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Je me met ça pour sortir de cette angoisse :
Et dire que certains vont rechercher ça
Je me met ça pour sortir de cette angoisse :
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Atroce, mon pire cauchemar
Et dire que certains vont rechercher ça
Je me met ça pour sortir de cette angoisse :
Et dire que certains vont rechercher ça
Je me met ça pour sortir de cette angoisse :
Y'a aucune différence avec la claustrophobie sous la flotte Ahi
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Y'a aucune différence avec la claustrophobie sous la flotte Ahi
Oui c'est assez similaire
Cylindric le Germain ------ Authentique white trash de Lorraine
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Cylindric
2 mois
Atroce, mon pire cauchemar
Et dire que certains vont rechercher ça
Je me met ça pour sortir de cette angoisse :
Et dire que certains vont rechercher ça
Je me met ça pour sortir de cette angoisse :
C'est ce que je pensais y'a pas logement qi j'étais dans la même situation
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The Most Painful Cave Deaths of All Time
Sterkfountain cave accident. On September 29, 1984, Nuno Gomes, cave explorer, went into unmapped sections of the sterkfountain cave in South Africa accompanied with his 2 friends, Pieter Verhulsel and Malcom. Together they planned to lay a guideline from the entrance to the farthest point in the wet cave area known as the Milner hall. Nuno was supposed to go in,place the guideline for his 2 friends to wait outside, assisting him from the surface. Nuno successfully laid the line covering the distance of 120 meters. After the success the 3 decided to go back and follow the guideline. They successfully mapped in the cave section when they reached the air pocket. But when they came back, Malcom touched Nuno to signal that Pieter was no longer behind them. Nuno went back and noticed Pieter entered a side tunnel Nuno tapped in to signal him to return to his guideline As they leaded back Pieter disappeared again, this time Nuno and Malcom assumig he took the other exit, avoiding the tight squeeze they themselves used. When they got to the surface, realizing Pieter didn't come back, they submerged themselves once again. But even in the side tunnels he was not here. After 4 hours they ran out of air tanks and stirred up silt reduced visibility. Later that afternoon they exited the cave to call for help. The fire fight brigade arrived but lacked diving expertise. They waited for the police divers.
The silt was so stirred up that visibility was severly impaired. So they stopped for today. As for Pieter, he was not dead. He had been sidetracked by a secondary tunnel and the caves complex 3D structure combined with the lack of guidelines. The sitrred up silt and darkness made it nearly impossible to orient himself. After trying several paths, Pieter found a small room to wait for rescuers. He switched off to conserve the little battery life. He tried to make noise by banging his tanks to the rocks. Eventually he fell asleep, lost track of time. Police closed off the cave so no one else could enter. They didn't think he was still alive. They waited another week. Then the week after they found still no sign of him anywhere. Pieter tried to follow a path leading to a small room where he had sheltered. After traveling 120 feets away from the water, he discovered it was only a dead end so he returned to his original spot. Police searched him for 6 weeks with no success. By that pointed they reopened the dry sections of the cave but kept the water section closed. Vlounteers then began to look for a connection between the dry and wet caves system. Nuno was the one discovering the connections so he joined them where they could enter the wet section of the cave. Here they found a set of footprints leading to a dead end and soon after, Peter's dead body with a message " I love you, Shirl and Ma; " One had come very close to find him as he entered an opening that was just 100 feets away from Pieter's location. ( 30 meters )
Crooked swamp accident. OnMarch 27, 1982, Donald Weltner with his 2 sons Christopher and Roger were about to lead a group of 12 boy scouts in a cave exploration. It wasn't Donald's first caving. Even though the passages in this cave were notoriously narrow, but it wasn't a concern as if DOnald, who was bigger than the other participants, could get through, then the other could as well. The cave's entrance dimension was 40 by 71 cm. Donald was on the eastern side and noticed several smaller tunnels leading from the room. However because they weren't sure which passage. They weren't sure which passages would be too narrow. Donald checked one, involving a tight squeeze but appeared to open in another section. The squeeze was 45 per 50 centimeters. He couldn't lift his arms backwards or lift his head to see ahead. He was followed by his sons. THanks to the mud making the terrain slippery, he reported back everything was fine until as he pulled himself along at a point, he realized the groudn below him was disappearing. Donald slipped down to a tight crevice. Slick mud prevented him from stopping the slide. His hands were trapped meaning no leverage to pull himself up. Path angled at 30 degrees so he had to fight against gravity as well. The crevice was 12 centimeters wide. Mud caused his body tos lip more. After several attempts from his sons to pullh im off he told them to bring the other adults. After a while, Jim also realized he couldn't free Donald on his own and Donald explained that some rockes were loosened and now weightened against his body. Each attempt to pull him backwards and the rocks would slide forward. Jim excited th cave to call for help. Rescue specialists and police arrived.
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Supplies could not even reach him. Rescuers had to act quickly so they dig from above the ground down to where Donald was stuck.The process required all sunday.Unfortunatly they were about 3,5 meters from Donald's position so they digged lateraly. Donald was meanwhile likely suffering from hypothermia. On Monday morning as 2 days passed, rescuers encountered a problem : very hard bedrock layers impossible to dig through. They weren't sure if Donald was alive so they sent a nurse into the cave with a handheld doppler machine. She didn't detect pulse but this wasn't a definitive proof of death. She only had access to his very cold legs. Sometimes body's core organs can continue functionning. after externities stopped registering a pulse. Rescuers used dynamite which was risky but appeared to be the only option. On TUesday morning they finally reached his location but Donald had died. Following his death, the cave system was restricted to limited access.
Agen Allwed accident. Roger Solari and Martyn Farr, aged of 26 and 23 wanted to map out the agent Allwedd cave system in South Wales. At the time John Parker, another explorer, had abandonned the mission after discovering a third sump in one of its longest passage. Martyn and Roger however, wanted to keep going to see what lay beyond. Since Roger hurt his knee, Martyn did the first trip solo. He reached the third sump. The route was turturous but also lasting for hours as the first sump was about a mile into the cave. The 2 first sumps mesured 76 meters an 25 meters so Martyn passed through them relatively easily. But the third sump was much longer and no one explored it yet. Martyn could only hope he had enough air to reach the end. He managed to swim through it, about 850 feets. On the other side he found a zigzagging passage of 548 meters ( 1 800 feets , leading to another sump. Nobody had known about this fourth sump. Martyn realized he probably wouldn't have enough air to explore. So he returned, spending 4 to 5 next hours heading back out. When they returned on Jule 15th 1974, both brought extra air tanks, successfully reaching the fourth sump. They dived in it with a guideline to map their route. After 121 meters, Roger finished his guideline and he had sinus problems even if it wasn't the first time. Despite this they continued. In cave diving there is a concept : the rule of thirds for air consumption. If you use one third of your air supply on your way in, you need another third to get out leaving, with the final third as an emergency reserve. They already used their first third here and should have returned back when Roger's line ran out because Roger had a smaller tank than Martyn. Martyn assumed Roger would head out while he continude forward. He eventually came to a gravel wall of rock which could have indicated the sump was ending and possibly an air pocket. By this point he was well passed the halfway mark of his tank.
Sterkfountain cave accident. On September 29, 1984, Nuno Gomes, cave explorer, went into unmapped sections of the sterkfountain cave in South Africa accompanied with his 2 friends, Pieter Verhulsel and Malcom. Together they planned to lay a guideline from the entrance to the farthest point in the wet cave area known as the Milner hall. Nuno was supposed to go in,place the guideline for his 2 friends to wait outside, assisting him from the surface. Nuno successfully laid the line covering the distance of 120 meters. After the success the 3 decided to go back and follow the guideline. They successfully mapped in the cave section when they reached the air pocket. But when they came back, Malcom touched Nuno to signal that Pieter was no longer behind them. Nuno went back and noticed Pieter entered a side tunnel Nuno tapped in to signal him to return to his guideline As they leaded back Pieter disappeared again, this time Nuno and Malcom assumig he took the other exit, avoiding the tight squeeze they themselves used. When they got to the surface, realizing Pieter didn't come back, they submerged themselves once again. But even in the side tunnels he was not here. After 4 hours they ran out of air tanks and stirred up silt reduced visibility. Later that afternoon they exited the cave to call for help. The fire fight brigade arrived but lacked diving expertise. They waited for the police divers.
The silt was so stirred up that visibility was severly impaired. So they stopped for today. As for Pieter, he was not dead. He had been sidetracked by a secondary tunnel and the caves complex 3D structure combined with the lack of guidelines. The sitrred up silt and darkness made it nearly impossible to orient himself. After trying several paths, Pieter found a small room to wait for rescuers. He switched off to conserve the little battery life. He tried to make noise by banging his tanks to the rocks. Eventually he fell asleep, lost track of time. Police closed off the cave so no one else could enter. They didn't think he was still alive. They waited another week. Then the week after they found still no sign of him anywhere. Pieter tried to follow a path leading to a small room where he had sheltered. After traveling 120 feets away from the water, he discovered it was only a dead end so he returned to his original spot. Police searched him for 6 weeks with no success. By that pointed they reopened the dry sections of the cave but kept the water section closed. Vlounteers then began to look for a connection between the dry and wet caves system. Nuno was the one discovering the connections so he joined them where they could enter the wet section of the cave. Here they found a set of footprints leading to a dead end and soon after, Peter's dead body with a message " I love you, Shirl and Ma; " One had come very close to find him as he entered an opening that was just 100 feets away from Pieter's location. ( 30 meters )
Crooked swamp accident. OnMarch 27, 1982, Donald Weltner with his 2 sons Christopher and Roger were about to lead a group of 12 boy scouts in a cave exploration. It wasn't Donald's first caving. Even though the passages in this cave were notoriously narrow, but it wasn't a concern as if DOnald, who was bigger than the other participants, could get through, then the other could as well. The cave's entrance dimension was 40 by 71 cm. Donald was on the eastern side and noticed several smaller tunnels leading from the room. However because they weren't sure which passage. They weren't sure which passages would be too narrow. Donald checked one, involving a tight squeeze but appeared to open in another section. The squeeze was 45 per 50 centimeters. He couldn't lift his arms backwards or lift his head to see ahead. He was followed by his sons. THanks to the mud making the terrain slippery, he reported back everything was fine until as he pulled himself along at a point, he realized the groudn below him was disappearing. Donald slipped down to a tight crevice. Slick mud prevented him from stopping the slide. His hands were trapped meaning no leverage to pull himself up. Path angled at 30 degrees so he had to fight against gravity as well. The crevice was 12 centimeters wide. Mud caused his body tos lip more. After several attempts from his sons to pullh im off he told them to bring the other adults. After a while, Jim also realized he couldn't free Donald on his own and Donald explained that some rockes were loosened and now weightened against his body. Each attempt to pull him backwards and the rocks would slide forward. Jim excited th cave to call for help. Rescue specialists and police arrived.
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Supplies could not even reach him. Rescuers had to act quickly so they dig from above the ground down to where Donald was stuck.The process required all sunday.Unfortunatly they were about 3,5 meters from Donald's position so they digged lateraly. Donald was meanwhile likely suffering from hypothermia. On Monday morning as 2 days passed, rescuers encountered a problem : very hard bedrock layers impossible to dig through. They weren't sure if Donald was alive so they sent a nurse into the cave with a handheld doppler machine. She didn't detect pulse but this wasn't a definitive proof of death. She only had access to his very cold legs. Sometimes body's core organs can continue functionning. after externities stopped registering a pulse. Rescuers used dynamite which was risky but appeared to be the only option. On TUesday morning they finally reached his location but Donald had died. Following his death, the cave system was restricted to limited access.
Agen Allwed accident. Roger Solari and Martyn Farr, aged of 26 and 23 wanted to map out the agent Allwedd cave system in South Wales. At the time John Parker, another explorer, had abandonned the mission after discovering a third sump in one of its longest passage. Martyn and Roger however, wanted to keep going to see what lay beyond. Since Roger hurt his knee, Martyn did the first trip solo. He reached the third sump. The route was turturous but also lasting for hours as the first sump was about a mile into the cave. The 2 first sumps mesured 76 meters an 25 meters so Martyn passed through them relatively easily. But the third sump was much longer and no one explored it yet. Martyn could only hope he had enough air to reach the end. He managed to swim through it, about 850 feets. On the other side he found a zigzagging passage of 548 meters ( 1 800 feets , leading to another sump. Nobody had known about this fourth sump. Martyn realized he probably wouldn't have enough air to explore. So he returned, spending 4 to 5 next hours heading back out. When they returned on Jule 15th 1974, both brought extra air tanks, successfully reaching the fourth sump. They dived in it with a guideline to map their route. After 121 meters, Roger finished his guideline and he had sinus problems even if it wasn't the first time. Despite this they continued. In cave diving there is a concept : the rule of thirds for air consumption. If you use one third of your air supply on your way in, you need another third to get out leaving, with the final third as an emergency reserve. They already used their first third here and should have returned back when Roger's line ran out because Roger had a smaller tank than Martyn. Martyn assumed Roger would head out while he continude forward. He eventually came to a gravel wall of rock which could have indicated the sump was ending and possibly an air pocket. By this point he was well passed the halfway mark of his tank.
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It was becoming very risky. He pushed on until he reached solid rock, confirming there were no air pocket. Spotting a passage to the right, he explored another 29 feets but ended in a dead end. When he backtracked he was shocked to see Roger still here. Martyn quickly signaled that they had to return. Roger probably realizzing he didn't have enough air to come back, attempted to locate the same air pocket Martyn had been searching for. Martyn continued about 40 meters until his main tank ran out, forcing him to switch to a reserve tank. That would give him about 91 meters in sump 4 and another 259 meters in sump 3, barely enough. However he previously placed a partially filled tank between sump 3 and sump 2 and he aimed to reach that. Finally, emerging from sump 4, Martyn sat on the bank waiting for Roger. By 20 minutes when Roger didn't appear he raelized that if Roger had enough air to come, he wouldn't have enough to go through sump 3. After 1 hour, Martyn was certain Roger's air had run out. Martyn entered the water and pulled the guideline to make it tense but it was no longer connected. Around the 131 meters mark, it had been cut. Switching tanks is not an easy task. He might have put his arm through the line to avoid losing it, twisting his body to reach the valve and become tangled, forcing him to cut the line to move freely. Combined with the silt induced by movement likely reduced his visibility and he may have swam the wrong way. Once out, Martyn alerte the authorities. Martyn joined himself the searchers. However Roger's remains were not found until 1986 12 years later. Recovering the body was too risky so it was left into the cave. A plaque was placed near the entrance of sump 1 in Roger's honor. In 1987, another explorer passed through sump 4 and finally located the air pocket. Today the cave's entrance is locked. Only specific experienced divers are granted a key.
Floyd Collins accident. In late December 1924, Floyd Collins found a cave called the sand cave, near a highway and easily accessible to tourists. He sturck a deal with land's owners to receive 50% of any profits from the cave's exploration. Afterward he immediatly began working here since there was no significant entrance. However tourists avoided it as a result. Floyd spent hours every day over the next few weeks digging deeper. On January 30th 1925, it was snowing outside and Floyd went into the cave. He reached what was known as the turnaround room. Many would stop there and turn around because it was too risky. Continuying would mean going into a narrow path called the squeeze which measured only 22 centimeters in the height. Beyond the squeeze he saw a narrow pit dropping about 3 meters He reached the bottom He found another pit squatting down, remaining the remaining rocks and debris. He finally saw an opening into the main cave. He tied a rope in place, descended a 24 meters drop, reaching the cavern floor and amazed by the sight. Seeing his ligt diminishing, he climbed back up, returning to where he came. He pushed his lantern with his shoulder but his lantern slipped into a tiny hole, shattered, leaving him in total darkness. Because the cave was unstable he knew he had to move carefully to avoid dislodging loose rocks. But unable to see, he kicked one loose, it fell into his left leg, trapping him. He tried to free himself with his right leg but the more he moved the more rocks tumbled down.
24 hours after, 2 cave owners arrived with their 17 years old son Jewel Estes They saw Floyd's coat hanging outside. They came in the cave before turning back because the passage was too tight. But Juel continued, eventually finding Floyd who asked him to call his brothers. Marchsll Collins ( his brother ) and Lee Collins ( his father ) came. At 4 pm, Homer, Collins other brother, arrived. He reached him. But crows outside started bonfires. THe melting ice funneled water into the tunnel, creating mud and sending freezing cold water down toward Floyd. After 8 hours his brothers had to rest. Reporters came too. Homer was furious at the crowd. Floyd freed one of his hands, suggesting to tie a rope to pull him out but as soon they tried, he begged them to stop. He felt like he was pulled in 2. Homer worked continusouly, removing dirt and debris. On Tuesday night, 95 hours after Floyd got trapped, a reported named Skeets entered the cave, installing a light near Floyd. While removing rubbles, he exposed more of Floyd's leg.s but still couldn't free him. All the crowd and activity around further weakened the cave, putting it at risk of collapsing. At horu 123, entrance to the pit collapse, blocking any access to Floyd. By hour 144, a team of workers formed to dig a new tunnel to reach him. On Friday February 13, a man nearly reached him, hearing him groaning about 3 meters away. However at 1 : 30 am of February 16, a worker found Floyd who already deceased.
Nutty Putty Cave. John Jones, a young 26-year-old man decided to explore the Nutty putty cave in the Utah desert near Salt Lake City. This wasn't his first caving experience as he and his brother used to explore caves around Utah. Even if it was the first time they explored this one, the cave was considered as beginner friendly. It was well mapped and the first parts were accessibles to everyone such as the maze or the big slide. There were also some harder areas for more experienced cavers like the birth canal which was an incredible tight passage.He went in a group of 11 including family and friends. The cave was closed at the time because some cavers previously got stuck. It was reopened and accessible only to those with a specific permit. Josh got one and on November 24th 2009, they went in and everyone stayed at the beginner friendly part except the 2 brothers who got bored and started looking at the harder tunnels. They heared about the " birth canal " one of the thighest passage in the cave which after the narrow part, had a room where they could stand up and turn around to get back. At a point they reach an area called corkscrew. After that they would normally turn around but 5 years before, an accident happened in the exact spot when a 16 years old boy named Brock Clark got stuck here even if he was not very tall and was quite thin. He had to wait 14 hours before being freed. John however was 6 feet tall for 91 kilograms rather than 1m70 and 60 kilograms. So he knew he couldn't turn around to go back. In a space of 30 cm tight, he squeezed his stomach, kept moving forward until when he was head first at a downward angle. It looked like an area was ahead and he could finally turn around. He didn't know that beyond that ledge, the area was uncharted. One one was here before but he still thought he was in some part of the birth canal. After a while, he started sliding toward the bottom of the tunnel.
The 2 brothers discussed about what they should do. They decide to move forward and find a place to turn around. Since John saw a hole ahead he thought it might lead to a larger space; He didn't realize that it was just a dead end opening at the bottom of the tunnel. So once he went in, he was stuck in a vertical position. upside down with the opening being 45 cm per 25 cm only. Josh tried to help then came back to seek rescuer's help. The first rescuer came after 3 hours with a rope tied on her ankle so she could be pulled back out while putting another rope around John's leg to try to pull him out. It didn't work so they installed a pulley system It got Brock Clark free 5 years prior. Each piece of equipment had to be brought so it took a long time. Only 1 assistant at a time could be here. Only small tools could be brought. After 12 years, John started to lose his sanity with the oxygen concentration in the air dropping. During this time they bought a device that allowed him to speak with his wife. At 4 oclock the pulleys were ready. Rescuer Ryan Shurz who was inside the cave grabbed John's legs, and activating the pulley. John screamed in agony as his legs turned blue and no longer had pulse. After a brief pause they tried again It seemed to be working. Some gatorade was given to him through a tube. But his legs were htiting the ceiling, blocking him fom getting out They almost considered breaking his legs as the time ran out. Then the rope holding the pulley broke pulling everything towards Ryan's face, badly injuring him. When he woke up he left the cave. Meanwhile John slipped back into the hole.It took another hour to repair the pulley. They tried to lift him but John didn't see to be conscious and since they needed his help to lift him out they sent a medic. At 11 : 56 of November 25th John Jones wsa declared dead. The entire cave system was then closed off with concrete. They placed a plaque to commemorate John.
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Je l'avais vu il y a plusieurs mois. Et le pire c'est que ce n'est que l'une des dizaines d'histoires absolument terrifiantes sur les morts dans les grottes et autres.
Jiudan cave. Wang Yuan and Wang Tao were 2 friends, 2 experienced divers. They wanted eo tner the Jiudan cave in China to break their own personal record. Someone previously placed a guideline that extended for 160 meters. They wanted to extended by over 10 meters for a total depth of 170 meters This required them to leave the existing guideline for a some time. That was risky because of the depth. They already completed 15 dives in the cave's northern entrance so they felt quite confident, even deciding to do a practise dive in open water to reach 152 meters to see what it wold be like and identify potential problems. However Tao had to skip the practise due to illness. Yuan went alone and everything went smoothly on April 18th 2014.They did months of preparation. They estimated it would need them 20 minutes to reach their target depth and they would only stay here for a few minutes before starting their ascent. Any extra minute of depth would require additional hours of decompression. They also estimated it would take them 3 hours and 50 minutes to get back to the surface safely allowing enough time for the pressure to not be too harsh on their bodies. Because of rainfall days prior, during their descent they noticed that visibility was reduced but they continued anyway. Under normal conditions they could see about 15 meters ahead but on that day it was barely 2 meters. They placed air tanks at various depths as extra measures, each one containing the appropriate gas mixture for their respective depth. Plus, a friend named Pei stayed near the cave's surface to assist if needed Yuan's role was to keep them on the guideline while Tao's role was to place arrow mark along the line to indicate the direction back into the cave entrance. Both nitrogen and oxygen can become very problematic unde rhigh pressure so the correct mixture of gas was crucial.
They followed the guidelines carefully, switching tanks at the appropriate depths. However after 164 meters, Yuan felt he might lose consciousness. Considering they needed to ascent to counter this and only 4 meters beyond the established guideline with visibility around half that distance, they turned back toward the line and the surface. Yuan led them to where the guideline should have been. But the guideline was gone. They eventually found it but the panic at losing the line caused them to breathe faster, leading them to consume more gas than normal. By the time they found the guideline, Yuan's cylinder was nearly empty. He had to switch back to his main tank which contained surface air which was not ideal. Initially he felt okay but around the 120 meters mark he begen trembling involuntarily. They needed to reach their next set of cylinders which were at 74 meters away. Yuan still had hope until he looked down and saw Tao stucked under a rock. Tao accidentally swam into the rock and the gotten wedged there because of low visibility. Tao wasn't attempting to free himself but rather shining his light at his neck, signaling he was running out of air. Yuan gave Tao an emergency mouthpiece. They resumed their ascent with little air left. After quick calculation,s, they realizd they had 3 minutes of air. Tao was fatigued and Yuan had to pull him by the arm. They were about 91 meters from the surface. Yuan checked his air supply saw there was only enough for 1 person to ascend another 40 meters. Fortunatly about 15 meters away there was the next set of cylinders they had placed earlier. Suddently Yuan saw Tao float past him, disappearing in the murky water. Yuan swam after him but he didn't see Tao anywhere. With his tank about to run dry, he reached the next piece of cylinders before searching agai. He quickly got to those cynlinders and swtiched tanks and went back to look for Tao.
As he descended once more he still couldn't find him. His new tank began to run low so he had to ascend again to the next piece of cylinders. Unfortunatly those cynlinders were placed at a higher depth because they were meant to use in shallow water. It would be dangerous to use it at deeper depth. If someone used those tankss and dived too deep, they would risk nitrogen narcosis, a state similar to drunkess as nitrogen is absorbed too rapidly. Despite the risk Yuan still tried to go deeper to search for Tao. At a point he lost consciousness briefly and woke up later. It was the warning sign that he needed to get out immediatly. He attempted to follow the necessarly decompression stops on the way up but he panicked and weakened state. He ascended faster than he should have stopping for 3 hours instead of 4 hours required. Upon surfacing, Yuan told Pei what happened. Pei dove in to search for Tao but realized Yuan also might be in serious trouble because of his rapid ascent. When Pei surfaced, he found Yuan having symptoms of both nitrogen narcosis and decompresssion sickness. As soon as Yuan began removing his regulator, he started vomiting and twitching, experiencing severe dizziness. They had to get Yuan urgent medical help. Rescuers errived but before entering the cave they needed 1 day to plan and gather the correct tanks for those depths. By then it was almost certain that Tao had died. By the next day his lifeless body was found at a depth of 54 meters. Yuan spent several days in a decompression chamber. Ultimatly he made a full recovery.
Kalimba cave tragedy. It was December 2004. 9 divers were about to enter the Colomus Cote for a second time while on vacation in Mexico. Their plan was to follow the guidelines to the Bosh Chen Cenote before turning back. They split into 2 groups with the first group goingahead, setting markers to highlight the correct path while the second would follow. Since the second group had more efficient oxygen tanks, they planned to go farther before returning while the second group would start heading back earlier. As team 2 was expected to resurface first, they would remove a specific type of markers called cookies to signal their exit. Seeing that the cookies were gone, the first team would then remove their own markers on the way back, ensuring the cave remained clean for the future divers. Team 1 noticing the absence of the coookies began their ascent but when they resurfated, team 2 was nowhere to be found. They searched for 30 minutes but found nothing. Regrouping in the colimbus cote they geared up to renter the tunnel and search for them. By this point team 2 had little oxygen left Suddently bubbles appeared and 2 divers quickly resurfated. They explained what happened. Instead of folloxing the intended exit path, team 2 had mistakenly turned left. The return trip should have been short but they only realized their mistake after swimming 426 meters in the wrong direction. By the time they noticed they were already 914 meters away from the original exit. However another exit was just 90 meters away. But they needed to cross a 21 meters gap to reach it, and with no guidelines. Kent, one of the divers, took out his safety line and secured it, beginning to swim across. He was just short of reaching the guideline when his line stopped him. It was too short to cover the whope gap.
Heading back, Kent saw the group heading toward the initial path. He swam fast to catch up but by then the oxygen legel was low and there was no air pocket. They finally reached the correct line after 25 minutes. 30 minutes were remaining; Only 200 psi left. He moved next to Jeanne who had more air and she shared hers using her emergency extra mouthpiece. In tight passages Bill had to hold his breath while Jeanne squeezed through first. Michael also began to run dangerously low on air. He was the least experienced of the group. He panicked but fortunatly Kent reached him in time, handed him his emergency mouthpiece. Menawhile Bill and Jeanne made it out with 500 psi only left in Jeanne's tank. A few more minutes and they would have drowned. They informed that Michael and Kent were behind them. Their lights had been visible just before they exited. 76 meters inside, the divers from team 1 spotted both Michael and Kent's lights but they were not moving. Both ran out of oxygen and drowned just 5 minutes from the exit.
Jiudan cave. Wang Yuan and Wang Tao were 2 friends, 2 experienced divers. They wanted eo tner the Jiudan cave in China to break their own personal record. Someone previously placed a guideline that extended for 160 meters. They wanted to extended by over 10 meters for a total depth of 170 meters This required them to leave the existing guideline for a some time. That was risky because of the depth. They already completed 15 dives in the cave's northern entrance so they felt quite confident, even deciding to do a practise dive in open water to reach 152 meters to see what it wold be like and identify potential problems. However Tao had to skip the practise due to illness. Yuan went alone and everything went smoothly on April 18th 2014.They did months of preparation. They estimated it would need them 20 minutes to reach their target depth and they would only stay here for a few minutes before starting their ascent. Any extra minute of depth would require additional hours of decompression. They also estimated it would take them 3 hours and 50 minutes to get back to the surface safely allowing enough time for the pressure to not be too harsh on their bodies. Because of rainfall days prior, during their descent they noticed that visibility was reduced but they continued anyway. Under normal conditions they could see about 15 meters ahead but on that day it was barely 2 meters. They placed air tanks at various depths as extra measures, each one containing the appropriate gas mixture for their respective depth. Plus, a friend named Pei stayed near the cave's surface to assist if needed Yuan's role was to keep them on the guideline while Tao's role was to place arrow mark along the line to indicate the direction back into the cave entrance. Both nitrogen and oxygen can become very problematic unde rhigh pressure so the correct mixture of gas was crucial.
They followed the guidelines carefully, switching tanks at the appropriate depths. However after 164 meters, Yuan felt he might lose consciousness. Considering they needed to ascent to counter this and only 4 meters beyond the established guideline with visibility around half that distance, they turned back toward the line and the surface. Yuan led them to where the guideline should have been. But the guideline was gone. They eventually found it but the panic at losing the line caused them to breathe faster, leading them to consume more gas than normal. By the time they found the guideline, Yuan's cylinder was nearly empty. He had to switch back to his main tank which contained surface air which was not ideal. Initially he felt okay but around the 120 meters mark he begen trembling involuntarily. They needed to reach their next set of cylinders which were at 74 meters away. Yuan still had hope until he looked down and saw Tao stucked under a rock. Tao accidentally swam into the rock and the gotten wedged there because of low visibility. Tao wasn't attempting to free himself but rather shining his light at his neck, signaling he was running out of air. Yuan gave Tao an emergency mouthpiece. They resumed their ascent with little air left. After quick calculation,s, they realizd they had 3 minutes of air. Tao was fatigued and Yuan had to pull him by the arm. They were about 91 meters from the surface. Yuan checked his air supply saw there was only enough for 1 person to ascend another 40 meters. Fortunatly about 15 meters away there was the next set of cylinders they had placed earlier. Suddently Yuan saw Tao float past him, disappearing in the murky water. Yuan swam after him but he didn't see Tao anywhere. With his tank about to run dry, he reached the next piece of cylinders before searching agai. He quickly got to those cynlinders and swtiched tanks and went back to look for Tao.
As he descended once more he still couldn't find him. His new tank began to run low so he had to ascend again to the next piece of cylinders. Unfortunatly those cynlinders were placed at a higher depth because they were meant to use in shallow water. It would be dangerous to use it at deeper depth. If someone used those tankss and dived too deep, they would risk nitrogen narcosis, a state similar to drunkess as nitrogen is absorbed too rapidly. Despite the risk Yuan still tried to go deeper to search for Tao. At a point he lost consciousness briefly and woke up later. It was the warning sign that he needed to get out immediatly. He attempted to follow the necessarly decompression stops on the way up but he panicked and weakened state. He ascended faster than he should have stopping for 3 hours instead of 4 hours required. Upon surfacing, Yuan told Pei what happened. Pei dove in to search for Tao but realized Yuan also might be in serious trouble because of his rapid ascent. When Pei surfaced, he found Yuan having symptoms of both nitrogen narcosis and decompresssion sickness. As soon as Yuan began removing his regulator, he started vomiting and twitching, experiencing severe dizziness. They had to get Yuan urgent medical help. Rescuers errived but before entering the cave they needed 1 day to plan and gather the correct tanks for those depths. By then it was almost certain that Tao had died. By the next day his lifeless body was found at a depth of 54 meters. Yuan spent several days in a decompression chamber. Ultimatly he made a full recovery.
Kalimba cave tragedy. It was December 2004. 9 divers were about to enter the Colomus Cote for a second time while on vacation in Mexico. Their plan was to follow the guidelines to the Bosh Chen Cenote before turning back. They split into 2 groups with the first group goingahead, setting markers to highlight the correct path while the second would follow. Since the second group had more efficient oxygen tanks, they planned to go farther before returning while the second group would start heading back earlier. As team 2 was expected to resurface first, they would remove a specific type of markers called cookies to signal their exit. Seeing that the cookies were gone, the first team would then remove their own markers on the way back, ensuring the cave remained clean for the future divers. Team 1 noticing the absence of the coookies began their ascent but when they resurfated, team 2 was nowhere to be found. They searched for 30 minutes but found nothing. Regrouping in the colimbus cote they geared up to renter the tunnel and search for them. By this point team 2 had little oxygen left Suddently bubbles appeared and 2 divers quickly resurfated. They explained what happened. Instead of folloxing the intended exit path, team 2 had mistakenly turned left. The return trip should have been short but they only realized their mistake after swimming 426 meters in the wrong direction. By the time they noticed they were already 914 meters away from the original exit. However another exit was just 90 meters away. But they needed to cross a 21 meters gap to reach it, and with no guidelines. Kent, one of the divers, took out his safety line and secured it, beginning to swim across. He was just short of reaching the guideline when his line stopped him. It was too short to cover the whope gap.
Heading back, Kent saw the group heading toward the initial path. He swam fast to catch up but by then the oxygen legel was low and there was no air pocket. They finally reached the correct line after 25 minutes. 30 minutes were remaining; Only 200 psi left. He moved next to Jeanne who had more air and she shared hers using her emergency extra mouthpiece. In tight passages Bill had to hold his breath while Jeanne squeezed through first. Michael also began to run dangerously low on air. He was the least experienced of the group. He panicked but fortunatly Kent reached him in time, handed him his emergency mouthpiece. Menawhile Bill and Jeanne made it out with 500 psi only left in Jeanne's tank. A few more minutes and they would have drowned. They informed that Michael and Kent were behind them. Their lights had been visible just before they exited. 76 meters inside, the divers from team 1 spotted both Michael and Kent's lights but they were not moving. Both ran out of oxygen and drowned just 5 minutes from the exit.
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La chaîne youtube The Paint Explainer qui raconte des dizaines d'histoires comme ça sur sa chaîne, entre les plongeurs qui manquent d'oxygène, les gars coincés sous terre et j'en passe. Ca donne vraiment pas envie d'aller dans ces grottes de la mort.
Dam sucks diver inside | The Lake Oliver Dam Accident
Diving in an enclosed industrial space comes with a variety of deadly risks for commercial divers. An easy dive was planned to evaluate the Lake Oliver Dam for repairs, but a simple error will have deadly consequences. It was an inspection of damaged hydroelectric dam. No longer than 15 minutes normally. Despite strict preparation, one unbelievable error made everything go wrong. On October 27th 2020, Eric Herbert and Alex Paxton. They were divers for Glenn industrial group. Today's job was to check lake Oliver Dam in Colombus, Georgia. Company got contacted to perform underwater maintainance systems. Dam was operated by Georgie power and it had his own employees on the site managing operations. Hydroelectric dam produced energy from the controlled flow of water through it. The chain on one of the control gates wasn't working right and both divers were supposed to loook at what was broken so a formal plan could be made for repairs. Both of them had more than a decade of experience. One of the biggest risks was differential pressure or sources of energy in the water, including open valves moving areas or water when pressure is different between chambers. Difference of pressure between chambers can sucka diver into a hole or up against a grate with deadly force. Because of that most important pre dive efforts was identifying potential sources of energy in a facility. They were listed one by one in the checklist. Pre dive routien would be for the facility to lock out and tag out all of these energy sources. Each valve or switch to be locked in the cloest position and tagged with a lebal warning others to not touch until the lotto is removed. It's essential to protect anyone in the water. The lotto checklist is signed off by 2 employees of the dam and validated by the diver's company responsible for maintainance. And on this day the lotto was completed. Each item of the list was double checked and tagged out for maintainance.
The divers were aware of the location of the gates and the priming valve listed into the lotto. checklist. They dropped their meter into the water to confirm that there were no movement in the water at these locations. They were prepared to enter inside the dam. Eric was proposed a shift but opted to run down to check the chain himself. He knew the repair ahead would require a lot of divings so he offered to go down for this instead of his diving partner. On the area they entered there was a waterfill chamber where the main gates to the dam resided. It was fully connected to the main body of lake water The door to the gate would be raised by a chain when the gates were opened. When opened, water flows through the turbine to produce electricity. When it was closed, the power plant was not in operation. This main flow of water would move through the pen stock to the turbines where electricity would be produced from the turning of the turbine system. The water would then empty into the lower part of the river. When the gates were closed the pen stock pipe would empty out and be an open chamber leading to the turbines. The pen stock was empty because all the gates were locked. Alex started at the top of the chain, slowing moving down as he looked for any defect. He was wearing a helmet camera and a light to record what he might find. An air umbilical supplied him with air. As he passed the 20 feet mark, it was fine so he continued to slide down but then he was aware of a sudden pull up on his body. It only took a second. His body was plugging the hole, creating an even greater force when the water was still moving. With a violent force of 850 pounds of pressure, it was impossible to pull his arm back. His body was pulled against the surface of the dam so hard he could barely breathe Eric tried to pull him up but it couldn't release him from the trap.
Employees tried to figure out what pressure differential could have caused this. All lotto lcations were rechecked but they were off and tagged. It took 30 minutes to figure out where the sunction came from and get the valve properly closed. There was another valve not listed in the lotto checklist This pipe was to prime the pen stock before opening the main gate. If the pen stock was completly empty when the gate was opened, a huge rush of water would burst into the chamber and possibly damage the turbine at the end of the pen stock pipe. To prevent this rush of water, there is a small priming pipe that lets a smalelr volume of water into the pen stock to fill it. This priming system had before the operation 2 possible inlets of water, a flapper type valve similar to what is found in common toilet and there is a gate type valve with a wheel handle. The 2 valves were only listed once in the lockout form. The flatter valve was locked and tagged for this dive but no one had turned the wheel of the second valve. While Alex was stuck, it took some times to access to those valves and remove the differential pressure from the pipe. It was down off the top of the dam and behind a locked gate. The tiny opening was a devastating vortex in this chamber of water. When a large empty pipe is connected to an entire reservoir of water, there is a huge differential of pressure, called delta P. In maths, Delta symbol means change. P represents pressure. An unlimited source of 25 feets beyond water was pressing into a 10 centimeters wide pipe. Closing the valve was the only way to relieve the pressure to isolate the lake water from the empty pen stock pipe. Alex lost consciousness after a few minutes and died. An investigation revealed violations by Georgia Power in the operating procedures of the dam. Alex's family sued them and received an undisclose settlement for his wrongful death. Lack of drawings being supplied to dive company was also a major failure.
Lotto checklist was uplaoded to include all valves in the dam.
Sucked into an oil pipe | The Paria Diving Disaster
Out of the 5 divers, only 1 survived. A GoPro video camera attached to one of the diver's suits recorded video and audio of what happened next. February 25th 2022 began as a normal day of work for the men of LMCS diving in pointe of Pierre. They were to perform some maintenance tasks on a pipeline for Pariah fuel a government-owned oil company in Trinidad and Tobago. The diver's names were Chris, Kazim, Yusuf, Rishi and Fyzal. They worked in a section of a pipe that was not currently used. An U-shaped pipeline between the area where an oil tanker would pull up to offload its oil called birth 5. The area where the oil enters the refinery called birth 6. In order to perform their work for the day they would have to separate the pipe from the ocean water to access the areas that needed repair. To do this they placed a special habitat Bell over the top of the pipe. This system would allow the water to be pushed down off the pipe so they could have a dry place to work.
Diving in an enclosed industrial space comes with a variety of deadly risks for commercial divers. An easy dive was planned to evaluate the Lake Oliver Dam for repairs, but a simple error will have deadly consequences. It was an inspection of damaged hydroelectric dam. No longer than 15 minutes normally. Despite strict preparation, one unbelievable error made everything go wrong. On October 27th 2020, Eric Herbert and Alex Paxton. They were divers for Glenn industrial group. Today's job was to check lake Oliver Dam in Colombus, Georgia. Company got contacted to perform underwater maintainance systems. Dam was operated by Georgie power and it had his own employees on the site managing operations. Hydroelectric dam produced energy from the controlled flow of water through it. The chain on one of the control gates wasn't working right and both divers were supposed to loook at what was broken so a formal plan could be made for repairs. Both of them had more than a decade of experience. One of the biggest risks was differential pressure or sources of energy in the water, including open valves moving areas or water when pressure is different between chambers. Difference of pressure between chambers can sucka diver into a hole or up against a grate with deadly force. Because of that most important pre dive efforts was identifying potential sources of energy in a facility. They were listed one by one in the checklist. Pre dive routien would be for the facility to lock out and tag out all of these energy sources. Each valve or switch to be locked in the cloest position and tagged with a lebal warning others to not touch until the lotto is removed. It's essential to protect anyone in the water. The lotto checklist is signed off by 2 employees of the dam and validated by the diver's company responsible for maintainance. And on this day the lotto was completed. Each item of the list was double checked and tagged out for maintainance.
The divers were aware of the location of the gates and the priming valve listed into the lotto. checklist. They dropped their meter into the water to confirm that there were no movement in the water at these locations. They were prepared to enter inside the dam. Eric was proposed a shift but opted to run down to check the chain himself. He knew the repair ahead would require a lot of divings so he offered to go down for this instead of his diving partner. On the area they entered there was a waterfill chamber where the main gates to the dam resided. It was fully connected to the main body of lake water The door to the gate would be raised by a chain when the gates were opened. When opened, water flows through the turbine to produce electricity. When it was closed, the power plant was not in operation. This main flow of water would move through the pen stock to the turbines where electricity would be produced from the turning of the turbine system. The water would then empty into the lower part of the river. When the gates were closed the pen stock pipe would empty out and be an open chamber leading to the turbines. The pen stock was empty because all the gates were locked. Alex started at the top of the chain, slowing moving down as he looked for any defect. He was wearing a helmet camera and a light to record what he might find. An air umbilical supplied him with air. As he passed the 20 feet mark, it was fine so he continued to slide down but then he was aware of a sudden pull up on his body. It only took a second. His body was plugging the hole, creating an even greater force when the water was still moving. With a violent force of 850 pounds of pressure, it was impossible to pull his arm back. His body was pulled against the surface of the dam so hard he could barely breathe Eric tried to pull him up but it couldn't release him from the trap.
Employees tried to figure out what pressure differential could have caused this. All lotto lcations were rechecked but they were off and tagged. It took 30 minutes to figure out where the sunction came from and get the valve properly closed. There was another valve not listed in the lotto checklist This pipe was to prime the pen stock before opening the main gate. If the pen stock was completly empty when the gate was opened, a huge rush of water would burst into the chamber and possibly damage the turbine at the end of the pen stock pipe. To prevent this rush of water, there is a small priming pipe that lets a smalelr volume of water into the pen stock to fill it. This priming system had before the operation 2 possible inlets of water, a flapper type valve similar to what is found in common toilet and there is a gate type valve with a wheel handle. The 2 valves were only listed once in the lockout form. The flatter valve was locked and tagged for this dive but no one had turned the wheel of the second valve. While Alex was stuck, it took some times to access to those valves and remove the differential pressure from the pipe. It was down off the top of the dam and behind a locked gate. The tiny opening was a devastating vortex in this chamber of water. When a large empty pipe is connected to an entire reservoir of water, there is a huge differential of pressure, called delta P. In maths, Delta symbol means change. P represents pressure. An unlimited source of 25 feets beyond water was pressing into a 10 centimeters wide pipe. Closing the valve was the only way to relieve the pressure to isolate the lake water from the empty pen stock pipe. Alex lost consciousness after a few minutes and died. An investigation revealed violations by Georgia Power in the operating procedures of the dam. Alex's family sued them and received an undisclose settlement for his wrongful death. Lack of drawings being supplied to dive company was also a major failure.
Lotto checklist was uplaoded to include all valves in the dam.
Out of the 5 divers, only 1 survived. A GoPro video camera attached to one of the diver's suits recorded video and audio of what happened next. February 25th 2022 began as a normal day of work for the men of LMCS diving in pointe of Pierre. They were to perform some maintenance tasks on a pipeline for Pariah fuel a government-owned oil company in Trinidad and Tobago. The diver's names were Chris, Kazim, Yusuf, Rishi and Fyzal. They worked in a section of a pipe that was not currently used. An U-shaped pipeline between the area where an oil tanker would pull up to offload its oil called birth 5. The area where the oil enters the refinery called birth 6. In order to perform their work for the day they would have to separate the pipe from the ocean water to access the areas that needed repair. To do this they placed a special habitat Bell over the top of the pipe. This system would allow the water to be pushed down off the pipe so they could have a dry place to work.
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The Most Painful Cave Deaths of All Time .
Wainapanapa Caves. On January 29, 2017, 32 yearsold Gregory Wilhelm was vacationing on Maui Hawaii with 3 friends. In Wainapanapa state park the groupdiscovered the entrance to the cave. The 4 of them, 2 men and 2 women decided to take a swim in the well lit pool near the cave entrance just as many tourists had done before. While the women stayed by the pool, Gregory, eager to explore the cave, convinces his male friend to join him. Gregory improvised, using his phone as flashlight. He put it inside a ziplockc bag to avoid it getting wet. If they planned to do cave exploration to begin with they probably would have brought a proper flashlight The women waited at the swimming pool at the cave entrance. Gregory and one friend ventured into the darkness. After a few feet they reached an area where the water rose to their waists and encountered a boulder blocking the way. Beneath the boulder there was a deep pool, a popular spot for divers. But without proper equipment they wanted to do a quick dive of about 1 minute. Since Gregory was the only one with a working light, his friend followed him in the water. They foud that the depth was much greater than expected. Discovery drove Gregory to explor further into a narrow passage but as the water level raised, his friend got scared and came back to the surface. Eventually Gregory who needed air too, turned back, only to find himself surrounded by darkness Panicked he managed to find a small pocket of air. But water level was unstable anf shifted dramatically with time. Strong waves were current, so he pressed on further into the cave. Meanwhile Gregory's friend resurfated. The 2 women had entered the cave, finding Gregory's friend in a state of disbelief and disorientation Entering the water again, Gregory's friend instructed the 2 women to scream to use the sound as a guide. After a third dive he spotted a tiny light. It was the flashlight from Gregory's phone. But Gregory was nowhere to be seen.
They went out of the cave to call the Hana fire department which contacted rescuers. Reports later indicated that Gregory lost his sense of direction in a tight passage. Each failed attempt to retrace his steps made him panicked and eventually he took a wrong turn. By the time he tried to find his way back, it was too late. He drowned in total darkness. Rescuers found Gregory's body 23 meters deep in the cave.
The Gross Canyon tragedy. On September 17th 2000, brothers Michael and Paul Hayden decided to explore an abandoned well cave in Gross Canyon, in La Crescenta Montrose, California. They knew the cave well since their childhood and their visits with 4 other siblings. This cave featured dry ledges and holes as well as water pool approximatly 30 meters deep situated between water shafts above. Through a small 90 x 120 cm entrance they entered into the cave, leading to an horizontal passage of about 15 meters long. Paul, a master sergeant and elite scuba diver with USAF Parescue force took the lead. He was equipeped with scuba gear that provided him with 2 hours of air and had no GoPro strapped to his head to serve as a light. Meanwhile, Michael stayed near the pool area to monitor his brother. They used a rope tether system attached to a large boulder in the main cave. Michael tug the rope to check on Paul's status. Paul would respond with similar tugs to indicate he was okay. The 20 first minutes, everything went normal. Eventually he had no answers and he foud the rope was tight. Initially he thought that Paul was stuck. He pulled as hard as he could but nothing changed and he moved out of the cave to seek help from the local fire department. Paul had 90 minutes of air remaining. Local fire department responded immediatly along with the LA county sherrif and the LA fire department. When Paul's GoPro was found, its footage was analyzed. It showed the moment he removed the regulator to breathe air from air pocket in an abandoned water shaft. Air in these pockets wether formed in abandoned water shafts or naturally within the cave. It didn't circulat eiwthin the cave and was contaminated with decay gases from the surrounding soil, rocks and organic material as well as gases released through water erosion of stones, leading to a dangerous increase in carbon dioxide concentration.
Although Paul was a scuba diver he was not a certified cave diver. He knew the risks of air pockets in caves and usually carried a lighter to test the oxygen levels before removing his regulator. However on that day he didn't have his lighter He assumed that the air was safe for a short breath Footage captured Paul's submersion and attempt to replace his regulator. He lsot consciousness instnatly, incapacitated and poisoned with CO2, dying within 1 minute or 2 as he sanked to the bottom.
The Santa Rose Blue Hole tragedy. On March 26th 2016, 2 skilled cave divers went on a dangerous mission to map an unexplored part of a cave system in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Deeper caves beneath the floor were sealed in 1976 after 2 divers died. In 2016, after reopening the entra,ce a 10 person team including the 2 cave divers Mike Young and Shane Thompson, a Navy veteran spent 3 days exploring the reopened tunnels. On the third and last day, Mike and Shane planned to explore a very tight spot at 42 meters then moved down to another narrow opening at 50 meters. Shane was told to wait at the open area and not to go past the second opening himself. Beyond the 165 feet point there were 5 more tight spots before the cave's last known area. Mike followed a guideline that had been set earlier, moving through boulders and squeezing through narrow passages while carrying tanks on his side and a rebreather unit. Shane had been following Mike up to the 165 feet opening. There Mike told him to wait but as soon as Shane was out of sight, Shane decided to follow him. Mike didnd't know that Shane was behind him. Shane followed the guideline along a rocky path over large boulders and sharp bends until he reached a narrow 3 foot opening. At that point water was full of silt and he ran into another tight passage He turned his body, trying to pull himself along the wall but his back mounted airbreather got caught in a rock. With one arm forward and the other touching the cave walls, he twisted, trying to free himself. But he was stuck between the rocks. Moving backwards would have damaged his rebreather. His breathing became fast and shallow Suddently Mike's arm hit Shane's head and they were face to face about 59 meters deep. Mike was surprised. Shane told that he was stuck. Mike tried for several minutes to free him. But they started panicking as the tunnel was too tight for both of them to move if Shane remained trapped.
Finally Mike pushed Shane just in the right way to free his rebreather, pulling him through the tight spot. Shane went back to the restriction he had just escaped Mike followed but then noticed that Shane accidentally move the guideline, leaving Mike where to go in the boulder filled passage. Shane continued this winding path and faced another narrow passage He moved too quickly and got the guideline tangled around his legs. He managed to free himself but lost the guideline in the process His breathing began to become too quick which was dangerous because rebreathers need controlled breathing to work properly. With no proper exits, only tight holes he couldn't see the guideline he had seen just outside where he was trapped. He started to hyperventilate. Mike arrived, seeing that Shane was very scared, moved aroudn the rocks to find an opening. He grabbed Shane by the shoulders and turned him around Shane seeing a way out, lunged forward and swam under Mike but he became trapped again this time under Mike's body. In desperation, Shane thrashed and kicked while Mike protected himself from the blows. During the struggle, Shane's heels tore Mike's suit and scraped him against the rocks before breaking free. Mike's equipment was still okay except for a ripped suit valve that let the water in. He also lost a fin but managed to get it back soon after. Shane continued along the guideline His rebreather couldn't keep up with his fast breathing so he switched to his emergency tank. Approaching another serie of tight spots, he pulled himself through with all his strenght but got stuck for the third time. Meanwhile, Mike found a hole leading back to the guideline and believing Shane had gone ahead, he followed the line upward toward the next restriction.
Feeling the tension on the line, he assumed that Shane was pulling from the front at the next tie off. However Mike realized that Shane was actually behind him still attached to an earlier part of the guidelin. Fearing the worst for Shane, Mike backtracked throught the tight passages and boulders Soon the line stopped moving a sign that Shane was in serious trouble. Pressing on, Mike discovered Shane wedged tightly in a narrow opening, lifeless and no longer wearing his rebreather mouthpiece. His bailout tank was empty, his suit was torn and the cord to his dive computer was ripped away. Mike had to report the tragedy to the rest of the day. Mike returned the next day to recover Shane's body, having navigated those tight maze like passages through the boulderfield all by himself.
Wainapanapa Caves. On January 29, 2017, 32 yearsold Gregory Wilhelm was vacationing on Maui Hawaii with 3 friends. In Wainapanapa state park the groupdiscovered the entrance to the cave. The 4 of them, 2 men and 2 women decided to take a swim in the well lit pool near the cave entrance just as many tourists had done before. While the women stayed by the pool, Gregory, eager to explore the cave, convinces his male friend to join him. Gregory improvised, using his phone as flashlight. He put it inside a ziplockc bag to avoid it getting wet. If they planned to do cave exploration to begin with they probably would have brought a proper flashlight The women waited at the swimming pool at the cave entrance. Gregory and one friend ventured into the darkness. After a few feet they reached an area where the water rose to their waists and encountered a boulder blocking the way. Beneath the boulder there was a deep pool, a popular spot for divers. But without proper equipment they wanted to do a quick dive of about 1 minute. Since Gregory was the only one with a working light, his friend followed him in the water. They foud that the depth was much greater than expected. Discovery drove Gregory to explor further into a narrow passage but as the water level raised, his friend got scared and came back to the surface. Eventually Gregory who needed air too, turned back, only to find himself surrounded by darkness Panicked he managed to find a small pocket of air. But water level was unstable anf shifted dramatically with time. Strong waves were current, so he pressed on further into the cave. Meanwhile Gregory's friend resurfated. The 2 women had entered the cave, finding Gregory's friend in a state of disbelief and disorientation Entering the water again, Gregory's friend instructed the 2 women to scream to use the sound as a guide. After a third dive he spotted a tiny light. It was the flashlight from Gregory's phone. But Gregory was nowhere to be seen.
They went out of the cave to call the Hana fire department which contacted rescuers. Reports later indicated that Gregory lost his sense of direction in a tight passage. Each failed attempt to retrace his steps made him panicked and eventually he took a wrong turn. By the time he tried to find his way back, it was too late. He drowned in total darkness. Rescuers found Gregory's body 23 meters deep in the cave.
The Gross Canyon tragedy. On September 17th 2000, brothers Michael and Paul Hayden decided to explore an abandoned well cave in Gross Canyon, in La Crescenta Montrose, California. They knew the cave well since their childhood and their visits with 4 other siblings. This cave featured dry ledges and holes as well as water pool approximatly 30 meters deep situated between water shafts above. Through a small 90 x 120 cm entrance they entered into the cave, leading to an horizontal passage of about 15 meters long. Paul, a master sergeant and elite scuba diver with USAF Parescue force took the lead. He was equipeped with scuba gear that provided him with 2 hours of air and had no GoPro strapped to his head to serve as a light. Meanwhile, Michael stayed near the pool area to monitor his brother. They used a rope tether system attached to a large boulder in the main cave. Michael tug the rope to check on Paul's status. Paul would respond with similar tugs to indicate he was okay. The 20 first minutes, everything went normal. Eventually he had no answers and he foud the rope was tight. Initially he thought that Paul was stuck. He pulled as hard as he could but nothing changed and he moved out of the cave to seek help from the local fire department. Paul had 90 minutes of air remaining. Local fire department responded immediatly along with the LA county sherrif and the LA fire department. When Paul's GoPro was found, its footage was analyzed. It showed the moment he removed the regulator to breathe air from air pocket in an abandoned water shaft. Air in these pockets wether formed in abandoned water shafts or naturally within the cave. It didn't circulat eiwthin the cave and was contaminated with decay gases from the surrounding soil, rocks and organic material as well as gases released through water erosion of stones, leading to a dangerous increase in carbon dioxide concentration.
Although Paul was a scuba diver he was not a certified cave diver. He knew the risks of air pockets in caves and usually carried a lighter to test the oxygen levels before removing his regulator. However on that day he didn't have his lighter He assumed that the air was safe for a short breath Footage captured Paul's submersion and attempt to replace his regulator. He lsot consciousness instnatly, incapacitated and poisoned with CO2, dying within 1 minute or 2 as he sanked to the bottom.
The Santa Rose Blue Hole tragedy. On March 26th 2016, 2 skilled cave divers went on a dangerous mission to map an unexplored part of a cave system in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Deeper caves beneath the floor were sealed in 1976 after 2 divers died. In 2016, after reopening the entra,ce a 10 person team including the 2 cave divers Mike Young and Shane Thompson, a Navy veteran spent 3 days exploring the reopened tunnels. On the third and last day, Mike and Shane planned to explore a very tight spot at 42 meters then moved down to another narrow opening at 50 meters. Shane was told to wait at the open area and not to go past the second opening himself. Beyond the 165 feet point there were 5 more tight spots before the cave's last known area. Mike followed a guideline that had been set earlier, moving through boulders and squeezing through narrow passages while carrying tanks on his side and a rebreather unit. Shane had been following Mike up to the 165 feet opening. There Mike told him to wait but as soon as Shane was out of sight, Shane decided to follow him. Mike didnd't know that Shane was behind him. Shane followed the guideline along a rocky path over large boulders and sharp bends until he reached a narrow 3 foot opening. At that point water was full of silt and he ran into another tight passage He turned his body, trying to pull himself along the wall but his back mounted airbreather got caught in a rock. With one arm forward and the other touching the cave walls, he twisted, trying to free himself. But he was stuck between the rocks. Moving backwards would have damaged his rebreather. His breathing became fast and shallow Suddently Mike's arm hit Shane's head and they were face to face about 59 meters deep. Mike was surprised. Shane told that he was stuck. Mike tried for several minutes to free him. But they started panicking as the tunnel was too tight for both of them to move if Shane remained trapped.
Finally Mike pushed Shane just in the right way to free his rebreather, pulling him through the tight spot. Shane went back to the restriction he had just escaped Mike followed but then noticed that Shane accidentally move the guideline, leaving Mike where to go in the boulder filled passage. Shane continued this winding path and faced another narrow passage He moved too quickly and got the guideline tangled around his legs. He managed to free himself but lost the guideline in the process His breathing began to become too quick which was dangerous because rebreathers need controlled breathing to work properly. With no proper exits, only tight holes he couldn't see the guideline he had seen just outside where he was trapped. He started to hyperventilate. Mike arrived, seeing that Shane was very scared, moved aroudn the rocks to find an opening. He grabbed Shane by the shoulders and turned him around Shane seeing a way out, lunged forward and swam under Mike but he became trapped again this time under Mike's body. In desperation, Shane thrashed and kicked while Mike protected himself from the blows. During the struggle, Shane's heels tore Mike's suit and scraped him against the rocks before breaking free. Mike's equipment was still okay except for a ripped suit valve that let the water in. He also lost a fin but managed to get it back soon after. Shane continued along the guideline His rebreather couldn't keep up with his fast breathing so he switched to his emergency tank. Approaching another serie of tight spots, he pulled himself through with all his strenght but got stuck for the third time. Meanwhile, Mike found a hole leading back to the guideline and believing Shane had gone ahead, he followed the line upward toward the next restriction.
Feeling the tension on the line, he assumed that Shane was pulling from the front at the next tie off. However Mike realized that Shane was actually behind him still attached to an earlier part of the guidelin. Fearing the worst for Shane, Mike backtracked throught the tight passages and boulders Soon the line stopped moving a sign that Shane was in serious trouble. Pressing on, Mike discovered Shane wedged tightly in a narrow opening, lifeless and no longer wearing his rebreather mouthpiece. His bailout tank was empty, his suit was torn and the cord to his dive computer was ripped away. Mike had to report the tragedy to the rest of the day. Mike returned the next day to recover Shane's body, having navigated those tight maze like passages through the boulderfield all by himself.
il y a 2 mois
Une des pires morts possibles en tout cas.
The Culverson Creek tragedy. On November 28, 1985, 7 cavers entered the Fullers entrance of the Culverson Creek cave, a 33,5 kilometers long system. It was in Greebier County, West Virginia. Originally the group wanted to explore Friar's hole but high water levels because of heavy rain forced them to swtich to a cave less prone to flooding. None of the cavers had been in fullers before. The entrance passage was a canyon between 1,5 and 2,4 meters wide with a 15 to 30 cm in deep stream Flowing swiftly over small loose rocks slabs about 15 meters inside, ona downhill slope, a boulder stood in the center of the passage with the stream flowing by on the left. At 3 : 50 pm, 3 cavers passed the boulder while 3 other were in the process with 26 years old Eric Tsakle leading. As Sakal reached the center of the boulder, it suddently tilted to the left, Despite attempts from other cavers to stop it, the rock moved, pinning Tsakle by his head in a standing position. 1 caver immediatly left to get help while 4 other attempted in vain to move the boulder. With one caver supportin Tsakle from below, The 3 companions searched something to use as a level. They tried with old truck parts but it was ineffective. One caver was sent to detch a hydrualic autojack and another called the Eastern Region cave rescue network at 4 : 10 pm. Tsakle lost consciousness within 30 seconds of the rockfall and stopped moving. After about 1 minute, at 3 : 59 pm, John Evans, a member of the group, noted that Tsakle's pulse was still strong despite its unconscious state and a trickle of blood from his left nostril. At 4 : 20 pm, the hydrualic jack arrived on the scene with its help along with some crowbars.
The team was finally able to shift the boulder from Tsakle who was moved in a dry spot abotu 20 feet away. CPI was made. The Renick rescue squad soon arrived and a paramedic took over CPR at 4 : 29 pm. Tsakle was evacuated on a stretcher to hospital by ambulance. Despite establishing IVs and administering cardiac drugs, his condition did not improve and was pronounced dead at 6 : 05 pm.
The Culverson Creek tragedy. On November 28, 1985, 7 cavers entered the Fullers entrance of the Culverson Creek cave, a 33,5 kilometers long system. It was in Greebier County, West Virginia. Originally the group wanted to explore Friar's hole but high water levels because of heavy rain forced them to swtich to a cave less prone to flooding. None of the cavers had been in fullers before. The entrance passage was a canyon between 1,5 and 2,4 meters wide with a 15 to 30 cm in deep stream Flowing swiftly over small loose rocks slabs about 15 meters inside, ona downhill slope, a boulder stood in the center of the passage with the stream flowing by on the left. At 3 : 50 pm, 3 cavers passed the boulder while 3 other were in the process with 26 years old Eric Tsakle leading. As Sakal reached the center of the boulder, it suddently tilted to the left, Despite attempts from other cavers to stop it, the rock moved, pinning Tsakle by his head in a standing position. 1 caver immediatly left to get help while 4 other attempted in vain to move the boulder. With one caver supportin Tsakle from below, The 3 companions searched something to use as a level. They tried with old truck parts but it was ineffective. One caver was sent to detch a hydrualic autojack and another called the Eastern Region cave rescue network at 4 : 10 pm. Tsakle lost consciousness within 30 seconds of the rockfall and stopped moving. After about 1 minute, at 3 : 59 pm, John Evans, a member of the group, noted that Tsakle's pulse was still strong despite its unconscious state and a trickle of blood from his left nostril. At 4 : 20 pm, the hydrualic jack arrived on the scene with its help along with some crowbars.
The team was finally able to shift the boulder from Tsakle who was moved in a dry spot abotu 20 feet away. CPI was made. The Renick rescue squad soon arrived and a paramedic took over CPR at 4 : 29 pm. Tsakle was evacuated on a stretcher to hospital by ambulance. Despite establishing IVs and administering cardiac drugs, his condition did not improve and was pronounced dead at 6 : 05 pm.
il y a 2 mois
Heureusement, certaines histoires se terminent bien
In June 23, 2018, a football team to 11 to 16 years old boys with a coach and assistant coach. Training goes as usual. Waiting for the older boy's team, the coach pull out his cell phone and sees countless miss calls from the boy's parents. Childrens didn't show up at home despite hours passed. The coach call the players individually but none of them nor the team's assistant coach could be reached until one player answers the phone. It was Sangpol Kanthawong, 13 years old He received call from home. He told the coach that other team's members rode their bycicles to nearby Tham Luang caves to explore them with their assistant coach. Heading at the cave's entra,ce the coach finds the kid's abandoned bycicles. A rapid steam of water flows through the cave entrance. Heavy rain started when the boys were inside. They ar enow trapped. Police found backpacks and other items left behind by the boys. However apart from the cave entrance, it was not possible to search deeper inside. Water level was so high ot block further access. Local authorities plus Thai Navy Seals are called to the Chiang Rai region. Also a British civilian approaches the thai authorities offering his help. His name is Vernon Unsworth, an experience caver living in the area and had good understanding of the Tham Luang cave system. He explored and mapped the cave foe years. Tham Luang is the fourth longest cave of Thailand. Over 1 kilometer past the entrance, the cave splits into 2 paths at a T section, Sam Yaek. From there the cave extends over 10 kilometers deep. If they were alive the kids were likely on a more elevated section further away. Unsworth connected with the British cave rescue council and enabled cave divers John Volanthen and Rick Stanton to join the search efforts. Both were long experienced divers witha great deal of trust between them. They performed large amount of rescue and body recovery missions together.
Heavy rainfalls leads to rising water levels inside the cave. The THai Navy Seals were now less able to advance inside When the British cave divers showed up there was skepticism to what they could contribute that the navy seals couldn't. Full time John worked as an IT consultant. Rick Stanton is a former firefighter. They lack military understanding and maybe athletic but they had a skillset perfectly suited. Getting through the cave here requires different skills because large parts are flooded. There are also passages where you can walk through the caves and other places where climbing is necessary. Tham Luang had poor visibility Both worked in the cave placing guidelines. First dive was chalelnging because they had to swim against the water current. So they were on the floor their hands in the sand pulling themselves along. Once guidelines were placed other divers could partially pull themselves along and orientation was made a lot easier. The divers target was a section called Pattaya beach, a large chamber located at higher elevation and could offer protection from the flood waters. But they interrupted their search for a while. With rain getting heavier, this might ultimatly determine the fate of the boys. Both ahd to pause their dives considering the conditions.
Navy SEALs were working to reduce the water levels. Countless volunteers joined the search such as Saman Kunan, a former Navy SEAL and an experienced diver. The SEALs set up a permanent camp inside the cave at chamber 3. This larger cavern provided enough unflooded space to permanently station the equipment,a ir tanks and divers. Amidst a bleak situation, they tried everything they could to divert rivers, find new cave entrances and use pumping stations to force as much water out of the cave as possible. At this point they boys and the assistant coach have been missing for 72 hours. Considering an imrpovement in weather situation, the British volunteers joined the help again. Embarking into the longest dive of the cave so far, with the goal of reaching the Pattaya Beach. They finally made it to the highest point of the cave system. But still no sign of life from the boys. Basic rule is to use a third of air in the way so you have another third left for the return and one third in reserve in case. The divers were past that rule but decided to not give up yet. Advancing further into the cave system, they laid guide wire throughout. They continude making their way more than twice as far from the T section as their initial destination, Pattaya Beach. When they eventually swim up to the water surface, they notice a light. John swam towards the lights and started hearing voices. Turning out the camera, he found them. The following day, 3 Navy SEALS dive to the team to stay with them for the remaining time. Now they had to get out of the cave. Elon Musk built a kid sized submarine but the rescue team rejected his offer claming that a rigid craft couldn't negociate the sinuous cave tunnels.
Final option was to leave the group in the cave until around mid october when the moonson season finally ends. There was the option to teach the boys how to dive and they could make short practise dives with instructors. Option 2 was to use an emergency elevator with a newly drill shaft similar to the 2010 rescue of miners in Chile. Option 3 was to wait until the rainy season was over. The team would be provided with food. Rescuers on the site realized that the situation was in fact worse. None of the options was realistic. Teaching the kids to dive in this extreme environment was not possible. Some of the boys don't know how to swim but they are also axhausted from spending day with no proper sleep and food. In addition the path through the narrow and dark cave was not recreational scuba diving and a panic attack would cause certain death. Drilling a shaft was also not realsitic. In the case of miners in Chile in 2010, it took them 7 weeks after the discovery before they could be freed. The situation in Thailand was not much better with the team being almost 1 kilometer underground. Between them there were mostly solid rocks that were difficult to drill through. It was also impossible to determine the exact location so the boys so that the borehole perfectly lines up with their chamber. Lastly, waiting until the end of the rainy season was doomed to fail. The oxygen level in the chamber was already in dangerous range. It was not survivable for a sustained time. And it was only the beginning of the rainy season which lasts until November. They would have to wait 4 months during which increasing rains could endanger the safe spot they were in. Saman Kunan, the retired Navy SEAL who volunteered to help, had died from lack of oxygen. WIth no plan available, an somewhat insane idea is thrown into the room. What if the childrens were sedated and transported through the cave system while being unconscious?
Rick Stanton gets in touch with old acquaintance Richard Harris, an anesthesiologist from Australia and a cave diver with over 30 years od experience. He considers sedating the boys is dangerous with low chances of survival. Still he travels to Thailand. He realizes that tdespit ethe risks there were no better options. A team assembled and was flown in with some of the best cave divers of the world. The kids in the cave would put a wetsuit and then given 2 shots of sedative drugs, leaving them fully unconscious. Then, a special diving mask is put on. covering the entire face and supplying positive pressure so that even if a gap opens under water, the air pressure should keep the water out. The boys hands were tied behind their back to keep their arms from swinging around. And a tank filled with 80% oxygen was placed in front of the boy's chest so that their head cannot fully tilt down which could result in a blocked airway. The kids would also be tethered to their divers so that they couldn't get lost. The kids lives were literally into the diver's hands. For longer intermediate cave segments which can be crossed on foot, the boys were taken into a stretcher and trasported towards the next diving segment. The drugs given to the kids are not enough for a whole journey. The diver had to administer a new drug to the child with a pre made syringe. Throughout the entire way the divers feared for the kid's lives. When the 2 first kids make it safely into chamber 3, confidence grows as it appears that the insane plan is actually working. The water had been successfully been drained from here on out. The Navy SEALs with volunteers transported the boys in stretchers. through the remaining rocky terrain. On the first day 4 boys were successfully rescued. The following day, another 4 kids were rescued. On the third and last dya the plan was to rescued the final 4 boys and the assistant coach.
But this time something didn't work. The last boy was the smallest of them all. The positive pressure mask didn't fit on his face. They tried another mask that they had taken with them. It was a small children's mask more suited for recreational use. Even this one barely fits the face. The divers secure it as good as possible. All the children and the coach were ultimatly saved. A success greater than the divers had expected. A Thai Navy SEALs contracted a blood infection however during the rescue operation. His name was Beirut Pakbara, a petty officer first class who struggled with health problems ever since the operation. 1 year after the rescue, he passed away.
In June 23, 2018, a football team to 11 to 16 years old boys with a coach and assistant coach. Training goes as usual. Waiting for the older boy's team, the coach pull out his cell phone and sees countless miss calls from the boy's parents. Childrens didn't show up at home despite hours passed. The coach call the players individually but none of them nor the team's assistant coach could be reached until one player answers the phone. It was Sangpol Kanthawong, 13 years old He received call from home. He told the coach that other team's members rode their bycicles to nearby Tham Luang caves to explore them with their assistant coach. Heading at the cave's entra,ce the coach finds the kid's abandoned bycicles. A rapid steam of water flows through the cave entrance. Heavy rain started when the boys were inside. They ar enow trapped. Police found backpacks and other items left behind by the boys. However apart from the cave entrance, it was not possible to search deeper inside. Water level was so high ot block further access. Local authorities plus Thai Navy Seals are called to the Chiang Rai region. Also a British civilian approaches the thai authorities offering his help. His name is Vernon Unsworth, an experience caver living in the area and had good understanding of the Tham Luang cave system. He explored and mapped the cave foe years. Tham Luang is the fourth longest cave of Thailand. Over 1 kilometer past the entrance, the cave splits into 2 paths at a T section, Sam Yaek. From there the cave extends over 10 kilometers deep. If they were alive the kids were likely on a more elevated section further away. Unsworth connected with the British cave rescue council and enabled cave divers John Volanthen and Rick Stanton to join the search efforts. Both were long experienced divers witha great deal of trust between them. They performed large amount of rescue and body recovery missions together.
Heavy rainfalls leads to rising water levels inside the cave. The THai Navy Seals were now less able to advance inside When the British cave divers showed up there was skepticism to what they could contribute that the navy seals couldn't. Full time John worked as an IT consultant. Rick Stanton is a former firefighter. They lack military understanding and maybe athletic but they had a skillset perfectly suited. Getting through the cave here requires different skills because large parts are flooded. There are also passages where you can walk through the caves and other places where climbing is necessary. Tham Luang had poor visibility Both worked in the cave placing guidelines. First dive was chalelnging because they had to swim against the water current. So they were on the floor their hands in the sand pulling themselves along. Once guidelines were placed other divers could partially pull themselves along and orientation was made a lot easier. The divers target was a section called Pattaya beach, a large chamber located at higher elevation and could offer protection from the flood waters. But they interrupted their search for a while. With rain getting heavier, this might ultimatly determine the fate of the boys. Both ahd to pause their dives considering the conditions.
Navy SEALs were working to reduce the water levels. Countless volunteers joined the search such as Saman Kunan, a former Navy SEAL and an experienced diver. The SEALs set up a permanent camp inside the cave at chamber 3. This larger cavern provided enough unflooded space to permanently station the equipment,a ir tanks and divers. Amidst a bleak situation, they tried everything they could to divert rivers, find new cave entrances and use pumping stations to force as much water out of the cave as possible. At this point they boys and the assistant coach have been missing for 72 hours. Considering an imrpovement in weather situation, the British volunteers joined the help again. Embarking into the longest dive of the cave so far, with the goal of reaching the Pattaya Beach. They finally made it to the highest point of the cave system. But still no sign of life from the boys. Basic rule is to use a third of air in the way so you have another third left for the return and one third in reserve in case. The divers were past that rule but decided to not give up yet. Advancing further into the cave system, they laid guide wire throughout. They continude making their way more than twice as far from the T section as their initial destination, Pattaya Beach. When they eventually swim up to the water surface, they notice a light. John swam towards the lights and started hearing voices. Turning out the camera, he found them. The following day, 3 Navy SEALS dive to the team to stay with them for the remaining time. Now they had to get out of the cave. Elon Musk built a kid sized submarine but the rescue team rejected his offer claming that a rigid craft couldn't negociate the sinuous cave tunnels.
Final option was to leave the group in the cave until around mid october when the moonson season finally ends. There was the option to teach the boys how to dive and they could make short practise dives with instructors. Option 2 was to use an emergency elevator with a newly drill shaft similar to the 2010 rescue of miners in Chile. Option 3 was to wait until the rainy season was over. The team would be provided with food. Rescuers on the site realized that the situation was in fact worse. None of the options was realistic. Teaching the kids to dive in this extreme environment was not possible. Some of the boys don't know how to swim but they are also axhausted from spending day with no proper sleep and food. In addition the path through the narrow and dark cave was not recreational scuba diving and a panic attack would cause certain death. Drilling a shaft was also not realsitic. In the case of miners in Chile in 2010, it took them 7 weeks after the discovery before they could be freed. The situation in Thailand was not much better with the team being almost 1 kilometer underground. Between them there were mostly solid rocks that were difficult to drill through. It was also impossible to determine the exact location so the boys so that the borehole perfectly lines up with their chamber. Lastly, waiting until the end of the rainy season was doomed to fail. The oxygen level in the chamber was already in dangerous range. It was not survivable for a sustained time. And it was only the beginning of the rainy season which lasts until November. They would have to wait 4 months during which increasing rains could endanger the safe spot they were in. Saman Kunan, the retired Navy SEAL who volunteered to help, had died from lack of oxygen. WIth no plan available, an somewhat insane idea is thrown into the room. What if the childrens were sedated and transported through the cave system while being unconscious?
Rick Stanton gets in touch with old acquaintance Richard Harris, an anesthesiologist from Australia and a cave diver with over 30 years od experience. He considers sedating the boys is dangerous with low chances of survival. Still he travels to Thailand. He realizes that tdespit ethe risks there were no better options. A team assembled and was flown in with some of the best cave divers of the world. The kids in the cave would put a wetsuit and then given 2 shots of sedative drugs, leaving them fully unconscious. Then, a special diving mask is put on. covering the entire face and supplying positive pressure so that even if a gap opens under water, the air pressure should keep the water out. The boys hands were tied behind their back to keep their arms from swinging around. And a tank filled with 80% oxygen was placed in front of the boy's chest so that their head cannot fully tilt down which could result in a blocked airway. The kids would also be tethered to their divers so that they couldn't get lost. The kids lives were literally into the diver's hands. For longer intermediate cave segments which can be crossed on foot, the boys were taken into a stretcher and trasported towards the next diving segment. The drugs given to the kids are not enough for a whole journey. The diver had to administer a new drug to the child with a pre made syringe. Throughout the entire way the divers feared for the kid's lives. When the 2 first kids make it safely into chamber 3, confidence grows as it appears that the insane plan is actually working. The water had been successfully been drained from here on out. The Navy SEALs with volunteers transported the boys in stretchers. through the remaining rocky terrain. On the first day 4 boys were successfully rescued. The following day, another 4 kids were rescued. On the third and last dya the plan was to rescued the final 4 boys and the assistant coach.
But this time something didn't work. The last boy was the smallest of them all. The positive pressure mask didn't fit on his face. They tried another mask that they had taken with them. It was a small children's mask more suited for recreational use. Even this one barely fits the face. The divers secure it as good as possible. All the children and the coach were ultimatly saved. A success greater than the divers had expected. A Thai Navy SEALs contracted a blood infection however during the rescue operation. His name was Beirut Pakbara, a petty officer first class who struggled with health problems ever since the operation. 1 year after the rescue, he passed away.
il y a 2 mois
TintinQuiRit
2 mois
C'est horrible
je me demande toujours comment ils ont fait pour pas arriver a le sortir
il y a 2 mois
Anthony_A3
2 mois
Je l'avais vu il y a plusieurs mois. Et le pire c'est que ce n'est que l'une des dizaines d'histoires absolument terrifiantes sur les morts dans les grottes et autres.
Jiudan cave. Wang Yuan and Wang Tao were 2 friends, 2 experienced divers. They wanted eo tner the Jiudan cave in China to break their own personal record. Someone previously placed a guideline that extended for 160 meters. They wanted to extended by over 10 meters for a total depth of 170 meters This required them to leave the existing guideline for a some time. That was risky because of the depth. They already completed 15 dives in the cave's northern entrance so they felt quite confident, even deciding to do a practise dive in open water to reach 152 meters to see what it wold be like and identify potential problems. However Tao had to skip the practise due to illness. Yuan went alone and everything went smoothly on April 18th 2014.They did months of preparation. They estimated it would need them 20 minutes to reach their target depth and they would only stay here for a few minutes before starting their ascent. Any extra minute of depth would require additional hours of decompression. They also estimated it would take them 3 hours and 50 minutes to get back to the surface safely allowing enough time for the pressure to not be too harsh on their bodies. Because of rainfall days prior, during their descent they noticed that visibility was reduced but they continued anyway. Under normal conditions they could see about 15 meters ahead but on that day it was barely 2 meters. They placed air tanks at various depths as extra measures, each one containing the appropriate gas mixture for their respective depth. Plus, a friend named Pei stayed near the cave's surface to assist if needed Yuan's role was to keep them on the guideline while Tao's role was to place arrow mark along the line to indicate the direction back into the cave entrance. Both nitrogen and oxygen can become very problematic unde rhigh pressure so the correct mixture of gas was crucial.
They followed the guidelines carefully, switching tanks at the appropriate depths. However after 164 meters, Yuan felt he might lose consciousness. Considering they needed to ascent to counter this and only 4 meters beyond the established guideline with visibility around half that distance, they turned back toward the line and the surface. Yuan led them to where the guideline should have been. But the guideline was gone. They eventually found it but the panic at losing the line caused them to breathe faster, leading them to consume more gas than normal. By the time they found the guideline, Yuan's cylinder was nearly empty. He had to switch back to his main tank which contained surface air which was not ideal. Initially he felt okay but around the 120 meters mark he begen trembling involuntarily. They needed to reach their next set of cylinders which were at 74 meters away. Yuan still had hope until he looked down and saw Tao stucked under a rock. Tao accidentally swam into the rock and the gotten wedged there because of low visibility. Tao wasn't attempting to free himself but rather shining his light at his neck, signaling he was running out of air. Yuan gave Tao an emergency mouthpiece. They resumed their ascent with little air left. After quick calculation,s, they realizd they had 3 minutes of air. Tao was fatigued and Yuan had to pull him by the arm. They were about 91 meters from the surface. Yuan checked his air supply saw there was only enough for 1 person to ascend another 40 meters. Fortunatly about 15 meters away there was the next set of cylinders they had placed earlier. Suddently Yuan saw Tao float past him, disappearing in the murky water. Yuan swam after him but he didn't see Tao anywhere. With his tank about to run dry, he reached the next piece of cylinders before searching agai. He quickly got to those cynlinders and swtiched tanks and went back to look for Tao.
As he descended once more he still couldn't find him. His new tank began to run low so he had to ascend again to the next piece of cylinders. Unfortunatly those cynlinders were placed at a higher depth because they were meant to use in shallow water. It would be dangerous to use it at deeper depth. If someone used those tankss and dived too deep, they would risk nitrogen narcosis, a state similar to drunkess as nitrogen is absorbed too rapidly. Despite the risk Yuan still tried to go deeper to search for Tao. At a point he lost consciousness briefly and woke up later. It was the warning sign that he needed to get out immediatly. He attempted to follow the necessarly decompression stops on the way up but he panicked and weakened state. He ascended faster than he should have stopping for 3 hours instead of 4 hours required. Upon surfacing, Yuan told Pei what happened. Pei dove in to search for Tao but realized Yuan also might be in serious trouble because of his rapid ascent. When Pei surfaced, he found Yuan having symptoms of both nitrogen narcosis and decompresssion sickness. As soon as Yuan began removing his regulator, he started vomiting and twitching, experiencing severe dizziness. They had to get Yuan urgent medical help. Rescuers errived but before entering the cave they needed 1 day to plan and gather the correct tanks for those depths. By then it was almost certain that Tao had died. By the next day his lifeless body was found at a depth of 54 meters. Yuan spent several days in a decompression chamber. Ultimatly he made a full recovery.
Kalimba cave tragedy. It was December 2004. 9 divers were about to enter the Colomus Cote for a second time while on vacation in Mexico. Their plan was to follow the guidelines to the Bosh Chen Cenote before turning back. They split into 2 groups with the first group goingahead, setting markers to highlight the correct path while the second would follow. Since the second group had more efficient oxygen tanks, they planned to go farther before returning while the second group would start heading back earlier. As team 2 was expected to resurface first, they would remove a specific type of markers called cookies to signal their exit. Seeing that the cookies were gone, the first team would then remove their own markers on the way back, ensuring the cave remained clean for the future divers. Team 1 noticing the absence of the coookies began their ascent but when they resurfated, team 2 was nowhere to be found. They searched for 30 minutes but found nothing. Regrouping in the colimbus cote they geared up to renter the tunnel and search for them. By this point team 2 had little oxygen left Suddently bubbles appeared and 2 divers quickly resurfated. They explained what happened. Instead of folloxing the intended exit path, team 2 had mistakenly turned left. The return trip should have been short but they only realized their mistake after swimming 426 meters in the wrong direction. By the time they noticed they were already 914 meters away from the original exit. However another exit was just 90 meters away. But they needed to cross a 21 meters gap to reach it, and with no guidelines. Kent, one of the divers, took out his safety line and secured it, beginning to swim across. He was just short of reaching the guideline when his line stopped him. It was too short to cover the whope gap.
Heading back, Kent saw the group heading toward the initial path. He swam fast to catch up but by then the oxygen legel was low and there was no air pocket. They finally reached the correct line after 25 minutes. 30 minutes were remaining; Only 200 psi left. He moved next to Jeanne who had more air and she shared hers using her emergency extra mouthpiece. In tight passages Bill had to hold his breath while Jeanne squeezed through first. Michael also began to run dangerously low on air. He was the least experienced of the group. He panicked but fortunatly Kent reached him in time, handed him his emergency mouthpiece. Menawhile Bill and Jeanne made it out with 500 psi only left in Jeanne's tank. A few more minutes and they would have drowned. They informed that Michael and Kent were behind them. Their lights had been visible just before they exited. 76 meters inside, the divers from team 1 spotted both Michael and Kent's lights but they were not moving. Both ran out of oxygen and drowned just 5 minutes from the exit.
Jiudan cave. Wang Yuan and Wang Tao were 2 friends, 2 experienced divers. They wanted eo tner the Jiudan cave in China to break their own personal record. Someone previously placed a guideline that extended for 160 meters. They wanted to extended by over 10 meters for a total depth of 170 meters This required them to leave the existing guideline for a some time. That was risky because of the depth. They already completed 15 dives in the cave's northern entrance so they felt quite confident, even deciding to do a practise dive in open water to reach 152 meters to see what it wold be like and identify potential problems. However Tao had to skip the practise due to illness. Yuan went alone and everything went smoothly on April 18th 2014.They did months of preparation. They estimated it would need them 20 minutes to reach their target depth and they would only stay here for a few minutes before starting their ascent. Any extra minute of depth would require additional hours of decompression. They also estimated it would take them 3 hours and 50 minutes to get back to the surface safely allowing enough time for the pressure to not be too harsh on their bodies. Because of rainfall days prior, during their descent they noticed that visibility was reduced but they continued anyway. Under normal conditions they could see about 15 meters ahead but on that day it was barely 2 meters. They placed air tanks at various depths as extra measures, each one containing the appropriate gas mixture for their respective depth. Plus, a friend named Pei stayed near the cave's surface to assist if needed Yuan's role was to keep them on the guideline while Tao's role was to place arrow mark along the line to indicate the direction back into the cave entrance. Both nitrogen and oxygen can become very problematic unde rhigh pressure so the correct mixture of gas was crucial.
They followed the guidelines carefully, switching tanks at the appropriate depths. However after 164 meters, Yuan felt he might lose consciousness. Considering they needed to ascent to counter this and only 4 meters beyond the established guideline with visibility around half that distance, they turned back toward the line and the surface. Yuan led them to where the guideline should have been. But the guideline was gone. They eventually found it but the panic at losing the line caused them to breathe faster, leading them to consume more gas than normal. By the time they found the guideline, Yuan's cylinder was nearly empty. He had to switch back to his main tank which contained surface air which was not ideal. Initially he felt okay but around the 120 meters mark he begen trembling involuntarily. They needed to reach their next set of cylinders which were at 74 meters away. Yuan still had hope until he looked down and saw Tao stucked under a rock. Tao accidentally swam into the rock and the gotten wedged there because of low visibility. Tao wasn't attempting to free himself but rather shining his light at his neck, signaling he was running out of air. Yuan gave Tao an emergency mouthpiece. They resumed their ascent with little air left. After quick calculation,s, they realizd they had 3 minutes of air. Tao was fatigued and Yuan had to pull him by the arm. They were about 91 meters from the surface. Yuan checked his air supply saw there was only enough for 1 person to ascend another 40 meters. Fortunatly about 15 meters away there was the next set of cylinders they had placed earlier. Suddently Yuan saw Tao float past him, disappearing in the murky water. Yuan swam after him but he didn't see Tao anywhere. With his tank about to run dry, he reached the next piece of cylinders before searching agai. He quickly got to those cynlinders and swtiched tanks and went back to look for Tao.
As he descended once more he still couldn't find him. His new tank began to run low so he had to ascend again to the next piece of cylinders. Unfortunatly those cynlinders were placed at a higher depth because they were meant to use in shallow water. It would be dangerous to use it at deeper depth. If someone used those tankss and dived too deep, they would risk nitrogen narcosis, a state similar to drunkess as nitrogen is absorbed too rapidly. Despite the risk Yuan still tried to go deeper to search for Tao. At a point he lost consciousness briefly and woke up later. It was the warning sign that he needed to get out immediatly. He attempted to follow the necessarly decompression stops on the way up but he panicked and weakened state. He ascended faster than he should have stopping for 3 hours instead of 4 hours required. Upon surfacing, Yuan told Pei what happened. Pei dove in to search for Tao but realized Yuan also might be in serious trouble because of his rapid ascent. When Pei surfaced, he found Yuan having symptoms of both nitrogen narcosis and decompresssion sickness. As soon as Yuan began removing his regulator, he started vomiting and twitching, experiencing severe dizziness. They had to get Yuan urgent medical help. Rescuers errived but before entering the cave they needed 1 day to plan and gather the correct tanks for those depths. By then it was almost certain that Tao had died. By the next day his lifeless body was found at a depth of 54 meters. Yuan spent several days in a decompression chamber. Ultimatly he made a full recovery.
Kalimba cave tragedy. It was December 2004. 9 divers were about to enter the Colomus Cote for a second time while on vacation in Mexico. Their plan was to follow the guidelines to the Bosh Chen Cenote before turning back. They split into 2 groups with the first group goingahead, setting markers to highlight the correct path while the second would follow. Since the second group had more efficient oxygen tanks, they planned to go farther before returning while the second group would start heading back earlier. As team 2 was expected to resurface first, they would remove a specific type of markers called cookies to signal their exit. Seeing that the cookies were gone, the first team would then remove their own markers on the way back, ensuring the cave remained clean for the future divers. Team 1 noticing the absence of the coookies began their ascent but when they resurfated, team 2 was nowhere to be found. They searched for 30 minutes but found nothing. Regrouping in the colimbus cote they geared up to renter the tunnel and search for them. By this point team 2 had little oxygen left Suddently bubbles appeared and 2 divers quickly resurfated. They explained what happened. Instead of folloxing the intended exit path, team 2 had mistakenly turned left. The return trip should have been short but they only realized their mistake after swimming 426 meters in the wrong direction. By the time they noticed they were already 914 meters away from the original exit. However another exit was just 90 meters away. But they needed to cross a 21 meters gap to reach it, and with no guidelines. Kent, one of the divers, took out his safety line and secured it, beginning to swim across. He was just short of reaching the guideline when his line stopped him. It was too short to cover the whope gap.
Heading back, Kent saw the group heading toward the initial path. He swam fast to catch up but by then the oxygen legel was low and there was no air pocket. They finally reached the correct line after 25 minutes. 30 minutes were remaining; Only 200 psi left. He moved next to Jeanne who had more air and she shared hers using her emergency extra mouthpiece. In tight passages Bill had to hold his breath while Jeanne squeezed through first. Michael also began to run dangerously low on air. He was the least experienced of the group. He panicked but fortunatly Kent reached him in time, handed him his emergency mouthpiece. Menawhile Bill and Jeanne made it out with 500 psi only left in Jeanne's tank. A few more minutes and they would have drowned. They informed that Michael and Kent were behind them. Their lights had been visible just before they exited. 76 meters inside, the divers from team 1 spotted both Michael and Kent's lights but they were not moving. Both ran out of oxygen and drowned just 5 minutes from the exit.
j'ai aussi vu cette vidéo il y a plus d'un an, c'est un reupload ?
il y a 2 mois
j'ai aussi vu cette vidéo il y a plus d'un an, c'est un reupload ?
Je ne sais pas concernant cette vidéo. Perso, j'avais vu une autre vidéo sur cette histoire en anglais. Celle là je crois :
il y a 2 mois
En tout cas de toutes les morts dans le genre, celle de Nutty Putty semble être la plus connue.
il y a 2 mois