S1: Ep 27 Into the Vortex: Where did Ben McDaniel go?

Ben was obsessed with scuba diving, especially highly dangerous underwater cave diving despite not being qualified to do so. While taking a 'life gap year' following some personal crises Ben finds something beyond a passion for the hobby and starts to become fixated on mapping cave systems deeper and deeper below. When he doesn't come up one day it is assumed he has gone too far and drowned, but after extensive search efforts his body cannot be found.

What happened to Ben in the Vortex cave system, and was it more sinister that a simple drowning?

Tell us what you think.

Youtube clips showing the Vortex system

Past the locked gate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7BpLS-accE

Past ‘No Way’, shows the top of the pool and also shows what happens when you stir up the silt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZmNM-EmFlM

Intro/outro music "Sugar, Sugar" By Fast Lady