Personally I’d say cave diving. I was contemplating between that and free climbing soloing but I honestly rather fall to my death than drown in a claustrophobic, dark, cold, silted up cave.
Anything with an internal combustion engine. Fuck that
What about it, for curiosity’s sake? Is it the fumes? The crazyness of literally going so fast as to barely retain control in tons of metal? Or for things like motorbikes, doing all that without tons of metal for a modicum of protection? lol
I love motorsports, but no matter the power source, the extreme stuff kinda’ takes having a screw or two loose…
It boils down to hating interior combustion engines and being constantly exposed to their nuisances as a pedestrian, cyclist and kayakist.
So… things not actually restricted to internal combustion engines? That sounds… rather petty and foolish.
a lot of people saying cave diving and I agree it is fucking terrifying and you wouldn’t catch me anywhere near it but you are weightless, if you go somewhere bad you can almost always just go back. Dry caving however has this little thing called gravity, you can get stuck in a hole with no way out, I would honestly rather drown.
I was watching something the other day where these guys went through this tiny little hole in the ground. It turned into a massive cavern hundreds of feet deep then they followed the cave as it narrowed, by the end of, he had taken off most of his gear and was straining to pull himself through crevices that he really didn’t fit through. One slight mistake or a shift in some rocks and you’re done. If the guy he was with was a little bit bigger and couldn’t get through the crevice he couldn’t even get in to save his ass. Yeah no thanks.
Underwater spelunking is significantly more dangerous because you have a very limited oxygen supply and it’s very easy to get confused about which way is up. And every time you get near a surface you end up having zero visibility. Everywhere you go your equipment’s getting stuck on things.
To be honest either one of those can fuck right off, we don’t even need a contest.
Cave diving is a good one. But also underwater cave diving, if that’s the right term. Seeing pictures of those those “don’t go beyond this point you will die” signs underwater is pretty dang spooky
I think “cave diving” is generally understood to refer to the underwater variety.
If you’re referring to general cave exploration, that would generally be called “spelunking”
Don’t read about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave then. Quite a way to go out, 28 hours headfirst into a crevice you can’t back out of. RIP
American football, or as I like to call it, Concussion Roulette
I’ve done a little bit of cave diving. There are caves I would dive again, and some I absolutely would not. These experiences rank very highly among the coolest of my life. There’s things to see down there you can’t experience any other way. But yes, it is relatively dangerous and I spent a lot of time down there not thinking about how far away I was from the surface.
