-Victim’s
sister recorded on her cell phone, but the park service won't release the
video.
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23-year-old Oregon man literally dissolved
inside a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming after he
accidentally fell into it.
The
bizarre incident happened back in June, when Colin Nathaniel Scott went to the
park with his sister to find a place to "hot pot."
According
to a recently released report from park officials, Scott and his sister went to
an unauthorized area near the Norris Geyser.
"They
were specifically moving in that area for a place that they could potentially
get into and soak," Deputy Chief Ranger Lorant Veress told KULR. "I think they call it hot
potting."
Scott
had reached down to check the temperature of a spring when he slipped and fell
into it. Rescuers later found Scott's body inside the pool, but couldn't
retrieve it because of a lighting storm in the area. When they came back the
next day, no remains were found beneath the spring's churning, acidic waters.
"In
a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving," Veress
said.
The
parks' geyers and springs are acidic because they are fed by thermal water deep
underground that picks up sulfuric acid as it rises to the surface.
The sulfuric acid is produced by microorganisms that break down hydrogen
sulfide in rocks and soil.
Scott's
sister was recording on her cell phone when he fell in, but the park service
won't release the video.
Veress
stressed the importance for park visitors to obey all warning signs.
"Because
(Yellowstone) is wild and it hasn't been overly altered by people to make
things a whole lot safer, it's got dangers," he said. "And a place
like Yellowstone, which is set aside because of the incredible geothermal
resources that are here, all the more so."
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