Tragic death of male cave enthusiast
From a young age, John Edward Jones had a passion for adventure and conquest. When he was 4 years old, John spent a lot of time with his father and younger brother exploring caves. With his flexible body, he has conquered many deep, narrow caves.
When he grew up, John sometimes continued to challenge himself by conquering many new deep caves. In 2009, he was only 26 years old, was a medical graduate student, had a wife and a beautiful one-year-old child.
Evening of the 24th/ In November 2009, he returned home a few days before Thanksgiving and went with a group of friends to Nutty Putty Cave in the US state of Utah to explore. This is a cave located on the southwest side of Utah Lake. Explorer Dale Green was the first person to explore this cave in 1960.
The reason explorer Dale gave the cave the name Nutty Putty is because the extremely narrow space inside is mainly composed of made of clay. But this motivated John even more to conquer.
John said he had not explored caves in a long time so he wanted to take advantage of this vacation to experience it. After that, he wanted to devote all his time to medicine and his family.
But no one expected that this passion would take his life when he was very young.
< strong>28 hours of despair of the young explorer
John and his group of friends thought that conquering the cave this time would be an experience to connect everyone. But they did not know that Nutty Putty was a deadly trap.
About 1 hour after starting to explore, John crawled into a cave called Birth Canal. To pass this cave he had to lie down on the ground and crawl carefully. But by mistake, he got lost in a cave that was too narrow and deep for his body. Just a few minutes into the cave, he realized he had made a serious mistake.
At that time, John was almost stuck with no room to turn around often wriggle back to the old path. Even one of John’s arms was trapped under his body. This caused John’s lungs to not be able to get enough air in the narrow space.
John’s younger brother Josh was the first to discover the dangerous situation. He saw John’s legs sticking out and tried to pull, but it made John slide deeper inside. At that time, John was stuck at a depth of about 30m above the ground and about 120m in the Nutty Putty cave.
The extraordinary rescue
Even though he Josh quickly crawled out of the cave and asked the rescue team to assist, but bringing people and equipment to such a deep location took an hour.
After many hours of installing the pulley rope system and the participation of more than 100 rescue workers, at one point they were able to pull John out a few meters to provide enough food. Give him food and water to hold on.
But it only lasted a short time. The rope system plugged into the cave was made of unstable clay, so it loosened and John fell deeper. . His large body almost occupied the entire space in the cave. He fell into a head-down position, so the team had no way to rescue him.
The race against time became desperate when in an upside-down position John exhausted his strength even more. Finally, John was declared dead of cardiac arrest at midnight on November 25, 2009. Rescuers tried for 28 hours to rescue but in vain.
The cave is permanently closed
Nutty Putty was once a famous cave attracts a lot of tourists to admire. In its heyday, this place welcomed 5,000 tourists to explore the outside area.
But after the tragic death by John Edward Jones the Utah government has decided to close this place. The body of the unfortunate victim remains forever in the cave.
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