408: What if your friend was lost in an underwater cave?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
After a scuba diving trip in Croatia turns deadly, a successful Czech executive is falsely accused of murder and thrown into a foreign jail, where the total loss of control forces him to confront fear, grief, and the unexpected freedom of mastering his own mind.
Today’s episode featured Dan Frolec. If you’d like to reach out to Dan, you can email him at dan@danfrolec.com. Dan is on Instagram @danfrolec, on Facebook @danfrolec, on LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfrolec/
Dan has written a book entitled, The Cave, and can be found here: https://danfrolec.com/the-cave-book/
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: scuba diving accident, drowning, death of a friend, suicide/assisted self-inflicted death, wrongful accusation, murder accusation, incarceration, foreign jail, police interrogation, media harassment/public shaming, anxiety/panic, and grief, explicit language
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| 0:16.8 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:23.6 | My life until that moment was full of adventure, but pretty normal in a way. |
| 0:28.6 | But I thought, like, this is a movie, this might not be happening. |
| 0:32.6 | Am I dreaming? Like, what's going on here? |
| 0:35.6 | Of course, I knew it's a reality, but I don't like this reality at all. |
| 0:47.0 | From Audible Originals, I'm Whitmysildine. |
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| 0:57.0 | Episode 4. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 408 |
| 0:59.1 | What if your friend was lost in an underwater cave? |
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