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Chapter 1: What stories of people trapped with no way out are featured in this episode?
Today's podcast features three stories that involve people who got trapped with no way out. The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.
The first story you'll hear is called A Crush on a Cruise, and it's about a cruise ship's very unexpected catastrophe. The second story you'll hear is called The Gauge, and it's about a critical error that leads to a horrifying fate for several saturation divers. And the third and final story you'll hear is called Teapot, and it's about a freak accident turning a vacation into a nightmare.
But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload four times a week. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays. So if that's of interest to you, please sneak into the Follow Buttons house and open up all of their cereal.
And make sure when you do this, you open the bag up really messily and you tear down the side of the bag, not along the seams at the top. Okay, let's get into our first story called A Crush on a Cruise. Just after 6 p.m. on December 27, 2015, a woman named Sarah Robinson was getting ready inside of her cabin on the seventh floor of a massive cruise ship.
She and her boyfriend were going to dinner that night with Sarah's parents in one of the restaurants on board the ship. And in fact, this entire trip, this whole vacation, was actually a big gift from Sarah's parents to Sarah and her boyfriend. And so far, the trip had been totally amazing.
I mean, all four of them, Sarah, her boyfriend, and Sarah's parents, had got to go swimming and drink great drinks and have great food. And it was just like a total dream. But now, they only had one night left, tonight, and they wanted to make the most of it.
And their plan was to go to the big buffet that the ship offered and just totally indulge on the amazing food and just have some laughs, share stories. And then the next day, they'd wake up in the Florida port that they left from, and the trip would be over. But, for now, they had this one dinner left.
And so, after Sarah and her boyfriend were all ready, they left their cabin, and they met Sarah's parents out in the hallway, and then Sarah led the way towards the stairwell that would bring them up to the tenth floor, where the restaurant was that they were going to. Once they reached the tenth floor, Sarah could see, right in front of her, the entrance to this restaurant.
And so she, her boyfriend, and her parents, all behind her, began walking towards the restaurant. And to get there, they would have to walk past the sort of lobby right in front of the restaurant where there was this elevator bank that would go down to the lobby and all the other floors. And so, you know, Sarah and her family, they walked past these elevators.
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Chapter 2: What happened during 'A Crush on a Cruise'?
Medics would arrive quickly on the scene, but there was nothing they could do. Jose was deceased.
Our next story is called The Gauge.
Around 10 p.m. on September 9, 1975, a 24-year-old man named Roger Baldwin and his coworker, 29-year-old Peter Holmes, frantically crawled on hands and knees as fast as they could down a hallway towards the door of their apartment. And the reason they were crawling and not standing and walking or running is because this was no ordinary apartment.
This apartment was basically like a metal box with a bunch of interconnected metal tubes that was located 200 miles off the coast of Scotland, basically out in the middle of the ocean. And it was also underwater. And the reason for that is it was connected to an offshore oil rig. And oil rigs often need divers, like deep sea divers, to work on the rig down deep in the water.
But if you know anything about underwater diving, especially deep underwater diving, is that it's not as simple as just throwing on some scuba tanks and going down into the water and doing your work and coming back up again.
No, if you're working on an oil rig down at depth, like an underwater welder or anybody who does work for a while deep underwater, there's lots of risks associated with going from the surface down deep where there's really intense pressures and you're breathing in different mixed gases that can interact with your body in sort of very terrible ways. It's dangerous. That's the reality of it.
Going down to depth and then coming back up again is a very dangerous process unless you know what you're doing. It's more efficient for owners of oil rigs to construct these pressurized apartments underwater for their deep sea divers to live in so that when they go out to the rig, they only have to go down to depth
once live in the apartment, which imagine a cup that you just push down into water. There's like an air pocket, right? You push it deep into the water. They basically would swim up under into this apartment, deep underwater, and they live there and dive back out of there, do their work, come back into their apartment, but their bodies never really leave the working depth.
until the end of their shift, whether it's weeks or months or however long they're out there, and then they only have to decompress one time. So in essence, you get to work, you go down deep, and you stay there effectively for a long time, and then when you're done working, you go back to the surface. And so that's why that apartment existed, and that's sort of the setup for these two guys.
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