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Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... Part 3 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you three progressively more
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  Speaker 1: insane stories about people who went to forbidden locations around
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  Speaker 1: the world and what happened to them. Spoiler alert, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't end well. But before I get into today's stories,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, Haika Dorsh and her boyfriend Stephan Rahman were
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  Speaker 1: living their best life sailing southwest from the Galapagos Islands
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  Speaker 1: for the last three years. They had a band in
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  Speaker 1: their lives in the city and had moved on to
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  Speaker 1: Stephan's catamaran and were just sailing the globe. On August thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, after a particular stretch where they had been
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  Speaker 1: at sea for seventeen days consecutively without seeing land anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Haika was laying down on the catamaran catching some sun
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  Speaker 1: when she heard Stephan yell out land, and she looked
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  Speaker 1: up and she saw these mountainous islands kind of coming
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  Speaker 1: into view just over the horizon. These were the fifteen
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  Speaker 1: islands that make up the Marquesas Island Range within French Polynesia.
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  Speaker 1: Haika remembers not being able to control her grin. It
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  Speaker 1: was like she couldn't stop smiling because it really looked
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  Speaker 1: like paradise, and she was so excited to land there.
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  Speaker 1: The Marquess's Island Range were not big tourist attractions because
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  Speaker 1: of how mountainous and rocky they were, and the water
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  Speaker 1: was not that beautiful kool aid blue that people expect
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  Speaker 1: out of French Polynesia. But for Haika and Stephan, this
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  Speaker 1: was perfect. They were not looking for mass market tourism.
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  Speaker 1: They were looking for authentic cultural contact, and it would
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  Speaker 1: turn out that the Marquesas Island Range was perfect for
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  Speaker 1: this because the locals just weren't used to seeing tourists,
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  Speaker 1: and so before long, the locals were embracing Haika and
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  Speaker 1: Stephan and bringing them down to the beach for their
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  Speaker 1: cookouts and going spearfishing with them, and even one night
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  Speaker 1: they were invited into a locals home where they got
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of a big family dinner. After
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  Speaker 1: six weeks, Haika and Stefan had explored the majority of
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  Speaker 1: the Marquess's island Range, but there was still one of
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen islands that they had not yet explored, called
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  Speaker 1: nuku Haiba, and so on the day before they planned
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  Speaker 1: to leave the island range, they decided to go check
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  Speaker 1: it out. When they dropped anchor in the bay that
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  Speaker 1: sat just outside of this island, there were no boats,
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  Speaker 1: there were no fishermen, there were no people, there was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a deserted island. And so they make
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  Speaker 1: their way on the beach and they see there's this
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  Speaker 1: trail that goes inland. Being explorers, they couldn't help themselves
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  Speaker 1: but walk down the trail to see what's down there.
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  Speaker 1: After fifteen minutes of walking down this jungle path, they
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  Speaker 1: come to a clearing and in this clearing is this
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  Speaker 1: very strange looking village that's made up of all these shacks.
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  Speaker 1: They can't tell if people live there or have lived
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  Speaker 1: there recently, because them it just looks totally abandoned, and
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  Speaker 1: as they're kind of looking around, they notice way down
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  Speaker 1: the path beyond these shacks is one man standing in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the road. He's this really big guy
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  Speaker 1: with a shirt off, standing next to a horse, and
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  Speaker 1: he's just looking directly at them. He's not waving to them,
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  Speaker 1: he's not signaling to them, he's just watching them. And
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  Speaker 1: it kind of creeped them out at first, but they
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  Speaker 1: decided that the polite thing to do would be to
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  Speaker 1: go over and talk to him, because this is probably
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  Speaker 1: his village and they were the trespassers. So they go
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  Speaker 1: over to this guy and they introduce themselves and he
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  Speaker 1: says that his name is ari Hano and that he
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  Speaker 1: lives in this village. Through broken French, they're able to
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  Speaker 1: have a semi normal conversation which seemed like pleasantries, and
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  Speaker 1: at some point Stefan, just off the cuff, asked this
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  Speaker 1: guy if he'd be willing to be his guide on
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  Speaker 1: a hunt. He wanted to go hunting for goats, which
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  Speaker 1: is something that everybody did on the Marquessis Island, and
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  Speaker 1: Stefan really wanted to be a part of that. And
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  Speaker 1: Ari Hano says, sure, I'll be your guide. Hika was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit caught off guard, but wasn't surprised because
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  Speaker 1: Stefan had been talking endlessly about how he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go on a goat hunt before they left the Marquessa's
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  Speaker 1: island range. But she didn't feel like doing this, so
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  Speaker 1: she said, you two go, I'll meet you over at
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  Speaker 1: the boat. So Haika turns around and starts walking down
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  Speaker 1: the jungle path back towards their boat, and she turns
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  Speaker 1: around one more time and she sees Stefan and Arihano
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  Speaker 1: walking into the jungle down another path and they disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Haika spent the next several hours just laying out on
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  Speaker 1: the beach waiting for Stefan to return. But after quite
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  Speaker 1: a while and she hadn't heard anything, she started to
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit worried. And as she's starting to
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  Speaker 1: get worried, she hears someone yelling out on the water,
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  Speaker 1: and from around the corner, Arihano comes around on his
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  Speaker 1: boat and he's waving to her and he's yelling for
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  Speaker 1: her in French that there's been an accident, that Stefan's
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  Speaker 1: been hurt and she needs to come with him. Without
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  Speaker 1: another thought, Haiko runs into the water, jumps into Arihano's dinghy,
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  Speaker 1: and the two of them drive back around the corner
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  Speaker 1: to wherever Arihano and Stephan had been. They land at
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  Speaker 1: this little tiny beach that's right up against the jungle,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately Haika jumps out, runs right into the jungle
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  Speaker 1: and she's yelling for Steffan and there's no sign of him.
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  Speaker 1: He's not yelling back. She has no idea where to look,
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  Speaker 1: and she kept turning around and asking Arihano, where is he?
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  Speaker 1: What happened to him? And ari Hano just wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: giving her a good answer, he was just being quiet Frustrated,
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  Speaker 1: Hika walks even farther into the jungle. She's yelling even louder,
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  Speaker 1: and still there's nothing, And so she turns around to
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  Speaker 1: confront Arihano and be like, where is Stefan? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as she does, she's met with a
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  Speaker 1: gun right in her face. Hika immediately grabbed the barrel
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  Speaker 1: and tried to fight it away from him, and she
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  Speaker 1: could tell that he tried to fire the gun, but
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  Speaker 1: the safety was on and so nothing fired. They kind
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  Speaker 1: of struggled with the gun and at some point he
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  Speaker 1: got on top of her and just restrained her and
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  Speaker 1: tied her up to a tree, and then he just
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  Speaker 1: walked away into the jungle without saying anything. And so
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  Speaker 1: Haika is expecting at any moment for him to return
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  Speaker 1: and kill her, and she even said that she wished
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  Speaker 1: he had just shot her then and there, because the
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  Speaker 1: anxiety of waiting for whatever was going to happen was
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  Speaker 1: way worse. While ari Hana was gone, Hika struggled to
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  Speaker 1: try to get the ropes off of her and the
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  Speaker 1: rope around her neck off of her, but she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do it, and as she's sitting there struggling, ari Hana
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  Speaker 1: would return and he would beat her up a little
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  Speaker 1: bit before ultimately turning around and leaving once again. Ari
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  Speaker 1: Hano would come back a couple hours later after it
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  Speaker 1: had gotten dark and she's still there struggling to get
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  Speaker 1: these ropes off of her, and he would hit her
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  Speaker 1: a couple times before leaving again. But when he hit her,
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  Speaker 1: he actually managed to loosen some of her restraints, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he did walk off into the jungle
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  Speaker 1: that second time, she was able to get the restraints
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  Speaker 1: off of her wrist and her neck. Now she had
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  Speaker 1: no idea where ari Hano was. But as soon as
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  Speaker 1: she took one step, she saw a flashlight maybe a
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  Speaker 1: couple hundred meters away, flip towards her, and she knew
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  Speaker 1: it was ari Hano. He had heard her move, and
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  Speaker 1: so Haika just starts running full speed. She's stepped in
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  Speaker 1: on thorn, she's getting slashed by all the undergrowth. She
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care. She is running for her life. And because
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  Speaker 1: it was a full moon, she could actually see the
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  Speaker 1: water because the beach was right next to where she's
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  Speaker 1: being held, and so she just ran for the water.
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  Speaker 1: And when she got onto the beach, she could see
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  Speaker 1: there was another boat out in the water near where
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  Speaker 1: theirs had been anchored. And when she looks at the beach,
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  Speaker 1: she can see that ari Hano must have turned around
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  Speaker 1: because she can see a fly ash like kind of
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  Speaker 1: bobbing its way farther and farther deeper into the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: Using the couple's satellite phone, Haika was able to alert
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  Speaker 1: authorities who launched a search for Stefan, and initially they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find him, and they couldn't find ari Hano. But
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  Speaker 1: three days into the search, they made a grizzly discovery.
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  Speaker 1: The Marquessen Islands are actually known for the Marquessen warriors
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  Speaker 1: that used to inhabit these islands up until the twelfth century,
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  Speaker 1: and they were known for being the most aggressive cannibals
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  Speaker 1: in the South Pacific, in particular the island of Nuku Haiba,
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  Speaker 1: which is where Stefan had just gone missing and where
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  Speaker 1: Haika had just been attacked by Arihana. But historians believe
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  Speaker 1: nobody on Marquess has practiced cannibalism since the twelfth century.
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  Speaker 1: That practice has gone away well until twenty eleven, when Arihano,
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  Speaker 1: who was in fact a Marquess's warrior, met Stefan and
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  Speaker 1: decided that now is a good time to bring that
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  Speaker 1: practice back. Right after Haika had turned around and walked
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  Speaker 1: back to the beach and Stefan and Arihano had gone
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  Speaker 1: on their hunt, ari Hano had attacked Stefan, tied him
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  Speaker 1: up and described seeing his neck pulsing with fear as
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  Speaker 1: Arihano built this massive campfire that authorities said was three
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  Speaker 1: times bigger than any campfire that had ever come across
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  Speaker 1: and then Arihano shot him and put him in the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Although Arihano would be captured and convicted of killing Stefan.
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  Speaker 1: Arihana would never actually come out and say that he
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  Speaker 1: had in fact eaten portions of Stephan, and it was
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  Speaker 1: impossible to tell from his remains how much had been
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  Speaker 1: consumed versus burned off in the fire. But virtually anybody
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  Speaker 1: who was involved in this case has their suspicions that
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  Speaker 1: Arihano had ritualistically cannibalized Stefan. In the early morning hours
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  Speaker 1: of February sixth, twenty fourteen, a van carrying five men
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  Speaker 1: finally came to a stop outside of a farm in Norway.
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  Speaker 1: After a miserable, nearly fifteen hour drive, these five men,
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  Speaker 1: who were from Finland, were finally ready to begin their
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  Speaker 1: real adventure. They were going to be attempting one of
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous underwater dives in the world. It is
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  Speaker 1: called the traverse and it is a two kilometer subsurface
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  Speaker 1: dive from one entrance of the Plural Cave to the other.
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  Speaker 1: The entrance they were going to start in was inside
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  Speaker 1: of the frozen pond next to this farm. Two of
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  Speaker 1: the five men had actually done this so called traverse before,
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  Speaker 1: because they were the ones that discovered these two entrances
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  Speaker 1: were actually connected, but no amount of experience was going
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  Speaker 1: to limit the amount of physical risk they would have
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  Speaker 1: to take in order to complete this dive. The dive
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  Speaker 1: was so long, over two kilometers, that you actually needed
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  Speaker 1: a specialized underwater scooter that could propel you through the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel because you wouldn't be able to swim fast enough
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  Speaker 1: before you ran out of air, which also meant if
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  Speaker 1: your scooter broke down in the middle of this pitch
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  Speaker 1: black underwater cave, you were screwed. The majority of the
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  Speaker 1: dive was going to be through this really tight tunnel
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  Speaker 1: where all along the ground were these limestone rocks that
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  Speaker 1: kind of poked up where if you weren't careful, if
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  Speaker 1: you dragged your dry suit along them, you could tear
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  Speaker 1: it open and then freezing water would go into your
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  Speaker 1: drysuit and you would die. Also, they were you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be using a diving rig known as a rebreather,
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  Speaker 1: so as a Navy seal, we used rebreathers. Basically, it
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  Speaker 1: takes your air and rebreathes it, so you're not breathing
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  Speaker 1: air into the water, you're breathing out into the system
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  Speaker 1: that scrubs your co two and then pumps it back
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  Speaker 1: into you. And you also combine that rebreathed air with
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  Speaker 1: pure oxygen, so you have a continuous cycle where you're
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  Speaker 1: just breathing pure oxygen. It makes for a really cool
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  Speaker 1: dive because you're looking around and there's no bubbles, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also very dangerous and your body doesn't really adjust
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  Speaker 1: well to having pure oxygen pumped into it. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you can be poisoned from pure oxygen. And when you're
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  Speaker 1: diving at depth with a rebreather on the way up,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just rock it to the surface. There are
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  Speaker 1: these things called decompression stops along the way up, where
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  Speaker 1: depending on how long you were at a certain depth,
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  Speaker 1: you need to wait at certain stops along the way
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  Speaker 1: back up to the surface and let your body decompress.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't do that and you just rush to
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  Speaker 1: the surface, you can get something called the bends, which
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  Speaker 1: is decompression sickness, and it can be fatal. Not to mention,
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  Speaker 1: there's a couple other nasty side effects of using a rebreather,
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  Speaker 1: like if you get water inside of your breathing loop,
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  Speaker 1: it can actually get into the CO two absorbent that
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  Speaker 1: sits inside of your rig and that can cause this
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  Speaker 1: acidic mixture to go back into your mouth, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't take the mouthpiece out because more water will get
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  Speaker 1: into it and it'll flood your rig and then you'll
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  Speaker 1: just drown. So you need to just accept that there
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  Speaker 1: could be acid in your mouth, and you need to
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  Speaker 1: either get somebody else to give you their mouthpiece or
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  Speaker 1: get a standby rig and breathe off of that, because
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  Speaker 1: there's no solution to this. You just got to have
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  Speaker 1: acid in your mouth. Also, if you panic for any
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  Speaker 1: reason on a rebreather, you'll be breathing really heavy and
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  Speaker 1: your system will not be able to scrub the CO
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  Speaker 1: two fast enough, and you'll have a build up of
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  Speaker 1: CO two in your body and you'll get hypercapnia, which
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  Speaker 1: can lead to disorientation and even passing out, which can
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  Speaker 1: be lethal underwater. This dive was famously dangerous, to the
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  Speaker 1: point where the best divers in the world wouldn't attempt it.
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  Speaker 1: They called it a death wish. But these five divers
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  Speaker 1: from Finland were determined and they were eager to make
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  Speaker 1: these so shortly after they arrived they take a quick
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  Speaker 1: nap and then they get up and they're ready to
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  Speaker 1: start the dive. They decided to break up into two groups.
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  Speaker 1: They had a pair that was going to go down first,
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  Speaker 1: and then two hours later the other three would follow.
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  Speaker 1: Once the first pair was in the water, there would
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  Speaker 1: be no way to communicate between the two groups. So
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  Speaker 1: the pair cuts a triangle into the ice with the chainsaw.
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  Speaker 1: They hop into the beautifully clear water, and very quickly
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  Speaker 1: they start descending down into this tunnel. Once they got
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  Speaker 1: down to the tunnel, they turned on their scooters and
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  Speaker 1: started heading out. After a couple of hours, the pair
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  Speaker 1: reached the most dangerous part of the dive, where the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel basically knows dives and goes straight down to about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty meters, And as you're going down,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be very cautious that you're going the
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  Speaker 1: right way because there's all these dead end tunnels that
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  Speaker 1: look exactly like the way you're supposed to go, and
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  Speaker 1: they go pretty far out. But if you were to
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  Speaker 1: accidentally take a wrong turn and go down one of
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  Speaker 1: these dead man turns, you wouldn't have enough oxygen to
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  Speaker 1: complete the dive. So it's a slow process of making
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  Speaker 1: sure you go down the exact right path, and then
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  Speaker 1: when you get to the bottom one hundred and thirty meters,
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  Speaker 1: there was this plate that had been left there to
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  Speaker 1: signify you've gone the right way, and then you turn
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  Speaker 1: and go right back up again, and you're pretty much
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  Speaker 1: at the exit at that point, but it takes quite
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  Speaker 1: a while to cover that last little bit because there
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  Speaker 1: are necessary decompression stops along the way. The first group
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  Speaker 1: descended in no issues and didn't get sidetracked. They got
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom where that plate was, they turned and
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  Speaker 1: began going back up the ascent to their first decompression stop.
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  Speaker 1: The lead diver got through a particularly tight spot and
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  Speaker 1: then noticed that his partner behind him his flashlight, which
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  Speaker 1: was normally right up against him, he couldn't see it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And he turned and he saw that his partner had
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  Speaker 1: gotten wedged in this one section of the ascent. So
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  Speaker 1: the lead diver turns around and swims down to the
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  Speaker 1: trap diver, who he can tell is panicking a little
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  Speaker 1: bit because he's trying to get himself free and he
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  Speaker 1: can't move. And the lead diver looks and he can
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  Speaker 1: tell that he is thoroughly wedged into this one little section,
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  Speaker 1: And the lead diver would say that what he thought
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  Speaker 1: happened is the trap diver must have been going too
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  Speaker 1: quickly with his scooter and basically motorized himself into this
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  Speaker 1: wedge like it wouldn't have been humanly possible to swim
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  Speaker 1: fast or hard enough to get stuck as badly as
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  Speaker 1: he did. The lead diver could tell that he was
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  Speaker 1: totally stuck. There was probably no way he was going
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  Speaker 1: to get out of this, and so he tried taking
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  Speaker 1: some of his gear off, but they have such little
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  Speaker 1: space to work with, and the trap diver is starting
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  Speaker 1: to sense that this isn't going very well, and in
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  Speaker 1: a panic, he accidentally knocks his mouthpiece out of his
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  Speaker 1: mouth and can't find it again and ends up inhaling
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of water and he dies. The lead diver
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  Speaker 1: knows that he can't pin it because he will end
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  Speaker 1: up burning through his oxygen, he'll probably get hypercapnia, he
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  Speaker 1: won't be able to get to the surface, and he'll
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  Speaker 1: die too, So he tries to free his friend's body
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  Speaker 1: and he can't, and he's now realizing that the second
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  Speaker 1: set of divers that are coming in the tunnel, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to this point in the dive, which
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  Speaker 1: is very far into the dive, and they won't be
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  Speaker 1: able to get past his dead body, and they'll have
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  Speaker 1: to turn around, but they don't have enough oxygen. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't think to make it back to the surface, and
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  Speaker 1: so almost certainly those three divers are going to get
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  Speaker 1: he and be trapped and are going to die too,
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  Speaker 1: And so, terrified and devastated and saddened by what's ultimately
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  Speaker 1: going to happen, he turns and starts heading for the surface,
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  Speaker 1: and he had to stop at each of those decompression stops.
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  Speaker 1: And you can only imagine what it was like to
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  Speaker 1: be sitting inside of this tight tunnel, waiting for thirty
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: minutes and forty five minutes the different decompression stops, just
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: thinking about what's inevitably going to happen beyond the dead body.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: They're going to get trapped, they're going to die. He's
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: going to be the only one that gets out of
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: here alive. And at some point he makes it up
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: to the surface and he just sits there and waits. Meanwhile,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: the second set of divers did enter the water two
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: hours later. They go down to the tunnel. They're making
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: their way out, and they were farther spread out than
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: the pair was, and so the first diver, the lead
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: diver of the second group. He reached the dead body
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: first before the other two had even seen it or
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: knew about it, and he began to panic. And as
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the second and third diver come up and realize what's happening,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: they see the lead diver lose his mouthpiece and in
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: a panic, he's moving around like this, and he inhales
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: water and also and so now the second and third
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: diver are dealing with the fact that they just watched
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: their friend die right in front of them. Their other
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: friend from the first group is dead and blocking their way,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: and the second and third diver they also begin to panic.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: They don't communicate, and one of them just immediately turns
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and starts kicking it out back towards the entrance, knowing
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: full well they probably don't have enough oxygen to get there.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: The other diver decided they were going to find a
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: way to get past the dead body that was wedged
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: in the only way up to the surface, and so
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: on their own over a kilometer underwater in this tight
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: little tunnel where they're totally trapped. They're relying on a
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: flashlight for light. There's two dead bodies. This second diver
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: begins removing pieces of their gear and pushing it through
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the little space between the dead body and the clearing
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: that he wanted to get to to make his way
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: up to the surface. And after pushing through all of
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: his gear, including his tank, which is a big commitment
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: because once it was through he would have to go
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to the other side. He couldn't get it back through
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and push himself through painstakingly with his hands all the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: way through this tiny little space that he could just
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: barely get through, and then he puts his gear back on,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and then, knowing he had almost no oxygen left, he
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: had to basically rock it to the surface and just
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: hope decompression sickness didn't kill him. The other diver who
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: had turned around and gone all the way back to
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the entrance, they skipped all of their decompression stops as well.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: They got to the entrance just barely, but when they
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: got there, the entrance was frozen over and they had
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to punch their way through the ice, which they were
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: able to do, and they two got on surface once again.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: The three survivors linked up. They called authorities, They went
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to the hospital they would make a full recovery. They
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: told authorities where their friends were in this cave, but
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: no one had the ability to get down and retrieve
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: their body, so they sealed off both entrances to this
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: cave and called it a grave site and said no
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: one can go down there. But months later the three
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: survivors had such intense survivor's guilt that they would actually
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: illegally go back to Plural Cave and retrieve their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: In the nineteen thirties, notorious dictator Joseph Stalin began deporting
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: people that he viewed as threats to the regime. Now,
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  Speaker 1: at first that was just political opponents, and he rounded
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  Speaker 1: up thousands of those, but over time Stalin just started
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: rounding up anybody he didn't like, and so as more
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and more people were deported, Stalin needed a place to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: put them. The option he settled on was sending these
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: people to Siberia because it was thousands of miles away
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: from civilization, and the way he saw it is they
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be a threat to the regime anymore because they'd
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: be too busy just trying to survive. Eventually, millions of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: people were deported to Siberia to fend for themselves, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: many people died in the process. But the worst fate
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: of anybody deported to Siberia has to be the roughly
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: seven thousand people that were sent to Nazino Island, off
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the western side of Siberia. In May of nineteen thirty three,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the first five thousand deporties that would be sent to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Nazino Island arrived on its shores. Now they had been
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: packed inside of barges. Many of them were weak or sick,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and disease quickly spread, and just by the time they arrived,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: twenty seven people had already died just in transit. As
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the survivors disembark onto this snowy island, they see immediately
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: that there's nothing on it. It's this tiny little island.
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  Speaker 1: There's no shelter, there's no food, there's no tools, there's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: no way to make shelter. They're just totally stranded. Their
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Soviet guards had promised them a ration of flower, but
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: for the first four days they refused to give it
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to them, and another two hundred and ninety five people died,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and to make matters worse, after a couple of days,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: another almost two thousand people were shipped out to this island,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and so by the time the guards actually took their
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: boats into shore to give the flower to these people.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: They were starving to death, and they rushed the boats
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to try to steal the flower, and the guards began
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: shooting at them. Took the flower and went back out
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to the water. The next day they came back in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to try to give them the flower, and the same
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: thing happened, and so they went back out to the water.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And they orchestrated this plan where for every one hundred
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and fifty prisoners there would be a brigadier, and that
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: brigadier would be charge of coming out and getting the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: flower and then bringing it back to those one hundred
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and fifty. But the brigadiers were all criminals, and they
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: would come out take the flower and then not distribute it,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and so no one got any flower, so no one
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: could eat anything. And the people who did get flower
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: rations mixed it with water, and then they would eat
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that raw, and it gave them dysentery, and then they
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: died totally desperate. These deporties began constructing these crude rafts
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and began trying to cross the river to the other side,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: but many of them broke apart, and they would drown
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in the freezing waters and if they didn't drown, the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: guards would see them crossing it would take shots at them.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And so if they didn't drown or get shot, and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: they did make it to the other side, they'd be
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: in the Siberian wasteland with no supplies and they would
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: die there too. And so the Zeno Island completely devolved
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: into chaos almost immediately. Cannibalism became a thing, and there
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: were these roving gangs of people that were the strongest
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and fittest of the island who would just go around
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and murder the weak and eat them. And the guards
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that were watching this did nothing to stop it, and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: frankly couldn't if they wanted to, because you've now reached
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the absolute extremes of human survival. One local woman who
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: would make an annual trip to Nazino Island before there
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: were people being deported there, made her annual trip and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: was shocked to see all these people on this island
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: that normally had no one there. And she said, from
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: her boat, she watched this group of people run up
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: on this woman drag her to a tree. They tied
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: her to the tree and then began cutting off pieces
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of her while she was alive, and eating it right
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in front of her. And then after the group had left,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the woman who was tied to the tree was still alive,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and what looked like her partner, her boyfriend, her husband
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: comes over, tries to untie her. He tries to save her,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: but there's nothing he can do, and she dies in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: his arms. Another local who managed to save a woman
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: from Nazino Island. She got her into her house and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: she sat her down, and she noticed that the backs
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: of her legs were all bandaged up, and she asked
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: her what was going on with the backs of her legs,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And she undid her dressing and her calf muscles on
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: her legs were gone. Someone had cut them off and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: eaten them. Of the nearly seven thousand people that were
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: sent to Nazino Island, only two thousand remained at the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: end of the first month they were there, and in fact,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: when word got out to Stalin that this island had
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: become cannibal Island, he actually shut it down and moved
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the remaining two thousand to porties to another labor camp,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: where unfortunately many of them died as well. And sadly,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: those few thousand people only represent a fraction of the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: massive number of people that died during Stalin's many purges,
• 22:27
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