Had he not been in such a disadvantageous position, probably with more time to work the rescue teams would have been successful.Īfter his death, they concluded that it would be too dangerous to try to recover his body, so the cave owner and John’s family came to an agreement that the cave would be permanently closed with the body inside, with a memorial to John.Įxplosives were used to bring down the ceiling near Jones’ body. Because he was upside down, his heart and lung began to fail, leading to cardiac arrest. The teams had difficulty keeping him conscious and breathing. The operation in total lasted 26 hours, until John died. It was only a short time before John was able to escape the most difficult part of the cave. They managed to lift for a few meters until a pulley broke. The rescue teams, totaling about 50 people, arrived quickly, but it took several hours to find him in the maze of the cave, as he was almost 400 feet from the entrance.Īfter much study of the situation, with the aid of ropes and pulleys, the rescue team secured John’s legs and began to perform the movement to lift him. His brother arrived a little later, tried to help him at that moment, but it was in vain. When he realized he could no longer go back, and the only movement he could make was forward, until he got stuck and could no longer make movements in any direction.Īt that moment John, who is 6 feet tall and weighs 190 pounds, was stuck in a hole 10 inches wide and 18 inches high. In addition, John was upside down, which would become a major problem in the rescue. However, it was an unexplored and unmapped region. He thought he had found it, so he went deeper and deeper into the narrow. No one was able to retrieve John’s body and the cave has since been sealed off.John was looking for a part called The Birth Canal.
After 27 hrs of being stuck upside down, John died of a cardiac arrest.
#JOHN JONES NUTTY PUTTY FREE#
Over the next 24 hrs, 100s of rescuers worked to free John using ropes and a pulley system which ultimately failed. At this point John had already been trapped for ~4hrs. It took more than an hour to get supplies and men down to help John. John’s brother eventually found him and went for help. But when John inhaled again and his chest puffed back out, he got stuck for good 400 ft into the cave and 100ft below the Earth’s surface. His only option was to press forward.He tried to exhale the air in his chest so that he could fit through a space that was barely 10 inches across and 18 inches high, about the size of the opening of a clothes dryer. He didn’t even have room to wriggle back out the way he’d come. John had miscalculated his location and ended up stuck and had no room to turn around. He found what he thought was the Birth Canal and inched his way into the narrow passage head first, moving forward using his hips, stomach, and fingers. John was 26 at the time, married, had a 1 yr old daughter and was attending Medical School.Ībout an hour into the caving expedition, John decided to find the Nutty Putty Cave formation known as the Birth Canal, a tight passage that spelunkers must crawl through carefully if they dare. Spelunker John Jones visited the cave with friends and family in November of 2009 at around 8 p.m. Southwest of Utah Lake and about 55 miles from Salt Lake City.
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