'Boiled alive' Tourist dies falling into a boiling acidic hot spring at Yellowstone

SharpshooterTom

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Rangers have suspended efforts to recover the body of an Oregon man who fell into a highly acidic hot spring after wandering away from a designated boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park.

Park spokeswoman Charissa Reid said there were no remains left to recover at the site where 23-year-old Colin Nathaniel Scott slipped into the hot spring on Tuesday.

A witness reported seeing a man in his early 20s walk off the boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin area and fall into the thermal spring about 225 yards away, park officials said in a statement to CBS affiliate KRTV.

"The recovery process is very difficult because of the hazards of the environment," Reid told KRTV.

Reid says Scott's sister was with him at the time of the accident, looking at thermal features in the Norris Geyser Basin.

Reid said the man is in his 20s, but she would not identify the man or where he is from.

The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest and most dynamic thermal area in Yellowstone, which features springs that can reach temperatures close to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

Tuesday's search comes on the heels of several other high-profile incidents at the park.

On Saturday, a 13-year-old boy was burned around his ankle and foot after his father, who had been carrying him, slipped in the park's Upper Geyser Basin hot spring.

In May, a Canadian film crew was accused of leaving an established boardwalk and stepping onto a geothermal feature where they snapped photos and took video of themselves.

Also last month, another Canadian man loaded a bison calf into his SUV because he thought it was cold. The calf later had to be euthanized because it could not be reunited with its herd.

In April, park officials warned people against approaching wildlife in the park after a woman was caught on video petting a bison.

Nearly 4.1 million people visited Yellowstone in 2015.

Truly horrific story.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yellowst...ad-hot-spring/

This is the 22nd time someone has died since 1890 whilst visiting Yellowstone National Park.

I don't know much the place as I've never been but apparently you're supposed to stay strictly on the boardwalk while there but far too many tourists don't all the time and repeatedly risk death.

No remains clearly means he dissolved quite rapidly. The water was 100C and acidic. Only 23 as well, his sister apparently witness him slip and fall into it. The horrors of a watching a loved one just disintegrate like that screaming for his trying to get out but couldn't. RIP.

kneemos

Did you drop your keyboard in too ?

dinorebel

For a few seconds he really had Yellow Stones.

darkpagandeath

Darwin awards candidates.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Think I'll boil my head.

PM me nudes

kneemos wrote: »

Did you drop your keyboard in too ?

Oh piss off

Wibbs

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

Truly horrific story.

Agreed.

The horrors of a watching a loved one just disintegrate like that screaming for his trying to get out but couldn't. RIP.

Agreed X 2. Awful tragedy.

This is the 22nd time someone has died since 1890 whilst visiting Yellowstone National Park.

So? Only 22 times? In over a century? Hardly a major pattern going on.

kowloon

****ty way to go.

Armchair Andy

Poor bastard, hope it was quick. Lucky it wasn't alkali..

Michah

Also last month, another Canadian man loaded a bison calf into his SUV because he thought it was cold. The calf later had to be euthanized because it could not be reunited with its herd.

The human race truly is bizarre.

Bongalongherb

Well spare a thought for the lobsters of which are boiled alive daily. The little fellers to some folk look like they don't feel pain, but they do have feelings as well just like all animals and mammals. Horrible way to go for sure.

B.A._Baracus

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Darwin awards candidates.

Come on man, a person died.

SharpshooterTom

Wibbs wrote: »

So? Only 22 times? In over a century? Hardly a major pattern going on.

That toll relates to hot spring deaths I think on further reading.

Yellowstone park fatalities:
• minimum 22 hot-spring-related deaths;..at least two died trying to swim in the hot-springs.
• 9 by grizzly bears,
• at least 5 by lightning strikes.
• more than 100 drowned.
• up 15 annually in road traffic accidents.

Just never associated one of the great wonders of the world with so many deaths, a lot of them avoidable no doubt.

darkpagandeath

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Come on man, a person died.

People die all the time. I don't loose sleep unless it's someone I know. Especially when it's their own stupid fault.

PM me nudes

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Come on man, a person died.

Can't be nominated for a Darwin award unless you die...... or lose your bollox

gramar

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Come on man, a person died.

I pity the fool.

Armchair Andy

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Well spare a thought for the lobsters of which are boiled alive daily. The little fellers to some folk look like they don't feel pain, but they do have feelings as well just like all animals and mammals. Horrible way to go for sure.

Has that been scientifically proven? Genuinely curious here.

kneemos

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

That toll relates to hot spring deaths I think on further reading.

Yellowstone park fatalities:
• minimum 22 hot-spring-related deaths;..at least two died trying to swim in the hot-springs.
• 9 by grizzly bears,
• at least 5 by lightning strikes.
• more than 100 drowned.
• up 15 annually in road traffic accidents.

Just never associated one of the great wonders of the world with so many deaths, a lot of them avoidable no doubt.

It's going to blow up some day and kill us all.

Sleeper12

ThomasFlynn wrote:

I don't know much the place as I've never been but apparently you're supposed to stay strictly on the boardwalk while there but far too many tourists don't all the time and repeatedly risk death.

When you are there you are actually in a super volcano. I'd imagine the whole area can be dangerous

darkpagandeath

kneemos wrote: »

It's going to blow up some day and kill us all.

Def North America prob just push an Ice age via nuclear winter.

corner of hells

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Has that been scientifically proven? Genuinely curious here.

Yes , I know a person who a lobster in a previous life.

barneystinson

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

That toll relates to hot spring deaths I think on further reading.

Yellowstone park fatalities:
• minimum 22 hot-spring-related deaths;..at least two died trying to swim in the hot-springs.
• 9 by grizzly bears,
• at least 5 by lightning strikes.
• more than 100 drowned.
• up 15 annually in road traffic accidents.

Just never associated one of the great wonders of the world with so many deaths, a lot of them avoidable no doubt.

Considering it has 3 million + visitors annually, it seems about as safe as you could expect any area with lakes, weather, bears and acidic hot springs to be...

kneemos

Think I'd take the hot acid bath over a Grizzly Bear though.

andekwarhola

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

This is the 22nd time someone has died since 1890 whilst visiting Yellowstone National Park.

Only around once every 5 years? And against the presumably large amount of visitors.

Actually a relatively heartening statistic given the generally retarded nature of our species.

Bongalongherb

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Has that been scientifically proven? Genuinely curious here.

Were you ever in a restaurant in the back and see them cooking lobster ? well I have and the squeal they make in pain while being boiled alive is not a nice sound.

I wonder if a time will come in which an alien civilisation comes to earth and looks at us as food or a protein that attracts them and boils us all to eat ? not nice at all if that were the case, with a bit of alien vinegar on-top and salt made from human bones. It's a strange world, so maybe it's a strange universe as well. A bit of alien mayo with that please.

Fr_Dougal

Authorities have said they intend on shooting the hot springs to prevent incidents like this happening again.

Wibbs

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

That toll relates to hot spring deaths I think on further reading.

Yellowstone park fatalities:
• minimum 22 hot-spring-related deaths;..at least two died trying to swim in the hot-springs.
• 9 by grizzly bears,
• at least 5 by lightning strikes.
• more than 100 drowned.
• up 15 annually in road traffic accidents.

Just never associated one of the great wonders of the world with so many deaths, a lot of them avoidable no doubt.

Oh sure T, but set against the many millions of folks who have passed through it's a teeny percentage. Driving to the local shop for groceries is more hazardous.

Bongalongherb

One lapse in concentration could be the end of you all.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Very sad but at least it happened when he failed to obey the rules.

It might be worrying if it happened despite taking every precaution but that wasn't the case in this instance.

I've always wanted to go to Yellowstone and Glacier National Park.

If I ever win the lotto they'll be first places I'm going to.

andekwarhola

A tiny proportion of our species feel duty bound to ignore warning signs or designated areas when it comes to hazardous natural geography.

Some die as a result.

Next.

humberklog

A tourist turned poacher?

RobertKK

Horrible way to go in one way but it would have been quick.

I will be going to Yellowstone next year, will not be leaving any of the designated areas, it is on top of a volcano after all.

Bongalongherb

He was a hot water bubble, that's all he was, but missing the most important neuron structural mechanism of common sense.

CFlat

Jez, there's always one geyzer.

BorneTobyWilde

Should put up a sign

''Anyone who leaves trail will be in hot water ! "

Samaris

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Were you ever in a restaurant in the back and see them cooking lobster ? well I have and the squeal they make in pain while being boiled alive is not a nice sound.

As I recall, and it's a while since I read it, the sound you hear is gases escaping the shell rather than "screaming", being as they don't have vocal chords. They also don't have the same sort of nerve endings or brain to receive signals, and a comparably tiny number of neurons as against, say, humans, or vertebrates.

Hard to say if they actually do feel pain, but without a CNS and "computer" (i.e. a brain), it is very difficult to see how they do. Pain is nothing more than the interpretation your brain makes of signals sent from your nerve endings to protect you from harm or warn you of danger.

Also, while I appreciate attempts to end animal cruelty, are the people talking about it the sort to bring up "well, think of X animal here" -every- time they hear about someone dying horribly? You must be blacklisted from funerals, I figure.

Bongalongherb

Samaris wrote: »

As I recall, and it's a while since I read it, the sound you hear is gases escaping the shell rather than "screaming", being as they don't have vocal chords. They also don't have the same sort of nerve endings or brain to receive signals, and a comparably tiny number of neurons as against, say, humans, or vertebrates.

Hard to say if they actually do feel pain, but without a CNS and "computer" (i.e. a brain), it is very difficult to see how they do. Pain is nothing more than the interpretation your brain makes of signals sent from your nerve endings to protect you from harm or warn you of danger.

Also, while I appreciate attempts to end animal cruelty, are the people talking about it the sort to bring up "well, think of X animal here" -every- time they hear about someone dying horribly? You must be blacklisted from funerals, I figure.

Well that's all good and well, but the last time I was in the cooking room out back, I saw 3 lobsters playing the violin as they were lowered alive into the hot bubbling water. Maybe they screamed through their shell, can you emulate or feel their pain ?.

Damn hungry now. Again. Chickenballs and lobsters, with some sauce.

Samaris

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Well that's all good and well, but the last time I was in the cooking room out back, I saw 3 lobsters playing the violin as they were lowered alive into the hot bubbling water. Maybe they screamed through their shell, can you emulate or feel their pain ?.

Damn hungry now. Again. Chickenballs and lobsters, with some sauce.

I can't play the violin either

unseenfootage

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Were you ever in a restaurant in the back and see them cooking lobster ? well I have and the squeal they make in pain while being boiled alive is not a nice sound.

Any idea what sounds fish make when lobsters eat them alive?

Bongalongherb

unseenfootage wrote: »

Any idea what sounds fish make when lobsters eat them alive?

I do, they release a little high-pitched farting noise. The amazing world of being eaten alive. I'm aturning out my night-light feeling satisfied, ain't nothing any-one of us can do oh no there's nothing any-one of us can do.

As common sense goes... There's nothing any-one of us can do. It's a crazy world but I live here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9LwR8Hadg4

Stig Inge

Where was Ranger Smith when this was going on?

topmanamillion

People are idiots.
Stick to the paths, stay away from the big holes with hot acidic water spurting out and listen to advise.
You learn this stuff in Junior infants!

Realt Dearg Sec

Stig Inge wrote: »

Where was Ranger Smith when this was going on?

He was investigating the suspicious disappearance of some pic-a-nic baskets...

GerB40

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Well spare a thought for the lobsters of which are boiled alive daily. The little fellers to some folk look like they don't feel pain, but they do have feelings as well just like all animals and mammals. Horrible way to go for sure.

Their fault for being so tasty. Evolution hasn't been kind to them...

Realt Dearg Sec

I love the discussion of lobsters by the way, the sheer irrelevance of it. And the users that they are screaming in pain! People will believe anything. I've noticed when I'm grilling a burger that it hisses and spits in agony while being slowly cooked.

A lobster has a nervous system so simplistic you might as well feel sorry for the pain an asparagus feels being chopped...

GerB40

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I love the discussion of lobsters by the way, the sheer irrelevance of it. And the users that they are screaming in pain! People will believe anything. I've noticed when I'm grilling a burger that it hisses and spits in agony while being slowly cooked.

A lobster has a nervous system so simplistic you might as well feel sorry for the pain an asparagus feels being chopped...

Asparagus are people too

kneemos

GerB40 wrote: »

Asparagus are people too

The Asparagi.

Realt Dearg Sec

kneemos wrote: »

The Asparagi.

A once proud tribe

Cool Cool

Everybody makes mistakes (extremely stupid sometimes) but no one deserves to get 'boiled alive'. May he rest in peace. Feeling really sorry for the sister!

Sometimes when I'm trying to sleep, I still think about when I nearly fell into 80c water at a natural spring / hot spot. Boiling hot? Horrible way to go.

Sleeper12

humberklog wrote:

A tourist turned poacher?

A poached tourist.
Sorry for making fun