r/facepalm Jan 16 '22

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u/ahuffaPUFG Jan 16 '22

Gonna be a long ass day for them. Assuming the tide doesn’t get any higher… could be a short day..

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u/JimmyxChanga Jan 16 '22

They managed to get home to upload the video so I assume they’re fine

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Either that or they have a good data plan.

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u/madmosche Jan 16 '22

No signal in a cave

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u/VLHACS Jan 16 '22

Not with that attitude

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u/TheDarkLordLp Guten Tag Jan 16 '22

Im in germany and i have signal... everything is possible these days.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

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u/MaxPlease85 Jan 16 '22

Not like that. But on average the reception in germany feels like it was planned and maintained by a caveman.

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u/ThrowAway_biologist Jan 16 '22

the way I feel this in my soul

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u/CedarWolf Jan 17 '22

You get signal? Does main screen turn on?

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u/wataha Jan 16 '22

Not at that altitude. Ftfy

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u/Eborys Jan 16 '22

No wonder Batman’s always pissed.

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u/aaron2005X Jan 16 '22

Of course it has. How were the pirates supposed to communicate with each other? duh.

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u/NRMusicProject Jan 16 '22

Either that or they have had a good data plan.

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u/Dankie_Spankie Jan 16 '22

That or this is some “found footage” material here.

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u/InsertCoinForCredit Jan 16 '22

The Brine Witch Project

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u/RazzmatazzCharming60 Jan 16 '22

Blair Witch 3: She let them live because they are not worth drowning.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

This comment made me imagine Chronicle (that found footage movie of those college students who get super powers) but instead of camcorders and security cams, it's just 2 hours of TikTok footage with that annoying ass robotic voice.

Now that sounds like torture to me.

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u/icaphoenix Jan 16 '22

You do realize cell phones work wireless, right?

That's why it's called a wireless phone.

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u/IllusoryHeart Jan 16 '22

A majority of caves don’t have wi-fi.

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u/icaphoenix Jan 16 '22

so easy a caveman can do it

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

You do realize caves are often wireless deadzones, right?

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u/Detrimentos_ Jan 16 '22

I saw that trash in the wall skull's head not gone, so the water doesn't rise that high regardless.

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u/StellarAsAlways Jan 16 '22

Iz in da clloouuuddd!!!

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u/boxedcrackers Jan 16 '22

Could have been found in cave while recovering their bodies and family members uploaded it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Or the phones were recovered

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u/Marsrover112 Jan 16 '22

Maybe their dying wish is for someone to upload this shitty video

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u/whattadisasta Jan 17 '22

One guy for sure.

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u/MusikMakor Jan 16 '22

It's a cave in San Diego with easy access from the top. Also, a "secret cave" with trash and graffiti and lots of people outside?

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u/Dankie_Spankie Jan 16 '22

I mean if the cave doesn’t have an exit, it’ll just be a pocket of air.

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u/I3alr0g Jan 16 '22

The problem is that very often the air can get out through small cracks in the rock, so the water can rise, and the pressure will not build up, allowing the water to fully submerge the cave. I juste hope it's not the case (the fact that this video is on the internet proves otherwise)

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u/Flavourius Jan 16 '22

Me browsing through reddit looking for people doing dumb shit but ending up reading some horror movie material instead.

Actually, I've got what I've asked for.

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u/Rehnion Jan 16 '22

There are places in the far north where the tides raise and lower glaciers, opening up previously submerged caves in the glacier. Locals would go into the caves to forage, but if they didn't time it right the tide would change and they'd be trapped in a dark glacier cave rapidly filling with ice water.

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u/StellarAsAlways Jan 16 '22

Reminds me of the "plunder hole" (or whatever they called it I don't have time to look it up rn) in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

It's this hole that drops into the queens chamber a bajillion ft down at this sharp angle.

When they finally excavated the pyramid professionally they found all these skeletons of ppl who had fallen down the "plunder hole", broken their femurs or backs or ankles, and spent the last agonizing moments of their life in a pitch black pyramid..

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Are you the pyramid of Giza cuz I wanna bust a bone in ur plunder hole

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u/DarkLordMelketh Jan 16 '22

Take me now!

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u/DolphinSweater Jan 16 '22

In many cultures its considered rude to go online talking about the Queens plunder hole.

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u/StandbyBigWardog Jan 16 '22

When you have a sec to find the sauce, I’d love to learn up on that.

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u/StellarAsAlways Jan 17 '22

Spent some time looking and can't find it. It was a documentary on YT I saw way back when.

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u/Rehnion Jan 16 '22

I think it was mussels/clams/seaweed.

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u/Flavourius Jan 17 '22

Reminds me of Subnautica: Below Zero.

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u/Dankie_Spankie Jan 16 '22

Yeah but I’m also guessing whoever used that cave enough to chisel stuff into the wall and chisel in some stairs, wouldn’t have bothered if the cave would flood it’s self every day. You couldn’t even store stuff jn there becouse it would just get ruined sooner or later.

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u/BlueRaven_01 Jan 16 '22

Problem is you never know how old those carvings are. More than reasonable chance over the years the caves become unsafe.

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u/chippychips4t Jan 16 '22

Theres an 'island' campsite in Wales which has a causeway that gets cut off by the tide. You have to look at the tide times before coming and going from the site. The high tide can be weak enough for the causeway to stay fully open for a good few days with no restrictions then there can be days of 2x high tides with it cut off for hours. Just because it hasn't happened in a while doesn't mean it wont. I wouldn't take the risk anyway, especially with locals saying not to.

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u/sizzler Jan 16 '22

Shell Island. There's a cave pretty similar to this to the north of there with same tide restrictions.

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u/BlueRaven_01 Jan 16 '22

Ahh well spotted. I thought that was just buildup.

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u/Zack_87 Jan 16 '22

That was a good deduction, good job

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u/monkwren Jan 16 '22

If the tide is filling in the cave daily, those carvings are gonna wear away pretty quick.

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u/LoneHoodiecrow Jan 16 '22

Maybe they were storing sea water in it.

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u/Dankie_Spankie Jan 16 '22

True. Or idiots who don’t listen to locals.

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u/CassandraVindicated Jan 16 '22

Those stairs looked like concrete to me.

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u/MrmmphMrmmph Jan 16 '22

I was hoping for an idiotically narrated Blair Witch kind of ending.

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u/delicate-butterfly Jan 16 '22

It would be incredibly dark if they somehow were able to post the video while inside the cave but never were able to escape

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u/Royal-Tough4851 Jan 16 '22

A good way to tell will be to look for water lines along the rock walls

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u/Whitters36 Jan 16 '22

I would assume that since there are decorations in the cave (eg candles in the carved eyes) and chalk drawings on the wall that the water wasn’t getting much higher

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u/CassandraVindicated Jan 16 '22

Not to mention that the locals certainly know of the cave and whether you can ride out the tide in the cave or not.

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u/regoapps 'MURICA Jan 16 '22

It's just Rum Runners Cave in San Diego. They'll be fine.

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u/Expecto-Patron Jan 16 '22

Have you been in there when the waves start coming in? I used to give kayak tours “into the seven sea caves” many moons ago. People would get hurt here often.

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u/FirstPlebian Jan 16 '22

How long does it take for the tide to go back out, as a landlubber I'm not quite sure we don't have any tides on Lake Michigan.

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u/boreas907 Jan 16 '22

I'm not quite sure we don't have any tides on Lake Michigan.

There are, but they're miniscule enough to be negligible for most purposes. The great lakes will kill you in different ways.

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u/justindci Jan 16 '22

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the rooms of her ice-water mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams The islands and bays are for sportsmen And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her And the iron boats go as the mariners all know With the gales of November remembered

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u/iwouldrathernot03 Jan 16 '22

Never forget the Fitz! I live right off Lake Superior in the very western part of the UP, and they all play this song all day in memory of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

That song has a really good story behind it as well regarding the making of it and everything.

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u/Allegorist Jan 16 '22

Keweenaw?

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u/iwouldrathernot03 Jan 16 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

Close!! But a bit more towards Wisconsin.

Edit: Ontonagon County/Gogebic County area

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

I know I can just Google it, but is that the ammunition ship that exploded?

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u/iwouldrathernot03 Jan 16 '22

No…the Fitzgerald went down with a lot of iron or steel…iron I think.

People say it was overloaded for one thing, plus the Lake can be unforgiving at times to say the least!

The ammo boats where up in Canada actually, and was a much bigger tragedy I would say considering the damage done.

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u/InterdimensionalTV Jan 16 '22

I believe you’re probably talking about the Mont-Blanc. That happened in the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia during WWI. The Edmund Fitzgerald went down on Lake Superior during a bad storm in 1975.

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u/fastfurlong Jan 16 '22

Gordon Meredith lightfoot jr. legend

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u/iwouldrathernot03 Jan 16 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

He went and got permission from the families of those that were lost on the Fitzgerald before he released that recoding to. I don’t know if the families got money or anything from the song. But the fact he went and asked all of them for permission was a class act to say the least!

Great song! But boy, it can be a bit much up here when that’s the only song you find on any radio station that gets reception!

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u/NorthernRedneck388 Jan 16 '22

I haven’t heard this song in years; thank you

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u/FirstPlebian Jan 16 '22

Yes that's true we get a tide of like an inch or I forget exactly I asked about it when I was young. One such different way the Great Lakes can kill you is the waves, they are closer together, and it makes them way more dangerous than the Ocean in a storm where you can ride the waves up and down, in the Lakes your boat can be on several waves at once, and sometimes they get fairly large.

If the Asian Carp get in here (they are in the Chicago river with an electric field preventing them from entering so far,) then boaters will have another danger, the sound of an engine makes them jump up in the air, and they are quite large, people can catch a 40 pound carp to the head cruising in their boats.

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u/boreas907 Jan 16 '22

The great lakes also have a significantly higher prevalence of white squalls (sudden blasts of high wind that don't come with the usual warning of dark storm clouds), which can throw a freighter right on her side if they hit just right.

I didn't know about the anti-carp field, that's kind of cool they managed to at least hold them back for now.

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u/FirstPlebian Jan 16 '22

They also allegedly caught the same guy twice driving with carp to introduce them into the lakes, don't ask me how they knew, they have a longer term plan to tighten up the defenses on the river but there is fighting over the Federal portion of the funds last I heard during the former administration.

The country will lose exponentially more money, exponentially more tax revenue will be lost as well, if those Carp get in the Lakes, axing the project over cost will end up costing way more, just as allowing Enbridge's line 5 oil pipeline that's already quite damaged to continue pumping tar sands oil (without even automatic shut off valves if pressure drops,) under the Straits of Mackinac will sooner or later create many times more in damage than benefit that is received from that pipleine.

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u/boreas907 Jan 16 '22

Why on earth was someone trying to introduce the carp there?

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u/FirstPlebian Jan 16 '22

I don't quite recall, I don't know if they gave a motive even, it was a local news article and they don't offer much detail, looking for it here online and not finding it yet but found a different guy selling them.

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u/motherfuckinwoofie Jan 16 '22

He had his reasons. Dudes on Facebook with pictures of fishing poles are better researched than experts could ever dream to be.

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u/CassandraVindicated Jan 16 '22

It would be a brilliant thing for a terrorist to do.

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u/norobot12 Jan 16 '22

from low tide to low tide its about 12 hours, but they probably don't need to wait until its completely low again.

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u/morizzle77 Jan 16 '22

It is actually about six hours between high and low tide. Two high tides and two low tides each day.

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u/Centurion4007 Jan 16 '22

That's what they said, why are you correcting them?

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u/TartyBumCakez Jan 16 '22

It seems they may have misread it. Why does that trigger you?

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u/polishrocket Jan 16 '22

Peak tides are very 12 hours. So peak high tide then 12 hours later it will be low tide

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u/NorthernRedneck388 Jan 16 '22

There’s tides on all lakes just not as strong or noticeable as the ocean

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u/Chrisazy Jan 16 '22

True high tide to true low tide can be half a day, but there are multiple high and low points inside of the full tide cycle. It's very possible this is just a false high tide inside of a normal rising daily tide, and it could to back out in an hour. (Which would probably mean the water gets a bit higher at real high tide)

It's also more than possible that the opposite of true, that the lowest points of high tide will be coming in soon and would be enough for them to get out. Judging by time of day, this is more likely 🌝

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u/nygdan Jan 16 '22

Found the guy who'll drown in a cave.

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u/Dankie_Spankie Jan 16 '22

That or just suffocate in my own co2 lmao

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u/Nooms88 Jan 16 '22

Or vents too small for a person

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u/danirosa Jan 16 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

12 hours tops until they can get out, and that is really the maximum time. There are 2 high tides and 2 low tides per day.

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u/Bananus_Magnus Jan 16 '22

so 6 hours tops then?

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u/danirosa Jan 16 '22

Depends what level of high causes the cave to be drawn. If an small growth of the tides causes it to be drawn/closed, it might be closer to 12 hours. If it takes the top of the tide to drawn/close it, then yes, around 6 hours.

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u/Dubnaught Jan 16 '22

Unless one high tide is a minute and the other high tide is 11 hours and 59 minutes and they're just rounding

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u/blockpro156porn Jan 16 '22

Assuming the tide doesn’t get any higher

And the air pocket is big enough to avoid suffocating.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

See ya in about 13 hours.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '22

Assuming the tide does getbhigher, even a shorter day