Sucked Into Dam - Lake Oliver Dam Incident

On October 27th, 2020, at the Lake Oliver Dam near Columbus, Georgia, commercial divers Alex Paxton and Eric Herbert were part of a maintenance team tasked with fixing an issue with the floodgate chain of the Lake Oliver Hydroelectric Dam. What started as a routine dive quickly turned into a horrible disaster.

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In respectful memory of Alex Paxton.

CREDITS:

[bowlagrits]

I graduated with Alex. He was a friend. RIP

[kylebarker]

Just when I was about to say "despite it's tragic end it's nice that at least all the officials did what they could to help this time". Then the section about Georgia Power started...

[skywind]

These companies don't care about their employees.

[Djuni]

Your Videos are great man. Super interesting and calm and clear explained

[MarkSkujins-rnvg]

Thank you man you have a great voice and talent to get every detail

[Millerlilieberlin]

I congratulate you on all your episodes, they are magnificent, and your voice is perfect.❤

[briang]

Wow! This dam is 3 minutes from my house, and I never knew anything about this. My grand dad helped build Oliver dam, and I've walked across it a few times and done lots of fishing below it, and never heard anything on the news, radio or the internet about this. It just goes to show you how they love to keep things like this very quiet. R.I.P. Alex

[kiko]

This is a tragedy. My condolences to the victim's friends and family. I can totally see why the survivor has PTSD and is dealing with "survivor syndrome". No one should ever die because of the work they do, even if it's high risk. Big corps always playing the "it's not my fault" card is just ridiculous and cruel.

[MrToonfish]

I am working in a nuclear power plant and for almost every intervention we are asked, if things go wrong, what is your fallback solution ? Not here ? As the communication system was running fine, as soon as someone screams and is in a danger why someone don't ask to close / shutdown of the valve to stop that huge delta P ? Sorry for the worker who died in this accident.

[beckyUK]

Another interesting video, thankyou! RIP Alex. Big businesses ugh.

[gelonyobakkopan]

Delta P is the ultimate apex hunter of humans.
food chains need some updates.

[znaj]

Love how afterwards the companies started pointing fingers at each other.

[whitegrillattack]

New fear unlocked:Water and air pressure

[victorraphael]

love tour videos man am always snooping around to see a one one released every week I hope you release them with more frequency since they are very interesting

[MohammadAmin-ky]

This is really sad, that is why rechecking work MULTIPLE times is necessary, such events can also happen with low risk jobs but you never know what waiting for you, May Allah bless him
RIP

[chillwave]

I’m new to the channel, and I’m already addicted.

[MelihErdem]

Ah yes, corporate negligence at its finest

[willaerley]

Does every penstock have a priming pipe with a gate valve? No one ever noticed something missing from the checklist? Can’t be the first time it was serviced.

[Tanaka]

Your channel and voice is so consistent I'm beginning to think it's AI, you're just that good istg

[dsm]

someone that worked at that dam knew about the primer pipe, but they weren't management