Nineteen Days in the Idaho Wilderness: They Did What They Had to Do | E 225
On the morning of May 5th, 1979, four residents of Estevan, Saskatchewan boarded a small Cessna bound for Boise, Idaho on what was supposed to be a day trip. By that afternoon, the plane was down in a...
30 Maalis 31min
The Body Recovery: Fatal Cave Dive at Bushman's Hole | Disaster Strikes E 224
In this episode of the Crux podcast's Disaster Strikes segment, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen delve into the harrowing story of Dave Shaw, a technical diver who tragically perished while ...
26 Maalis 40min
Trapped in Quicksand: 2 Hours vs. 6 Days | E223
Quicksand isn't a movie prop. It's real, it looks completely normal, and it happened to two men in the past three months — one in a frozen Utah canyon, one in a Florida mud pit. Austin Dirks is an exp...
23 Maalis 43min
Fourteen Days Down Under: The Beaconsfield Mine Rescue That Captivated the World | E222
When a 2.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania on ANZAC Day 2006, seventeen miners were underground. Fourteen walked out. One didn't survive. And two men — Todd Russell ...
16 Maalis 33min
The Vanishing at Pendleton Mountain | Disaster Strikes E221
Silver Plume, Colorado — population 130 — became the setting for one of the strangest unsolved disappearances in Rocky Mountain history. In the summer of 1988, sportswriter-turned-novelist Keith Reinh...
12 Maalis 28min
100 Foot Fall, Broken Back, No Help: Surviving the Arizona Desert | E220
On May 20, 2016, ICU nurse Amber Kornhorst set out on a solo late-afternoon hike near Cane Beds, Arizona, and climbed a deceptively "sticky" sandstone wall she couldn't safely descend. With no cell se...
9 Maalis 30min
30 Minutes Under Ice: The Boy Who Came Back From Death | E219
When the ice cracked beneath Darven Miller's feet on December 13, 1979, it triggered a cascade of events that seemed impossible to survive. The 11-year-old remained trapped under the frozen surface of...
2 Maalis 28min
100 Yards from Water | Disaster Strikes E218
On July 17, 2006, 29-year-old Dave Buschow collapsed and died from dehydration less than 100 yards from water during a Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) course in Utah. Despite showing clear sign...
26 Helmi 43min
