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This hole has killed 16 people · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: There is a small hole in the ground in Australia
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  Speaker 1: that has claimed the lives of at least 16 people. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what's inside of that hole.
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  Speaker 1: today's story. In 1938, a farmer in southeastern Australia decided
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  Speaker 1: to bring his horses to a watering hole on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of his large property. As he was leading
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  Speaker 1: the horses across this big wide open field, one of
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  Speaker 1: his horses suddenly just collapsed to the ground. The farmer
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  Speaker 1: ran over to see what was going on, but as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he got over to it, the horse had
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  Speaker 1: stood back up again and seemed totally unhurt. The farmer
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  Speaker 1: was puzzled because he had no idea why the horse
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  Speaker 1: fell in the first place, and so he looked down
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  Speaker 1: to see if maybe it tripped on something. And he
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  Speaker 1: saw on the ground right beneath the horse was this
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  Speaker 1: small hole. And so he moved his horse out of
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  Speaker 1: the way. And then when he came back to look
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  Speaker 1: at this thing, he saw it was only maybe a
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  Speaker 1: foot across. But when he peered down into it, he
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  Speaker 1: saw it was very deep. And so he got down
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  Speaker 1: on his hands and knees to get a closer look.
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  Speaker 1: And when his eyes adjusted, he could not believe what
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  Speaker 1: he was seeing. 10 or 15 feet below the surface
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  Speaker 1: was this huge pool of clear water. The horse had
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  Speaker 1: just stepped into the roof of an underground cave. And
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  Speaker 1: so the farmer was really excited to see how big
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  Speaker 1: this cave was. And so he grabbed all his horses
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  Speaker 1: and he brought them back to the stable. And he
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  Speaker 1: got this long measuring rope with a weight at the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. So he runs back out to the hole.
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  Speaker 1: He puts the weight into the hole and he begins
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  Speaker 1: paying out this rope. And so down it goes 10 feet,
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  Speaker 1: 20 feet, 30 feet. It just keeps on going and
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  Speaker 1: going until finally the weight hits solid land at 120 feet.
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  Speaker 1: And so the farmer is like, wow, this is a
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  Speaker 1: huge cave. So he pulls it back up thinking that's
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  Speaker 1: the bottom. But in reality, it wasn't. It actually extended
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  Speaker 1: down almost 300 additional feet. The farmer and his horse
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  Speaker 1: had just accidentally found one of the most beautiful and
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  Speaker 1: deadly freshwater caves in the world called The Shaft. The
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  Speaker 1: reason it's called The Shaft is because the only way
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  Speaker 1: in or out of this underwater cave is through this
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  Speaker 1: hole in the middle of this field that this horse created,
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  Speaker 1: And it's literally a shaft that goes down 18 feet
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  Speaker 1: until it reaches the surface of this massive underground body
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  Speaker 1: of water. The opening to this shaft is so narrow
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  Speaker 1: that cave divers, they can't get into it with their
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  Speaker 1: gear on their backs. So they literally need to be
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  Speaker 1: lowered into this cave by themselves and then their gear
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  Speaker 1: is lowered down after them and they put it on
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  Speaker 1: while they're treading water. The solid ground that the farmer's
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  Speaker 1: weighted line had touched at 120 feet when he believed
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  Speaker 1: he had reached the bottom of the cave What he
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  Speaker 1: had actually touched was the top of something called the
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  Speaker 1: rock pile. The rock pile is basically this huge underwater
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  Speaker 1: pyramid that looks like a rock pile that sits at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom in the middle of this huge underwater cave.
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  Speaker 1: And from the top of this rock pile, you can
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  Speaker 1: go down it in all different directions. But once you
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  Speaker 1: get to the bottom, there's only two tunnels to choose from.
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  Speaker 1: There's one that goes west, basically down at an angle
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  Speaker 1: that dead ends at 260 feet. And then on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of this underwater pyramid is the eastern tunnel,
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  Speaker 1: and that's much more treacherous. It goes down at a
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  Speaker 1: more steep angle to 400 feet. The few elite divers
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  Speaker 1: that have explored the deepest recesses of this cave say
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  Speaker 1: there are three distinct stages to it. Stage one is
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  Speaker 1: from the surface down to 120 feet, the top of
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  Speaker 1: the rock pile. During this stage, the diver swims unobstructed
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  Speaker 1: in beautiful clear water with sunlight poking through the hole.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very easy section of the cave. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a safety line that's anchored from the surface straight down
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  Speaker 1: to the top of the rock pile. So you have
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  Speaker 1: something to hold on to as you go down and
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  Speaker 1: back up. Stage two is where things get a bit dicey.
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  Speaker 1: Stage two begins at the top of the rock pile
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  Speaker 1: and extends down all the way to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the westerly tunnel at 260 feet where it dead ends.
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  Speaker 1: or down to the 200 foot mark of the easterly
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  Speaker 1: tunnel where you come to something called the drop off ledge.
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  Speaker 1: And it's quite literally a ledge in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this tunnel where beyond it there's a fairly steep drop
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  Speaker 1: off and it leads down to an area that's so
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  Speaker 1: treacherous it's got its own stage. Starting with stage two
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  Speaker 1: and then with stage three, there is no safety line
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  Speaker 1: to guide you in the direction you need to go.
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  Speaker 1: So you're on your own as soon as you reach
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  Speaker 1: the top of the rock pile. And so you make
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  Speaker 1: your way down any direction you want down the rock
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  Speaker 1: pile until you reach either of these tunnels, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as you go into them, you immediately start to
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  Speaker 1: lose visibility, because the sunlight cannot penetrate all the way
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  Speaker 1: into these tunnels. And so the diver becomes increasingly reliant
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  Speaker 1: on their flashlight. As such, they have to be very
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  Speaker 1: careful as they navigate down stage two to not bump
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  Speaker 1: into the walls, because doing so will knock the limestone
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  Speaker 1: silt off of the walls, it will create a cloud
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  Speaker 1: of it in their face, it will blind them, It's
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  Speaker 1: like being in fog where a flashlight can't push through it.
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  Speaker 1: And so the diver has to either wait for the
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  Speaker 1: silt to clear, which could take a very long time,
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  Speaker 1: or they have to swim blind. Also, anyone entering stage
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  Speaker 1: two and stage three, they can't breathe regular air out
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  Speaker 1: of their tanks. There's too much nitrogen in regular air.
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  Speaker 1: The deeper you dive, the more nitrogen your body will
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  Speaker 1: absorb And if you have too much nitrogen in your system,
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  Speaker 1: it can give you something called nitrogen narcosis, which is
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  Speaker 1: like being really drunk. And in extreme cases, people have
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  Speaker 1: been known to take their mouthpiece out and inhale water,
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  Speaker 1: believing they're on the surface, or they'll confuse the direction
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  Speaker 1: up with the direction down. And to get to the surface,
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  Speaker 1: they will swim straight down until it's too late and
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  Speaker 1: they can't get back up again. And so divers that
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  Speaker 1: are going to be in stage two or stage three
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  Speaker 1: of this cave breathe a special mix of gases that
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  Speaker 1: are low in nitrogen the final stage of the shaft
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  Speaker 1: stage 3 is just from the 200 foot mark of
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  Speaker 1: the easterly cave so that drop off ledge all the
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  Speaker 1: way down to the bottom at 400 feet this stage
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievably dangerous as soon as you drop off that
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  Speaker 1: ledge all the sunlight goes away it is pitch black
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  Speaker 1: and the tunnel narrows considerably and stays incredibly narrow In fact,
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  Speaker 1: many times divers have to squeeze themselves past sections where
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  Speaker 1: the rocks are too close together. And so because you're
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  Speaker 1: inherently bumping into the walls all through stage three, you're
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  Speaker 1: pretty much guaranteed to be silted out the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: At this depth, nitrogen narcosis is virtually guaranteed, even if
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  Speaker 1: you're breathing a special low nitrogen mix of gases. And
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  Speaker 1: so divers need to be ready to abort the dive
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  Speaker 1: at any moment if they feel symptoms coming on. Once
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  Speaker 1: the diver has turned around and is making their return trip,
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  Speaker 1: but they're still in the third stage section of the cave,
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  Speaker 1: they need to be careful of false stones. These are
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  Speaker 1: offshoots on the ceiling only in this third stage that
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  Speaker 1: look like the way out. And especially when things are
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  Speaker 1: silted out and it's dark, you're low in oxygen, you
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  Speaker 1: might be panicking, it'd be very easy to confuse these
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  Speaker 1: with the way out. But in fact, these false domes
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  Speaker 1: are exactly what their name implies. They are false. They
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  Speaker 1: are dead ends. They go nowhere. Stage three is reserved
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  Speaker 1: exclusively for extremely experienced cave divers who get special permission.
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  Speaker 1: In 1973, eight divers got permission to dive the first
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  Speaker 1: and second stages of the shaft cave. They did not
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  Speaker 1: get permission to dive the third stage of the cave.
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  Speaker 1: On May 28th of that year, the eight divers arrived
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  Speaker 1: in that big open field near the cave opening and
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  Speaker 1: began prepping their gear. Their plan was to dive down
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the edge of the drop-off ledge,
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  Speaker 1: so looking into the third stage, and then once they
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  Speaker 1: got there, look around for a minute and then turn
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  Speaker 1: around and head back up to the surface. These eight
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  Speaker 1: divers were experienced divers, but their experience was all in
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  Speaker 1: open water environments. None of them had dove in a cave.
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  Speaker 1: And so they were confident divers, but they were a
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  Speaker 1: little bit naive. They believed the dive down to the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the third stage was going to be fairly
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  Speaker 1: routine and would just be simple and fun. But before
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  Speaker 1: any of them had even gotten into the water, they
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  Speaker 1: had already made a critical mistake. Instead of jamming their
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  Speaker 1: bottle with the special low nitrogen mixed gas that they
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  Speaker 1: would need since they were going into stage two, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's a requirement, instead of doing that, they just
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  Speaker 1: jammed their bottles with regular air. So they were basically
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  Speaker 1: guaranteeing that they would get nitrogen narcosis. But once they
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  Speaker 1: had all their gear prepped, they made their way over
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  Speaker 1: to the entrance to the shaft and one by one,
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  Speaker 1: they were lowered down into the water and their gear
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  Speaker 1: would follow. And then once all of them were all
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  Speaker 1: jocked up, they grabbed the safety line and they began
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  Speaker 1: their descent. It only took about two minutes to get
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  Speaker 1: down to the top of the rock pile. And there
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  Speaker 1: they spent about five minutes taking pictures of each other
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  Speaker 1: before heading down the Eastern tunnel. Three of the divers
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  Speaker 1: were siblings, Glenn, Steven and Christine, who were 25, 22,
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  Speaker 1: and 19 respectively. And Glenn remembers after they made their
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  Speaker 1: way all the way down the eastern tunnel and they
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  Speaker 1: reached the drop-off ledge, he remembers seeing his sister, his brother,
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  Speaker 1: and all the other divers. Everyone seemed just fine. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: just looking over this ledge. They're taking turns kind of
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  Speaker 1: peering down into this black abyss that is stage three.
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  Speaker 1: And then after five minutes or so, Glenn looked at
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  Speaker 1: his gauge and he saw his air was getting fairly low.
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  Speaker 1: Not emergency situation, but it was time to leave. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody else had the same amount of air as he
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  Speaker 1: did And so everybody else was running low on air.
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  Speaker 1: And so Glenn was about to grab his sister, who
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  Speaker 1: was several feet right in front of him. She was
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  Speaker 1: still looking over the ledge down into stage three. But
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  Speaker 1: when he reached out to grab her, she and all
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  Speaker 1: the other divers just suddenly jumped forward and dove straight
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  Speaker 1: down into the abyss out of sight. They dove into
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  Speaker 1: the stage three section. This was not something that Glenn
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  Speaker 1: was tracking anybody doing. This was not something anyone said
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  Speaker 1: they were going to do. This was not part of
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  Speaker 1: the dive. This was very dangerous and they weren't allowed
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  Speaker 1: to go down there. And so Glenn immediately swam down
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  Speaker 1: after them to try to grab his sister and stop
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  Speaker 1: her or grab his brother or grab any of them.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as he went over that ledge, he
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  Speaker 1: saw it was totally pitch black and it was completely
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  Speaker 1: silted out from all these divers suddenly launching over the edge.
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  Speaker 1: And so Glenn knows he's not going to find them
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  Speaker 1: in the silt. It's also very dangerous for him alone
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  Speaker 1: to just dive down there. And so he figures, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm sure they're fine. They probably planned this
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  Speaker 1: out and they're just going to go down a little
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  Speaker 1: ways and they'll come back up again. And so I'll
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  Speaker 1: just go to the rock pile and wait for them.
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  Speaker 1: And so Glenn turns around and he goes up back
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  Speaker 1: over the drop off ledge. He makes his way to
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  Speaker 1: the rock pile and he just sits there facing the
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  Speaker 1: eastern tunnel, waiting for his brother, his sister and the
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  Speaker 1: other divers to come back out again. But they don't.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, his air gauge gets so low that he
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  Speaker 1: literally has to go to the surface. And he's thinking
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  Speaker 1: to himself, if my air is this low, what are
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  Speaker 1: they doing down there? 24-year-old Larry Reynolds was one of
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  Speaker 1: the divers that went with Glenn's sister and brother and
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  Speaker 1: the other two divers into this forbidden third stage section
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  Speaker 1: of the cave. Although he doesn't say this, it sounded
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  Speaker 1: like he and the others just wanted to go a
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  Speaker 1: little ways into this off-limits section, check it out, and
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  Speaker 1: then turn around and go back to the surface. And
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  Speaker 1: so Larry would say, as soon as they went over
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  Speaker 1: the ledge and they're in this third stage, it went
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  Speaker 1: completely pitch black and the tunnel immediately constricted dramatically. And
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  Speaker 1: so as they're going down this very tight and pitch-black tunnel,
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  Speaker 1: they reach a section that's so tight, they're down on
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  Speaker 1: their stomachs, literally pulling themselves through. And so after a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes of the group forcing themselves into this unbelievably
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  Speaker 1: dangerous place, it's like they all collectively realized, this is
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  Speaker 1: a terrible idea, we need to turn back. And so
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  Speaker 1: as they all began turning around, they realized their return
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  Speaker 1: trip just back up to the drop-off ledge, which was
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  Speaker 1: only maybe 25 feet, was completely silted out. And so
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  Speaker 1: Larry is in the back of this return trip line
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  Speaker 1: and right in front of him is Christine. And so
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they all make their way into the silt,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing Larry can see with his flashlight is
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  Speaker 1: Christine's fins. And so he's staying right up on her
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  Speaker 1: and keeping his light on that fin to make sure
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  Speaker 1: he's going in the right direction. And so after only
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  Speaker 1: a few moments, Christine's fins just suddenly disappear. And so
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  Speaker 1: Larry's thinking, I don't know where she went, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough time. I have almost no air. And
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  Speaker 1: so he just keeps on swimming, believing he's going the
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  Speaker 1: right way. And sure enough, he clears out of the
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  Speaker 1: silt and he goes up and back over the drop
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  Speaker 1: off ledge and he shines his light back up the
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  Speaker 1: Eastern tunnel, back up towards the rock pile, expecting to
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  Speaker 1: see Christine and the other divers he was just with,
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  Speaker 1: but he's looking and there's no one there. There's no silt.
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  Speaker 1: It's totally clear. And there's not one diver in front
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  Speaker 1: of him. And so he looks at his gauge again,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got a little bit of air enough to
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  Speaker 1: maybe go down and make sure nobody is still down there.
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  Speaker 1: Cause he's thinking, I don't think it's possible they could
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  Speaker 1: have swam all the way through this tunnel in this
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  Speaker 1: space of time. So he turns around, he goes back
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  Speaker 1: over the drop-off ledge, back into the silt, and as
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  Speaker 1: he's moving very slowly and cautiously, up ahead he sees
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  Speaker 1: flashlights moving around on the ceiling of the tunnel. And
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  Speaker 1: so he moves down towards this flashing light, and he
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  Speaker 1: realizes the light is coming from inside of a false
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  Speaker 1: dome right above him. And so he looks up, and
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  Speaker 1: he saw there was Christine and another man named Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: who was 28, frantically swimming around, shining their lights, looking
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  Speaker 1: for the way out, not realizing they're in this dead end.
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  Speaker 1: And so Larry was about to shine his light to
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  Speaker 1: get their attention when Larry's flashlight went out. And so
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  Speaker 1: now Larry is in complete darkness. He is completely silted out.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even know how much air he has left
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  Speaker 1: because he can't shine the light on it. And so
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  Speaker 1: he's starting to panic. He starts banging on his flashlight.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, the light comes back on. And when it does,
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  Speaker 1: he shines it straight up again to try to shine
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  Speaker 1: it towards Christine and Robert's But he had drifted farther
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  Speaker 1: down the tunnel. And so by the time he shined
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  Speaker 1: his light, he wasn't underneath the false stone. But when
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  Speaker 1: he shined his light in the other direction, he saw
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  Speaker 1: he was at the very far end of where the
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  Speaker 1: group had gone. And so farther down into stage three
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  Speaker 1: was clear. There was no silt. And so he shined
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  Speaker 1: his light down into the stage three tunnel. And way
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  Speaker 1: down the tunnel, barely visible, he sees there is one
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  Speaker 1: diver with his flashlight out swimming the wrong direction down
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  Speaker 1: into oblivion. His name was John, he was 20 years old,
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  Speaker 1: and he almost certainly had nitrogen narcosis. Larry knew he
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  Speaker 1: could not save him. And so Larry turned around and
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  Speaker 1: went back into the silt, back up in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of the rock pile, touching the ceiling, looking for that
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  Speaker 1: entrance into the false dome to try to help Christine
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  Speaker 1: and Roberts. But he's not finding it, and he's looking
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  Speaker 1: at his air gauge, and it's getting critically low, and
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  Speaker 1: he knows if he doesn't go soon, he's going to die.
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  Speaker 1: And so at some point, after not finding the entrance
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  Speaker 1: to this false dome... he decides he just has to
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  Speaker 1: go out and save himself. And so he manages to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the silt, he goes up and over
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  Speaker 1: the drop-off ledge, he gets to the rock pile, he
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  Speaker 1: grabs the safety line, and he fins himself up to
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  Speaker 1: the surface, and when he gets to the surface, he
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  Speaker 1: looks around, and there's only three other divers up there,
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  Speaker 1: one of which is Glenn. And Glenn, he looks visibly panicked,
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  Speaker 1: and he yells to Larry, Hey, have you seen my
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  Speaker 1: brother and my sister? Have you seen the others? Are
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  Speaker 1: they coming up after you? And Larry looks at him
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  Speaker 1: and just shakes his head. He didn't know what to say.
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  Speaker 1: He knew they were gone. But for Glenn, this was
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  Speaker 1: his baby brother, his baby sister. He had to go
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  Speaker 1: back down. And so with the little bit of air
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  Speaker 1: he had left, he put his mouthpiece in, he turned around,
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  Speaker 1: and he dove straight down as fast as he could,
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  Speaker 1: staring towards the opening of the eastern tunnel, praying, that
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  Speaker 1: his family members, that his friends are gonna come out
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  Speaker 1: of there, but as he's swimming down and he's running
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  Speaker 1: out of air, no one was coming out of that tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: And so finally, when his air was basically empty, he
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  Speaker 1: had to turn around, and on that return trip back
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  Speaker 1: to the surface, he realized his siblings and his two
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: friends were gone. It would take 11 months and 11
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  Speaker 1: days to finally locate and recover all four of the
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: bodies inside of the cave. John, the 20-year-old who Larry
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: saw swimming in the wrong direction, was found fairly far
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  Speaker 1: down the eastern tunnel laying on a rocky outcropping. Glenn's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: 22-year-old brother, Steven, was found just 50 feet from the
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  Speaker 1: entrance of the shaft, but it's believed he died at
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  Speaker 1: a much lower depth and then floated up to that position.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn's 19-year-old sister, Christine, and the 28-year-old man, Roberts, that
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  Speaker 1: she was with inside of the false dome were found
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  Speaker 1: the tunnel. Investigators believe when they were in there, they
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