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Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... Part 17 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today we're going to learn about three places you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: go and people who went there anyways. But before we
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Speaker 1: On July eleventh, nineteen ninety nine, seventeen year old Thomas
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Speaker 1: Nazarro was taking part in a month long mountaineering course
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Speaker 1: in Alaska.
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Speaker 2: He, along with ten other students and three instructors.
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Speaker 1: Had spent the past twenty six days hiking up several peaks,
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Speaker 1: and now they were taking a break.
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Speaker 2: At the base of this glacier.
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Speaker 1: They were going to hike up the glacier, but before
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Speaker 1: they did, it was customary to reward the students that
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Speaker 1: had done the best job over the previous few weeks
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Speaker 1: taking on all the different mountaineering skills and survival skills
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Speaker 1: and allowing those students to hike on their own up.
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Speaker 2: This glacier for the last couple of days.
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Speaker 1: And so the instructor's hand chose a couple of students
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Speaker 1: that fell into that category. Thomas was one of them
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Speaker 1: and told them after this break was over, they could
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Speaker 1: head up and they would see them at the end
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Speaker 1: of the trip. And so, feeling very proud, Thomas and
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Speaker 1: the other students who had been chosen stood up and
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Speaker 1: began walking up the glacier. And after a couple of
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Speaker 1: hours they had made it about three miles up when
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Speaker 1: they found this perfectly flat area that was perfect for
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Speaker 1: camping out, and so they decided that that would be
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Speaker 1: their campsite for the night. And so everybody started setting
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Speaker 1: up their own tent and getting their sleeping bag laid out,
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Speaker 1: and Thomas volunteered to go find some water. He had
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Speaker 1: heard what sounded like a stream a little ways away
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Speaker 1: from where their campsite was, and so Thomas grabbed his
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Speaker 1: pot and he went around the corner out of sight.
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Speaker 1: After a while, when all the other students had set
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Speaker 1: up their campsites, they realized Thomas had not come back yet,
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Speaker 1: And so they walked around this corner and they looked
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Speaker 1: and they realized it was a dead end about one
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Speaker 1: hundred feet in front of them. It's just a huge
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Speaker 1: ice that goes up on all three sides and there's
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Speaker 1: nowhere else to go.
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Speaker 2: But Thomas is not.
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Speaker 1: Up there, and he did not come back to the campsite,
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Speaker 1: and so they're thinking, that's pretty weird. I mean, is
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Speaker 1: he behind some ice cravass that we can't see. And
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Speaker 1: so as they're looking from a distance, they see that
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Speaker 1: his water pot is sitting at the base of this
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Speaker 1: ice cliff, and so they figure, okay, he's somewhere over there, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and so they start walking up towards the base of
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Speaker 1: the ice cliff, still yelling his name, and he's not
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Speaker 1: yelling back. And they get about three quarters of the
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Speaker 1: way to this ice wall when one of the other
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Speaker 1: students yell stop, and they all stop and look down
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Speaker 1: where he's looking, and they all realize what's happened to Thomas.
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Speaker 1: They turn around because it's extremely dangerous where they're walking,
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Speaker 1: and they run back through their camp down the trail
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Speaker 1: and they find their instructors and they tell them what
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Speaker 1: they think happen to Thomas. Their instructors are horrified. They
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Speaker 1: run up the trail, they make it just before the
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Speaker 1: base of this ice wall. They get as close as
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Speaker 1: they can, knowing that it's very dangerous what they're trying
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Speaker 1: to do, and they realize there's nothing they can do
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Speaker 1: to help Thomas, and so before long the police are
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Speaker 1: called and it's a full scale rescue operation on top
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Speaker 1: of this glacier. The theory of what happen to Thomas
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Speaker 1: is he left his campsite.
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Speaker 2: With his pot of water.
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Speaker 1: He went around the corner so he's out of sight,
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Speaker 1: and he went to the stream, the glacier stream, and
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Speaker 1: he started filling up this water, but it was taking
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Speaker 1: a long time because the stream.
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Speaker 2: Just was not very powerful.
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Speaker 1: And from where he was, he would have heard the
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Speaker 1: sound of rushing water coming from the ice wall, because
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Speaker 1: there was water pouring down the ice wall, and so
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Speaker 1: he would have walked over to the base of this
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Speaker 1: ice cliff and put his jug out to get water,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he was right up against it,
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Speaker 1: he would have slipped down into the ice. Because at
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Speaker 1: the base of this ice wall was something called a
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Speaker 1: moon land, which is a hole in the glacier caused
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Speaker 1: by water runoff percolating down through a crack, and over
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Speaker 1: the years they can get pretty deep. And so when
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Speaker 1: the police showed up, they went over to the hole
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Speaker 1: and they're yelling down to Thomas, but they're not.
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Speaker 2: Getting a response.
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Speaker 1: So one of the skinnier officers put on a dry
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Speaker 1: suit and then a harness and then was lowered headfirst
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Speaker 1: into this hole. And so the inside of a moo
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Speaker 1: land it starts wide, but then he gets smaller and
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Speaker 1: tighter all the way down until it.
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Speaker 2: Comes to a point. But sometimes that point is.
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Speaker 1: Very far down into the ice, and so this officer
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Speaker 1: was hoping that at least even if he couldn't get
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Speaker 1: to Thomas, he could at least see Thomas. But after
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Speaker 1: going one hundred feet down, the hole got so narrow
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Speaker 1: he couldn't go any farther, and even with his light,
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Speaker 1: the hole just kept going. It was like into infinity,
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Speaker 1: all the way down into this glacier, and there was
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Speaker 1: no sign of Thomas. And so after that officer was
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Speaker 1: pulled out of the hole, the police went to a
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Speaker 1: fiber optic cable that had a camera at the end
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Speaker 1: of it, and they began lowering that down into this hole,
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Speaker 1: and so down it went deeper and deeper. It passed
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Speaker 1: the one hundred foot mark and all the way down
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Speaker 1: until they literally ran out of cable. And so, from
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Speaker 1: this camera's perspective, two hundred and fifty feet down into
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Speaker 1: this glacier, the hole just kept on going and going
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Speaker 1: and going, and there was no sign of Thomas. And
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Speaker 1: so they pulled the cable out, and they realized there
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Speaker 1: was nothing they could do for Thomas. Since he was
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Speaker 1: below two hundred and fifty feet, that means he fell
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Speaker 1: at least two hundred and fifty feet, and so it's
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Speaker 1: unlikely he survived the fall to wherever it eventually stopped.
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Speaker 1: And if he did somehow survive the fall, which is
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Speaker 1: a horrifying thought in some ways, he would have been
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Speaker 1: wedged somewhere deep down inside of this glacier and the
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Speaker 1: water runoff coming off of the ice wall would have
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Speaker 1: eventually filled up all around him and gone over his
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Speaker 1: head and he would have drowned. And so shortly after
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Speaker 1: the search was started they called it off. There really
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Speaker 1: was nothing they could do, and unfortunately his body was
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Speaker 1: never recovered. In nineteen ninety eight, fresh A Bakery, which
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Speaker 1: was a bread company in Leicester, England was all about profits,
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Speaker 1: and their employees knew this because all the time corners
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Speaker 1: were being cut for the sake of money, even if.
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Speaker 2: It was totally dangerous.
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Speaker 1: In May of that year, one of the company's industrial
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Speaker 1: ovens needed a minor repair. One of the cogs inside
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Speaker 1: the oven had come loose and fallen off, and someone
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Speaker 1: just needed to pick it up and.
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Speaker 2: Put it back on.
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Speaker 1: To picture this oven in your head, think of the
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Speaker 1: scanner you put your luggage through.
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Speaker 2: At the airport, the X ray machine. It's kind of
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Speaker 2: like that.
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Speaker 1: It was this eighty foot long metal tunnel where there
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Speaker 1: was a conveyor belt that ran through it, and you
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Speaker 1: would put dough on one side and they would run
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Speaker 1: through with the conveyor belt through this oven, and then
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Speaker 1: on the other side it would be fully cooked. Whenever
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Speaker 1: repairs were needed inside one of these ovens, the procedure
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Speaker 1: was to completely turn off the oven, so not just
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Speaker 1: the heat, but the whole operation needed to be completely
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Speaker 1: shut down, and then the oven would sit for almost
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Speaker 1: a full twenty four hours before a mechanic would go
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Speaker 1: in and make the repair. But the mechanic cost money,
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Speaker 1: and every hour that this bread machine was not operational,
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Speaker 1: the company would lose fifteen hundred dollars. And so the
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Speaker 1: managers of this company thought, you know what, that's too
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Speaker 1: much money to be giving up. If we do the
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Speaker 1: repairs ourselves, that saves us on the cost of the mechanic.
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Speaker 1: And if we can find a way to make the
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Speaker 1: repairs while leaving the oven partially running, that will save
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Speaker 1: us a whole bunch of money too. Someone pointed out
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Speaker 1: that it was possible to turn the heat all the
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Speaker 1: way down in the oven but allow the conveyor belt
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Speaker 1: to keep rotating through. They just needed to find a
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Speaker 1: way to get in with this conveyor belt move in
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Speaker 1: around them, And.
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Speaker 2: So they came up with a plan.
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Speaker 1: Even though the oven sat plushed to the ground, there
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Speaker 1: was a side panel that could open up and you
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Speaker 1: could crawl underneath the oven and right above you would
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Speaker 1: be the conveyor belt. And so they thought, well, hey,
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Speaker 1: if we just remove a couple of sections of the
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Speaker 1: conveyor belt, when that gap in the belts site around
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Speaker 1: and is right over someone who is standing underneath it,
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Speaker 1: they can stand up into that gap and kind of
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Speaker 1: be hunched over and walk along inside of the ovens
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Speaker 1: staying in that gap until they come across the cog
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Speaker 1: that's going to be right on the ground. They can
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Speaker 1: pick it up, put it right back on, and keep
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Speaker 1: walking on, staying in the gap until they reached the
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Speaker 1: other side, at which point they could crawl out the exit.
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Speaker 1: The managers were confident, and so they began walking around
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Speaker 1: the factory asking for volunteers, and they were offering extra pay.
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Speaker 1: Two men, forty four year old Ian Erickson and forty
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Speaker 1: seven year old David Mays, volunteered for the job, and
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Speaker 1: their managers told them they would do it the next
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Speaker 1: day because they needed time to turn the heat off
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Speaker 1: on the oven and let it cool down first. That night,
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Speaker 1: David was out with his friends and he was talking
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Speaker 1: about how he was kind of nervous about getting inside
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Speaker 1: of a semi operational industrial oven, but he told them
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Speaker 1: the money was good. The following day, at nine am,
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Speaker 1: the oven's heat was turned all the way down, and
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Speaker 1: the plan was it would sit like that all day
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Speaker 1: and cool off all day, and then in the evening
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Speaker 1: Ian and David would get inside and do the job.
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Speaker 2: But Ian and David had a really important soccer.
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Speaker 1: Game they wanted to watch that night, and so they
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Speaker 1: asked their manager would it be possible to go in
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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. And so the manager walked down
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Speaker 1: to the oven and put his hand inside one of
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Speaker 1: the entrances, and there were fans blowing into it, and
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Speaker 1: it had been off for a couple of hours, and
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Speaker 1: he thought, you know what, this is probably fine. You
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Speaker 1: guys can go now. A few sections of the conveyor
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Speaker 1: belt were removed. Ian was given a radio and the
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Speaker 1: two men opened the side to the oven and they
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Speaker 1: crawled in on the far left side of the oven,
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Speaker 1: and they waited for the gap to come around.
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Speaker 2: When it did, they popped up and they began their
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Speaker 2: journey into the center of the oven.
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Speaker 1: About five minutes later, Ian came over the radio and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: it's really hot in here, and the manager came back
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Speaker 1: and said, don't worry. It's supposed to be a little
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Speaker 1: warm in there, but it's nothing that can hurt you.
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Speaker 1: And then a couple of seconds later, Ian comes back
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Speaker 1: over the radio and says.
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Speaker 2: No, it's really hot in here. It is unbearably hot
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Speaker 2: in here, and so one.
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Speaker 1: Of the managers ran over and checked the temperature gauge, which,
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Speaker 1: unbelievably no one had done to that point, and the
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Speaker 1: temperature at the center of the oven was reading over
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Speaker 1: two hundred degrees fahrenheit. It was hot enough to boil
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Speaker 1: water in this center of this oven, and unfortunately there
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Speaker 1: was nowhere for Ian or David to go. The belt
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Speaker 1: could not go in reverse, and the fastest it could
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Speaker 1: move is seventeen minutes start to finish, so agonizingly slow,
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Speaker 1: and they could not crawl up or below the conveyor
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Speaker 1: belt in either direction. There wasn't enough clearance and they'd
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Speaker 1: get sucked up into the machinery. So they literally had
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Speaker 1: to stay in the gap and slowly walk towards the
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Speaker 1: hottest section of the oven. And so for ten minutes,
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Speaker 1: Ian and David slowly made their way across this oven,
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Speaker 1: screaming out in pain, yelling for help from anyone someone,
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Speaker 1: but no one could do anything. And even if they
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Speaker 1: hit the emergency stop button on the oven, it wouldn't
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Speaker 1: help them because the heat inside of the oven is
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Speaker 1: not because it's on, it was residual heat, and by
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Speaker 1: turning off the oven, that would just stop the conveyor belt,
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Speaker 1: trapping Ian and David in the hottest part of the oven.
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Speaker 1: Workers ran and got their tools and did everything they
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Speaker 1: could to try to dismantle portions of the oven to
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Speaker 1: try to get down to Ian and David. But by
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Speaker 1: the time they finally pulled off off big pieces of
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Speaker 1: the oven, Ian had already made it to the other
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Speaker 1: side and been pulled out, and he was unfortunately deceased.
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Speaker 1: He had been burned alive, and David had collapsed somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the oven and had been crushed by the machinery
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Speaker 1: that went over him. The bakery and their management team
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Speaker 1: were all fined for their part in this tragedy. Something
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Speaker 1: most people don't know is you can't just put scuba
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Speaker 1: tanks on and then dive down to any depth and
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Speaker 1: come right back up again. The compressed air inside of
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Speaker 1: those scuba tanks would be a mixture of oxygen as
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Speaker 1: well as most likely helium and nitrogen, and when you're
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Speaker 1: breathing that compressed air, the oxygen would get breathed up
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Speaker 1: and then not linger inside of your body, but the
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Speaker 1: other inert gases, the helium and the nitrogen, they would
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Speaker 1: be breathed up and then absorbed into your bloodstream and
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Speaker 1: they would stay there until you resurfaced. Now it's completely
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Speaker 1: harmless as long as you understand how it works getting
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Speaker 1: those gases out of your body in a nutshell. As
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Speaker 1: you ascend, these inert gases will leave your body on
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Speaker 1: their own, but it's.
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Speaker 2: A gradual process. You rock it to the surface.
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Speaker 1: Before this takes place, these inert gases will not leave
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Speaker 1: your body, and they'll expand inside of you, and your
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Speaker 1: body will become the equivalent of a shaken up soda can,
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Speaker 1: and so at best, having all these bubbles inside of
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Speaker 1: you is very painful.
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Speaker 2: At worst, it's lethal.
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Speaker 1: The term for this condition is decompression sickness, but it's
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Speaker 1: better known as the bends. The way divers protect themselves
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Speaker 1: from getting the bends is on their ascent, they do
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Speaker 1: what's called a decompression stop. This is something that is
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Speaker 1: planned into the dive where they stop at a certain
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Speaker 1: depth for a certain amount of time, and that guarantees
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Speaker 1: the inert gases have diffused out of their body before
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Speaker 1: they reach the surface. Now, the deeper you go, the
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Speaker 1: more decompression stops you'll have to do, and the longer
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Speaker 1: they will take. For example, ascending from two thousand feet
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Speaker 1: would take over thirty three hours to do safely. But
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Speaker 1: luckily none of us are trying to dive down to
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Speaker 1: two thousand feet well, unless you're trying to be an
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Speaker 1: oil and gas saturation diver.
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Speaker 2: Saturation divers or SAT divers.
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Speaker 1: Do construction and demolition at depths of up to two
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Speaker 1: thousand feet below the surface, but they don't spend thirty
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Speaker 1: three hours ascending after every single dive. Instead, after their
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Speaker 1: dives they're artificially kept at their working depth. The way
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Speaker 1: this works is the SAT diver climbs inside of a
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Speaker 1: pressure chamber on board a ship or on board an
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Speaker 1: oil rig, and this chamber also doubles as their living quarters.
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Speaker 1: There's beds and there's a bathroom, but it's laughably small
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Speaker 1: and uncomfortable.
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Speaker 2: It looks like a small submarine.
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Speaker 1: And once they go inside, they steal the door and
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Speaker 1: then they pressurize it to match the depth that they're
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Speaker 1: going to be working at.
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Speaker 2: At the bottom of the ocean.
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Speaker 1: And then also there's another pressure chamber called the dive
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Speaker 1: bell that's connected directly onto the side of the chamber,
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Speaker 1: and that's also pressurized to match the working depth. When
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Speaker 1: it was time for the SAT diver to go to work,
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Speaker 1: they would put their dive gear on inside of the chamber.
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Speaker 1: They would crawl directly into the dive bell. They would
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Speaker 1: shut the door behind them and seal it, and then
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Speaker 1: people outside of the dive bell would physically disconnect it
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Speaker 1: from the chamber, and then using a crane, they would
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Speaker 1: place it in the water and then.
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Speaker 2: Lower it down to their working depth.
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Speaker 1: And once they get down there, because the pressure inside
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Speaker 1: the bell is equal to the pressure outside the bell,
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Speaker 1: they can just slide open a door on the bottom
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Speaker 1: and the water does not come inside.
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Speaker 2: The divers do slip through this.
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Speaker 1: Hole and they do the work they need to do,
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Speaker 1: and when they're done, they come back inside the dive bell.
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Speaker 1: They shut it up, and then using the radio, they
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Speaker 1: communicate with the people up on the boat or up
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Speaker 1: on the rig, and they raise the bell back up.
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Speaker 2: They reattach them to the chamber. They go inside, they
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Speaker 2: take their stuff off.
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Speaker 1: There's bunk beds and there's a bathroom inside of the chamber,
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Speaker 1: and that's what they hang out until their next dive.
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Speaker 2: This process is repeated for.
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Speaker 1: Days and days and days, keeping them saturated with these gases,
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Speaker 1: and then at the end of their shift, which is
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Speaker 1: usually about.
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Speaker 2: A month long, they will have one long decompression. They
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Speaker 2: do inside of the chamber.
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Speaker 1: While this system is highly efficient, it does not change
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Speaker 1: the fact that saturation diving is extremely dangerous and terrifying.
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Speaker 1: The sun doesn't reach below seven hundred feet, so most
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Speaker 1: of the time these divers are in complete and total darkness,
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Speaker 1: and it's unbelievably cold down there, and so their suits
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Speaker 1: have hot water pumped into them through a tether that's
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Speaker 1: connected to the dive bell, but if that were to fail,
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Speaker 1: hypothermia would kick in almost immediately. They have flashlights, but
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Speaker 1: the water is so full of sediment around the areas
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Speaker 1: that they work that shining the light is basically like
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Speaker 1: shining it into fog. You can't really see very far
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Speaker 1: besides right in front of your face. SAT divers also
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Speaker 1: report that sometimes the water around them will suddenly move
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Speaker 1: violently and they'll look around, but their crummy light and
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Speaker 1: lack of visibility means they can't see what it was,
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Speaker 1: but they know it's a large animal that's checking them out.
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Speaker 1: Other times, these fairly large fish will swim right up
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Speaker 1: to them and come right under their light. It's almost
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Speaker 1: like they're being affectionate with the diver, but they're not
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Speaker 1: being affectionate.
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Speaker 2: They're trying to.
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Speaker 1: Hide behind the SAT diver from some large predator that's
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Speaker 1: out there watching them. Experienced STAT divers have learned to
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Speaker 1: just accept their harsh environment down there and don't easily
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Speaker 1: get scared. But there is one thing that all SAT
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Speaker 1: divers are afraid of, and that is a lost bell.
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Speaker 1: When SAT divers are down at their working depth, the
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Speaker 1: dive bell that's brought them down there is usually situated
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Speaker 1: right next to them, just kind of floating in the water,
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Speaker 1: and this dive bell is connected to the ship or
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Speaker 1: the oil rig above by a cable, and if that
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Speaker 1: cable were to snap, the dive bell would fall to
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Speaker 1: the bottom and it would take with it the divers
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Speaker 1: because they're always.
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Speaker 2: Heathered to the dive bell.
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Speaker 1: If the divers survived the crash to the ocean floor,
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Speaker 1: they would then just be trapped and have to hope
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Speaker 1: that someone comes down to get them at some point
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Speaker 1: before they run out of air or they succumbed to hypothermia.
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Speaker 1: While a lost bell scenario is incredibly rare, it has
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Speaker 1: happened before. On August seventh, nineteen seventy nine, Richard Walker
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Speaker 1: was inside of a pressure chamber on board a ship
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Speaker 1: in the North Sea. He was a saturation diver who
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Speaker 1: for the past ten days had been in saturation and
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Speaker 1: honestly was just over it. He wanted to go home
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Speaker 1: to his wife and his fifteen month old daughter. That evening,
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Speaker 1: before his schedule dive, he wrote in his journal, Dear God,
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Speaker 1: I just want to get out. Soon after writing this entry,
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Speaker 1: he and his partner Victor Giel, put on their dive
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Speaker 1: gear and hopped into the dive bell. The bell was
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Speaker 1: detached from the chamber and then brought over to the
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Speaker 1: side of the ship, and right before they lowered it
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Speaker 1: into the water, somebody noticed the location transponder that basically
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Speaker 1: beamed up where it was down below had become loose,
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Speaker 1: and so the decision was made to just remove it,
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Speaker 1: and so after they pulled it off, they lowered the
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Speaker 1: dive bell onto the water and then slowly lowered it
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Speaker 1: down to their working depth, which was four.
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Speaker 2: Hundred and eighty five feet.
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Speaker 1: Once they got down there, they opened up the hole
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the bell and then they began
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Speaker 1: taking turns exiting the bell to go work on.
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Speaker 2: This underwater structure.
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Speaker 1: A few hours later, at two forty five in the morning,
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Speaker 1: Richard was the one outside of the dive bell, and
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Speaker 1: he heard something behind him, and he turned around and
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Speaker 1: he saw the dive bell had slightly tilted on its side.
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Speaker 1: Right as he noticed this, the radio and his helmet
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Speaker 1: kicked on and told him he needed to go back
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Speaker 1: inside the dive bell immediately and they were going to
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Speaker 1: try to pull them back up.
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Speaker 2: And so Richard went inside the bell.
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Speaker 1: He closed the hole behind him, and then he and
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Speaker 1: Victor listened to the radio as they told them that
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Speaker 1: the main cable holding.
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Speaker 2: The dive bell had slipped out.
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Speaker 1: Now, this main cable was not the only thing connecting
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Speaker 1: the dive bell up to the ship. There was also
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Speaker 1: another clump of wires and tubes that was called the
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Speaker 1: umbilical that ran all their power and hot water and
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Speaker 1: their calms down to the dive bell. But this umbilical
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Speaker 1: was not meant to be load bearing. But as it
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Speaker 1: stood with this main cable gone, the umbilical was holding
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Speaker 1: the dive belt from slipping to the bottom of the ocean,
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Speaker 1: and so the crew up on the ship decided their
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Speaker 1: only choice was to use the umbill to reel this
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Speaker 1: dive bell back in, and so they began pulling them
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Speaker 1: up by the umbilical and almost immediately it completely snapped
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Speaker 1: and the dive bell fell to the bottom of the ocean,
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Speaker 1: about fifty feet below. Now, normally a dive bell would
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Speaker 1: have what's called a clump weight hanging off the bottom
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Speaker 1: of it, and in an emergency, you could detach this
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Speaker 1: clump weight and the dive bell is buoyant enough it
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Speaker 1: would go up to the surface. But Richard and Victor's
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Speaker 1: company had cut corners and not used the clump weight
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Speaker 1: and instead attached weights directly to the dive bell, which
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Speaker 1: meant when they hit the ocean floor, the actual dive
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Speaker 1: bell was sitting on the ocean floor, where that hole
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Speaker 1: they would normally escape from was pressed into the seabed,
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Speaker 1: so they could not get out of their dive bell,
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Speaker 1: Whereas if there had been a clump weight, the clump
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Speaker 1: weight would have hit the ground and the dive bell
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Speaker 1: would have hovered slightly over it, and so worst case scenario,
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Speaker 1: they could have gotten out and done a wet transfer
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Speaker 1: into another dive bell. So with the umbilical cut, they
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Speaker 1: had no radio communication, they had no heat, they had
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Speaker 1: no light, and they had very little remaining oxygen, and
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Speaker 1: so all they could do was just sit in darkness
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Speaker 1: and hope somebody rescues. Less than thirty minutes later, another
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Speaker 1: dive ship arrived and offered to help. Now, they were
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Speaker 1: not expecting to dive that night, so it took about
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Speaker 1: three hours before they actually had their rescue divers in
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Speaker 1: the water. And unfortunately, because the location transponder had been
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Speaker 1: removed from the dive bell before Richard and Victor went under,
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Speaker 1: it made it almost impossible for these rescue divers to
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Speaker 1: find it. But after an hour of looking around, they
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Speaker 1: finally found it. It was seven am, and they went
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Speaker 1: right down to the porthole and they shined a light
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Speaker 1: inside of the dive bell, and inside Richard and Victor
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Speaker 1: are given the thumbs up, like, hey, we're okay, we're
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Speaker 1: just ready to get rescued. The fact that Richard and
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Speaker 1: Victor were okay was communicated back up to the surface,
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Speaker 1: and everybody on top was so excited, so relieved, and
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Speaker 1: in fact, they called Richard's wife and they told her that, hey,
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Speaker 1: there's been an accident, but.
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Speaker 2: Your husband's just fine. He'll be out very soon.
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Speaker 1: But despite these rescue divers locating the dive bell, because
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Speaker 1: the ship up above that they were attached to kept
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Speaker 1: moving around it was proving to be extremely difficult for
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Speaker 1: them to stay over the dive bell, and so for
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Speaker 1: the next two hours, these rescue divers desperately tried to
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Speaker 1: thread a new wire through the top of the dive bell,
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Speaker 1: but it was going so poorly, and they kept going
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Speaker 1: around and shining their light into the porthole to check
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Speaker 1: on Richard and Victor, and it was very clear that
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Speaker 1: their situation was getting worse and worse.
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Speaker 2: By the second. They were not giving thumbs up and smiling.
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Speaker 1: They looked panicked and desperate, and they'd been without heat
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Speaker 1: now for hours, and it was obvious they were running
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Speaker 1: out of oxygen. Finally, at nine am, so six hours
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Speaker 1: after Richard and Victor had first hit the seafloor, the
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Speaker 1: rescue divers managed to get a new cable through the
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Speaker 1: top of the dive bell, and before they signaled to
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Speaker 1: have it brought back up again, they shined the light
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Speaker 1: through the porthole to check on them one more time,
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Speaker 1: and they saw that Richard and Victor were just sitting
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Speaker 1: there with their head in their hands. They were clearly
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Speaker 1: still alive and lucid, but it was like they understood
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Speaker 1: they have very little time left and if this doesn't work.
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Speaker 1: They're doomed. At this point, the rescue divers called up
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Speaker 1: and said it was ready. They got pulled up to
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Speaker 1: the surface, and then the ship began pulling up the
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Speaker 1: dive bell, and almost immediately the cable snapped, and everybody
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Speaker 1: up on the surface knew that at this point it
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Speaker 1: was almost impossible for them to survive, But nonetheless, rescue
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Speaker 1: divers went down and it took a while to find
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Speaker 1: the dive bell because it had moved, But when they did,
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Speaker 1: they shine the light through the porthole and Richard and
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Speaker 1: Victor were still very much alive, but they were not
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Speaker 1: looking to interact with the divers at the window anymore.
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Speaker 1: They were just sitting there looking down. They were despondent.
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Speaker 1: It was like they were making peace with what they
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Speaker 1: understood was going to happen. They were not going to
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Speaker 1: get out of there. And over the course of the
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Speaker 1: next several hours, as these rescue divers tried desperately to
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Speaker 1: get a new cable to the top of the dive bell,
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Speaker 1: they kept checking on Richard and Victor, and each time
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Speaker 1: they checked, they would slouch lower and lower in their seats,
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Speaker 1: until both of them were laying on their side, and
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Speaker 1: then finally the rescue divers got a cable to the top,
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Speaker 1: and then afterwards they went back up to the ship
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Speaker 1: and then the ship was able this time to pull
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Speaker 1: the dive bill up and back on board.
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