Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... | Part 17

today we're gonna learn about three places you shouldn't go and people who went there anyways but before we get into today's stories if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered story format then you come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload three or four times every week so if that's of interest to you please tell the like button that you love their new haircut but secretly have your fingers crossed behind your back also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's stories on july 11 1999 17 year old thomas nazzaro was taking part in a month-long mountaineering course in alaska he along with 10 other students and three instructors had spent the past 26 days hiking up several peaks and now they were taking a break at the base of this glacier they were going to hike up the glacier but before they did it was customary to reward the students that had done the best job over the previous few weeks taking on all the different mountaineering skills and survival skills and allowing those students to hike on their own up this glacier for the last couple of days and so the instructors hand chose a couple of students that fell into that category thomas was one of them and told them after this break was over they could head up and they would see them at the end of the trip and so feeling very proud thomas and the other students who had been chosen stood up and began walking up this glacier and after a couple of hours they had made it about three miles up when they found this perfectly flat area that was perfect for camping out so they decided that that would be their campsite for the night and so everybody started setting up their own tent and getting their sleeping bag laid out and thomas volunteered to go find some water he had heard what sounded like a stream a little ways away from where their campsite was and so thomas grabbed his pot and he went around the corner out of sight after a while when all the other students had set up their campsites they realized thomas had not come back yet and so they walked around this corner and they looked and they realized it was a dead end about a hundred feet in front of them it's just a huge ice wall that goes up on all three sides and there's nowhere else to go but thomas is not up there and he did not come back to the campsite and so they're thinking that's pretty weird i mean is he behind some ice crevasse that we can't see and so as they're looking from a distance they see that his water pot is sitting at the base of this ice cliff and so they figure okay he's somewhere over there obviously and so they start walking up towards the base of the ice cliff still yelling his name and he's not yelling back and they get about three quarters of the way to this ice wall when one of the other students yells stop and they all stop and look down where he's looking and they all realize what's happened to thomas they turn around because it's extremely dangerous where they're walking and they run back through their camp down the trail and they find their instructors and they tell them what they think happened to thomas their instructors are horrified they run up the trail they make it just before the base of this ice wall to get as close as they can knowing that it's very dangerous what they're trying to do and they realize there's nothing they can do to help thomas and so before long the police are called and it's a full-scale rescue operation on top of this glacier the theory of what happened to thomas is he left his campsite with his pot of water he went around the corner so he's out of sight and he went to the stream the glacier stream and he started filling up his water but it was taking a long time because the stream just was not very powerful and from where he was he would have heard the sound of rushing water coming from the ice wall because there was water pouring down the ice wall and so he would have walked over to the base of this ice cliff and put his jug out to get water and as soon as he was right up against it he would have slipped down into the ice because at the base of this ice wall was something called a mulan which is a hole in the glacier caused by water runoff percolating down through a crack and over the years they can get pretty deep and so when the police showed up they went over to the hole and they're yelling down to thomas but they're not getting a response so one of the skinnier officers put on a dry suit and then a harness and then was lowered head first into this hole and so the inside of a moolan it starts wide but then gets smaller and tighter all the way down until it comes to a point but sometimes that point is very far down into the ice and so this officer was hoping that at least even if he couldn't get to thomas he could at least see thomas but after going 100 feet down the hole got so narrow he couldn't go any farther and even with his light the hole just kept going it was like into infinity all the way down into this glacier and there was no sign of thomas and so after that officer was pulled out of the hole the police went to a fiber optic cable that had a camera at the end of it and they began lowering that down into this hole and so down it went deeper and deeper it passed the 100 foot mark and all the way down until they literally ran out of cable and so from this camera's perspective 250 feet down into this glacier the hole just kept on going and going and going and there was no sign of thomas and so they pulled the cable out and they realized there was nothing they could do for thomas since he was below 250 feet that means he fell at least 250 feet and so it's unlikely he survived the fall to wherever it eventually stopped and if he did somehow survive the fall which is a horrifying thought in some ways he would have been wedged somewhere deep down inside of this glacier and the water runoff coming off of the ice wall would have eventually filled up all around him and gone over his head and he would have drowned and so shortly after the search was started they called it off there really was nothing they could do and unfortunately his body was never recovered in 1998 fresha bakery which was a bread company in leicester england was all about profits and their employees knew this because all the time corners were being cut for the sake of money even if it was totally dangerous in may of that year one of the company's industrial ovens needed a minor repair one of the cogs inside the oven had come loose and fallen off and someone just needed to pick it up and put it back on to picture this oven in your head think of the scanner you put your luggage through at the airport the x-ray machine it's kind of like that it was this 80 foot long metal tunnel where there was a conveyor belt that ran through it and you would put dough on one side and it would run through with the conveyor belt through this oven and then on the other side it would be fully cooked whenever repairs were needed inside one of these ovens the procedure was to completely turn off the oven so not just the heat but the whole operation needed to be completely shut down and then the oven would sit for almost a full 24 hours before a mechanic would go in and make the repair but the mechanic cost money and every hour that this bread machine was not operational the company would lose fifteen hundred dollars and so the managers of this company thought you know what that's too much money to be giving up if we do the repairs ourselves that saves us on the cost of the mechanic and if we can find a way to make the repairs while leaving the oven partially running that will save us a whole bunch of money too someone pointed out that it was possible to turn the heat all the way down in the oven but allow the conveyor belt to keep rotating through they just needed to find a way to get in with this conveyor belt moving around them and so they came up with a plan even though the oven sat flushed to the ground there was a side panel that could open up and you could crawl underneath the oven and right above you would be the conveyor belt and so they thought well hey if we just remove a couple of sections of the conveyor belt when that gap in the belt cycles around and is right over someone who is standing underneath it they can stand up into that gap and kind of be hunched over and walk along inside of the oven staying in that gap until they come across the cog that's going to be right on the ground they can pick it up put it right back on and keep walking on staying in the gap until they reach the other side at which point they could crawl out the exit the managers were confident and so they began walking around the factory asking for volunteers and they were offering extra pay two men 44 year old ian erickson and 47 year old david mays volunteered for the job and their managers told them they would do it the next day because they needed time to turn the heat off on the oven and let it cool down first that night david was out with his friends and he was talking about how he was kind of nervous about getting inside of a semi-operational industrial oven but he told them the money was good the following day at 9 00 am the oven's heat was turned all the way down and the plan was it would sit like that all day and cool off all day and then in the evening ian and david would get inside and do the job but ian and david had a really important soccer game they wanted to watch that night and so they asked their manager would it be possible to go in a little bit earlier and so the manager walked down to the oven and put his hand inside one of the entrances and there were fans blowing into it and had been off for a couple of hours and he thought you know what this is probably fine you guys can go now a few sections of the conveyor belt were removed ian was given a radio and the two men opened the side to the oven and they crawled in on the far left side of the oven and they waited for the gap to come around when it did they popped up and they began their journey into the center of the oven about five minutes later ian came over the radio and said hey it's really hot in here and the manager came back and said don't worry it's supposed to be a little warm in there but it's nothing that can hurt you and then a couple of seconds later ian comes back over the radio and says no it's really hot in here it is unbearably hot in here and so one of the managers ran over and checked the temperature gauge which unbelievably no one had done to that point and the temperature at the center of the oven was reading over 200 degrees fahrenheit it was hot enough to boil water in the center of this oven and unfortunately there was nowhere for ian or david to go the belt could not go in reverse and the fastest it could move is 17 minutes start to finish so agonizingly slow and they could not crawl up or below the conveyor belt in either direction there wasn't enough clearance and they'd get sucked up into the machinery so they literally had to stay in the gap and slowly walk towards the hottest section of the oven and so for 10 minutes ian and david slowly made their way across this oven screaming out in pain yelling for help from anyone someone but no one could do anything and even if they hit the emergency stop button on the oven it wouldn't help them because the heat inside of the oven is not because it's on it was residual heat and by turning off the oven that would just stop the conveyor belt trapping ian and david in the hottest part of the oven workers ran and got their tools and did everything they could to try to dismantle portions of the oven to try to get down to ian and david but by the time they finally pulled off big pieces of the oven ian had already made it to the other side and been pulled out and he was unfortunately deceased he had been burned alive and david had collapsed somewhere in the oven and had been crushed by the machinery that went over him the bakery and their management team were all fined for their part in this tragedy something most people don't know is you can't just put scuba tanks on and then dive down to any depth and come right back up again the compressed air inside of those scuba tanks would be a mixture of oxygen as well as most likely helium and nitrogen and when you're breathing that compressed air the oxygen would get breathed up and then not linger inside of your body but the other inert gases the helium and the nitrogen they would be breathed up and then absorbed into your bloodstream and they would stay there until you resurfaced now it's completely harmless as long as you understand how it works getting those gases out of your body in a nutshell as you ascend these inner gases will leave your body on their own but it's a gradual process if you rock it to the surface before this takes place these inert gases will not leave your body and they'll expand inside of you and your body will become the equivalent of a shaken up soda can and so at best having all these bubbles inside of you is very painful at worst it's lethal the term for this condition is decompression sickness but it's better known as the bends the way divers protect themselves from getting the bends is on their ascent they do what's called a decompression stop this is something that is planned into the dive where they stop at a certain depth for a certain amount of time and that guarantees the inert gases have diffused out of their body before they reach the surface now the deeper you go the more decompression stops you'll have to do and the longer they will take for example ascending from 2000 feet would take over 33 hours to do safely but luckily none of us are trying to dive down to 2000 feet well unless you're trying to be an oil and gas saturation diver saturation divers or sat divers do construction and demolition at depths of up to 2000 feet below the surface but they don't spend 33 hours ascending after every single dive instead after their dives they're artificially kept at their working depth the way this works is the sat diver climbs inside of a pressure chamber on board a ship or on board an oil rig and this chamber also doubles as their living quarters there's beds there's a bathroom but it's laughably small and uncomfortable it looks like a small submarine and once they go inside they seal the door and then they pressurize it to match the depth that they're going to be working at at the bottom of the ocean and then also there's another pressure chamber called the dive bell that's connected directly onto the side of the chamber and that's also pressurized to match the working depth when it was time for the sat diver to go to work they would put their dive gear on inside of the chamber they would crawl directly into the dive belt they would shut the door behind them and seal it and then people outside of the dive bell would physically disconnect it from the chamber and then using a crane they would place it in the water and then lower it down to their working depth and once they get down there because the pressure inside the bell is equal to the pressure outside the bell they can just slide open a door on the bottom and the water does not come inside and so the divers do slip through this hole and they do the work they need to do and when they're done they come back inside the dive belt that shut it up and then using the radio they communicate with the people up on the boat or up on the rig and they raise the belt back up they reattach them to the chamber they go inside they take their stuff off there's bunk beds and there's a bathroom inside of the chamber and that's what they hang out until their next dive this process is repeated for days and days and days keeping them saturated with these gases and then at the end of their shift which is usually about a month long they will have one long decompression they do inside of the chamber while this system is highly efficient it does not change the fact that saturation diving is extremely dangerous and terrifying the sun doesn't reach below 700 feet so most of the time these divers are in complete and total darkness and it's unbelievably cold down there and so their suits have hot water pumped into them through a tether that's connected to the dive bell but if that were to fail hypothermia would kick in almost immediately they have flashlights but the water is so full of sediment around the areas that they work that shining the light is basically like shining it into fog you can't really see very far besides right in front of your face sat divers also report that sometimes the water around them will suddenly move violently and the look around but their crummy light and lack of visibility means they can't see what it was but they know it's a large animal that's checking them out other times these fairly large fish will swim right up to them and come right under their light it's almost like they're being affectionate with the diver but they're not being affectionate they're trying to hide behind the sat diver from some large predator that's out there watching them experienced sat divers have learned to just accept their harsh environment down there and don't easily get scared but there is one thing that all sat divers are afraid of and that is a lost bell when sat divers are down at their working depth the dive belt that's brought them down there is usually situated right next to them just kind of floating in the water and this dive bell is connected to the ship or the oil rig above by a cable and if that cable were to snap the dive belt would fall to the bottom and it would take with it the divers because they're always tethered to the dive belt if the divers survived the crash to the ocean floor they would then just be trapped and have to hope that someone comes down to get them at some point before they run out of air or they succumb to hypothermia while a lost belt scenario is incredibly rare it has happened before on august 7 1979 richard walker was inside of a pressure chamber onboard a ship in the north sea he was a saturation diver who for the past 10 days had been in saturation and honestly was just over it he wanted to go home to his wife and his 15 month old daughter that evening before his scheduled dive he wrote in his journal dear god i just want to get out soon after writing this entry he and his partner victor gill put on their dive gear and hopped into the dive belt the bell was detached from the chamber and then brought over to the side of the ship and right before they lowered it into the water somebody noticed the location transponder that basically beamed up where it was down below had become loose and so the decision was made to just remove it and so after they pulled it off they lowered the diet bill onto the water and then slowly lowered it down to their working depth which was 485 feet once they got down there they opened up the hole at the bottom of the bell and then they began taking turns exiting the bell to go work on this underwater structure a few hours later at 2 45 in the morning richard was the one outside of the dive bell and he heard something behind him and he turned around and he saw the dive bell had slightly tilted on its side right as he noticed this the radio and his helmet kicked on and told him he needed to go back inside the dive belt immediately and they were going to try to pull them back up and so richard went inside the bell he closed the hole behind him and then he and victor listened to the radio as they told them that the main cable holding the dive bell had slipped out now this main cable was not the only thing connecting the dive belt up to the ship there was also another clump of wires and tubes that was called the umbilical that ran all their power and hot water and their calms down to the dive belt but this umbilical was not meant to be load bearing but as it stood with this main cable gone the umbilical was holding the dive belt from slipping to the bottom of the ocean and so the crew up on the ship decided their only choice was to use the umbilical to reel this dive belt back in and so they began pulling them up by the umbilical and almost immediately it completely snapped and the dye bell fell to the bottom of the ocean about 50 feet below now normally a dive belt would have what's called a clump weight hanging off the bottom of it and in an emergency you could detach this clump weight and the dye belt is buoyant enough it would go up to the surface but richard and victor's company had cut corners and not used a clump weight and instead attached weights directly to the dive belt which meant when they hit the ocean floor the actual dive bell was sitting on the ocean floor where that hole they would normally escape from was pressed into the seabed so they could not get out of their dive bell whereas if there had been a clump weight the clump weight would have hit the ground and the dive belt would have hovered slightly over it and so worst case scenario they could have gotten out and done a wet transfer into another dive bell so with the umbilical cut they had no radio communication they had no heat they had no light and they had very little remaining oxygen and so all they could do was just sit in darkness and hope somebody rescues them less than 30 minutes later another dive ship arrived and offered to help now they were not expecting to die that night so it took about three hours before they actually had their rescue divers in the water and unfortunately because the location transponder had been removed from the dive belt before richard and victor went under it made it almost impossible for these rescue divers to find it but after an hour of looking around they finally found it it was 7 am and they went right down to the porthole and they shined a light inside of the dive bell and inside richard and victor are given a thumbs up like hey we're okay we're just ready to get rescued the fact that richard and victor were okay was communicated back up to the surface and everybody on top was so excited so relieved and in fact they called richard's wife and they told her that hey there's been an accident but your husband's just fine he'll be out very soon but despite these rescue divers locating the dive bell because the ship up above that they were attached to kept moving around it was proving to be extremely difficult for them to stay over the dive bell and so for the next two hours these rescue divers desperately tried to thread a new wire through the top of the dive belt but it was going so poorly and they kept going around and shining their light into the porthole to check on richard and victor it was very clear that their situation was getting worse and worse by the second they were not giving thumbs up and smiling they looked panicked and desperate and they had been without heat now for hours and it was obvious they were running out of oxygen finally at 9 00 a.m so six hours after richard and victor had first hit the sea floor the rescue divers managed to get a new cable through the top of the dive belt and before they signaled to have it brought back up again they shined the light through the porthole to check on them one more time and they saw that richard and victor were just sitting there with their head and their hands they were clearly still alive and lucid but it was like they understood they have very little time left and if this doesn't work they're doomed at this point the rescue divers called up and said it was ready they got pulled up to the surface and then the ship began pulling up the dive belt and almost immediately the cable snapped and everybody up on the surface knew that at this point it was almost impossible for them to survive but nonetheless rescue divers went down and it took a while to find the dive belt because it had moved but when they did they shined the light through the porthole and richard and victor were still very much alive but they were not looking to interact with the divers at the window anymore they were just sitting there looking down they were despondent it was like they were making peace with what they understood was going to happen they were not going to get out of there and over the course of the next several hours as these rescue divers tried desperately to get a new cable to the top of the dive belt that kept checking on richard and victor and each time they checked they would slouch lower and lower in their seats until both of them were laying on their side and then finally the rescue divers got a cable to the top and then afterwards they went back up to the ship and then the ship was able this time to pull the dive bill up and back on board but when they opened the door both richard and victor had 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Id: 32Nwh9sq7DI

Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 05 2021