Forshee said drilling to reach the body would have cost between $400,000 and $900,000. The opening near the victim's place of rest, however, will be permanently sealed.Īfter much effort to remove Jones' remains, it was deemed too difficult and dangerous. Utah County Undersheriff Mike Forshee said the cave is being sealed off with concrete in two places - the main entrance and the opening near the victim's remains.įorshee said the seal on the cave's main entrance will not be permanent, meaning it could be reopened in the future if officials choose to do so. Despite 27 hours of rescue efforts, Jones died Nov. The decision was made after 26-year-old John Jones became trapped in a small crevice of the cave on Nov. To do this, the entrance to a narrow hole was blown up with explosives, the entrance to the Nutty Putty cave was filled with concrete, to the great displeasure of other cavers.PROVO - Despite objections from hundreds of local residents and visitors of Nutty Putty Cave, the Utah County grotto will be sealed off completely by Friday. The authorities decided that it was too dangerous to get the body out and, in agreement with the relatives, it was decided to bury the body on the spot.
It was not clear what to do with John’s body. He was 26 years old and left behind a pregnant wife and child. With difficulty getting out of the narrow hole, the rescuer secured a new block over John’s legs.īy this time, John showed no signs of life.Ī medic descended into the cave diagnosed the death of John Jones on November 25, 2009, 26 hours after the start of the rescue operation. The rescuer decided to descend and tie a rope around John’s waist, but got himself stuck. The lifeguard suffered a facial injury and was forced to give way to a colleague.Īnother rescuer saw that John’s breathing had become dangerous, but he himself did not respond. When John was pulled for the fourth time, the rope suddenly loosened, the rescuers fell, and the rescuer closest to John received a blow to the head and lost consciousness for a second.Īs the dust settled, he saw that the stone arch near John’s feet with the nearest block had collapsed, and John had slipped even deeper into the crevice. He had red eyes from being upside down for a long time and a dirty face, but he smiled: Rescuer Brandon Kovallis in Nutty Putty’s Caveįor the third time, the rescuers managed to pull John up enough that the nearest rescuer could see his face. Josh was stuck in a narrow passage at a depth of 30 meters. Josh tried to pull his brother up by the ankles, but all efforts were in vain. John called out to his brother Josh, who was crawling after him, that he was stuck. The little-explored passage ended in a dead end and John got stuck upside down with his hand pressed along the body in a narrow passage of approximately 25×45 cm (10×18 inches). John slid down and realized he was wrong. He probably saw some kind of expansion of the passage and decided that in front of him was the same final grotto. The tunnel curved to the right and John did not see what was waiting for him around the bend. Probably John, instead of following the beaten path, mistakenly turned into another narrow passage. What happened next is not entirely clear. Soon, John, Josh and two of their friends decided to go through the difficult narrow passage of the ‘Birth Canal’ which ended in a spacious grotto. A group of speleologists in Nutty Putty Cave
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