Posted on 04/07/2006 3:07:14 PM PDT by dead
Of the fissure that is...
This is terrible to hear. Prayers for them and their families.
Not much to see. There's no lava or anything...it's colorless Carbon Dioxide seeping from the ground.
This has happened before there...been going on for decades.
The Long Valley Caldera is a somewhat smaller version of Yellowstone.
So tragic! :( A fumerole is incredibly dangerous. They can actually emit enough carbon dioxide to displace the oxygen/nitrogen from an entire small valley, which kills off everything, including the scavengers who venture in when they see all of the carcasses. Super dangerous under the right conditions.
"He said the accident was not related to volcanic activity."
So where did the carbon dioxide come from?!
I wondered about that too. Plus this:
"It's not like they were out there cowboying," he said.
What the heck? What does that mean?
It's not related to any actual eruptive activity, or anything that's changed about Long Valley caldera.
No, but this is close by.
There is a 3 page article at the LA Times with lots of details.
Heroic Efforts Fail to Save 3 Ski Patrol Members
Two men fall into a volcanic vent while fencing it off. A rescuer also is killed and seven are hurt. Resort's death toll this year hits eight.
Sounds like their safety procedures are not adequate. No one should go near the vents unless they are secured with ropes, in case they fall in. Further, they should have oxygen tanks on them for the same reason.
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What the heck? What does that mean?
It is the similar to the expression "Hold my beer and watch this!"
Guess it's Public Education System via AP via Yahoo!
Hot-dogging and Cowboying are quite dissimilar things. Cowboys FIX fences, Hotdoggers fall through them, not that these poor fellows did that to themselves, necessarily.
I suspected that the "volcanic" statement meant that there was no CHANGE in volcanic activity, but the gas was certainly subterranean. I just sensed that there was an implication that the West Coast is NOT geologically unstable, which it is. I have read that after last year's "minor" earthquake, the famous hot springs which ceased flowing in Paso Robles perhaps some time in the 1860's, reappeared in the Town Hall parking lot!
My bad, I was wrong on other two posts.
The area has been pretty well studied; it's massive amounts of CO2.
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