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Posted: 3/16/2015 10:56:58 PM EDT
[#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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Posted: 3/16/2015 10:59:35 PM EDT
[#2]
NOPE
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:06:48 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:08:53 PM EDT
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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. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:12:03 PM EDT
[#5]
Fuck an MRI.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:12:41 PM EDT
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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. 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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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:13:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryTrigger discipline... |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:14:11 PM EDT
[#8]
MRIs bug me worse than any cave I've been in .... Don't know what it is.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:14:28 PM EDT
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Fuck an MRI. I like those. I pretend I'm a photon torpedo. Or dead Spock in his torpedo casket. I also pretend that if I think dirty enough thoughts, the MRI tech will notice them on his/her view panel. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:14:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:18:56 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:23:41 PM EDT
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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. 
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:26:06 PM EDT
[#13]
This picture makes me want to scream.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:29:13 PM EDT
[#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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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:32:56 PM EDT
[#15]
I'm short of breath just reading this damn thread!
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:38:37 PM EDT
[#16]
SUPER NO
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:39:13 PM EDT
[#17]
Man, none of yall should ever even think about working on a ship.
~5'5" bilge diver extraordinaire |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:41:48 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryI 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! |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:44:25 PM EDT
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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.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:46:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI'd vomit and shit myself. Seriously. I can do ANYTHING besides tight spaces around my chest/shoulders. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:46:08 PM EDT
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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! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:50:00 PM EDT
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Those caves don't bother me a bit. Shit lock me in a coffin all day. But heights?
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:51:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Trigger discipline... Quote HistoryQuoted: Trigger discipline...  |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:51:51 PM EDT
[#24]
Come spend a few days with me doing electrical refits on yachts.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:55:24 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/16/2015 11:56:08 PM EDT
[#26]
Love it!!
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:03:09 AM EDT
[#27]
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This picture makes me want to scream. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120705002439/creepypasta/images/8/8e/Squeeze.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:08:26 AM EDT
[#28]
NOPE.
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:12:26 AM EDT
[#29]
 ConSpace rescue geek here.
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:18:47 AM EDT
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ConSpace rescue geek here.Respect. |
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:30:30 AM EDT
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ConSpace rescue geek here.Confined Space/High Angle rescue class. 
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:31:43 AM EDT
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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. |
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:45:14 AM EDT
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Yah. Respect. What's the wildest thing you've seen? Or any other stories you wouldn't mind sharing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:47:45 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:50:45 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:57:52 AM EDT
[#36]
No. Just no.
I need a Xanax to get in an open sided MRI. |
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Posted: 3/17/2015 12:58:31 AM EDT
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Those caves don't bother me a bit. Shit lock me in a coffin all day. But heights? Lulz. I climbed out onto the wing of a Cessna at 2,000 feet. Great fun. Put me inside an MRI - I turned into a 4-year old girl. |
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:00:50 AM EDT
[#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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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:01:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:03:03 AM EDT
[#40]
Double
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:10:50 AM EDT
[#41]
More nightmare material
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:11:48 AM EDT
[#42]
lie down. seriously.
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:12:09 AM EDT
[#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. 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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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:14:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:14:25 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:17:27 AM EDT
[#46]
lie down. seriously.
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:18:31 AM EDT
[#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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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:20:40 AM EDT
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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??? LOL. |
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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:23:09 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryMeh, 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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Posted: 3/17/2015 1:25:28 AM EDT
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A legit confined space rescue guy?. Recently I've started doing confined space rescues in the oil industry. We do confined space as well as rescues a couple hundred feet up and every where in between. 
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