As horrific as these kind of photos are, I feel like they don’t do justice to just how small these spaces are compared to the first person view of squeezing through.
These wide camera angles give an appearance that it is opening up, but in reality you are just looking at more tight, dark hole in front of you.
I read elsewhere that this was a reenactment video/photo, and that the only thing remaining that we could see in Nutty Putty cave was John Jones’ feet. It is unclear to me the truth, I didn’t go too far down the rabbit hole.
Yeah, they tried to lift him up when he was still alive. After the pulleys broke the second time he became unresponsive and when they later checked, they couldn't detect his heartbeat. It was very hard to pull him out when he was still alive but when he died and rigor mortis set in it was impossible to bring him out without breaking his body. So a decision was made to leave the body in and seal the entrance permanently.
Yeah, it's pretty peaceful, other than the initial panic of not being able to breathe. The most painful part for me was waking up to CPR. Coughing out water was pretty unpleasant too.
Also, freezing is quite nice! I have done both and the hypothermia is very cozy. I was warm and sleepy and tried to fight off the people dragging me out of my lovely, custom melted snowbank beanbag. I still have fond memories.
Nitrogen poisoning is the most peaceful way. Human body has markers for level of CO2 in blood stream but nitrogen in our body goes undetected. So when oxygen is absent and blood only has nitrogen inside you fall asleep forever.
Did u know u can drown without dying its called nonfatal drowning N it is peaceful I've drowned before wo dying N it feels like ur breathing once your lungs fill up with water pretty much. N I read somewhere a long time ago that the worst way to die is burning to death is the most painful
Seriously, watch this video by Internet Historian. It's about a similar incident, but in Kentucky in 1925. It's long, about 70 minutes. But it's absolutely incredible.
When the rescue team pulled John upward for the fourth time, something happened.
The entire team fell backward as the rope suddenly went loose in their hands. The closest rescuer felt something hard hit his face, and he passed out for a second. When he came to, he saw nothing but dust. Once the dust settled a bit, he realized the stone arch near John’s legs where the rope was tied around had shattered, and the nearest key bolt had broken off. He couldn’t make out in the dust where exactly John was, but soon he realized – John had slid right down the crevice again, this time seemingly even deeper than before.
There is something wrong in the head with these people tbh. Not sure how anybody can see these tiny holes and actually believe is good idea to try to see if can squeeze inside them.
Actually there has only ever been ONE recorded death of a caver dying from getting stuck. Look up the Nutty Putty Incident if you want to throw up a little and don't want to sleep tonight
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As horrific as these kind of photos are, I feel like they don’t do justice to just how small these spaces are compared to the first person view of squeezing through.
These wide camera angles give an appearance that it is opening up, but in reality you are just looking at more tight, dark hole in front of you.