Geo (Gio) Rutherford

So Talal is a giant lake, which is a lake on this island in Indonesia.

And there's a volcano in the middle and the volcano has a lake in the crater.

And that lake has an island on it, which I think did explode in 2010.

21 or 22 or something like that so that that might not be true anymore but for a long time that was like one of my favorite examples of recursive lakes because it was like this ocean with an island with an lake with an island with a lake with an island

Definitely don't have any cell phone service on Isle Royale, so you could head there.

Bye.

Bye, everyone.

I always answer that the ultimate spooky lake...

that like wins unfortunate award of being like an actual killer is Lake Nyos in Cameroon.

Have you heard about Lake Nyos?

Yeah, it's my favorite, like, it's my favorite horror story, essentially, of what a lake has the potential to do.

So there's only a few lakes in this world which have the potential to explode that we know of.

Okay, so Lake Nyos is in the belly of a volcano in Cameroon.

So it's kind of on a bit of a hill and it's in this crater.

And in the crater, it's like a 900 foot deep lake.

So it's a really deep lake.

And you have this volcanic activity that's kind of percolating up from the bottom.

And that volcanic activity is resulting in carbon dioxide that is dissolved in the water that's being trapped at the bottom of this lake by pressure, but also just the cold depths of the lake.

The carbon dioxide gas is like being kept down there until...

I think it was 1984 in the middle of the night, something disrupted the carbon dioxide gas that was at the bottom of this lake.