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A string of college hazing deaths and school tragedies reveals how fast a ritual, a shortcut, or a bad decision can turn fatal. From Penn State’s deleted footage case to a boxing-glove chest strike at Southern University, this narrated true-crime style documentary follows the chain of events, medical findings, and legal fallout behind each death.

The video moves through fraternity hazing, school accidents, and preventable disasters: forced drinking, water intoxication, a frozen initiation in the Pocono Mountains, a deadly Bible study drinking ritual, a marching band bus hazing, a one-liter bourbon challenge, and other shocking school-related deaths. It also widens out to tragic non-hazing cases involving sports fields, goalposts, caves, buses, and field trips, showing how negligence, pressure, and poor safety planning can have devastating consequences.

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00:00The deleted footage.
00:01On the 2nd of February 2017, 19-year-old Penn State student Timothy Piazza
00:07walked into the Beta Theta Pi house in State College, Pennsylvania
00:11for the night he would be accepted as a pledge.
00:13The house was supposed to be alcohol-free after an earlier suspension.
00:18It wasn't.
00:19There was just one thing the brothers forgot.
00:21The house had its own cameras.
00:24The ritual was a drinking gauntlet, station after station.
00:28Prosecutors said members handed Piazza at least 18 drinks in roughly 82 minutes.
00:33His blood alcohol concentration was later estimated between 0.28 and 0.36%.
00:41Around 11 p.m., the fraternity's own surveillance cameras
00:45recorded him falling headfirst down about 15 basement steps.
00:49The night did not end there.
00:51Near 5 a.m., he fell again and struck his head on a metal railing.
00:55Members carried him to a couch.
00:56They left him there.
00:58No one called 911, not until roughly 12 hours after that first fall.
01:04He died on February 4 of traumatic brain injuries, a fractured skull,
01:08bleeding on the brain, and a ruptured spleen.
01:11Then came the footage.
01:12Prosecutors said the basement video had been deliberately deleted.
01:16It did not stay deleted.
01:17The FBI recovered it, and investigators used it to count every drink.
01:21The grand jury called it encouraged reckless conduct, not an accident.
01:27Multiple fraternity members were charged with combinations of involuntary manslaughter,
01:32aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, hazing, and evidence tampering.
01:36And Piazza's parents settled with the fraternity in 2018 and with Penn State in 2019.
01:43The case did not end in the courtroom.
01:45In 2018, Pennsylvania passed the Timothy Jay, Piazza anti-hazing law, making the most serious hazing a felony.
01:55The boxing gloves.
01:57In the early hours of a February 2025 morning, 20-year-old Caleb Wilson stood in a line of pledges
02:03inside a flooring company warehouse near Greenwell Springs Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
02:09He was a junior at Southern University and A&M College, a mechanical engineering student, a member of the Human
02:16Jukebox Marching Band.
02:17The injury he was about to suffer would leave almost no mark on his body.
02:22The gathering was an Omega sci-fi pledging ritual.
02:25It wasn't sanctioned by the school.
02:27The pledges stood in a line.
02:29Fraternity members, wearing a pair of black boxing gloves, struck them with punches to the chest, one pledge after another.
02:36According to an arrest affidavit, Caleb McRae punched Wilson four times in the chest.
02:42Four punches.
02:43Then, Wilson collapsed.
02:45He suffered a seizure and lost control of his body.
02:48He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
02:51The autopsy found almost nothing, only a small bruise on the right side of his chest.
02:56But the bruise was not the injury.
02:58The East Baton Rouge Parish coroner identified the cause as commotio cordis, a blow to the chest at a vulnerable
03:05instant in the heartbeat that stops the heart.
03:07The coroner ruled it a homicide.
03:10A grand jury indicted McRae for manslaughter and principle to felony hazing.
03:1520 pounds of sand.
03:17In December 2013, Chun Michael Deng, a 19-year-old Baruch College freshman from Oakland Gardens, Queens, arrived at a
03:25rented house in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania for a Pi Delta Psi initiation weekend.
03:31Roughly three dozen fraternity members had traveled from New York.
03:35Deng was one of four pledges.
03:37The ritual would be only half of the story.
03:40The other half was what the brothers did after it.
03:42The ritual was called The Glass Ceiling.
03:46Deng was blindfolded.
03:47He was made to wear a backpack holding about 20 pounds of sand.
03:51Then he was sent across a frozen yard while brothers lined up to stop him.
03:55Police said they repeatedly shoved and tackled him.
03:58At one point, he was knocked down.
04:00He struck his head.
04:02He went immediately unconscious.
04:04That was the moment the weekend turned.
04:06Instead of calling 911, members carried him inside.
04:10They eventually drove him to a hospital themselves.
04:13He died the next day.
04:15The coroner ruled it a homicide from closed head injuries caused by blunt force trauma.
04:21The charges covered both halves of the weekend.
04:23Kenny Kwan, Raymond Lamb, and Sheldon Wong pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and hindering apprehension.
04:30Kwan received 12 to 24 months.
04:33Lamb and Wong received 10 to 24 months.
04:36Charles Lye was also sentenced in the case.
04:39Then, the fraternity itself was put on trial.
04:42It was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, banned from Pennsylvania for 10 years, and fined around $112,500.
04:52Five gallons.
04:54On the 2nd of February, 2005, 21-year-old Chico State student Matthew William Carrington went down into the basement
05:02of a fraternity house in Chico, California.
05:05He was from Pleasant Hill and was pledging Chitao, a local fraternity unaffiliated with the recognized Greek system.
05:11It was hell week.
05:13Beside him was another pledge.
05:15Michael Quintana.
05:17The drink that night was water.
05:19There was just one problem.
05:21The human body can only handle so much of it.
05:24Members ordered the pledges to drink from 5-gallon water containers while doing calisthenics.
05:30The basement sat around 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
05:33Brothers reportedly used fans and hosed the pledges with water.
05:37Cold air.
05:38Cold water.
05:39And more water to drink.
05:41Carrington was made to keep drinking.
05:43Jug after jug.
05:44He grew sick.
05:46He shivered on a sofa.
05:47He coughed up blood.
05:49Near 4 a.m., he had a seizure and collapsed.
05:53Paramedics took him to Enloe Medical Center, where his heart stopped.
05:57The water had done the damage.
05:59He died of water intoxication hyponatremia, where blood sodium is diluted to dangerous levels which swelled his brain and lungs
06:07and triggered a fatal cardiac dysrhythmia.
06:09The cold had played its part, too.
06:11The medical examiner listed environmental hypothermia as a contributing factor.
06:16Four members pleaded guilty.
06:18Gabriel Maestretti got a year in jail for involuntary manslaughter.
06:22Two others got six months as accessories.
06:25A fourth got 90 days for misdemeanor hazing.
06:28The case reached beyond the courtroom.
06:30It helped inspire California's anti-hazing law, known as Matt's Law.
06:34Bible study.
06:36On the night of the 13th of September, 2017, Maxwell Max Groover, an 18-year-old LSU freshman from Roswell,
06:44Georgia, got a group message.
06:46It summoned him to a Bible study at the Phi Delta Theta House in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
06:52The invitation sounded harmless.
06:54It wasn't a Bible study.
06:56Police affidavits described a ritual where pledges were quizzed on fraternity trivia.
07:01Every wrong answer meant a drink.
07:03The alcohol included a high-proof mixture called diesel.
07:07Witnesses said Groover was singled out.
07:09He missed questions.
07:10He was made to chug.
07:12Again and again.
07:13Every miss meant another drink.
07:15He was drinking to extreme excess.
07:18Just how far past excess would only become clear later.
07:21Members placed him on a couch and left.
07:23When they returned, one said they couldn't tell if he was breathing.
07:27He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead on September 14.
07:31His cause of death was acute alcohol intoxication, with aspiration he inhaled vomit into his lungs.
07:38Then came the number.
07:41Toxicology put his blood alcohol concentration at 0.495, more than six times the legal driving limit.
07:48The autopsy found no trauma, and the coroner ruled the death accidental.
07:53Ten members were charged.
07:56Matthew Naquin, described as a leading participant, was convicted of negligent homicide in 2019 and sentenced to five years, with
08:04half of it suspended.
08:06Groover's family was later awarded $6.1 million in damages.
08:10The state did not wait for the trial.
08:12Louisiana responded in 2018 with the Max Groover Act, which made hazing a felony when it causes serious injury or
08:19death.
08:20Crossing Bus C
08:21On the 19th of November, 2011, the band was in Orlando after a game against Bethune-Cookman, parked at the
08:28Rosen Plaza Hotel on International Drive,
08:31where a ritual called Crossing Bus C played out on the charter bus assigned to the percussion section.
08:38Robert Champion was a 26-year-old Florida A&M student and the drum major of the famous Marching 100.
08:46He had reportedly opposed hazing.
08:48That night, he stepped onto Bus C anyway.
08:52The ritual had one goal.
08:54Reach the end of the aisle.
08:55He entered the bus with two fellow members.
08:58The ritual required him to move down the aisle while band members struck him.
09:03Trial evidence described blows from fists, feet, drumsticks, and a drum mallet as he tried to cross.
09:10He made it.
09:11He had crossed Bus C.
09:13When he reached the end, he vomited.
09:16He said he couldn't breathe.
09:17Then he collapsed.
09:18He was pronounced dead at Dr. P, Phillips Hospital, at 10.36 p.m.
09:25The Orange County Medical Examiner ruled it a homicide hemorrhagic shock from soft tissue hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma.
09:33There were no fractures.
09:35There was no organ damage.
09:37But the bruising covered his chest, back, shoulders, and flanks.
09:42The examiner testified he had bled more than half his blood supply into the injured tissue.
09:47Not one bone was broken.
09:49He had bled into his own body.
09:51Dante Martin, named as an organizer, was convicted of manslaughter and felony hazing.
09:57He was sentenced to 77 months in prison.
10:00One liter of bourbon.
10:02On the 4th of March, 2021, Stone Foltz, a 20-year-old Bowling Green State University sophomore from Delaware, Ohio,
10:11studying business,
10:12went to an off-campus house in Bowling Green.
10:15It was a Pi Kappa Alpha Big Little Initiation Night, where new members were paired with older Big Brothers.
10:24There was just one problem with the night's plan.
10:27According to the family's lawsuit, the pledges were made to finish an entire bottle.
10:32Pledges were reportedly blindfolded and taken into a basement.
10:35A member named Jacob Kryn handed Foltz a one-liter bottle of Evan Williams' bourbon.
10:41One liter.
10:42Roughly 40 shots worth.
10:45Witnesses said he drank it in about 20 minutes.
10:48He finished the bottle.
10:49The university investigation put his blood alcohol concentration near 0.35%.
10:55The bottle was empty.
10:58The night was over.
10:59Members took him home.
11:00Later, a roommate found him unconscious.
11:03He was hospitalized and placed on life support.
11:06He died on March 7th.
11:08The Lucas County coroner ruled it an accident caused by fatal ethanol intoxication.
11:14BGSU found all 21 charged students responsible for 83 combined code violations.
11:20At trial, defendants, including Kryn and pledge educator Troy Henriksen,
11:26were acquitted of the homicide counts but convicted of hazing and failure to comply.
11:31In 2021, Ohio passed a stricter anti-hazing law known as Collins Law.
11:42Brayden Baum.
11:43School is supposed to be a safe place.
11:46A place where kids learn, play, and grow.
11:49But sometimes, the most mundane, everyday objects can become instruments of death.
11:56And sometimes, the most painful deaths are the ones that happen in the blink of an eye,
12:01during something as innocent as a gym class.
12:05In April 2023, Brayden Baum, a 16-year-old sophomore at Cheney High School in Washington,
12:12was in his fourth period P.E. class.
12:14He was a popular, athletic kid, the kind of teenager who was always full of life.
12:20On this particular Thursday afternoon, he was running, just like any other day.
12:24And then, he tripped.
12:27He fell forward, and his face collided with a metal goalpost.
12:31But it wasn't a simple bump on the head.
12:33The first responders who arrived at the scene were met with a horrific sight.
12:38Brayden had been impaled through the eye.
12:41The force of the fall had driven a part of the goalpost into his eye socket,
12:45causing a catastrophic injury that the fire chief later described as
12:49not sustainable with life.
12:52His classmates watched in horror as school staff and paramedics rushed to his side,
12:57desperately trying to stabilize him.
12:59He was unconscious, his life hanging by a thread.
13:03He was rushed to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center,
13:06but there was nothing they could do.
13:08Brayden Baum died from his injuries.
13:11The school and the community were plunged into mourning.
13:14A GoFundMe was set up to help his family with funeral costs.
13:18The death was ruled a tragic, freak accident.
13:21But it's a story that sticks with you.
13:23The image of a teenager running and laughing one second,
13:27and impaled on a goalpost the next.
13:29It's a brutal reminder that even in the safest of places,
13:33death can be waiting, in the most unexpected and painful of ways.
13:39Muhammad Hambali Sumathi
13:42Kids will be kids.
13:43They'll run, they'll jump,
13:45they'll climb on things they're not supposed to.
13:48It's part of growing up.
13:49But what happens when a moment of playful rebellion turns deadly?
13:53When a simple act of fun ends in a crushed skull?
13:58On the morning of April 24th, 2017,
14:02Muhammad Hambali Sumathi,
14:04a 13-year-old student at Gaylang Methodist Secondary School in Singapore,
14:08was in his gym class.
14:10He was a friendly, active kid who loved to play football.
14:13And on this day, during a break in the game,
14:16he did something that thousands of kids do every day,
14:19all over the world.
14:20He jumped up and grabbed the crossbar of the metal soccer goal,
14:24hanging from it with a grin on his face.
14:26But this wasn't a permanent, anchored goal.
14:29It was a movable one.
14:30And as Hambali hung from the crossbar,
14:33his weight caused the entire structure to tilt forward.
14:37His classmates watched, probably laughing,
14:40not realizing the danger.
14:41And then the goal tipped over.
14:45The heavy metal frame came crashing down,
14:48right on top of Hambali's head.
14:51He was knocked unconscious instantly.
14:54Paramedics arrived and tried to resuscitate him,
14:57but his head injuries were too severe.
14:58He was rushed to the hospital,
15:01but he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
15:04A moment of innocent fun had turned into a fatal accident.
15:08The police classified his death as unnatural
15:11and launched an investigation.
15:14The school field was closed.
15:16The school's principal called it a tragedy.
15:19And it was.
15:20But it was also a preventable one.
15:23The incident sparked a nationwide debate in Singapore
15:26about the safety of movable goalposts
15:28and the need for proper anchoring.
15:30It's a story that's both heartbreaking and infuriating.
15:34A child died because of a piece of equipment
15:37that wasn't properly secured.
15:38He died because he was being a kid.
15:41And that's a tragedy that should never happen.
15:45Kendrick Johnson.
15:46This next case is one of the most bizarre,
15:51controversial,
15:52and deeply disturbing school deaths
15:55you will ever hear about.
15:57It's a story that involves a rolled-up gym mat,
16:01a missing shoe,
16:02and a family that refuses to believe the official story.
16:07On January 11th, 2013,
16:10at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia,
16:13students in the gymnasium noticed something strange.
16:17A pair of socks sticking out of the top
16:20of a large, rolled-up wrestling mat
16:22that was standing upright in a corner.
16:25When they looked closer,
16:27they made a horrifying discovery.
16:30Inside the mat, wedged upside down,
16:33was the body of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson.
16:37The official investigation concluded
16:40that Kendrick's death was a freak accident.
16:43The theory was that he had thrown his shoes
16:45into the center of the mat,
16:47and then, while trying to retrieve them,
16:50he fell in headfirst and got stuck.
16:53Unable to breathe due to positional asphyxia,
16:57he suffocated.
16:58It's a plausible, if bizarre, explanation,
17:02but Kendrick's family never bought it.
17:04They believed he was murdered.
17:07They pointed to inconsistencies in the investigation,
17:10to missing surveillance footage,
17:13to the fact that Kendrick's body
17:14showed signs of a struggle.
17:17They hired their own private pathologist,
17:19who concluded that Kendrick had died
17:21from blunt force trauma.
17:23The family filed a series of lawsuits
17:26against the school and local law enforcement,
17:29alleging a massive cover-up.
17:31They even accused two brothers,
17:33the sons of a local FBI agent,
17:36of killing Kendrick.
17:37The case became a national media sensation,
17:41a flashpoint for racial tensions
17:43in the small Georgia town.
17:44The Department of Justice opened its own investigation,
17:48but ultimately,
17:49no charges were ever filed.
17:52The official cause of death
17:54remains accidental asphyxiation,
17:56but the questions linger.
17:58How does a 17-year-old athlete
18:01get stuck in a gym mat and die?
18:04Was it a freak accident?
18:06Or was it something more sinister?
18:08We may never know for sure.
18:10But what we do know
18:12is that Kendrick Johnson went to school one day
18:14and ended up dead,
18:16rolled up in a gym mat.
18:18And that's a fact
18:19that is as unbelievable as it is tragic.
18:23The Chennai Chemist
18:25Some kids are jocks,
18:27some are artists,
18:28and some are nerds.
18:30The ones who love science,
18:31who are fascinated by how the world works,
18:34who spend their free time reading textbooks
18:36and dreaming of Nobel Prizes.
18:38This is a story about one of those kids,
18:41a kid whose passion for science
18:42led to his own, very painful, death.
18:46In March 2024,
18:48a 17-year-old student in Chennai, India,
18:50was at home,
18:51doing what he loved most,
18:52chemistry experiments.
18:54He was a bright kid,
18:56a student in his final year of high school,
18:58with a deep academic interest in the subject.
19:00But he wasn't in a state-of-the-art lab
19:02with proper safety equipment.
19:04He was in his own house,
19:05improvising,
19:06mixing chemicals he had managed to get his hands on.
19:09We don't know exactly what he was trying to make.
19:12A firework?
19:12A small rocket?
19:14Whatever it was,
19:15it went horribly wrong.
19:17The chemicals he was mixing suddenly exploded.
19:20The blast was so powerful
19:22that it blew out a wall of his house
19:23and caused the asbestos sheet roof
19:25to collapse on top of him.
19:27He was killed instantly,
19:29crushed by the debris of his own makeshift lab.
19:32When the police and forensic experts arrived,
19:34they found a scene of utter devastation,
19:36a collapsed room,
19:38shattered glass,
19:39and the chemical residue of a science project
19:41that had turned into a bomb.
19:42The police registered a case of unnatural death
19:46and launched an investigation
19:47to determine exactly what chemicals
19:49had caused the explosion.
19:51It's a tragic, cautionary tale,
19:54a story about a kid who was too smart for his own good,
19:57whose curiosity outpaced his understanding
19:59of the dangers he was dealing with.
20:01He wasn't a troublemaker.
20:03He was a scientist in the making.
20:05But his passion,
20:06his drive to learn and experiment,
20:08ended up costing him his life.
20:10He died in a cloud of smoke and rubble,
20:13a victim of his own brilliant
20:14and ultimately fatal curiosity.
20:18Joshua Henderson
20:19This next death is a slow one,
20:22a quiet, creeping, and incredibly painful one.
20:26It's a death that happens not in a flash of violence,
20:29but over the course of weeks,
20:31as a young, healthy body is slowly cooked
20:33from the inside out.
20:36On July 6, 2025,
20:38Joshua Henderson,
20:40a 16-year-old football player
20:41at Bolton High School in Tennessee,
20:43was at summer practice.
20:45He was a gentle giant,
20:47a big, friendly kid who loved the game.
20:50But on this day,
20:51the Tennessee summer heat was brutal.
20:53And during a morning practice,
20:55Joshua collapsed on the field.
20:58His mother received a call
20:59that her son was unresponsive.
21:02He was rushed to the hospital,
21:03where doctors diagnosed him
21:05with a severe heat stroke.
21:07His core body temperature had skyrocketed,
21:10and his organs were beginning to shut down.
21:12For the next three weeks,
21:14Joshua lay in a hospital bed,
21:16fighting for his life.
21:17But the damage was too severe.
21:20One by one,
21:21his organs failed,
21:22his kidneys,
21:23his liver,
21:24his heart.
21:26On July 27,
21:27after three weeks of agony,
21:29Joshua Henderson died.
21:32His death was a stark reminder
21:34of the dangers of heat stroke,
21:35especially for young athletes.
21:37It sparked a wave of concern
21:39and debate about safety protocols
21:41for summer sports practices.
21:43Were the coaches providing enough water breaks?
21:46Were they monitoring the players closely enough?
21:48Were they pushing these kids too hard
21:50in the dangerous summer heat?
21:53Joshua's family was left
21:54with a gaping hole in their lives
21:56and a lot of questions.
21:58Their son,
21:59a strong, healthy athlete,
22:01had gone to football practice
22:02and never come home.
22:03He hadn't been in a car crash.
22:05He hadn't been in a fight.
22:07He had been killed by the son.
22:09By a sport that was supposed
22:11to be building his character,
22:13his strength,
22:13his future.
22:15Instead,
22:16it slowly,
22:16painfully,
22:18took everything away.
22:20The Girl in the Gate
22:21This last story
22:23is about a death
22:24that is so bizarre,
22:25so uniquely Japanese,
22:27that it's almost hard
22:28to believe it's real.
22:29It's a story about a schoolgirl,
22:31a bicycle,
22:32and a heavy,
22:33automated gate
22:35that became
22:35a medieval torture device.
22:38In the mid-2010s,
22:40at a high school
22:41in the Hilgo prefecture of Japan,
22:43there was a very strict rule.
22:45You had to be on time.
22:47If you were late,
22:49you were punished.
22:49And to enforce this rule,
22:52the school had a massive,
22:53heavy,
22:54metal-sliding gate
22:55that closed automatically
22:56at a precise time
22:58every morning.
22:59One morning,
23:00a young schoolgirl,
23:01often referred to
23:02in online deep dives
23:03as Dioko,
23:05was running late.
23:06She was riding her bicycle,
23:08wearing her helmet,
23:09pedaling as fast as she could
23:10to beat the gate.
23:12She was just seconds away.
23:14She could see the gate
23:15starting to close.
23:17And she made
23:18a fatal decision.
23:20She decided to try
23:22and squeeze through.
23:24She didn't make it.
23:25The massive,
23:27multi-ton gate
23:28slid shut,
23:29trapping her
23:30and her bicycle
23:31between the gate
23:32and the fence post.
23:33The force was so immense
23:35that it crushed her,
23:37killing her instantly.
23:39A later police reconstruction
23:40of the accident
23:41showed that the force
23:43of the gate
23:43was so powerful
23:44that it completely
23:45shattered her helmet.
23:47It offered
23:48no protection
23:49at all.
23:51Her death
23:52was a horrifying
23:52and completely
23:53preventable tragedy.
23:55A court later ruled
23:57that the school
23:57was negligent.
23:58The teachers
23:59should have known
24:00that students
24:00would try to race
24:01the gate.
24:02They should have had
24:03a safety coordinator present.
24:04They should have had
24:05a gate with a safety sensor.
24:07But they didn't.
24:08And a young girl
24:09paid the price
24:10for their negligence.
24:12It's a story
24:13that's almost too absurd
24:14to be real.
24:15A girl,
24:16crushed to death
24:17by a school gate,
24:18all because she was
24:19trying to avoid
24:20being marked as late.
24:22It's a chilling example
24:23of how a rigid,
24:25unforgiving system,
24:26combined with a piece
24:27of poorly designed
24:28machinery,
24:29can create
24:30a death trap.
24:33Stay where you are.
24:35The Sewol ferry
24:36departed Inchon
24:37in the evening
24:38of the 15th
24:39of April 2014
24:40and capsized
24:41and sank
24:42on the morning
24:42of the 16th
24:43of April 2014,
24:45carrying second-year
24:46students from
24:47Danwan High School
24:48in Ansan,
24:49bound overnight
24:50for Jeju Island
24:50on a routine
24:51school excursion.
24:52There were 325
24:54second-year students
24:55from Danwan High School
24:57aboard,
24:57on a boat
24:58built in Japan,
24:59and later bought
25:00and illegally rebuilt
25:01to add cabins.
25:03The next morning,
25:04in the Mangol Channel,
25:05an inexperienced
25:07third mate
25:07swung the rudder hard.
25:09The ship
25:09was overloaded
25:10with cargo,
25:11running on
25:12too little ballast
25:13and top-heavy
25:14from those modifications,
25:15and it lurched
25:16onto its side
25:17and kept tilting.
25:18Then came the announcement
25:20that killed hundreds.
25:22Stay in your cabins.
25:23Wait for rescue.
25:25Most of the students
25:26obeyed while the
25:27captain and senior crew
25:28climbed off first
25:29and abandoned them.
25:31It took about
25:31two and a half hours
25:32for the Sewol
25:33to roll fully over
25:34in sync,
25:35and the students
25:36who had done
25:36exactly what they were told
25:37drowned trapped
25:38inside the flooding hall.
25:40304 people died,
25:42around 250 of them,
25:44Danwan students.
25:46Captain Lee Joon Suk
25:47was ultimately
25:48sentenced to 36 years
25:50in prison
25:50for his role
25:51in the disaster.
25:52The paperclips.
25:53On the 5th of August 2011,
25:56Horatio Chappell,
25:57a 17-year-old
25:58Eaton pupil
25:59from Wiltshire,
26:00was asleep in a tent
26:01on the Von Post Glacier
26:02in Svalbard,
26:04Norway,
26:05about 25 miles
26:06from Longyearbyen,
26:07one of 13 students
26:08and leaders
26:09on a British school's
26:10Exploring Society expedition
26:11in known polar bear country.
26:13Their protection
26:14was a perimeter tripwire
26:15rigged to fire
26:16warning mines,
26:17plus hunting rifles,
26:19at least one
26:20an older model
26:21dating back
26:21to the World War II era.
26:23The tripwire
26:24was defective,
26:25missing components,
26:27and the team
26:27had patched part of it
26:29using paperclips.
26:30The inquest found
26:31they'd chosen tripwire
26:32flares over
26:33an overnight watch
26:34and that cabins
26:35would likely have
26:35prevented the attack,
26:37though nothing
26:37legally required them.
26:39Just before 7.30 a.m.,
26:41a bear crossed
26:42the perimeter
26:42and nothing fired.
26:43A supporting post
26:45had been knocked over,
26:46dislodging the cartridge
26:47so the mine
26:47never detonated.
26:48The bear dragged
26:49Chappell from his tent
26:50and mauled him,
26:51and he died of injuries
26:52to his head,
26:53face, and neck.
26:54Leader Michael Spike Reed
26:55engaged it
26:56at close quarters,
26:57was bitten about the head,
26:58and shot it dead.
27:00Four others were injured.
27:02The coroner recorded
27:03a narrative verdict,
27:04calling it
27:05a series of
27:06unfortunate events
27:07and finding that
27:08failures by the
27:09expedition company
27:09had not caused
27:11Horatio's death.
27:12No criminal charges
27:13resulted.
27:14The survival lesson.
27:16A group of 20 people
27:17from Oregon Episcopal School
27:19set out to climb
27:20Mount Hood
27:20on the 12th of May,
27:221986,
27:23from Timberline Lodge
27:24on the mountain's
27:25south side.
27:26Nine continued higher
27:28as the core climbing party.
27:29It was a required
27:31wilderness program outing.
27:32Seven students
27:33and two staff
27:34among that larger party
27:36of 15 students,
27:37a parent,
27:38teachers,
27:39and two consultants.
27:41Within three hours,
27:42five students
27:43and a parent
27:44turned back
27:44with altitude sickness.
27:46A consultant later
27:47turned back
27:47with snow blindness.
27:49The rest pushed on,
27:50then a severe storm
27:51caught them
27:52on the descent.
27:53They dug a snow cave
27:54to wait it out.
27:55That cave
27:56became the trap.
27:57The snow cave
27:58was buried
27:59under several feet
28:00of snow.
28:01Eight members
28:02of the climbing party
28:03died of hypothermia
28:04and exposure
28:05while three survived.
28:07Rescuers found the cave
28:08on May 15.
28:09After the party
28:10had spent roughly
28:1189 hours
28:12on the mountain,
28:13two students
28:13were pulled out alive.
28:15One,
28:1615-year-old Giles Thompson,
28:18later lost both lower legs
28:19to frostbite.
28:20Slow down.
28:21The 3rd of August,
28:231991.
28:24A Saturday night.
28:25Nearly 100 students
28:26and teachers
28:27from Regina Coeli Mission School
28:29were riding home
28:30through Zimbabwe's
28:31eastern highlands
28:32after a sports day
28:33at St. Kilian's Mission
28:34near Rusepe.
28:35The bus was rated
28:36for about 75.
28:38It carried close to 100,
28:40mostly children
28:41aged 13 to 15.
28:43On the twisting mountain road
28:45near Troutbeck,
28:46the driver was over-speeding
28:48on dangerous bends.
28:49Passengers begged him
28:50to slow down.
28:52Another motorist
28:52reportedly warned him, too.
28:54Every plea was ignored.
28:56Investigators disagree
28:57on the trigger.
28:58One police report
28:59found the bus
29:00mechanically unsound.
29:01Its driveshaft
29:02tied together with wire
29:03and blamed a burst rear tire.
29:05Another found no defects
29:07and blamed speed alone.
29:09Either way,
29:10the bus lost control,
29:11left the road,
29:13overturned,
29:13and plunged into
29:14a deep ravine in the dark,
29:16crushing the children inside.
29:18About 90 people died,
29:20including 82 schoolchildren,
29:22in what is widely described
29:24as Zimbabwe's
29:25worst-ever road crash.
29:27The driver died with them.
29:29President Robert Mugabe
29:30declared it a national disaster.
29:33The unfenced pit.
29:34The 21st of September, 1989,
29:37around 7.34 a.m.,
29:39Mission Consolidated
29:40Independent School District.
29:42Bus No. 6
29:43was carrying 81 junior
29:45and senior high students
29:46down FM 676
29:48in Alton, Texas,
29:49on their ordinary
29:51morning route to school.
29:52At the intersection
29:53with Bryan Road,
29:54a northbound Coca-Cola
29:56delivery truck
29:57faced a stop sign.
29:58The truck driver
29:59didn't stop.
30:00He struck the bus
30:01in the left side
30:02and knocked it
30:03off the roadway.
30:04Just off that intersection
30:05sat an unfenced
30:06Caliche quarry pit,
30:0824 feet deep
30:09and holding about
30:1010 feet of water.
30:11The bus dropped in,
30:13rolled onto its left side
30:14and submerged completely,
30:16filling in 30 to 60 seconds.
30:18The front door jammed.
30:20The only working
30:21emergency exit
30:22was one rear door
30:23for 81 kids.
30:2621 students drowned.
30:27The NTSB blamed
30:29the truck driver's
30:30inattention
30:31and named the lack of exits
30:32as a major factor
30:33in the death toll.
30:34The driver was tried
30:36for negligent homicide
30:37and acquitted.
30:38The War Canoes
30:39On the 11th of June, 1978,
30:42about 27 boys,
30:44aged 11 to 13,
30:46and four adult leaders
30:47from St. John's School,
30:49launched four 22-foot war canoes
30:52from the wharf
30:53at Lake Timiscaming, Quebec.
30:54It was a character-building expedition,
30:57a planned 525-mile haul
31:00toward James Bay
31:01meant to turn boys into men.
31:04Investigations later found
31:05the expedition
31:06was poorly planned
31:07and supervised,
31:08with inadequate safety measures
31:10and emergency preparedness
31:11for boys that age.
31:12At least one teacher
31:14had never canoed.
31:15Some boys couldn't swim.
31:17By afternoon,
31:18a storm hit,
31:19and the wind-driven waves
31:20flipped one heavily loaded canoe.
31:22When the others closed in to help,
31:24they capsized, too.
31:26Life jackets kept
31:27many of the boys afloat,
31:28but the lake was around
31:3043 degrees Fahrenheit.
31:32A pilot later spotted
31:33lifeless bodies,
31:35still tied to the canoe frames.
31:36They hadn't drowned first.
31:38They'd frozen.
31:40Twelve boys and one leader
31:41died of hypothermia.
31:43The coroner ruled
31:44the deaths accidental,
31:46calling the whole expedition
31:47an exaggerated
31:48and pointless challenge
31:49for boys that age.
31:51The Orange Warning.
31:52Fifteen-year-old Karnan Patera,
31:54a year 11 outdoor education student
31:56at Huangare Boys High School,
31:58entered Organ Cave
31:59in the Abbey Caves Complex
32:00near Huangare, New Zealand,
32:02on May 9, 2023.
32:04It was a school-caving trip,
32:0717 students and two adults,
32:08on a day when Northland
32:10sat under a severe
32:11orange rain warning
32:12after weeks of soaking rain.
32:14The trip went ahead anyway.
32:16There was no written safety plan,
32:18no proper risk assessment
32:20for rising water,
32:21and one of the two adults
32:22hadn't even been briefed
32:23on safety policy.
32:25While the class was underground,
32:27a torrential downpour
32:28turned the cave stream
32:29into a torrent.
32:31The water rose fast
32:32and trapped them.
32:34Sixteen students
32:35and both adults
32:36fought their way out
32:37over about an hour of terror.
32:39Karnan was swept away
32:40inside the flooded cave.
32:41His body was recovered
32:43around 9 p.m.,
32:44more than 10 hours
32:45after the water took him.
32:47The school's board
32:48pleaded guilty,
32:49was fined $400,000
32:51and ordered to pay reparations,
32:53bringing total payments
32:55to about $450,000.
32:58Build your own raft.
32:59Enoch Mimpianzi,
33:00a 13-year-old grade 8 learner
33:02at Parktown Boys High School
33:04in Johannesburg
33:05arrived at Nyety Bush
33:07and River Break Lodge
33:08near Brits, South Africa
33:09on the 15th of January 2020
33:12for his school's orientation camp.
33:15Around 200 boys were there,
33:17and he had just started high school
33:19dreaming of becoming a lawyer.
33:20A camp activity
33:22had the boys
33:22build their own makeshift rafts
33:24and take them
33:24onto the Crocodile River.
33:26There was a serious shortage
33:27of life jackets
33:28for the roughly 200 learners,
33:30and many boys,
33:32including Enoch,
33:33were sent onto
33:34the Crocodile River
33:35without one.
33:36Enoch's self-built raft
33:37overturned in the current,
33:39and he went under.
33:40No one did a head count
33:42at the river.
33:42His absence went unnoticed
33:44for two days.
33:45His parents were told nothing
33:46until his body was found
33:48on January 17,
33:49about 1.1 miles downstream.
33:51An independent investigation
33:53found the school and camp
33:54reckless and negligent.
33:56His family filed a civil claim
33:57for 10 million rand
33:59against the Gauteng Department
34:00of Education
34:01and the school's governing body.
34:02The wrong destination.
34:04On the 25th of October 2018,
34:0737 middle school students
34:09and seven staff
34:10from a private school in Amman
34:11were on a field trip in Jordan,
34:13taking a break
34:14at the Zara Main Hot Springs
34:16in a narrow canyon
34:17above the Dead Sea.
34:18Most of the children
34:19were 12 to 14 years old.
34:21Jordan was under
34:22a severe rain warning that day.
34:24The Ministry of Education
34:26had approved a trip to Azrak,
34:28a safer destination.
34:29The school changed it
34:31to the Dead Sea Canyon
34:32without authorization.
34:33Around 3 p.m.,
34:35a thunderstorm dumped heavy rain
34:37on the mountains of Madaba
34:38above them,
34:38and a flash flood roared
34:40roughly three miles
34:41down the valley
34:42toward the sea.
34:43The water struck the group
34:44with almost no warning
34:46and swept them off their feet.
34:48Some were carried
34:49miles downstream.
34:50Bodies were later found
34:51on cliffs
34:52near the Dead Sea shore.
34:5421 people died,
34:56including 16 children.
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