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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 4 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that. But
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  Speaker 1: On August twenty fifth, twenty ten, a small twin engine
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  Speaker 1: propeller plane sat on the tarmac at kinshasa International Airport
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  Speaker 1: in the Congo. As the plane was being refueled, the
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  Speaker 1: co pilots, sixty two year old Danny Philomont from Belgium
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  Speaker 1: and thirty nine year old Chris Wilson from England, walked
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  Speaker 1: up the stairs and into the cockpit. As the pilots
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  Speaker 1: got settled in and began their internal systems checks, the
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  Speaker 1: flight attendant walked up the stairs, she said hello to
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  Speaker 1: the pilots, and then she began preparing the cabin for
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  Speaker 1: the passengers. The main cabin began boarding at eleven am,
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  Speaker 1: and by eleven thirty am all eighteen passengers that were
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  Speaker 1: expected to board had taken their seats, so the flight
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  Speaker 1: attendant closed the doors, went into the cockpit and told
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  Speaker 1: the pilots they were ready for take off. This was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a one hour long routine domestic flight
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  Speaker 1: to ben Dundu, which is a province that was just
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  Speaker 1: outside the border of Conshasa to the east. This particular
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  Speaker 1: crew had made this flight dozens of times in the
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  Speaker 1: past without any issues. As the little plane made its
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  Speaker 1: way over to the runway, the flight attendant demonstrated what
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  Speaker 1: to do in case of various in flight emergencies, and
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  Speaker 1: then by noon the plane was airborne. One hour later.
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  Speaker 1: Residents of a town located just southwest of ben Dundu
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  Speaker 1: remembered looking up into the sky and seeing the small
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  Speaker 1: prop plane falling through the clouds in a near vertical
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  Speaker 1: nose dive. Seconds later, the plane crashed into the ground
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the neighborhood. Luckily, the crash
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  Speaker 1: did not kill anybody on the ground, but unfortunately, the pilots,
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  Speaker 1: the flight attendant, and seventeen of the eighteen passengers died
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  Speaker 1: on impact, and the one passenger that survived was very
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  Speaker 1: badly hurt and was left in a coma. An investigation
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  Speaker 1: was launched into what happened, and very quickly it was
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  Speaker 1: theorized that they must have run out of gas because
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  Speaker 1: when they hit the ground there was no explosion, there
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  Speaker 1: was no fire, but upon closer inspection it would turn
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  Speaker 1: out the plane had plenty of fuel. The black box,
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  Speaker 1: which is a device that records the audio inside the cockpit,
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  Speaker 1: was recovered, but unfortunately it was inoperable, so it didn't
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  Speaker 1: give them any other clues as to what happened. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: were stumped. Did they strike a bird in the air,
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  Speaker 1: did the engines suddenly fail? Was it operator error? They
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. A few days after the crash, the one
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  Speaker 1: surviving passenger miraculously came out of their coma and remembered
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  Speaker 1: in vivid detail what happened up in the skies right
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  Speaker 1: before they crashed. They said. As the plane was making
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  Speaker 1: their final descent into Bandundo, the flight attendant was walking
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  Speaker 1: down the aisle reminding everyone to put away their big
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  Speaker 1: devices and put their seat in the upright position. And
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  Speaker 1: as she got about halfway down the aisle, she looked
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  Speaker 1: towards the back of the plane, and she suddenly gasped
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  Speaker 1: and covered her mouth, turned around, and walked very quickly
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  Speaker 1: back towards the front of the plane into the cockpit,
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  Speaker 1: where she disappeared. The passengers that had seen her do
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  Speaker 1: this were immediately concerned that something was wrong with the plane,
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  Speaker 1: and so they stood up and looked towards the rear
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  Speaker 1: of the plane where she had been looking, and right
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  Speaker 1: away they knew what it was she was concerned about.
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  Speaker 1: There was a hissing crocodile making its way up the aisle.
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  Speaker 1: Someone must have smuggled it on, and as passengers realized
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  Speaker 1: what was happening, they all panicked and stampeded towards the
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  Speaker 1: front of the plane. This sudden shift in weight threw
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  Speaker 1: off the plane's center of gravity, causing a nose tie
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  Speaker 1: that the pilots could not recover from before they crashed.
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  Speaker 1: After hearing this story, the investigators remembered that a living
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  Speaker 1: crocodile had been found around the wreckage, but no one
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  Speaker 1: had thought much of it because in the congo. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of exotic animals are smuggled onto flights. Specifically, crocodiles are
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  Speaker 1: smuggled onto these planes with such regularity that passengers often
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  Speaker 1: can recognize the very specific crocodile smell somewhere the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll tell the pilots. They'll come back, they'll find
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  Speaker 1: the crocodile, and the owner of said crocodile. They'll kick
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  Speaker 1: them off before takeoff. But obviously this time nobody smelled
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  Speaker 1: the crocodile. Just after midnight on April fourth, twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: a man stepped out of his tent into the pitch
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  Speaker 1: black woods of central Maine. He was wearing a wool hat,
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  Speaker 1: he had a nice brand new Columbia jacket on, some
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  Speaker 1: lands and jeans, and some high quality boots. He was
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  Speaker 1: carrying a backpack as well as another bag that contained
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  Speaker 1: a screwdriver along with some other tools. He adjusted his
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  Speaker 1: glasses and then looked up into the sky, and it
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  Speaker 1: was so dark he couldn't even see the moon, And
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  Speaker 1: he thought to himself, perfect He turned and began quickly
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  Speaker 1: walking away from his tent into this forest, where the
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  Speaker 1: trees were so dense that if you weren't careful, you
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  Speaker 1: could actually get stuck in between two trees and scattered
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  Speaker 1: all over the ground where these huge slippery boulders covered
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  Speaker 1: in moss, where one wrong step and you're breaking an ankle.
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  Speaker 1: But despite the rugged terrain and zero visibility, this man
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  Speaker 1: was able to easily navigate this area as if he
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  Speaker 1: had memorized every step. After an hour of silent hiking,
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  Speaker 1: he reached this huge pond called North Pond, and while
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  Speaker 1: staying hidden in the trees, he followed the shoreline until
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  Speaker 1: he reached the edge of the forest overlooking this clearing,
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  Speaker 1: and right in front of him were dozens of cabins
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  Speaker 1: overlooking this pond. This was Pine Tree summer camp. He
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  Speaker 1: waited in the tree line for a few minutes, just
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  Speaker 1: listening to make sure nobody was out there, even though
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  Speaker 1: he knew their schedule and knew no one was there.
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  Speaker 1: After not hearing anything and feeling like the coast was clear,
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  Speaker 1: he stepped out of the woods and walked up to
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  Speaker 1: the top of the camp to the dining hall, and
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  Speaker 1: he made his way around to the back door. There,
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  Speaker 1: he pulled a screwdriver out of his bag and expertly
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  Speaker 1: popped open the lock and stepped inside. Once he was inside,
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  Speaker 1: he pulled out his tiny flashlight and he made his
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  Speaker 1: way over to the pantry, where he began stuffing his
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  Speaker 1: bag full of candy, chips, and coffee. Once his bag
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  Speaker 1: was almost completely full, he walked over to the walk
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  Speaker 1: in freezer. He went into his pocket and pulled out
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  Speaker 1: a key that he had stolen on a previous trip.
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  Speaker 1: He unlocked the lock, went inside, he grabbed some frozen
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  Speaker 1: hamburger patties and hot dogs, and then he left the
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  Speaker 1: freezer and locked it behind him. He did one more
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  Speaker 1: pass through the pantry and grabs some more candy off
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  Speaker 1: the shelves and jammed them into his pockets. And then,
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  Speaker 1: after feeling satisfied that he had all he could take,
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  Speaker 1: he decided it was time to leave, And so as
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  Speaker 1: he made his way to the door, he thought to himself, great,
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  Speaker 1: another successful raid complete, or so he thought. A motion
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  Speaker 1: detector had recently been installed inside of the dining hall
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  Speaker 1: behind the ice machine. As soon as this man had
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  Speaker 1: pried open the back door, it had picked him up
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  Speaker 1: and remained silent, but sent an alarm to the nearby
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  Speaker 1: home of Sergeant Terry Hughes, who was a game warden
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  Speaker 1: that was investigating recent thefts in the area. Terry sped
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  Speaker 1: to the camp in under four minutes, and he parked
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  Speaker 1: his truck aways away from the dining hall because he
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  Speaker 1: was worried he would scare off the perpetrator, so he
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  Speaker 1: parked his car and ran on foot, staying in the
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  Speaker 1: tree line until he got right behind the dining hall.
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  Speaker 1: He ran out to the back door and looked in
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  Speaker 1: the window, and he saw this tall, skinny man walking
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  Speaker 1: out of the walk in freezer. And this guy did
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  Speaker 1: not look towards Terry. Instead, he turned and walked farther
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  Speaker 1: away from him, over towards the pantry. This guy pulls
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  Speaker 1: a flashlight out, he shines it at one of the shelves,
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  Speaker 1: and he takes some things off the shelf and puts
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  Speaker 1: them in his pockets. And then after standing there for
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  Speaker 1: a minute, the man turns off his flashlight, faces Terry
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  Speaker 1: and begins walking towards the back door. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: Terry backs off the window and goes behind a tree
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  Speaker 1: that's overlooking the back door. He gets his flashlight in
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  Speaker 1: one hand and he unholsters his pistol and he waits.
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  Speaker 1: Terry watched as this man barely opened the back door.
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  Speaker 1: He slinked out the crack and then he began walking
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  Speaker 1: into the woods, and at that point Terry leapt out,
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  Speaker 1: shine the light in his face, drew his pistol, and
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  Speaker 1: told him to get on the ground. The man didn't resist.
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  Speaker 1: He immediately got on the ground and Terry called the
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  Speaker 1: state police were there only a couple minutes later. They
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  Speaker 1: arrested this guy and put him on a chair, and
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  Speaker 1: then they began interviewing him. They asked him what his
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  Speaker 1: name was, and the man just remained silent, and so
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  Speaker 1: they searched him, but they couldn't find any form of identification,
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  Speaker 1: and so they asked him again, what's your name, and
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  Speaker 1: the guy again didn't say anything. So the officers decided
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  Speaker 1: to remove his handcuffs and give him a bottle of
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  Speaker 1: water and then see if he would talk, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: he did. His speech was slow and awkward and kind
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  Speaker 1: of abrupt, like he had not spoken in a really
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  Speaker 1: long time. He told them his name was Christopher Knight
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  Speaker 1: and that he had been born on December seventh, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty five. He said he didn't have an address, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a vehicle, and he had never filed a
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  Speaker 1: tax return. He told them he lived in a tent
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  Speaker 1: in the woods nearby. They asked him how long he
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  Speaker 1: had been doing that for, and he paused for a
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  Speaker 1: minute and then said, when was the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster?
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  Speaker 1: And the officers looked at each other and they were like,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, And He's like, yeah, that's that's when
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  Speaker 1: I went in the woods. And they were like, that
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  Speaker 1: was twenty seven years ago, and Chris said yeah. The
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  Speaker 1: officers asked him, you know, well, twenty seven years is
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  Speaker 1: a long time. You got to be out there with
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  Speaker 1: some other people. You know, is your family out here?
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  Speaker 1: You got a girlfriend, you got you know, some sort
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  Speaker 1: of companion out there with you. And Chris said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I live out there alone. And in fact, the last
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  Speaker 1: time I had a conversation with another person besides now
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  Speaker 1: was in nineteen ninety when I happened to walk past
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  Speaker 1: another hiker and we both just said hi to each other.
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  Speaker 1: Besides that, for twenty seven years, it's just been me.
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  Speaker 1: And it would turn out Chris wasn't kidding, and he
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  Speaker 1: went to great lengths to ensure he stayed completely cut
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  Speaker 1: off from the rest of society, despite winter temperatures dropping
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  Speaker 1: to negative twenty degrees, he refused to light a fire
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  Speaker 1: in fear of giving away his camp, and so instead,
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  Speaker 1: when it got that cold, he would just stay up
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  Speaker 1: all night pacing around his camp, trying to stay warm.
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  Speaker 1: That way, he never even talked to himself or sang
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  Speaker 1: out loud because he was so worried someone might hear him,
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  Speaker 1: and he never left his campsite unless it was basically
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  Speaker 1: pitch black on an overcast night, because he was afraid
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  Speaker 1: of being seen. When the officers asked him if he
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  Speaker 1: had access to the internet, at least, he said, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the internet. Chris wound up confessing to
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  Speaker 1: over one thousand burglaries over the twenty seven years he
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  Speaker 1: had been out in the woods. He said he was
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of it, but originally, when he had moved out
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  Speaker 1: into the woods, he had tried to hunt for his
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  Speaker 1: own food and forge for his own food, but he
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  Speaker 1: was terrible at it, so he had to resort to theft.
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  Speaker 1: He said he only robbed cabins and holmes when he
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  Speaker 1: was certain no one was there, which meant sometimes going
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  Speaker 1: a long period of time between meals and the food
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  Speaker 1: he did find. Made for a terrible diet. He mostly
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  Speaker 1: ate junk food and candy because it was stuff that
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  Speaker 1: was easy to find and kept fairly well. When asked
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  Speaker 1: why he had moved into the woods in the first
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  Speaker 1: he didn't really have an answer, although in a later
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  Speaker 1: interview he would say that growing up human interaction had
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  Speaker 1: always been very difficult for him, and when he was
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  Speaker 1: in the woods he just felt kind of content and
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  Speaker 1: at peace. When Chris's story broke, the residents around North
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  Speaker 1: Pond were shocked. For decades, they had swapped stories about
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  Speaker 1: someone or something haunting the area for pain tanks, food, batteries, clothes,
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  Speaker 1: books would all go missing. They were starting to get scared,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it was overcast at night, because they knew
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  Speaker 1: that was when this thing, this person would come out.
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  Speaker 1: But despite staying up at night with their weapons out
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  Speaker 1: ready to confront whoever it was doing this, they never
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  Speaker 1: found him and the police were repeatedly called to come
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  Speaker 1: in and try to solve this mystery, but they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: figure it out either. As the incidents mounted, the phantom
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  Speaker 1: was given a name, the North Pond Hermit. When Chris
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  Speaker 1: was finally arrested and some of his life story was
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  Speaker 1: leaked to the media, residents of North Pond were torn
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  Speaker 1: on how to feel about him. Some people thought he
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  Speaker 1: was purely a criminal, that he was a thief, and
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  Speaker 1: that not only had he stolen their physical property, he
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  Speaker 1: had also stolen their peace of mind and their sanity.
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  Speaker 1: Others idolized him like he was some cult hero. He
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  Speaker 1: was a man that rejected what society says makes us happy, careers, relationships,
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  Speaker 1: material comforts. Yet he was happy. But regardless of how
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  Speaker 1: residents felt about his lifestyle, the one thing they could
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  Speaker 1: all agree on was how incredible it was that he
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  Speaker 1: survived for as long as he did. Winters in Maine
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  Speaker 1: are notoriously brutal and cold. A week of winter camping
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  Speaker 1: would be considered a huge accomplishment, let alone an entire
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  Speaker 1: season that was totally unheard of, and Chris did entire
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  Speaker 1: seasons twenty seven years in a row. Ultimately, Chris was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to seven months in prison. When he was released,
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  Speaker 1: he was given three years of probation, and part of
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  Speaker 1: the conditions for his release is that every week he
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  Speaker 1: would have to go physically check in with the judge,
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  Speaker 1: which meant he would not be able to just escape
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  Speaker 1: back into the woods again. When his probation did finally end,
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  Speaker 1: he did not go running back into the woods. He
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  Speaker 1: decided to remain in society. In an interview, Christopher was
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  Speaker 1: asked what he learned from these twenty seven years in
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  Speaker 1: total isolation. What have you learned about the human experience?
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  Speaker 1: What did you look about yourself? Tell us, because you
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  Speaker 1: have knowledge that virtually none of us will ever have
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  Speaker 1: access to. And apparently he just paused, thought about it
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  Speaker 1: for a second, and then looked up at the interviewer
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  Speaker 1: and said, make sure you get enough sleep, and then
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  Speaker 1: he got up and walked away. While we don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Chris is up to these days, people that
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  Speaker 1: know him say he lives by himself in a small apartment,
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  Speaker 1: He has a regular job, and he values his privacy
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  Speaker 1: over everything else. One of the least known, most hazardous
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  Speaker 1: jobs on the planet is saturation diving. These highly specialized
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  Speaker 1: divers do construction and demolition at depths up to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand feet below the surface. Now, unless you're familiar with diving,
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  Speaker 1: that depth may not stand out to you, but it should.
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  Speaker 1: Deep sea divers breathe compressed air, which is usually a
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  Speaker 1: mixture of oxygen, helium, and nitrogen. During the dive. The
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  Speaker 1: oxygen is breathed in and completely used up and does
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  Speaker 1: not linger inside of their body, but the helium and
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  Speaker 1: nitrogen they are absorbed as they're breathed in into the
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  Speaker 1: bloodstream and they remain there for the duration the dive.
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  Speaker 1: As the diver ascends in the water column, the pressure
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  Speaker 1: on them from the water is reduced, which allows these
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  Speaker 1: two gases to clear out of their bloodstream, but they
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  Speaker 1: clear at different rates. Helium is considered a fast gas,
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  Speaker 1: which means you absorb it quickly and get rid of
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  Speaker 1: it quickly, but nitrogen is a little bit slower, and
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  Speaker 1: so it takes longer for it to absorb into your
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  Speaker 1: body and then takes longer print to clear out of
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  Speaker 1: your body. If a diver doesn't respect this and just
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  Speaker 1: rock its to the surface, any of the nitrogen or
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  Speaker 1: helium that did not diffuse out of their bodies will
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  Speaker 1: bubble up inside of them like a shaken soda, and
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  Speaker 1: it will wreak havoc on them, and many times it
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  Speaker 1: can be fatal. This condition is known as decompression sickness
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  Speaker 1: or the bends. The way divers mitigate getting the bends
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  Speaker 1: is they have decompression stops in their dive, which means
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  Speaker 1: after they go down to a certain depth on the
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  Speaker 1: way up, they will stop at a certain depth and
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  Speaker 1: just wait, and they will allow these gases to diffuse
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  Speaker 1: out of their bodies before making their way up to
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  Speaker 1: the surface. These decompression stops are planned and built into
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  Speaker 1: the dive beforehand. The deeper you go, the more frequent
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  Speaker 1: your decompression stops will be, and the longer they will take.
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  Speaker 1: To give you a sense of just how long these
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  Speaker 1: decompression stops can be, if you dive down to just
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty feet, it might only take you
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  Speaker 1: about fifteen or twenty minutes to get down there, but
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  Speaker 1: the return trip will take almost four hours due to
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  Speaker 1: the number of decompression stops. If you're going down to
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  Speaker 1: two thousand feet, it will take you over thirty three
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  Speaker 1: hours to ascend. Naturally, this ridiculous time constraint poses a
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  Speaker 1: huge problem for any industry that relies on deep sea
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  Speaker 1: work like oil and gas, because they simply don't have
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  Speaker 1: enough divers to compensate for how long these decompression stops take.
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  Speaker 1: They tried sending remote controlled vehicles down to these depths
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  Speaker 1: to work on these offshore wells and rigs and pipelines,
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  Speaker 1: but they lack the touch and maneuverability to do the job,
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  Speaker 1: and so in the nineteen sixties a crazy solution was
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  Speaker 1: implemented to get more people down to these depths for
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  Speaker 1: longer periods of time, and it was then that the
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  Speaker 1: commercial saturation diver was born. Instead of divers spending hours
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  Speaker 1: and hours making all those stops on the way to
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  Speaker 1: the surface, they constructed these underwater chambers that the divers
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  Speaker 1: would go into after their shift was done. They would
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  Speaker 1: sleep inside of these cluster inducing metal chambers and then
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  Speaker 1: the next day they would put their dive gear back on,
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  Speaker 1: hop outside of the chamber and then just start working again. Nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: these chambers are either left down at depth where the
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  Speaker 1: diver is located and they can just go in and
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  Speaker 1: out and that's the whole process, or there's a dive
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  Speaker 1: bell that sits down near the work site and the
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  Speaker 1: diver when they're done, goes back into the dive bell.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of looks like an escape pod and it's
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  Speaker 1: raised by a crane all the way up to the
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  Speaker 1: surface where it's placed on top of a ship or
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  Speaker 1: a rig, and inside of this dive bell the pressure
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  Speaker 1: is artificially made to match the depth they've been working at,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they're placed up on the surface on
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  Speaker 1: the ship or the rig, the bell is connected to
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  Speaker 1: a bigger chamber that's also set to the same pressure
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  Speaker 1: they are at down at depth, and they can go
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  Speaker 1: inside this chamber, they can sleep, they can eat, or
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and then the next day the process
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  Speaker 1: is reversed where they go back into the dive bell.
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  Speaker 1: It lowers them down to depth, they hop out, and
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  Speaker 1: they continue their work. The point of the system is
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  Speaker 1: to keep divers fully saturated with their innert gases like
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  Speaker 1: nitrogen and helium, so that they only have to do
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  Speaker 1: one decompression at the very end of their shift, which
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  Speaker 1: is oftentimes multiple weeks long. Now, while the saturation diving
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  Speaker 1: system has worked extremely well, it's still extremely hazardous, which
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  Speaker 1: is part of the reason why it pays really, really well.
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  Speaker 1: Some divers have died because they panicked and got hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and if you think about what their job really entails,
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  Speaker 1: they were going down thousands of feet all on their own,
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  Speaker 1: into total pitch black nothingness. They have one crummy light
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  Speaker 1: that can barely see about ten feet in front of them,
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  Speaker 1: they're operating heavy, dangerous equipment. There are large animals swimming
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  Speaker 1: around them that they can't see. Oftentimes they're perched on
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  Speaker 1: a pipeline, clinging to it that if they were to
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  Speaker 1: fall off of it and detach from the dive bill,
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  Speaker 1: they would sink into an abyss and no one could
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  Speaker 1: get them again, and so it's an easy place to
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  Speaker 1: get hurt. Other divers have died because they were given
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  Speaker 1: the wrong mixture of gas and so at depth they
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: began having seizures and there's nothing anyone can do to
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  Speaker 1: help them. But the most well known and brutal saturation
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: diving accident involves something called explosive decompression. On fifth nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three, four saturation divers were working off of the
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  Speaker 1: Bifer Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea just after
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  Speaker 1: four am. Two of the men, Edwin Coward and Roy Lucas,
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  Speaker 1: were in their bunks lounging inside of the chamber that
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  Speaker 1: sat up on the rig. The other two men, Bjorn
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  Speaker 1: Bergenson and trolls Hellevik, had just finished their shift down below.
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  Speaker 1: They had gone into the dive bell and were being
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  Speaker 1: raised by crane to go up to the chamber on
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  Speaker 1: the rig. Once the dive bell was up on the rig,
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  Speaker 1: two dive tenders named William Krammond and Martin Saunders began
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  Speaker 1: clamping the bell onto the side of the chamber. Without
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: getting two into the weeds about how it actually works
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  Speaker 1: getting divers to go from one highly pressurized area the
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  Speaker 1: dive bell, into another highly pressurized area, the chamber, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: vice versa. Basically, it just boils down to opening doors
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  Speaker 1: at very specific times, and doing it wrong will result
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  Speaker 1: in catastrophe. The process was going just fine. Helyevik and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Bergenson had exited the dive bell, they'd gotten into the chamber,
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  Speaker 1: and they were literally in the process of shutting their
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: internal door when outside dive tender cram And made a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: huge mistake. Before Hellevic had sealed his door. Kramm In
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, undid the latch that connected the dive
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  Speaker 1: bell to the chamber. And what this did is it
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: created a vacuum that instantaneously depressurized the chamber where the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: four men were from nine atmospheres down to one, and
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  Speaker 1: it created so much pressure coming out of the chamber
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  Speaker 1: that it fired the dive bell straight out like a bullet,
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  Speaker 1: killing Krammon and severely injuring Saunders on the outside. Inside
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  Speaker 1: the chamber, all four men literally had the air ripped
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: out of their chests. Helyyevic, who was closest to the door,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: was literally sucked through the narrow crack because the door
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: had not sealed. He was sucked through and rocketed out
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  Speaker 1: the other side. Basically, all four men exploded, but fortunately
• 18:44
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