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Top 3 CLAUSTROPHOBIC horror stories Part 1 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: If you suffer from claustrophobia, this is probably not a
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  Speaker 1: good video for you. But before I get into those stories,
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's stories. In New Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: there is a very deep body of water called the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Hole that formed after this huge sinkhole filled with water.
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  Speaker 1: And because the visibility inside of the blue Hole is
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  Speaker 1: so good, it's become a very popular swimming and underwater
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  Speaker 1: diving site. But at the bottom of the blue Hole,
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  Speaker 1: eighty four feet down, there is this little tiny open
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  Speaker 1: that almost looks like the drain at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: your bathtub, except it's just big enough that a grown
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  Speaker 1: person with scuba tanks on could wriggle through it, and
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  Speaker 1: if they did, they'd be entering into a vast network
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  Speaker 1: of tunnels and caves that have never been mapped, and
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  Speaker 1: many of them have never been explored. In nineteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 1: two recreational divers from Oklahoma and were exploring that deep
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  Speaker 1: section of the Blue Hole when they got lost and drowned.
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  Speaker 1: When the police went in, they started to get lost themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And when they finally located the bodies and brought them
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  Speaker 1: up again, they told the owners of the land that
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Hole was on that that section of the
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  Speaker 1: cave is incredibly dangerous and until you get someone in
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  Speaker 1: here to professionally map it out, you really should not
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  Speaker 1: be letting anyone go down there. And so the owners decided,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, instead of mapping this out, let's just
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  Speaker 1: seal it off permanently. And so they put this huge
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  Speaker 1: metal grade over it and bolted that down, and then
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  Speaker 1: they put a whole bunch of boulders over that sealed
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  Speaker 1: up metal grade. Fast forward to twenty sixteen and an
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  Speaker 1: elite diving organization called the eight Am Exploration Foundation that
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  Speaker 1: literally goes around the world exploring unmapped caves and professionally
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  Speaker 1: maps them. They reached out to the owners of the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Hole Cave and said, hey, we'd be happy to
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  Speaker 1: map out your forbidden section, and the owners granted them permission,
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  Speaker 1: so this would be the first time in forty years
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  Speaker 1: that anyone had been in the deepest section of the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Hole. One of the divers that was going to
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  Speaker 1: be on this excursion was a guy named Shane Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: He had been a diving instructor for the United States
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  Speaker 1: Navy before becoming an advanced scuba instructor in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: All in, he had about twenty years of diving experience,
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  Speaker 1: most of it the Cave Diving Variety. On March twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, the boulders were removed and the grate was unbolted,
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  Speaker 1: and the entrance to the forbidden section of the.
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  Speaker 2: Blue Hole was now open.
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  Speaker 1: Shane had actually been told to stay on land as
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  Speaker 1: a safety standby diver, while another diver named Mike Young
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  Speaker 1: was going to be the first into the cave and
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  Speaker 1: would just explore the upper section. But as soon as
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  Speaker 1: Mike Young got in the water that morning, a couple
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, Shane was in the water after him, and
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  Speaker 1: Mike remembers he was making his way down the main
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  Speaker 1: cavern section before getting to the actual forbidden entrance, looking
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  Speaker 1: up and seeing Shane coming towards him and thinking, hi,
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  Speaker 1: I thought he's supposed to stay on land, But he
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  Speaker 1: figured someone must have told him to go in, and
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  Speaker 1: so he didn't think much about it, and so Shane
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  Speaker 1: and Mike continue down to the entrance. Shane would be
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  Speaker 1: the first one to wriggle his way through this very
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  Speaker 1: claustrophobia inducing entrance. Once he was through, Mike followed after him.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point it's pitch black. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of light up in the main cavern,
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  Speaker 1: but once you're down below in the forbidden section, you
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  Speaker 1: can't see anything. So they both got their high powered
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  Speaker 1: flashlights out, and immediately as they're kicking it out down
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  Speaker 1: the tunnel, they realized there's a lot of silt inside
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  Speaker 1: of this section. I mean, no one's been down here
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  Speaker 1: in forty years, so everything is just kind of settled,
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  Speaker 1: and so their lights aren't really that good. It would
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  Speaker 1: be like driving in really intense fog and turning on
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  Speaker 1: your high beams. That's not going to do anything. You're
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  Speaker 1: just going to illuminate the fog around you. But they
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  Speaker 1: were kind of expecting this, so they just slowly made
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  Speaker 1: their way forward before Shane identified a tunnel that kind
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  Speaker 1: of branched off to the right, and so Shane is
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  Speaker 1: pointed his light down this tunnel. Mike sees Shane pointing it,
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  Speaker 1: so he goes up and he looks too, and they
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  Speaker 1: can see there is an opening at the end of
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  Speaker 1: this tunnel, maybe twenty thirty feet down that appears to
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  Speaker 1: open up into a much larger cavern.
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  Speaker 2: But what they were not.
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  Speaker 1: Able to see from their position, or perhaps just in
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  Speaker 1: haste they didn't realize this is the tunnel actually starts
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  Speaker 1: big and then funnels down to almost a point, and
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  Speaker 1: in order to get into that larger cavern at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the tunnel, you basically need to force yourself
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  Speaker 1: through that hole.
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  Speaker 2: It is not an easy space to fit.
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  Speaker 1: Through, but either way, Shane takes off first, Mike follows him,
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  Speaker 1: and as they're moving down this tunnel, the silt is
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  Speaker 1: getting kicked up very dramatically all around them, and so
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  Speaker 1: now they cannot tell that the walls are basically closing
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  Speaker 1: in on them. And as they're getting closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: to what they think is going to be this huge cavern.
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  Speaker 1: They actually suddenly get stuck. Shane gets stuck first. Mike
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  Speaker 1: comes up alongside him because it's so silty he can't see,
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  Speaker 1: and he swims right between Shane's.
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  Speaker 2: Leg and the wall and gets wedged.
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  Speaker 1: Mike stays calm and begins to push himself backwards to
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  Speaker 1: just retreat out of the situation he is in. He
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  Speaker 1: can't see anything, but he can tell what he needs
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  Speaker 1: to do. Shane, meanwhile, who's basically right in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: he starts kicking like a madman. In fact, his fins
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  Speaker 1: are hitting Mike in the head and all the silt
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  Speaker 1: is getting kicked up, and so Mike just continues to
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  Speaker 1: push himself back all the way back about ten or
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  Speaker 1: fifteen feet, while Shane in a total panic. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: coming backwards towards Mike begins going forward through this tiny,
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  Speaker 1: little narrow opening and somehow manages to force himself into
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  Speaker 1: this chamber.
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  Speaker 2: Mike is retreated back.
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  Speaker 1: Out to the main hallway and he's just waiting for
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  Speaker 1: Shane to do the same thing. But when he never
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  Speaker 1: shows up, Mike goes back down the tunnel. He goes
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  Speaker 1: right up to the little entrance into this cavern, and
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  Speaker 1: he pokes his head in and he scans the light
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  Speaker 1: around and he doesn't see Shane anywhere, but he sees
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  Speaker 1: right away that there's all these different exits into different
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  Speaker 1: tunnels that shoot all over this cavern. And remember this
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  Speaker 1: is a totally unexplored section, and so there's no way
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  Speaker 1: for him to know where any of these go, but
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  Speaker 1: he knows Shane had to have gone this way.
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  Speaker 2: It's only been a few moments.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to be in here, somewhere, and so he
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  Speaker 1: takes a deep breath and he begins forcing himself through
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  Speaker 1: this tiny little hole, which took him quite a while
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  Speaker 1: because Shane, when he went through, it was adrenaline and
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  Speaker 1: panic that pushed him through, which is probably why he
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  Speaker 1: did it so quickly. Mike really struggled to get through it.
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  Speaker 1: But once he was through, he pointed his light up
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  Speaker 1: and he looked for the biggest opening to one of
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  Speaker 1: those tunnels, and he began swimming up after Shane. And
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  Speaker 1: after very long and windy and at times incredibly narrow
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  Speaker 1: where Mike is second guessing himself why he's even doing this,
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  Speaker 1: he manages to get to the end and it's a
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  Speaker 1: dead end, and curled up at the very back of
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  Speaker 1: the dead end was Shane. His mouthpiece was out and
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  Speaker 1: he was deceased. Mike was unable to recover him this day.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go all the way back out, force
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  Speaker 1: himself back through that hole and go up to the
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  Speaker 1: surface and get some other people involved before they could
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  Speaker 1: come back and recover his body.
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  Speaker 2: So the running theory is that when Shane panicked and began.
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  Speaker 1: Swimming through that tight little space into that chamber, he
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  Speaker 1: must have somehow believed that he had gotten turned around
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  Speaker 1: was making his way towards the exit. Now, it's easy
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  Speaker 1: for us to say, dude, you're in a tight little
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  Speaker 1: tunnel and you couldn't even get out, how could you
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  Speaker 1: have possibly turned around? But in reality, when you're stuck
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of feet underground and a tunnel that is unexplored,
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  Speaker 1: silt's been kicked up all around you, someone's blocking your
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  Speaker 1: way behind you, there's something blocking your way ahead, and
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  Speaker 1: you're pinched all around on your side by rocks. The
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  Speaker 1: mind can do some pretty crazy and delusional things, And
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  Speaker 1: once he pushed through that hole, using adrenaline to force
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  Speaker 1: himself through, he went up thinking I'm going to get out,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get out. Except he went into a
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  Speaker 1: dead end and by the time he reached the end,
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  Speaker 1: either his mouthpiece was knocked out or he passed out
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  Speaker 1: and he dropped the mouthpiece out of his mouth. But
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  Speaker 1: either way it shows you what can happen when you
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  Speaker 1: are trapped underwater and you panic. After Shane's body was recovered,
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  Speaker 1: they resealed the forbidden section and to this day no one.
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  Speaker 2: Is allowed to go in again.
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  Speaker 1: Indian Springs is a very popular onunderwater diving location in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Deep below the surface, there are hundreds and hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: miles of tunnels that are both explored and unexplored. The
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  Speaker 1: majority of the unexplored tunnels are down at the three
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  Speaker 1: hundred foot mark, which is significantly deeper than the average
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  Speaker 1: recreational diver goes. In fact, below one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: feet you need specialized equipment and training, and very few
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  Speaker 1: people have that.
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  Speaker 2: In November of nineteen ninety one, a specially.
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  Speaker 1: Trained, specially qualified group of elite divers went to Indian
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  Speaker 1: Springs to conduct a research dive down at the three
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  Speaker 1: hundred foot mark. They were basically looking for unexplored passageways
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  Speaker 1: that they could explore and map out there was a
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  Speaker 1: number of divers that were going to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of this dive, but the only two that were going
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  Speaker 1: to be passing through something called Squaws restriction were Parker
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  Speaker 1: Turner and Bill Gavin. Squaws restriction is this very narrow
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  Speaker 1: section of Indian Springs that's located down at the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty foot mark. If you think of Indian
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  Speaker 1: Springs like an hour glass, you have a big open
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  Speaker 1: space up top, you get a big open space down below,
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  Speaker 1: and Squaw's restriction is that tiny little space in the
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  Speaker 1: center of the hourglass. Before they began this dive, they
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  Speaker 1: threw a line down through Squaw's restriction all the way
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  Speaker 1: down to the three hundred foot mark that had an
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  Speaker 1: anchor at the end of it, and this would serve
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  Speaker 1: as their guideline so that when they were going down deep,
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  Speaker 1: if silk kicked up or visibility was obstructed for any reason,
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  Speaker 1: they always had a way to reference where they needed
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  Speaker 1: to go up or down. On the morning of November seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: Bill and Parker put on their dive gear, they fired
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  Speaker 1: up their underwater scooters they were using, and they began
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  Speaker 1: their descent.
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  Speaker 2: They made it down to Squad's restriction, and one by.
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  Speaker 1: One they would lead with their scooter and their body
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  Speaker 1: would follow a long past, and each of them were
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  Speaker 1: able to get through without any issue. Once on the
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  Speaker 1: other side, they took note that on the wall next
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  Speaker 1: to them, and this will matter later on, they noticed
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  Speaker 1: a sign that had been placed there. It was a
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  Speaker 1: very distinctive up and down arrow to show upstream and
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  Speaker 1: downstream flows, and so they took mental note that there
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  Speaker 1: was this distinctive arrow sign right at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: Squaw's restriction, and they continue you down. They stopped at
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty feet and they kind of looked
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  Speaker 1: around for a couple of minutes before continuing all the
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  Speaker 1: way down to three hundred feet, which is where they
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  Speaker 1: were intending to go. And they explored for about twenty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes before looking at their watches and saying, yep,
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  Speaker 1: we got to go back up. So, with one hand
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  Speaker 1: on their scooters and one hand on the guideline, they
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  Speaker 1: begin making their ascent, and as they're getting closer and
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  Speaker 1: closer to squaws restriction, they start noticing these huge clouds
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  Speaker 1: of silt just in the middle of the water all
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  Speaker 1: around them.
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  Speaker 2: And they didn't cause this.
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  Speaker 1: They were not in an area where it was so
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  Speaker 1: tight they were kicking up silt, and it had been
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  Speaker 1: quite a while before they'd come down through squaws restriction,
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  Speaker 1: so this really couldn't be the silt that they had
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  Speaker 1: kicked up when they had first come into the cave.
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  Speaker 1: And so they looked at each other and thought, hm,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little bit weird. I wonder what's going on
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  Speaker 1: above us. But they both kind of shrugged and thought, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it can't be that big of a deal. And again,
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  Speaker 1: holding onto that guideline, they keep on going up, up, up,
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  Speaker 1: until their hands stop because the guideline is now leading
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  Speaker 1: them into sand and rock and mud, as if the
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  Speaker 1: guideline is going into the wall, and they're looking at
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  Speaker 1: what they're holding on too, and it doesn't make any sense,
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  Speaker 1: And without communicating at all, they both are thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back down and make sure we're in the
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  Speaker 1: right place, because it seems like we hit a dead
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  Speaker 1: end here, and so they turn around and as they're
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  Speaker 1: going down the guideline, now again there's no other lines
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  Speaker 1: down here.
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  Speaker 2: There is another way to get mixed up.
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  Speaker 1: But it's human instinct that they let me just retrace
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  Speaker 1: my footsteps here as they're going down, they see on
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  Speaker 1: their left the distinctive up and down arrow that they
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  Speaker 1: saw when they came in. And that's when they stopped
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  Speaker 1: and looked at each other, and they realized Squaw's restriction
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  Speaker 1: has caved in.
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  Speaker 2: We're trapped.
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  Speaker 1: Each of the men had a slate where they could
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  Speaker 1: use a grease pen to write a message and hold
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  Speaker 1: it up and show their dive partner, and that was
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  Speaker 1: how they communicated.
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  Speaker 2: And at this.
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  Speaker 1: Point Parker wrote, what are we going to do now?
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  Speaker 1: And Bill wrote back, Let's look around, And so they
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  Speaker 1: turn around and they follow the guideline back up to
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  Speaker 1: the cave in, and they start trying to clear the
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  Speaker 1: debris away, but they're finding it almost impossible because as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they move something out of the way, whatever
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  Speaker 1: is on top just pushes down into it and fills
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  Speaker 1: it back in. After a couple of minutes of doing that,
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  Speaker 1: and all the silt is in their faces, they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even hold their slates up to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: Each other because the visibility was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: So they both went lower in the water column to
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  Speaker 1: where there was no silt around them, and they both
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  Speaker 1: looked at each other, and that's when Parker held up
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  Speaker 1: his air gauge and showed Bill, I only have about
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes of air left. And that's when Bill looked
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  Speaker 1: at his air gauge and he realized he too, only
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  Speaker 1: had about ten minutes of air left.
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  Speaker 2: Parker scribbles something.
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  Speaker 1: On his slate and he holds it up to Bill
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  Speaker 1: and it just says, what are we going to do now?
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  Speaker 1: And Bill, not knowing what else to say, just wrote,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, I'll take a look. And so Bill leaves
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  Speaker 1: the guideline and swims over to another section away from
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  Speaker 1: Squaw's restriction and hopes he might find some other exit
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  Speaker 1: out of the space they're in, even though he knew
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  Speaker 1: full well there wasn't anything besides Squaw's restriction, And after
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes of looking around and not finding
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  Speaker 1: an additional exit, he goes back over to where Parker
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  Speaker 1: had been when he had left him, except Parker's not
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  Speaker 1: here anymore, and Bill suddenly thinks maybe he's found a
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  Speaker 1: way to get through this, and so Bill, with almost no.
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  Speaker 2: Air left, grabs the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Line and swims up into the Silty cloud and gets
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  Speaker 1: to the cave in to discover it's still caved in. However,
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  Speaker 1: he sees the base of Parker's tanks wedged in the
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  Speaker 1: obstruction itself, and he's looking at the tanks, thinking how
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  Speaker 1: did Parker get in that position? And then he realizes
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  Speaker 1: that's just his tanks. Parker is not attached to them anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when Bill realizes what Parker probably had done.
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  Speaker 1: Parker had tried to force himself through the obstruction and
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  Speaker 1: probably got about halfway before becoming completely wedged and stuck himself,
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  Speaker 1: and he had to make the terrifying decision to take
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  Speaker 1: one more good breath and then ditch your air tanks
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  Speaker 1: and try to swim on a breath hold to the
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  Speaker 1: set of spare tanks they had set up about one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Meters away above squad's restriction.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point, regardless what's happened with Parker, his
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  Speaker 1: tanks were positioned in a way that it had created
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of an opening in the obstruction that
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  Speaker 1: Bill was able to swim through with his tanks on.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he has almost no.
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  Speaker 1: Air left, and so once he got through, he realized
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  Speaker 1: he had about thirty seconds of air, and he swam
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  Speaker 1: as fast as he could to these fair tanks, expecting
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  Speaker 1: hoping to see Parker on them, breathing and alive, but unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: right as they came into view, Parker wasn't anywhere to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. Bill swims as fast as he can, he
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  Speaker 1: actually literally runs out of air and is on a
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  Speaker 1: breath hold himself. By the time he reaches these tanks.
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  Speaker 1: He takes a huge gulp of air, and after he
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  Speaker 1: calmed down, he took his light out and he scanned
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  Speaker 1: around and he found Parker and he was floating de ceased,
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  Speaker 1: clearly about thirty meters away. It had made it pretty
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  Speaker 1: far on a breath hold, but had just gone slightly off,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't have any of his equipment. It was
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  Speaker 1: all attached to his tanks, and so in total darkness,
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  Speaker 1: he was just blindly swimming and did not locate the
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  Speaker 1: air tanks. And you can only imagine what his final.
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  Speaker 2: Few seconds were like. Before all of.
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  Speaker 1: This happened, when Parker and Bill were down at three
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet, some of the limestone broke off from the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling landed in such a way that it caused this
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: huge underwater mud slide, and it all funneled down, completely
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: blocking up squaws restriction For any diver who can stomach
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: the Risks. Bushman's Hole is a world class diving spot.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: It's located on a privately owned game farm in South Africa.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: In the middle of the farm's eleven thousand acres sits
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: this massive crater in the ground that from rim to
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: rim is hundreds of feet wide. If you hike down
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: the crater to the middle, there's this little tiny basin
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: of water that almost looks like an oversized puddle. This
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: is the entrance to Bushman's Hole. Once you step into
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: this little puddle and push your way through the very
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: claustrophobia inducing entrance, you open up into the biggest freshwater
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: cave in the world that goes down to nearly nine
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: hundred feet. For the people that have been in there,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: they say it's unbelievable and it's like spacewalking. For young
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: South African Dion Dryer, the pull to go to Bushman
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and explore it was irresistible. Dion had always been a
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: bit of an adrenaline junkie. By the time he was seventeen,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: he was racing cars and building motorcycles, and by the
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: time he was twenty he had picked up a new
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: activity cave diving. Dion had logged about two hundred dives
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: before he was invited by a diving group to go
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: to Bushman's Hole and explore it on Christmas Break nineteen
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: ninety four. They were planning a descent to four hundred
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and ninety two feet, so about the halfway point of
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the cave, and they needed one more diver, and so
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Dion was thrilled to go. The dive was going great,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: but on the way up, as they were making their ascent,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the diver ahead of Dion looked back at him and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Dion seemed fine. He gave the hand signal that everything
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: was going great. He had his flashlight out, and then
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: about thirty feet higher in the water, that same diver
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: turned around to check on Dion, and Dion wasn't there anymore.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: And in fact, this guy saw his flashlight that was
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: still attached to him basically wavering as it sunk farther
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and farther down Bushman's Hole. This diver immediately stops the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: group above him, and he turns around and starts swimming
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: as fast as he can down to try to get
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to Dion. But Dion was sinking so so quickly that
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: this diver realized that it's a suicide mission. If I
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: try to go down there, I will either pass out
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: or run out of air. And so deeply saddened, this
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: group of divers had to turn around and leave Dion
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of Bushman's Hole. Although the other divers
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: didn't know for sure, they told Dion's parents that most
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: likely he had suffered from a deep water blackout and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: then had drowned. When authorities were notified about what happened
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: to Dion, they sent a robot down to the bottom
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: of Bushman's Hole to just locate his body before they
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: send a person down there, but they never could find
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: his body. They could only ever find his helmet. Dion's
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: parents are devastated. They're never going to see their son again,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and since they don't have a body to bury, they
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: decide to go down to Bushman's Hole and put a
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: plaque up next to.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: The entrance to commemorate their son.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Ten years later, Dave Shaw, who was a fifty year
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: old extremely audacious cave diver, was passing the eight hundred
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: foot mark inside of Bushman's Hole, becoming the third person
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: ever to reach the step. Shaw touched down on the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: sloping bottom of the cave. He detached from the cave,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Reel took out a slashlight and began swimming around the bottom.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: As he was scanning around, he looked about fifty feet
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to his left and he saw something he immediately recognized.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: It was a human body. They were on their back
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: with their arms stretched out towards the surface, and when
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Shaw went over to them, he immediately recognized that this
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: is Dion Dryer. Ever since Dion died inside a bushman
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and had never been recovered, any diver that went in
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: there was keeping their eye out in case they saw him.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Shaw examines Dion to.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: See if he's going to be able to be pulled
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to the surface, if he's solid enough to be pulled
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: to the surface, and he can tell that his hands
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have skeletonized as well as his skull, although his mask
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: is still placed directly on his skull, But his wetsuit
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and his tanks had kind of kept the rest of
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: his body pretty tight, which gave him some mass, which
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: meant he'd be able to move him. But as soon
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: as Shaw tried to move him, he couldn't get him
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to budge because his tanks were caught on something, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: so Shaw stayed there for a minute trying to get
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: him free, but he couldn't do it, and that's when
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Shaw started to think, Okay, this is getting irresponsible. I'm
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: going to die down here too if I don't start
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: making my assent soon. So he ended up tying a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: line to Dion's body so he could be located again,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and then Shaw began.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: The very slow ascent back to the surface.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: On the way back up, Shaw felt an extreme sense
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of connection with d On. He really felt bad for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: this kid, and all he wanted to do was get
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: him back on land to give back to his family,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: to give them some closure. And so when he got
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: on the surface, he immediately contacted authorities and said, I'm
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: going to go back down and I'm going to get him.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And Shaw also called Dion's parents and told them I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: am going to retrieve your son, and his parents were
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: apparently overjoyed. They couldn't believe they were going to get
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to see their son again. After lots and lots of planning,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Shaw's recovery of Dion was scheduled for January eighth, two
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: thousand and five. The dive was going to take twelve hours,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't just going to be Dave doing the retrieval.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It was going to be like a relay race. Dave
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: would be the first one down, and a couple minutes
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: after he entered the water, another diver would go in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: who would stop about one hundred feet above Dave, and
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: then a third diver would go in and stop one
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: hundred feet above the second diver, and so on and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: so forth. Dave would put the body bag over Dion
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and then carry his body up to the first guy,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: who would turn around bring the body up to the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: next guy, and the next guy to the next guy,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: until Dion was out of the water. At six thirteen
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in the morning, Shaw entered the water with a camera
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: on his helm to film the operation. Shortly after he submerged,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Dion's parents walked down to the edge of the water
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: to watch. They showed up intentionally late so as not
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to put added.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Pressure on Shaw. Shaw dropped very quickly to the bottom
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: of Bushman's hole.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He actually arrived about a minute and a half faster
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: than he expected to. As soon as he got down,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: he shined his light and he found Dion's body. He
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: went over to him, he got the body bag out,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and he got to work. Thirteen minutes after Shaw had submerged,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the diver, who was slotted above him that would be
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the first to receive Dion's body, began looking for signs
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that Shaw was done and was moving up towards him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: But when he looked down, he saw Shaw's flashlight wasn't moving.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: This diver continued to watch the flashlight very intently to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: after a couple of minutes and still no movement, this
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: diver begins going deeper and deeper to try to get
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a better look at Shaw to see what's going on.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And when he got a little bit closer, it became
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: very clear that Shaw was not moving. This diver immediately
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: goes into rescue mode and starts going straight down to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: get to Shaw to try to help him if he
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: still can. And as he's moving down, he hears this
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: fizzling sound and he looks at his wrist and he
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: can tell that one of his gauges has broken, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: this gauge was vital to the dive and it meant
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he would not be able to get down there, and so,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: with a heavy heart, he had to turn around and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: go back up. And because of the depth at which
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: they were diving. He could not just go right to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the surface and tell everybody what had happened. He needed
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: to stop at various decompression stops along the way. But
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: he had a slate, and on it he wrote in
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: his grease pen Dave's not coming back, and he swam
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the slate up to the next diver, who would have
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: received Dion's body, but instead receives the slate. He takes
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the slate up to the next diver, to the next diver,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to the next diver, all.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: The way up to the surface.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: As soon as this message was read out loud to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the group standing around Bushman's Hole, which included Dion's parents,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: there was thirty seconds of stunned silence. No one could
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: believe this was happening. And then after the silence, Dion's
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: parents are beside themselves. Not only are they not going
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to see their son, probably ever again, but they feel
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: like they are somehow responsible for Shaw's death. Eventually, by
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the end of the night, all of the other divers
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that were in the water that day successfully exited the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: cave and were just fine. As for Shaw, much like Dion,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: there really wasn't a good way to get him out,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and so everyone came to terms with the reality that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he was going to be down there with Dion, probably forever.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: The news was so devastating that the team decided to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: leave all their equipment in place. Eventually, they did need
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: to go down and collect their gear. So everybody goes
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: down to the edge of Bushman's Hole, and before they
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: begin retrieving all of the lines, they sang Amazing Grace
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: in memoriam for the lost diver. Afterwards, they started pulling
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: up the lines and as they're doing that, they noticed
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: all these bubbles coming up from the bottom of the cave,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and they looked a little bit closer and it was
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Shaw's body and Dion's body. Basically, Shaw had been attached
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to this line and he had managed to free Dion
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: before he had passed, and so when they pulled the line,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: both of them were freed and they floated to the surface.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And so even though Shaw would die doing it, he
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: was able to get Dion out of Bushman's Cave for
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: it family. After the two bodies were taken out, they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: noticed that the camera on Dave's head was still intact
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and it had filmed everything all the way through his
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: final moments, and so they took the tape out and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: they watched it forward and backwards slow mo, frame by frame,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and they analyzed it to the point where they understood
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: what happened when Shaw gets down to Dion. Dion's body
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that had previously been stuck and that was the reason
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Shaw had not been able to free him the first time.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Somehow he's become unfree and he's now free floating, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Shaw is having a really hard time trying to control
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: this free floating body, and his body is literally breaking
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: apart in front of him. As Shaw is trying to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: wrangle his body, you can hear him start grunting. His
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: breathing is getting elevated, and he's totally losing control of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the situation. And the bottom of this cave is slanted
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and it's all silty and muddy, and so in the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: camera you see all this mud and stilt getting kicked
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: around and the visibility is very poor, and after it clears,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you see Shaw has gotten completely tangled in some line
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that's also tangled on Dion, so basically Dion has become
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: his anchor. At this point, Shaw shifts his focus to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: try to get the lines off of himself, and you
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: can hear his breathing now is becoming much more desperate.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It almost sounds like he's gulping for air.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: And probably, at this point, although we don't know for sure,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: he's suffering from narcosis, which is a condition that divers
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: will run into where it's like you've drank a whole
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: bunch of alcohol in an empty stomach. It's like you're
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: totally drunk, and you're confused. And it's clear that he's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: becoming a little bit disoriented, and instead of going away
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: from Dion's body to try to go back up and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: save yourself, instead he turns and starts fumbling with Dion's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: mid section, and then he gets out a pair of scissors,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't use them, he just holds them.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Finally, he turns away.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: From Dion because it's clear you're not gonna be able
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to get him out at this point, and with the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: scissors in hand that he never used, because again he's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: probably suffering from narcosis and he's confused, he starts beginning
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to make his.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Way over to the area where you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Can go back up, but he starts slowing down. His
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: breathing becomes tragically desperate, and then it becomes silent, and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: then there's no more movement and Dave Shaw is dead
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: ten days after the bodies were recovered from Bushman's Hole.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Dion's parents, although they are absolutely devastated about what happened
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to Shaw and they feel very guilty, but at the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: same time, they're so excited because they get to go
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to the morgue and see their son again for the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: first time in ten years. They don't care what state
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: his body's in. Just the fact that he's actually here,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that their actual son is going to be in front
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of them, was just overwhelming for them.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And when they went in.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They were really fixated on the fact that he had
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: underwear on that they both recognized. Apparently they had bought
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: him a set of jockey underwear and he was wearing
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: jockey underwear. As strange as it is, it was like
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: they got to bond with their child one more time.
• 25:37
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• 25:38
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