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Hi listeners, I'm Jason Simon and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story about a spine-chilling secret kept in a tomb of rock and water.

So, gather round and listen.

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Cave diving is one of the most dangerous sports in the world.

Most people find the idea of descending into pitch black water with hundreds of feet

of rock between you and the surface to be uncomfortable.

Should something go wrong, an equipment malfunction, miscalculated oxygen levels are even just

a wrong turn down the wrong tunnel.

Your chances of making that out alive drop dangerously close to 0%.

Even with the right training, the best equipment and thousands of dive hours.

Mistakes can happen and even the smallest mistake can cost you your life.

But despite everything that can go wrong, the fear of death is outweighed by the thrill

of exploration.

The crushing claustrophobic depths are a graveyard for some and a haven for others.

For me, I feel more alive hundreds of feet below the surface than I do here on land.

On my property I have a sinkhole that opens up to a labyrinth of completely flooded tunnels

and caverns.

When I bought my land, I spent hundreds of hours on dives, mapping out every inch of the

cave I could get to, just me, the depths, and the darkness.

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