![]() "We're here to inform, teach and get people into caving safely. "That's why there are grottos of the National Speleological Society like ours all over the United States," says Paulson. ![]() It was a startling tragedy for a family, a community of rescuers, and. It's been a long five years since John Jones got stuck and died in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave, which was then sealed up and became his final resting place. Paulson mourns the death of Jones, but insists that caving is a very safe activity, especially when it's done with the right equipment and with an experienced guide. SHARE John Edward Jones died in a cave, but his widow emerged from the darkness. When it became clear that Jones' remains couldn't be extricated from the cave, Nutty Putty was permanently closed and sealed as Jones' final resting place. He left behind his wife Emily, a young daughter and a baby boy on the way (he's named John).ĭowney says that many of the volunteer rescuers were traumatized by the experience and some haven't entered a cave since. Despite the heroic effort to save him, Jones died a few minutes before midnight, the day before Thanksgiving. One rescuer was badly injured when a pulley ripped free and struck him in the face. Rescuers installed a system of 15 pulleys to try and free Jones, but the clay walls of the cave couldn't bear the weight. "They told me, 'I need to get contact information for really skinny cavers.'" "I was the Grotto secretary and I had all of the contact information for the local caving community," says Downey. Analyses done on the clay in the 1960s found that it was composed of tiny particles of silicon dioxide (the main component of sand) roughly 3 microns (less than 0.0001 inches) in diameter. Like Silly Putty, the clay would change from a solid to an elastic fluid when lightly squeezed.ĭowney says that the clay was even "sound active," meaning that if you yelled at it, it would ooze and move. The most recognizable characteristic of the cave was the strangely viscous clay oozing from some of its walls, which the cave's first explorer, a man named Dale Green, compared to Nutty Putty, the original product name for Silly Putty. A survey conducted in 2003 was able to map 1,355 feet (413 meters) of cave to a depth of 145 feet (44 meters) from the surface. Perhaps because of its hydrothermal past, temperatures inside Nutty Putty stayed around 55 degrees Fahrenheit (12.7 degrees Celsius) year round. It was very characteristic of a hypogenic cave." "It had tight squeezes that opened up into a big room, then back to another tight squeeze. It's good to have a proper pace."Traditionally, these types of caves are very complex and feature lots of domes and three-dimensional passages, which was true of Nutty Putty," says Paulson. ![]() The patience required for this type of thing is underestimated I think my most variable and most important ability as an editor is the capacity to deal with tedium. But in large part learning is for learning, work is for work.Īnyway, there's value in doing shit work in a short amount of time, it's all about knowing how to structure workflow and doing things one step at a time. If I breath and focus on working in intervals I can make magic happen for my client, even though it might not be the crisp, barrier-shattering work I always imagine myself editing. If I get overzealous and don't control my breathing I will make an insane five second edit over the course of five hours and promptly burn out and take a nap. The dread from knowing you don't have time to make something as great as it can possibly be is something else. ![]() I've been obsessively consuming claustrophobia media lately, and have noticed that I get the same broad range of emotion imagining myself caving as I do trying to rush any project. ![]()
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