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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Pelican Valley is a beautiful,
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Speaker 1: remote section of backcountry and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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Speaker 1: It's meandering meadows and creeks and three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: degree view of the mountains make it appear like the
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Speaker 1: perfect place to camp out under the stars. But unlike
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Speaker 1: other areas of the park, Pelican Valley requires a special
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Speaker 1: permit if you intend to stay the night, and before
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Speaker 1: Yellowstone Park rangers give you this permit, they remind you
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Speaker 1: that Pelican Valley is a very dangerous place and in general,
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Speaker 1: you should only be out there with groups of at
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Speaker 1: least four people. On July twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four,
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Speaker 1: twenty five year old Brigita Fredenhagen, along with her brother
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Speaker 1: Andrea and her sister in law Johnco, arrived at Yellowstone
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Speaker 1: National Park. That night, they stayed in one of the
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Speaker 1: park's more established campgrounds called Grant Village. The following day,
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Speaker 1: they headed out to one of the park's famous hot
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Speaker 1: springs called the Norris Geyser. That afternoon, before heading back
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Speaker 1: to their camp site, they made a pit stop at
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Speaker 1: the park rangers office so Brigita could apply for a
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Speaker 1: Pelican Valley permit.
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Speaker 2: Her plan was to spend the following night in the valley.
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Speaker 1: When they went in the office, the rangers believed all
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Speaker 1: three of them were applying for a permit, and so
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Speaker 1: they weren't asking that many questions and they were just
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Speaker 1: kind of going through the routine. And then when Burgita said, no,
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Speaker 1: it's just going to be me applying for a permit,
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Speaker 1: they actually immediately tried to dissuade her and said, this
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Speaker 1: is a really bad idea. Nobody goes into Pelican Valley.
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Speaker 2: On their own.
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Speaker 1: But Brigita assured them that she was an experienced camper,
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Speaker 1: she understood the risks, and she still wanted to go
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Speaker 1: on her own. And Andreas and johnco who were standing
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Speaker 1: behind her, kind of echoed that sentiment and said, no,
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Speaker 1: she's really good.
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Speaker 2: She knows what she's doing.
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Speaker 1: The park rangers were not thrilled with her plan, but
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Speaker 1: they ultimately decided, you know what, if she wants to go,
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Speaker 1: she can go. They just asked her to show them
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Speaker 1: on a map where she intended to camp, so if
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Speaker 1: they needed to they could come and check on her
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Speaker 1: and make sure she was okay.
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Speaker 2: And so she pointed to a section on.
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Speaker 1: The map and they handed her her permit, and then she,
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Speaker 1: along with Andreas and Johnco, left the office and headed
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Speaker 1: back to their campsite. The next morning, the trio got
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Speaker 1: up early and they hopped in the car and drove
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Speaker 1: to the Pelican Valley trailhead. They parked their car, they
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Speaker 1: got out, and they began walking into Pelican.
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Speaker 2: Valley as a group.
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Speaker 1: After a few miles, as planned, the group stopped, at
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Speaker 1: which point Andreas told Burghita that they were going to
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Speaker 1: head back now and that they would meet her tomorrow
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Speaker 1: at the trailhead where they parked the car. They said
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Speaker 1: their goodbyes, and then Andreas and Johnco turned around and
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Speaker 1: started walking back towards the car, and Burgita carried on
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Speaker 1: into the wilderness. The following day, Andreas and Johnco arrived
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Speaker 1: at the trailhead to meet Burgita, but she didn't show up,
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Speaker 1: and after a couple of hours they grew very concerned,
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Speaker 1: so they called park rangers and asked them, you know,
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Speaker 1: have you seen Burgita? And they said no, but we'll
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Speaker 1: go take a look. The area Brigita had told park
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Speaker 1: rangers she was going to be camping was inside of
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Speaker 1: a densely forested area right next to a large meadow,
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Speaker 1: which meant as park rangers came up to check on her,
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Speaker 1: they would not actually be able to see her until
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Speaker 1: they were practically right on top of her. So the
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Speaker 1: park rangers made their way through the meadow and into
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Speaker 1: the forest before they started yelling.
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Speaker 2: For Brigita, but she didn't yell back.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point they reached the area where
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Speaker 1: she had said she was camping, and sure enough they
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Speaker 1: found her tent.
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Speaker 2: But it was a very odd scene.
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Speaker 1: When they came up to the tent, they could see
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Speaker 1: there was a big tear in one side. When they
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Speaker 1: poked their heads down and looked inside, all of her
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Speaker 1: belongings in the tent were undisturbed. There was a foam
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Speaker 1: sleeping mat right in the middle, and then to the
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Speaker 1: right of the mat was a flashlight that had been
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Speaker 1: turned off. On the left side of the pad was
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Speaker 1: a tape player with headphones that she must have been
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Speaker 1: listening to before bed.
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Speaker 2: It had been left on until the batteries ran out.
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Speaker 1: At the foot of the pad was her backpack, inside
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Speaker 1: of which were all of her clothes that had been
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Speaker 1: neatly packed inside of ziploc bags to mask her scent.
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Speaker 1: Also in the pack was a Wilderness survival guide with
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Speaker 1: a page flipped down that was a diagram of how
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Speaker 1: to string your food up into the trees so no
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Speaker 1: animals can get to it. The rangers looked around the
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Speaker 1: backside of the tent about two meters away, and they
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Speaker 1: found her sleeping bag perfectly flat on the ground, as
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Speaker 1: if it had been laid out to dry in the sun.
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Speaker 1: But upon closer inspection they found it had two puncture marks,
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Speaker 1: one that was up near the neck of the bag
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Speaker 1: and the other that was near the torso, but there
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Speaker 1: was no blood on the bag. At this point, rangers
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Speaker 1: started to speculate that this could have been an animal attack,
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Speaker 1: but they were confused at the general tidiness of the scene. Typically,
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Speaker 1: when an animal attacks a person, it looks like a
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Speaker 1: bomb went off in the area where the attack occurred,
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Speaker 1: and this campsite was very very neat. As the rangers
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Speaker 1: continued to walk around the campsite looking for clues and
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Speaker 1: yelling out for Brigita, they found a barely discernible dragtail
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Speaker 1: a couple of meters away from the sleeping bag that
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Speaker 1: was leading west into the forest and up a hill,
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Speaker 1: and so the rangers started following this trail, and they
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Speaker 1: got about twenty meters away from the camp when they
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Speaker 1: discovered Brigita's cooler lying on the ground on.
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Speaker 2: Its side, and whatever food had been in there was
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Speaker 2: now gone.
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Speaker 1: There was some string laying next to it, so it
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Speaker 1: looked like it had been strung up in the trees,
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Speaker 1: but someone or something had gotten it down from the cooler.
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Speaker 1: The rangers continue walking along this drag trail another twenty
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Speaker 1: meters or so up a hill where they discover a
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Speaker 1: woman's sweater on the ground that's been torn up and
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Speaker 1: there's blood on it. So at this point the rangers
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Speaker 1: get their rifles up and they keep walking another forty
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Speaker 1: meters up and over the hill down into this clearing
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Speaker 1: in the woods where they find Burgita, or what was
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Speaker 1: left of her. No one knows exactly what happened to Burgita,
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Speaker 1: but the theory based on physical evidence is this after
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Speaker 1: setting up her campsite, Brigita climbed inside of her tent,
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Speaker 1: got inside of her sleeping bag, and then put her
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Speaker 1: headphones on to listen to music. A little while later,
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Speaker 1: a male grizzly bear discovered Brigita's cooler strung up in
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Speaker 1: the trees about twenty meters away, and apparently Brigida did
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Speaker 1: not string it high enough because the bear was able
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Speaker 1: to reach up and pull it down. After the bear
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Speaker 1: ate the food inside of the cooler, it was still hungry,
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Speaker 1: so it began looking around the area for more to eat.
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Speaker 1: It's believed this bear was so accustomed to human traffic
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Speaker 1: in the area that when he stumbled across Brigida's tent,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't scared. In fact, he thought, there's food inside it.
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Speaker 1: There there's people I can eat. This air quietly lumbers
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Speaker 1: over to the side of the tent. It reaches up
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Speaker 1: and cuts the nylon with its paw, and then it
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Speaker 1: puts its head inside and bites down on Brigida's skull
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Speaker 1: and begins dragging her away. There was no sign of
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Speaker 1: a struggle in or near the tent, indicating that Brigida
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Speaker 1: was most likely asleep, or maybe she just could not
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Speaker 1: hear the bear because she still had her headphones in.
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Speaker 1: She was dragged eighty meters by her skull to that
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Speaker 1: clearing where she was consumed. An attack like this is
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Speaker 1: exactly the reason why Pelican Bay is considered so dangerous,
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Speaker 1: because it's full.
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Speaker 2: Of grizzly bears, and even though grizzly.
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Speaker 1: Attacks on humans are incredibly rare, most people do not
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Speaker 1: understand just how horrific they are when they do occur.
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Speaker 1: Grizzly bears don't really try to kill their prey before
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Speaker 1: they eat them. Instead, they focus on pinning them down
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Speaker 1: and then getting them under their body weight so they
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Speaker 1: can't go anywhere, at which point they can eat them
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Speaker 1: at a leisurely pace. Some say grizzlies actually prefer to
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Speaker 1: eat their prey while they're still living, which is why
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Speaker 1: so often in grizzly attacks you see the arms and
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Speaker 1: legs eaten first, and then the head and torso this
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Speaker 1: is a method that keeps the victim.
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Speaker 2: Alive a little bit longer.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, there was so little left of Brigida that investigators
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Speaker 1: could not pinpoint a time of death. However, because this
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Speaker 1: bear broke normal behavior and intentionally targeted a human, there's
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Speaker 1: a good chance he savored that meal. On April twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand, a twenty four year old named Yurilipski was
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Speaker 1: standing in front of a cafe in Dahab, Egypt, overlooking
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Speaker 1: the Red Sea. He had traveled all the way to
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Speaker 1: the Sinai Peninsula from Moscow in order to film himself
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Speaker 1: swimming through the arch, but now it was looking like
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Speaker 1: that probably wasn't going to happen. The Arch is an
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Speaker 1: eighty five foot long underwater tunnel that connects a massive
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Speaker 1: sinkhole right onto hob shoreline called the Blue Hole to
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Speaker 1: the Red Sea. To get to the Arch, you need
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Speaker 1: to enter the Blue Hole directly and descend straight down
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Speaker 1: on one hundred and eighty one feet, where you'll reach
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Speaker 1: the top of the tunnel on the northeast side. But
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Speaker 1: there's a catch. If on your descent you happen to
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Speaker 1: miss the ceiling of this arch, which apparently it's pretty
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Speaker 1: easy to do, you run the risk of going too deep. Now,
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Speaker 1: going too deep does not mean you're going to miss
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Speaker 1: the tunnel altogether.
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Speaker 2: The arch actually starts.
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Speaker 1: At one hundred and eighty one feet, but then goes
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Speaker 1: all the way down to three hundred and ninety three.
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Speaker 2: Feet, so it's a huge, huge opening.
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Speaker 1: The risk of going too deep has to do with
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Speaker 1: how your body responds to the type of gas you're breathing.
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Speaker 1: For those who are unfamiliar with diving, generally speaking, you
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Speaker 1: have two types of dives there's recreational diving, where you
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Speaker 1: breathe the same air that you breathe on the surface.
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Speaker 1: They literally jam air directly into scuba bottles. You breathe
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Speaker 1: that and you go down to one hundred.
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Speaker 2: And thirty feet.
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Speaker 1: That's the recommended bottom depth that you would go down
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Speaker 1: breathing regular air. And then there is technical diving, where
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Speaker 1: you breathe a special mixture of gases. Typically it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a mixture of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen that
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Speaker 1: allow you to go below one hundred and thirty feet.
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Speaker 1: This type of diving is exponentially more dangerous and requires
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Speaker 1: all sorts of additional training because the minimum depth you
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Speaker 1: would need to go to in order to access the
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Speaker 1: arch is one hundred and eighty one feet. That puts
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Speaker 1: you well in the technical diving range, which means you
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Speaker 1: should be diving mixed gas and have special training and equipment.
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Speaker 1: But year after year people try to dive down to
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Speaker 1: the arch and go through it on regular air, and
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Speaker 1: year after year people die doing it. When your body
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Speaker 1: absorbs too much nitrogen, you can get something called nitrogen narcosis,
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Speaker 1: which is a lot like being drunk, and in extreme cases,
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Speaker 1: divers who get this, have been known to remove their
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Speaker 1: mouthpiece and inhale water, believing they are actually on the surface.
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Speaker 1: Below one hundred and thirty feet, your body absorbs nitrogen
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Speaker 1: much faster, and regular air is a wopping seventy eight
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Speaker 1: percent nitrogen, so the risk of getting nitrogen narcosis is
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Speaker 1: exponentially higher if you're breathing regular air below one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty feet also oxygen and can become toxic.
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Speaker 2: The deeper you go in the water column.
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Speaker 1: It can lead to blackouts and convulsions that if you
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Speaker 1: don't have someone there to literally physically move you up
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Speaker 1: in the water column, you won't recover from it and
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Speaker 1: you'll die. Regular air contains twenty one percent oxygen, which
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Speaker 1: is a lot of oxygen, So if you're diving regular
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Speaker 1: air below one hundred and thirty feet, you are at
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Speaker 1: an increased risk of developing O two toxicity. Now, to
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Speaker 1: be clear, it is possible on regular air to dive
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Speaker 1: down to one hundred and eighty one feet and make
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Speaker 1: it through the arch and come out the other side
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Speaker 1: and be just fine, but you're realistically at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty one feet pushing the absolute boundary of what
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Speaker 1: you can get away with on regular air, below two
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Speaker 1: hundred feet, you're probably dead. So if you're attempting to
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Speaker 1: swim through the arch on regular air, you need be
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Speaker 1: paying very close attention to your depth as you descend
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Speaker 1: so that you don't miss the arch and accidentally drift
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Speaker 1: down below one hundred and eighty one feet to the
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Speaker 1: very deadly two hundred feet and beyond. So earlier in
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Speaker 1: the day, Uri had gone down to the edge of
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Speaker 1: the blue Hole and he had found one of the
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Speaker 1: diving instructors that taught inside the blue Hole. His name
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Speaker 1: was Terrek Omar, and he asked him if he'd be
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Speaker 1: willing to take him down to the arch to help
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Speaker 1: him film himself going through the arch, and Trek said yes,
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Speaker 1: but I need to train you for two weeks before
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Speaker 1: you're going to be considered qualified to do that, and
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Speaker 1: you need a special setup with a special gas mixture
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Speaker 1: to do this dive. And Yuri was like, well, I'm
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Speaker 1: leaving in two days to head back to Moscow, so
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Speaker 1: I need to do this dive now. Is there any
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Speaker 1: way you can do it today or tomorrow even And
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Speaker 1: Trek was like, no, that's not how this works. And
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Speaker 1: Terrek understood this more than anybody else, because, in addition
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Speaker 1: to teaching diving at the blue Hole, Terrek's job was
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Speaker 1: to dive down to the bottom and retrieve the dead
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Speaker 1: bodies of inexperienced or over confident divers that attempted the archway.
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Speaker 2: And didn't make it.
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Speaker 1: Although there is not an official body count of how
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Speaker 1: many people have perished inside of the blue Hole, locals
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Speaker 1: believe it's as high as two hundred people just in
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Speaker 1: the last decade. After Terrek was unwilling to take him
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Speaker 1: without properly training him and outfitting him with the right equipment,
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Speaker 1: Uri thanked him and went on to a couple different
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Speaker 1: other diving instructors with the same request, will you take
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Speaker 1: me in the next couple of days, and they all
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Speaker 1: said no, we need to train you and you need
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Speaker 1: special equipment. And so finally, after no one was willing
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Speaker 1: to do this, Yuri just left. Later that day, owners
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Speaker 1: of cafes that overlooked the blue Hole remember seeing a
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Speaker 1: young man who was by himself walk to the edge.
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Speaker 2: Of the blue hole.
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Speaker 1: He puts on all of his scuba gear, he puts
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Speaker 1: on a helmet, and then straps a big camera to
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Speaker 1: the top and ratchets it down, and then after he's
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Speaker 1: got all his stuff on, he jumps into the blue
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Speaker 1: hole and he disappears. That man was Yuri. A few
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Speaker 1: days later, Yuri's family back home in Moscow did not
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Speaker 1: see him get off the flight he was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be on, and they reported him missing. Trek Omar was
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Speaker 1: contacted to go down into the blue hole and see
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Speaker 1: if Uri was down there. Terrek hopped in the blue hole,
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Speaker 1: he went to the bottom, and sure enough, lying face
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Speaker 1: down at the bottom was Yuri. When they brought Yuri
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Speaker 1: to the surface, they realized his camera had been running
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Speaker 1: the whole time and he had actually filmed his final moments.
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Speaker 1: Yuri's final video exists online, so you can watch it
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Speaker 1: for yourself, but here is a description of what happens.
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Speaker 1: After situating his camera on his head just the way
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Speaker 1: he wanted it, he hit record, and then he jumped
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Speaker 1: into the water. It was determined later on that Yuri
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Speaker 1: was breathing regular air out of his tanks. The camera
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Speaker 1: submerges under the water, and then Uri begins to sink
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Speaker 1: very quickly into the blue hole.
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Speaker 2: But his breathing.
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Speaker 1: Seems normal and he's not thrashing around, so it seems
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Speaker 1: like it's a controlled descent, but at some point you
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Speaker 1: hear Yuri trying to activate his buoyancy compensator.
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Speaker 2: Basically, it's this life jacket. To describe it.
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Speaker 1: Simply that sits on your gear, that you have a
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Speaker 1: demand valve where you can inflate and deflate the air
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Speaker 1: into it to neutralize your buoyancy, or in an emergency situation,
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Speaker 1: you can fully inflate it and stop yourself from sinking.
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Speaker 2: In fact, you'll rise to the surface.
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Speaker 1: But he's trying to activate his buoyancy compensator to slow
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Speaker 1: down his descent, and the air is escaping his compensator.
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Speaker 1: There's a leak and he can't slow down his descent. Now,
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Speaker 1: Yuri was wearing a weight belt, which is very.
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Speaker 2: Calm and diving.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't really know of all that many
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Speaker 1: dives that you wouldn't use a weight belt, and any
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Speaker 1: diver knows that there is a quick release function on
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Speaker 1: your weight belt. Specifically, if you're in an uncontrolled descent
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Speaker 1: or if you're in an emergency situation and need to
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Speaker 1: get to the surface, you can jettison your weight belt
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Speaker 1: and go to the surface.
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Speaker 2: But Uri was.
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Speaker 1: Panicking and he was fixated on his buoyancy compensator that
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Speaker 1: he was desperately trying to activate and it was failing,
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Speaker 1: and so he's not going for his weight belt, and
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Speaker 1: then he rockets past the entrance to the arch so
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Speaker 1: he goes below one hundred and eighty one feet, he
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Speaker 1: goes blow two hundred feet, and he goes all the
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Speaker 1: way to the bottom, where he hits the bottom at
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety two feet, and then he begins
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Speaker 1: to slide because the bottom of the blue hole was
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Speaker 1: actually at an angle, and that archway went all the
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Speaker 1: way to the bottom of the hole, and if you
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Speaker 1: slipped out of the blue hole, it was a sheer
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Speaker 1: drop off for thousands of feet. And you see on
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Speaker 1: camera Yuri rolls over and he's desperately clawing into the
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Speaker 1: mud to stop himself from sliding out of the blue
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Speaker 1: hole to definite death. Then he's trying to get himself
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Speaker 1: to stop, and finally he anchors himself in the dirt
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Speaker 1: and it's calm for a second, and he's kind of
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Speaker 1: looking around. It's very clear he's confused, and then it
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Speaker 1: goes still, and it's believed at this point he either
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Speaker 1: removed his mouthpiece because of nitrogen narcosis, and he pulled
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Speaker 1: it out and inhaled water, or he was dealing with
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Speaker 1: two toxicity and he blacked out and the mouthpiece came out,
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Speaker 1: but either way he drowned. On April twenty fifth, two
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Speaker 1: thousand and three, Ralston takes a trip to Utah, where
16:30
Speaker 1: he plans to explore the Canyon Lands National Park. He
16:33
Speaker 1: slept in his truck that night and the next morning,
16:35
Speaker 1: at about nine to fifteen am, he gets up and
16:38
Speaker 1: it's this beautiful Saturday morning. He hops on his bike
16:41
Speaker 1: and he bikes fifteen miles to Blue John Canyon. The
16:44
Speaker 1: canyon was an eleven mile gorge that at certain places
16:47
Speaker 1: was as narrow as three feet across, and so Aaron
16:50
Speaker 1: locks up his bike and he begins walking through this canyon.
16:52
Speaker 1: About six hours later, at two forty five pm, Aaron
16:56
Speaker 1: is right at this section of the gorge that's getting.
16:58
Speaker 2: Really really narrow. Below him is about one hundred feet
17:01
Speaker 2: down to the bottom of the desert floor.
17:03
Speaker 1: He was going to walk with both feet on either
17:05
Speaker 1: wall because it was so narrow and kind of spider
17:08
Speaker 1: man his way through the section of the canyon.
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Speaker 2: But as he.
17:11
Speaker 1: Began that maneuver, a huge eight hundred pound boulder became
17:14
Speaker 1: dislodged above him, and it comes tumbling down and.
17:18
Speaker 2: He barely gets out of the way, but it lands.
17:20
Speaker 1: On his arm, and it pins his arm against the
17:23
Speaker 1: wall and he can't move, and he suspended one hundred
17:25
Speaker 1: feet off the ground, and he's twenty miles away from
17:28
Speaker 1: the nearest paved road. Immediately, he tries to pull his
17:31
Speaker 1: hand free and push the rock off, but it's not
17:33
Speaker 1: going anywhere. And that's when it dawns on him that
17:36
Speaker 1: he didn't tell anybody he was going to be in
17:38
Speaker 1: this gorge.
17:39
Speaker 2: Today, no one knows he's here.
17:41
Speaker 1: And he's so far away from anyone that can help him,
17:44
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have a cell phone, doesn't have a radio.
17:46
Speaker 1: He's got no way to communicate with anyone who could
17:49
Speaker 1: potentially help him. Now, the position he was in was
17:52
Speaker 1: not him dangling by his arm one hundred feet off
17:54
Speaker 1: the ground. He was able to position himself against the
17:57
Speaker 1: rocks where he wasn't dangling. He was able to sit
17:59
Speaker 1: fairly comfortably besides his arm being crushed, and he was
18:02
Speaker 1: able to use the rock that actually had pinned him
18:05
Speaker 1: there as a sort of table or something to lean
18:07
Speaker 1: up against, and after he calms down a little bit,
18:09
Speaker 1: after a few minutes, he reaches back and he pulls
18:11
Speaker 1: his bag out in front, and he starts to taking
18:13
Speaker 1: inventory of what he has, and all he had was
18:16
Speaker 1: twelve ounces of water, so just a single water bottle,
18:19
Speaker 1: and he had two burritos and some candy bar crumbs.
18:22
Speaker 2: That was all he had.
18:23
Speaker 1: In terms of tools, all he had was this crumby
18:25
Speaker 1: multi tool, and it did have a little knife that
18:28
Speaker 1: extended off the end. And almost immediately he takes that
18:31
Speaker 1: multi tool and begins chopping away at this boulder to
18:33
Speaker 1: try to see if he can maybe crack it and
18:35
Speaker 1: push half of it off. But he's finding out very
18:38
Speaker 1: quickly that it's completely futile. It is not moving. It
18:41
Speaker 1: is an enormous boulder. It's not going anywhere. He cannot
18:44
Speaker 1: possibly break it with this crappy little multi tool. As
18:47
Speaker 1: the sun began to set, Aaron started thinking really seriously
18:50
Speaker 1: about trying to cut his arm off. But again, all
18:53
Speaker 1: he has is this multi tool and this crappy little
18:56
Speaker 1: dull knife, and he's thinking, there's no way I can
18:58
Speaker 1: cut through my arm. There's bone in there. I can't
19:01
Speaker 1: possibly saw through the bone, and so very disheartened. He
19:04
Speaker 1: puts his multitool away and he begins to nurse the
19:07
Speaker 1: water and slowly eat the food, and thinks, maybe some
19:09
Speaker 1: miracle will happen where over the next couple of days,
19:12
Speaker 1: someone will be with an earshot. I can yell to
19:14
Speaker 1: them and they can come get me, or maybe someone
19:16
Speaker 1: will see me when they're hiking overhead.
19:19
Speaker 2: I can just wait it out.
19:20
Speaker 1: But by the fifth day he had run out of water.
19:22
Speaker 1: He was becoming delirious. He was actually drinking his own
19:25
Speaker 1: urine at this point, and he expected to die overnight.
19:29
Speaker 1: And so with his multitool he etched his name into
19:32
Speaker 1: the rock, and then underneath it he etched the date
19:34
Speaker 1: he expected to die, which was the next day. And
19:37
Speaker 1: then after that he put his multitool down, and he
19:39
Speaker 1: did have a camera with limited battery, and he pulled
19:42
Speaker 1: that out and selfie style, he filmed goodbyes to his
19:45
Speaker 1: family and.
19:45
Speaker 3: Names aon Rolston. My parents are down on Larry Ralston
19:51
Speaker 3: and they moved with Colorado. Never finds this, Please make
19:56
Speaker 3: an attempt to get them, be sure of it. I
20:01
Speaker 3: would appreciate it.
20:03
Speaker 1: After he was done filming, he put the camera away,
20:05
Speaker 1: and he leaned up against the rock and fully expected
20:07
Speaker 1: to die, but he starts to have this really intense
20:10
Speaker 1: dream where he sees himself playing with a child and
20:13
Speaker 1: he's missing his right arm, and he takes that as
20:16
Speaker 1: a sign that he's supposed to chop his arm off
20:19
Speaker 1: and get out of here alive and.
20:20
Speaker 2: Go start a family. And so he wakes up from
20:22
Speaker 2: this dream and suddenly all he wants to do is survive.
20:25
Speaker 1: And he looks at his arm, which is already starting
20:28
Speaker 1: to decompose at this point, and he thinks to himself,
20:30
Speaker 1: I know I can't cut through bone, but what if
20:32
Speaker 1: I'm able to break my arm clean through? I can
20:35
Speaker 1: take this blade and cut through the brake in the bone.
20:38
Speaker 1: And so he began testing, using the edge of the
20:41
Speaker 1: rock as a full crumb to see if he'd be
20:43
Speaker 1: able to break his arm using the torque of pushing
20:45
Speaker 1: it over the edge of the rock. And when he
20:47
Speaker 1: started to sense it was possible, he took a deep
20:49
Speaker 1: breath and then he broke his arm, takes his multitool,
20:52
Speaker 1: and over the next hour he would painstakingly saw through
20:56
Speaker 1: his entire arm. Once his arm was free, he couldn't
21:00
Speaker 1: leave it. He actually smiled when he saw his arm
21:02
Speaker 1: still pinned underneath the rock. Because of his sheer will
21:05
Speaker 1: to live at this point, and high on adrenaline, he
21:08
Speaker 1: climbed the sixty five feet out.
21:10
Speaker 2: Of this canyon with his one arm.
21:12
Speaker 1: He gets to the trail and he runs six miles
21:15
Speaker 1: and he happens to run into a group of hikers.
21:18
Speaker 1: They give him food and water, and they're totally alarmed
21:20
Speaker 1: by him, but they're happy to help him. They call
21:22
Speaker 1: nine on one and medics arrived and they save Aaron's life.
21:26
Speaker 1: Following Aaron Ralston's rescue, they went back to retrieve his arm,
21:30
Speaker 1: but in order to move that boulder, they had to
21:32
Speaker 1: bring out thirteen park rangers, a hydraulic jack and a
21:35
Speaker 1: winch and all this heavy equipment, and they were.
21:38
Speaker 2: Barely able to move it.
21:39
Speaker 1: And they told Aaron, had you still been in place,
21:42
Speaker 1: there's no way we could have placed the equipment without
21:45
Speaker 1: killing you. So basically, you had to cut your arm
21:48
Speaker 1: off in order to get out of there. There was
21:50
Speaker 1: no other way out. And so for Aarin, I'm sure
21:51
Speaker 1: that felt pretty good to feel like you cut your
21:53
Speaker 1: arm off, and that was the right decision. They would
21:55
Speaker 1: take his arm and they would cremate it and give
21:57
Speaker 1: the ashes to Aaron, and for having his cremated arm
22:01
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, decided, no, I need to
22:03
Speaker 1: put this where it belongs, and so Aaron went back
22:06
Speaker 1: out to the canyon where he had been trapped and
22:08
Speaker 1: he scattered his ashes over the boulder that had nearly
22:10
Speaker 1: killed him. In twenty ten, Aaron's ordeal was turned into
22:13
Speaker 1: a huge blockbuster movie called one hundred and twenty seven
22:16
Speaker 1: Hours where James Franco plays Aaron Ralston in the movie.
22:20
Speaker 1: And it's an incredible movie, albeit it's pretty hard to watch.
22:23
Speaker 1: Aaron Ralston himself said the movie, although it's a drama,
22:27
Speaker 1: is pretty much a documentary because James Franco does an
22:30
Speaker 1: incredible job portraying his emotions and what it was actually
22:34
Speaker 1: like to be trapped underneath this boulder for five days.
22:48
Speaker 1: On the evening of October twenty eighth, two thousand and six,
22:51
Speaker 1: in a Florida city called Port Ritchie, a thirty seven
22:54
Speaker 1: year old woman named Maria Weber walked in the front
22:57
Speaker 1: door of her home and called out a greeting to
22:59
Speaker 1: her mom. Her mom didn't call back, but Marisa could
23:01
Speaker 1: hear her in the kitchen making dinner, and so Marisa
23:04
Speaker 1: walked over to say hello. But Marisa only got about
23:07
Speaker 1: two feet into the family's very cramped living room when
23:10
Speaker 1: one of their many cats came bombing into the room
23:13
Speaker 1: and nearly knocked Marisa over as it ran past her
23:16
Speaker 1: and ran up to the side of the wall and
23:17
Speaker 1: just stopped and stared at the baseboard of the wall
23:20
Speaker 1: like there was something there. Marisa was totally annoyed by
23:22
Speaker 1: this cat, and as she looked over at it, she
23:25
Speaker 1: knew what it was doing, because lately Marisa had noticed
23:28
Speaker 1: there were clearly rats in her family's home, kind of
23:31
Speaker 1: scurrying around in the ceilings in the walls. Marisa could
23:33
Speaker 1: hear them all the time, and one of their cats
23:36
Speaker 1: was now clearly hunting one of these rats, and this
23:38
Speaker 1: totally stressed Marisa out. She'd actually begun taking anti anxiety
23:42
Speaker 1: and antidepressant medication largely because of this rat infestation, and
23:47
Speaker 1: really just the fact that Marisa hated living at her
23:50
Speaker 1: parents' home, but she didn't really have the means to
23:53
Speaker 1: go out and live in her own place, which she
23:55
Speaker 1: knew would solve the problem, and so she was just
23:57
Speaker 1: kind of stuck here, and so Marisa turned away from
24:00
Speaker 1: the cat and likely the rat behind the wall, and
24:03
Speaker 1: she made her way through the tight little living room
24:05
Speaker 1: into the kitchen, and she gave her mom a quick hug,
24:08
Speaker 1: and she saw her dad was also in the room
24:10
Speaker 1: as well, and he said hello to her. And then
24:12
Speaker 1: Marisa's mom offered her some food, but Marisa said, you
24:15
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not hungry, thank you, I'm just tired.
24:18
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to bed, And so Marissa again
24:20
Speaker 1: gave her mama hug. She said good night to her dad,
24:22
Speaker 1: and then she turned walked up the stairs and made
24:24
Speaker 1: her way to her bedroom. She went inside and shut
24:27
Speaker 1: the door. The next morning, Marisa's parents got up and
24:30
Speaker 1: they began making breakfast and getting ready for the day,
24:32
Speaker 1: but Marisa did not come downstairs, and so the parents
24:35
Speaker 1: assumed she must have left early for her job. Marisa
24:38
Speaker 1: was a secretary at a waste disposal company, and so
24:41
Speaker 1: the parents just had their breakfast and they too went
24:43
Speaker 1: out for their jobs. And then in the evening when
24:46
Speaker 1: the parents were back home, Marisa did not come home
24:49
Speaker 1: at the time she normally.
24:50
Speaker 2: Would after work.
24:51
Speaker 1: But the parents were not actually that concerned right then
24:54
Speaker 1: because they figured okay, well, maybe she left early and
24:57
Speaker 1: she came home from work early, and so we just
24:59
Speaker 1: kind of missed her on both ends. And that's why
25:01
Speaker 1: her door to her bedroom is shut. She's just come
25:03
Speaker 1: home early and she's in there, and she wants to
25:05
Speaker 1: be left alone. After all, she's a thirty seven year
25:08
Speaker 1: old woman. She probably wants her space. But later that night,
25:11
Speaker 1: when still the parents had not even heard their daughter
25:14
Speaker 1: moving around up there, the mother went upstairs and knocked
25:17
Speaker 1: on Maria's bedroom door, but there was no answer, and
25:20
Speaker 1: so finally Marisa's mom opened the door and the room
25:23
Speaker 1: was totally empty. Now at this point, the parents did
25:26
Speaker 1: start to get concerned because they're thinking, Okay, well, we
25:28
Speaker 1: didn't see her this morning, we haven't seen her now,
25:31
Speaker 1: we don't know where she is. But again, their daughter
25:33
Speaker 1: is thirty seven years old, and if she wanted to
25:36
Speaker 1: go do something out of the house by herself and
25:38
Speaker 1: not tell anyone, she was kind of entitled to do that.
25:41
Speaker 1: And so the parents ultimately decided that they would just
25:44
Speaker 1: let this go for now, and in the morning they
25:46
Speaker 1: were sure to see her. But the next morning, the
25:49
Speaker 1: parents still had not heard from Marisa. She had not
25:51
Speaker 1: come home, and now they were officially starting to panic.
25:54
Speaker 1: In particular, the mother was worried that Marisa might have
25:57
Speaker 1: been kidnapped or something going to or coming back from work,
26:00
Speaker 1: because Marisa was only five foot three inches tall and
26:03
Speaker 1: maybe one hundred pounds, so she was really small. And
26:06
Speaker 1: so Marisa's mom called her other daughter, Gina, in a
26:09
Speaker 1: total panic, saying, you know, your sister she's missing.
26:12
Speaker 2: We don't know where she is.
26:13
Speaker 1: She might have gotten kidnapped, you know, come over and
26:15
Speaker 1: help us figure out what's going on. And so Gina
26:17
Speaker 1: came over to the house, and when she came inside,
26:20
Speaker 1: she told her parents, you know, let's stay calm here.
26:22
Speaker 2: Marisa. She's thirty seven. I'm sure she's fine.
26:25
Speaker 1: Let's search the house and see if there's some note
26:28
Speaker 1: or something from Marisa explaining where she is and what
26:31
Speaker 1: she's doing. And so the family searched the whole house,
26:34
Speaker 1: starting with Marisa's room, but they couldn't find anything that
26:38
Speaker 1: gave them any clues about what happened to Marisa. But
26:41
Speaker 1: they did eventually find Marisa's purse that was still in
26:44
Speaker 1: her room, and when they opened it up, they saw
26:46
Speaker 1: her wallet was still inside, and so that sent up
26:49
Speaker 1: a huge red flag for the family. You know, they're thinking,
26:51
Speaker 1: why would Marisa go anywhere for an extended period of
26:54
Speaker 1: time without her wallet?
26:56
Speaker 2: That made no sense.
26:57
Speaker 1: And so at this point the family did call the
26:59
Speaker 1: police and they reported Marisa missing, but the police got
27:03
Speaker 1: nowhere on the case.
27:04
Speaker 2: And so on November ninth, so twelve days.
27:07
Speaker 1: After Marisa had said good night to her parents, gone
27:09
Speaker 1: up to her room, and then vanished.
27:12
Speaker 2: The family was at a total loss for what to do.
27:14
Speaker 1: But Gina, Marisa's sister, had begun to think to herself,
27:18
Speaker 1: you know, hey, it's possible that Marisa, who was not
27:20
Speaker 1: doing well mentally, you know.
27:22
Speaker 2: She was very unhappy.
27:23
Speaker 1: She was totally stressed out about this rat infestation, which
27:26
Speaker 1: really highlighted the fact that she was stuck at home
27:29
Speaker 1: with her parents at thirty seven years old.
27:31
Speaker 2: You know, Gina's thinking that it was totally.
27:33
Speaker 1: Possible that Marisa had just abruptly run away, or worse,
27:37
Speaker 1: maybe she had harmed herself. And so on November ninth,
27:40
Speaker 1: Gina decided she would take one more pass through the
27:43
Speaker 1: family home and just see if she could find any
27:46
Speaker 1: little indication that would give away what was going through
27:49
Speaker 1: Marisa's mind before she vanished and where Gina started was
27:53
Speaker 1: in Maria's room, and so Marisa she went upstairs, down
27:56
Speaker 1: the hall, she opened up her sister's bedroom and she
27:59
Speaker 1: walked in ste and you got to picture this space.
28:02
Speaker 1: It was totally cluttered, almost like a hoarder's space. There
28:05
Speaker 1: were piles of clothes that were taller than a human person.
28:08
Speaker 1: I mean, this room is totally packed with stuff. But Gina,
28:11
Speaker 1: she took her time kind of walking through the room,
28:13
Speaker 1: looking everywhere, kind of sifting through all the piles of
28:17
Speaker 1: junkin clothes and everything in the room, and she couldn't
28:19
Speaker 1: find anything. But then at some point, her attention was
28:22
Speaker 1: drawn to her sister's bookshelf and she looked over at
28:25
Speaker 1: it and she thought she saw something odd right in
28:28
Speaker 1: the middle of the shelf. Now, Gina had a flashlight
28:31
Speaker 1: with her, and even though the light was on in
28:32
Speaker 1: the room, she still lifted up the flashlight and turned
28:35
Speaker 1: it on and shined it at this thing in the
28:37
Speaker 1: middle of the bookcase, and when she saw it, she screamed.
28:40
Speaker 1: Based on Gina's discovery, here is what happened to Marisa
28:44
Speaker 1: Weber on October twenty eighth, two thousand and six, the
28:47
Speaker 1: night she disappeared that night, Marisa had come home.
28:50
Speaker 2: She saw her mom and dad in the kitchen. She
28:52
Speaker 2: was offered food. She turned it down and said, I'm tired,
28:55
Speaker 2: I'm going to bed. She went upstairs.
28:57
Speaker 1: She went into her room, closed the door, and sat
28:59
Speaker 1: down on her bed. Then Marisa grabbed a pill bottle
29:02
Speaker 1: next to her bed, which contained morphine and codeine, which
29:06
Speaker 1: are two very powerful painkillers.
29:08
Speaker 2: They're opiates, so highly addictive.
29:10
Speaker 1: She popped a few of those, and then she rolled
29:12
Speaker 1: a marijuana joint and smoked that. And then she grabbed
29:15
Speaker 1: the TV remote and sat back on her bed, getting ready.
29:18
Speaker 2: To zone out.
29:19
Speaker 1: But when she tried to turn on the TV, which
29:21
Speaker 1: was sitting on this bureau on the other side of
29:23
Speaker 1: the room, it didn't turn on, and right away Marissa
29:26
Speaker 1: knew that the TV likely had become unplugged. This was
29:29
Speaker 1: something that happened periodically. The room was so packed with
29:32
Speaker 1: stuff that sometimes when Marissa was just navigating through her room,
29:36
Speaker 1: the stuff would bump into the bureau and that would
29:39
Speaker 1: in turn jostle loose the plug from the TV.
29:42
Speaker 2: But the TV was actually not plugged in right behind
29:45
Speaker 2: where this bureau was.
29:46
Speaker 1: The TV was sitting on the bureau, but the plug
29:49
Speaker 1: ran down and kind of to the side of the bureau,
29:52
Speaker 1: behind this huge bookcase that was pressed right up against
29:55
Speaker 1: the bureau.
29:56
Speaker 2: But this bookcase was so.
29:57
Speaker 1: Loaded down with books and things that Marissa had collected
30:00
Speaker 1: over the years that not only could you not really
30:03
Speaker 1: reach through the bookcase to the wall, but it was
30:05
Speaker 1: too heavy. You couldn't move the bookcase. And so the
30:08
Speaker 1: only way to access this plug from the TV was
30:11
Speaker 1: to climb on top of the bureau where the TV
30:14
Speaker 1: was and kind of reach back and grab the plug
30:18
Speaker 1: behind the bookcase and plug it back in. And so Marissa,
30:21
Speaker 1: who was likely beginning to feel the effects of all
30:23
Speaker 1: the drugs she had taken, climbed on top of this
30:26
Speaker 1: bureau and she reached back behind the six foot tall bookcase,
30:29
Speaker 1: and she began trying to grab the plug.
30:31
Speaker 2: But it was just out of reach, and so she.
30:33
Speaker 1: Leaned farther and farther and farther until she finally grabbed
30:37
Speaker 1: the plug. But when she managed to plug it back
30:39
Speaker 1: into the wall, she slipped forward and fell headfirst into
30:44
Speaker 1: this tiny space behind the bookshelf and the wall, and
30:47
Speaker 1: she got pinned upside down. Now we don't know why
30:50
Speaker 1: Marisa didn't begin calling out for help. Perhaps she was
30:54
Speaker 1: so under the influence of these drugs that she couldn't
30:57
Speaker 1: really process the situation and didn't know what she should do,
31:00
Speaker 1: or maybe she was embarrassed about the fact that she
31:03
Speaker 1: had somehow gotten trapped upside down behind her bookcase. But
31:07
Speaker 1: either way, she didn't call out for help right away.
31:10
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, what happens when a human body is trapped
31:13
Speaker 1: upside down long enough is all the blood rushes to
31:16
Speaker 1: the upper part of your body. It causes your eyes
31:19
Speaker 1: eventually to pop out of your head. It feels like
31:21
Speaker 1: your head's gonna explode. But the real problem is all
31:23
Speaker 1: that blood pulls around your lungs and restricts your lungs and.
31:27
Speaker 2: Makes it really hard to breathe.
31:29
Speaker 1: And critically, if you can't take a big breath in,
31:32
Speaker 1: you can't project your voice loud enough to call out
31:35
Speaker 1: for help. And so Marisa did not call out for
31:38
Speaker 1: help during those first critical few moments she was trapped
31:41
Speaker 1: behind the bookcase, and then when she realized she absolutely
31:44
Speaker 1: couldn't move, she didn't have the lung capacity to call
31:48
Speaker 1: out for help, and so likely for one or maybe
31:50
Speaker 1: even two days, Marisa remained upside down behind this bookshelf
31:54
Speaker 1: and likely was aware of her family coming in and
31:57
Speaker 1: out of her bedroom looking for her, but she was
32:00
Speaker 1: not able to vocalize. She could not get their attention,
32:04
Speaker 1: and so eventually she died. Marisa's family would say when
32:07
Speaker 1: they were looking for Marisa in her bedroom while she
32:10
Speaker 1: was dying behind the bookcase, they said they did hear sounds,
32:14
Speaker 1: but it sounded like the rats that were running all
32:16
Speaker 1: over their house, and so they didn't know it was
32:19
Speaker 1: actually likely Marisa moving around behind the bookcase trying to
32:22
Speaker 1: get their attention because she can't use her voice. And
32:25
Speaker 1: then after Marisa died, her family did continue to go
32:28
Speaker 1: back into her room to look for her, and they
32:30
Speaker 1: began to smell something funny, which was Marisa decomposing, but
32:33
Speaker 1: the family didn't know that, and they chalked it up
32:36
Speaker 1: to the fact that the room was really messy and again,
32:38
Speaker 1: there are rats.
32:39
Speaker 2: In this house. I mean, this was not a clean space,
32:41
Speaker 2: and so.
32:41
Speaker 1: They kind of thought, Okay, you know, the smell can't
32:43
Speaker 1: be anything serious. It wasn't until November ninth, when Marisa's
32:47
Speaker 1: sister Gina was back in Marisa's bedroom and she looked
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Speaker 1: over at the bookcase and she saw something strange. What
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Speaker 1: she saw was her sister's foot right behind the bookcase.
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Speaker 1: Gina couldn't really.
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Speaker 2: Process it, so she got her flashlight out.
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Speaker 1: She shined it on foot, and when she scanned from
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Speaker 1: the foot down she realized it was her sister. On
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Speaker 1: the morning of June twenty fifth, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old man named Mike Barnett woke
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Speaker 1: up to the sound of pounding rain on the roof
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Speaker 1: of his home, which was located in Hull, which is
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Speaker 1: a city in northern England. Mike groaned as he rolled
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Speaker 1: out of bed. It had been raining like this for
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Speaker 1: the past month and he and the rest of the
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Speaker 1: people in Hull were just totally over it. But another
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Speaker 1: reason he groaned is he knew that he would have
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Speaker 1: to go to his job at a tropical fish store,
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Speaker 1: even though he was not scheduled to work that day.
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Speaker 1: There was a street right behind the tropical fish store
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Speaker 1: that always completely flooded out from all these debris getting
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Speaker 1: clogged in the drain, and the owner of the tropical
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Speaker 1: fish store, so Mike's boss, who was an elderly guy,
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Speaker 1: he would always go out and try to clear the
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Speaker 1: debris himself, and Mike just knew, you know, he really
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Speaker 1: need help, and today he knew his boss would be
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Speaker 1: out there, and so he just felt like it was
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Speaker 1: his responsibility to go in and help.
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Speaker 2: Him clear out the debris.
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Speaker 1: So Mike got dressed, he had some breakfast, and then
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Speaker 1: as quietly as he could, he slipped out the front door.
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Speaker 1: Mike was careful not to make too much noise because
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to wake his dad, who he lived with.
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Speaker 1: Mike and his dad had always been very close, but
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Speaker 1: after the death of Mike's mother, he and his father
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Speaker 1: had become even closer, and so they actually really enjoyed
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Speaker 1: living together. But Mike also knew that his dad was
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Speaker 1: very protective of him and very likely would not like
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Speaker 1: the idea of Mike going out in this horrible storm
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Speaker 1: to go try to clear debris in a flooded out street.
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Speaker 1: It just was too dangerous and Mike just didn't want
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Speaker 1: to deal with that right now, and so he was
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Speaker 1: able to slip out without waking up his dad. Mike
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Speaker 1: hopped in his car and he drove to the fish store,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he got there, he hopped out.
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Speaker 1: He went around to the backside of the shop, and
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Speaker 1: sure enough, the entire street out back was totally flooded.
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Speaker 1: Clearly debris had blocked the DREA system. Now, Mike's boss
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Speaker 1: was not out there yet, Mike could see him inside
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Speaker 1: the shop kind of going about his morning, and so Mike,
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Speaker 1: without even going inside, just began wading into the water
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Speaker 1: to begin clearing debris. The drain that was clogged by
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Speaker 1: all this debris was located just off to the side
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Speaker 1: of the sidewalk. It was down in a culvert, and
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Speaker 1: so Mike very carefully walked off that sidewalk into this
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Speaker 1: very cold, muddy water, and he began moving in the
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Speaker 1: direction of where he knew the drain was. And so
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Speaker 1: as he's walking, you know, the water is down to
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Speaker 1: his ankles, maybe up to his knees at some point.
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Speaker 1: But he gets closer and closer to where he knows
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Speaker 1: this drainage is down in this covert, and suddenly Mike
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Speaker 1: begins feeling this unbelievable suction at his feet that began
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Speaker 1: pulling him basically straight down. Mike tried to move, but
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Speaker 1: his feet were anchored to the ground, and then before
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Speaker 1: long he began getting pulled forward towards this drain and
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Speaker 1: then down he went, and as he went all the
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Speaker 1: way down to his neck in the water, he felt
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Speaker 1: this unbelievable pain in his thigh. Mike didn't know it,
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Speaker 1: but his leg had been sucked through the drainage gate
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Speaker 1: that was all blocked up. There were still some holes
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Speaker 1: in it, and so his leg had gone through one
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Speaker 1: of those holes, and it had pulled him all the
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Speaker 1: way up to the top of his thigh and brutally snapped.
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Speaker 2: His leg in the process.
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Speaker 1: And so Mike is in blinding pain from his leg
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Speaker 1: being shattered and run through this grate, and he's literally
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Speaker 1: up to his neck in this frigid water, and the
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Speaker 1: wind's blowing and it's raining, and the water's going in
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Speaker 1: his mouth, and so Mike begins to panic and he's
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Speaker 1: trying to pull himself out. He can't, and then he
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Speaker 1: begins screaming for help. And at that moment, the owner
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Speaker 1: of the fish store, who was still inside the store,
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Speaker 1: looked out the window. Then he saw Mike flailing around,
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Speaker 1: and instinctively the owner could tell, just from the panicked
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Speaker 1: look on Mike's face that whatever was happening to him
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Speaker 1: was an emergency, and so the owner just picked up
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Speaker 1: the phone called the police, and after telling them what
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Speaker 1: was happening, the owner ran out to Mike. When the
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Speaker 1: first police officers arrived on the scene, Mike was still
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Speaker 1: in the water up to his neck and the shop
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Speaker 1: owner was right next to him, and the police officers,
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Speaker 1: you know, they assessed the situation in front of them,
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Speaker 1: and they thought, okay, you know, clearly this guy, Mike
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Speaker 1: is trapped in the water. This is serious, but we
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Speaker 1: can pull him out, you know, that's the obvious solution here.
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Speaker 1: And so the two officers walked up to Mike. They
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Speaker 1: waded through the water and got on either side of him,
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Speaker 1: kind of pushing the shop owner out of the way,
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Speaker 1: and then the two officers grabbed Mike's shoulders. You know,
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Speaker 1: these are strong police officers, and they began pulling on Mike,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as they did, Mike let out this
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Speaker 1: unbelievably loud scream of just pure agony. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: his scream was so guttural that the two officers let
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Speaker 1: go and we're kind of startled by it, and very
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Speaker 1: quickly these officers realized this situation is far worse than
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Speaker 1: it appears, because not only is this guy totally stuck
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Speaker 1: and he can't be moved.
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Speaker 2: But you know, they're looking around and the rain is
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Speaker 2: still coming down, and.
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Speaker 1: It's clear the water is still slowly rising, and because
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Speaker 1: Mike's body situated over the grate, he himself was causing
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Speaker 1: even more blockage, increasing how much the street was flooding,
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Speaker 1: meaning the officers knew they had to get Mike out
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Speaker 1: as soon as possible or he would drown. But over
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Speaker 1: the next several hours, more police officers, firefighters, EMT's good Samaritans,
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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody showed up on the scene, and there
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Speaker 1: were so many attempts to get Mike out of the water,
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Speaker 1: ranging from trying to cut the grate, but the water
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Speaker 1: was too muddy so nobody could see through it, and
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Speaker 1: the water was so strong that nobody could set the
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Speaker 1: bolt cutters on the actual grate, and that at one
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Speaker 1: point they even tied a winch around Mike and tried
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Speaker 1: to pull him out with a land rover, but every
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Speaker 1: intervention failed. The rushing water that was pinning Mike to
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Speaker 1: this grate was so strong, and Mike's pain in his
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Speaker 1: leg was so high it made it nearly impossible to
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Speaker 1: move him, and so finally at the four hour mark
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Speaker 1: that Mike has been trapped in this water. A decision
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Speaker 1: was made amongst all the first responders to amputate, so
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Speaker 1: the police called a doctor who was willing to perform
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Speaker 1: the leg amputation, and then after doing it, Mike could
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Speaker 1: sense something was up. You know, clearly it's not going well,
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Speaker 1: and he began frantically asking the police and all the
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Speaker 1: first responders, when are you going to get me out
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Speaker 1: of here? When are you going to get me out
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Speaker 1: of here? And they just kept telling him soon soon, Mike.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, It's gonna be okay.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the owner of the shop at this point had
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Speaker 1: called Mike's dad to tell him what was going on.
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Speaker 1: And so as all these people are waiting for this
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Speaker 1: doctor to show up to cut Mike's leg off, Mike's
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Speaker 1: father shows up and basically barrels through the.
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Speaker 2: Crowd and starts screaming, I'll get my son out of here.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as he saw his son, he was
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Speaker 1: totally taken aback.
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Speaker 2: Mike was up to his chin in water.
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Speaker 1: There was a diver behind him in the water with
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Speaker 1: him holding him up, barely keeping his head above the water.
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Speaker 1: Mike's face was totally pale and his eyes were totally unfocused,
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Speaker 1: and he had this weird blank expression like he wasn't
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Speaker 1: even there. And then a second later, a whole wall
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Speaker 1: of police came running up to Mike's dad to stop
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Speaker 1: him from getting any closer, and they told Mike's father
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Speaker 1: they were doing everything they could to try to get
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Speaker 1: his son out, and for now, they told him he
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Speaker 1: just needed to go home. And so, even though Mike's
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Speaker 1: dad did not want to abandon his son, he could
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Speaker 1: tell with all these police standing there in front of
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Speaker 1: him there was no way he was going to be
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Speaker 1: able to go up there with a son, and so
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Speaker 1: he would turn around and head back home without even
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Speaker 1: speaking to his son. And then when Mike's dad got home,
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Speaker 1: he turned on the news and the news was showing
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Speaker 1: live coverage of his son trapped in that grate, and
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Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes later, Mike's dad would watch
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Speaker 1: his son die on the news. By the time that
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Speaker 1: doctor arrived with that special saw to cut off Mike's leg,
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Speaker 1: it was already too late. Mike had passed away from hypothermia.
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