Mr. Ballin
speaker
33,221 appearances
155 recordings
11 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6d ago
Mr. Ballin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As for the seventh and final diver, twenty-one year old David Welsh, his body was never found.
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And so that's led some people to believe he may still be trapped at the bottom of Jacob's hole.
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The lead instructor who had gotten the tides wrong and the dive shop that employed him were both charged with negligence and had to pay a fine.
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After the accident, there was a big push to ban scuba diving in the French pass, but it didn't hold.
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Today it's up to each diver to make sure they never go in the pass when the tides are changing.
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In central Texas lies a stunning natural wonder called Jacob's Well.
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It's this beautiful clear water spring that every summer when the weather gets really hot in Texas, people converge on Jacobs Well and enjoy swimming in the water.
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But it's not just for casual swimmers trying to avoid the heat.
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It's for daredevils that strap scuba gear on and dive down through Jacob's well through a ten foot wide shaft that leads to one of the most intricate and dangerous underwater cave systems in the world.
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Jacob's well is broken up into four chambers.
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As you move from chamber one to two to three to four, it gets harder and harder to squeeze through the narrow spaces, and each of the chambers gets smaller and they get darker because you're losing sunlight, and they just become overall much more difficult to navigate the deeper you go.
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Imagine you put on your scuba gear and you hop into Jacob's well and you start swimming straight down.
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Now there's gonna be what looks like the floor of the well, and then at the center of it is a 10-foot wide shaft that goes straight down.
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And if you swim down through that, you're gonna reach the first chamber, which sits at about 30 feet and goes all the way down to 55 feet.
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In that first chamber, the sunlight still hits, so there's algae, there's wildlife, and it's where rookie scuba divers will spend their time in Jacob's well.
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At the bottom of the first chamber is another shaft opening, but it's more narrow than the very first one you went through.
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And that shaft, that tunnel, is actually what makes up the second chamber.
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And it brings you down all the way to 80 feet.
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So from 55 feet to 80 feet, you are in the second chamber, and it's basically a two.
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Any diver that's gonna be in Jacob's well has to be aware when you are in the second chamber on your ascent to not go down the false chimney.
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