Cave exploration requires careful navigation through water sumps, where explorers must assess water depth, temperature, and passage viability while managing equipment and energy levels; the video demonstrates how explorers successfully navigated a previously unexplored cave passage by using proper techniques like the alligator swimming method, monitoring water levels, and making strategic decisions about when to rest and continue pushing forward.
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He Held His Breath And Went Where Nobody Has Seen Before-Part 2Added:
Check it out, guys.
We're back at the massive river cave.
Sitting here by Ozark Hippie Camp Channel.
And we are back to pushing to the virgin passage that we squeeze into last time.
We're going back to the salt.
We'll send you part one's video in the description if you haven't watched it.
You ready for this?
>> Yeah.
>> Woo!
That's very refreshing.
Aha, the deep waters.
Land of the gold.
Wow.
Hey.
Oh, this is a big drop.
This is the one that I called the big drop.
Wow, it's the chandelier room.
I just didn't follow it.
>> I think I went this way.
>> The white crystal rivers.
Echo.
Oh, snap. That's a crazy crystal pedestal.
>> Wow.
>> The crazy white river.
Dude, I don't know if I can climb the mountain.
I should have flopped in the water.
>> Oh, yeah, me too.
Oh, well.
>> I'm burning up.
Yeah, this is right.
We're noticing our footprints from last time.
Is it just me or did the water get up to where we walked?
For what?
>> Maybe in the past.
>> No, cuz the storm hit. And so, look, it looks like it came up and wet the sand.
All right, so if you didn't go back to the other video, we're going about an hour straight back, solid push, no stops.
And the back of the cave is a tiny little sump. Nobody had ever pushed before.
And uh 2 days ago we went in here, pushed it past that, and it opened up big time.
And it looks like it could go for miles.
So, we're going to go back through the sump.
There's only a 15% chance of rain.
Should be good.
And we got thicker wet suits.
We're going to try and go deep.
>> No.
It gets so >> We shouldn't have taken a break right before the water sump.
That's exactly what the mistake we said we weren't going to do.
Yeah.
You're right.
Yes.
Salvation.
Ah.
The white sand recliner.
We made it.
Yes.
Okay, we made it to the mountain room.
To get warm we could climb that mountain.
>> [snorts] >> No, it's just to get warm.
Wow.
Leo.
It's I was just getting warm climbing up and down.
And you all can choose whether you either go first or afterwards. It'll be clear water going first.
This is it.
Let's change batteries first.
Right now? I said afterwards.
Oh, yeah, yeah. We do not want to get cold. No, yeah, afterwards. We're not making that mistake again.
We got to immediately Hell, yeah.
We are going in.
So, what's the best move?
Just straight through.
It's like a shallow ledge for 2 ft and then it drops off to like 2 ft of water afterwards. Pretty cool.
Here we go, guys.
Wow.
You didn't go in?
I was a little stuck. Ah, this rock right here. See this? Oh, yeah, it's a ledge. Yeah, there's one little thing popping out, man.
So, do I go up to the right like this?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I need a light to see something. Oh my gosh, he's going in with no light.
At At one of this. Jeez. This is a gnarly setup I've ever seen.
>> It is a gnarly attempt.
>> Oh, it does look tight.
It would be too tight for me.
Oh my god.
>> Exhale.
There you go.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, I'm going to pass you a swago, too.
It's flying through.
>> This deep and colder.
>> Yeah.
Well, yeah, you want to turn your head that way cuz you can't turn in it.
>> Once you get in That's why we had to >> You were right about getting in on our hot tub party mentally.
>> Yeah.
>> We have to.
>> Oh god.
Don't know if we should put my helmet on.
The water hasn't really >> No, helmet guys.
>> That extreme.
>> All right, I'm in. Turn right?
>> No, more left actually.
Yeah, now that passage.
>> Okay.
>> We're going down that.
>> Feels good though.
I'm not too cold anymore.
>> Yeah, once it floods in, you know.
>> I see it. I see it.
I was afraid of That's it?
I can't see it.
>> That's it. That's where you have to go under. That's why you can't see it.
>> This one right here?
>> Yeah, it's big light over there.
>> I'm trying to I'm trying to understand where it is.
>> But you'd have to fully go under that.
>> Yeah, I can do that.
>> All right. All right.
>> One, two, go.
>> You made it.
I'm going to make sure they're coming.
>> I think you should come here.
>> You got it, man. It's like a chill room in here.
>> Uh I want to make sure he's coming.
It also looks like he's calling me.
>> Okay, yeah.
>> I'm just trying to make sure you're coming, bro.
>> All right, I'm coming. Here we go.
James, you're not going to make it?
Exhale and pull through. It's super chill.
You need us to pull you through?
>> It's just pulling you deeper into it.
Hey, I'll tell you what. I'm going to move the back out of here.
>> You're not going to make it?
>> Probably not.
>> Well, Eric's choking over there.
Yeah.
I don't know.
>> Is he okay?
>> I'm going to go check.
Holy crap.
This is great. Wait, what?
>> Is the water higher today?
>> Holy crap, yeah. That was intense.
All right, so this is a Virgin Cave. We're the first to be back here.
This is it.
Nice resting spot.
Bigger one.
Yeah, right.
They'll never find us back here.
>> I'm only running 9%.
>> Nine?
>> Yeah, I don't have a >> What?
>> Yeah, I lost it there when we were all hanging in there.
>> What?
It stays like this for a a good ways, so you just cut the camera now, honestly.
My hands are ice.
That's why I said if we had a float, we could float on through this.
>> Yeah.
We're swimming, guys.
Slippery?
>> Yeah.
>> Do you hear our footprints?
Did we ever check up there?
Wow, it actually goes way up.
Let's go check this out to get warm.
Oh!
Dude, that hit your swagel. I'm sorry.
What? Oh, a chunk of the ceiling came down.
>> Are you good? Ooh, that chunk.
>> [laughter] >> Wow.
Look at that.
>> Woah.
>> The first person to be here ever.
First people.
>> The floor highs and the actual minutes to turn through.
We can break through here.
>> Oh, wow.
>> But we got to go down and then it's worse.
>> There's like a high lead, a dripping water passage.
>> This room is amazing.
>> Wow.
It drops way down.
High dry passage, eh?
Eh?
>> It goes all the way up.
>> No, I think that's a death climb.
It's just mud.
We'll have to come back for it if we get desperate one day.
>> Like I want to go down.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, I heard it hit the water.
It's like this is the room we would chill in if we got flooded in.
>> Right.
Did you bring any food?
>> Yeah.
It doesn't look like a passage in there, you know?
>> like a net personally.
>> Right there.
>> Oh, then let me get out of here.
I just want to make it There you go.
>> Right in the middle.
>> Stay there.
>> Woah.
I'm going in.
>> You going to try the hole?
>> Yeah, I'm going in the troll hole.
Hoping I don't fall off the troll wall.
>> Yeah, be careful, bro. That was bad.
>> Oh, that's sandstone.
>> It's sandstone.
Yeah, it will fall.
>> Yeah, it's definitely a going passage.
It's big enough for a person, but >> Well, yeah, what's the plan? Through the river or >> Through the river.
>> All right.
>> Careful, the roof is sandstone.
That's where all this glorious sand is coming from.
It's the stone itself.
Back into the blue water.
Okay, this is where we turn around.
>> I think so.
>> This is it, man.
We looked ahead and saw it went off into endlessness.
Alligator time. I'm going full alligator mode.
Yeah, I think Okay, the water got really deep.
Yeah.
Uh-oh.
>> No.
>> You check that way, I'll check this way.
>> Oh, no. What am I going to do?
All right, I'm going to go this direction.
>> All right.
Okay.
Nothing but misery over there.
Oh.
Just saying, right?
You got a triple quantondo knot them.
I know, right? It's glugging against the end.
No, it didn't. Oh, one of those one of those again.
It is one of these again, but this one This one seems like it is.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that goes.
Holy crap.
My ear's underwater.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Wow.
What?
It's huge. It's huge.
It was worth it.
Wow.
Walking past it.
What?
Holy crap.
What? It's the big one.
We made a big discovery.
1% but you made it.
Wow. Wow, it's giant hallways. Not just a room.
It's white. It's sandy.
Wow, a dome.
Like a giant dome that you could scale up.
I'm going to go Wow.
Woah, yeah. Let's go down.
The time No, maybe we should go straight. See what's up.
Oh, I see water down there.
>> That's the way down.
>> Uh-huh, it probably is.
What? Paw prints back here?
What? It's such white sand.
>> Down >> Oh, this feels nice.
Paw prints Little paw prints everywhere.
What?
Yeah, it's going to scamper in up. Woah, it's white up there.
Yeah, it beat us to it.
Little white formation.
So, we got down there. You can go down there.
I just want to check out this dome.
Oh, it's a cool dome in here.
Oh, wow.
Gnarly.
I'm not going to say I see passage up there or anything.
>> But, uh there might be paw prints.
>> There might be passage.
>> That might be where the animals coming in.
>> Yeah, right.
>> Okay.
Oh, there's some There's a way.
>> Is there?
>> No, I'm going to have to go back in the water.
Woah, I'm sinking.
>> Sinking.
>> Cool.
Wow, it's bliss.
It's an island, okay.
It goes.
Quicksand.
Wow.
Oh, wow. That's like 80 ft up.
I know, right?
Wow.
Dry passage.
Wow, the bull's eye rock.
Hey, you could scale up it and maybe check some stuff out, but It's the way back.
It's the way back.
Yeah, I know, right? The bull's eye rock.
And we'll remember that we came by here if we get lost.
Ooh.
Hey.
It's hard.
Yeah.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Another one those dirt blockages.
Looking mighty squeezy under there.
Do you feel any air flow this way?
>> No.
>> I don't either.
I'm going to try though.
I'm just picking a way and going.
I'm going to follow you okay.
My way still goes.
Maybe they Hey, they meet up with each other.
>> [laughter] >> Okay, maybe I took them all the way.
>> Yeah, we're taking mine the way out.
We're hopefully we don't get lost in here.
Oh, it looks bigger over there.
Oh gosh, final dip.
Maybe not final dip.
Keep going like this.
>> We have two more left.
>> Well, oh yeah, I see rubble.
>> Did it open?
>> Yeah.
Woo.
Wow, it's tall.
That's crazy.
>> They really thought that.
>> No.
>> Oh my gosh.
I want to get refreshed.
>> Yeah, I know, right? I think you got it.
>> Yeah?
>> Yeah, why not, right? Or I'll go.
Let us see if there's anything up here.
It's like a perfectly flat wall.
How do they say it goes?
Is it freaking cold? This is wild.
Oh, no. It's getting a little feeling.
>> Yeah, right.
And why is there so much mud on it?
Woah, that gets low.
Hey, no, right?
>> That's really low.
>> That's low.
>> I don't know about that one.
>> [sighs] >> Oh, it will.
It definitely will just open up again.
Super low.
>> Things like this for a while, dude.
I think it's going to be really cold.
>> Yeah, no, right?
Woah, you're standing?
What?
Oh, no. I don't have my bag anymore.
What? You didn't see it float away? Oh, it just It just gets disconnected.
We need a motorboat.
Woah, it's a room.
You're dead.
>> Floor high.
>> Floor high is tapped out.
Well, how about it?
>> How about it?
I I kind of want to go up there, but I don't know.
>> Oh, there's an up.
>> You know, but is there >> Is there a Wow.
So perfect.
Well, luckily there's a river to wash it off in.
Aha.
Does it?
Really deep?
>> Um it's blurry. I'm going to wait till I don't muck it up.
>> Oh.
>> Why is the water colder in here?
>> I don't know, man.
>> It definitely looks colder.
>> Yeah, I know, right?
>> What's over there?
>> Oh, it goes into the lake.
>> Let's go into the lake.
>> Oh, I see a hole.
You see that?
It's another squeeze.
Oh, no.
>> Yeah.
I know, I left it over there. It was muddy.
It's another squeeze.
Holy crap, there is a ledge.
All the water's coming from under the ledge, isn't it?
>> That's not a human-sized hole.
>> Oh, no. Well, I'm glad to hear that cuz I was >> Squeezing baby through.
>> Squeezing out from that. Oh, you're removing the mud?
>> No, it's a human-sized hole.
>> Well, I was supposed to be in here.
>> What is it?
>> I hope you're not opening more water.
>> Mhm.
>> Dude, I am so cold in here.
>> Okay.
See how far that is.
>> I see if there's anything over there.
>> Holy freaking abyss, dude.
>> That's not a human hole.
>> Oh, there is a passage that goes there.
>> No way.
Oh, no. I see a wall.
Can we get out of this wall? Yeah, let's head back.
I think I may have seen another way.
Yeah, let's go that way.
Oh, you did go through here.
Yeah, yeah.
>> Some muddy passage.
>> Oh, the muddy passage.
>> Yeah, yeah.
Let's go that way.
Is that our straight direction, right?
>> I think so.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. going to go check this. It looks like a potential passage.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think we're going to wait for Eric.
>> Eric.
>> Oh, no.
You want me to keep pushing?
>> I know.
>> Oh.
>> I know.
>> The rock just collapsed.
>> What?
>> The rock just collapsed.
>> I know.
>> Holy crap.
Dude, this keeps going.
Okay.
There's a room.
A small room.
>> If it's not my battery, it's going to be my energy level.
>> I know, right? I'm going to give it a little more and then I'm out.
>> [snorts] >> We can give it another 10 minutes.
>> Yeah.
Keep going.
That does look like what's happening here.
Yeah.
>> It's so tough to breathe.
>> Keep sending it and I'll send it.
There's another side passage right there.
>> I know. I know.
>> Mhm.
>> It's not super open on the other side, though.
>> What is that noise? I'm hearing it.
>> Oh my god.
>> What was your noise? Like a big banging?
>> No.
>> Oh.
>> That's the water hitting off the walls.
>> No, I know that sound.
>> I don't I don't need to believe that that's the sound that you heard.
>> Oh. Oh yeah, that's the sound I heard.
Oh.
Now I got all Yeah, no more breaks. I'm sending it.
Woo.
Woah, the big rapid you played.
>> Yeah.
>> How the hell do you know?
Woo.
Huh? I don't know.
>> I said >> Okay, there we go.
Oh, I hit my head on this thing.
I'm through.
Woo.
All right, one more person.
We're back in the big room.
Hey.
Go check out Explore Highest Channel.
That was awesome. Maybe we'll be back to push that side passage more.
>> That'd be kind of cool.
>> Right?
>> Yeah. Stay tuned, guys.
>> Yeah, huge shout out to uh Ozark Hippie Camp.
>> Yeah, the great uh What's his name?
Himpy.
>> Himpy, yeah. He's one who uh sent us here.
Go follow him.
Peace.
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