Yellowstone National Park
Park official finds human foot floating in hot spring
A human foot swam here: the Abyss Pool hot spring in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park
© National Park Service/Diane Renkin/AP/DPA
Scary discovery in Yellowstone National Park in the US state of Wyoming: A warden found a human’s foot in the Abyss Pool, which is up to 60 degrees hot, including the shoe.
A human foot has been found in southern Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. An employee discovered him on Tuesday in the Abyss Pool, one of the hot springs in the nature reserve, park spokeswoman Morgan Warthin said on Thursday (local time). The foot was still in a shoe.
The Abyss Pool is located west of West Thumb Geyser Pool, the largest geyser pool on the shore of Yellowstone Lake. The chilling find has led to the temporary closure of the pool and its parking lot, reports the Associated Press (AP) news agency. The area is now freely accessible again. However, an investigation was launched into the finding. So far, however, there is no further information about the foot.
To Information from the National Parks Administration of the USA The Abyss Pool is one of the deepest hot springs in Yellowstone Park at 16 meters deep. His temperature is around 140 degrees Fahrenheit, park officials told the AP.
Yellowstone Park warns of hot springs danger
In hot springs, the superheated water cools as it reaches the surface, sinks to the bottom, and is replaced by hotter water from below. The circulation prevents the water from reaching the temperature required for the formation of a geyser, according to the park’s website.
Hot springs are one of Yellowstone Park’s most famous attractions, but they can also be dangerous, even deadly. “Hot springs have injured or killed more people in Yellowstone than any other natural feature,” the park officials said in a warning. In June 2016, a 23-year-old Oregon man was killed and his body virtually dissolved after entering a restricted area and falling into a boiling, acidic spring.
The man had been looking for a hot spring bath with his sister, bent down to check the water temperature, slipped and fell in. Rescuers later found his body in the pool but were unable to recover it due to a thunderstorm in the area. When they returned the next day, they could find no human remains in the turbulent, acidic waters of the spring.
Source: Associated Press,National Park Service, CNN