AAT at it again, lighting up a huuuuge cave with an X75.
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Quite a video. I would not have the nerve to go in that far, with the X75 or without.
Im sure its not the biggest cave in the universe but it does look pretty big.
Have you been to all the caves in the universe tho?
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Once i took a pretty intense trip into a couple. Love the X75 tho. Ive got the XHP70.3 myself.
Didn’t catch the name of the cave. But he did say 8 miles long.
Small potatoes. Didn’t watch the whole thing.
Mammoth is 285 miles. Longest known in the world currently.
Lechuguilla in NM. is at 120 miles and is the deepest in the US at 1604ft.
Carlsbad (also NM) has a 14 acre room.
These guys are not cavers. Calling stalagmites rocks.
All the Best,
Jeff
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I like “cave bacon”…
For a great read - “The Longest Cave”
OK… OK… but I liked the video. Hyperbole, maybe but interesting nonetheless!
They said they were in for 10 hours. I wonder how many times they had to charge the X75 ?? Or any/all of their lights??
I think they bring spare cells, at least for the onesies.
Coupla videos ago, he got stuck in a tight squeeze and there was a black section of video after his light went out, and he had to make his way out with an AAA light.
Ah, here we go…
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That kind of stuff freaks me out a bit. I would worry about getting out. I wouldn’t say it rises to the point of a phobia, but I am not fond of close spaces… Just seems like it is easier to pull along the ground than to try to back out…
But, thanks for the link!
I like caves, but I would never go that deep into a cave, much less squeeze through some of the passages these guys did.
Just a little earth tremor (no need for a even a small quake) and you’re entombed behind (if not under) megatons of rock – just not my idea of fun.
And what’s that with the guy who went in with just an (apparently not very reliable) light plus an AAA?!
I don’t go anywhere without at least two decent lights plus spare batteries for both.
Both cases look to me just like people going through a lot of trouble to earn a Darwin Award… 
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Yeah, there is no good way to die but being stuck in a cave with no water or food with a bunch of smelly dudes is probably as bad as dying in a submarine (with a bunch of smelly dudes.)
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There was this one channel where they pretty much advertise “claustrophobia alert” because they squeeze through these tight passages where they can barely fit even though they’re near anorexic already, scrape their chins and heads on the surfaces, wear out to shreds the clothes they’re wearing even though they bring sheets of plastic to slide/glide along, etc.
But they’re nasty, too. I left a question (forgot what it was) in a comment and got a terse (non-)answer that had “what are you, stupid?” vibes to it.
Guess they feel they’re “elite” and that anyone who doesn’t cheer them on and/or worship at their feet for squeezing through those places, is somehow “beneath” them. And that vibe ran through other replies to comments, too.
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I think it is about defying one’s own fear. Like Russian roulette. Adrenalin junkies. Baseless base jumpers.
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This also explains the guy who went into such a cave with only a not-do-great-to-begin-with light plus an AAA toy 
Seriously, isn’t the rule for cavers to carry at least 3 reliable plus spare batteries?
At least in a submarine it’s usually quick (hull implosion due to depth or explosive charges)…
Some people can only feel “up” when they can pretend others are “beneath” them. Typical narcissist neurosis…
Except for cases like those Russian submariners who were left for like a week or two to slowly suffocate in pitch blackness.
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Yeah, the Kursk disaster. But that was unusual, only happened because the sub was in a relatively shallow area and so the hull was able to resist the pressure at the bottom.
I’ve just reread the story of the disaster, such a shame – a ton of things were wrong to begin with, even the emergency buoy was disabled (because in a previous mission it went up unduly and having it happening again would mean it failed the exercise). Also the final mishap that took the lives of the crew that managed to survive the initial explosion, probably happened because they were totally in the dark – come on, no emergency lights with their own autonomous batteries?! not even an emergency flashlight somewhere!?
What a shame…