Yeah Daniel guy was just that moron of a “friend” you went to school with who got amazed by everything and played tons of hackie sack. Who also planned to do the weirdest crap in his life. Lol I have first hand experience with people like Daniel lol
They say there was no alcohol or drugs in his system that night. That whale killed three people and partially ate their bodies including that dude genitals. Literally
If the thought "I'm just going to go ahead and put my head in this carnivore's mouth" ever occurs to you, I encourage you, very much so, to rethink that thought.
Good on them for telling the family like it is. The problem isn't the blow hole, it's the stupid people who read and then choose to ignore the multiple warnings of death.
I have the pettiest example of this. Where I work, we have those travellator things, basically an escalator that's flat opposed to the steps. Some old dude slips on it after trying steal, attempted to sue us.. Thankfully he couldn't sue, but on the flip side we now have this patronising recording that plays everytime someone steps on to it 🙄 "THE EXIT IS APPROACHING, PLEASE TAKE CARE" one bloody moron.
@@serwalkerofthekeynes8761 lol That's a great example! Idiots ruin it for the rest of us. I'm all about taking the majority of warning signs off from items. Thin the herd a little bit, so to speak.
He didnt just hop a fence, he was sticking his chest out to be hit... think it was a miracle he lived to the age he did being that stupid. Parents are entitled to think they need anything more than a fence.
"The problem is not the blowhole, the problem is people not respecting the power of nature" That's a very wise quote right there. We can't babyproof the whole world and disrupt nature in the process. RIP to Daniel but this was entirely his fault for his poor judgement and ignorance of the warning signs. People need to realize they're not invincible and learn that nature can be unpredictable and can kill you in an instant, and for that reason it deserves our utmost respect. You're not above the natural order, it will chew you up and spit you out if you don't respect it. Props to the locals for standing up for their landmark and not letting a grate ruin it's natural beauty.
I live on the island and see this blowhole often, there and thousands of ways to die on this island and people always push the boundaries, if we babyproofed this island it wouldn’t be beautiful. Survival of the fittest is often survival of the smartest
@@thereadingnook7121 yes exactly, I can't stand when people want to make the whole world "safe" it ruins so many good things. If you're not educated enough to know what you're doing and how to stay safe maybe you shouldn't be doing dangerous things
@@thereadingnook7121 you guys have a tendency to respect nature much more than here for sure. here it's all about cut it down and build then wonder why the flooding gets worse each year
The idea of petitioning to add a cover to the Blowhole... Fences, signs, they took every precaution. His death was tragic and undeserving, but it was an arrogant choice that led to his brutal fate.
Right? At some point humans need to be accountable for their own actions. We can't block off everything that's dangerous because then there would be nothing left.
@@linkinnonya7822 I think they are talking about the guy that died in the 2nd story and not the last one with blowhole. Did he cook or drown? How long would it have taken to die? They said it would be like 10 minutes before he drowned. So did the water or heat kill him first
I feel bad for the 1st one. It's obvious he had mental issues, and instead of arresting and just release him, they should have brought him to a psychiatrist. That's how this death would have been avoided.
I was 18 when a friend and me, found a blowhole in the rocks that surround the beaches of Loret de Mar in Spain. It wasn't nearly as huge as the one in the vid , stil it looked dangerous as hell. There were no signs or fences, but anyone with a functioning head on their shoulders could see that you have to be very carefull . Anyhow i loved the raw force it radiated, and enjoyed the spray of seawater ( the temperature was between 35 and 42C. ). Wat a fool one has to be to even want to stand on the edge or wanting to get hit in the chest by it!
I can't stop watching these. He tells stories so well. My husband is getting tired of me walking around listening to his videos, but yet he will stand there with me just as involved with the stories as I am. We spend some nights outside freaking ourselves out listening to scary stories and I love it. Please keep these awesome videos coming!
same happened to us, my partner was watching these scary horrible stories, I said stop watching them it will get to you, they're so negative bla bla, and one day I was watching a video of his not knowing it was the same channel he was watching so obsessively, haha now we are both circling around the house with our phones, watching him all day, and even before bed, I actually had a nightmare last night 😂😂
I understand why the locals fought back against having a grate put over the blowhole. Not only would it wear away with time and be a constant thing to maintain, but there were signs and deterrent. Just keep on the safe side of the fence and warnings.
Not to mention if the geyser blew the grate off and it injured someone...they would be whining about that. Just leave nature alone and show some respect
I'm not arguing for the metal grate, but why would it need constant maintenance??? A heavy duty stainless steal grate would last many years with zero maintenance in between replacements.
@@the2006mvp Very unlikely. It would be fastened into solid rock & the gushing air/water, would create almost no pressure on a mostly open grate. The slots could have 3.5 inch openings in between the metal, same spacing as railings. I'm not arguing for a metal grate, but I don't agree with your reply.
@@_MjG_ the Problem is salt water combined with the salt in the air, the force of the water hitting the metal, and a way of placing the gate. Sure, it will hold for a year or two, but then it would rust or deteriorate or fall off.
Daniel's family and friend : he was not a reckless person, he was just very adventurous Daniel : *proceed to stick his torso right above a massive blowhole*
You know usually I am not one to be callous but this story was Darwin Award status. I thought he would have gotten too close to the hole and was gonna be swept in by draining currents on the shelf but no he just hung himself into the power of Mother Nature.
12:54 "he wanted to feel the power of the water hit him in the chest" goes to show that sometimes you need to stop and think about whether what you 'want' is really good for you...
I thought he would have been killed when he was hit the first time! And that one time would have been enough. At some point, people have to take responsibility. We cannot protect people from the entire world. I do not say this intending any disrespect, but his parent’s request was absurd. Yes, let’s dampen and destroy some part of the natural world because my child doesn’t understand that warning signs exist for a reason. Do we need to cover the entire ocean too? There were numerous signs, and he had to overcome a number of physical obstacles, before he could even get close to the blowhole. The world cannot save people from their own stupidity, ignorance, or recklessness. That said, that sounded like a terrifying and violent way to die. RIP young man.
He might as well've jumped chest first off the Golden Gate Bridge. He's the reason my clothes iron has a warning that says "do not wear clothes while ironing."
I've seen some of Hawaii's blowholes in person. The sound of the water rushing through and the violent power of the spray that got pushed out was more than enough to make me afraid of getting too close to the edge. Not only for fear of drowning, but because lava rock is incredibly sharp and jagged, and being slammed into it with that much force was honestly the scarier option to me.
I’m astounded that anyone would suggest Tillicum should be “punished” for killing a man. He lives in what for us would be a gerbil cage, every day being tortured with the loud horrible noise from the loudspeakers which he cannot escape, and is forced to do tricks for morsels. Every moment of his life is a punishment.
I could be wrong, but I think the idea would be to make sure no captive animals think they can get away with harming or killing humans. Although it's impossible for them to develop of a fear of doing so if they get put down for it.
At least he's 'free' now. Corky and Lolita have been in captivity for over half a century. Lolita is from the Puget Sound Southern Resident orca population, which was decimated by captures in the sixties and seventies. They are now listed as critically endangered. Her mother, Ocean Sun, is estimated to be between eighty and ninety years old. They will probably never be reunited. Corky is a Northern Resident and member of the A-23 pod. Her sister, brother, niece and grand-nephews can still be seen roaming the coastal waters of British Columbia. What different lives they must lead.
I agree he suffered enough in that God awful fish bowl. They should have released or put tilikum down the first time he killed/injured someone, it would have saved 2 lives. Seaworld barely cares about their own workers lives though so of course they dont care about the animals they hold captive smh.
@@chimpantaco Tilikum was worth over 5 million dollars. He was too valuable to be put down. He couldn't be released. He was only 2 years old when he was captured. He wouldn't be able to hunt and provide for himself. He wouldn't be able to find his family. Most importantly, he had a variety of health issues for which he had to be medicated. Humans ruined his life and they ruined his health. His fate was sealed the moment he was captured. I feel bad for the trainers, but I feel even worse for the orcas. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers and siblings for life. That's something Tilikum never got to experience.
@@MermaidMusings7 that's why I said released or put down, since he probably wouldn't survive outside SeaWorld. But out of mercy at the very least they could have put him down. insted they kept him in a little pool with little interaction till his death 😕. As for the trainer's the amount that are injured or died at SeaWorld alone should have shut them down decades ago.
Tilikum was the largest, as well as the most unstable orca in captivity. The guy definitely jumped in the wrong pool. I feel bad for both of them. Tilikum was basically Seaworld's slave and Daniel Dukes was mentally ill.
As a Native Hawaiian, my best advice to tourist would be just because you see locals doing something, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to do it too. BUT if you don’t see any locals doing something, it’s in your best interest to follow our example. Hālona Blowhole is along the strongest current in all of Hawaii, the Kaʻiwi Channel, and is next to Sandy’s Beach, known for having the most broken neck and back injuries in the nation! You will see many of us locals (born and raised in these waters) surfing/bodysurfing at Sandy’s, but unless you have experience, do NOT go in! However, you will not catch locals near the blowhole period! For what reason anyway? That in itself should say something. But if you decide to break past the barriers of places you shouldn’t be and end up hurt or worse, do NOT come here and try to shutdown these places because YOU fucked up as a VISITOR 💯. Next time come correct with respect for the places you’re visiting or no come at all.
@@nd612 Hey look at this blowhole that you shouldn't go near as you could obviously die, Let's put my chest on top of it and get hit once which must've caused quite a bit of pain and knocked me back which should've knocked some sense into me too and after that let's do it again expecting not to be injured at all during this.
@@serenporffor I thought the same thing. These mammals have power in every way no matter in what way. Especially to want that kind of sensation would not be that, it may stop your heart. That blowhole has to make up for a huge mammal to breath again, to think that it wouldn't blow with combustion. What was this kid thinking? Unbelievable!
As soon as I heard the name "Tilikum" I already knew what was going to happen. Tilikum was very poorly treated during his lifetime and it made him aggressive. He had a few victims, including his own trainer.
@@rusty1370 good luck he was their MAIN breeding male most if not ALL of the whales in sea worlds system have his DNA and he passed like 2 or 3 years ago. also you cant Release an animal thats been raised in captivity back into the wild; it cant hunt, or defend itself, it doesnt know how to "orca" per say. sea world is supposed to no longer be able to breed the orcas so when their last generation is gone thats it but whose to say they wont find a loop hole
@@bethrundle98 it’s very sad cause of how he ended up in captivity but it was a very stupid decision to breed a genetically aggressive male over and over. More and more aggressive orcas would come from there. I recon they should of made it illegal to have orcas in captivity they should of stopped bring and breeding new ones ya know. Just let the current ones pass.
Tilikum was punished years later because it killed another trainer and in almost the same manner. He had become pretty grumpy from being captivity and I do not blame the boy.
Story 3 illustrates that you can't save reckless people from themselves no matter what precautions you put in place. Put a grid over that blowhole and Daniel would have found another dangerous activity to endanger himself with.
@@martinharris5017 The /s at the end of my comment was meant to indicate I was being sarcastic since it’s hard to convey that over text. I was also making a reference to the story itself where Daniel was described as “oh he’s not reckless he’s just adventurous” by those who knew him.
There is some truth to what you said, but if you're smart, you'd do your homework first, think it through with all the pros and cons and how you'd survive if something goes wrong; otherwise, it's suicide.
Something being an older sibling taught me: it doesn't matter if I think I can get away with it, if I don't think all the kiddos following my example can also pull it off then it's likely a bad idea.
_"He wasn't a reckless person, he was just an adventurous person."_ **Ignores multiple signs and warnings to get close to a dangerous blowhole and dies**
You can be adventurous, but also precautious. A common thread in most of these videos is peoples ignorance of the power of nature killing them. Be safe out there!
Haha I used to want to explore caves. I've done a couple of teeny free dives into small grottos, but I have soundly crossed cave diving off my list 😂 I am perfectly happy swimming at a depth of 20 feet 👌
Your wife and family must be so proud!! a veteran, a talent, a wonderful story teller and now a million+ RUclips channel! I think you’re one of the handful of humans who’ve had a great 2020 ✌️
I believe Tillicum bit his Johnson off! Mr Ballen said "shorts"... so just imagine how's a orca mouth/teeth are supposed to peel wet shorts off of someone? I don't know the truth, this is what is in the film "Blackfish". Keeping sealife captive is cruel.
If there is a fence and signs that say “don’t go in there, you will die,” than it’s on the person for going in there. He gambled with Mother Nature and lost.
As soon as you mentioned him jumping the seaworld fence, I knew exactly who this guy was 😪 everyone involved here was a victim. Poor Daniel and poor Tilly. Also, Tilikum wasn't punished even though that was the second of three people he would kill for the same reason SeaWorld kept him trapped and tortured in the first place - he was worth too much to "punish". He ended up dying in a tiny solitary confinement tank and SeaWorld barely suffered. Garbage human beings own that company.
I remember when Daniel made the news, another tragedy at Halona, the Native Hawaiians believe the "aina (land) is alive and when disrespected unfortunate things happen, when in Hawai'i always respect the ocean, you may not live to regret it
@@Sara-ij7zs not true.. A lot are based on real life but even the 411 stories i feel are extremly paranormal and he even has personal stories regarding paranormal events it was actually pretty scarey 😥
If u call watching it all day, forgetting to eat, ignoring all my chores and things I really need to get done, and watching his stories over and over again, yea u could say I am hooked all right. His voice is hypnotic also.
as a local, i watch tourists disregard the signs around the blowhole all the time. it makes me shake my head. people have sat right at the rim and are surprised when they either get sucked down and drown or are thrown up high into the air and slam into the rocks. there are warning signs for a reason.
Yup!! A friend of mine literally died at this blowhole in 2015! tajee Williams . This was beforw the fence was there ..Him and another kid didn't head the warnings of he signs or lifeguards either .. They walked on the rocks from sandys beach and a big wave hit them (, it wasn't the blow hole ). so this wave hit him and pushed him into the lava cove that naturally formed and he went under the water and disappeared. They found him 1/4 mile out . Made a stupid mistake and was only 18.i think like 7 other people have died there.. you don't access the blow hole from the fence because that's on top.of the mountain, people usually enter from sandys beach where there is no fence.
@@okraleon_262 nobody was hating here on those people. they just say its reckless and its their own fault. is this possible in 2020 to point out lack of self responsibility without beeing called a h4teful person, nzi, whatever??
They saw signs of psychosis in Tilicum for a long time before this happened and they still continued to do live shows with people in the pool with him, until he eventually did the same thing to his “trainer” (with a packed audience in attendance to witness her demise) after which they promptly had him quarantined until he died in seclusion in a much smaller tank as ‘punishment’. I hate those people. Leave our ocean animals alone, Greedy jerks! @ Sea World 😢😢😢
@@carriew2706 with a stern look and a couple of "tut tut tuts"and job done the good old killer whale will of learnt his or hers lesson,no playtime after 9.
im binge watching all ur stories right now. this is my favorite series. the underwater cave ones always get me tensed up though because they scare me lol
Ah, yes, let's jump into a tiny, undersized pool with a giant predator who's so psychologically damaged from years in captivity that he was bound to snap. Great idea.
Whereas I do feel empathy for Daniel’s mom; we are built to use common sense, not live in a padded world where 99% have to be anesthetized for the 1% who read signs and say “meh.”
Yeah, although in some sports and activities the line between bravery and stupidity can be really unclear. Not saying that applies here, this one seems pretty bad, but for example when a climber or base jumper or something dies, people will say "oh that's so stupid I'd never do that" but some people will survive an audacious action that others won't. It's hard to decide what's a bad idea sometimes.
Now compare this to bigger things. This is exactly what happens. Think airport security and restrictions (just for a few bastrds...all of us are suffering even for hand luggages, checks, security clearances...though i agree we cant take chances cos those few bstrds might again appear). But its true...cos of em few btrds, all of us 99 percent suffers.
I can’t believe the last guy’s mother wanted to have a cover put over the blowhole…. There’s a fence around it, anyone stupid enough to jump it needs to take responsibility for their own actions 🙃
@@Bananas_what yes against idiots should we also ban cigarettes because they are killing people...? nah they chose this should we ban diving because idionts with almost no experience are gonna do it anyways? we cant even if we put the cover there someone is gonna do it and that's when natural selection is gonna do its thing
I live in Hawaii and I remember the incident with Daniel. I was cruising the island with a bunch of my friends when we heard the news. Hes not the first to die there and apparently won't be the last. Condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones but 70% of the deaths that happen here with tourist is due to a lack of common sense. It always ends up with a Lawsuit against the State of Hawaii. We get so tired of hearing it sometimes. Its not hard to read and respect our 'Aina (Land).
I want to live in Hawaii. I’m stuck in Ohio and it sucks here since it’s cold with snow everywhere. Can I move in with you, please? I’ll even do the dishes every day for one day!
You're damn right they did not "punish" Tilikum for Daniel's death. They knew who was at fault. My heart breaks for Tilikum's tragic life. Daniel's death was, of course, Daniel's fault for going in there, but the larger picture is that it was just the fault of people. The blame for all of the deaths related to Tilikum belongs to human beings. One hundred percent. You do not take a free-ranging apex predator who roams the oceans, rip them away from their tight-knit families as they did to Tilikum when he was just two, make him live in a bathtub, force him to perform tricks only to entertain people, and then wonder what went wrong. The captive horror that they thrust upon Tilikum for 34 years completely devastated his emotional and physical health. You could not possibly be crueler to an orca than by doing exactly what they did to Tilikum.
Ill never understand why wild animals are blamed for doing exactly what they are created to do. Even with shark attacks in the ocean why they kill the sharkvi don't understand. We are going into their homes and they are protecting their homes. If humans don't want to be killed then stop going into places where wild animals live. I don't like places like SeaWorld taking animals from the ocean and putting them in something so tiny is not right
Absolutely right. You should never punish an animal anyway. You reward them for the behavior you want, but you never punish. That being said, a wild, intelligent, and social animal like the orca should NEVER be kept in captivity. It is torture
“I want a metal grate put over this amazing piece of nature because my son was too stubborn to read the sign and stay on the other side of the fence.” People will do anything to avoid any sort of personal responsibility
I don't think it's avoiding responsibility It's just them wanting to protect some other family from another similar tragedy I mean for 1 there isn't even any responsibility for them to avoid to begin with
@@RustyNips eh, depends. If you see it as their responsibility to raise their kid in a way that he doesn’t act like that then there is some responsibility to avoid. But I’ll accept it as poor wording on my part. But point being there are already signs and fences you have to ignore and climb to even get to the point that you’re in danger and now they want to add more man made structures to the naturally occurring landscape? Nah. Just let the people that want to risk their life risk it.
@@2bdaqueen268 I responded to another reply and said maybe “avoiding personal responsibility” was a poor choice of words. Point mostly being my dude had to ignore signs and climb a fence and the parents STILL want something else put out there instead of just going with “yea our son was kind of stupid and we should have raised him better.”
The Tili and Daniel story is just sad all around. Tili should never have been in freakin SeaWorld and Daniel needed massive therapy and be volunteering at an animal shelter or something.
tilikum was no stranger to “play time”. I agree that they shouldn’t have been kept in captivity. When you see how big they are up close and how small the tanks are its rediculous. He Killed a few people.
exactly what I'm thinking... That man had something child-ish about him and maybe therapy couldve saved his life... He was arrested so often, why did nobody try to help him?
Mr ballen has the perfect narrating voice, his voice brings the characters thoughts and actions to life, you never need to watch the video to understand what he really means, he explains it so perfectly and thoroughly you almost never need to replay the video, his voice is also calming but full of life. I found his channel randomly a few years back and started to binge watch his videos before I eventually forgot about his channel years back and now I found him and I've continued to binge watch all his videos, even if I've heard the story before it was still interesting to listen to, keep up the good work❤
I can understand Daniel’s parents wanting a metal grid for the blowhole . However , it wasn’t an accident , Daniel purposely climbed over and put himself over the Blowhole . He wasn’t satisfied in feeling the pressure hitting him in the chest once (which was odd) but he did it again . Maybe he wanted to impress the girls . I agree with the locals he didn’t respect nature . He also didn’t respect and appreciate his life . It’s a reckless way to die . RIP Daniel 🙏🌺❤️🌸.
he deserved it, what an idiot. and his parents? how dare they want to put a metal grid on it. If their son wasn't a complete dumbass it wouldn't have happened, he was stupid and he got what he deserved: death
@@The_other_Jen What he clearly meant was that they didn't go out of their way to penalize him for the particular incident. Anything said to the contrary is pure dishonesty
The being taken from his pod, crooked dorsal fin, lifetime in captivity, being kept in the dark with older females that bullied and bloodied him constantly would seem like a horrific punishment to me.
To learn more about Tilikum, you can watch the blackfish documentary. It’s quite disturbing how they capture and place orcas in captivity. They are not meant to live like that and Tilly was especially big so the small enclosed space was that much tighter for him
As a mother I definitely sympathize with Daniel's Mom (from the last story). Unfortunately people like him who disregard clear warnings would find a way to remove the cover to the blowhole. If someone is determined to do life-threatening stuff nothing can stop them.
And who said he deserved to die? Not I. He knew the danger, he took the risk, he died. For a crystal. That was his decision, and it bit him in the ass. Stupid thievery, and he paid for it. Brutal karma. Thus, I AM happy it's inaccessible, or there would nothing left of it. He made his choice.
Karma does not mean someone 'deserved to die'. It is the spiritual aspect of cause and effect. Use another word if you're going to nitpick. How about 'brutal consequences'. And no one said he deserved to die, eesh 🙄
Regarding the final story-format incident: My sincere condolences to the mother of the boy who perished. That being said, that blowhole is so relentlessly punctual + potent, that any metal contraption placed directly on top would inevitably be torn off. High-pressure H2O has remarkable potential to utterly demolish manmade items.
Try explaining that to a lady who cant distinguish 'stupidity' from 'not reckless'. If she cant do that, good luck with this simple fact uv just perfectly explained.
@@yba666_ I think she’s just mourning. It’s really hard to admit that a loved one (especially your own child) caused their own death. She’s desperate to cling to something that could’ve saved him.
Maybe this makes me psychopathic but I’ve never heard a more heartwarming but simultaneously tragic story than the one about Tillicum and Daniel. From the whale’s perspective, it seems like she was lonely and just totally loved her “toy.” Yet it’s heartbreaking that Daniel’s naïveté, ignorance of the power of nature, and desire to be around the thing he loved most got in the way of understanding and accepting the deadly reality.
Calling Daniel naive is nice of you. I'd say he was an idiot whose IQ was driven further down by copious amounts of pot. Who TF tries to go near a killer whale unless the whale has known him for a VERY long time? And even then, he'd have to be extremely cautious!
Nothing about naivete over here, Daniel's entire way of life stunk of self-centeredness. He wasn't stupid nor mentally impaired and unable to process "the power of nature". No, he constantly broke laws and rules that didn't suit him. And it wasn't a defiant or rebellious streak either, as he wasn't a delinquent nor a bad person. Daniel just put his immediate wants over others and common sense.
Tilikum was a male orca, actually! He already had a history of aggression towards humans; before going to SeaWorld, he had drowned a teenaged trainer at another water wildlife park. After Daniel, he then went on to drown and brutalize the body of his trainer, Dawn Brancheau. I think it was less so that he saw Daniel as a toy. In captivity, Tilikum was in such a confined space, unable to play out his natural hunting instincts, and often kept in isolation because the other orcas would hurt him. There's evidence he cared about Dawn and much as she cared for him, but under those conditions, it's no wonder Tilikum continued to lash out time after time. They are intelligent, social creatures that are apex predators in the wild, and captivity literally rips away their ability to do anything that is in their nature. He should have been released back into the wild after the first trainer he killed, and then Daniel and Dawn's deaths wouldn't have happened.
If the guy from story 1 was in the guy from story 3's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did. If the guy from story 2 was in the guy from story 3's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did. If the guy from story 1 was in the guy from story 2's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did. If the guy from story 3 was in the guy from story 1's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did. etc, etc, etc...
@@bentonrp Guys number 1 and 3 are probably interchangable, but I don't think guy 2 would do what guy 1 or guy 3 did. Unlike the crystal cave, there's no gain.
Yeah Daniel..you ever wondered what it would feel like to be hit by a train running at 45-50m/h in the middle of your chest?...🤔you ever imagined the power of that on your chest?...No?...Why don't you try?..Why don't you just jump in front of a train and feel the power of a locomotive hit you on the chest, and feel that awesome power? 🙄 No?....i mean, no offense and no disrespect but, to that mother, I'm sorry..I'm truly, really sorry, but.....you ever heard of the Darwin Awards?
"Stupid", the word you're looking for is "Stupid". Dude got hit in the chest by SOME water and got knocked back. That didn't register how strong the wave is so you put his head in front of it. Again, the word you're looking for is "Stupid".
Yeah ikr I’m adventurous and would have hopped the fence to get a batter look but not be within a few feet of it and stick my head into the blowhole that’s just dumb as hell
I remember the story about Daniel being on the news when it happened. I lived in Hawaii at the time my house was literally 5 minutes away from that blow hole I literally passes by it all the time. Tbh us locals had no sympathy for him because it was just an idiotic decision by Daniel to go anywhere near it. Tourists have zero respect for the ocean when they come and visit Hawaii because they really don't grasp how dangerous it is.
You are the only person that has given extra details about the Seaworld incident. And I have never heard anyone else say that he had gone there before. Your stories are so much better. Also it is impossible that they did not have any footage of the guy. Seaworld workers said that there’s cameras everywhere in the park and underwater, plus there is a person there All of the time. I think that they just magically made all of the photos disappear
@@proud-momblackfish is about the trainer death and Tilikum’s life in general. They only briefly mention David’s incident. SeaWorld Orlando has people observing the orcas for 22 out of 24 hrs a day (source: I applied for the internship) but it’s very possible someone could try to sneak in and climb into the tank, especially after Free Willy showed the kid falling in the tank after-hours and the whale saving him, and gave people a false sense of safety.
Poor Daniel. He sounded like he was maybe on the spectrum and needed adult supervision to help with his decision making. Hope he flies happy and free wherever he is🙏🏽
I thought the same...but also after seeing the horrors of sea world in the documentary...it's fascinating to know more about Daniel...and we have to recall poor tillikum was put thru so much.. forcing him to be a damaged &aggressive soul.
".. described him as a very gentle, pot-smoking, hippy who just adored animals." That's when I knew that this was going to end ugly for Daniel, like 'lot's of teeth ugly'.
Tili was an abused whale who was wrongly accused of being “aggressive” when it was the people who decided it was ok to keep these whales in a small pool in the dark
That crystal cave looks like a magical place. The cave obviously wants to keep its treasure and taught a lesson to the guy trying to steal one for himself.
Ok the fact that air can be so extremely humid it can drown you is insane and terrifying and oh lord I would love to see these earth wonders but I’m grateful I don’t ever have to go near them because how dangerous they are.
„He‘s not reckless, he is adventurous!“ Guy proceeds to ignore all and every warning, arches over one of the most dangerous blowholes to „Feel the water smash into his chest“ Yeah… adventurous…
Daniel is the victim. It was the two girls who egged him on to doing it. Later, they corroborated their story lies to relinquish themselves from any suspicion of guilt. I'm just kidding: There was a couple who saw the same things they did and can attest to it being all Daniel's fault. :) tee hee hee !
Ohhh... the Tillikum guy! I have heard about that. Too bad he didn’t know that Tillikum was insane. Most of them are actually. The are very loyal to their packs (pods?) and each group has a unique dialect meaning that they can often not understand orcas from other pods. Tillikum was stolen from his family as a baby and then put with two older females that used to drag their teeth on him at night when they were locked in a tiny little box causing big bleeding wounds. What is done to them is torture, pure torture. They are very intelligent and they are very emotional creatures. They live in family units and they stay with their family for their entire lives. They never leave their mothers, and in captivity they take babies from their mothers. Literally babies. Not young children but babies. Also Tillikum removed his gentalia. They usually do in these kinds of attacks. They are also known for pulling victims down and holding them there until they almost drowns and only then taking them up for air and then repeatedly doing that over and over. Orcas have echolocation just like dolphins, they technically are a kind of dolphin, anyway, point is that that means that they are well aware that we need to breath air and can literally see our lungs with the help of their echolocation. Aka: They do it on purpose, well captive orcas that is. Wild orcas don’t bother humans, but they also haven’t been tortured by humans for their entire lives so probably why captive ones behave so differently. Oh and Seaworld like to claim that they take such good care of their orcas that their orcas has a life expectancy far beyond what they have in the wild. Orcas in captivity live for 25-30 years at the most. In the wild males live for 60-80 years and females live for 80-100 years commonly. So yeah... great job there seaworld...
I remember having to do an essay on this topic and guess where we went after doing the research. (School project) If you guessed fucking Sea World you are right.
Seaworld and all other similar places are monstrous torture parks where the most grotesque sadism is visited on these creatures . Anyone who knows the facts is either sickened and hassles their elected officials to shut these obscenities DOWN, or they are sociopaths TOO . Pretty simple .
I love how people will ALWAYS find some way to blame someone or something else for their idiotic choices. I think of that blow hole as another form of natural selection 🤷♀️
The Hawaiian locals are badass. They aren't going to dismantle a facet of the island because a white kid from Cali showed up and got himself killed. Often they believe that spirits inhabit facets of nature, I wonder if they felt it would have been disrespectful to the spirit of the blowhole. My condolences to his family, but it sounds like they would have had to cover the world with pool noodles and foam to keep that kid safe.
@@Bruhza22 everyone literally Everyone did stupid things in their lives lmao are you going to say your every step in life was carefully measured and hyper rational? So people saying someone deserved dying bc it's "natural selection" isn't just disgusting and marks a total lack of empathy but also completely untrue and hypocritical.
@@suttercane6718 "Doing something stupid" does not equal ignoring a ton of danger signs, literal signs put there for your safety. Nobody is celebrating his death, but don't expect people to feel sorry for getting what he had coming.
Yes, I too accidentally happened upon this channel and became thoroughly engrossed. He is a perfect storyteller...articulate, enunciates well, animated and passionate. Wow! I love the way he acts out every word with his entire body. Good job...
The first story is interesting when you read up about Tillicum. Killer whales, despite their name, are typically gentle in nature. But being held in captivity warps their minds because of how intelligent they are. Someone had said in response to Tillicum killing, 'imagine a human being locked in a bathtub for years.' They end up self-harming, and hurting each other. The humans that come into the pool are treated like playthings. Tillicum killed three people overall, including two trainers. Experts labeled him as 'psychotic' and said that being held in captivity made that happen.
That's very sad, when you pointed that out, I actually put myself there and it was unsettling feeling , they should all be freed in the Thier own world, very very sad to know that we humans can do that to them for our own entertainment,😥
Killer whales are BRUTAL in the wild! They've been documented hunting for fun. Have you not seen the documentary that shows a school of orcas chasing a mother whale and her baby for MILES. Then pushing it down until it almost drowns, letting the mother bring it to the surface, then dragging and pushing it down again? It went on for hours until they finally killed it, ate the lower jaw and left it. They have incredibly close knit pods but they are anything but gentle
@@annefortes9345 I can understand some cases of captivity, like when they were saved from something while young and would not have survived on their own, or they have an injury that would make it almost impossible for them to survive on their own. I hate the way SeaWorld 10000% uses rescue/rehabilitation as a front whilst exploiting these creatures for money. You don't see zoologists making lions do flips and shit. They're supposed to be educational but instead they're greedy. Its disgusting.
I appreciate your storytelling skills: thorough research, organized thoughts, concise, good grammar with no lengthy pauses & well presented. Kudos to you.
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this one was tricky... it looks like a piece of dirt on your screen if you aren't paying close attention.... look in the light! great job Arthur!
Wtf 🤬
F u mr.b jk lol I’m pissed I wanna be pinned
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@@MrBallen hoo its ballen like this ❤️
That first dude was legit living in a fantasy world of his own
Sounds like he was doing more than pot. What a absolute nut job.
Yeah Daniel guy was just that moron of a “friend” you went to school with who got amazed by everything and played tons of hackie sack. Who also planned to do the weirdest crap in his life.
Lol I have first hand experience with people like Daniel lol
It’s nice there
They say there was no alcohol or drugs in his system that night. That whale killed three people and partially ate their bodies including that dude genitals. Literally
He was his own protagonist.
If the thought "I'm just going to go ahead and put my head in this carnivore's mouth" ever occurs to you, I encourage you, very much so, to rethink that thought.
Nah, let them get that Darwin
i agree 😂
These whales are so much smarter than people! Why do you think they’re called “killer!?”
Nah let them do it, thin out the the stupid people we're over populated as it is 🤣🤣
I want to pass away. Thoughts shall *never be rethought*
“I want to feel the water smash into my chest”. Why Daniel? Why do you want that? You could have so many better desires.
Show off to the girl what else?
if only he was a coomer , he would still be alive although maybe that was his downfall , trying to impress the girls
@@chunchoe maybe he coomed when the water hit him. The ultimate coom.
@Sean Macguire we live we coom we live again.
Let the girls grab buckets and let them splash water at you. That's a better and safer desire.
Daniel's parents were sadly mistaken about their son. He wasn't "adventurous", he WAS reckless. CLEARLY.
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I have no sympathy for Daniel
Not necessarily, he could be both adventurous & reckless.
@@_MjG_ no, not when you kill yourself, then it's just reckless.
Adventurousness is still guided by common sense. Recklessness sees and disregards probable dangers.
I agree with the locals. Everytime someone does something stupid the rest of us pay for it.
Good on them for telling the family like it is. The problem isn't the blow hole, it's the stupid people who read and then choose to ignore the multiple warnings of death.
I have the pettiest example of this.
Where I work, we have those travellator things, basically an escalator that's flat opposed to the steps.
Some old dude slips on it after trying steal, attempted to sue us..
Thankfully he couldn't sue, but on the flip side we now have this patronising recording that plays everytime someone steps on to it 🙄
"THE EXIT IS APPROACHING, PLEASE TAKE CARE"
one bloody moron.
@@serwalkerofthekeynes8761 lol That's a great example! Idiots ruin it for the rest of us. I'm all about taking the majority of warning signs off from items. Thin the herd a little bit, so to speak.
@@Jrb8k3n right?! How long must we flip the bill..
I say we sit back and allow the natural order, to take the reigns.
We'd be better off 👍
@@serwalkerofthekeynes8761 LOL! SERIOUSLY! They're only dragging us down. Weakest link sorta thing.
"The problem was people not respecting the power of nature" that's a nice way to say "he was too dumb to survive"
Lol exactly
People really like Darwin awarding themselves out of existence
Yep
He didnt just hop a fence, he was sticking his chest out to be hit... think it was a miracle he lived to the age he did being that stupid. Parents are entitled to think they need anything more than a fence.
Fr how is he a student president and yet does shit like this
"The problem is not the blowhole, the problem is people not respecting the power of nature" That's a very wise quote right there. We can't babyproof the whole world and disrupt nature in the process. RIP to Daniel but this was entirely his fault for his poor judgement and ignorance of the warning signs. People need to realize they're not invincible and learn that nature can be unpredictable and can kill you in an instant, and for that reason it deserves our utmost respect. You're not above the natural order, it will chew you up and spit you out if you don't respect it. Props to the locals for standing up for their landmark and not letting a grate ruin it's natural beauty.
Facts
I live on the island and see this blowhole often, there and thousands of ways to die on this island and people always push the boundaries, if we babyproofed this island it wouldn’t be beautiful. Survival of the fittest is often survival of the smartest
@@thereadingnook7121 yes exactly, I can't stand when people want to make the whole world "safe" it ruins so many good things. If you're not educated enough to know what you're doing and how to stay safe maybe you shouldn't be doing dangerous things
@@sneersh9107
It's called 'Darwinism'.
@@thereadingnook7121 you guys have a tendency to respect nature much more than here for sure. here it's all about cut it down and build then wonder why the flooding gets worse each year
The idea of petitioning to add a cover to the Blowhole... Fences, signs, they took every precaution. His death was tragic and undeserving, but it was an arrogant choice that led to his brutal fate.
No, it was deserved
Right? At some point humans need to be accountable for their own actions. We can't block off everything that's dangerous because then there would be nothing left.
What about all of those dangerous volcanoes!? We need to put lids on all of them!
"it was unclear wether he died from drowning or being cooked alive"
Exactly how you can tell the environment was just a tad hostile there.
I had to rewind that part to hear it again after he first said it. I thought he said drowning or being crystallized.💎
If he had an autopsy, they would have known. If he drowned, there would be water in his lungs.
JUSST a tad .
@@linkinnonya7822 I think they are talking about the guy that died in the 2nd story and not the last one with blowhole. Did he cook or drown? How long would it have taken to die? They said it would be like 10 minutes before he drowned. So did the water or heat kill him first
Dude one day I was just scrolling through RUclips and I came across him(MrBallen) and I can’t stop watching him
Me too! He's a really good story teller
Same for me!
SAME
Same here
Hes so underrated absolutely love him
Who else accidentally found this channel and is completely obsessed with it now? 🙋♀️
Meee lmaooo 😭
me lol
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Best channel on RUclips
Me!!!!
All 3 of these stories could’ve been avoided if they “respected nature.” It definitely makes it hard to feel bad.
Yep, I agree, it's hard to feel sorry for them!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Nature always wins. Always.
I feel bad for the 1st one. It's obvious he had mental issues, and instead of arresting and just release him, they should have brought him to a psychiatrist. That's how this death would have been avoided.
All 3 win the Darwin award. Stupid is what stupid does
@@GG_Booboo its fucked up to say you dont feel sorry for them/ they made a mistake and paid the ultimate price. have a heart.
Daniel jumps into pool
Killer whale: so you have chosen playtime
Funny
FYI side note: Tillicum is the orca that eventually killed the trainer a few years later.
@@trishaeverton9592 not surprised, you can't have animals boxed in like that like prisoners
LoL
LMAO
"he's not reckless"
>proceeds to jump over a fence despite warning and use his chest to cover an infamously dangerous blowhole
After he sees in person how high the water is shooting, which even a child would know is too powerful.
He's not reckless he's just adventurous.
So he's reckless, then.
@@Merik2013 Reckless and adventurous are not the same. This guy was reckless.
I was 18 when a friend and me, found a blowhole in the rocks that surround the beaches of Loret de Mar in Spain. It wasn't nearly as huge as the one in the vid , stil it looked dangerous as hell. There were no signs or fences, but anyone with a functioning head on their shoulders could see that you have to be very carefull . Anyhow i loved the raw force it radiated, and enjoyed the spray of seawater ( the temperature was between 35 and 42C. ). Wat a fool one has to be to even want to stand on the edge or wanting to get hit in the chest by it!
Even if he wouldn’t have been sucked in, the force of the water could have crushed his ribs. That’s reckless.
I can't stop watching these. He tells stories so well. My husband is getting tired of me walking around listening to his videos, but yet he will stand there with me just as involved with the stories as I am. We spend some nights outside freaking ourselves out listening to scary stories and I love it. Please keep these awesome videos coming!
If you like storytellers you should check out countdankula, who tells stories about the lives of fascinating individuals, all in a Scottish accent.
same happened to us, my partner was watching these scary horrible stories, I said stop watching them it will get to you, they're so negative bla bla, and one day I was watching a video of his not knowing it was the same channel he was watching so obsessively, haha now we are both circling around the house with our phones, watching him all day, and even before bed, I actually had a nightmare last night 😂😂
My wife is not talking to me, so I'm binge watching this whilst hiding in my car
I watch these before going to bed (yeah, probably not a great idea), and my husband usually passes out halfway through.
@@lovelandfrog5692 he tells some great stories. I don't remember how I found his channel but I'm glad I did. Lol.
I understand why the locals fought back against having a grate put over the blowhole. Not only would it wear away with time and be a constant thing to maintain, but there were signs and deterrent. Just keep on the safe side of the fence and warnings.
Exactly they ALREADU BUILT a FENCE!!! pple take no responsibility
Not to mention if the geyser blew the grate off and it injured someone...they would be whining about that. Just leave nature alone and show some respect
I'm not arguing for the metal grate, but why would it need constant maintenance??? A heavy duty stainless steal grate would last many years with zero maintenance in between replacements.
@@the2006mvp Very unlikely. It would be fastened into solid rock & the gushing air/water, would create almost no pressure on a mostly open grate. The slots could have 3.5 inch openings in between the metal, same spacing as railings. I'm not arguing for a metal grate, but I don't agree with your reply.
@@_MjG_ the Problem is salt water combined with the salt in the air, the force of the water hitting the metal, and a way of placing the gate. Sure, it will hold for a year or two, but then it would rust or deteriorate or fall off.
Daniel's family and friend : he was not a reckless person, he was just very adventurous
Daniel : *proceed to stick his torso right above a massive blowhole*
When they mentioned Tilikum I facepalmed so hard...
Very stupid like how logically Dumb do you have to be
Poor Daniel He just want to feel The Power of water in his Chest. so he can become the Next Avatar AirBender to impress those three girls.
You know usually I am not one to be callous but this story was Darwin Award status. I thought he would have gotten too close to the hole and was gonna be swept in by draining currents on the shelf but no he just hung himself into the power of Mother Nature.
I feel bad for both boys doing with the orca and the blowhole that they did die happy at least at the beginning.
12:54 "he wanted to feel the power of the water hit him in the chest" goes to show that sometimes you need to stop and think about whether what you 'want' is really good for you...
Yeah... he probably thought he was invincible.
I thought he would have been killed when he was hit the first time! And that one time would have been enough.
At some point, people have to take responsibility. We cannot protect people from the entire world.
I do not say this intending any disrespect, but his parent’s request was absurd. Yes, let’s dampen and destroy some part of the natural world because my child doesn’t understand that warning signs exist for a reason. Do we need to cover the entire ocean too?
There were numerous signs, and he had to overcome a number of physical obstacles, before he could even get close to the blowhole. The world cannot save people from their own stupidity, ignorance, or recklessness.
That said, that sounded like a terrifying and violent way to die. RIP young man.
It just goes to show that being 'President' of something doesn't make you smart.
He might as well've jumped chest first off the Golden Gate Bridge. He's the reason my clothes iron has a warning that says "do not wear clothes while ironing."
Moral of the story: don’t go places that are off limits.
sometimes i wonder how to stupid can humans be
@@kidspikeplayz6004 us humans are the ones that made world war 1 happen, and caused the earth to be doomed
@@kidspikeplayz6004 quite stupid from what 2020 has shown us
With people named Daniel
@@kidspikeplayz6004 Similar to a human that can neither spell nor use grammar correctly ?
I've seen some of Hawaii's blowholes in person. The sound of the water rushing through and the violent power of the spray that got pushed out was more than enough to make me afraid of getting too close to the edge. Not only for fear of drowning, but because lava rock is incredibly sharp and jagged, and being slammed into it with that much force was honestly the scarier option to me.
I’m astounded that anyone would suggest Tillicum should be “punished” for killing a man. He lives in what for us would be a gerbil cage, every day being tortured with the loud horrible noise from the loudspeakers which he cannot escape, and is forced to do tricks for morsels. Every moment of his life is a punishment.
Doesn’t matter now unfortunately, he’s deceased.. though I agree with you.
Harambe agrees
I’m completely against the capture and captivity of most animals for reasons of testing or enjoyment. I completely agree.
Way worse than you know,,,,,,,,,,
I could be wrong, but I think the idea would be to make sure no captive animals think they can get away with harming or killing humans. Although it's impossible for them to develop of a fear of doing so if they get put down for it.
“Tilikum was not punished.”
I’d sure hope not. Spending so much of his life and then dying in that Orca bathtub was more than enough of a punishment.
At least he's 'free' now. Corky and Lolita have been in captivity for over half a century. Lolita is from the Puget Sound Southern Resident orca population, which was decimated by captures in the sixties and seventies. They are now listed as critically endangered. Her mother, Ocean Sun, is estimated to be between eighty and ninety years old. They will probably never be reunited. Corky is a Northern Resident and member of the A-23 pod. Her sister, brother, niece and grand-nephews can still be seen roaming the coastal waters of British Columbia. What different lives they must lead.
I agree he suffered enough in that God awful fish bowl. They should have released or put tilikum down the first time he killed/injured someone, it would have saved 2 lives. Seaworld barely cares about their own workers lives though so of course they dont care about the animals they hold captive smh.
@@chimpantaco Tilikum was worth over 5 million dollars. He was too valuable to be put down. He couldn't be released. He was only 2 years old when he was captured. He wouldn't be able to hunt and provide for himself. He wouldn't be able to find his family. Most importantly, he had a variety of health issues for which he had to be medicated. Humans ruined his life and they ruined his health. His fate was sealed the moment he was captured. I feel bad for the trainers, but I feel even worse for the orcas. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers and siblings for life. That's something Tilikum never got to experience.
@@MermaidMusings7 that's why I said released or put down, since he probably wouldn't survive outside SeaWorld. But out of mercy at the very least they could have put him down. insted they kept him in a little pool with little interaction till his death 😕. As for the trainer's the amount that are injured or died at SeaWorld alone should have shut them down decades ago.
Hush hippie
Daniel: **jumps into the pool to play with the nice whale**
Tilikum: *WELCOME TO THE THUNDERDOME*
Serves him right & i hope the whale never hurt his tooth biting down on a Dumbass
Dammnnnn
Tilikum was the largest, as well as the most unstable orca in captivity. The guy definitely jumped in the wrong pool. I feel bad for both of them. Tilikum was basically Seaworld's slave and Daniel Dukes was mentally ill.
Hahaha ha that's way to funny
🤣🤣 crying with this comment..👍
As a Native Hawaiian, my best advice to tourist would be just because you see locals doing something, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to do it too. BUT if you don’t see any locals doing something, it’s in your best interest to follow our example. Hālona Blowhole is along the strongest current in all of Hawaii, the Kaʻiwi Channel, and is next to Sandy’s Beach, known for having the most broken neck and back injuries in the nation! You will see many of us locals (born and raised in these waters) surfing/bodysurfing at Sandy’s, but unless you have experience, do NOT go in! However, you will not catch locals near the blowhole period! For what reason anyway? That in itself should say something. But if you decide to break past the barriers of places you shouldn’t be and end up hurt or worse, do NOT come here and try to shutdown these places because YOU fucked up as a VISITOR 💯. Next time come correct with respect for the places you’re visiting or no come at all.
Exactly! Well put!
U live in such a beautiful state/island. I'm so jealous.
@@erikaLS305 well if you haven’t visited before, I hope one day you get to experience this place 💖.
Where you're born is a lottery and you won! I lost and live in the miserable, rainy UK
@@Rob-zw5qs I think there is beauty to be found in all places, so you should feel blessed by where you are from 😊.
Been watching a while and 90% of these deaths are avoidable, people’s stupidity
@@nd612 I won’t be making these DEADLY mistakes. It takes a giant amount of stupidness to do these mistakes
@@nd612 It takes a lot of stupidity to do some of this. Seriously? Swim with a giant apex predator that has „killer“ in its name?
Yup pretty much
@@nd612 Hey look at this blowhole that you shouldn't go near as you could obviously die, Let's put my chest on top of it and get hit once which must've caused quite a bit of pain and knocked me back which should've knocked some sense into me too and after that let's do it again expecting not to be injured at all during this.
@@serenporffor
I thought the same thing. These mammals have power in every way no matter in what way. Especially to want that kind of sensation would not be that, it may stop your heart. That blowhole has to make up for a huge mammal to breath again, to think that it wouldn't blow with combustion. What was this kid thinking? Unbelievable!
As soon as I heard the name "Tilikum" I already knew what was going to happen. Tilikum was very poorly treated during his lifetime and it made him aggressive. He had a few victims, including his own trainer.
They needed to kill it or let it free in the sea...simple
I thought I had heard of that whale before.
@@rusty1370 good luck he was their MAIN breeding male most if not ALL of the whales in sea worlds system have his DNA
and he passed like 2 or 3 years ago. also you cant Release an animal thats been raised in captivity back into the wild; it cant hunt, or defend itself, it doesnt know how to "orca" per say.
sea world is supposed to no longer be able to breed the orcas so when their last generation is gone thats it but whose to say they wont find a loop hole
@@bethrundle98 it’s very sad cause of how he ended up in captivity but it was a very stupid decision to breed a genetically aggressive male over and over. More and more aggressive orcas would come from there. I recon they should of made it illegal to have orcas in captivity they should of stopped bring and breeding new ones ya know. Just let the current ones pass.
@@bethrundle98 by the way my reply was just conversation please don’t think I’m hating you I’m sorry
“Tilikum was not punished” me: Good.😤
Being in captivity punishment enough tbh
Yeah that's what I thought too.. these animals are treated like crap.
Tilikum was punished years later because it killed another trainer and in almost the same manner. He had become pretty grumpy from being captivity and I do not blame the boy.
He could do a whole list on just Tilikum, I think he got three kills before they retired him
You all need to watch Blackfish. Tilikum was a ticking time bomb but not of his own doing.
Story 3 illustrates that you can't save reckless people from themselves no matter what precautions you put in place. Put a grid over that blowhole and Daniel would have found another dangerous activity to endanger himself with.
Nah mate ignoring warning signs and hopping fences put up for your safety is just a sign that you’re adventurous, remember? /s
@@Boundwithflame23 OK mate. Its your life ;)
@@martinharris5017 The /s at the end of my comment was meant to indicate I was being sarcastic since it’s hard to convey that over text.
I was also making a reference to the story itself where Daniel was described as “oh he’s not reckless he’s just adventurous” by those who knew him.
@@Boundwithflame23OK I get it now! Sorry the sarcasm went over my head. Thanks ER have a great day :)
@@martinharris5017 No hard feelings :3
Yes police, this is the man who is having the internet bully me.
@Lil Pumpkin : his comment's not tasty enough.
Best comment!
@Like Button The best he could ever do was lick the screen.
Great that
😂
That crystal cave is absolutely amazing. Nature is true beauty.
Beautiful and dangerous!
I love crystals.
It’s amazing until a crystals falls on you and you get cooked as well as drown
yeah it is just not in dark souls
@Stench Finger For sure, i really liked his idea of tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes, tornadoes and flesh eating parasites.
Sometimes the only difference between being adventurous and being reckless is whether or not you come out of the activity unscathed
Nah, the difference is how stupid you are being at the moment. Sometimes you can do something really, really stupid and live. Mostly not. Mostly.
There is some truth to what you said, but if you're smart, you'd do your homework first, think it through with all the pros and cons and how you'd survive if something goes wrong; otherwise, it's suicide.
Something being an older sibling taught me: it doesn't matter if I think I can get away with it, if I don't think all the kiddos following my example can also pull it off then it's likely a bad idea.
Your older sibling is very wise, I'm stealing that and teaching it to my nephews and any other kiddos I can.
Being adventurous is eating at a restaurant you've never been to before. What these guys did was just stupid.
Everyone gangsta until the strange, dark and mysterious is delivered in story format.
_"He wasn't a reckless person, he was just an adventurous person."_
**Ignores multiple signs and warnings to get close to a dangerous blowhole and dies**
I thank the Lord for not being an adventurous person. I am now 79 years old and life is lovely.
If that was adventurous I don't want to find out what's reckless
You can be adventurous, but also precautious. A common thread in most of these videos is peoples ignorance of the power of nature killing them. Be safe out there!
Lol I was looking for this
That's a stupid kid. Stupid games...stupid prizes.
*furiously erases “cave exploring” off my bucket list despite it never being on it to begin with*
Haha I used to want to explore caves. I've done a couple of teeny free dives into small grottos, but I have soundly crossed cave diving off my list 😂
I am perfectly happy swimming at a depth of 20 feet 👌
I dont want to swim and I dont want to explore caves
abso- bloody-lutely!!!
You might want to consider "Cave Diving" instead?
@@CanisterA.D no thank you 😂
Your wife and family must be so proud!! a veteran, a talent, a wonderful story teller and now a million+ RUclips channel!
I think you’re one of the handful of humans who’ve had a great 2020 ✌️
Also- thank you for making my year a bit better ✌️
Aside from the amazing stories I’ve heard from MrBallen, I’ve also learned that there’s no limit to people’s stupidity and poor decision making
“Apparently Tillikum was really eager to play with Daniel”
Apparently…
I believe Tillicum bit his Johnson off! Mr Ballen said "shorts"... so just imagine how's a orca mouth/teeth are supposed to peel wet shorts off of someone?
I don't know the truth, this is what is in the film "Blackfish".
Keeping sealife captive is cruel.
Killer whales or Orcas swim hundreds of miles a day in the wild, keeping them in those tiny pools is utterly barbaric.
For real, it’s so sad to see it.
Yeah it’s like if we were kept in a treasure chest
More like solitary confinement to a jail cell for years. Which, coincidentally, is equally barbaric and inhumane.
At least they are being well fed and well kept and not being exposed to the dangers of the oceans (Hot take)
@@slickjustice7178 Nahh, some human are just disgusting.
"He's not reckless, he's just adventurous!"
Honey, that amounts to the same thing.
After the first time he should’ve left 🤦🏽♀️
haha being adventurous without bejng safety conscious is being reckless.
What are the odds he would fall perfectly straight into the hole?
@@stephenc2481 right. It's like nature said "challenge accepted" and threw him in the hole. Must have been a horrible thing though!
If there is a fence and signs that say “don’t go in there, you will die,” than it’s on the person for going in there. He gambled with Mother Nature and lost.
As soon as you mentioned him jumping the seaworld fence, I knew exactly who this guy was 😪 everyone involved here was a victim. Poor Daniel and poor Tilly. Also, Tilikum wasn't punished even though that was the second of three people he would kill for the same reason SeaWorld kept him trapped and tortured in the first place - he was worth too much to "punish". He ended up dying in a tiny solitary confinement tank and SeaWorld barely suffered. Garbage human beings own that company.
They need to shut it down!!!
I've read in the comments that Tilikum actually killed two more people while he was younger. Either trainers or people who were hunting him.
If u watch the blackfish documentary it tells u all about tilikum and what sea world was doing with the orcas
me too but fascinating to know the history of Daniel. Does sound like he maybe had some mental health issues!!
Money is of course a huge factor in keeping SeaWorld operating. If nobody patronized these places, they would shut down.
I remember when Daniel made the news, another tragedy at Halona, the Native Hawaiians believe the "aina (land) is alive and when disrespected unfortunate things happen, when in Hawai'i always respect the ocean, you may not live to regret it
MrBallen should have his own TV show where he goes around investigating these stories where they took place
Omg yes
Yessssss
i think hes more of the sane type...... any thing paranormal: get the fuck out of there
@@Sara-ij7zs not true.. A lot are based on real life but even the 411 stories i feel are extremly paranormal and he even has personal stories regarding paranormal events it was actually pretty scarey 😥
AGREED
“He leaned back over the blowhole...”
I had to pause and rethink how I felt about this person and the decisions they made.
Same. No one should feel bad for him when he doubled down on his stupidity like that
Definitely a moron. Should've listened the first damn time.
It’s like that guy who hung off buildings and kept doing it until he eventually fell.. if you keep knocking on deaths door it will answer
@@TheGeekDotCom everyone alive knocks that door eventually. Some people just like to be early.
12:43 bullshit adventurous
If u call watching it all day, forgetting to eat, ignoring all my chores and things I really need to get done, and watching his stories over and over again, yea u could say I am hooked all right. His voice is hypnotic also.
I love how he never clickbaits you he always follows through
I love that too!
Literally not true.
@@blainefiasco8225 dudes in the comment section just sayin shit
as a local, i watch tourists disregard the signs around the blowhole all the time. it makes me shake my head. people have sat right at the rim and are surprised when they either get sucked down and drown or are thrown up high into the air and slam into the rocks. there are warning signs for a reason.
It's just Natural Selection at work.
you could be kidding, right.?!!
maybe some time in
the future, it will
be that way..!
Yup!! A friend of mine literally died at this blowhole in 2015! tajee Williams . This was beforw the fence was there ..Him and another kid didn't head the warnings of he signs or lifeguards either .. They walked on the rocks from sandys beach and a big wave hit them (, it wasn't the blow hole ). so this wave hit him and pushed him into the lava cove that naturally formed and he went under the water and disappeared. They found him 1/4 mile out . Made a stupid mistake and was only 18.i think like 7 other people have died there.. you don't access the blow hole from the fence because that's on top.of the mountain, people usually enter from sandys beach where there is no fence.
it's not nice to hate on people that have died, but I'll admit people need to be more smart when going somewhere that could literally kill them.
@@okraleon_262 nobody was hating here on those people. they just say its reckless and its their own fault. is this possible in 2020 to point out lack of self responsibility without beeing called a h4teful person, nzi, whatever??
The side note that Tillicum wasn’t punished....lmao. His whole life was a time out!
I was like how do you punish a killer whale??? Lol. I guess withhold fishy snacks??? Lol 😂
R.I.P. Harambe
They saw signs of psychosis in Tilicum for a long time before this happened and they still continued to do live shows with people in the pool with him, until he eventually did the same thing to his “trainer” (with a packed audience in attendance to witness her demise) after which they promptly had him quarantined until he died in seclusion in a much smaller tank as ‘punishment’. I hate those people. Leave our ocean animals alone, Greedy jerks! @ Sea World 😢😢😢
I was about to say the same thing!
@@carriew2706 with a stern look and a couple of "tut tut tuts"and job done the good old killer whale will of learnt his or hers lesson,no playtime after 9.
im binge watching all ur stories right now. this is my favorite series. the underwater cave ones always get me tensed up though because they scare me lol
Ye
Agreed. Fukk water in all it's deadly forms, especially the form of a human.
Ah, yes, let's jump into a tiny, undersized pool with a giant predator who's so psychologically damaged from years in captivity that he was bound to snap. Great idea.
I knew the whale was gonna body that fool
Sounds like a fantastic midnight playmate
"It's not snowflake!!! It's not snowflake!!!" - Ace Ventura
I heard they found one of his testicles near the drain.
A Darwin award winner for sure.
Just hearing “This guy must’ve-“ (past-tense & speculation) I’m like, “Oh, he deeaaaddd.”
I shouldn’t laugh…but you’re not lying 🤣🤣🤣
Mmhmmm yes ma'am, he deeeaaaaadd 🤣
I'm not laughing.. You're Laughing!
Whereas I do feel empathy for Daniel’s mom; we are built to use common sense, not live in a padded world where 99% have to be anesthetized for the 1% who read signs and say “meh.”
"This sign isn't going to stop me, because I can't READ!"
Yeah, although in some sports and activities the line between bravery and stupidity can be really unclear. Not saying that applies here, this one seems pretty bad, but for example when a climber or base jumper or something dies, people will say "oh that's so stupid I'd never do that" but some people will survive an audacious action that others won't. It's hard to decide what's a bad idea sometimes.
It's a little bit more than 1%, otherwise this show wouldn't have so many episodes, a lot of stupidity
Now compare this to bigger things. This is exactly what happens. Think airport security and restrictions (just for a few bastrds...all of us are suffering even for hand luggages, checks, security clearances...though i agree we cant take chances cos those few bstrds might again appear). But its true...cos of em few btrds, all of us 99 percent suffers.
I saw the facebook version of the first story before this and I am SO glad to have found out about the rest of Daniel's life. What a card.
I can’t believe the last guy’s mother wanted to have a cover put over the blowhole…. There’s a fence around it, anyone stupid enough to jump it needs to take responsibility for their own actions 🙃
The mother has proven her parenting skills right there.
thats a good idea. Its to prevent anyone else from being killed
@@user-vj9iw6cv7m THAT'S WHAT THE FENCE IS FOR! 😶😶😶
@@TheMercuryProject obviously fences don’t work
@@Bananas_what yes against idiots should we also ban cigarettes because they are killing people...? nah they chose this should we ban diving because idionts with almost no experience are gonna do it anyways? we cant even if we put the cover there someone is gonna do it and that's when natural selection is gonna do its thing
The best part of these stories is the fact that Tillikum didn’t get punished for playing with his new toy
I know right that was cute kinda in a sick way. That whale killed a trainer later though
Watch the documentary called blackfish
that orca has no discipline... it should know better and not to play with toys at bed time.
Crazy seeing as this whale has killed multiple people
@@stephenc2481 dead at this comment
I live in Hawaii and I remember the incident with Daniel. I was cruising the island with a bunch of my friends when we heard the news. Hes not the first to die there and apparently won't be the last. Condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones but 70% of the deaths that happen here with tourist is due to a lack of common sense. It always ends up with a Lawsuit against the State of Hawaii. We get so tired of hearing it sometimes. Its not hard to read and respect our 'Aina (Land).
Thats sad
Thanks for the information
Rip
I want to live in Hawaii. I’m stuck in Ohio and it sucks here since it’s cold with snow everywhere. Can I move in with you, please? I’ll even do the dishes every day for one day!
@@TheWaynelds lol fat chance, just work hard and you can live wherever you want
You're damn right they did not "punish" Tilikum for Daniel's death. They knew who was at fault. My heart breaks for Tilikum's tragic life. Daniel's death was, of course, Daniel's fault for going in there, but the larger picture is that it was just the fault of people. The blame for all of the deaths related to Tilikum belongs to human beings. One hundred percent. You do not take a free-ranging apex predator who roams the oceans, rip them away from their tight-knit families as they did to Tilikum when he was just two, make him live in a bathtub, force him to perform tricks only to entertain people, and then wonder what went wrong. The captive horror that they thrust upon Tilikum for 34 years completely devastated his emotional and physical health. You could not possibly be crueler to an orca than by doing exactly what they did to Tilikum.
Ill never understand why wild animals are blamed for doing exactly what they are created to do. Even with shark attacks in the ocean why they kill the sharkvi don't understand. We are going into their homes and they are protecting their homes. If humans don't want to be killed then stop going into places where wild animals live. I don't like places like SeaWorld taking animals from the ocean and putting them in something so tiny is not right
Shut up
Amen a thousand times. Whatever these animals do in captivity is the fault of the wicked humans stealing their lives for entertainment
Here here. Agree absolutely. 😢
Absolutely right. You should never punish an animal anyway. You reward them for the behavior you want, but you never punish. That being said, a wild, intelligent, and social animal like the orca should NEVER be kept in captivity. It is torture
“I want a metal grate put over this amazing piece of nature because my son was too stubborn to read the sign and stay on the other side of the fence.” People will do anything to avoid any sort of personal responsibility
+05weasel - I'd replace that *stubborn* with *dumb* , but otherwise I completely agree with you! 👍
I don't think it's avoiding responsibility
It's just them wanting to protect some other family from another similar tragedy
I mean for 1 there isn't even any responsibility for them to avoid to begin with
@@RustyNips eh, depends. If you see it as their responsibility to raise their kid in a way that he doesn’t act like that then there is some responsibility to avoid. But I’ll accept it as poor wording on my part. But point being there are already signs and fences you have to ignore and climb to even get to the point that you’re in danger and now they want to add more man made structures to the naturally occurring landscape? Nah. Just let the people that want to risk their life risk it.
How is the mom responsible for the sons actions???
@@2bdaqueen268 I responded to another reply and said maybe “avoiding personal responsibility” was a poor choice of words. Point mostly being my dude had to ignore signs and climb a fence and the parents STILL want something else put out there instead of just going with “yea our son was kind of stupid and we should have raised him better.”
The Tili and Daniel story is just sad all around. Tili should never have been in freakin SeaWorld and Daniel needed massive therapy and be volunteering at an animal shelter or something.
For real, so sad to see some comments calling Daniel creepy or sinister when he just clearly had some developmental problems.
At least they didn’t euthanize the whale. That’s what usually happens when someone decides to play with a massive predator and ends up dead.
tilikum was no stranger to “play time”. I agree that they shouldn’t have been kept in captivity. When you see how big they are up close and how small the tanks are its rediculous.
He Killed a few people.
@@30srevolution21 can't really blame him 🐳
exactly what I'm thinking... That man had something child-ish about him and maybe therapy couldve saved his life... He was arrested so often, why did nobody try to help him?
He’s like a dad that read you stories at night before you go to sleep. Except the stories are dark and does not end well.
Some of them do end well. Those are my favorites. The deep sea diver where the ship had a massive computer malfunction is one of them.
Not having a dad growing up is probably why I’m so fucked up and want to kill myself
Mr ballen has the perfect narrating voice, his voice brings the characters thoughts and actions to life, you never need to watch the video to understand what he really means, he explains it so perfectly and thoroughly you almost never need to replay the video, his voice is also calming but full of life. I found his channel randomly a few years back and started to binge watch his videos before I eventually forgot about his channel years back and now I found him and I've continued to binge watch all his videos, even if I've heard the story before it was still interesting to listen to, keep up the good work❤
I told myself, “just one more Mr.Ballen video before I go to sleep.” That was an hour ago..
That was 4 hours ago…
... me too
Just gonna binge for about.. 100 years
You have a looong way to go down this road sonny! (He cackles from a once-not-so toothless grin)
Same 😂
I can understand Daniel’s parents wanting a metal grid for the blowhole . However , it wasn’t an accident , Daniel purposely climbed over and put himself over the Blowhole . He wasn’t satisfied in feeling the pressure hitting him in the chest once (which was odd) but he did it again . Maybe he wanted to impress the girls . I agree with the locals he didn’t respect nature . He also didn’t respect and appreciate his life . It’s a reckless way to die . RIP Daniel 🙏🌺❤️🌸.
Death by misadventure.
@@ronh.798 Brought on by sheer idiocy. 🤷♂
So many take life for granted.
he deserved it, what an idiot. and his parents? how dare they want to put a metal grid on it. If their son wasn't a complete dumbass it wouldn't have happened, he was stupid and he got what he deserved: death
I agree with the locals that he didn’t have a sense of self-preservation but it would still be idiotic to not put a metal grid over this blowhole.
“Tillicum wasn’t punished.” I mean he was still trapped at Seaworld for the rest of his life, but sure.
Seaworld 👎🖕
you knew what he meant, quit being extra
@@EpicWarrior131 pretty sure imprisonment in a cage is the definition of punishment in our society.
@@The_other_Jen What he clearly meant was that they didn't go out of their way to penalize him for the particular incident. Anything said to the contrary is pure dishonesty
The being taken from his pod, crooked dorsal fin, lifetime in captivity, being kept in the dark with older females that bullied and bloodied him constantly would seem like a horrific punishment to me.
To learn more about Tilikum, you can watch the blackfish documentary. It’s quite disturbing how they capture and place orcas in captivity. They are not meant to live like that and Tilly was especially big so the small enclosed space was that much tighter for him
As a mother I definitely sympathize with Daniel's Mom (from the last story). Unfortunately people like him who disregard clear warnings would find a way to remove the cover to the blowhole. If someone is determined to do life-threatening stuff nothing can stop them.
I'm delighted the beautiful crystal caves are so inaccessible. The vandalizing dead man is exactly why.
Brutal karma, that was.
It’s not karma he didn’t deserve to die
Imagine saying someone deserves to die over a piece of crystal... how evil can you be?
And who said he deserved to die? Not I. He knew the danger, he took the risk, he died. For a crystal. That was his decision, and it bit him in the ass. Stupid thievery, and he paid for it. Brutal karma.
Thus, I AM happy it's inaccessible, or there would nothing left of it.
He made his choice.
Karma does not mean someone 'deserved to die'.
It is the spiritual aspect of cause and effect. Use another word if you're going to nitpick. How about 'brutal consequences'.
And no one said he deserved to die, eesh 🙄
Regarding the final story-format incident: My sincere condolences to the mother of the boy who perished. That being said, that blowhole is so relentlessly punctual + potent, that any metal contraption placed directly on top would inevitably be torn off. High-pressure H2O has remarkable potential to utterly demolish manmade items.
Water is heavy and erodes
Aye. Tis the reason why I had no idea the story was going to turn up the way it did.
Try explaining that to a lady who cant distinguish 'stupidity' from 'not reckless'. If she cant do that, good luck with this simple fact uv just perfectly explained.
@@yba666_ do you mean reckless instead of not reckless?
@@yba666_ I think she’s just mourning. It’s really hard to admit that a loved one (especially your own child) caused their own death. She’s desperate to cling to something that could’ve saved him.
Maybe this makes me psychopathic but I’ve never heard a more heartwarming but simultaneously tragic story than the one about Tillicum and Daniel. From the whale’s perspective, it seems like she was lonely and just totally loved her “toy.” Yet it’s heartbreaking that Daniel’s naïveté, ignorance of the power of nature, and desire to be around the thing he loved most got in the way of understanding and accepting the deadly reality.
Calling Daniel naive is nice of you. I'd say he was an idiot whose IQ was driven further down by copious amounts of pot. Who TF tries to go near a killer whale unless the whale has known him for a VERY long time? And even then, he'd have to be extremely cautious!
Nothing about naivete over here, Daniel's entire way of life stunk of self-centeredness. He wasn't stupid nor mentally impaired and unable to process "the power of nature". No, he constantly broke laws and rules that didn't suit him. And it wasn't a defiant or rebellious streak either, as he wasn't a delinquent nor a bad person. Daniel just put his immediate wants over others and common sense.
@@nanifa6082 How do we know he wasn't mentally impaired?
Tilikum was a male orca, actually! He already had a history of aggression towards humans; before going to SeaWorld, he had drowned a teenaged trainer at another water wildlife park. After Daniel, he then went on to drown and brutalize the body of his trainer, Dawn Brancheau. I think it was less so that he saw Daniel as a toy. In captivity, Tilikum was in such a confined space, unable to play out his natural hunting instincts, and often kept in isolation because the other orcas would hurt him. There's evidence he cared about Dawn and much as she cared for him, but under those conditions, it's no wonder Tilikum continued to lash out time after time. They are intelligent, social creatures that are apex predators in the wild, and captivity literally rips away their ability to do anything that is in their nature. He should have been released back into the wild after the first trainer he killed, and then Daniel and Dawn's deaths wouldn't have happened.
I think it's safe to say that Mr Ballen has "made it" on RUclips. By far the best story teller!!
Moral of these stories: Mother Nature always wins.
If the guy from story 1 was in the guy from story 3's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did.
If the guy from story 2 was in the guy from story 3's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did.
If the guy from story 1 was in the guy from story 2's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did.
If the guy from story 3 was in the guy from story 1's shoes, he would die the exact same way that guy did.
etc, etc, etc...
@@bentonrp Guys number 1 and 3 are probably interchangable, but I don't think guy 2 would do what guy 1 or guy 3 did. Unlike the crystal cave, there's no gain.
No truer words have ever been spoken...
Humans: Challenge accepted. We have become pretty good at destroying nature and exponentially growing our population lately.
Tilikum actually killed 3 people all together, a trainer before Daniel in 1991 and a trainer after Daniel in 2010
He certainly was big enough
@Joey Dunlop whose?
The whale caphostrated the guy he bit his weeny off.
I just realized you beat me to it.
There’s a documentary about Tilikum on youtube, I recommend watching it. It is sad though
Best storyteller who's articulate, detail-oriented, accurate and objective in his point-of-view! His videos are my crack! I just can't stop😒
Daniel: "I want to feel the power of the blow hole on my chest."
Blow Hole: And I took that personally.
This comment made me chuckle 😂
Blowhole- Okay Daniel. You ready? 1..2.....
Yup
I feel like he loved nature so much
Yeah Daniel..you ever wondered what it would feel like to be hit by a train running at 45-50m/h in the middle of your chest?...🤔you ever imagined the power of that on your chest?...No?...Why don't you try?..Why don't you just jump in front of a train and feel the power of a locomotive hit you on the chest, and feel that awesome power? 🙄 No?....i mean, no offense and no disrespect but, to that mother, I'm sorry..I'm truly, really sorry, but.....you ever heard of the Darwin Awards?
"...ruled the death an accident due to Daniel's poor decision making"
Well, this is the understatement of the year.
Same situation more often than not they kill the animal as if it were their fault. It's messed up.
What about the whales name, haha tilacum.
"He's adventurous, not wreckless"
*Dude leans into a violent blowhole*
Nope, not wreckless
Hahahahahha omg dude your the best
"Stupid", the word you're looking for is "Stupid". Dude got hit in the chest by SOME water and got knocked back. That didn't register how strong the wave is so you put his head in front of it. Again, the word you're looking for is "Stupid".
*reckless, but otherwise I agree
this is why 18 year olds aren't allowed to vote..... cuz they stupid.
Yeah ikr I’m adventurous and would have hopped the fence to get a batter look but not be within a few feet of it and stick my head into the blowhole that’s just dumb as hell
I remember the story about Daniel being on the news when it happened. I lived in Hawaii at the time my house was literally 5 minutes away from that blow hole I literally passes by it all the time. Tbh us locals had no sympathy for him because it was just an idiotic decision by Daniel to go anywhere near it. Tourists have zero respect for the ocean when they come and visit Hawaii because they really don't grasp how dangerous it is.
You are the only person that has given extra details about the Seaworld incident. And I have never heard anyone else say that he had gone there before. Your stories are so much better. Also it is impossible that they did not have any footage of the guy. Seaworld workers said that there’s cameras everywhere in the park and underwater, plus there is a person there All of the time. I think that they just magically made all of the photos disappear
There is A documentary about it… BLACKFISH
@@proud-momblackfish is about the trainer death and Tilikum’s life in general. They only briefly mention David’s incident.
SeaWorld Orlando has people observing the orcas for 22 out of 24 hrs a day (source: I applied for the internship) but it’s very possible someone could try to sneak in and climb into the tank, especially after Free Willy showed the kid falling in the tank after-hours and the whale saving him, and gave people a false sense of safety.
Heard the name Tilikum and was immediately like "oooooohhh." SeaWorld drove that poor wale insane. 🥺
Doll you called it immediately if not sooner. Philadelphia USA
"killer whale"!??
That maybe true but they do kill and play with their "Food" in the wild.
Family: “He’s not reckless, just adventurous.”
Daniel sees sign: “Do not touch, will kill you!”
Daniel: 🤩 YES I MUST TOUCH
I dont think he saw that sign
@BearyBoi19 he saw the sign. He just chose to ignore it. Because he was fasinated
@@Security-pw5lg oh yeah, he wanted to feel the power
His last name is dick.
What do you expect.
@@olivershiny1908 I expected to be impressed, and I was
Poor Daniel. He sounded like he was maybe on the spectrum and needed adult supervision to help with his decision making. Hope he flies happy and free wherever he is🙏🏽
I don't think so. I think Daniel was just an idiot
I thought the same...but also after seeing the horrors of sea world in the documentary...it's fascinating to know more about Daniel...and we have to recall poor tillikum was put thru so much.. forcing him to be a damaged &aggressive soul.
Yea he needed supervision so sad actually
I’ve been to a blowhole before, Maui. You literally can feel the ground shake when they go, it’s incredibly impressive the forces at play are unreal.
".. described him as a very gentle, pot-smoking, hippy who just adored animals."
That's when I knew that this was going to end ugly for Daniel, like 'lot's of teeth ugly'.
Your pfp
Wtf is your pfp my dude
What is yours
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Tili was an abused whale who was wrongly accused of being “aggressive” when it was the people who decided it was ok to keep these whales in a small pool in the dark
That whale is a serial killer and convicted felon
@@jamesreid5950 so are the ppl who steal those babies and put them in captivity.
And you're actually Martians. Because, hey, at this point, why the hell not?
@@jamesreid5950 animals can't be serial killers or felons, that's just not how it works
@@jamesreid5950 troll
I'm addicted to your story telling,,, you have a strong way of making me and believe lot's more very amused !!! Thanks for sharing 👍 😊 😀
That crystal cave looks like a magical place. The cave obviously wants to keep its treasure and taught a lesson to the guy trying to steal one for himself.
literally that was some straight up grims brothers fairytale type shit
Looks like the crystal cave area on dark souls just without the invisible walkway and crystal dragon
@@robroskey6515 Maybe the cave has invisible walkways like in Dark Souls aswell. Lol
Greedy people will pay the price like this guy he pay the price and it cost him his life
reminds me of the original Aladdin! i haven't seen the new one, but that scene from the original is so ingrained in my brain
Ok the fact that air can be so extremely humid it can drown you is insane and terrifying and oh lord I would love to see these earth wonders but I’m grateful I don’t ever have to go near them because how dangerous they are.
Your lung is cooler than the cave so the water condenses in your lung. Crazy.
@@williamwchuang that makes more sense. Its not the fact its so humid its that the air is so hot.
„He‘s not reckless, he is adventurous!“
Guy proceeds to ignore all and every warning, arches over one of the most dangerous blowholes to „Feel the water smash into his chest“
Yeah… adventurous…
Daniel is the victim. It was the two girls who egged him on to doing it.
Later, they corroborated their story lies to relinquish themselves from any suspicion of guilt.
I'm just kidding: There was a couple who saw the same things they did and can attest to it being all Daniel's fault. :) tee hee hee !
@@bentonrp ya almost got me, almost made me feel a bit sad but then I'm happy again towards the end hahah
@@meatykyun5981 LOLOL! 😉
It was beyond stupid. Reckless is a understatement.
In the army, he would probably stood in front of a ready to shoot canon muzzle, just so he could realy feel the projectile smashing into the chest.
You're a perfect story teller. You deserve your own tv show 🥰😇😍😘
Can we just take a moment to appreciate this man’s Winchester-esque commitment to the flannel shirt?
Nice. Sam, Dean and Papa Winchester would be proud!
ENORMOUS KOK POKING THROUGH SWIMMING TRUNKS AT THE COMMUNITY POOL! A BANDAID FALLS OFF THE TIP OF THE KOK INTO THE SWIMMING POOL. WRINKLED WEENER!
bro it's fire. i've made comments on his videos before about it. love them i have like 20 flannels personally
@@michaeldoran4367 your family is ashamed of you
@@thecomedypilot5894 how ya figure chief?
The last story is why we can't have nice things
The danger hole wasn't very nice to people
But they didn't cover it...
Ohhh... the Tillikum guy! I have heard about that. Too bad he didn’t know that Tillikum was insane. Most of them are actually. The are very loyal to their packs (pods?) and each group has a unique dialect meaning that they can often not understand orcas from other pods. Tillikum was stolen from his family as a baby and then put with two older females that used to drag their teeth on him at night when they were locked in a tiny little box causing big bleeding wounds. What is done to them is torture, pure torture. They are very intelligent and they are very emotional creatures. They live in family units and they stay with their family for their entire lives. They never leave their mothers, and in captivity they take babies from their mothers. Literally babies. Not young children but babies.
Also Tillikum removed his gentalia. They usually do in these kinds of attacks. They are also known for pulling victims down and holding them there until they almost drowns and only then taking them up for air and then repeatedly doing that over and over. Orcas have echolocation just like dolphins, they technically are a kind of dolphin, anyway, point is that that means that they are well aware that we need to breath air and can literally see our lungs with the help of their echolocation. Aka: They do it on purpose, well captive orcas that is. Wild orcas don’t bother humans, but they also haven’t been tortured by humans for their entire lives so probably why captive ones behave so differently.
Oh and Seaworld like to claim that they take such good care of their orcas that their orcas has a life expectancy far beyond what they have in the wild. Orcas in captivity live for 25-30 years at the most. In the wild males live for 60-80 years and females live for 80-100 years commonly. So yeah... great job there seaworld...
Thank you. Have not ever been to a captive dolphin/orca display. It breaks my heart.
And then he killed dawn his trainer
I remember having to do an essay on this topic and guess where we went after doing the research. (School project)
If you guessed fucking Sea World you are right.
Seaworld and all other similar places are monstrous torture parks where the most grotesque sadism is visited on these creatures . Anyone who knows the facts is either sickened and hassles their elected officials to shut these obscenities DOWN, or they are sociopaths TOO . Pretty simple .
@@asolomon7402 🤢
Thank you for providing such a great "List of things to never ever do, and places to never ever go"!!!!!
I love how people will ALWAYS find some way to blame someone or something else for their idiotic choices. I think of that blow hole as another form of natural selection 🤷♀️
The Hawaiian locals are badass. They aren't going to dismantle a facet of the island because a white kid from Cali showed up and got himself killed. Often they believe that spirits inhabit facets of nature, I wonder if they felt it would have been disrespectful to the spirit of the blowhole. My condolences to his family, but it sounds like they would have had to cover the world with pool noodles and foam to keep that kid safe.
That natural sélection comment was completely idiotic and disgraceful.
@@suttercane6718 nah, that's exactly what natural selection is. Play stupid games win stupid prizes. The guy brought it on himself.
@@Bruhza22 everyone literally Everyone did stupid things in their lives lmao are you going to say your every step in life was carefully measured and hyper rational? So people saying someone deserved dying bc it's "natural selection" isn't just disgusting and marks a total lack of empathy but also completely untrue and hypocritical.
@@suttercane6718 "Doing something stupid" does not equal ignoring a ton of danger signs, literal signs put there for your safety.
Nobody is celebrating his death, but don't expect people to feel sorry for getting what he had coming.
this series is literally a darwin award compilation.
Not always, but yeah, many of them are 🤣🤣🤣
Underrated comment right here
Oh honey, Darwin stole that from somebody else check it out. Philadelphia USA
Many of the dead leave behind families though, although in some rare cases the offspring dies together with the parent (Devil’s Hole, was it?).
Holy shit, the giant crystal cave is breathtaking! 😲
The pictures look unreal, like from a fantasy world.
I had to pause and check it out just because those people are literally sitting on them. I can’t imagine seeing something like that in real life.
It was. They have done re flooded the caves to allow the selenite to continue to form. ;)
@@sithlordhibiscus9936 wow, really?
Right? As a kid, I fntasized about becoming a geologist to go there ^_^
Breath taking! LOL!
You had me at ripping the cereal bag down the side lol. Not only happens to me 🙄🤪
Yes, I too accidentally happened upon this channel and became thoroughly engrossed. He is a perfect storyteller...articulate, enunciates well, animated and passionate. Wow! I love the way he acts out every word with his entire body. Good job...
The first story is interesting when you read up about Tillicum. Killer whales, despite their name, are typically gentle in nature. But being held in captivity warps their minds because of how intelligent they are. Someone had said in response to Tillicum killing, 'imagine a human being locked in a bathtub for years.' They end up self-harming, and hurting each other. The humans that come into the pool are treated like playthings. Tillicum killed three people overall, including two trainers. Experts labeled him as 'psychotic' and said that being held in captivity made that happen.
That's very sad, when you pointed that out, I actually put myself there and it was unsettling feeling , they should all be freed in the Thier own world, very very sad to know that we humans can do that to them for our own entertainment,😥
Killer whales are BRUTAL in the wild! They've been documented hunting for fun. Have you not seen the documentary that shows a school of orcas chasing a mother whale and her baby for MILES. Then pushing it down until it almost drowns, letting the mother bring it to the surface, then dragging and pushing it down again? It went on for hours until they finally killed it, ate the lower jaw and left it. They have incredibly close knit pods but they are anything but gentle
@@annefortes9345 I can understand some cases of captivity, like when they were saved from something while young and would not have survived on their own, or they have an injury that would make it almost impossible for them to survive on their own. I hate the way SeaWorld 10000% uses rescue/rehabilitation as a front whilst exploiting these creatures for money. You don't see zoologists making lions do flips and shit. They're supposed to be educational but instead they're greedy. Its disgusting.
What makes it all the worse was how they got Tilikum in the first place. He was essentially kidnapped by poachers.
Truly evil stuff.
Orcas are my favorite animal. They've never attacked a human in nature only in confinement.
I appreciate your storytelling skills: thorough research, organized thoughts, concise, good grammar with no lengthy pauses & well presented. Kudos to you.