This blog is about the “Nutty Putty Cave” incident. In which a 26 years old caver John Edward Jones
got stuck in a cave in 2009. His experience is an unforgettable lesson for all the caving lovers around the world that how dangerous caving can be and why one should follow safe caving practices.
John had a large family of 7 siblings. He had a good nature, delightful sense of humor, strong work ethic, genuine love for people and he was a great husband, father, son and brother. He had ‘an experience of caving but not recently’.
At the time of incident , his wife was pregnant with their second child.
On November 24, 2009 John and Josh {his brother} decided to revive their love for caving and picked Nutty Putty Cave as their next conquest. 9 more friends and their fellows had joined them. Everything went smooth for an hour or so. The party had explored the largest room in the cave called the BIG SLIDE. Soon, John and his brother decided to explore a narrow and challenging passageway eventually opens up into a larger room.
John went first” he wriggled forward sometime but didn’t see any larger area. He continued to inch forward, but the narrow passage didn’t come to an end, the squeeze made a sharp downward turn. John pressed forward perhaps noticing the tunnel got wider at the bottom, but it was too late. It is also said that john crawled into another passageway called Ed’s Push , just to next to where they were decided to explore.