Cave Diver Leaves Friend to Survive | Aerolito Cave

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Tatiana: Donald Cerrone and his friend
were cave diving in Cozumel, Mexico.

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And they experienced something straight
out of every cave, divers nightmares.

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Lost in the abyss and left
by a friend after ignoring

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the warnings of a loved one.

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But this story doesn't appear
to be at all, what it seems.

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I'm Tatiana and this is occurrence.

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So Donald and Joe, which is a fake name,
I've given the real name of the other

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diver wasn't revealed, but they're in
Mexico doing a multi-day diving trip.

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The first three days of the trip,
they explored shipwrecks and coral

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reefs with a few other friends.

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Things were going great.

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And it was a fun time, but Donald
and Joe planned a separate dive, it

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was a more serious expedition, but it
would only be between the two of them.

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In Caleta in the old south Harbor
of Cozumel, there was a pond.

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On the surface, it looks
like your average pond.

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It was easy to access it wasn't
blocked off and there were no

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signs indicating restrictions
or regulations for cave divers.

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But to those who were in the
know, they knew there was more

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to that pond then meets the eye.

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It was a natural sinkhole that formed
when limestone in the ground collapsed

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and exposed the groundwater underneath.

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In fact, the cave they
wanted to explore was called.

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Aerolito cave.

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So on August 17th, 2018,
a few days into the trip.

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Donald gave his hugs and
kisses to his wife and new baby

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before he left for the cave.

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Dive with Joe.

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But his wife had a bad feeling
that morning and she told him

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she didn't feel comfortable
with him diving alone with Joe.

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You see Donald was newer to cave
diving and Joe was his mentor.

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But over the years show had been
aging and while he was mentally

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sharp and still a quick thinker,
his body just couldn't keep up.

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Joe's motor skills were in decline.

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And while Donald's wife didn't mind
them diving together with others

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around she wasn't comfortable with
them cave diving together, alone.

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But Donald mostly brushes her off.

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He told her it's fine.

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I always come home.

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I'll bring an extra cylinder of air if
you're really that nervous about it.

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So now he had three cylinders
of air instead of two.

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And normally in cave diving you dive
in thirds, meaning you use a third

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of your air going into the cave.

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A third coming out and you
have a third in reserve in case

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something unforeseen happens.

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So Donald and Joe go to Aerolito
cave, and they enter the

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unsuspecting pond from the surface.

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There are about 30 to 40 minutes
into the dive and they reach a

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point where they need to transition
from one line to another.

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And there are different kinds of lines
in cave diving it's incredibly dark.

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And while you have your light on you
to see, and a few backup lights, if

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you follow the rules, It's a cave
underwater and your light doesn't

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do a whole lot as far as helping
you see the entirety of the cave.

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You're in.

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Especially, depending on the size of the
cave and what type of light you're using.

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So without certain lines,
divers would get lost and not

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be able to find their way out.

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There are main lines and they're
permanently installed in the cave system.

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So divers don't need to
re-install these extensive lines.

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Every time they enter
an already mapped cave.

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Sometimes they're right at
the cave entrance or exit.

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And sometimes they're further down
to prevent recreational divers

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or people without the proper
training from entering the cave.

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And the main lines, aren't all connected.

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So divers have to bring reels with them
to connect from one main line to the next.

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And those are called jump lines.

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The jump lines are removed by
divers as they leave the cave.

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So the line system doesn't
become congested and complicated.

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So the pair are switching lines and
Joe hangs his light around his neck.

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So his hands are free and went
to tie off his buoyancy device.

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But it shut off and went
up to the cave ceiling.

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That device is something that
fills with air to increase or

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decrease your buoyancy in the water.

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But when that happened, Joe kicked his
feet since he got kind of spun around and

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this caused the line to wrap around him.

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Donald saw what was happening
and swim over to help.

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But Joe started panicking.

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Joe's frantic motions caused silt and
sediment to be disturbed enough to start

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coming off the surrounding walls and fill
the area until there was zero visibility.

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If you've ever driven through fog so
thick, you can't even see the hood

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of your car in front of you and your
headlights are literally useless.

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That's kind of what this is like
stilted out caves and panic divers are

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very dangerous alone, but with both
of those things happening at the same

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time, Donald safety was now at risk.

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So Donald backed up a bit, just to get
clear of the silt, to see, and to get

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away from Joe flailing on the line.

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So he wouldn't get caught himself.

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But as he sat there trying to
figure out what to do, he was torn.

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According to Donald, it's kind of
an, every man for himself situation.

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If your partner is panicking and
poses a threat to you, there's

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no reason for two people to die.

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If one can still make it out
and you should leave your

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partner and save yourself.

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So he looks from a stilted cloud.

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Joe was trapped in to the cave
exit and is at war with himself.

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Should he leave Joe and save himself.

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I mean, the exit is right there and he
would be guaranteed to make it out alive.

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Or should he risk his
life to help his mentor?

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The same mentor that Donald
knew would die without his help.

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But when he looks back towards
the cloud of silt, he couldn't

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see Joe's light anymore.

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And the only thing he could think
of was how we hope Joe didn't

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drop his mouthpiece to, and wasn't
drowning just feet away from him.

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But Donald decided to break
one of his unspoken rules and

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went into the silt to save Joe.

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Immediately after going back into the
silt, he lost all sense of direction.

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He didn't know where anything was
and started panicking himself.

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His breathing sped up and he started
looking around rapidly because he had

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never been more scared in his entire life.

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And then his had smacked the ceiling
of the cave and that surprising and

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painful sensation was the shock.

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He needed to bring him back to a census.

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It gave him a quick second to remind
himself to slow his breathing down

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before he blew through his air supply.

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He checked his dive watch
to see the depth and time.

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And then that you pressure gauges
on a cylinders and knew he had a

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third completely full one, too.

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He tried to feel around and find
Joe, but he was nowhere to be found.

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At this point, he calmed down
enough to try and problem solve

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and figure out where he was.

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He started moving his hands along to the
cave wall to figure out where he was,

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but the channel they were in was one,
they were on their way to explore.

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So it was completely unfamiliar to him.

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Then he checked his compass because he
remembered when he entered the cave.

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From the first jump, it
was about 126 degrees.

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But this is a cave and all the tunnels
and turns meant that Donald could

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technically be facing the right direction.

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But if he wasn't in the right section
of the cave, it wouldn't matter.

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But he felt he had no other choice.

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So he tried swimming in the direction.

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His compass indicated.

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And he hit a wall.

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So he tried to go around
it, but he couldn't.

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And this sent him right
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He went back to kicking and violently
swimming in a random direction before

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accidentally running into the main line.

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Donald grabbed it for dear life
and tried to calm down again.

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But he realized he was on the
wrong side of the silted area.

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Deeper into the cave was silt free
and clear, but the way out of the

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cave, the direction he needed to go
was still totally stilted out with

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the exit being like 3000 feet away.

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He sat there and he started thinking
about the maps of the cave he looked at

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before, starting the dive that morning and
remembered a split in the cave up ahead.

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One side went deeper into the
cave, but the other side would

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leave Donald to the exit.

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So he reentered the silt and started to
feel around until he felt a hole that felt

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familiar to him before swimming into it.

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And almost immediately he felt a current.

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When they entered the cave, he noticed
a small current, but the one he was

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feeling now was completely different.

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Meaning he was going
in the wrong direction.

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Panic set in once again, and
he frantically swim back to

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try to get on the main line.

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The entire time, the
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I was when he said goodbye to
his wife and baby that morning.

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And he told them he would be coming home.

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But he was breathing so heavily.

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He started worrying about
running out of air again.

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And he checked his watch to see
he had about an hour of air left.

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Donald's biggest fear was drowning
and he knew on his normal air

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system, once he ran out, that was it.

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So he decided to fill up his
buoyancy device and breathed

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into it to fill it up completely.

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He was going to breathe the
air in his buoyancy device.

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Once his normal air supply ran out.

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And he figured since it would only be
carbon dioxide, he'd be breathing in.

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He would pass out and wouldn't
be awake when he drowned.

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As he floated on the ceiling of the
cave planning to give up, he thought

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about grabbing his grease in notepad
and writing a note to his family saying,

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sorry, and how he knew he messed up.

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But before he wrote that
note, he remembered something.

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He was Donald Serone.

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If the name sounds familiar
it's because he's a UFC fighter.

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He'd been fighting his entire life.

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Growing up.

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He was considered a trouble child.

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He was born in Denver, Colorado in 1983.

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And as a teenager, he got into
street fights, which frequently

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ended with him spending the night
in jail at 16, his parents kicked

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him out because of his behavior.

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So he went to live with his grandma who
had no problem bailing him out of jail.

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At 20, he started kickboxing
and then got into my tie.

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And eventually started a
career in mixed martial arts.

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From there.

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He eventually made his way to becoming a
popular UFC fighter known as the cowboy.

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So the cowboy who had literally
been fighting his whole entire

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life was not going to just give up
and die with an hour of air left.

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And right about, at this
point he remembered something.

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He remembered seeing a crack
that ran across the cave ceiling.

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So he's hyperventilating and crawling
on the ceiling until he finds the crack.

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He refuses to let go.

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This is the way to land.

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The crack started to widen
the further he crawled.

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And then finally, often
the distance he saw a glow.

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He started making his way to the light.

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Still panicking and still breathing
heavily when his tank got stuck.

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He started kicking and thrashing,
trying to get through the opening.

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He's right there.

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Freedom is just on the
other side of this opening.

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His tank got stuck in.

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When finally he got through.

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He immediately goes to the surface.

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And he looks over and
sees Joe sitting there.

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Just cool as a cucumber.

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Joe got out because he simply grabbed the
main line and followed it out of the cave.

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But they both sat there a
minute and Joe said, so we're

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not diving together anymore.

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Are we.

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And Donald went?

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Nope, that was it.

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Before he grabbed his phone and texted his
wife saying he had a bit of a scare today.

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But he was coming home.

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Now I did promise a twist.

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And if you're not a diver, that sounded
like a completely plausible story.

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But if you happen to cave, dive
or familiar with what happens,

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wind cave, diving, quite a few red
flags went off that entire time.

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So when I heard this story, I immediately
caught a few things that seemed off.

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So of course I checked to see
if dive talk, reacted to this.

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And of course they did.

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Dive talk is a YouTube channel with
two divers that show their dives

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and tell their stories of diving.

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And they also react to other
people's dye, footage and stories.

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And they pointed out pretty
much everything that went

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through my mind with this story.

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And by the end, I think you'll be able
to piece together , a lot of what's often

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the story and maybe learn a lesson or two.

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So there are a few main fundamentals
when cave diving that are the

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forefront of every diver's mind.

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And I'll just briefly touch on them.

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The first one is training.

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You need to have the proper
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every cave you're going to go into.

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Full-stop there's no ifs, ands or buts.

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The second is to never
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You should always be able to see it.

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And grab it and it should go all the
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surface, depending on the cave location.

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The third is you should always
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from the deepest point of the cave
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And this includes decompression stops,
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of air supply and hitting certain depths.

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Next is making sure you're actually
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you're trying to reach inside the cave.

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And lastly, make sure
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You're in a cave.

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It stark you only take one light
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Then you're blind.

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I always have backup lights
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That being said, I'm sure you
just thought about quite a few

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things that Donald did wrong.

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But I will give him
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He ended up doing that.

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Right.

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But that's not all on the fixed
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There are directional arrows on the line.

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They point to the closest exit and they're
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So I'm not sure what happened with
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experienced enough to be in the cave
or what exactly happened there, but he

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should have been able to just get out
like Joe did instead of going deeper

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in the cave and wandering aimlessly.

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Just stay on the line.

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And lastly, Donald said that there's
a role in cave diving where you save

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yourself and abandon your buddy.

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If you get into trouble.

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That's not a thing.

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There's literally training
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It's called loss buddy procedure.

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You shouldn't risk your life or
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where it's detrimental to yourself.

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But you shouldn't just leave them
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say, it's every man for themselves.

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There are procedures to follow if
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so they can help themselves or
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for rescue teams to find them.

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Do not ever give up if you're
cave diving or anything else.

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If you have time to sit there and
plan your demise, you have time

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to work the problem and try your
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And cave diving training.

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They drill that into you.

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Keep fighting.

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Don't give up.

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It's a universal life lesson.

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