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- 0:00Speaker 1: There is a small hole in the ground in Australia
- 0:02Speaker 1: that has claimed the lives of at least sixteen people.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Today, I'm going to tell you what's inside of that hole.
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- 0:47Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty eight, a farmer in southeastern Australia decided
- 0:50Speaker 1: to bring his horses to a watering hole on the
- 0:53Speaker 1: other side of his large property. As he was leading
- 0:56Speaker 1: the horses across this big, wide open field, one of
- 0:59Speaker 1: his horses only just collapsed to the ground. The farmer
- 1:02Speaker 1: ran over to see what was going on, but as
- 1:04Speaker 1: soon as he got over to it, the horse had
- 1:06Speaker 1: stood back up again and seemed totally unhurt. The farmer
- 1:09Speaker 1: was puzzled because he had no idea why the horse
- 1:11Speaker 1: fell in the first place, and so he looked down
- 1:13Speaker 1: to see if maybe it tripped on something, and he
- 1:15Speaker 1: saw on the ground right beneath the horse was this
- 1:18Speaker 1: small hole, and so he moved his horse out of
- 1:20Speaker 1: the way, and then when he came back to look
- 1:22Speaker 1: at this thing, he saw it was only maybe a
- 1:24Speaker 1: foot across, but when he peered down into it, he
- 1:27Speaker 1: saw it was very deep, and so he got down
- 1:29Speaker 1: on his hands and knees to get a closer look,
- 1:31Speaker 1: and when his eyes adjusted, he could not believe what
- 1:34Speaker 1: he was seeing. Ten or fifteen feet below the surface
- 1:37Speaker 1: was this huge pool of clear water. The horse had
- 1:40Speaker 1: just stepped into the roof of an underground cave, and
- 1:43Speaker 1: so the farmer was really excited to see how big
- 1:45Speaker 1: this cave was. And so he grabbed all his horses
- 1:47Speaker 1: and he brought them back to the stable, and he
- 1:49Speaker 1: got this long measuring rope with a weight at the
- 1:52Speaker 1: end of it.
- 1:52Speaker 2: So he runs back out to the hole.
- 1:54Speaker 1: He puts the weight into the hole, and he begins
- 1:56Speaker 1: paying out this rope and so down it goes ten feet,
- 1:59Speaker 1: twenty feet, thirty feet. It just keeps on going and
- 2:02Speaker 1: going until finally the weight hits solid land at one
- 2:05Speaker 1: hundred and twenty feet, and so the farmer's like, wow,
- 2:08Speaker 1: this is a huge cave.
- 2:10Speaker 2: So he pulls it back.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Up, thinking that's the bottom, but in reality it wasn't.
- 2:14Speaker 1: It actually extended down almost three hundred additional feet. The
- 2:17Speaker 1: farmer and his horse had just accidentally found one of
- 2:20Speaker 1: the most beautiful and deadly freshwater caves in the world,
- 2:24Speaker 1: called the shaft. The reason it's called the shaft is
- 2:26Speaker 1: because the only way in or out of this underwater
- 2:29Speaker 1: cave is through this hole in the middle of this
- 2:32Speaker 1: field that this horse created, And it's literally a shaft
- 2:35Speaker 1: that goes down eighteen feet until it reaches the surface
- 2:38Speaker 1: of this massive underground body of water. The opening to
- 2:42Speaker 1: this shaft is so narrow that cave divers they can't
- 2:45Speaker 1: get into it with their gear on their backs, so
- 2:47Speaker 1: they literally need to be lowered into this cave by themselves,
- 2:51Speaker 1: and then their gear is lowered down after them and
- 2:54Speaker 1: they put it on while they're treading water. The solid
- 2:56Speaker 1: ground that the farmer's weighted line had touched at one
- 2:59Speaker 1: hundred and twenty feet when he believed he had reached
- 3:01Speaker 1: the bottom of the cave, what he had actually touched
- 3:04Speaker 1: was the top of something called the rock pile. The
- 3:07Speaker 1: rock pile is basically this huge underwater pyramid that looks
- 3:10Speaker 1: like a rock pile that sits at the bottom in
- 3:13Speaker 1: the middle of this huge underwater cave. And from the
- 3:16Speaker 1: top of this rock pile you can go down it
- 3:18Speaker 1: in all different directions, but once you get to the bottom,
- 3:21Speaker 1: there's only two tunnels to choose from. There's one that
- 3:24Speaker 1: goes west, basically down at an angle that dead ends
- 3:27Speaker 1: at two hundred and sixty feet, and then on the
- 3:29Speaker 1: other side of this underwater pyramid is the eastern tunnel,
- 3:33Speaker 1: and that's much more treacherous. It goes down at a
- 3:35Speaker 1: more steep angle.
- 3:36Speaker 2: To four hundred feet.
- 3:38Speaker 1: The few elite divers that have explored the deepest recesses
- 3:41Speaker 1: of this cave say there are three distinct stages to it.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Stage one is from the surface down to one hundred
- 3:47Speaker 1: and twenty feet the top of.
- 3:48Speaker 2: The rock pile.
- 3:49Speaker 1: During the stage, the diver swims unobstructed and beautiful clear
- 3:53Speaker 1: water with sunlight poking through the hole it's a very
- 3:56Speaker 1: easy section of the cave, and there's a safety line
- 3:59Speaker 1: that's anchored from the surface straight down to the top
- 4:02Speaker 1: of the rock pile, so you have something to hold
- 4:04Speaker 1: on to as you go down and back up. Stage
- 4:06Speaker 1: two is where things get a bit dicey. Stage two
- 4:09Speaker 1: begins at the top of the rock pile and extends
- 4:12Speaker 1: down all the way to the bottom of the Westerly
- 4:14Speaker 1: tunnel at two hundred and sixty feet where it dead ends,
- 4:17Speaker 1: or down to the two hundred foot mark of the
- 4:19Speaker 1: Easterly Tunnel, where you come to something called the drop
- 4:22Speaker 1: off ledge, and it's quite literally a ledge in the
- 4:25Speaker 1: middle of this tunnel, where beyond it there's a fairly
- 4:27Speaker 1: steep drop off and it leads down to an area
- 4:30Speaker 1: that's so treacherous it's.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Got its own stage.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Starting with stage two and then with stage three, there
- 4:36Speaker 1: is no safety line to guide you in the direction
- 4:38Speaker 1: you need to go, so you're on your own as
- 4:40Speaker 1: soon as you reach the top of the rock pile,
- 4:41Speaker 1: and so you make your way down any direction you
- 4:43Speaker 1: want down the rock pile until you reach either of
- 4:46Speaker 1: these tunnels, and as soon as you go into them,
- 4:48Speaker 1: you immediately start to lose visibility because the sunlight cannot
- 4:52Speaker 1: penetrate all the way into these tunnels, and so the
- 4:54Speaker 1: diver becomes increasingly reliant on their flashlight. As such, they
- 4:58Speaker 1: have to be very careful as they now vigate down
- 5:00Speaker 1: stage two to not bump into the walls because doing
- 5:04Speaker 1: so will knock the limestone silt off of the walls.
- 5:07Speaker 1: It will create a cloud of it in their face.
- 5:08Speaker 1: It will blind them. It's like being in fog where
- 5:11Speaker 1: a flashlight can't push through it, and so the diver
- 5:13Speaker 1: has to either wait for the silt to clear, which
- 5:15Speaker 1: could take a very long time, or they have to
- 5:17Speaker 1: swim blind. Also, anyone entering stage two and stage three
- 5:21Speaker 1: they can't breathe regular air out of their tanks. There's
- 5:24Speaker 1: too much nitrogen in regular air. The deeper you dive,
- 5:27Speaker 1: the more nitrogen your body will absorb, and if you
- 5:30Speaker 1: have too much nitrogen in your system, it can give
- 5:32Speaker 1: you something called nitrogen narcosis, which is like being really drunk.
- 5:35Speaker 1: And in extreme cases, people have been known to take
- 5:38Speaker 1: their mouthpiece out and inhale water believing they're on the surface,
- 5:42Speaker 1: or they'll confuse the direction up with the direction down
- 5:45Speaker 1: and to get to the surface, they will swim straight
- 5:48Speaker 1: down until it's too late and they can't get back
- 5:50Speaker 1: up again. And so divers that are going to be
- 5:51Speaker 1: in stage two or stage three of this cave will
- 5:54Speaker 1: breathe a special mix of gases that are low in nitrogen.
- 5:57Speaker 1: The final stage of the shaft stay is just from
- 6:01Speaker 1: the two hundred foot mark of the easterly cave, so
- 6:04Speaker 1: that drop off ledge all the way down to the
- 6:06Speaker 1: bottom at four hundred feet.
- 6:07Speaker 2: This stage is unbelievably dangerous.
- 6:10Speaker 1: As soon as you drop off that ledge, all the
- 6:12Speaker 1: sunlight goes away. It is pitch black, and the tunnel
- 6:15Speaker 1: narrows considerably and stays incredibly narrow. In fact, many times
- 6:20Speaker 1: divers have to squeeze themselves past sections where the rocks
- 6:23Speaker 1: are too close together, and so because you're inherently bumping
- 6:26Speaker 1: into the walls all through stage three, you're pretty much
- 6:29Speaker 1: guaranteed to be silted out the entire time. At this depth,
- 6:32Speaker 1: nitrogen narcosis is virtually guaranteed, even if you're breathing a
- 6:36Speaker 1: special low nitrogen mix of gases, and so divers need
- 6:39Speaker 1: to be ready to abort the dive at any moment
- 6:41Speaker 1: if they feel symptoms coming on. Once the diver has
- 6:43Speaker 1: turned around and is making their return trip, but they're
- 6:46Speaker 1: still in the third stage section of the cave. They
- 6:49Speaker 1: need to be careful of false stones. These are offshoots
- 6:52Speaker 1: on the ceiling only in this third stage that look
- 6:55Speaker 1: like the way out. And especially when things are silted
- 6:58Speaker 1: out and it's dark, you're low and oxygen, you might
- 7:00Speaker 1: be panicking. It'd be very easy to confuse these with
- 7:03Speaker 1: the way out. But in fact, these false domes are
- 7:06Speaker 1: exactly what their name implies.
- 7:07Speaker 2: They are false. They are dead ends. They go nowhere.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Stage three is reserved exclusively for extremely experienced cave divers
- 7:15Speaker 1: who get special permission. In nineteen seventy three, eight divers
- 7:19Speaker 1: got permission to dive the first and second stages of
- 7:22Speaker 1: the Chaft cave. They did not get permission to dive
- 7:25Speaker 1: the third stage of the cave. On May twenty eighth
- 7:27Speaker 1: of that year, the eight divers arrived in that big
- 7:30Speaker 1: open field near the cave opening and began prepping their gear.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Their plan was to dive down all the way to
- 7:36Speaker 1: the edge of the drop off ledge so looking into
- 7:40Speaker 1: the third stage, and then once they got there, look
- 7:42Speaker 1: around for a minute, and then turn around and head
- 7:44Speaker 1: back up the surface. These eight divers were experienced divers,
- 7:48Speaker 1: but their experience was all in open water environments. None
- 7:52Speaker 1: of them had dove in a cave, and so they
- 7:54Speaker 1: were confident divers.
- 7:55Speaker 2: But they were a little bit naive.
- 7:57Speaker 1: They believed the dive down to the edge of the
- 7:59Speaker 1: third stage was going to be fairly routine and would
- 8:02Speaker 1: just be simple and fun. But before any of them
- 8:04Speaker 1: had even gotten into the water, they had already made
- 8:07Speaker 1: a critical mistake. Instead of jamming their bottle with the
- 8:10Speaker 1: special low nitrogen mixed gas that they would need since
- 8:13Speaker 1: they were going into stage two and so that's a requirement,
- 8:17Speaker 1: instead of doing that, they just jammed their bottles with
- 8:19Speaker 1: regular air, so they were basically guaranteeing that they would
- 8:23Speaker 1: get nitrogen arcosis. But once they had all their gear prepped,
- 8:26Speaker 1: they made their way over to the entrance to the shaft,
- 8:29Speaker 1: and one by one they were lowered down into the
- 8:31Speaker 1: water and their gear would follow. And then once all
- 8:33Speaker 1: of them were all jogged up, they grabbed the safety
- 8:36Speaker 1: line and they began their descent. It only took about
- 8:38Speaker 1: two minutes to get down to the top of the
- 8:40Speaker 1: rock pile, and there they spent about five minutes taking
- 8:42Speaker 1: pictures of each other before heading down the Eastern Tunnel.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Three of the divers were siblings, Glenn, Stephen, and Christine,
- 8:48Speaker 1: who were twenty five, twenty two, and nineteen, respectively, and
- 8:51Speaker 1: Glenn remembers after they made their way all the way
- 8:53Speaker 1: down the Eastern Tunnel and they reached the drop off ledge,
- 8:56Speaker 1: he remembers seeing his sister, his brother, and all the
- 8:58Speaker 1: other divers.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Everyone seemed just fine. Everyone's just looking over this ledge.
- 9:02Speaker 1: They're taking turns, kind of peering down into this black
- 9:05Speaker 1: abyss that is Stage three. And then after five minutes
- 9:09Speaker 1: or so, Glenn looked at his gauge and he saw
- 9:11Speaker 1: his air was getting fairly low. Not emergency situation, but
- 9:14Speaker 1: it was time to leave. And everybody else had the
- 9:17Speaker 1: same amount of air as he did, and so everybody
- 9:19Speaker 1: else was running low on air. And so Glenn was
- 9:22Speaker 1: about to grab his sister, who was several feet right
- 9:24Speaker 1: in front of him. She was still looking over the
- 9:26Speaker 1: ledge down into stage three. But when he reached out
- 9:29Speaker 1: to grab her, she and all the other divers just
- 9:32Speaker 1: suddenly jumped forward and dove straight down into the abyss,
- 9:36Speaker 1: out of sight. They dove into the Stage three section.
- 9:39Speaker 1: This was not something that Glenn was tracking. Anybody doing
- 9:42Speaker 1: this was not something anyone said they were going to do.
- 9:45Speaker 2: This was not part of the dive.
- 9:46Speaker 1: This was very dangerous and they weren't allowed to go
- 9:49Speaker 1: down there, and so Glenn immediately swam down after them
- 9:52Speaker 1: to try to grab his sister and stop her, or
- 9:53Speaker 1: grab his brother, or grab any of them. But as
- 9:56Speaker 1: soon as he went over that ledge, he saw it
- 9:58Speaker 1: was totally pitch black and it was completely silted out
- 10:01Speaker 1: from all these divers suddenly launching over the edge. And
- 10:04Speaker 1: so Glenn knows he's not going to find them in
- 10:06Speaker 1: the silt. It's also very dangerous for him alone to
- 10:09Speaker 1: just dive down there, and so he figures, you know what,
- 10:11Speaker 1: I'm sure they're fine. They probably plan this out, and
- 10:13Speaker 1: they're just gonna go down a little ways and they'll
- 10:15Speaker 1: come back up again, and so I'll just go to
- 10:17Speaker 1: the rock pile and wait for them. And so Glenn
- 10:19Speaker 1: turns around and he goes up back over the drop
- 10:21Speaker 1: off ledge. He makes his way to the rock pile
- 10:24Speaker 1: and he just sits there facing the Eastern Tunnel, waiting
- 10:27Speaker 1: for his brother, his sister, and the other divers to
- 10:29Speaker 1: come back out again. But they don't, and finally his
- 10:31Speaker 1: air gauge gets so low that he literally has to
- 10:34Speaker 1: go to the surface and he's thinking to himself, if
- 10:37Speaker 1: my air is this low, what are they doing down there?
- 10:40Speaker 1: Twenty four year old Larry Reynolds was one of the
- 10:42Speaker 1: divers that went with Glenn's sister and brother and the
- 10:45Speaker 1: other two divers into this forbidden third.
- 10:47Speaker 2: Stage section of the cave.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Although he doesn't say this, it sounded like he and
- 10:51Speaker 1: the others just wanted to go a little ways into
- 10:54Speaker 1: this off limit section, check it out, and then turn
- 10:56Speaker 1: around and go back to the surface. And so Larry
- 10:58Speaker 1: would say, as soon as they went over the ledge
- 11:00Speaker 1: and they're in this third stage, it went completely pitch
- 11:03Speaker 1: black and the tunnel immediately constricted dramatically. And so as
- 11:07Speaker 1: they're going down this very tight and pitch black tunnel,
- 11:10Speaker 1: they reach a section that's so tight they're down on
- 11:13Speaker 1: the stomachs, literally pulling themselves through. And so after a
- 11:17Speaker 1: few minutes of the group forcing themselves into this unbelievably
- 11:20Speaker 1: dangerous place, it's like they all collectively realized, this is
- 11:24Speaker 1: a terrible idea.
- 11:25Speaker 2: We need to turn back.
- 11:26Speaker 1: And so as they all began turning around, they realized
- 11:29Speaker 1: their return trip just back up to the drop off ledge,
- 11:32Speaker 1: which was only maybe twenty five feet, was completely silted out.
- 11:36Speaker 1: And so Larry is in the back of this return
- 11:39Speaker 1: trip line, and right in front of him is Christine,
- 11:42Speaker 1: and so as soon as they all make their way
- 11:44Speaker 1: into the silt, the only thing Larry can see with
- 11:46Speaker 1: his flashlight is Christine's fins, and so he's staying right
- 11:50Speaker 1: up on her and keeping his light on that fin
- 11:52Speaker 1: to make sure he's going in the right direction. And
- 11:54Speaker 1: so after only a few moments, Christine's fins just suddenly disappear,
- 11:58Speaker 1: and so Larry's thinking, I don't know where she went,
- 12:00Speaker 1: but I don't have enough time. I have almost no air,
- 12:02Speaker 1: and so he just keeps on swimming, believing he's going
- 12:04Speaker 1: the right way, and sure enough he clears out of
- 12:07Speaker 1: the silt, and he goes up and back over the
- 12:09Speaker 1: drop off ledge, and he shines his light back up
- 12:12Speaker 1: the eastern tunnel, back up towards the rock pile, expecting
- 12:15Speaker 1: to see Christine and the other.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Divers he was just with. But he's looking and there's
- 12:20Speaker 2: no one there.
- 12:20Speaker 1: There's no silt, it's totally clear, and there's not one
- 12:23Speaker 1: diver in front of him. So he looks at his
- 12:25Speaker 1: gauge again, and he's got a little bit of air
- 12:27Speaker 1: enough to maybe go down and make sure nobody is
- 12:30Speaker 1: still down there, because he's thinking, I don't think it's
- 12:33Speaker 1: possible they could have swam all the way through this
- 12:35Speaker 1: tunnel in this space of time. So he turns around,
- 12:38Speaker 1: he goes back over the drop off ledge back into
- 12:40Speaker 1: the silt, and as he's moving very slowly and cautiously
- 12:43Speaker 1: up ahead, he sees flashlights moving around on the ceiling
- 12:47Speaker 1: of the tunnel, and so he moves down towards this
- 12:49Speaker 1: flashing light, and he realizes the light is coming from
- 12:52Speaker 1: inside of a false dome right above him, and so
- 12:56Speaker 1: he looks up and he saw there was Christine and
- 12:58Speaker 1: another man named Roberts was twenty eight, frantically swimming around
- 13:02Speaker 1: shining their lights looking for the way out, not realizing
- 13:05Speaker 1: they're in this dead end, and so Larry was about
- 13:08Speaker 1: to shine his light to get their attention when Larry's
- 13:11Speaker 1: flashlight went out, and so now Larry is in complete darkness.
- 13:16Speaker 1: He is completely silted out. He doesn't even know how
- 13:18Speaker 1: much air he has left because he can't shine the
- 13:20Speaker 1: light on it.
- 13:21Speaker 2: And so he's starting to panic.
- 13:22Speaker 1: He starts banging on his flashlight and finally the light
- 13:25Speaker 1: comes back on, and when it does, he shines it
- 13:27Speaker 1: straight up again to try to shine it towards Christine
- 13:29Speaker 1: and Roberts, but he had drifted farther down the tunnel,
- 13:33Speaker 1: and so by the time he shined his light, he
- 13:35Speaker 1: wasn't underneath the fall stone. But when he shined his
- 13:37Speaker 1: light in the other direction, he saw he was at
- 13:40Speaker 1: the very far end of where the group had gone,
- 13:42Speaker 1: and so farther down into Stage three was clear there
- 13:45Speaker 1: was no silt, and so he shined his light down
- 13:48Speaker 1: into the Stage three tunnel, and way down the tunnel,
- 13:52Speaker 1: barely visible, he sees there is one diver with his
- 13:54Speaker 1: flashlight out, swimming the wrong direction down into oblivion. His
- 13:59Speaker 1: name was John, he was twenty years old, and he
- 14:01Speaker 1: almost certainly had nitrogen narcosis. Larry knew he could not
- 14:05Speaker 1: save him, and so Larry turned around and went back
- 14:08Speaker 1: into the silt, back up in the direction of the
- 14:10Speaker 1: rock pile, touching the ceiling, looking for that entrance into
- 14:13Speaker 1: the false dome to try to help Christine and Roberts.
- 14:16Speaker 1: But he's not finding it, and he's looking at his
- 14:18Speaker 1: air gauge and it's getting critically low, and he knows
- 14:21Speaker 1: if he doesn't go.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Soon, he's going to die.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And so at some point, after not finding the entrance
- 14:25Speaker 1: to this false dome, he decides he just has to
- 14:28Speaker 1: go out and save himself, and so he manages to
- 14:30Speaker 1: get out of the silt. He goes up and over
- 14:31Speaker 1: the drop off ledge he gets to the rock pile,
- 14:34Speaker 1: he grabs the safety line and he finds himself up
- 14:36Speaker 1: to the surface. And when he gets to the surface,
- 14:38Speaker 1: he looks around and there's only three other divers up there,
- 14:42Speaker 1: one of which is Glenn. And Glenn he looks visibly panicked,
- 14:45Speaker 1: and he yells to Larry, hey, have you seen my
- 14:47Speaker 1: brother and my sister? Have you seen the others? Are
- 14:49Speaker 1: they coming up after you? And Larry looks at him
- 14:51Speaker 1: and just shakes his head. He didn't know what to say.
- 14:53Speaker 1: He knew they were gone, but for Glenn, this was
- 14:55Speaker 1: his baby brother, his baby sister. He had to go
- 14:58Speaker 1: back down, and so, with the little bit of air
- 15:00Speaker 1: he had left, he put his mouthpiece in, he turned
- 15:02Speaker 1: around and he doved straight down as fast as he could,
- 15:06Speaker 1: staring towards the opening of the Eastern Tunnel, praying that
- 15:09Speaker 1: his family members that his friends are going to come
- 15:11Speaker 1: out of there. But as he's swimming down and he's
- 15:13Speaker 1: running out of air, no one was coming out of
- 15:16Speaker 1: that tunnel, and so finally when his air was basically empty,
- 15:19Speaker 1: he had to turn around, and on that return trip
- 15:21Speaker 1: back to the surface, he realized his siblings and his
- 15:24Speaker 1: two friends were gone. It would take eleven months and
- 15:27Speaker 1: eleven days to finally locate and recover all four of
- 15:31Speaker 1: the bodies inside of the cave. John, the twenty year
- 15:34Speaker 1: old who Larry saw swimming in the wrong direction, was
- 15:37Speaker 1: found fairly far down the Eastern tunnel, laying on a
- 15:40Speaker 1: rocky outcropping. Glenn's twenty two year old brother Stephen, was
- 15:43Speaker 1: found just fifty feet from the entrance of the shaft,
- 15:46Speaker 1: but it's believed he died at a much lower depth
- 15:48Speaker 1: and then floated up to that position. Glenn's nineteen year
- 15:51Speaker 1: old sister Christine and the twenty eight year old man
- 15:54Speaker 1: Roberts that she was with inside of the false dome
- 15:57Speaker 1: were found embracing each other just under the false stone
- 16:00Speaker 1: inside of the tunnel. Investigators believe when they were in there,
- 16:04Speaker 1: they couldn't find the exit, and then realized that they
- 16:06Speaker 1: had so little air that even if they found the exit,
- 16:09Speaker 1: they would not get out in time, and so, knowing
- 16:11Speaker 1: they were just minutes away from death, they abandoned looking
- 16:15Speaker 1: for the exit and instead just embraced each other while
- 16:17Speaker 1: they died, and then afterwards they floated down and out
- 16:20Speaker 1: of the fall stone. After this tragedy, the shaft was
- 16:23Speaker 1: permanently closed to all divers.
- 16:25Speaker 2: But years later they would reopen it. So that's going
- 16:28Speaker 2: to do it, guys.
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