The story of the Gollum Cave Tragedy, the story of a group of friends trapped in a cave, and the tragic loss of five of their friends in the resulting cave tragedy. This episode is brought to you by Gimlet Media and produced by Riley Bray. The theme song is Come Alone by The Weakerthans, courtesy of Lotuspool Records. Our ad music is by Build Buildings, and our theme music is from Fugue. Additional music in the episode was written and performed by Ian Dorsch. We are working on transcribing this episode of the podcast and putting it on SoundCloud. Thank you so much for all the support we ve gotten so far, and we ll see you next week with Part 2 of The Cave of Death, coming soon. Stay tuned for that! Credits: Music by Jeff Kaale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, and finally, finally, we'll see you in court next week. Thanks for listening and supporting the podcast! Epilog Logo by Courtney DeKorte and Rachel Wardell. Artwork by Dee McDonnell. Music and production by Ian McKinnon. Cover art by Jeff McElton. "Thank you, Rachel McElroy Thanks again for coming to the podcast for the podcast for the cover art by Kevin McLeod and our thanks to my new album "The Cave" by Ian McLeod. Logo design by Mark Phillips Please rate and review the podcast "Cave of Death" by by , "The Gullum Cave Girl" by Bobby Lord is out on Soundtrack is out now on Soundcloud, and is out in the workspace on amazon in . , and & is available on VaynerSpeak "Gollum" is on , and on Podchaser, at .
00:00:00.000I'll try to make a video anything to get out.
00:00:10.000you I think dying trapped in a cave, especially under war in a cave, is probably one of the worst ways to die.
00:00:16.000Okay, so if you were trapped in a cave under war, and you were about to die, and all you had to do to save your own life was to give up your Nintendo, would you do it?
00:00:22.000Of course I would. I don't like Nintendo.
00:01:03.000See, like most discussions, the logical conclusion after a little bit of analysis is that you're a fucking faggot, you're shit at Smash Bros, always fucking has been, always fucking will be, any excuse to give your fucking Nintendo away.
00:01:49.000This cave system was not much of a touring cave.
00:01:52.000There were very few areas where a person could fully stand.
00:01:55.000It was mostly blue and crawls or squeezing through wet spaces filled with rocks and mud.
00:02:00.000That's why after a few hours, four of the group members, two men and two women, turned back his plan.
00:02:06.000Dave Adamson's fiance was one of these casual capers.
00:02:14.000At this point in the day, the men were starting to crawl through the far marathon passage.
00:02:19.000This claustrophobic tunnel is the length of three football fields, over 900 feet of narrow rock with a light stream of water along the bottom.
00:02:27.000Far marathon passage must be maneuvered in a single direction because it's only 18 inches by 12 inches, barely enough room for an average-sized person to pull themselves along.
00:02:37.000Imagine calling in space not much bigger than your computer's Shoulders hope was to reach this next section of the caving system to clear out passages for further mapping.
00:02:48.000Around this time, Morag had come back to the entrance to see if her men were done yet, but she didn't see any signs that the cavers were coming out.
00:02:56.000Unfortunately, they had no idea just how much water was coming their way.
00:03:02.000Morag had returned to the cave entrance a final time at nine o'clock.
00:03:06.000She was utterly horrified to see a lake of water collected around the entrance to the cave system.
00:03:11.000It was fully submerged and completely inaccessible.
00:03:15.000Her fear and desperation fueled a frantic three-mile...
00:03:17.000Did they not just check the weather for the day that they're going to go caving?
00:03:20.000Once you go underneath, if something changes, something happens, changes.
00:03:22.000Though the water level had risen, they had no choice but to get back to a higher chamber as quickly as possible.
00:03:28.000This extreme distance in such a confining chamber was likely panic-inducing with such a heavy stream of water coming at them.
00:03:34.000In 1970, friends of the cabers entered a closed system to move their bodies to an upper chamber.
00:04:39.000This is the fatal breakdown of the Gollum Cave tragedy.
00:04:43.000On Wednesday, August 17th, a group of five friends went out for a tunnel before, so she had reassured the others that they would be able to hold their breath and swim the 15 feet to the other cave inside.
00:04:54.000Despite becoming hypothermic and passing out during his experience, she was still excited to show her friends this secret place.
00:09:32.000I'm very impressed. The trumpeteering was really top notch, but I genuinely didn't get to bed until four, and the trumpet went off at five.
00:09:39.000And I thought, oh, so you're a little tired, sleepyhead, baby, baby.