We Went Diving In A Flooded Quarry. Something Down There Was Waiting For Us.
August 1, 2026
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5 min readWe Went Diving In A Flooded Quarry. Something Down There Was Waiting For Us.
The narrator and his brother Randy had been diving together since they were teenagers. On an October afternoon at Blackwater Quarry, they suited up for what was supposed to be a routine dive to an old pump house at forty feet. The water was cold and green, visibility was poor, and nothing looked out of place. Then Randy's light caught a crack in the quarry wall—a narrow opening that seemed to widen beyond the first few feet. The narrator checked his pressure gauge and shook his head. Neither of them had enough air for an unexplored overhead passage. Randy made the okay sign, nodded the way he always did when he planned to ignore good advice, and swam into the fissure. The narrator followed.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Main Outline
- 2 (00:00) **Episode Introduction** - Show opens with standard ads and a cold open setting the scene of a dive gone wrong
- 3 (01:50) **Setting the Scene at Blackwater Quarry** - The narrator and his brother Randy prepare for what was supposed to be a routine afternoon dive in October
- 4 (03:09) **The Routine Dive and Discovery of the Fissure** - The pair descends to the old pump house at 40 feet, finding nothing unusual until Randy's light reveals a crack in the quarry wall
- 5 (05:21) **Following Randy Into the Uncharted Passage** - The narrator chases Randy through a narrowing limestone fissure, discovering old dive gear and a disturbing wetsuit with no body inside
- 6 (07:49) **First Encounter With the Creature** - A pale, limbless creature unfolds from the ceiling of the passage and attacks the narrator
- 7 (09:40) **Randy's Light Goes Dark** - The creature disappears, but Randy's dive light goes out and the guideline is found cut clean, not torn
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Show Notes
We Went Diving In A Flooded Quarry. Something Down There Was Waiting For Us.
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