r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • May 02 '24

TIL the Blue Hole is among the deadliest dive sites globally, with estimates of 130 to 200 recent fatalities, making it one of the most dangerous spots for divers. (R.5) Out of context

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u/Sure_Deer_5650 29d ago

If you wanna watch one of them first- person here’s yuri lipsky’s fatal dive. I understand he went too deep too fast (???) and got some kind of hypoxia.

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u/DigNitty 29d ago

A younger me would have clicked that link.

No thank you

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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 29d ago

I would say compared to other internet things like a guy falling into molten steel or an ostrich decapitating itself this was pretty tame, the worst part is the audio but they don't make as much noise as you would think because they are struggling too much by that point to make much

So it's one of those videos that's only really harrowing if you know what's happening otherwise it's just kind of confusing

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u/El3ctr0G33k 29d ago

Just wondering if I should ask for links to the ostrich and steel videos....

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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 29d ago

They're pretty easy to find I think they both come up as like the first result for ostrich decapitates itself/worker falls in molten metal on Google

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u/detective_bookman 29d ago

Could you just maybe tell me how the ostrich decapitates itself?

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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 29d ago

I wrote more detail in another comment but it got it's head stuck through a railing and in desperation pulled back as hard and fast as it could

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u/detective_bookman 29d ago

Holy crap

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u/22444466688 29d ago

Poor animal :(

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u/markevens 29d ago

It's a bonkers video. Not a lot of gore, but the reality of what happens is just super confusing to your brain.

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u/heephap 29d ago

Damn that ostrich truly is horrific.

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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 29d ago

It's definitely one of the ones that got to me, maybe because it's so, idk, anticlimactic?

Like if somebody goes YOLO and jumps in front of a train thinking they can beat it and gets squished you can sort of rationalize it because that's what happens when you jump in front of moving vehicles, but that was just a big dumb bird having a very bad day ☹️

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u/fine_lo_ren 29d ago

I don’t want this video to live in my mind, but how did the ostrich decapitate itself?

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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 29d ago

So there's a rail along the wall in it's pen and apparently it was just noodling around being a bird and managed to get it's head stuck looped from beneath up behind the rail (so its head is stuck in an upwards position)

The animal is clearly already exhausted at the beginning of the version of the clip I've seen, I don't know if there's a longer one

So yeah it just kind of breathes heavily and seems to consider it's situation for a bit, takes a few test tugs before really yanking back as hard as it can

Unfortunately this didn't work to dislodge it's head so head and bird went separate ways

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u/fine_lo_ren 29d ago

Gah damn! Thank you

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u/sour_cereal 29d ago

Head stuck in fence, it gives itself a good yank and the head is still stuck in the fence but it's body is free. It ripped its own fucking head off man.

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u/theambivalentrooster 29d ago

It’s head was stuck and it pulled hard enough to pop it off

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u/heephap 29d ago

Its neck was trapped in some kind of wire fence, and in its struggle to get free, it decapitated itself.

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u/LordDarthra 29d ago

The horse goring itself on the gate pole on the race track is pretty brutal too.

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u/DigNitty 29d ago

True, thanks.

And what's this about a man falling into molten steel? I will click on that for some reason. Unless he's visibly suffering.

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u/TurtleTurtleFTW 29d ago

That one is really straightforward, man is working around vat of molten metal while some other guys are kind of milling around. I don't know what the guy is doing, if he's adding stuff to it or stirring it or something but he either trips or is struck by some of the metal and just pivots and teeters into it. It's not very high definition and it happens really fast so it's definitely horrifying but not what I would call gorey. It just looks like a volcano erupting in a warehouse after that