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- 0:05Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, a group of seven friends were wandering
- 0:08Speaker 1: through this forest in New Zealand trying to get to
- 0:11Speaker 1: this secret swimming spot. And as they're walking along this
- 0:15Speaker 1: dirt trail far away from the road and there's no
- 0:17Speaker 1: one near them, they suddenly hear this high pitched, shrill
- 0:20Speaker 1: siren sound coming from somewhere off in the forest, and
- 0:24Speaker 1: so the group stops. They're listening to the siren, and eventually,
- 0:27Speaker 1: after about thirty seconds, the siren stops. And at that
- 0:30Speaker 1: point these seven friends begin exchanging very curious looks about
- 0:33Speaker 1: what they just heard, but ultimately.
- 0:35Speaker 2: They shrug it off and just keep on walking. Little
- 0:38Speaker 2: did they know that siren was trying to tell them
- 0:41Speaker 2: to turn around and go the other way.
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- 1:08Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's story. On the morning of Monday,
- 1:25Speaker 1: February sixth, twenty seventeen, a group of seven friends who
- 1:30Speaker 1: were all college aged and living in New Zealand began
- 1:33Speaker 1: packing up their cars and getting ready to drive back
- 1:35Speaker 1: to Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand. The night before,
- 1:39Speaker 1: the group had been out on Lake Tiki Tapu for
- 1:42Speaker 1: a big concert called Floacella, where audience members would listen
- 1:46Speaker 1: to the music while floating.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Around on big blow up rafts and floats.
- 1:50Speaker 1: After the concert had ended, the group of friends had
- 1:52Speaker 1: left the lake and headed to a nearby relative's house,
- 1:56Speaker 1: where they had a quiet after party with a couple
- 1:58Speaker 1: of drinks, and then everyone went to bed a little
- 2:00Speaker 1: bit after midnight. This morning, the group had gotten up
- 2:03Speaker 1: early because they wanted to get on the road as
- 2:05Speaker 1: soon as possible to try to beat the holiday traffic
- 2:08Speaker 1: that was sure to crop up that day on the
- 2:10Speaker 1: way back to Auckland. February sixth is a big national
- 2:13Speaker 1: holiday in New Zealand. It's called Waititungi Day and it's
- 2:17Speaker 1: to commemorate the initial signing of the Treaty of Whiteitungi,
- 2:21Speaker 1: which is considered to be the founding document of the country.
- 2:24Speaker 2: But right as the.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Seven friends had finished packing up their three cars and
- 2:28Speaker 1: were getting ready to begin their three hour drive north
- 2:31Speaker 1: to Auckland, one of the friends, a twenty one year
- 2:34Speaker 1: old named Rachel DeJong, suggested they take a quick detour
- 2:37Speaker 1: before they head back home. Rachel, along with another girl
- 2:41Speaker 1: in this group of friends named Maddie, had several months
- 2:44Speaker 1: earlier discovered this secret swimming spot that was located only
- 2:48Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes away from where they were now, and
- 2:51Speaker 1: it happened to be on the way back to Auckland.
- 2:54Speaker 1: This swimming spot was this beautiful, green, blue pool of
- 2:57Speaker 1: fairly deep water that was located in the middle of
- 3:00Speaker 1: a forest. This pool was actually a part of the
- 3:03Speaker 1: Waikato River. However, this stretch of the river where the
- 3:07Speaker 1: pool was was either very shallow or dry most of
- 3:10Speaker 1: the time, so as a result, this pool actually looked
- 3:13Speaker 1: like a standalone body of water. While there was no
- 3:16Speaker 1: official trail that led through the forest to this pool
- 3:19Speaker 1: of water, there was an unofficial trail. It was basically
- 3:22Speaker 1: a dirt trail that cut through the woods that had
- 3:25Speaker 1: formed over the years of locals tromping their way to
- 3:28Speaker 1: this pool of water. After hearing Rachel's suggestion, the group
- 3:31Speaker 1: of friends all agreed that this sounded like a great idea,
- 3:34Speaker 1: and so the group piled into their three cars, and
- 3:36Speaker 1: then by around eleven forty.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Am, Rachel and Maddie.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Had directed the convoy all the way to the start
- 3:43Speaker 1: of this unofficial dirt trail, which was located right on
- 3:46Speaker 1: the side of a winding main road. After pulling their
- 3:48Speaker 1: cars safely off to the side of the road, the
- 3:51Speaker 1: group got out and then Rachel and Maddie led them
- 3:54Speaker 1: to the start of this trail and they began walking
- 3:56Speaker 1: through the forest. Fifteen minutes later, at eleven to fifty
- 3:59Speaker 1: five am, the group was getting very close to the
- 4:02Speaker 1: water because the trees up ahead were starting to thin out.
- 4:05Speaker 1: But also at eleven fifty five am, the group suddenly
- 4:09Speaker 1: stopped because from somewhere out in the forest, way off
- 4:12Speaker 1: in front of them, came this loud, shrill siren sound,
- 4:17Speaker 1: and it went on for nearly twenty or thirty seconds,
- 4:19Speaker 1: and then it just came to a stop, and the
- 4:21Speaker 1: group kind of looked around at each other. No one
- 4:23Speaker 1: knew what to make of the siren, and so eventually
- 4:25Speaker 1: they just kind.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Of shrugged it off and kept on walking.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Within a minute of that siren sound coming to an end,
- 4:31Speaker 1: the group had made it to the end of this
- 4:33Speaker 1: unofficial dirt track, which placed them at the edge of
- 4:36Speaker 1: this beautiful overlook down to the pool they were going
- 4:39Speaker 1: to swim in, and so they began one by one
- 4:41Speaker 1: climbing down the rocks in front of them, where there
- 4:43Speaker 1: were some ropes that had been put up to help
- 4:45Speaker 1: people climb down to the water. And so after they
- 4:47Speaker 1: got down to the water, all of them stripped down to.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Their bathing suits.
- 4:50Speaker 1: They jumped into the pool and they began swimming out
- 4:53Speaker 1: towards the center of the pool, where there were these
- 4:55Speaker 1: two big rocks that jutted up out of the water,
- 4:58Speaker 1: almost like miniature islands. And so Rachel and the other women,
- 5:01Speaker 1: so five of them, they climbed onto one of the rocks,
- 5:04Speaker 1: and the two men who were part of this group
- 5:06Speaker 1: climbed onto the other rock. And so they got up
- 5:08Speaker 1: onto these rocks and they're looking around taking in the sights,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and then at eleven fifty eight am, another.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Siren blasts across the forest.
- 5:17Speaker 1: It's the same sound as the one they heard three
- 5:19Speaker 1: minutes earlier when they were on the dirt track, and
- 5:21Speaker 1: so once again all seven of them are kind of
- 5:23Speaker 1: looking at each other wondering what.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Is the siren about.
- 5:26Speaker 1: But after the twenty or thirty second long siren came
- 5:29Speaker 1: to an end, they glanced around them and there was
- 5:31Speaker 1: no sign of any danger. There was no sign of
- 5:33Speaker 1: really anything happening at all. It was just this beautiful,
- 5:36Speaker 1: peaceful seeming oasis. And so before long they had forgotten
- 5:39Speaker 1: about the siren again, and Rachel had gotten at her
- 5:42Speaker 1: camera and she was taking pictures and others were taking
- 5:44Speaker 1: pictures as well, And then two minutes later, at twelve pm,
- 5:48Speaker 1: the siren sounded for a third time. Now at this point,
- 5:51Speaker 1: the group has heard the siren two other times, and
- 5:54Speaker 1: even though the sound of the siren was kind of
- 5:57Speaker 1: jarring because it was so high pitched and shrill and
- 6:00Speaker 1: cut into their ears, this time, because they've heard it
- 6:03Speaker 1: two other times and nothing happened, they all pretty much
- 6:06Speaker 1: immediately wrote it off. So the sirens sounding for the
- 6:08Speaker 1: third time, and the group is not really paying attention.
- 6:11Speaker 1: But when the siren finally stops. This third time, something
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- 8:13Speaker 1: the story. When the third siren came to a stop,
- 8:22Speaker 1: the friends started to hear a new sound, and it
- 8:24Speaker 1: was coming from the same direction the siren had been
- 8:28Speaker 1: coming from, which in effect was upstream. Even though this
- 8:31Speaker 1: river was basically dry. They could turn and look uphill
- 8:35Speaker 1: and they could clearly see where the river would go
- 8:37Speaker 1: if it was full. And so the friends turn and
- 8:40Speaker 1: look upstream, and they're listening to this really loud, kind
- 8:43Speaker 1: of smashing sound that's coming from that direction, and they're
- 8:46Speaker 1: exchanging curious looks at each other, trying to figure out
- 8:49Speaker 1: what that sound could be.
- 8:50Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden they see it. A
- 8:53Speaker 2: white wall of.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Water comes crashing around the corner and begin barreling straight
- 8:58Speaker 1: down the riverbed towards them. By the time the friends
- 9:01Speaker 1: had even processed what they were seeing, the water had
- 9:04Speaker 1: reached the pool they were in, and it was flooding
- 9:07Speaker 1: the pool so quickly.
- 9:08Speaker 2: They could literally see this huge pool rising.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Its water levels were going up and up and up
- 9:13Speaker 1: all around them, and so as the rocks they're standing
- 9:15Speaker 1: on began to slowly submerge under all this rising water,
- 9:19Speaker 1: the group collectively decided that this can't go on for
- 9:22Speaker 1: very long. Whatever this is, it's going to stop, So
- 9:24Speaker 1: just stay put, stay on. These rocks were going to
- 9:26Speaker 1: be okay. However, within seconds, the rocks they were on
- 9:29Speaker 1: were completely submerged, and the water was still tumbling down
- 9:33Speaker 1: the hill towards their pool and then spilling out over
- 9:36Speaker 1: the other side down the other end of the river bed,
- 9:38Speaker 1: and they're thinking to themselves, if we don't get off
- 9:40Speaker 1: these rocks soon, we're going to get swept downstream with
- 9:43Speaker 1: this water. And so the two men who were on
- 9:45Speaker 1: their own rock, they leapt to a rocky outcropping that
- 9:49Speaker 1: was slightly higher up and was connected back up to
- 9:52Speaker 1: the forest, and so this rocky outcropping represented safety, and
- 9:55Speaker 1: so once they were up there, they turned around and
- 9:57Speaker 1: they yelled to the five women still stranded on their
- 10:00Speaker 1: rock to try to swim over to them and the
- 10:03Speaker 1: guys would grab them and pull them to safety. But
- 10:05Speaker 1: by this point the girls are looking around. The water's
- 10:07Speaker 1: up to their knees and it's rushing past them. They
- 10:10Speaker 1: can barely keep their balance. They know if they attempt
- 10:13Speaker 1: to swim in this water, they're gonna immediately be taken
- 10:16Speaker 1: downstream with it, and so the group very quickly decides
- 10:19Speaker 1: their only choice is for the women to literally jump
- 10:23Speaker 1: and grab the men who have their arms outstretched for them.
- 10:26Speaker 1: And so Rachel Dejeong, she was the first one to
- 10:28Speaker 1: try this. She leaps off the rock, she grabs the
- 10:31Speaker 1: guy's arms, and she gets pulled to safety. And then
- 10:33Speaker 1: she turns around and she and the other two men
- 10:36Speaker 1: continue to get the women to jump off the rock
- 10:39Speaker 1: to them, and at first it's going fairly well until
- 10:41Speaker 1: they get down to the second to last woman who leaps.
- 10:44Speaker 1: She grabs one of the guy's arms, and then both
- 10:47Speaker 1: of them lose their footing and the guy and the
- 10:49Speaker 1: woman they both get swept away downstream.
- 10:52Speaker 2: They're gone.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Rachel stays calm, and she moves to the position where
- 10:55Speaker 1: the guy had been who just got swept away, and
- 10:57Speaker 1: she takes out her GoPro camera selfie stick and she
- 11:01Speaker 1: extends it out to the last woman who's out on
- 11:03Speaker 1: the rock. Her name is Alice, and she tells Alice
- 11:06Speaker 1: jump and grab the selfie stick, and so Alice, who's
- 11:08Speaker 1: almost completely submerged in water, now makes this frantic jump
- 11:12Speaker 1: to grab onto the selfie stick. She grabs it for
- 11:14Speaker 1: a second, but then loses her grip and she begins
- 11:17Speaker 1: being swept away, and Rachel, who at this point was
- 11:20Speaker 1: completely safe, immediately jumped into the rapids after Alice.
- 11:24Speaker 2: She grabbed Alice.
- 11:25Speaker 1: She attempted to turn around and grabbed the rock to
- 11:28Speaker 1: stop them, but she couldn't get a grip, and she
- 11:30Speaker 1: and Alice were also swept downstream out of view. Two
- 11:34Speaker 1: weeks before Rachel, Maddie, Alice, and the others had gone
- 11:37Speaker 1: to this secret swimming spot, a warning sign, like a
- 11:41Speaker 1: physical warning sign that warned people not to go near
- 11:44Speaker 1: this river don't go near this pool, was stolen, and
- 11:48Speaker 1: that warning sign was normally placed at the very beginning
- 11:52Speaker 1: of that unofficial dirt track that the seven friends took
- 11:55Speaker 1: to get to the pool, Meaning when the seven friends
- 11:58Speaker 1: got out of their cars and again hiking into the
- 12:01Speaker 1: forest to go to this pool, they would not have
- 12:03Speaker 1: understood the danger of where they were going. Now, it
- 12:06Speaker 1: is true that Rachel and Maddie had previously discovered this
- 12:09Speaker 1: swim spot several months earlier. However, it seems like they
- 12:12Speaker 1: had just learned that this swimspot existed and how to
- 12:16Speaker 1: get to it. It did not seem like they had
- 12:18Speaker 1: literally walked this trail and gotten to the pool, and
- 12:21Speaker 1: so very likely they would not have known about the
- 12:24Speaker 1: dangers this place posed. The pool of water they were
- 12:26Speaker 1: swimming in was not actually dangerous itself. It was only
- 12:30Speaker 1: dangerous because the pool was located in the middle of
- 12:33Speaker 1: a spill zone. About six hundred and fifty feet upstream
- 12:37Speaker 1: of the pool. They were swimming in is a dam,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and three to four times a day they opened their gates,
- 12:44Speaker 1: releasing twenty thousand gallons of water per second down this
- 12:49Speaker 1: mostly dry river bed, and the water comes careening across
- 12:53Speaker 1: that pool all the way to the bottom. The gates
- 12:55Speaker 1: stay open for about fifteen minutes. And the only reason
- 12:58Speaker 1: this is done is for the spectacle of it. It's
- 13:01Speaker 1: to show Taurus what this riverbed looked like before the
- 13:04Speaker 1: dam was built. And what this riverbed looked like before
- 13:07Speaker 1: the dam was built was a raging rapid. On February sixth,
- 13:12Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, the dam was set to spill at twelve pm.
- 13:17Speaker 1: So those sirens the friends heard at eleven fifty five,
- 13:20Speaker 1: eleven fifty eight, and then twelve were all warnings that
- 13:24Speaker 1: a spill was about to occur, but of course the
- 13:26Speaker 1: seven friends had no idea. After the twelve pm spill
- 13:30Speaker 1: had finally ended, the three friends who had made it
- 13:33Speaker 1: to the rocky outcropping and had not been swept away
- 13:36Speaker 1: by the current went looking for the four other friends
- 13:38Speaker 1: who had been swept away, and they would find them.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Three had miraculously survived, but one had not. The sole
- 13:46Speaker 1: fatality was twenty one year old Rachel DeJong, whose idea
- 13:49Speaker 1: it was to come and swim at the spot in
- 13:51Speaker 1: the first place. Rachel also was the woman who had
- 13:54Speaker 1: left safety and jumped back into the rapids to attempt
- 13:58Speaker 1: to save her friend Alice. Today, there are many more
- 14:01Speaker 1: warning signs and fences that have been put up around
- 14:04Speaker 1: the Waikato River to prevent people from getting too close,
- 14:07Speaker 1: because the dam still, despite the fatality, spills several times
- 14:12Speaker 1: a day. However, despite all these precautions and all the
- 14:15Speaker 1: notoriety around Rachel's death, people still today sneak in and
- 14:19Speaker 1: go swimming in that secret pool.
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