![]() ![]() Once inside, the explorer can travel down one of two main shafts that extend up to a mile each. ![]() Once you enter the cave, there is an initial drop of 15 feet. By 2009, the Nutty Putty Cave system had gained the reputation of trapping the less experienced divers, requiring multiple search and rescue events through the years. Notice the entrance (in the center) and the birth canal at the bottom right.Įxperts estimate that of the 6,000 groups that visited the Nutty Putty Cave per year, 90% arrived unprepared. He would soon learn that Emily was pregnant with another child, a fact that would give John motivation to escape the Nutty Putty Cave.īirth Canal The Nutty Putty Cave map. Jones was back in Utah for Thanksgiving break and to spend time with his wife and child. Both boys were extremely competitive in school and excelled in basketball and football as well.Īfter highschool Jones married his college sweetheart Emily and then entered a pediatric cardiologist program in Virginia. As a child, Jones developed an interest in cave diving with his brother Josh. John Jones was raised in a large family in Utah as a devoted Mormon. Ready For The Challenge John Jones, 26, was in medical school and entered the cave during Thanksgiving Weekend. Rescuers could not pull John Jones from the Nutty Putty and instead blocked the cave off to stop other thrill seekers from endangering themselves. On the 24th of November in 2009, Jones became stuck upside down in the Nutty Putty Cave for over 25 hours until he finally passed away. The Importance of this story is that teenagers/adults sometimes don’t think about the consequences of what could happen if you make one wrong move or you do something just to be silly, that there’s always dangers everywhere.The Nutty Putty Cave was a popular spelunking site in Utah that is now the gravesite and last resting spot of 26-year-old John Jones. So it wouldn’t be dangerous if you learned more about it before going into a cave as the Nutty Putty. She said,““` I would definitely go spelunking, with the right training, research, and gear of course.““` I asked Taigan Anderson,“`A student at SPASH. There was a movie called “The Last Descent” based on what Jones went through the 2 days he was trapped in that tight whole. Now it was to see who could recover “John Jones” body but no one ever could so they closed it down and closed the entrance of the Nutty Putty cave forever sealing it with cement and placing a plague saying “Jones” lies here because it was considered a grave site. His brother, Josh Jones, left his brother there and went to go get help after waiting the rescue teams came a lot of them couldn’t figure out how to get Jones out because how deep he was and 2 days started going by and John Jones started dying slowly because his blood started going to his heart and lungs being forward for so long. John Jones Plague that covers Nutty Putty’s entrance “The group split into two groups with many children and some adults staying behind in the less treacherous “big slide” area while some others went looking for an adventure in the more advanced parts of the cave, said 23 year old “ Josh Jones ”, his brother who was with the group and he told the story about how his brother wanted to be more adventures”. ![]() He got stuck 700 feet into the cave and is now about 150 feet underground, said a police officer that was there during the rescue”. Jones was wedged in a narrow part of the cave called “Bob’s Push” “Jones, a medical student at the University of Virginia, he was with a group of 11 people who went into the narrow entrance to the cave, which is a hole on top of a hill. The way he was wedged was causing circulation problems. Jones got lodged in a cave known as Nutty Putty while spelunking with a group in the Goshen Valley. John Jones, a 26-year old, became trapped upside down in a tight spot in a Utah cave for more than two days. ![]() It’s extremely important to know the dangers of going into a cave. ![]()
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