers when they crawl through the most excruciating, jagged 12 inch tall tunnel for 8 hours to reach another cave

[@Maskon2Fite]

Ik this is super irrelevant to the video, but man im so glad youre still making content, it really does make everyone's days better, love your content man

[@user-iw3qe2iz1o]

Can we appreciate how far lewis has come? these sets are amazing

[@1_AlphabetCrew]

I left and came back to lewis's channel after over a year, and people are still doing this?

[@ogpandamonium]

This never was funny

[@rickthebrick200]

@@1_AlphabetCrew 100% if you didn't come back to lewis's channel after "over a year" you would not remember these comments because of your severe dementia. You are lying for sure.

[@massive_dick_gaming]

cringe pfp

[@joshuarountree9529]

Im a climber, which is totally different but has some overlap with caving. From what ive seen a lot of the appeal comes from exploring something that very few people or no one has ever seen before. Plus some of stuff in caves is just dope

[@Th3CurlyGamer]

First time I heard about the Nutty Putty cave incident I was terrified, like the thought of that man still being down there STILL freaks me out

[@eltoo9706]

pls do more of this series, its a rly cool idea

[@The_Mandog100]

The fact that you are 100s of metres underground and no one would know your there just terrifies me

[@shoeliver]

one time I felt like I was agoraphobic. I was in my room and I just felt like my room was getting bigger, and bigger. I heard voices saying thats its too big. I hid my face into a corner of my bed, but the voices didnt stop. suddenly it went quiet. I went downstairs to see what my siblings were doing, and i felt better, but still felt off for a couple of days. quite odd indeed.

[@collinbeckford3796]

this is a good series so far

[@bearonsidewalk]

After seeing 5:00 i have come to the conclusion that we need you to follow more gordon ramsay recipes

[@RedactEdYT]

💀💀💀

[@bigotis9042]

Fr bro

[@chrikke]

it isn't just about it being tight and getting stuck. It is how slowly you move. Imagine if a goddamn spider comes running towards you, even if you can move enough

[@sebisonic]

Maybe exploring a big wide cave would be cool, but i would never want to go in such a tight and cramped space at risk of getting stuck. Im not even claustrophobic, it's moreso like I dont want to walk straight towards death unless i heard 5:02 behind me

[@MMDVAWARENESS]

My grandad does caving in big caves and you have to climb down cave walls with ropes like in mission impossible

[@BitBANANA222]

I don't know why but I've been on a binge listening to caving stories on KZbin and I hate it but I can't stop

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

I did that for a while and it finally started causing me so much anxiety even just watching them that I finally just stopped. I guess I also just got over the immense interest in watching those videos because after a while a lot of them start seeming the same.

[@voross3361]

me n my friends was just walking in a forest and found a small entrance, we crawled in and for the next 30 minutes we were crawling around like that and thought we were doomed💀

[@voross3361]

we found water too, but we found an exit next to the small stream

[@-Zperco]

I love all your videos

[@IsraelLlerena]

Nah I absolutely hate this. I saw a movie like 10 years ago based off cave explorers who were in a cave as it started flooding. They died one by one and the camera was on the characters as they died from drowning, it was so bad. That movie literally scarred me.

[@orynx2835]

You mean that movie with that one guy that stuck and cut his arm? What was the name of that movie? 5 hours??

[@IsraelLlerena]

@@orynx2835 Im not sure if that’s the movie but it might be. I just looked it up and the movie was called Sanctum from 2011

[@barthotymous]

I'm gonna be honest I think some people just wanna see if they can survive (or if they won't). Not necessarily a "death wish" but moreso just not much of a care if they do Like normal spelunking is fine, but cave crawling is just a death sentence if you do it for long enough

[@MiloNgoReborn]

Not sure if anyone said this already, but the “jump off a bridge with a rubber thingy” is called bungee jumping (you use a bungee cord).

[@adzen1]

I used to watch your videos like 2yrs ago, saw you today and had to come back to watch...

[@herrqwertz3567]

Lewis you are right!

[@PiggoRBLX]

5:01 I was watching this video half-asleep typing to someone on my second monitor and jumped out of my skin here

[@Davavo]

5:02 I had my eyes closed listening to this why you gutta give me a heart attack 😭

[@Jack_Woods]

if I had to guess, I'd say people doing this do it for many different reasons rather than genuinely finding it a small fun pass-time activity, must have to do with growing up amongst people working in different related things, like mining, where sometimes these skills come in handy, and then developing a liking for that satisfaction, of feeling like every tight space is a possibility, like you're always going to make it back out Because you're seeing the times where these people don't get back out easily, but I have to guess most people don't get themselves into situations this dire, they must have their ways of picking and choosing which places are safer to traverse, and most importantly which ones lead to an open area to explore So most of these people have possibly gone years doing this, having their methods, making sure to not test their luck too much, but as it happens with most professionals at something, they can often get too confident, and that's where you see them get into situations they didn't see coming until it was too late, much like the story of Ted The Caver, considered to be possibly the first ever creepypasta.

[@Kazuhira2249]

just watching these videos gives me physical pain lol just the thought of being stuck there sucks

[@transportenthusiast11]

your channel completely left my memory, i'm surprised i got recommended this

[@Spectrum0122]

For me it's always the same scenario before death. "OH, it's a really tight space, I can't move, and it's hard to breathe. Guess I better go deeper!" Like, what?

[@edvinisgaming3509]

to be honest i do feel a thrill for it, something about trying to escape a very risky situation, or escaping a more simulated 'death' if that's one way to put it, feels kinda fun, to try to survive, i think it would feel fun for me, but i wouldn't actually go caving because i have a fear of spiders so i couldn't imagine how i would be stuck and then the spiders...

[@HBRO_04]

I’ve been slacking on watching your content. I’m so glad I’m back

[@ninopino12]

05:00 you woke up half my family thanks

[@Angelploxdd-uw8ed]

Talking about caving i would like to see you talk about and give your opinion about about the Nutty putty tragedy.

[@Kuplpa]

People like the challenge of it and discomfort that is very real

[@Neftosklad]

Yoo theres this tight space underground! How deep idk! Lets get in there

[@LasagnaLoverYummy]

Ur the only redeemable thing about london

[@lildofficial9221]

Love you man

[@alanna2004]

watching people do this, gives me a hard time breathing.

[@chainjail4834]

They love that tight feeling

[@naed_coral]

I also don't understand these videos, and I'm a marine biologist/explorer The other thing I feel is that by the action of someone moving through such spaces, you could actually cause rock or landmass to shift and ergo get crushed NOPE

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

I saw one of these caving videos that told a caving story from the 1930's and it was about a seemingly crazy guy that found a VERY deep cave on his family's property. So he started exploring it a little at a time and then one day decided to explore it going much deeper into it. He didn't tell anyone he was going in there and ended up having the exact thing you mentioned happen to him. A 26 pound rock and a lot of soil and smaller rocks caved in on his mid-section and he was absolutely stuck. After several hours had passed and the soil or rocks hadn't covered up his face, a few of his friends had figured out where he went and started trying to get him out but he was very much stuck. So the started digging and trying to break the large rock that was on him. The parts of it shifted and ended up on his chest and he could breathe less and less as time passed. He had been down there for more than two days when he died. So all the effort was in vain. I can't imagine being trapped like that for more than two days. I would go absolutely crazy.

[@jomenikia]

I paused this video at exactly 5:00 to go get something. Got distracted, opened up yt 30 minutes later, forgot what I was watching but resumed the video anyway, was not expecting what I'd watch a couple seconds later

[@sockm0nkeyssj]

3:40 thats gotta be the closest to hell any human has ever seen

[@Hirotara]

I'm claustrophobic and when I first found videos like this, the first thing popped into my head was "BROOOOO NOOOOOOO"

[@Mj-in5uj]

4:54 this is gold 😂😂

[@simracingchannel7691]

I once unkowingly signed up for a cave exploring activity on a camping in Belgium en these fuckers took me and my little brother down a cave like this. Cave exploring sounded cool. Thought we'd walk through some caves, see some nice things. Turned out cave exploring meant caving like this. Climbing down a hole in the ground and squirming ourself trough some narrow cracks and tunnels with nothing to see but rocks, mud and water. We did some kind of special route because our group was small and doing good. Only 2 other guys signed up, and i think they knew what they signed up for. The special route involved some pretty extreme parts that i will never forget. I was freaking out a little but i kept cool thinking i just need to follow these guys till i get back up. When we finally did i was so happy to see the daylight. I will never go down a hole like that again. One of the scariest things i ever did.

[@reavershank8985]

This shit is probably one of my biggest nightmares. Caves are cool but crawling trough small caves? Hell no

[@maikelf5351]

I'm high af and that scream got me

[@kiiturii]

most of them don't end in an open area or anything worth exploring lol, they just crawl in then crawl out

[@sergeantrubber552]

see now I know he's trolling he loves this series

[@twistedpickle6984]

This and climbing a skyscraper with no equipment or whatever is crazy to me

[@Charlie-fw1kk]

i remember watching your mc series

[@serbiancrusader7813]

The screaming at 5:00 got me spooked and fucked up.

[@MajinEatsAss]

facts. i never understood caving

[@Mouldycabbage3]

Funny seeing Ally Law in one of your videos.

[@ivorreal]

It reminds me of that junji ito story where people go in the holes shaped liek then and cant ever get out

[@moses5016]

I’ve been caving, scuba diving, cliff jumping and plan on going skydiving next summer in Japan. And out of all those things, caving is by far the worst one for me, simply put: fuck that.

[@duttery9068]

Bring back memes of the month

[@toxiflexx04]

The reason caving is so popular is because it's the only way to get diamonds

[@dukenheiser]

4:18 maguire mentality

[@KDotz]

I'm with Lewis on this one

[@jj1794]

Literally everytime i dont go caving this stuff doesnt happen to me (getting stuck etc..)

[@B0br00s]

I love the Altro

[@Splash42Bros]

5:01 sped kid in the back of class during a test

[@thatguyxenin]

4:45 Not to be the um actually guy because I only just looked this up but I think you'd more accurately want the word claustrophilia(or claustromania?) which is the love for enclosed spaces which some of these people may have. Rather than fearing open spaces like agoraphobia describes this word might better describe that love of small spaces. I hope I got that right

[@MMDVAWARENESS]

I'm pretty sure Philia always mean sexual

[@user-et2ro4oh2m]

​@@MMDVAWARENESS Nah it doesn't e.g. russopholia

[@theletterk]

lewis is the goat and sweetcorn definitely belongs on pizza

[@David_Soerensen]

I agree for the most part but can someone please explain 5:02

[@timsreactionvideos7915]

5:02 scared me

[@GeorgeFuller-go2sr]

Im claustrophobic

[@ryeWRLD]

things i dont understand: why lewis keeps dropping bangers

[@mr_takeyourak]

Been here since 97k subscribers

[@Toopyyy]

I'm not allowed to drive 10mph over the speed limit but these people are allowed to squeeze through 12 miles of a cave passages and holes that their fingers shouldn't even be able to fit through

[@RRB0724]

5:01 average Birmingham residents be like

[@Dogflamingo]

Imagine going down there, eating some food, then you can't get out

[@orynx2835]

Sure I want to go to a cave and explore. In fact I have been before but ... this ? no way, how are you able to join this when you basically can't freely move ? What if you get stuck? I think this is far more dangerous than climbing a 80° mountain or something. I even prefer to climb Mount everest

[@range685]

If you prefer to climb Everest you clearly know nothing about either experience. Caving is safe if you aren't an idiot. Mount Everest, however, is a gamble even if you're in perfect shape.

[@Matasuh]

​@@range685Nah, mount Everest isn't that hard

[@rainbow_vader]

Caving is just russian roulette with extra steps

[@awesome2x6]

YOOOOOO ITS LEWISSSSSSS HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN A WHILE MATE!

[@TeddyJayO1]

5:01 woke up thanks mate

[@CustomKaiju]

the reason they do it is because of the risk of death

[@Xuurls]

Continue this series

[@Insideus4wolves]

I’ve been caving, it’s basically just a way of getting that chemical your brain produces when it thinks you’re going to die, it’s an incredible rush 😂

[@Ryanaireee]

They're claustrophiles

[@drob4812]

"I don't think anyone who watches me does this". Wrong. I'm curently watching this video in a very tight cave.

[@poopy_doggo6677]

PolarSaurusRex downfall has to be studied

[@ales141]

Just watching people do this gives me immense anxiety