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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • DISTURBING PHOTOS Edition - l · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we have a very special video for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's stories. At four
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  Speaker 1: forty five am on Saturday, January seventeenth, twenty fifteen, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven year old farmer named Caleb Whitby drove his
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  Speaker 1: pickup truck down a highway in southeastern Oregon. Caleb knew
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  Speaker 1: conditions for driving were not great. In fact, they were
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  Speaker 1: kind of awful. The road was icy, it was foggy out,
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  Speaker 1: the sun wasn't up, so it was pretty dark out.
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  Speaker 1: But he felt like he didn't really have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go pick up a shipment of cattle
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  Speaker 1: for his family's farm. After driving for another ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: or so down this road, so it's just before five am.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Caleb found himself right behind this big
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  Speaker 1: semi truck who was going under the speed limit. And
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  Speaker 1: so Caleb's cruising along here getting frustrated, and he's thinking
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  Speaker 1: about passing the truck. But when he kind of peeked
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  Speaker 1: around the side and looked up ahead of the truck,
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  Speaker 1: he saw there was a very sharp turn coming up
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't really have enough runway to make the pass,
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  Speaker 1: at least not safely, and so Caleb just kind of
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  Speaker 1: throttled back and decided he would make the pass after
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  Speaker 1: making the turn, and so the semi truck, which is
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  Speaker 1: right in front of Caleb, it ends up making this
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  Speaker 1: turn and gets out of sight of Caleb. And then
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  Speaker 1: a moment later, Caleb makes the same turn, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he does, he sees something that he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have seen before. He's seeing it right now. That sends
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  Speaker 1: a jolt of panic through his body, and reflexively he
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  Speaker 1: jams on his brakes, he loses control of his truck
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  Speaker 1: it starts to slide. Then all Caleb can do is
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  Speaker 1: just brace and pray that he doesn't get killed. And
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  Speaker 1: then a second later he heard a loud crunching sound,
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  Speaker 1: and then his truck stalled and everything went quiet, But
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  Speaker 1: the silence was broken when suddenly there was another crunching sound,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same time, Caleb suddenly felt his lungs
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  Speaker 1: getting crushed together and all the air was just pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of his body. Moments later, a different semi truck
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  Speaker 1: driver was going down the same stretch of highway that
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  Speaker 1: Caleb had been, and he rounded that exact same turn,
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  Speaker 1: and when he did, he saw the same thing that
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  Speaker 1: had horrified Caleb and caused him to swerve out of control,
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  Speaker 1: except this semi truck driver. When he hit his brakes,
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  Speaker 1: he was able to basically maintain his truck and he
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  Speaker 1: sort of gently hit the guardrail and you know, crashed,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't cause any damage to him or really
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  Speaker 1: to his truck. And so, after kind of composing himself,
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  Speaker 1: this semi truck driver got out of the cabin and
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  Speaker 1: he looked out at this unbelievably horrific scene in front
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  Speaker 1: of him, and instinctively he knew if he goes forward
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  Speaker 1: and inspects this, he's just going to see dead bodies.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't know if he could even handle that.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's just standing there in utter shock when
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  Speaker 1: he hears this sound, and he knows this sound is
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  Speaker 1: something that he has to go investigate. And so, even
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  Speaker 1: though he was terrified of, you know, potentially seeing dead people,
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  Speaker 1: he walked towards the sound and suddenly he saw where
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  Speaker 1: it was coming from, and he just couldn't believe what
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  Speaker 1: he was looking at. It would turn out when Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Whitby rounded that corner and then saw this horrible thing
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  Speaker 1: that caused him to crash, well, what he saw was
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  Speaker 1: a assive pile up of over two dozen cars, just
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  Speaker 1: completely blocking the road, and so he smashed on his
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  Speaker 1: brakes and he tried to stop himself, but ultimately he
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  Speaker 1: smashed into the semi truck that just moments before he
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  Speaker 1: had been driving behind. The semi truck had also crashed,
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  Speaker 1: and so Caleb has now crashed into the side of
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  Speaker 1: the semi and everything silent for a second, and then
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  Speaker 1: another semi truck comes around the corner. Caleb can't go anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and that semi truck blasted into the back of Caleb's car.
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  Speaker 1: After that, the other semi truck, the third semi truck,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, rounds the corner, sees the pile up,
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  Speaker 1: hits the brakes, but this guy, he manages to crash
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  Speaker 1: into the guardrail, avoiding major injury and damage to his truck.
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  Speaker 1: And so he gets out of his truck and he's
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  Speaker 1: surveying this horrific scene and he hears a sound and
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  Speaker 1: he follows that sound right into the crash and eventually
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  Speaker 1: he finds it and that sound was Caleb. Here is
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  Speaker 1: a picture that this driver took of Caleb of what
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  Speaker 1: he found when he found Caleb. It's unbelievable. Somehow, when
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  Speaker 1: Caleb's truck was smashed from both directions. It created this
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  Speaker 1: perfect pocket of space just big enough for Caleb to
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  Speaker 1: fit inside of. And so despite being smashed together by
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  Speaker 1: two semi trucks in this huge pile up, Caleb was
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  Speaker 1: basically unhurt. And so when this third semi truck driver
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  Speaker 1: found Caleb, he actually was able to after taking this photo,
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  Speaker 1: pull Caleb out of the wreckage, and minus a bruise
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of cuts on his face, Caleb actually
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  Speaker 1: was just fine and ultimately walked away, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: after first responders showed up and cleared the wreck it
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  Speaker 1: would turn out that incredibly nobody was killed. As many
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  Speaker 1: the most insane jobs in the world is being a
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  Speaker 1: saturation diver for an oil and gas company. These highly
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  Speaker 1: specialized divers go down to extreme depths to do construction
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  Speaker 1: and demolition on underwater structures. The extreme pressure on their
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  Speaker 1: bodies from being so deep will cause some of the
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  Speaker 1: mixed gas they breathe to get trapped inside of their body. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is harmless while it's happening, so while they're down
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  Speaker 1: at depth, this doesn't matter. But when they ascend, they
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  Speaker 1: have to do what's called decompression stops, where they basically
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  Speaker 1: stop in the water column at certain depths and just
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  Speaker 1: wait and allow these trapped gases to naturally come out
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  Speaker 1: of their body. Now, if they skip these decompression stops
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  Speaker 1: and just rush to the surface, those trapped gases will
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  Speaker 1: not leave their body and they will expand inside of them,
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  Speaker 1: causing a condition called decompression sickness or the.
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  Speaker 2: Bends, and it can be fatal.
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  Speaker 1: Now, these decompression stops get longer and longer the deeper
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  Speaker 1: you go, and in the case of saturation divers, they'll
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  Speaker 1: go as deep as two thousand feet, and for reference,
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  Speaker 1: in order to safely ascend from two thousand feet it
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  Speaker 1: would take you about thirty three hours. And so these
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  Speaker 1: oil and gas companies can't afford to have their divers
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  Speaker 1: taking thirty three hours in between dives, and so they
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  Speaker 1: came up with a clever workaround. They built a pressurized
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  Speaker 1: chamber system on board ships and oil rigs where their
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  Speaker 1: divers would live in between their dives. And what this
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  Speaker 1: did was by keeping their divers constantly under pressure, either
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  Speaker 1: literally underwater or in this system, wrapped gases inside of
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  Speaker 1: them didn't have a chance to expand, and so.
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  Speaker 2: Their divers couldn't get the bends.
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  Speaker 1: The divers would live inside of this incredibly cramped chamber
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  Speaker 1: for weeks at a time, getting transported to and from
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  Speaker 1: the seafloor inside of this small pressurized sphere that's called
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  Speaker 1: a dive bell that could detach from the chamber without
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  Speaker 1: totally depressurizing the whole system. At the end of these
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  Speaker 1: divers multi week shifts, they would do one long decompression
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  Speaker 1: stop inside of the chamber, and then when they were done,
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  Speaker 1: they'd step out of the chamber and they'd be fine again.
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  Speaker 2: In September of twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve, a thirty two year old saturation diver named Chris
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  Speaker 1: Lemmons was on board a dive ship in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the North Sea. He, along with eleven other divers,
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  Speaker 1: had just started a four week.
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  Speaker 2: Long saturation shift.
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  Speaker 1: On the twelfth of that month, Chris, along with two
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  Speaker 1: other divers named Dave and Duncan, were scheduled to perform
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  Speaker 1: routine maintenance on an oil platform three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: feet below the surface. The North Sea is notorious for
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  Speaker 1: terrible weather, but this day the weather was especially bad
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  Speaker 1: and they considered not doing the dive, but ultimately they
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  Speaker 1: decided to do it anyways. As Chris, Dave, and Duncan
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  Speaker 1: put on their diving equipment and climbed from their living
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  Speaker 1: chamber through the tunnel into the dive bell, the captain
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  Speaker 1: of the ship navigated directly over this oil platform and
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  Speaker 1: then flipped on autopilot mode, which.
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  Speaker 2: Activated dynamic positioning. Now, dive ships rely heavily on dynamic positioning,
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  Speaker 2: which is really just.
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  Speaker 1: This high tech computer that make sure as soon as
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  Speaker 1: you turn it on that the ship does not move
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  Speaker 1: from a particular spot in the water. So regardless of
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  Speaker 1: the swells and the wind, the ship stays steady. And
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  Speaker 1: this is really important when you have divers in the water,
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  Speaker 1: because the dive bell is connected to the ship and
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  Speaker 1: the divers are connected to the dive bell, and so
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  Speaker 1: if the ship is moving all over the place, so
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  Speaker 1: is the dive bell and so are the divers, making
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  Speaker 1: it impossible for the divers.
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  Speaker 2: To do their job.
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  Speaker 1: Once the captain had the dynamic positioning up and running,
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  Speaker 1: the three divers sealed the door of the dive bell
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  Speaker 1: behind them, and then the dive bell was detached from
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  Speaker 1: the chamber and then lowered through a hole in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the ship into the ocean. Once the bell
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  Speaker 1: got down to three hundred and thirty feet, Chris opened
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  Speaker 1: up a hatch on the bottom of the bell that
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  Speaker 1: led directly into the water. Now, because the pressure inside
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  Speaker 1: the bell matches the pressure outside the bell, water does
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  Speaker 1: not come in through this hole. Duncan was the bellman
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  Speaker 1: for the night, so he would not be going out
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  Speaker 1: and doing any diving.
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  Speaker 2: He would be staying in.
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  Speaker 1: The bell to support Dave and Chris, and so he
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  Speaker 1: helped them get their big helmets on and connected their
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  Speaker 1: umbilical to each of them. SAT divers, when they're outside
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  Speaker 1: of the bell, are completely reliant on their umbilical. It's
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  Speaker 1: this long stretch of tubes and wires that are connected
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  Speaker 1: directly to their suit and to their helmet, and it
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  Speaker 1: provides air as well as heat and electricity to their lights,
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  Speaker 1: and it provides radio communication up to the people on
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  Speaker 1: the boat. Once Chris and Dave were all set up,
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  Speaker 1: they slipped through the hole at the bottom of the bell,
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  Speaker 1: which brought them down to this little platform that was
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  Speaker 1: suspended right below the bell, and from there they leapt
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  Speaker 1: off all the way down to the seafloor. Now SAT
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  Speaker 1: divers will say that leap from that platform is both
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  Speaker 1: amazing and terrifying because once you leave the bell, it's
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  Speaker 1: completely pitch flack all around you, so there's no reference
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  Speaker 1: point of how fast you're going or even and how
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  Speaker 1: close to the ground you are, and so it feels
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  Speaker 1: like you're just sinking into this endless abyss before you
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  Speaker 1: crash into the ground. Once christ and Dave did hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground, they stood up and began walking, and they
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  Speaker 1: were directed by the radio in their helmet which direction
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  Speaker 1: they needed to go to reach this oil platform. The
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  Speaker 1: oil platform was eleven meters tall, and it looked like
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  Speaker 1: a sort of pyramid of these big steel pipes. They
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  Speaker 1: climbed up the side until they reached their respective working area,
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  Speaker 1: and then they settled in to do their job, which.
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  Speaker 2: They expected to take about six hours.
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  Speaker 1: At first, everything was going to plant, but about an
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  Speaker 1: hour into the job, something went terribly wrong. On the surface,
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  Speaker 1: the dynamic positioning computer failed. Now the captain immediately saw
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  Speaker 1: it and just expected the backup computer to kick.
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  Speaker 2: In and take over.
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  Speaker 1: But in a terrible turn of luck, the backup computer
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  Speaker 1: also failed, and so very quickly this huge dive ship
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  Speaker 1: began drifting in the rough seas, dragging with it the
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  Speaker 1: dive bell and the divers three hundred and thirty feet below.
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  Speaker 1: While the captain struggled to try to fix the system
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  Speaker 1: and get it back online and get the ship back
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  Speaker 1: on station, another crew member hopped up the radio and
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  Speaker 1: called down to Dave and Chris, who were outside of
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  Speaker 1: the dive bell, and told them to abandon the structure
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  Speaker 1: and get back in the bell asap. And Chris and
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  Speaker 1: Dave could tell from the urgency in this person's voice
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  Speaker 1: that this was no drill.
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  Speaker 2: This was serious.
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  Speaker 1: Chris and Dave were both positioned on the south side
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  Speaker 1: of the structure about halfway up, and their umbilicals were
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  Speaker 1: running straight up the structure and then northward because the
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  Speaker 1: ship was drifting northward, so neither Chris nor Dave could
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  Speaker 1: go around the structure. They needed to go straight up
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  Speaker 1: before being able to climb their umbilicals back up to
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  Speaker 1: the bell, and so both men began climbing, but they
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  Speaker 1: could feel the tension on their umbilical was getting tighter
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  Speaker 1: and tighter, and Dave managed to get all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the top and he cleared the lip, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he was on top, he started getting pulled
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  Speaker 1: away from the structure, and he looked to see if
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  Speaker 1: Chris was also getting pulled, and all he saw was
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  Speaker 1: Chris's umbilical impossibly stretched, still draped over the south side,
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  Speaker 1: and he could not see Chris. And that's when Dave, Duncan,
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  Speaker 1: and all the people on the surface heard Chris come
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  Speaker 1: over the radio frantically saying he was stuck on the
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  Speaker 1: underwater structure. His umbilical had gotten wrapped around one of
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  Speaker 1: the pylons, and so through the radio, Chris asked Duncan
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  Speaker 1: to give him more slack but Duncan said, there is
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  Speaker 1: no more slack. We are completely tight here. You have
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  Speaker 1: to get it free. And Chris would say, I can't
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  Speaker 1: unfree it. It keeps getting tighter and tighter. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get it off the pylon. And so Dave jumped down
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  Speaker 1: onto the platform and tried to pull himself over to Chris,
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  Speaker 1: but his own umbilical was getting pulled towards the dive bell,
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  Speaker 1: and so he could not help Chris. And so Dave
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  Speaker 1: knew he couldn't do anything, so he turned and began
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  Speaker 1: crawling up his umbilical towards the dive bell. And as
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  Speaker 1: he's climbing, he hears behind him this extremely loud explosion.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like a shotgun going off, and what it
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  Speaker 1: was was Chris's umbilical snapping under the tension. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as the umbilical snapped, it sent Chris flying backwards off
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  Speaker 1: the structure, falling towards.
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  Speaker 2: The ocean floor.
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  Speaker 1: Without his umbilical, he wouldn't have had light, he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have had a radio to talk to anybody up on
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  Speaker 1: the boat, he wouldn't have had heat, and the water
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  Speaker 1: was just barely above freezing, and so he would have
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  Speaker 1: been very cold, very fast, and he would not have
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  Speaker 1: had an air supply, although he would have had two
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  Speaker 1: backup canisters on his back that would automatically turn on.
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  Speaker 2: However, they only gave him five.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe six minutes of air, and so when Chris
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  Speaker 1: hit the ocean floor it would have been eerily quiet
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  Speaker 1: and totally completely pitch black. He stood up at some
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  Speaker 1: point and looked around him and didn't see anything, but
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  Speaker 1: knew he had to.
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  Speaker 2: Get back to the underwater structure.
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  Speaker 1: It was his only chance of anybody finding him again,
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  Speaker 1: and so he had to make the impossible decision of
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  Speaker 1: just choosing a direction and blindly walking, not having any
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  Speaker 1: idea what you're walking towards. Choose wrong and you might
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  Speaker 1: walk over a cliff. But at some point Chris made
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  Speaker 1: up his mind and just began walking in a single direction,
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  Speaker 1: and miraculously he walked into the underwater structure. He climbed
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  Speaker 1: up the side until he got to the top, which
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  Speaker 1: was a flat metal grate, and there he looked around
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  Speaker 1: and saw there was no dive bell, there was no
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  Speaker 1: sign of anything.
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  Speaker 2: It was just him.
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  Speaker 1: He was completely all alone, and he must have known
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  Speaker 1: at this point that he was running out of air.
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  Speaker 2: He probably had maybe one or two minutes left, and.
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  Speaker 1: So he would have been acutely aware that even if
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  Speaker 1: they're looking for him, they're not going to find him
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in time. He's going to die, and at some point
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: breathing would have become extremely difficult until there was no
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: more air, and then he would have passed out and killed.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Over back on the surface, the captain was desperately trying
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: to use manual controls to pilot the ship back over
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: where Chris was, but because of how rough the seas were,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it was proving to be nearly impossible. As the captain struggled,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: other members of the crew launched a remote controlled vehicle
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: into the water to at least go down and try
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: to find Chris, and so they decided they would just
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: pilot straight to the underwater structure and begin looking around
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: that area. And so for a few anxious minutes, the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: crew on board the ship watched the camera, which was
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the live feed coming from this underwater vehicle as it
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: went through totally dark water, and then at some point
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: on the screen the structure just appeared, and the vehicle
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: as it went up towards the top, it got a
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: look at the very top of the structure, and on
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the screen they saw Chris lying on his side, totally motionless.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: At this point, he had been without air for at
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: least two minutes. In a last ditch effort, the captain
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: decided to completely power off the ship and its computer
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and just do a hard reset, something that you would
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: never do, especially in rough seas, because if it doesn't
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: come back on again, you are dead in the water.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: But when they turned it back on again, the ship
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: came on and the computer system came back online, including
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the dynamic position in computer, and so the captain immediately
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: threw it on autopilot and the ship navigated right.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Over where Chris's last position was.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: After Chris's umbilical had broken, Dave had managed to climb
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: back up to the bell and he was just standing
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: underneath that platform, right beneath it. And so when the
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: ship got right back over Chris's position, Dave leaped off
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the platform, got to the seafloor, climbed up the structure,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: grabbed hold of Chris's body, and hauled him back up
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: into the bell. Once Chris's body was inside the bell,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Duncan the bellman, removed Chris's helmet and he saw that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: his face was blue and he was totally lifeless, but
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Duncan immediately just gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: after giving him two big breaths, Chris came back to life.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: He started gagging and coughing, and he's looking around wide eyed,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and Duncan and Dave were.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Looking at him, like, you gotta be kidding me. You're
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: supposed to be dead.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And after about thirty seconds, the color in Chris's face
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: had totally come back, and he was looking at Duncan
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and Dave and asked them, you know what happened, And
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Duncan and Dave didn't have an answer for him, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: so instead all three men just started laughing and hugging.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: They could not believe it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Once Chris was brought back up to the ship, the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: divemedic looked at him and concluded that nothing was wrong
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: with him. He was perfectly fine, despite the fact he
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: had been without an air supply for over thirty minutes
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and three weeks after the incident, Chris was back down
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: saturation to me again.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Today, scientists don't know how Chris survived.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: The leading theory is that it was just so cold
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: it slowed his heart and his brain down and that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: somehow kept him alive, but the reality is his survival
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: is a total mystery. Here is what the crew saw
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: when their remote controlled vehicle found Chris lying on top
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of that platform. On the morning of February twenty fifth,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, in a little house in the city of
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Cape Town in South Africa, a seventeen year old girl
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: named Miche Solomon was packing up her homework in between
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: bites of her breakfast, and as she did this, her mother, Lavana,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: walked into the kitchen with a big smile on her face,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and she was holding up this beautiful red, flowing dress,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and immediately Miche knew what it was. Her mom had
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: been making this dress by hand over the past couple
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of days.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It was for a big school dance that was.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Coming up, and she saw that it was now done,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and so Miche she put down a breakfast in her
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: homework and she rushed over to her mom and she
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: admired this gorgeous dress and thanked her mom for all
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the hard work and said it's absolutely perfect. And then
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: from somewhere behind Mische, her father, who was still sitting
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: at the table, kind of grunted out Hey isn't that
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: dress a little bit revealing? And Misha and her mom
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: kind of just rolled their eyes because they knew Misha's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: dad just loved his daughter and was very very protective
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: of her, and so basically, anything she wore that wasn't
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: full coverage was too revealing. And so Misha, after rolling
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: her eyes, walked over to her dad. She gave him
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a big hug and a kiss, and she said, Dad,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: don't worry about it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It's just fine.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And so after that, Misha went back to her breakfast,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: she finished eating, she packed up her stuff, and then
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: she gave her mom and her dad another hug and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a kiss and said goodbye, and then she headed out
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the front door out to the road where her aunt
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: was waiting in her car. As Misha's aunt drove her
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to school, like she did almost every single morning, Misha
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: began to notice her aunt was acting kind of strange
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and constantly looking behind her and looking in a rear
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: view mirror. And finally Misha said to her aunt, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: what's going on? What are you looking at back there?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And Misha's aunt would say, you know, I know this
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but I'm pretty sure there's a white car
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that's following me. And in fact, over the past couple
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: of days, I've seen what I think is this same
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: white car following us anytime I'm driving you to school.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And so Misha just turned around in her seat and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: looked out the back window, and she saw there were
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: dozens of white cars on the road, so it was
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: pretty difficult to tell which one her aunt was talking about.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: But as she's looking, you know, none of the cars
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: seemed suspicious. And so Misha turned back around and told
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: her aunt, you know, I think you're just being paranoid.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Nobody's following us. There's no reason to follow us. A
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: few minutes later, Misha's aunt pulled up alongside the front
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of the school and Misha said goodbye to her aunt.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: She thanked her. She hopped outside, and she rushed into
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the school, and then Misha made her way up to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the hallway where her first class was, and as she
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was walking down the hallway, her best friend, Cassidy Nurse
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: was walking up the hallway in her direction. And so
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: right away Misha sees Cassidy and she waves and smiles
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and begins walking towards her. But Cassidy gave Misha this
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: kind of weird, lukewarm smile and then quickly looked away
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: from Misha. And then Cassidy turned and bolted into the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: nearest classroom, And so Misha just came to a stop
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and just looked at the doorway where her best friend
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: has disappeared, and she starts thinking to herself, you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: what's going on? Why did she do that? That was
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: so cold? And then Misha began to think about the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: fact that actually, over the past couple of days, Cassidy
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: had been acting really strange. It was like she was
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: trying to avoid Misha, but Misha had no idea why.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were fighting normally. Misha and Cassidy
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: were totally inseparable. They had met earlier that school year,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and even though they were actually kind of far apart
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: in age Cassidy was in eighth grade and Misha was
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in twelfth grade, it was like it didn't matter. It
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: was like, right away when they met each other, they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: had the special bond where they just had to be
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: around each other all the time. They shared everything with
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: each other, and certainly, anytime they saw each other in
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the hallway, they would stop to chat or even go
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: into a nearby bathroom and do each other's hair and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: makeup and share any gossip they had recently heard. So
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: for Cassidy to act like this was just totally uncharacteristic,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and it really upset Misha. But just then the bell
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: rang in the school, so Misha knew at this point
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: she was now for her class, and so she had
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to forget about whatever was going on with Cassidy, and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Misha just hustled down the hallway and went into her classroom.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And so Misha she takes her seat at her desk,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: she puts her stuff down, and she's getting ready to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: listen to the teacher, when suddenly the principal comes in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: without even knocking, and without even saying anything to Misha's teacher,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the principal walks right up to Misha and says, I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: need you to come with me. And right away, Misha's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: classmates all who saw this, they begin oohing and awing
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: as if Misha is in huge trouble. But Misha's thinking
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to herself, I didn't do anything, like, I have no
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: idea what this is about, and so she kind of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: smiled like it was no big deal. She picked up
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: her stuff and she followed the principal out into the hallway.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: But as Misha followed the principle down the hallway towards
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the principal's office, Misha's smile faded and she began to wonder,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you know, what is this about.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And then finally they got to the principal's office, the principal.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Opened up the door.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Misha went in first, and the principal trailed behind her
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and shut the door behind them. When Misha looked into
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the principal's office, she saw there were already two people
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: inside who she didn't recognize. It was two women who
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: were very serious looking who were sitting on the side
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of the room, and as soon as Misha walked in,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the two women, without introducing themselves, just told Misha to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: come over and take a seat next to them, and Misha,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: instead of doing that, just paused and looked at the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: women and said, what's going on? And at this the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: two women kind of looked at each other, and then
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: one of the women piped up and said, Misha, were
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: here because the police sent us, and they sent us
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: because of a photo that you and your very close
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: friend Cassidy took. But before Misha could ask any questions
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like what photo are you talking about? And really, what's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: going on here? These two women would explain the whole
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: situation to Misha, and basically what they did is they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: told her this long, very convoluted story that involved Misha,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: it involved Cassidy, it involved this photo.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: And by the end of this.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Story, this explainer story, Misha had taken a s and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: put her hand over her mouth in utter disbelief. And
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: then when the women were done explaining everything, Misha had
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a million questions, but it was like she was so
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: overwhelmed with what she was just told that she just
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: continued to sit there with her hand over her mouth,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: totally silent. And then finally Misha did break the silence
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: by saying, can I please just call my parents? And
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: at this the social workers said, no, you can't, and
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: in fact, the police are already at your parents' house.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: They're talking to your parents right now, and so you
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: can't talk to them, and you can't even go home.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: In fact, you have.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: To come with us for tonight.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And then the two women got up and they made
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: their way out of the principal's office and they said,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: come on, Misha, you have to come with us, and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: so Misha stood up and she's totally flabbergasted. She really
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: is like, how is this real life? And the principal
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: at this point walked over and gave Misha a hug,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and it was like suddenly the floodgates opened and Misha
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: just began sobbing hysterically, and as she did, the social
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: workers just stood there waiting patiently, and then as soon
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: as it seemed like Misha was done crying, they said,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: come on, you really need to come with us, and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: so Misha she let go of the principal and she
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: followed the two women out of the school out to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: one of their cars, and once they got in the car,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the two women explained to Misha that they were going
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to take her to a safe house for the night.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But before they went to the safe house, they would
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: need to make a quick pit stop at a local
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: medical clinic. And so Misha, who at this point is
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: not even asking questions, just said okay, and so the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: women they drove to the medical clinic. They were inside
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: for just a matter of minutes. When they came back
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: out again, they drove the rest of the way to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the safe house, and when they got to the safe house.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It just looked like a normal house on the outside.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: But on the inside, when the two women were leading
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Misha through and showing her where everything was, the kitchen,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the bathroom, her bedroom, all Misha saw was all these
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: other kids who were staying there, who were orphaned and abandoned.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And it started to give Misha a panic attack, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: she asked the women again, can I please call my parents?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And they said, no, you really can't. But one of
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the two social workers could tell that Misha, you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: she's having a breakdown. This is the worst day of
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: her life, very likely, And so one of the two
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: women actually offered to Misha to come home with her
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and stay at her house instead of the safe house,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and Misha agreed, and so that social worker and Misha
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: they would leave together. They would get into that woman's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: car and they would drive to her house. And then
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the social worker told Misha that unfortunately now it was
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: just a waiting game. They needed to wait for the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: police to get back in touch with them with more information.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: That night, as Misha lay in this woman's guest bedroom
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: looking up at the ceiling, wondering how the heck this
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: had become her life, she began to think about the photo,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the photo that her in Cassidy had took that had
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: kind of started this whole horrible thing. And so Misha
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: began to think about the day they took this picture,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and all she remembered was that she and Cassidy were
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: just kind of goofing around and smiling and making funny faces.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: And just taking photos as they went.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: She certainly didn't think that one of those pictures they
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: took would totally change her life. The following morning, when
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Misha woke up, the social worker brought her to their office,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the social worker's office, and there they met with the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: other woman who had first met Misha in the principal's office,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and the three of them just sat in the office,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: not talking much, eating chicken wings and other snacks, just
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: literally waiting for police to call them. And finally they
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: would call, and when they did, one of the social
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: workers answered the phone, and as she listened to what
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: she was being told, she began to frown, and by
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the time she hung up, she was crying. The news
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: from the police was the news Misha had been afraid
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of ever since sitting in the principal's office the day before,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and hearing this whole crazy story about her and Cassidy
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and this photo. The special pit stop that Misha and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the social workers made at the medical clinic the day
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: before on the way to the safe house was so
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: that Misha could get a DNA test, And now the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: police were calling back with the results of the test,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: and the results showed was Misha Solomon was not actually
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Misha Solomon. Her real name was Zephanie Nurse. Seventeen years earlier,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Zephanie Nurse had been stolen out of her crib at
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the hospital in Cape Town, and despite a massive manhunt
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: for her, she was never found. And so this was
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a huge, famous case in Cape Town, and most people
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: assumed it would never be solved. But Misha's DNA had
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: done just that. It proved that Misha's parents, who had
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: loved her and raised her since she was a baby,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: were not actually her parents. Her mother, Lavana, was actually
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: her kidnapper, and now she was under arrest. But even
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: though this revelation was incredibly shocking and upsetting for Misha,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: it was not nearly as shocking as learning the identity
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: of her real biological parents. The social workers took Misha
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: from their office to the police station, where they told
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Misha her real biological.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Parents were waiting to meet her.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And so once they went inside the police station, Misha
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: gripped onto the social worker's arm tightly. She was incredibly nervous,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and she was led down a hallway to a door
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: that was shut. And then finally, when Misha was ready,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: she pushed the door open, and her real parents, who
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: were sitting right in front of her, they stood up
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and they ran towards her, crying, But Misha just stood there,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: stunned and silent, staring at them. Because these people, they
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: were not strangers to her. She knew them extremely well.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: They were the parents of her best friend in the world,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Cassidy Nurse, which meant Misha aka Zephanie Nurse was Cassidy's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: sister months earlier. When Misha and Cassidy first met each other,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the reason they hit it off so quickly, and the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: reason they had similar senses of humor and liked the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: same things and looked so dramatically similar is because they
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: were literally sisters. They just didn't know it. And then
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: one day they took a series of selfie photos of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: themselves and Cassidy she would go home and show one
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of those photos to her parents and say, hey, look
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: my best friend, Misha Solomon. Look how similar we look.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And when Cassidy's parents looked at Misha Solomon, they instinctively
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: knew that is our daughter, that is Zephanie Nurse, And
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: so they would bring this photo to the police and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the police would begin to investigate, and during this investigation
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: they began trailing Misha. So when Misha's aunt told Misha
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that she thought a white car was following her, she
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't just being paranoid.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Those were investigators.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Following Misha around trying to get a feel for her
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: schedule because they needed to approach her when she was
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: alone in order to get a DNA sample. They were
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: worried if they contacted Misha and tipped off what they
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: were doing, she would tell her parents, who were actually
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: her kidnappers, and then potentially they might take Misha and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: run away. So they couldn't risk that. They had to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: basically follow her around and wait for an opening to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: get this DNA test done. And so this was also
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  Speaker 1: the reason why Cassidy was acting so strangely towards Misha
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: in the few days before the truth was revealed. It's
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: because Cassidy knew about this investigation and the police told her,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you can't tip Misha off, she will tell.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Her parents her kidnappers.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And they might abscond with her, and so Cassidy basically
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: felt awkward and kind of just hid from Misha for
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: a couple of days. The woman that Misha had grown
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: up with and called her mom for her whole life,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Lavanna Solomon, was ultimately convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: ten years in prison. There has never been any evidence
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  Speaker 1: to suggest that Levana's husband, so Misha's dad for her
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: whole life, actually knew that the baby had been kidnapped,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: because seventeen years earlier, Levana had been pregnant with their child,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: but it's believed she miscarried and Levana did not share
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: that with her husband. Instead, she told her husband that
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: she had gone into labor while he was at work
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and delivered their child, and so that's how they had
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: this baby, Zephanie, when in reality, after Levana had miscarried,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: she had at some point dressed up like a nurse,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: gone into the hospital and stolen Zephanie for her part.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Zephanie aka Misha stayed in touch with both sets of parents,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the fake ones and her biological ones, and she would
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: say that, you know, she still loves the parents who
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: kidnapped her because they raised her and they treated her well.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And in fact, Zephanie would actually wear that beautiful flowing
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: red dress that Levana.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Had stitched for her to her high school dance.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Well after the news came out about who Levana was.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Misha also decided that she would just keep the name
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Misha because that was what she was used to instead
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of going back to her baby name Zephanie. There's still
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: some debate about what exactly happened in this story that
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I'm about to share with you, and so for transparency
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: in this video, I am going to rely on the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: narrative that was presented in court by the defendant, and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: so with that in mind, here we go. On the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: afternoon of December third, twenty twelve, a freelance photographer working
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: for the New York Post newspaper named Umar Abbasi was
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: walking down the stairs of the forty ninth Street subway
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  Speaker 1: station in New York City. This very busy station is
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: located only a few blocks away from the very famous
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Times square. And so after Umar made his way down
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: to this underground subway station, he walked over to one
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: of the big automated kiosks that looks like an ATM
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and he purchased a subway ticket and then with his ticket,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: he walked over to the turnstiles.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: He slid his.
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  Speaker 1: Ticket through the slot, pushed past the turnstiles, and was
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: now standing out on the actual train platform. And from
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: where Umar was standing, this platform basically was like a
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: huge sidewalk that stretched all the way to his right
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred feet and all the way to his
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: left a couple hundred feet, and in front of this
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  Speaker 1: platform were the actual tracks down below. Because the train
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: when it came out of the tunnel, it would actual
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: should come right up alongside this platform with almost no
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: clearance between the platform and the train. As such, the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: leading edge of the platform, basically the lip of the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: train platform that's closest to the train tracks, has this
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: big yellow line painted all across it to keep commuters
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  Speaker 1: from standing too close to the edge because if a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: train came through, they could actually get hit by the train.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: And so, as Umar is standing on this platform and
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: he's looking left and right, it's totally crowded with people
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and they're all kind of tucked back against the wall,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: away from this yellow line, and so Umar decides he's
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: going to turn right and wait at the right end.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Of the platform, just because he saw it.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Down at the far end there appeared to be a
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: gap in people and he figured he could stand right there.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And so Umar begins navigating past all of these people
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: on the right side of the platform, and for the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: most part, everyone he is passing either has their head
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: buried in.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Their phone or they're listening to music or both.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Because the thing about riding trains, especially trains in busy
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: cities is nobody none of the commuters want to talk
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to anybody else, to be completely left alone, and so
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: as Umar is walking, everyone was.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Basically doing that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: But at some point he did pass two people that
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: were engaged in a pretty heated conversation. Umar had no
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: idea what they were arguing about, or if they were
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: even arguing at all. He didn't know who these people were,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: but he took mental note of the fact that two
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: men were kind of bickering with each other, and so
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: he walked past them. Didn't give it much of a
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: second thought. And he arrived at a gap in the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: gaggle of people waiting for the train, and there he
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: just stood well back of the yellow line, where he
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: pulled out his camera and began clicking through the images
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: he had taken earlier in the day at an earlier
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: photo shoot. And so as he's clicking through these pictures,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: he starts to notice that those two men who had
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: been bickering before are now straight up yelling.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: At each other. There's screaming obscenities at each other.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: It's not clear who's fighting about what or who was
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the aggressor, but it's very obvious that at this point
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: they're fighting. And so Umar looked away from his camera
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and looked left down the platform towards these two guys.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And so these two guys are about one hundred to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five feet away from him, and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: all the people that were standing in the vicinity of
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: these two men are beginning to migrate away from them.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: They just don't want anything to do with them.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Because the thing about being in subways, especially in cities
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: like New York, is there's lots of people that go
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: down into these train stations that are inebriated, or mentally
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: unstable and so very strange, and bad behavior is just
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: kind of a normal thing and people tend to just
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: kind of ignore it.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And so that's what's happening. People are kind of walking.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Away from these two fighting men, doing their best to
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: pretend it's not happening. And so Umar spent a couple
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: more seconds staring down the platform at these two men,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: but eventually just shrugged and thought, you know what, whatever
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: problems they have, they're not mine. And so Umar went
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: back to his camera and continued to click through his
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: pictures when all of a sudden, he hears a scream
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: coming from the left side of the platform, but it
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: was not a scream that sounded like it came from
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: either of these two men, and so Umar looked up
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: from his camera and looked left down the platform, and
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: now he just sees chaos.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: It's people running away from these two men.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: People are running to get away from whatever is happening
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: around them, and so Umar's thinking, these men must have
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: come to blows and they're now fighting actively physically with
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: each other. But when finally the crowd kind of cleared
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: for a second, he saw a woman pointing down at
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the train tracks, right in front of where those two
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: men had been standing. And so Umar looks at the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: woman and he follows her finger down onto the tracks
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and he sees there is now a man, one of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the two men who had been fighting, laying face down
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: on the train tracks. And then, to Umar's horror, he
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: looks up down the tunnel where the train would come
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: out of and he sees the headlights of the train
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: it is now coming into the station. And so Umar
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: starts running down the platform to try to get to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: this man to pull him out of the tracks.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: And as he's running, he pulls out his camera.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: And he turns the flash on and he holds the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: shutter down and he aims it at the train conductor
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: to hope the flashing of his camera will alert the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: train conductor to put on the emergency brake and stop
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the train before.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: He hits the guy down on the tracks.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: And so as Umar is running trying to say this
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: train conductor, the man down on the tracks tries to
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: stand up, and Umar sees he's really struggling to stand
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and when he finally gets up, he turns and he
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: grabs the edge of the platform and he tries to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: pull himself up and out of the tracks, but he
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the strength or the coordination. And as Umar
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: is getting closer and closer, but he's still too far
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: away to help, he sees that this guy down on
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the tracks is not going to be able to get
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: out of there before the train hits him, and so
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Umar finally comes to a stop and he watches as
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: this man down on the tracks lets go of the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: lip of this platform and just turns and faces the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: train like he knows what's.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: About to happen.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: And then seconds later, the train, although it did try
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to stop, impacted this man and killed him instantly. The
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: man's name was Kai Sak Khan and he was fifty
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: eight years old. When the police finally showed up, they
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: arrested the other man who Han had been fighting with.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: He was a thirty year old named Naim Davis, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Davis would actually tell police that he had been fighting
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: with Han and he had pushed him on to the tracks,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: but it was in self defense. However, that self defense
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: story didn't stop him from being charged with murder. While
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Davis sat in jail waiting for his trial, the media
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and the public at large had already come to the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: conclusion that Davis was guilty, and this was due in
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: large part to a particular picture. As Umar was running
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: down the platform holding up his camera, holding the flashdown,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: trying to flag the train conductor to get him to stop,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Umar was also taking dozens and dozens of pictures, and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: those pictures were of Han right before he was struck
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: by the train. And so after Umar ultimately discovered he
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: had taken these pictures, he gave them to his employer,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the New York Post newspaper, and the day after the incident,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: they ran on the front page a picture of Han
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: right before he's about to be killed, with the headline Doomed.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And so once the public saw this picture, nobody could
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: believe that Davis was anything other than a cold blooded
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: killer for pushing this poor innocent man onto the tracks.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: But as it would.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Turn out, nearly five years later, when Davis did finally
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: get his trial, he was acquitted of all charges because
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it turned out Han was very drunk and had picked
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: a fight with Davis, and Davis was filmed on more
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: than one occasion on the platform trying to get Han
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to leave him alone. And so finally, after Han began
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: making death threats, and then grabbed Davis's shoulder. Davis turned
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: around and pushed him, and Han, being drunk, stumbled and
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: fell backwards onto the tracks and then was ultimately killed.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Here is the infamous photo of Han on the cover
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: of the New York Post newspaper. On January thirtieth, nineteen
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: twenty five, a thirty seven year old man named Floyd
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Collins walked through this huge forest in central Kentucky inside
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: of a national park. As he walked along, his boots
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: splashed in the melting snow and mud on the ground,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and above him, all he heard was the sound of
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: water dripping down amongst the leaves. It was warmer than
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: it had been in several days, and so that was
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: why Floyd was out here. He was trying to take
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: advantage of the nice weather. And so after walking for
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a while on this muddy, slushy trail, the trees around
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Floyd began to thin out, and then eventually he reached
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the edge of the treeline and in front of him
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: was this huge clearing. Now in this clearing, the trail
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: he was on continued straight ahead, but it came to
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a stop in front of this huge cavern like opening
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: in the side of a hill, and so without hesitation,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Floyd stepped out of the trees into the sunlight and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: he walked the rest of the trail right up to
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: the opening of this cavern, and he stopped and just
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: stared and smiled. This cavern like space on the side
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: of this hill was the entrance to a cave known
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: as Sand Cave, and Floyd had spent the last week
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: coming out to Sand Cave exploring the different tunnels, but
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: today his plan was to go as deep and as
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: far inside of this cave as he possibly could. Caves
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: were a huge tourist attraction in this region, and Floyd
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: was a very experienced caver who had been caving since
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: he was six years old, and he knew that most
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: of Sand Cave had not been explored, and so if
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: he could go in there and explore all the different
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: parts of the cave and map it all out and
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: make sure it was safe, it was sure to be
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a huge money maker. He could bring people here and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: lead them unguided tours. So Floyd left the muddy path
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: he had been walking on and stepped foot inside of
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: this grand entrance to Sand Cave. It's basically this two
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty foot wide cathedral like space inside of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: this hill, with ceilings high enough you could stand, but
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: it's totally dark in there. And despite being this big
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: open space, it very quickly funnels to this one kind
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: of tunnel that goes straight down and connects to all
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: these offshoot underground passage ways, many of which have never
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: been explored before. And so as Floyd walked across this
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: big open entryway, he lit his oil lamp and then
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: began mentally preparing himself for what he was about to do,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: which was going to be very claustrophobia inducing, even for
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: a very experienced caver. And so Floyd reached the back
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of this huge entryway and he reached this tunnel that
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: would connect to the rest of the cave, and he
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: began walking down it. And this tunnel was not very restricting.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: You could stand in it, you could move around in it,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: but it was very short. It was fifteen feet straight
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: down at an angle where at the bottom of those
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: fifteen feet was a square hole in the ground. And Floyd,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: having been here the previous week, knew that once you
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: go through this hole, the real caving begins. Now you're
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: going to be down on your hands and knees, wriggling
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: your way through these very tight and restricting areas where
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: you don't really know where you're going, because again, a
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: lot of this stuff has never been explored before. But
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: this is why Floyd loved caving. He loved the invention
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and the risk of doing things like this. And so
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Floyd got to this hole, he put his oil lamp
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: down on the ground. He casually lowered himself feet first
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: into this hole, which dropped down several feet, and then
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: once he was on firm ground, he reached up, grabbed
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: his oil lamp and pulled it into the hole with him.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Once he was inside of this lower level space, he
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: crouched down and looked around, and off to his right
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: was a tunnel that he could crawl through that seemed
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: to lead to a series of other tunnels, And so
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: he puts his lamp in front of him, he gets down,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: and he begins crawling through this tunnel, and after a
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: little while he reaches this kind of fork in the
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: road where he had several options of very narrow tunnels.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: To choose from.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Now. The previous week, Floyd had gone down several of
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: these tunnels and mapped out where they went, but there
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: was one tunnel in particular at this fork that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Was very narrow.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: It was likely the most narrow of all the tunnels,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: but from where he had seen the last week, it
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: looked like it went pretty far without obstruction. And so
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: he immediately began going headfirst into this tunnel where he
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: had no idea where it was going to go.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Think about that.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: If you go headfirst into a tunnel and you get stuck,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do? You can't really go anywhere.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: So this guy is like totally fearless, just going headfirst
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: into what most people would consider a nightmare scenario. And
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: so the way Floyd would approach these very tight tunnels
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: is he would put his oil lamp out in front
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: of him, and then he'd keep his hands over his
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: head and he'd kind of wriggle his way headfirst and
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: push his lamp along the way.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: And so that's what he did. He began going.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Into this really restrictive tunnel. You know, it's hard to
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: breathe because the walls are so tight on his chest cavity.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: But as he's going, eventually the ceiling begins to slope
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: upward just enough that he can pull himself up onto
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: his hands and knees and kind of catch his breath.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: By this point, Floyd was approximately fifty five feet underground.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: That's where this little pocket was, where he could get
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: up on his hands and knees and breathe. And so
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: from this position he still could see this lamp, that
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: this tunnel continued to snake further and further down, and
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: his hope was that eventually it would lead to a
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: big underground chamber that was not just big enough to
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: go to your hands and knees on, but was big
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: enough you could stand and walk around in. Because those
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: were the big tourist attractions, not only because it seems
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: like another world underground that you can fully explore and
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: walk around in, but also, as Floyd knew from his
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: past experience of going into other caves a lot of times,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: those big underground chambers are full of Native American artifacts.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: And again that was a huge.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Potential money maker for people like Floyd because it allowed
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: him to advertise that this cave where Torres could go explore,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: was full of all this rich history. And so Floyd, eventually,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: after catching his breath in this little spot, got back
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: down onto his stomach with his hands out in front
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: of him with the lamp out ahead of his fingers,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and he began going deeper and deeper into this unexplored
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: section of sand cave. And as he inched along, even
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: though the ceiling remained very tight on top of him,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: he's totally compressed to the ground.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: The walls on either.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Side of him began to expand, which meant Floyd, if
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: he wanted to, could actually turn himself around, although he
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: couldn't stand up. And so Floyd is making his way
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: down this very low ceiling area when he notices his
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: oil lamp is beginning to flicker, which means it's going
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: to go out soon. Now, Floyd wasn't concerned about suddenly
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: being in the darkness inside of a cave. Now to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: most people that would be terrifying, but Floyd, again was
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: so experienced, he was very confident that he could easily
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: make his way out again just by touch. He didn't
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: need the light, but he did know that trying to
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: move around inside of a cave in the darkness was
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: dangerous and so he should not do that if he
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: could avoid it. And so as much as Floyd wanted
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to continue and hopefully find something incredible inside of this cave,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: he decided he really needed to just turn around and
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: go back to the surface and come back the next
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: day to continue exploring. And so, because this part of
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the tunnel he was in was really wide, he was
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: able to turn himself around and drag his lamp until
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: he was facing back uphill, and then he rolled onto
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: his back, so his head is pointing back up where
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: he came from, and his feet are pointing in the
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: direction that he had previously been traveling, and he's on
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: his back, and so his oil.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Lamp is above his head.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: He can move his arms side to side because again
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: it's pretty wide in the area he's in, but his
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: head is pretty restricted by the ceiling. And he began
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: inching with his heels and pushing with his arms, moving
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: up the tunnel on his back, and as he would move,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: he'd use his head and his hands to push the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: oil lamp back up the direction he was going. And
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: for a little while this system worked great, but at
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: some point, right as he was getting close to that
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: area where he was able to previously get on his
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: hands and knees and catch his breath, Floyd accidentally kind
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: of rushed and pushed his lamp too hard and knocked
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: it over, which extinguished the light, and so suddenly Floyd
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: was cast into total darkness. Now again, Lloyd was not
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: concerned or really even scared about being in darkness inside
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: of this cave. But this was not a good scenario
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: and he knew it. But he told himself, stay calm.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: He knew where he was in the cave. He just
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: needed to get to that little pocket. He'd catch his breath,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: and then he'd continue his way back up. Eventually reached
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: that hole in the ceiling, that square hole, he'd climb out,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: make his way out of the cave, and boom, he'd
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: be done. And so Floyd just continued to push the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: now extinguished oil lamp above his head, and he continued
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: to inch with his heels and moved his arms around
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to keep going backwards up this tunnel. But then, right
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: before Floyd reached that pocket inside of the tunnel where
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: he could get onto his hands and knees, he heard
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the sound of falling rocks somewhere below him, kind of
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: near his legs. Now, it's pitch black, he can't see anything,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: and so Floyd just kind of held his breath and
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: hoped that whatever was happening wouldn't affect him, but then
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: he felt a shooting pain in his left leg. A
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: twenty seven pound rock had broken loose from the low
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: ceiling and landed on his left ankle. Now, at first,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Floyd was actually relieved that the rock had landed only
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: on his left leg, and in fact, his leg was
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: actually kind of positioned in a depression on the floor
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: of the cave, and so the rock didn't really hit
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: his left ankle directly. It kind of like hit the
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: ground and then leaned onto his left ankle, and his
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: left ankle was kind of protected in the depression in
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the cave floor, and so Floyd's thinking, thank goodness, it
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: only landed on my ankle and not on my head
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: or my chest, because then I'd be dead. And so,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: after catching his breath and kind of calming down, Floyd
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: tensed his body and pulled his left leg as hard
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: as he could to clear this twenty seven pound rock.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: But his foot wouldn't budge, and so Floyd thought he
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: would just reach down and kind of dig his foot out.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: He just moved the rock out of the way. But
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: even though this cave had widened out on either side
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: of Floyd when he had gone deeper and deeper into it,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: because he had retraced his steps, he was farther up
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: the tunnel where those sides had really come in much
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: cold to him, and so he wasn't able to actually
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: reach down and touch the rock. The walls made it impossible,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and so he wasn't able to use his hands to
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: clear this rock. And so Floyd is pinned underground, unable
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: to move in absolute pitch darkness, inside of a cave
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: that's practically crushing his chest because the ceiling is so low,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: and he knows it's unstable. The ceiling has now fallen off,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: so there's a chance more rocks could come in at
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: any time. I mean, this is like a worst case
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: scenario for anybody who goes caving. But Floyd told himself
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: to just stay calm. He knew this was a very
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: bad situation. But people were certain to find out he
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: was missing, and they knew he had gone to Sand
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Cave and they would come here if they would find him,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: and they would rescue him. And so Floyd just decided
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: he would wait and for an agonizing thirty hours, remember
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: thirty hours of pitch blackness, trapped in a totally claustrophobic environment.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Thirty hours of this, no food, no water, can't go
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: to the bathroom. He's laying there for thirty hours, and
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: then finally he hears a voice coming from somewhere near
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the entrance of this cave. And when he heard that voice,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: it was like the sweetest sound he had ever heard,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: because not only did they represent help, but the voice
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: was coming from Floyd's brother, Homer, who was also a
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: very experienced caver, and so Floyd's thinking, thank goodness, I'm saved.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: And so Homer was able to navigate from the entrance
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: down all the way to the tunnel that Floyd was in.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: And Homer got to that spot in the tunnel where
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Floyd had gone to his hands and knees that pocket there.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: So Homer's in that pocket and he can see Floyd
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: is only a few feet away from him. He can
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: see Floyd's head right there. And so Homer, who had
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: a lamp, you know, he shines the light on Floyd
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and the two brothers don't waste any time with small talk. Instead, Homer,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: who had his oil lamp, that set it up right
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: next to them, and he began feeding Floyd's sausage sandwiches
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and giving him SIPs of water. And then Homer would
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: tell Floyd that he just did not have the equipment
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: to help Floyd get out right now. But Homer was
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: going to go back to the surface, get men, get supplies,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: and then come back and save Floyd.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: And so Floyd is very thankful, he's very relieved.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: He says goodbye to Homer, and Homer turns and makes
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: his way back up to the surface. Fifteen hours later,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Homer would return by himself, and so at this point
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Floyd has been trapped for forty five hours. And so
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Floyd he's laying there kind of in and out of consciousness,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: and he hears the sound of Homer calling out to him,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and then he hears the sound of Homer chiseling away
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: at some rocks. It would turn out Homer's plan to
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: save Floyd was basically to chisel away the side of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: this section of tunnel that Floyd was stuck in in
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: order to be able to reach down and somehow some
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: way clear the rock off of Floyd's leg and then
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: pull Floyd up. Now, Floyd understood, of course, that this
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: plan of chiseling away the side of this tunnel to
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: make it wider was going to take some time. Luckily,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Homer had shown up with more food and water, and
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: they chatted the whole time as Homer worked, and so
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Floyd was in good spirits and Homer was very optimistic.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: But after eight hours of Homer slowly chiseling his way
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: widening this tunnel, he hadn't made much progress, and he
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: was totally exhausted. I mean, you got to remember that
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the angle he was working at was horrible. He was
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: basically crouched down on his hands and knees chipping away
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: at this rock. And so after those eight hours, Homer
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: would leave Floyd and go back home and sleep and
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: eat and drink and kind of recover. But he told Floyd,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: don't worry. Tomorrow more men will be here to help
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: chisel away this tunnel and get Floyd out of there.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: But over the course of the next fifty hours, Floyd
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: remained trapped inside of this tunnel with the rock pinning
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: his leg. And despite Homer and several other men getting
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: down there and very diligently chipping away at this tunnel,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: it just was not happening very quickly. And so over
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: the course of those fifty hours, Floyd began going in
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: and out of consciousness, and he began not being able
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: to differentiate between what was real and what was not.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: At one point he would say that he believed the
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: cave had kind of opened up and these angels riding
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: golden chariots with flaming wheels had come in to save him.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: And as they were lifting him out of the cave,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: he smelled food and coffee, and then suddenly his hallucination
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: cleared and he realized he was trapped in the darkness,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: all alone, still in this cave, and it was like
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: it destroyed his morale. And so Floyd is really starting
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: to go downhill, and the rescuers are realizing they need
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: to do something, and they need to do something now.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: But at the one hundred and thirty hour mark, things
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: got even worse for Floyd. As he was laying there
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: in the tunnel. This was sometime in the middle of
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: the night, and so no rescuers were actively down there
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: trying to chisel their way down to him. He was
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: laying there and he was listening to the sound of
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: the running water somewhere outside the cave, and that sound
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: was kind of amplified down to him, and then all
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: of a sudden he heard the sound of falling rocks
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: somewhere up above. And then when those rocks stopped and
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: it went silent again, he could not hear the sound
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: of the running water. It was very muffled. And that
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: was when he realized that there must have been a
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: cave in somewhere higher up in the cave, which meant
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: potentially there could be a significant block just to get
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: down to him. Forget about widening this tunnel. I mean,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: he could be actually entombed inside of sand cave. And
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: so Floyd did the only thing he could do, which
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: was to pray it would turn out that cave in
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: had indeed blocked the way for rescuers to get down
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: to Floyd. And because of how extensive this cave in was,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: the rescuers actually decided to start carving a brand new
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: tunnel that would join up with the side of Floyd's tunnel.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is an even bigger undertaking than just
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: chiseling the side of the tunnel that Floyd was in,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: which was their original plan and had taken several days.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: And so now they have to build this brand new
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: tunnel to Floyd and So finally, on February sixteenth, nineteen
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: twenty five, so a staggering seventeen days from the time
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Floyd got first stuck in this cave, the rescue team
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: finally punched through and reached Floyd, and as soon as
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: they did, the lead rescuer looked over at Floyd and
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: then he paused. He turned up, and he just said dead.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: It would turn out shortly after that cave in, which
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: sealed Floyd in completely inside of sand cave, at some
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: point over the next couple of days, those rocks began
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: to break free and tumble down the cave and began
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: striking Floyd, until finally one or several of those rocks
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: hit him in the head or chest and killed him.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: So just imagine you are trapped, You've been there for
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: several days, You're in total darkness, You're entombed inside of
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: this cave, and periodically rocks just come tumbling down and
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: smash into you. Who knows how long it took to
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: kill him, but that has to be one of the
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: most agonizing ways to go. Ever, shortly before that cave
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: in first happened, a photographer took a picture of Floyd,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: who at the time believed he was going to get out,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: and all the rescuers believed they were going.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: To get him out.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: But shortly after this photo was taken, the cave in
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: would happen, and at that point Floyd didn't know it,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: but he was doomed. Here is that photo. Floyd's body
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: was eventually removed from san cave. However, instead of being buried,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: because of the interest around this cave rescue that ultimately failed,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: there was a decision made to actually put Floyd's body
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: on display inside of another cave. Basically, Floyd's body became
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: a tourist attraction and it would remain a tourist attraction
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: for decades until finally he was removed from that cave
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and given a proper bear. Thank you so much for watching.
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