"He just knows that the kids need to remember their dad so he’s good about wanting to stay in touch with the Joneses and he loves the Joneses. A 26 year old Tooele County man died after being stuck in Nutty Putty Cave in western Utah County for more than 26 hours. “Ever since the very beginning, ever since I first met Donovan, he’s been really comfortable with John continuing to be a part of our family and our lives, especially because of our kids. For more information visit Putty cave has now been permanently closed (file) With some family and nine friends, they reached the cave at. “The probability of Susan Powell or anybody else being placed in Nutty Putty Cave after John Jones died inside Nutty Putty Cave is zero,” Cannon said.īonus episodes of the KSL podcast Cold are available through the subscription service Wondery Plus, along with the entire first season of Cold ad-free. One day, while visiting family, he decided to take a group to explore Nutty Putty Cave in Utah, USA. “I believe it was about 30 yards that poured down into the main opening to give it as permanent of closure as you could get for it.”Ĭannon said given the fact Susan Powell was seen alive after the concrete plug was poured, it is not possible for her body to also be entombed with John Jones. 2, 2009, contractors poured concrete into the main opening of the cave. 1, 2009 the county’s bomb squad entered Nutty Putty to place explosive charges around the opening of the passageway in which Jones remained trapped. “Ultimately the decision was made that it was too much risk for the rescuers to remain there in an effort to get him out and the decision was made to leave him in place.”Ī memorial plaque located near the former entrance to Nutty Putty Cave, placed in remembrance of John Jones. “Once John had been declared dead, there were discussions about ‘How do we get him out?’ There were some rather distasteful discussions as well, things that nobody really wanted to do,” Cannon said. Between 19, six individuals became trapped in one of the. It has drawn many visitors since its discovery, and it quickly became famous for its narrow and slippery passages, twists, and turns. Dale Green was the first to investigate it in 1960. In the wake of Jones’ death, the Utah County Sheriff floated the idea of permanently sealing the cave. Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave in Utah County, Utah, located west of Utah Lake. on the night before Thanksgiving, the search and rescue team determined Jones had died. Jones stopped responding to the rescue team late that night. That relief evaporated when the rigging failed and Jones dropped back into the same trap from which he’d been freed. It worked to get Jones past the “fishhook” of the rock lip, creating some relief on the afternoon of Nov. They succeeded in rigging a rope and pulley system to help lift him past the obstacle. To further complicate the situation, Jones’ ribcage would catch on a lip of rock when the rescuers attempted to pull him back up and over the crux. The rescuers had little room to move and very little grip with which to pull.Ī rescuer working near John Jones in Nutty Putty Cave on Nov. His head pointed downward at an angle of 70 to 80 degrees. Jones had been descending head-first when he became pinned in place. They struggled to free him in part because of the angle and position of his body. Jones died after being trapped for over 24 hours. The rescuers worked through Tuesday night and into the day on Wednesday attempting to free Jones. An unidentified rescue worker, works near John Jones in the Nutty Putty Cave, Wednesday Nov. It had only reopened under an online reservation system managed by a local caving organization in early 2009. In fact, Nutty Putty had been closed to public access for years after those earlier rescues. ![]() The other one was about 11 hours long,” Cannon said. Experienced spelunker and medical student John Edward Jones was exploring Nutty Putty Cave in. One was, I don’t know, maybe 6 or 7 hours long. A caver suffered an agonising death after becoming trapped upside down for more than 24 hours. “We had two rescues within about a week of each other about four years earlier. Utah County called out its search and rescue team, which had prior experience working to extract stuck spelunkers from Nutty Putty’s depths. We got the notification sometime I believe just before 9:30,” Cannon said. “They told us that John got stuck about 8:45 p.m. ![]() Spencer Cannon stands near the former opening of Nutty Putty Cave on March 7, 2019.
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