Donald Cerrone Almost Died Cave-Diving - Joe Rogan Experience

the Ultimate Fighter correct I really couldn't train properly with it yeah that's that's it's gonna be a different animal in the future when people aren't worried as much about permanent damage right I hope I need it because I do a lot of purr most damage today is permanent damage all these wild excursions I go on yes tell me about the the cave doc you wanna learn about cave diving okay so first of all Katie wants to take you she takes you so you learn about all these different rules of the water and of the nitrogen levels that you're taking into your body any cave diving is about five years ago I got my certification in high school and I am a super cave diver man I love it I love it I love I love diving I love everything about diving I love ship diving so no days caves you name it I love it so we're gonna Koza mail a couple weeks ago and one of my old you could almost call him instructor he's taught me a lot of what I know about diving today we douve three or four days and some buddies of mine that we're down and goes Mel just went to some ships went through some kr like it's the coral reef just playing around down with them and then we go and do a serious die always he's getting a little bit older his mind is still very very very sharp but his motor skills don't keep up with him much anymore right I think in in cave diving it it's very necessity that you need so jump in this cave let's rewind to 20 minutes I just kissed my girl and my new baby and she's I don't I don't really want you to go like right I don't he just I don't want to say his name but the guy you're going with I'm worried mm-hmm I said what are you worried about I said I'm coming home I come this is what I come home every time coming home [ __ ] I don't know so I pick up another I order another cylinder of air just fresh so I have to originally I'm going with I order another cylinder air just I told her just for just first just to [ __ ] have it right no one's ever died because they have too much air in cave diving you dive in third so if we got 300 psi I would do a thousand psi n we'll do a thousand psi out and we have a thousand psi in case something [ __ ] happens also in cave diving they have lines you run these in a cave they'll already have a line run a bunch of guys like me Tech divers have gone into caves discovered them they mapped them they named them and they put put lines so you can follow them in case something happens right get in and get out lines and lines and none of the lines really connect except for like the main lines they'll have like three or four main lines down big channels of the cave because caves are huge right from an interest to the main line usually no one has a cave that you have that you have to make it what's called a jump you have to make your own own line because they just don't want someone listening on here today to go find a cave jump in and swim down and be able to get in and out and get lost in there and also we have a Thailand incident we're [ __ ] winning this a people we make a jump tie off you put these direction arrows down they're called cookies right pointing out towards the direction out of the cave that way if something happens you come out when you make a jump you take your light you wrap it around your neck and then you have two hands that work on the line the guy I was with didn't follow some of our rules and in cave diving it's kind of an unwritten fact that you only worry about you I'm coming home right I'm [ __ ] stayin alive so Joe you mean I would save diving something were to happen I'm not going in there to get you no reason for two of us died when only ones in there can die so he tries to tie off his buoyancy [ __ ] he hits the roof of the cave kicks his feet spins an ALICE on this line that's supposed to be tied off which is our [ __ ] lifeline is now wrapped around him so I swim over to him and I tried to help him unhook this line and he goes into panic and panic kills everybody involved everybody involved dies the panic and it's something that I can't express enough so he starts [ __ ] freaking out hitting the roof spinning silt [ __ ] over and I just back out take about four or five big strong steps back when I grab ahold of the mainline now it's sitting out now and I see something still thing out there's all this like sediment that ends on the bottom of these caves and you're in like a little tiny room so if you kick your fin hard it kicks up like dark dust mud sediment silt you can't [ __ ] see anything blocks it out so I back out of the silt I grabbed the line and I see him in there [ __ ] freaking and panicking and spinning and rolling around getting all caught up in this in this line and I'm like [ __ ] I just stay calm this was the exit I know where it is because I know where I am there's the exit he was making a jump to go down another tunnel there he is now what'd I just tell you about the rule that someone comes home right I broke the rule and I went in to get him I said [ __ ] cut down so I let go of the line and I go in to get him because his light [ __ ] is off now and I'm thinking goddamn he spun up in this line his lights off did he drop his regulator is he have air is he okay as soon as I go into the sill [ __ ] lose everything man lose my way where I am my up my down I don't know where I am I'm [ __ ] panicky now I'm panicking [ __ ] freaking out more than any I've ever breathing hard bang hit my head on the [ __ ] ceiling and I just closed my eyes I might god dammit Kelly calm the [ __ ] down calm the [ __ ] down calm the [ __ ] down breathe KMZ my hands in front of me I have two watches on they're glowing right those are my dog let me know my death my time everything where I have to to to dive Computers I check them look calm I check my light I got to turn my light and burn burn my our pressure gauges they're glow-in-the-dark right so I charged with my light and I look at okay err check my second one okay err I know my third ones good because I haven't even opened it yet that's just just in case I breathe down I [ __ ] think and I can't even see my hands in front of me and to this day I close my eyes and it gives me nightmares right now just thinking about it cloudy dark can't see anything all I can see is the home of my light so I turn my light off I'm not trying to think like fight just just just calm calm yourself figure this out where's where's our partner I start feeling around and he's nowhere to be found right nowhere to be found so I'm now calling myself a little bit and I start feeling the walls and I start moving around I'm trying to think where am i but I don't know because we haven't been down this channel yet so I don't visually haven't made an imprint of oh there's that there's this right kind of like a mental imprint in my mind because that's what we're doing as we're coming in landmarks right I don't have any of those I don't have any feel I don't have any touch and I'm moving around moving around I took a compass reading of the direction of the front when we've tied off with the first jump right so I know 126 degrees is the way out but in a cave they twist and they move and they're up and they're big and they're deep and they're low right they there's no like rhyme or reason how the water made the cave so it's kind of a direction I can think of the first thing come to my mind and I start swimming that way now I hit a wall boom and I go down and hit a wall and I'm [ __ ] in panic mode again I [ __ ] swim now I just are swimming and kicking and [ __ ] going crazy I make my way out of the silt and I could turn on back on the main line right grant I find the main line to the cave again which is eight hundred yards to the front to the door I grab ahold of the main line I [ __ ] reel it in okay now the entire behind me deeper into the cave is free it's no problem silt free I can see everything's good where I need to go is [ __ ] silt it out and blown gone completely [ __ ] washout I can't I couldn't see you sitting there but I can see everything behind us can't see you I have the main line but I don't have the jump line to get the [ __ ] out so I started thinking I was looking to cave maps trying like before we went just try get a visualizer of the direction I'm trying to remember landmarks but I can't see anything and I can't feel and I'm like [ __ ] there was a split up here so I start I go back and back into the silt again and I start feeling around and I'm feeling and I find a hole and I'm like is that the right way is that the one I want to go down where does that one go okay maybe reminder I remember I remember that's that's not okay let's go to this next one I go into the next one and now that this is this is where I Scott to be I'm going but all of a sudden I'm swimming against the current and I remember when I came into this cave there was this very slow current which is why the entire caves now washed out from that point on right the current is taking out so I'm like [ __ ] you're swimming against the currents you're going the wrong way I somehow worked that into my [ __ ] panic mind like we're swimming into the car were swimming the car that's going the wrong way so if I can turn swim back I'm back on the [ __ ] main line again right I find the main lines clear out into the clear main line [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] I start like hyperventilating panicking and I'm thinking man are you [ __ ] you piece of [ __ ] this help he will die what the [ __ ] are you right and I'm keep in mind kissing my wife I keep my kids saying I'm coming home today I'm coming home I'm coming home so I do it again I [ __ ] bencher into the [ __ ] great unknown [ __ ] abyss total blackout another panic another panic [ __ ] freaked out can't find my way hey my head kicking losing air by the [ __ ] second Pro because now I'm breathing hard I'm breathing [ __ ] irrational and I'm sucking tanks dry right mind you I'm on air so I don't have there's no there's no answer to this after I breathed my last breath keep checking me think keep keeping my time looking Direction time time air time [ __ ] slow down slow down slow down now I'm in pitch [ __ ] black can't see anything trying to figure out where I'm at what I'm thinking what am i doing okay we're running out of air how much time do we have cowboy we're at 28 feet I know we're at 28 feet I could probably breathe on this for about another hour on this tank another hour so we got another hour okay we've been in here [ __ ] 38 minutes already how what are we gonna do start trying to find my way out I can't trying to find my way out I can't now I started thinking what am I gonna do I'm not gonna drown Joe drownings like my biggest fear of my life so ever thing that's called a B C and we carried on our back it's buoyancy control device that's how you that's how you control your buoyancy when you're scuba diving right it probably holds 20 big huge strong breaths so I feel that [ __ ] up low this is my plan fill my BC up which throws me to the top of the cave bunk right now I'm only now I got a flip upside down gonna have like crawl on the ceiling trying to figure out where the [ __ ] I am how am I now I got to get out of a cave upside down and I'm thinking all right we've switched to our last bit of air how are we gonna do this cowboy what are we gonna do we filled our BC up when I run out of air I'm now thinking in my mind how am I gonna die Joe right tell my wife tell my kid I'm not [ __ ] I'm coming home now I gotta [ __ ] realize how am I gonna die I have a notepad that you carry in your pocket to draw on right on I'm thinking what what what are you gonna say what's your what's your letter gonna be you're writing a [ __ ] death later you're awake you're a fighter we figure this out you don't [ __ ] find a way to quit you [ __ ] [ __ ] this is a conversation I'm having one of myself well I'm in [ __ ] complete panic mode a complete darkness thinking that there's no this is how people die what the [ __ ] are you doing you're gonna write a letter to your [ __ ] kid and tell her how you how you [ __ ] up I'm sorry daddy's not coming home so I'm [ __ ] thinking I'm not gonna drown I'm not gonna breathe my last breath so I'm gonna breathe this BC I just filled up with air and I'm a [ __ ] breathe it until the oxygen level no longer happens and I just pass out that's that's my that's what I've come to realize how I'm gonna die I'm gonna [ __ ] just slip away and pass out keep breathing the same air until I go away and I start thinking you [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] you you're you're giving up you're having like legitimate conversation with myself while [ __ ] in complete panic like you're gonna quit that you're writing a letter and you're gonna [ __ ] breathe your last air until you pass out you [ __ ] [ __ ] you're a fighter figured the [ __ ] out so I'm upside down I'm crawling on the ceiling I remember when I came in we came in the big cave there's like a huge [ __ ] crack that runs along the top turn both my watches off now at this point because they're giving off light and I killed my light I said that crack gonna [ __ ] lead to the surface that crack is gonna [ __ ] give us something so I just called start panicking me panicking again because I'm panicking I don't know what to do I'm sucking air and I'm [ __ ] breathing hard and I'm hyperventilating I'm crying on the sitting crawling on the ceiling looking for this [ __ ] crack and goddamn it I found it I found the crack and I followed the crack and the crack got bigger and also I see [ __ ] glow like green glow crawl crawl crawl find it try to get up my tags are too big I can't [ __ ] get out of the little hole I can't get out of the hole I'm [ __ ] Big B [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] kidding screaming freaking out calm down can't like calm down carry this is the way calm the [ __ ] down reel it in reel it in we're here we made it grab control follow the crowd some more opens up out boom there's the cave [ __ ] I'm out made it you're coming home you are talking about Wow that was the feeling meanwhile my guys out there I can't be mad at him because he panicked he grabbed a line he [ __ ] ran out the hole he looks at me and he says so we're not diving together ever again are we I said no that was it that was it and I text my girl I love you baby and today was a [ __ ] scary moment but daddy's coming home and it was [ __ ] so crazy because that was I mean I've almost died numerous times but almost dying slowly was puts it in perspective me like these guys on death row what I always thought like yeah [ __ ] kill a murderer man that's [ __ ] dude knowing the time and how much time you have left that's some scary [ __ ] Joe knowing that you have two hours left how much air do you have left at the end maybe another hour probably hour and some change but could you imagine how I had to talk to myself how I was gonna die like to me that [ __ ] me up I [ __ ] me up really bad like I probably had to go do some mushrooms and ask myself the questions now because that [ __ ] me up bad but the inner me the fighter though you do new fear at the [ __ ] out but was I gonna write a letter I was [ __ ] damn close to writing a letter it was crazy man is wild damn hope that I explain that good for everybody you explained it like a mother dude that is crazy yeah man and I'm gonna do it again like I'm not scared of it like that it just needs to be done better I'll run my own [ __ ] line shows you how important it is like what your wife was saying ya can't you know she knew something she had a sense like right when people [ __ ] up a lot or when they're just that purse they just can't keep it together you got to be real careful around those people yeah yeah [ __ ] crazy [ __ ] man I mean that's what people kill those people in war yeah you know they just like look we can't do this yeah we had everybody killed yeah your your your panic is yeah yeah you're not hanging in there you you've become a detriment [ __ ] dude that is one of the craziest stories I've ever heard of my life I'm glad I got to share it with you aggressive well

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Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 29 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Ishygigity]

Seriously though fuck cave diving you couldn’t pay me enough to do that. I’ll never understand adrenaline junkies

[u/dergster]

i love that joe is completely silent until when cowboy is talking about how everything in front of him is silted he lets out one quiet "duuuuude"

[u/Uncle_Paul_Hargis]

My favorite Cowboy moment is when he said something to the effect of, "Guys, if you ain't eatin' your woman's ass, someone else will..." LOL

[u/awerro]

Its one of those stories where you start to wonder if he made it out alive half way through

[u/Brewer51]

He’s a legit great narrator. I know nothing in regards to cave diving but the way he described it I actually thought I was there

[u/Mutatiion]

Great storyteller

[u/AtypeGuy]

tell us another jackal story

[u/[deleted]]

What a story. That's one of the best don't give up stories I've ever heard. If it wasn't for the language I would show it to employees or students as a motivational presentation. And he tells it so well.

[u/[deleted]]

I am scared a lot now
note for myself never cave diving

never didnt even dive dont go to swimming pool dont take bathroom