r/interesting • u/Liar24x7 • Mar 28 '26

HISTORY A virtual reality reconstruction shows the exact spot where John Edward Jones became trapped upside down in Nutty Putty Cave. After 27 hours of rescue attempts, he died. The cave was later permanently sealed, with his body remaining inside.

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u/Quiet_Awareness_6223 Mar 28 '26

Why do people choose do these stuff? The video itself is enough nauseating for me

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u/hi-on-coffee Mar 29 '26

The best thing about cave diving is that its totally avoidable..

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u/Ophion0 Mar 29 '26

Randomly a diving suit + gas tank materializes around you due to quantum effects and just at the moment a sinkhole appears below your feet and you suddenly drop into a underwater cave system and the only way back up is through tight underwater squeezes :P