On January 4th 2020, Simon Halliday entered Lancaster Hole with two friends with the intent of diving an underwater section solo. But after four hours into the dive, he had not returned….This is his story.
on January 4th 2020 Simon Halliday a cave diver with over two decades of experience would enter Lancaster hole with the intent to dive a sump by himself Simon would be diving with untested equipment that was given to him specifically for this dive Additionally the water flow was stronger than usual but it was nothing Simon couldn’t handle the dive was supposed to take 3 hours but after the fourth with no sign of him a rescue team would eventually be called it only took them 14 minutes to find Simon 196 ft within the cave it would be determined that the gear he was using had failed him an extremely experienced in love diver would drown leaving a hole in the entire community
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diving alone, not tested equipment, in unfamiliar water, in a cave and while not great condition?
well we have old saying "Water belies the diver" no matter how "skilled" you are you can't have ego, they say water have no friends
I guess he didn't put any of that experience to work. I would have had backup with me while testing something new, or tested elsewhere. That's just me with no experience talking though!
He basically let them use him as a lab rat
No. No. No. Did you hear me? N.O.
This extremely experienced and skilled diver went to dive inside a cave, the water flow was stronger than usual, but it was nothing he couldnt handle, the cave was largely uncharted, but hes tackled these problems before, his equipment was untested, but this wasnt a problem for him, his legs were spontaneously missing before the dive, but hes gone through worse, unfortunately though, he somehow ended up drowning and dying in this cave, for some reason. No one saw this coming 🙁
Cave diving in real life is pretty much the equivalent to cave diving in Minecraft hardcore mode.
The equipment was the rebreather he was using. A rebreather recycles the air you breathe into rebreathable air. The article I read said that he most likely ran out of air sooner than anticipated since he had to work harder to fight the current on his way back (working harder means breathing harder). The rebreather would have made it possible to get back. He had to use his bailout supply and most likely ran out of that as well. It looked like the oxygen supply pipe, connecting the rebreather, detached.
It's good that the rescue team didn't have to waste too much time looking for him.
He gambled with his life and lost.
Even if he went with a buddy….theres nothing his buddy could’ve done when his untested equipment failed…buddy system or not, it would’ve been the same results
His fault sorry. Untested equipment. When I use to scuba dive on trips. I used only my equipment ❤❤❤
Arrogant
Sounds like murder
Who’s equipment was he testing and why?
Wow he had a wife too . Rip
so no final moments. . .. .just clickbait
I went cave diving and i died and revived
It was a new type of rebreather. The current is significant as he had a harder swim back against the the flow and used more air. He was using his back up and its tube had pulled away.
January 4th is my birthday and it sad knowing he died on my birthday
The camera man never complains🗿
Why oh why would you dive a difficult dive when testing new equipment. 😢
Rip buddy
Only white ppl man
Suicidal
❤😢
I was born on january 4th
Diving alone in an overhead environment with an unfamiliar Rebreather and no partner is suicide…
Sayin Simone n 3rd person =simone is dead 😂
Dumb
Another experienced diver dies doing newbie mistakes.
I've just come across this on YouTube. It has been put together by someone or AI who didn't know Simon nor had any idea about the dive, the equipment he was using or the circumstances of the dive.
Whoever put this together and put it on YouTube has no regard for Simon or his family. This is cheap sensationalism trying to profit from tragedy.
I don't know what will happen but he was an idiot using untested equipment in uncontrolled conditions– a pool.
HOLE in our hearts 😭✋
Well i know other cave divers that are doing this kind of stuff but in cave diving we already have redudancy principle and solo dive even more… There is no place for mistake in cave diving this is what they tell us while learning and training for it, you learn to deal with incident but incident + incident offently results in fatality
Nahhhhh someone did that $#!+ on purpose
I don't dive. I'm still alive. Seems to work well.
Rest In Heavenly Peace🙏🤍🕊🙏♥️
Simple if you were ment to go cave diving God would have gave you gills for that so yeah 😂
Apparently 2 decades experience isnt enough NOT to use untested equipment.