Mr. Ballin
speaker
33,221 appearances
155 recordings
11 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Sep
Mr. Ballin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They had dove Jacobs Well before, and they wanted to check out the fourth chamber.
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They got in the water, they went through that initial shaft into the first chamber, they continued into the tunnel that was the second chamber, they wriggled their way into the third chamber, and they reached the gate.
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Using some equipment they brought with them, they were able to pry open this gate, and Richard Patton was the first one to go into the fourth chamber.
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He removed his tanks and pushed them inside of this opening, and then he began headfirst to slither inside of this fourth chamber opening, while Clark waited.
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And Clark would later say that as soon as Richard had pushed his way and had actually made it into the fourth chamber, Richard comes screaming up back out of the fourth chamber.
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And Clark realizes that he doesn't have a mouthpiece in, he doesn't have scuba tanks on.
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Richard is desperately trying to wriggle his way out on a breath hold because he's dropped his tanks and he's reaching for Clark to help him get pulled through this hole and he can barely get out of this hole.
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And as soon as he gets free, Clark takes his mouthpiece off and he jams it into Richard's mouth.
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And so they begin body breathing.
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One guy breathes while the other guy holds his breath and then they reverse that, back and forth, back and forth.
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That's not something you would do on a dive for a long period of time.
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It's an emergency procedure and you need to get to the surface as soon as you can.
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So the pair calms down, they're body breathing, and they're making their way back up, they're leaving the equipment that they lost in the fourth chamber, and they're kicking their way up, and they get back into the third chamber, they make their way up into the second chamber, they're kicking it out, they're kicking it out, and then their heads hit the wall.
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And they realize they've gone down the false chimney, and what's even worse is they hear that awful ktoon, which means you have no air in your tanks.
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Clark, who had taken a full breath before this had happened, he immediately turns and starts swimming and manages to get out of the false chimney and makes it to the surface before he drowns.
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But Richard wasn't as lucky.
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His final few moments were spent in total darkness, with silt kicked up all around him, he's got no air, he's got no idea where to go, and he's desperately trying to swim up, but he keeps hitting the wall of the false chimney before ultimately drowning.
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When recovery divers went down to retrieve his body, they found him jammed up at the very end of the false chimney.
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At 6 30 p.m.
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on May 14th, 1955, a 24-year-old man named Donald Giroux stood next to his friend, 28-year-old Murray Anderson, on the shore of a natural spring in the state of Georgia.
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