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Posted: 3/16/2015 10:51:23 PM EDT
What would freak you out faster? Being stuck in a space too small to stand up, or too small to lay down? Low ceiling bothers me more for some reason.
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[#1]
I've had to perform wiring and piping in such places, and have always felt calm knowing I can get back out.
But I dislike arachnids in my confined workspaces. |
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[#3]
Rock climbing an off-width crack, foot slips off the micro edge and I am hanging from my compressed chest with 30' of crack below my dangling feet, 1/2 hour to move 1/2" all the while I can't breathe more than short panting as my chest is being squeezed so hard by my weight pulling me down into the cracks constriction. Good Times! That was a tough time trying not to laugh!
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[#4]
I see pictures of people exploring tunnels in caves that are only big enough to slither through on your belly, constricted on all sides.
I break out in hives just looking at the pictures. Literally fills me with mortal dread. |
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I see pictures of people exploring tunnels in caves that are only big enough to slither through on your belly, constricted on all sides. I break out in hives just looking at the pictures. Literally fills me with mortal dread. View Quote Once did a passage called the gun barrel, half a football field long and about two and a half foot diameter. Iv'e been there, and at least there is room to move and a destination. Being stuck freaks me out more. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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[#7]
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NOPE http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Sgt._Ronald_H._Payne_Tunnel_Rat_Vietnam_War_1967.jpg View Quote Trigger discipline... |
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[#8]
MRIs bug me worse than any cave I've been in .... Don't know what it is.
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[#11]
They don't bother me one bit. Unless of course its something like, I can move and I'm stuck and there is going to be some excavating to get me out.
At work we have to climb in some confined spaces for cleaning. Spaces are tight where if you're laying down on your stomach, you're not going to easliy just flip onto your back. Some of the entry ways are a just big enough to crawl in and out of |
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[#14]
Nah I'm pretty used to it. Wearing a SCBA crawling into a confined space at work, pulling some sorry sap out cause he slipped and fell and went unconscious. Part of the job lol
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[#17]
Man, none of yall should ever even think about working on a ship.
~5'5" bilge diver extraordinaire |
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[#18]
Quoted: SUPER NO http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/050/a/1/tight_sueeze_in_bryant__s_cave_by_caver59-d4q85vg.jpg View Quote I have been in even smaller places in caves. It can be a bit unnerving if you think about the tons of rock and earth entombing you! |
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[#19]
Not being able to stand or not being able to lie down does not bother me. Not being able to move my arms from my side to above my head or back while standing or prone is what gets me.
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SUPER NO http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/050/a/1/tight_sueeze_in_bryant__s_cave_by_caver59-d4q85vg.jpg View Quote I'd vomit and shit myself. Seriously. I can do ANYTHING besides tight spaces around my chest/shoulders. |
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[#21]
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I used to do this.^ I have been in even smaller places in caves. It can be a bit unnerving if you think about the tons of rock and earth entombing you! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
I used to do this.^
I have been in even smaller places in caves. It can be a bit unnerving if you think about the tons of rock and earth entombing you! It wouldn't be so much that. It would be the morons in front and behind me that would bother me. If the person in front of me stopped for some reason I'd probably shit my pants, have a heart attack or both. |
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[#22]
Those caves don't bother me a bit. Shit lock me in a coffin all day. But heights?
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[#23]
Quoted: Trigger discipline... |
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[#24]
Come spend a few days with me doing electrical refits on yachts.
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[#25]
Fuck this thread. My heart starting pounding and my breathing changed just looking at some of those pics I m out of here.....
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This picture makes me want to scream. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120705002439/creepypasta/images/8/8e/Squeeze.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
This picture makes me want to scream. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120705002439/creepypasta/images/8/8e/Squeeze.jpg Then how do you guys feel about this ETA: NOT A FUCKING CHANCE IN HELL I WOULD DO THIS, AND I LOVE TO DIVE!!!! |
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[#33]
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Yah. Respect. What's the wildest thing you've seen? Or any other stories you wouldn't mind sharing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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ConSpace rescue geek here. Yah. Respect. What's the wildest thing you've seen? Or any other stories you wouldn't mind sharing. Every year some sad guy with family will try to be "Santa" and slide down the chimney to bring some joy to their house. Every fucking year. Guess who has to go get them out? That's right. The coronor and a mask with a jackhammer. |
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[#34]
I've done lots of vessel, tank, and boiler inspections. The confined spaces never freaked me out, it was the contorting I had to do to get in the man way. It always stuck with me that if I had to get out in a hurry it would be nearly impossible.
A legit confined space rescue guy? I never knew they existed. Most times I got some dipshit with a radio who would just tell management I went down. |
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[#35]
I remember that guy that got stuck in the Nutty Putty cave in Utah. He was stuck in an almost inverted position, head down and feet sticking straight up. Rescue workers stayed near him and worked to get him out but he died within a day. They closed the cave and he's still there, the cave serves as his final resting place. Creepy.
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[#38]
Fuck every last little bit of that. I don't mind being in narrow spaces, used to do electrical work, but if I'm lying down and I can't move my body, I freak out. Even working on my car every once In a while I'll find myself wedged and have a mini freakout. Those cave crawling shots, especially the spelunking.... nopenopenopenopenope
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[#43]
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Not being able to stand or not being able to lie down does not bother me. Not being able to move my arms from my side to above my head or back while standing or prone is what gets me. View Quote THIS. I can't stand to be in a location where I'm too constrained to move my arms freely. The other thing I'm not fond of is being upside down for extended periods. Being the only one in the shop with arms long enough to reach certain places in the cockpit required me to do a headstand in the seat and then shimmy down to the floorboard to work on wiring behind the rudder pedals. After fifteen minutes or so it was time to get back out to be able to breathe normally for a while and then repeat the process. |
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[#45]
In October of 1989 I was working the Cypress structure collapse in Oakland. We were searching for survivors but found nothing but crushed corpses. Crawling deep into the wreckage, tangled iron and wiring and millions of pounds of concrete. The dead were so badly trapped that the Air Force PJs we were working with were cutting off limbs so the cops could run their prints to identify them. It was a fucking mess but we did our best.
This went on for a long time. One night after a week or so I was crawling into the collapse and found a pickup truck that was crushed and there was a very obviously dead man behind the wheel. The feeling of impending doom was overwhelming. I thought that I was going to die. I would have killed anyone who got in my way, I needed to get the fuck out of there right the fuck now. I scrambled out of the wreckage into a cloudburst. That rain felt so damn good! I never again went too deep into the structure after that. |
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[#47]
Isn't the saying if you make a "gun" of your index finger and thumb (both hands).....point the "barrels" at each other. That's the space your hips can fit through???
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[#49]
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SUPER NO http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/050/a/1/tight_sueeze_in_bryant__s_cave_by_caver59-d4q85vg.jpg View Quote Meh, that's barely a tight squeeze at all! His boots are still upright and he can stick his arms out. I've been in lots of squeezes like that. It only starts to rattle me when it's not tall enough for my helmet. I've been caving for about 11 years now. |
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