Caving Stories: Cave Diving is a true-story podcast about cave diving accidents and rescues in flooded caves: sumps, siphons, sinkholes and blue holes, the divers who went into them, and the people who went in after them. Each episode tells one real cave diving accident or rescue from start to finish, with the place and the date on the record and every source linked in the notes.Season one: the Blue Hole of Santa Rosa, New Mexico (1976 and 2016); Siphon Four of the Roza Canal, Washington (1997); The Shaft, near Mount Gambier, South Australia (1973); Zacatón, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Sheck Exley&#39;s last dive (1994); Plura, Norway (2014); and Jacob&#39;s Well, Texas (1984).Short, documentary episodes: a cold open, then the story in chapters, then what the record says. No speculation about what nobody saw. Depths and distances are in feet and miles.For divers, cavers and anyone who likes true survival and rescue stories. From the makers of Caving Stories.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories

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Santa Rosa, New Mexico. In March 1976 two student divers left an open-water class at the Blue Hole and swam into the cave at the bottom of it. The search for them took six weeks and nearly killed a police diver, and the city sealed the cave with a steel grate. Forty years later a survey team opened it, mapped it to 194 feet, and lost one of its own. Told from the published record.Chapters0:00 The third chamber0:42 A blue eye in the desert1:56 March 10, 19762:48 The search4:18 The grate4:58 Opening it5:51 March 26, 20166:51 What the survey found7:40 Five rules8:58 What the record saysSourcesWikipedia: Blue Hole (New Mexico): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hole_(New_Mexico)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hole_(New_Mexico)</a>Route 66 News, &#34;The little-known tragedy of the Blue Hole&#34; (21 September 2010): <a href="https://www.route66news.com/2010/09/21/the-little-known-tragedy-of-the-blue-hole/" rel="nofollow">https://www.route66news.com/2010/09/21/the-little-known-tragedy-of-the-blue-hole/</a>ADM Exploration Foundation: Santa Rosa Blue Hole expedition: <a href="http://www.admfoundation.org/projects/santarosa/santarosaexpedition.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.admfoundation.org/projects/santarosa/santarosaexpedition.html</a>NBC News, &#34;Divers hope to unlock secrets of underwater cave closed for years&#34; (2013): <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/divers-hope-unlock-secrets-underwater-cave-closed-years-8C11155362" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/divers-hope-unlock-secrets-underwater-cave-closed-years-8C11155362</a>Route 66 News, &#34;Exploration diver dies in Santa Rosa&#39;s Blue Hole&#34; (31 March 2016): <a href="https://www.route66news.com/2016/03/31/exploration-diver-dies-santa-rosas-blue-hole/" rel="nofollow">https://www.route66news.com/2016/03/31/exploration-diver-dies-santa-rosas-blue-hole/</a>Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; Sheck Exley, 1979): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving</a>Viking Dives, &#34;The Great Grate Installation Project&#34; (2024): <a href="https://vikingdives.com/the-great-grate-installation-project/" rel="nofollow">https://vikingdives.com/the-great-grate-installation-project/</a>Full transcript:<a href="https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep01.vtt" rel="nofollow">https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep01.vtt</a>Caving Stories on YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories</a>Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.Produced by Caving Stories.

Blue Hole, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, 10 March 1976 and 26 March 2016

Santa Rosa, New Mexico. In March 1976 two student divers left an open-water class at the Blue Hole and swam into the cave at the bottom of it. The search for them took six weeks and nearly killed a police diver, and the city sealed the cave with a steel grate. Forty years later a survey team opened it, mapped it to 194 feet, and lost one of its own. Told from the published record.

Chapters
0:00 The third chamber
0:42 A blue eye in the desert
1:56 March 10, 1976
2:48 The search
4:18 The grate
4:58 Opening it
5:51 March 26, 2016
6:51 What the survey found
7:40 Five rules
8:58 What the record says

Sources
Wikipedia: Blue Hole (New Mexico): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hole_(New_Mexico)
Route 66 News, &#34;The little-known tragedy of the Blue Hole&#34; (21 September 2010): https://www.route66news.com/2010/09/21/the-little-known-tragedy-of-the-blue-hole/
ADM Exploration Foundation: Santa Rosa Blue Hole expedition: http://www.admfoundation.org/projects/santarosa/santarosaexpedition.html
NBC News, &#34;Divers hope to unlock secrets of underwater cave closed for years&#34; (2013): https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/divers-hope-unlock-secrets-underwater-cave-closed-years-8C11155362
Route 66 News, &#34;Exploration diver dies in Santa Rosa&#39;s Blue Hole&#34; (31 March 2016): https://www.route66news.com/2016/03/31/exploration-diver-dies-santa-rosas-blue-hole/
Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; Sheck Exley, 1979): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving
Viking Dives, &#34;The Great Grate Installation Project&#34; (2024): https://vikingdives.com/the-great-grate-installation-project/

Full transcript:
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The Blue Hole of Santa Rosa: Behind the Grate

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Zillah, Washington, 15 March 1997. Two divers hired by an irrigation district go into a flooded, pitch-dark siphon nearly half a mile long to hook cables to dumped cars. They tell the crew to call 911 if they are not back in an hour. Two volunteer rescue divers go in after them. All four die. Told from the Seattle Times and Spokesman-Review reports and the state&#39;s findings.Chapters0:00 Lights in the tunnel0:43 The siphon1:54 The job2:48 One hour3:45 The rescue4:54 Draining it5:42 The arithmetic6:44 The findings7:28 What the record saysSourcesSeattle Times, &#34;3 Divers Killed In Zillah Irrigation-Canal Accident&#34; (16 March 1997): <a href="https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970316/2529137/3-divers-killed-in-zillah-irrigation-canal-accident" rel="nofollow">https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970316/2529137/3-divers-killed-in-zillah-irrigation-canal-accident</a>Seattle Times, &#34;Rescuers Of Divers Ran Out Of Air In Irrigation Tunnel&#34; (17 March 1997): <a href="https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970317/2529219/rescuers-of-divers-ran-out-of-air-in-irrigation-tunnel----three-men-are-dead-lone-survivor-remains-in-a-coma" rel="nofollow">https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970317/2529219/rescuers-of-divers-ran-out-of-air-in-irrigation-tunnel----three-men-are-dead-lone-survivor-remains-in-a-coma</a>Seattle Times, &#34;Canal Diving &#39;Intimidating&#39;: Two Bodies Are Recovered From Siphon&#34; (18 March 1997): <a href="https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970318/2529386/canal-diving-intimidating----two-bodies-are-recovered-from-siphon" rel="nofollow">https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970318/2529386/canal-diving-intimidating----two-bodies-are-recovered-from-siphon</a>Seattle Times, &#34;Mistakes Doomed Divers: Some Experts Blame Deaths On Bent Rules&#34; (24 March 1997): <a href="https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970324/2530383/mistakes-doomed-divers----some-experts-blame-deaths-on-bent-rules" rel="nofollow">https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970324/2530383/mistakes-doomed-divers----some-experts-blame-deaths-on-bent-rules</a>Spokesman-Review, &#34;4 Divers Who Died Misjudged Oxygen&#34; (7 May 1997): <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/may/07/4-divers-who-died-misjudged-oxygen/" rel="nofollow">https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/may/07/4-divers-who-died-misjudged-oxygen/</a>Spokesman-Review, &#34;Lack Of Proper Equipment, Training Cited In Diver Deaths&#34; (27 June 1997): <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jun/27/lack-of-proper-equipment-training-cited-in-diver/" rel="nofollow">https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jun/27/lack-of-proper-equipment-training-cited-in-diver/</a>Wikipedia: Cave diving (overhead environments; the five rules): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving</a>Full transcript:<a href="https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep02.vtt" rel="nofollow">https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep02.vtt</a>Caving Stories on YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories</a>Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.Produced by Caving Stories.

Siphon 4, Roza Canal, Zillah, Yakima County, Washington, 15 March 1997

Zillah, Washington, 15 March 1997. Two divers hired by an irrigation district go into a flooded, pitch-dark siphon nearly half a mile long to hook cables to dumped cars. They tell the crew to call 911 if they are not back in an hour. Two volunteer rescue divers go in after them. All four die. Told from the Seattle Times and Spokesman-Review reports and the state&#39;s findings.

Chapters
0:00 Lights in the tunnel
0:43 The siphon
1:54 The job
2:48 One hour
3:45 The rescue
4:54 Draining it
5:42 The arithmetic
6:44 The findings
7:28 What the record says

Sources
Seattle Times, &#34;3 Divers Killed In Zillah Irrigation-Canal Accident&#34; (16 March 1997): https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970316/2529137/3-divers-killed-in-zillah-irrigation-canal-accident
Seattle Times, &#34;Rescuers Of Divers Ran Out Of Air In Irrigation Tunnel&#34; (17 March 1997): https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970317/2529219/rescuers-of-divers-ran-out-of-air-in-irrigation-tunnel----three-men-are-dead-lone-survivor-remains-in-a-coma
Seattle Times, &#34;Canal Diving &#39;Intimidating&#39;: Two Bodies Are Recovered From Siphon&#34; (18 March 1997): https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970318/2529386/canal-diving-intimidating----two-bodies-are-recovered-from-siphon
Seattle Times, &#34;Mistakes Doomed Divers: Some Experts Blame Deaths On Bent Rules&#34; (24 March 1997): https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970324/2530383/mistakes-doomed-divers----some-experts-blame-deaths-on-bent-rules
Spokesman-Review, &#34;4 Divers Who Died Misjudged Oxygen&#34; (7 May 1997): https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/may/07/4-divers-who-died-misjudged-oxygen/
Spokesman-Review, &#34;Lack Of Proper Equipment, Training Cited In Diver Deaths&#34; (27 June 1997): https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jun/27/lack-of-proper-equipment-training-cited-in-diver/
Wikipedia: Cave diving (overhead environments; the five rules): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving

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Siphon Four: Four Divers in the Roza Canal

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Near Mount Gambier, South Australia, 28 May 1973. Eight divers descend through a three-foot hole in a paddock into one of the largest flooded chambers in the country, with no guide line and no dive plan. At about 180 feet, four of them keep going. It takes more than ten months to bring the last of them back, and the accident changes cave diving in Australia. Told from the published record.Chapters0:00 Torches under the ceiling0:47 A hole in a paddock2:18 The party3:30 The first dive4:06 One hundred and eighty feet5:24 What the survivors saw6:15 Ten months8:28 The coroner9:31 What changed10:48 The Shaft todaySourcesWikipedia: 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident (with its references: W. B. Budd, &#34;Police Diving: The Shaft&#34;, Australian Police, 1991; Lewis &amp; Stace, Summary of Cave Diving Deaths in Australia, CDAA, 1977; P. Horne, South Australian Diving Fatalities 1950-1982): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Mount_Gambier_cave_diving_accident" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Mount_Gambier_cave_diving_accident</a>Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; nitrogen narcosis in caves): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving</a>Wikipedia: Nitrogen narcosis: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis</a>Full transcript:<a href="https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep03.vtt" rel="nofollow">https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep03.vtt</a>Caving Stories on YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories</a>Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.Produced by Caving Stories.

The Shaft, Allendale East, near Mount Gambier, South Australia, 28 May 1973

Near Mount Gambier, South Australia, 28 May 1973. Eight divers descend through a three-foot hole in a paddock into one of the largest flooded chambers in the country, with no guide line and no dive plan. At about 180 feet, four of them keep going. It takes more than ten months to bring the last of them back, and the accident changes cave diving in Australia. Told from the published record.

Chapters
0:00 Torches under the ceiling
0:47 A hole in a paddock
2:18 The party
3:30 The first dive
4:06 One hundred and eighty feet
5:24 What the survivors saw
6:15 Ten months
8:28 The coroner
9:31 What changed
10:48 The Shaft today

Sources
Wikipedia: 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident (with its references: W. B. Budd, &#34;Police Diving: The Shaft&#34;, Australian Police, 1991; Lewis &amp; Stace, Summary of Cave Diving Deaths in Australia, CDAA, 1977; P. Horne, South Australian Diving Fatalities 1950-1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Mount_Gambier_cave_diving_accident
Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; nitrogen narcosis in caves): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving
Wikipedia: Nitrogen narcosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis

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The Shaft: Eight Went Down, Four Came Up

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Tamaulipas, Mexico, 6 April 1994. Sheck Exley, the man who wrote the rules of safe cave diving, and his partner Jim Bowden drop down two separate lines into Zacatón, a flooded sinkhole sounded at more than a thousand feet. Bowden turns at 925 feet and lives. Exley does not come back. Told from the Journal of Diving History, the account reprinted by IUCRR and the published record.Chapters0:00 Two lines in the dark0:49 Peacock Springs2:15 The rules3:35 Deeper5:01 Zacatón6:23 Nine hundred and twenty-five feet7:34 The stop at a hundred feet8:07 The line8:46 What the record saysSourcesBarbara J. Dwyer, &#34;Homage to a Legend: Sheck Exley&#34;, The Journal of Diving History 113 (2022), reprinted by NSS-CDS: <a href="https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sheck_Exley_JODH113.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sheck_Exley_JODH113.pdf</a>IUCRR, &#34;Under Pressure&#34; (account of the Zacatón dive): <a href="https://iucrr.org/accident-analysis/articles/under-pressure/" rel="nofollow">https://iucrr.org/accident-analysis/articles/under-pressure/</a>Wikipedia: Sheck Exley: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheck_Exley" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheck_Exley</a>Wikipedia: Zacatón: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacat%C3%B3n" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacat%C3%B3n</a>Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival, 1979): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving</a>Full transcript:<a href="https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep04.vtt" rel="nofollow">https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep04.vtt</a>Caving Stories on YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories</a>Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.Produced by Caving Stories.

Zacatón, Aldama, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 6 April 1994

Tamaulipas, Mexico, 6 April 1994. Sheck Exley, the man who wrote the rules of safe cave diving, and his partner Jim Bowden drop down two separate lines into Zacatón, a flooded sinkhole sounded at more than a thousand feet. Bowden turns at 925 feet and lives. Exley does not come back. Told from the Journal of Diving History, the account reprinted by IUCRR and the published record.

Chapters
0:00 Two lines in the dark
0:49 Peacock Springs
2:15 The rules
3:35 Deeper
5:01 Zacatón
6:23 Nine hundred and twenty-five feet
7:34 The stop at a hundred feet
8:07 The line
8:46 What the record says

Sources
Barbara J. Dwyer, &#34;Homage to a Legend: Sheck Exley&#34;, The Journal of Diving History 113 (2022), reprinted by NSS-CDS: https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sheck_Exley_JODH113.pdf
IUCRR, &#34;Under Pressure&#34; (account of the Zacatón dive): https://iucrr.org/accident-analysis/articles/under-pressure/
Wikipedia: Sheck Exley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheck_Exley
Wikipedia: Zacatón: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacat%C3%B3n
Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival, 1979): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving

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Zacatón: Sheck Exley's Last Dive

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Plurdalen, Norway, 6 February 2014. Five Finnish divers set out to swim through a flooded cave under a mountain to a dry chamber on the other side. Two die at about 370 feet, one of them stuck in the narrowest part of the passage. The authorities call the recovery too dangerous. Six weeks later the survivors and their friends go back in themselves. Told from VG&#39;s reconstruction, Yle and the Finnish Divers&#39; Federation report.Chapters0:00 One foot apart0:41 A river inside a mountain1:51 Five friends2:57 The narrow passage3:42 Four hundred minutes4:33 The second team5:25 Eleven hours6:15 Too dangerous6:56 The recovery9:22 What the record saysSourcesVG, &#34;The death dive&#34; (reconstruction of the accident and the recovery, English edition, 2014): <a href="https://www.vg.no/spesial/2014/dodsdykket/index_eng.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.vg.no/spesial/2014/dodsdykket/index_eng.php</a>Finnish Divers&#39; Federation (Sukeltajaliitto), Plura recovery operation report (2014): <a href="https://www.sukeltaja.fi/content/fi/40055/10832/51230/Raportti%2520Norjan%2520nosto-operaatiosta%2520-%2520Plura%2520recovery%2520operation%2520report" rel="nofollow">https://www.sukeltaja.fi/content/fi/40055/10832/51230/Raportti%2520Norjan%2520nosto-operaatiosta%2520-%2520Plura%2520recovery%2520operation%2520report</a>Yle News, on the Finnish divers&#39; recovery operation (March 2014): <a href="https://yle.fi/a/3-7162425" rel="nofollow">https://yle.fi/a/3-7162425</a>Full transcript:<a href="https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep05.vtt" rel="nofollow">https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep05.vtt</a>Caving Stories on YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories</a>Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.Produced by Caving Stories.

Plura and Steinugleflåget, Plurdalen, Nordland, Norway, 6 February and 22-26 March 2014

Plurdalen, Norway, 6 February 2014. Five Finnish divers set out to swim through a flooded cave under a mountain to a dry chamber on the other side. Two die at about 370 feet, one of them stuck in the narrowest part of the passage. The authorities call the recovery too dangerous. Six weeks later the survivors and their friends go back in themselves. Told from VG&#39;s reconstruction, Yle and the Finnish Divers&#39; Federation report.

Chapters
0:00 One foot apart
0:41 A river inside a mountain
1:51 Five friends
2:57 The narrow passage
3:42 Four hundred minutes
4:33 The second team
5:25 Eleven hours
6:15 Too dangerous
6:56 The recovery
9:22 What the record says

Sources
VG, &#34;The death dive&#34; (reconstruction of the accident and the recovery, English edition, 2014): https://www.vg.no/spesial/2014/dodsdykket/index_eng.php
Finnish Divers&#39; Federation (Sukeltajaliitto), Plura recovery operation report (2014): https://www.sukeltaja.fi/content/fi/40055/10832/51230/Raportti%2520Norjan%2520nosto-operaatiosta%2520-%2520Plura%2520recovery%2520operation%2520report
Yle News, on the Finnish divers&#39; recovery operation (March 2014): https://yle.fi/a/3-7162425

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https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep05.vtt

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Plura: The Friends Went Back

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Wimberley, Texas, 26 February 1984. Three divers go down into Jacob&#39;s Well, a spring in the bed of a creek where nine divers died between 1964 and 1984, to survey its lower chambers and to bring out a tank left behind in 1979. Two come back up. Told from the diver&#39;s own accident report and a local diver&#39;s account, both reprinted by the NSS Cave Diving Section in 1984.Chapters0:00 Where&#39;s Hayne?0:43 A hole in a creek1:56 Going down3:20 Nineteen seventy-nine4:01 February 26, 19845:02 The fifth chamber6:03 The tape6:59 Decompression7:49 What the record saysSourcesNSS Cave Diving Section, Underwater Speleology vol. 11, no. 2-3 (1984): Danny Self, &#34;Jacob&#39;s Well accident report&#34;, and Johnny Ripps, &#34;Come dive Jacob&#39;s Well with me&#34; (Wimberley View, 15 March 1984), both reprinted: <a href="https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/UWS_Vol_11_002.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/UWS_Vol_11_002.pdf</a>Wikipedia: Jacob&#39;s Well (Texas): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Well_(Texas)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Well_(Texas)</a>Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; silt-out; guide lines): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving</a>Full transcript:<a href="https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep06.vtt" rel="nofollow">https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep06.vtt</a>Caving Stories on YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories</a>Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.Produced by Caving Stories.

Jacob's Well, Wimberley, Hays County, Texas, 26 February 1984

Wimberley, Texas, 26 February 1984. Three divers go down into Jacob&#39;s Well, a spring in the bed of a creek where nine divers died between 1964 and 1984, to survey its lower chambers and to bring out a tank left behind in 1979. Two come back up. Told from the diver&#39;s own accident report and a local diver&#39;s account, both reprinted by the NSS Cave Diving Section in 1984.

Chapters
0:00 Where&#39;s Hayne?
0:43 A hole in a creek
1:56 Going down
3:20 Nineteen seventy-nine
4:01 February 26, 1984
5:02 The fifth chamber
6:03 The tape
6:59 Decompression
7:49 What the record says

Sources
NSS Cave Diving Section, Underwater Speleology vol. 11, no. 2-3 (1984): Danny Self, &#34;Jacob&#39;s Well accident report&#34;, and Johnny Ripps, &#34;Come dive Jacob&#39;s Well with me&#34; (Wimberley View, 15 March 1984), both reprinted: https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/UWS_Vol_11_002.pdf
Wikipedia: Jacob&#39;s Well (Texas): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Well_(Texas)
Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; silt-out; guide lines): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving

Full transcript:
https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep06.vtt

Caving Stories on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@caving_stories

Follow the show in your podcast app to get each new episode as soon as it is out.

Produced by Caving Stories.

Jacob's Well: The Fifth Chamber

True cave diving accidents and rescues, told from the record.

Caving Stories: Cave Diving is a true-story podcast about cave diving accidents and rescues in flooded caves: sumps, siphons, sinkholes and blue holes, the divers who went into them, and the people who went in after them. Each episode tells one real cave diving accident or rescue from start to finish, with the place and the date on the record and every source linked in the notes.

Season one: the Blue Hole of Santa Rosa, New Mexico (1976 and 2016); Siphon Four of the Roza Canal, Washington (1997); The Shaft, near Mount Gambier, South Australia (1973); Zacatón, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Sheck Exley's last dive (1994); Plura, Norway (2014); and Jacob's Well, Texas (1984).

Short, documentary episodes: a cold open, then the story in chapters, then what the record says. No speculation about what nobody saw. Depths and distances are in feet and miles.

For divers, cavers and anyone who likes true survival and rescue stories. From the makers of Caving Stories.

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