![]() ![]() I then cover the Thai Cave Rescue where 13 boys got stuck in a flooded cave and it would take a miracle to get them out alive. Starting with the Nutty Putty Cave Disaster where John Jones will get stuck in the cave and unable to be freed. To explore Nutty Putty Cave, spelunkers must have experience, or travel with a guide. This naturally formed thermal cave is 1400 feet long, narrow, with multiple passageways and room-size openings. The cavern was first investigated in 1960 by Dale Green and is currently owned by the School of Utah and the Institutional Trust Land Administration. Nutty Putty Cave, named for its soft brown clay, was discovered in 1960. On this episode I discuss Cave Disasters. Utah Nutty Putty Cave Dale Green Identified John’s Body Update Nutty Putty Cave is a watery cavern located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, Utah, United States. “I love you! I love you! Tell Lizzie I love her! I’ll get out, and I’ll come see you!”Įmily revealed she was pregnant with John's second child.Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. John yelled, and Ryan could hear he was crying. On November 24, the group ventured into the Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking spot known for its tight twists, turns and crawls. I love you! Just keep fighting!” Emily’s voice crackled through the box. John Edward Jones, 26, was a medical student and experienced spelunker who went cave diving with a group of friends while visiting family in Utah for Thanksgiving in 2009. Save me for my wife and kids,” John said. According to his father, this "perked him up". The rescue crew brought a communication line down so he could hear his wife's voice for a last time. ![]() The heart becomes overwhelmed with an excess of blood intake and began to shut down vital organs.Īt 15 hours, John Jones' voice became nasally, and he drifted in and out of consciousness. Blood vessels begin to rupture and brain hemorrhaging may occur. Countering this natural stance by being upside down can cause the blood to circulate slower, as it now has to push against gravity instead of with it. The human body keeps the organs in an upright and stacked position. It’s a hydrothermal cave that was first explored by Dale Green. He began hallucinating, only waking up to violent reactions and further inching his way down.īeing suspended upside down for a short time can be very beneficial to the body, but if the body stays suspended that way too long, problems quickly arise. Nutty Putty Cave is a cave system located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, Utah, US. Ryan, the search and rescuer, comforted John Jones during his final hours.Īs the hours progressed, John Jones's situation became worse. One resident laments about the cave, "just because you got in doesn't mean you can get out." Since the discovery of the Nutty Putty cave in the 1960s, there had been no fatalities until John Jones entered 2009. They rescued another two teens on Labor Day weekend in 2004. In 1999, two teenagers were stuck in the birth canal for nearly 20 hours before being rescued. The Nutty Putty's birth canal is where most explorers become stuck. The primary interest of the cave is a section known as the 'birth canal’, which forms a small circular passageway that leads to a larger opening. Venturing further inside the Nutty Putty Cave, the spelunker must negotiate vertical drops of up to 10 feet and "crawl Marine-style through several inches of water before the cavern opens up." Once inside, the explorer can travel down one of two main shafts that extend up to a mile each. Nutty Putty Cave is located in Rassle Knoll, which one of the low desert hills east of the Cedar Valley, in Utah County, Utah. Once you enter the cave, there is an initial drop of 15 feet. By 2009, the Nutty Putty Cave system had gained the reputation of trapping the less experienced divers, requiring multiple search and rescue events through the years. Jones became caught upside-down in an area measuring 10 by 18 inches (25 by 46cm) roughly 400 feet (120m) from the cave’s mouth after mistaking a narrow tunnel for the equally tight Birth Canal route while exploring with his brother. Notice the entrance (in the center) and the birth canal at the bottom right.Įxperts estimate that of the 6,000 groups that visited the Nutty Putty Cave per year, 90% arrived unprepared. A man named John Edward Jones perished in the cave on November 24, 2009, after being stuck within for 27 hours.
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