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Dec. 17, 2024

Rainfall of Death: Krakatoa

Rainfall of Death: Krakatoa
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Season 1

Have you ever found yourself in a professional setting, trying to maintain a semblance of dignity while battling a cold? We sure have! Kick back with us as we share our hilariously awkward attempts at podcasting through stuffy noses and comical pronunciation slip-ups. And don’t worry, our signature beverage segment is back—complete with new beer tastings and the inevitable spills that keep us on our toes.

But it's not all giggles and guffaws. Bradley opens up about his journey with hearing loss, transforming what could be a serious discussion into an unexpectedly funny exploration of selective hearing and youthful indiscretions, like ignoring the need for ear protection during drumming sessions. Our light-hearted tales make space for some sincere moments, showing how past actions echo through our lives today.

Ready for a blast from the past? We transport you to the explosive world of Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption, weaving together personal concert anecdotes and the cataclysmic power of nature. From ear-piercing decibels to earth-shaking tsunamis, we paint a vivid picture of one of history's most powerful volcanic eruptions. As we wrap up, remember to rest those vocal cords and join us online—we’re always eager to dive headfirst into another historical adventure with you!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes

“The Log of The Cutty Sark”. Basil Lubbock. 1925

Reference: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/did-the-1883-krakatoa-explosion-leave-ships-in-peril.879869/

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Chapters

00:10 - Dealing With Hearing Loss and Pronunciation

05:51 - Krakatoa

18:28 - The Krakatoa Eruption

31:11 - The Power of the Krakatoa Eruption

41:45 - Unprecedented Devastation of Krakatoa

59:42 - Rest Your Voice

Transcript
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oh, hey there, oh hey there.

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Kate, how are?

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You I'm okay.

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How are you?

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I have a cold that is very evident in in your sound.

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You're doing okay.

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It's pretty awesome though it's pretty awesome though yeah, um, I.

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I kind of hate functioning with a cold because you look like death, you sound like death, yeah, um, but you don't feel like death, you feel bad right but you don't feel like death and so like you still gotta go to work on monday and gotta keep, keep on keeping.

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well, life doesn't stop for when you're sick.

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Right, all of that would be great.

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When I was doing facials full time, I would have my front desk staff call all of my clients that day.

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If you were sick?

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Yeah, and say hey, she is coming in.

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She's going to be wearing a mask.

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Are you okay with her working on you?

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And nine out of ten they were like yeah, that's fine, but I will have the occasional no reschedule, which I get exactly.

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Um, so I'll probably have to do that for for monday.

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Hey, people were podcasting on saturday um, so I'll probably have them call on on Monday and make sure that I mean I'm not doing.

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I think I might have one facial on Monday, otherwise it's all massage but, so I'm not super close all the time, but I still work on their neck and shoulders and you're close enough and you know, obviously germs can transfer or whatever.

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So, I mean, I get that so but I would, I would assume you know, obviously, being in the profession you are, you have to wash your hands a lot and all that stuff Right.

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Yeah, I figured.

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But uh, um, I know you have a question for me, but I just wanted to say something really quick.

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Okay.

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I wanted to apologize to you about a word that I always thought it was a certain way but it wasn't, so I believe it was in Nero he was playing.

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What was the title of that?

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one Oprah of Death.

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That's right, I always thought it was called a lyre or a lyre, and you called it a lyre.

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The musical instrument yes, and I happened to listen to an audiobook about medieval stuff yeah and they mentioned a lyre and I'm like, oh, maybe kate's right, I I always thought it was a leer.

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Yeah, I, that's how I guess I learned it or something.

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I have no idea.

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Yeah, but I've heard that way.

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So I wanted to apologize for trying to correct you on that.

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But I mean, I was pronouncing Mel Blanc as Mel Blanc, and so that is true.

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Hey, we are not professionals.

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No, we are buffoons.

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Oh, did we?

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By the way, did we say that Welcome?

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to History Buffoons.

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Hi, I'm Kate.

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And I'm Bradley, we're.

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History.

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Buffoons, I'd like to say we'll get better at that, because we say that every time.

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We do that.

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Maybe by the 25th episode.

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Here's to hoping, here's to hoping yeah, we're living up to our name, that's for darn sure.

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I mean, we named ourselves Buffoons for a reason.

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Yes, we weren't just making it clever.

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So we both have a beer that we've both tried before, that we've tried before and we liked.

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I haven't tried this one, no, this one is new for me.

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Oh, okay, I've had Third Space, which is the brewery, but no, this one I have not had yet.

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Okay, what is it?

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It's called First Trx West Coast IPA and it's got a mountain with snow on it.

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The Trax.

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The Trax.

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But no, yeah, so it looked interesting and sounds delicious being a West Coast IPA.

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And I have one that I've tried recently on the podcast called Fresh Coast.

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Yeah, you did like that one.

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And it's a juicy pale ale from three sheeps from.

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Sheboygan Wisconsin.

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All right, and so I knew I liked it.

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So here we go Cheers.

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Cheers.

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I had to take a sip of mine right away because I dropped it when I got out of the fridge.

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Was it a little fuzzy?

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It was Fizzy Fuzzy.

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Both, and then I spilled a little on my shirt, my bad.

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Can't take you anywhere.

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You're not wrong.

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Okay, so that's not bad.

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So, bradley, yes, kate, you have hearing loss, I do.

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How's that going for you?

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What?

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If you could speak into the good microphone.

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I mean, wait, it really kind of sucks, yeah, but it's really strange.

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It almost like picks its moments where I can.

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I think that's called selective hearing.

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Well, let me finish.

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It picks its moments where I can hear.

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I think that's called selective hearing.

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Well, let me finish.

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It picks up moments where I can hear just fucking great, where all of a sudden you would be in a different room but an adjoining room or something and you'd be like blah, blah, blah.

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I'm like what?

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And you're like how would you hear that?

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I can hear stuff like that once in a while, but sometimes we're not.

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I don't know.

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Seven, I can hear stuff like that once in a while, but sometimes we're not.

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I don't know.

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Seven feet away, six feet away, whatever this is and it'd be like what I didn't hear, what you said, my addiction also isn't great, Well you know, I mean it can't be perfect, I guess, but no, it's just.

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It's weird because I feel like I should.

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I mean playing the drums as long as I have and being young and stupid and not wearing ear protection while playing the drums.

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Well, and you went to tons of concerts too, didn't you?

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I used to go to a lot of concerts and I was never the guy who liked to be up right next to the stage Because I liked to watch the bands.

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I never wanted to be one in a mosh pit or anything.

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You didn't want to watch their nostrils from down below look at that guy's.

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He waxes but um, but nonetheless I wax nathan's nose yeah, I know you told me that yeah, he, he likes the um.

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he doesn't like the actual like process of it.

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No, of course not.

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It hurts, but he likes the after effects.

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Well, that's good yeah.

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But no, even being anywhere within the venue and they're all usually small, even stadium ones.

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It's freaking loud in there, yeah, so it affects your hearing quite a bit.

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Well, I'm going to tell you about the loudest sound ever recorded.

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Oh really, yes, your hearing quite a bit.

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Well, I'm going to tell you about the loudest sound ever recorded oh really, yes, it is the 1883.

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It sounds like I'm not excited to be here.

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I really am.

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I'm very happy to be doing this right now.

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I sound like death yeah, I mean, maybe I I can pitch you up a bit.

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Oh God, you sound like a chipmunk or something.

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That'd be pretty great.

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No, we understand You're a little under the weather, as they say, so we get that you're excited to be here.

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It might not come across in an audio medium.

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So, side note, because tangent, um, because tangent, there's an episode of friends, okay, where phoebe she makes me laugh because she's just such a funny character.

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Phoebe gets a cold and she was asked to do like a music video, okay, of her, her song, smelly cat.

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Oh, that's right.

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Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat yeah.

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It was something like that, and when they recorded it, she was sick and she sounded amazing.

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And then, when she wasn't sick, she sounded horrible Yep.

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And so she was going around kissing all of the other friends in the apartment to try to get their germs to get sick again yeah, I do remember that episode actually vaguely okay, so the loudest sound ever recorded and you said it was from 18.

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What?

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1883 did they actually have recording equipment to record it?

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um, it was probably more along the lines of personal testimony.

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Oh, okay, and like the effects of what happened, I see okay.

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So not actually recorded.

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It was documented, yeah, documented yeah, gotcha, but it was the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

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Krakatoa.

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Where is that?

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So Krakatoa is a volcanic island in Indonesia.

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Oh, that's right okay.

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So it's in a country in Southeast Asia.

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Because yeah, I've heard of Krakatoa before, but yeah, so it sits in the Sundra Strait and there's like little tiny islands nearby, so is it like one of many islands.

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Krakatoa is the island but there are several around it as well, gotcha, okay, and there's two larger islands, one on the east side and one on the west side, okay, one is Sumatra, sumatra, and the other is Java.

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Java Like coffee.

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Yeah, oh or JavaScript.

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You're a nerd.

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So Krakatoa, jesus Christ.

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Or am I a nerd because I knew what you're talking about?

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Yeah, what the hell that ain't right so krakatoa actually has three cones, really, yeah, so the first one is perbowi wotan or perbowi wotan tomato, tomato it is the northernmost cone and it's 120 meters tall, which is also 390 feet oh wow, that's pretty good size, I guess yes, the middle cone is danann Nan Da Nan, lieutenant Da Nan, you beat me to it.

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Middle cone is 450 meters, so quite a bit taller oh wow.

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At 1,480 feet.

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Okay.

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So yeah, that definitely got a little taller.

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And then Whoa.

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There's ricotta.

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Like cheese.

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The ricotta cone is the southernmost, okay, and it's 820 meters or 2690 feet oh, is that?

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wow, that's over double the previous one.

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Yes, oh, yes so in the months preceding the eruption in 1883, krakatoa had like a steady increase in seismic activity.

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Okay, um, there were tremors that were felt from from the volcano all the way to Australia, which is approximately 1,300 miles away.

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Wow, yeah, really yeah, jesus, isn't that crazy.

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That's really far to feel that Okay.

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Yeah, so some activity happened on May 20th 1883.

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There were Strombolian eruptions.

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Strombolian Mm-hmm.

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What is that?

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Isn't that like a pasta dish?

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Stromboli, stromboli.

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I always think of Pinocchio.

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Why?

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Because that's the guy who made him.

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That's Geppetto.

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Let me finish Not who made him, who him?

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Uh, be in the in the marionette show oh, that was his name.

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Yeah, interesting.

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Well, strombolian eruptions consist of intermittent explosive bursts which eject pyro class, which I'll get to, okay, as high as hundreds of feet into the air like fireworks.

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Oh dear, okay, okay.

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So these eruptions were um pretty frequent, coming from perbowi wotan okay and um, that was the first one you mentioned.

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Yeah, that was the sauce, yes, and the northern most right.

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So ash plumes reach an altitude above six kilometers, which is about three and a half miles oh geez and the detonations were audible in batavia, jakarta, over 160 kilometers or 100 miles away.

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Jesus christ.

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Um, that had to be they could be, they could be, um, they heard, uh, rattling of doors and windows and stuff and this isn't even the loudest one yet, right?

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Oh no, no, this is just like.

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This is just the what would they call it?

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The introduction.

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An investigative scientific party went to the island on May 26th and they saw blanketed fine white dust with periwoton erupting at regular intervals approximately five to ten minutes apart.

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Wow, so, while the frequency of eruptions appeared to diminish, so if they were five to ten minutes apart, did they have to get to the hospital?

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I was so going to talk.

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I was so going to just mention something about being dilated, but I was like no, that's not appropriate.

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And of course you, you read my mind.

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Essentially so sorry.

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Some explosions um remained really, really loud, even though the just the eruptions were starting to diminish, sure, um, but they were still propelling pumice up into the wind and the air and so a large crater, nearly 900 meters in diameter, which is about a half a mile wow vented plumes of steam, okay, okay, and then nothing, silence so like did they think it was done then?

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I mean so we're talking between end of May, mid-June Sure.

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So they were silenced for about two weeks.

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Okay.

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So whether or not they thought they were done, I don't know Gotcha.

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So June 16th, there was another surge.

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Oh, Loud explosions vibrated through the air and a thick black cloud covered the island for five days.

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Ooh, really, wow, that's a long time.

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By June 19th, the eruptions were regaining intensity.

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Okay.

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And then, on June 24th, there was a major shift in the wind and it dispersed the clouds and what was seen were two distinct ash columns rising from Krakatoa Wow, extinct ash columns rising from Krakatoa Wow.

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So, most notably Perboi Wotan, the summit cone was gone.

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So it like blew up, basically it obliterated Wow.

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Yeah.

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And the eruptions appear to have shifted to new vents forming between Perboi, wotan and Danian, the middle cone.

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Did you?

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I'm sorry.

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Did you mention how close each one was to each other, or no?

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I did not, but they're all, they all.

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It's all one big volcano they just have different cones.

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Yeah, three openings essentially, yeah, okay so the violence of these eruptions caused unusually high tides, sure, and forcing anchored ships to secure themselves with, like, additional chains.

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Oh wow, they're like.

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Hey, we're there, sees rocking us a little bit more than usual so earthquakes were felt in nearby towns such as anier and banton on the island of java what is was there?

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is there people who live on krakatoa?

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then at this time, I don't remember reading that, but Jakarta Java.

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Those are settlements and whatnot.

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Yes, okay, but yeah, I don't recall reading that.

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That's a good question.

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So throughout July eruptions steadily intensified, and then in early August a Dutch engineer, captain Fersenar, fersenar, fersenar.

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Is that his first name?

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No last name, Okay, just making sure.

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He surveyed Krakatoa, so he documented three major ash columns, the newest originating from Danann, and it obscured the western portion of the island.

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So he counted steam plumes emanating from at least 11 other vents.

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Wow, and they were concentrated between danann and rakita and upon landing he found a half meter thick ash layer okay and nothing but tree stumps oh so like obliterated the trees too, yeah, and then holy crap and then captain furzanar is like I'm gonna see myself out I'm not sticking around here.

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No, he was like sayonara krakatoa it sounds like a really weird song or something.

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On August 22nd 1883, the Irish merchant vessel, the Charles Ball, was sailing northwest through the Sundress Strait on its way to China, when Captain Watson noticed something chilling.

00:16:59.398 --> 00:17:05.027
See when I'm sick, I sound really great, right.

00:17:05.989 --> 00:17:06.671
I sound so great.

00:17:06.671 --> 00:17:08.886
Yeah, it's all nice and deep.

00:17:09.800 --> 00:17:16.087
Charles Ball encountered an anomaly the sea turned a milky white.

00:17:16.087 --> 00:17:18.211
What All around the ship.

00:17:18.798 --> 00:17:19.000
Okay.

00:17:19.361 --> 00:17:29.105
And then there was an aura-like silver glow in the sky which continued for days, aura like silver glow in the sky which continued for for days.

00:17:29.105 --> 00:17:32.959
And you know, the sky and the ocean, they bounce light off of each other, so I'm sure there's something sure to that effect, right?

00:17:32.959 --> 00:17:35.884
Um, but yeah, obviously never seen before.

00:17:35.884 --> 00:17:51.142
No, so by august 25th, as they approach java head, which is a prominent cape um the coast of Java, the sky above the land was thick with dark clouds and flashes of lightning.

00:17:51.142 --> 00:17:59.374
The next day they could only see a small portion of the northeastern tip of Krakatoa and the rest was obscured by a dense black cloud.

00:17:59.374 --> 00:18:02.971
Okay, but on a positive note.

00:18:02.971 --> 00:18:04.942
On a positive note, the weather remained clear.

00:18:05.521 --> 00:18:07.404
Well, I mean, that sounds lovely.

00:18:07.505 --> 00:18:10.709
And there was a lovely southwesterly wind, but on a positive note, the weather remained clear.

00:18:10.730 --> 00:18:12.592
Well, I mean, that sounds lovely and there was a lovely southwesterly wind.

00:18:12.592 --> 00:18:13.393
What was the speed of the?

00:18:13.413 --> 00:18:13.874
wind, five miles.

00:18:13.874 --> 00:18:14.233
I don't know.

00:18:14.233 --> 00:18:15.155
Should we ask Mary Poppins?

00:18:15.836 --> 00:18:16.057
Yes.

00:18:19.009 --> 00:18:20.079
She tends to fly in when the wind changes.

00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:20.861
Jesus.

00:18:22.724 --> 00:18:27.340
I'm dying Speaking of musicals.

00:18:27.340 --> 00:18:29.584
What did you find for your mom today?

00:18:32.191 --> 00:18:33.734
Oh, I was at an antique store.

00:18:34.115 --> 00:18:34.336
Yeah.

00:18:34.845 --> 00:18:40.994
And I found her the original 1956 vinyl of Carousel.

00:18:41.015 --> 00:18:42.057
Because that's a musical right.

00:18:42.057 --> 00:18:43.519
It is a musical yeah.

00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.596
Yeah, so she was pretty happy, it was $9.

00:18:47.596 --> 00:18:50.190
And it was 20% off, 20% off.

00:18:50.470 --> 00:18:51.352
You said that yeah.

00:18:51.491 --> 00:18:53.115
Yeah, no, it was great, that's awesome.

00:18:53.115 --> 00:18:53.958
Yeah, she was happy.

00:18:53.958 --> 00:18:56.026
Good, you said that.

00:18:56.026 --> 00:18:57.327
Yeah, yeah, no, it's great, that's awesome.

00:18:57.347 --> 00:19:00.272
Yeah, she was happy good now if I can just remember to mail it to her.

00:19:00.292 --> 00:19:14.469
Um so, mom, if you're listening to this and you don't have it yet, please say something please send me a friendly reminder text so on august 26th around 1 pm, the volcano entered a terrifying new phase.

00:19:14.469 --> 00:19:20.058
Oh dear, a monstrous black ash cloud towered 27 kilometers into the sky.

00:19:20.058 --> 00:19:22.053
It's about 17 miles.

00:19:22.506 --> 00:19:24.332
Holy crap, really.

00:19:24.332 --> 00:19:26.509
Yeah, that is a high-ass.

00:19:26.730 --> 00:19:28.454
That's a cloud, that's an ash cloud.

00:19:28.494 --> 00:19:28.855
That is a.

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That's a big ash cloud.

00:19:31.244 --> 00:19:35.717
The eruptions became near-cont near continuous, with explosions every 10 minutes.

00:19:36.526 --> 00:19:40.516
And these people are still just anchored off the island.

00:19:40.516 --> 00:19:41.317
Good lord.

00:19:42.086 --> 00:19:44.933
So it actually sounded like rapid gunfire.

00:19:45.214 --> 00:19:45.355
I bet.

00:19:45.964 --> 00:19:50.516
Following crackling and hissing sounds resembling a big fire.

00:19:50.516 --> 00:19:51.278
Sure, yeah.

00:19:51.278 --> 00:20:01.229
So by 4.15, the Charles Ball that that ship was just 10 miles south of volcano and they are one of the closest eyewitnesses accounts.

00:20:01.229 --> 00:20:09.748
Okay, okay, krakatoa erupted, spewing blinding rain within a tornado windstorm.

00:20:09.748 --> 00:20:12.131
So mary poppins is nowhere to be seen.

00:20:12.131 --> 00:20:13.512
No, she's flying away.

00:20:13.512 --> 00:20:25.816
Yeah, so the sky was filled with red-hot ashes and the wind was picking up from the west-southwest and Captain Watson, fearing for his ship's safety, ordered the sails shortened.

00:20:25.816 --> 00:20:27.157
Sure, okay.

00:20:27.157 --> 00:20:31.375
By 5 pm, the detonations were heard across the entire island of Java.

00:20:31.375 --> 00:20:39.508
Wow, as the sun went down, a thick black layer of smoke engulfed the sky.

00:20:39.508 --> 00:20:40.951
Okay, and the charles ball went into darkness.

00:20:40.971 --> 00:21:03.195
I mean it had to be pretty dark with all that ash cloud in the sky right yes, yes, very, very, very dark because you said it was getting nighttime at this point also that yes, I mean yeah, you couldn't see anything no so hot pumice stones began to fall, forcing the crew to take cover, and the barrage continued for an hour before reducing to smaller stones, ash and dust.

00:21:03.195 --> 00:21:03.757
Oh, thank God.

00:21:03.998 --> 00:21:04.218
Yeah.

00:21:04.605 --> 00:21:05.770
At least we got it done with the big ones.

00:21:05.770 --> 00:21:19.494
So were they like because you said they're like hot stones and stuff like could they set like their ship on fire kind of hot, or is it just they were just hot from being erupted, or I mean?

00:21:19.556 --> 00:21:25.212
it's possible that they were on fire, but they're also like traveling through the air at high speeds, yeah.

00:21:25.212 --> 00:21:35.638
So the ship finding it hard to navigate, captain watson slowed down his ship and they were somewhere near the aneur lighthouse of java.

00:21:35.638 --> 00:21:41.938
So, though visibility was poor, they they weren't sure that they were actually like near shore.

00:21:41.938 --> 00:21:43.448
Oh sure, um.

00:21:43.448 --> 00:21:53.354
So sand and stones continued to fall and the sky above the island was full of explosions and flashes, and every direction around the ship crackled with lightning.

00:21:53.354 --> 00:21:57.140
Jeez, it's like Thor was mad.

00:21:57.140 --> 00:22:00.092
He was so mad.

00:22:00.625 --> 00:22:02.192
It's like I'm pissed off man.

00:22:03.987 --> 00:22:11.125
At 530 in the evening, waves a few feet high began pounding the coastlines of Java and Sumatra.

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So it was basically creating a mini tsunami kind of thing and Sumatra.

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So it was basically creating a mini tsunami kind of thing.

00:22:15.746 --> 00:22:23.555
So these waves, likely caused by steam explosions, continued battering the shores throughout the night.

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Ships within a 20 kilometer radius, or about 12 miles of the volcano, reported relentless rain of ash with scorching pumice stones up to 10 centimeters about four inches in diameter, raining down on their decks.

00:22:39.805 --> 00:22:41.089
Could you imagine getting hit by one of those?

00:22:41.190 --> 00:22:44.112
Ouch no kidding, it's like Armageddon all over again.

00:22:44.112 --> 00:22:48.170
I'm on point with these references.

00:22:48.309 --> 00:22:50.537
Oh my God, you are A smaller.

00:22:51.105 --> 00:22:53.192
I guess I'm getting smarter when I get sick, I don't know.

00:22:53.192 --> 00:22:55.145
No, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

00:22:55.145 --> 00:22:56.667
Yeah, I guess I'm getting smarter when I get sick, I don't know.

00:22:56.667 --> 00:22:57.409
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

00:22:57.409 --> 00:23:13.526
A smaller tsunami struck the shores of Java and Sumatra between 7 and 8 pm, impacting areas 40 kilometers away, or about 25 miles by 11 pm.

00:23:13.526 --> 00:23:15.355
Krakatoa was seen when they were 11 miles off to the northwest.

00:23:15.355 --> 00:23:22.915
Okay, they witnessed chains of fire erupting from the island and steams of white-hot fire rolling away from its southwest end.

00:23:22.915 --> 00:23:25.711
Jeez, the back end, if you would.

00:23:25.771 --> 00:23:26.515
Yeah.

00:23:27.987 --> 00:23:28.790
The back end.

00:23:30.846 --> 00:23:32.031
Oh, that was great.

00:23:33.026 --> 00:23:39.078
The wind was hot, choking, sulfurousous, carrying the stench of burning cinders.

00:23:39.885 --> 00:23:58.366
Some of the falling debris felt like red hot iron, and even the lead line used to measure the depth of the water yeah came up warm from the bottom of the sea I don't know if you even saw this, but obviously, being an island, it's one big volcano with three different spouts.

00:23:58.366 --> 00:24:01.913
How deep was the island?

00:24:01.913 --> 00:24:16.468
I guess I mean the water there, because it obviously has to go down to the floor right um, but yeah, I would imagine, because that's building up through there, that had to heat that water up pretty good yeah, I don't know what that's just crazy, yeah and they're 11 miles out too, right.

00:24:16.508 --> 00:24:20.882
So I mean that's pretty far and that would probably mean it's also deeper in that area.

00:24:20.882 --> 00:24:22.729
Yeah right, wow, yeah.

00:24:22.729 --> 00:24:28.298
So from midnight to 4 am on the 27th, the charles ball looked to be in hell.

00:24:28.298 --> 00:24:32.931
A choking wind howled between the southwest and west-southwest.

00:24:32.931 --> 00:24:39.420
The darkness was broken only by the constant, terrifying roar and thunder of Krakatoa's eruptions.

00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:47.479
Jeez, the ship's masts and yards were glowing with an electrical phenomenon known as St Amos Fire.

00:24:49.026 --> 00:24:50.933
That's what that like the movie.

00:24:51.685 --> 00:24:52.931
Yeah, but I've never seen it, have you.

00:24:53.065 --> 00:24:54.290
I've never actually seen that either.

00:24:54.290 --> 00:24:55.048
Yeah, an electrical phenomenon?

00:24:55.048 --> 00:24:56.234
Yeah, but I've never seen it, have you?

00:24:56.234 --> 00:24:57.038
I've never actually seen that either.

00:24:57.038 --> 00:24:57.962
Yeah, an electrical phenomenon yeah, no.

00:24:57.983 --> 00:24:58.244
I didn't know.

00:24:58.244 --> 00:25:02.536
So on August 27th, the unthinkable happened.

00:25:03.365 --> 00:25:07.733
August 27th, you said Was it unthinkable, because the months of foreshadowing.

00:25:07.733 --> 00:25:12.532
I mean, it was building up to it.

00:25:12.625 --> 00:25:14.752
I had no idea this was going to happen.

00:25:14.752 --> 00:25:20.301
This took me by complete surprise.

00:25:20.301 --> 00:25:25.969
Four huge eruptions ripped through.

00:25:26.390 --> 00:25:31.917
Krakatoa, like bad beans, beans beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot.

00:25:31.938 --> 00:25:32.759
The more you toot, the better you feel.

00:25:32.798 --> 00:25:37.108
So eat, the more you toot, the more you toot, the better you feel, so eat beans with every meal.

00:25:37.108 --> 00:25:40.477
I'm getting warm.

00:25:40.477 --> 00:25:42.421
I am very warm right now.

00:25:43.123 --> 00:25:49.755
It's the laughing so the first detonation um you said four of them.

00:25:49.755 --> 00:26:16.135
Right, four yeah so the first one happened at 5 30 in the morning from per boat bowie wilton yeah, that would wake you up, I mean, you didn't want an alarm that today too bad I got you um, so it sent a tsunami surging towards the coastal city of talok batang okay which is now known as bandar lampung of sumatra I kind of like the first name better, but okay.

00:26:17.205 --> 00:26:25.256
At 6.44 am, danan erupted, triggering a tsunami that grew in both eastward and westward directions.

00:26:25.537 --> 00:26:27.852
Wow, Like the Red Sea.

00:26:27.852 --> 00:26:28.708
I was going to say so.

00:26:28.708 --> 00:26:30.594
It's literally just going both ways.

00:26:30.845 --> 00:26:32.771
Yeah, just like the Red.

00:26:33.053 --> 00:26:33.233
Sea.

00:26:33.233 --> 00:26:35.513
I mean mouses, mouses, is that you?

00:26:35.513 --> 00:26:36.297
Yeah, just like the red seat.

00:26:36.297 --> 00:26:40.813
I mean Moses, moses, is that you, moses?

00:26:41.846 --> 00:26:49.557
By 6 am the eruption subsided somewhat and a faint outline of the Java shore became visible to the sailors of the Charles Ball.

00:26:49.557 --> 00:26:49.877
Okay.

00:26:49.877 --> 00:26:57.661
And they passed the Java lighthouse at 8 am, raising their signal flags but receiving no response.

00:26:57.661 --> 00:26:58.203
Oh dear.

00:26:58.203 --> 00:27:02.290
Sailing close enough to the city to see the houses, they saw no signs of life.

00:27:03.326 --> 00:27:09.556
So I mean I can't imagine they just abandoned I was going to say ship, but abandoned island.

00:27:09.556 --> 00:27:14.489
I mean, would that have killed people, with how big the explosion was?

00:27:14.489 --> 00:27:16.329
Yes, holy crap.

00:27:17.310 --> 00:27:18.772
Around 10, 15 am.

00:27:18.772 --> 00:27:21.654
They pass within half a mile of Button Island.

00:27:22.035 --> 00:27:22.355
Button.

00:27:23.537 --> 00:27:25.097
I tried to find this island.

00:27:25.097 --> 00:27:26.659
Was it a cute?

00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:29.501
island Cute as a button yeah.

00:27:32.105 --> 00:27:36.028
I still don't understand that saying, but anyways, make it one of our idioms.

00:27:37.430 --> 00:27:38.109
I will work on that.

00:27:38.170 --> 00:27:42.193
So button island does not exist Did you say butt island Button.

00:27:42.193 --> 00:27:44.536
Okay, I'm sick.

00:27:45.616 --> 00:27:46.396
I understand.

00:27:46.396 --> 00:27:49.480
I've been trying to do my best today to not.

00:27:50.099 --> 00:27:51.141
Button island.

00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:51.501
Okay.

00:27:53.464 --> 00:27:57.815
I could not find it, so I'm wondering if it disappeared in the tsunami.

00:27:58.336 --> 00:28:00.611
But okay, I mean, I guess that's possible.

00:28:00.611 --> 00:28:08.528
Yeah, I have no idea, I don't know how big of an island it was and the explosion clearly was huge, or maybe like that other place.

00:28:08.568 --> 00:28:11.676
They renamed it and I didn't read what it was.

00:28:11.845 --> 00:28:13.050
I suppose that's very possible.

00:28:14.006 --> 00:28:16.786
So here the weather seemed calmer.

00:28:16.786 --> 00:28:23.904
Um, no ash or cinders, okay, um, but they had like a glassy sea, but it was very short-lived.

00:28:23.904 --> 00:28:29.601
Oh really, a tremendous explosion blew from krakatoa, now over 30 miles away.

00:28:29.601 --> 00:28:32.787
The crew witnessed four massive walls of water.

00:28:32.787 --> 00:28:42.440
Water surging in, completely engulfing the southern tip of Button Island and rising halfway up the northern and eastern sides.

00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:46.453
Jeez, the waves were also seen crashing over the Java shore.

00:28:46.453 --> 00:28:57.539
Sure, another monstrous blast was heard approximately 3,110 kilometers away, or 1,930 miles, oh my God.

00:28:57.539 --> 00:28:59.131
In Perth, australia.

00:28:59.904 --> 00:29:03.055
They heard it all the way there Mm-hmm, holy crap.

00:29:03.224 --> 00:29:06.653
And even reached the distant Indian Ocean island of Rodriguez.

00:29:06.653 --> 00:29:19.181
Okay, and that is about 4,800 kilometers away, or approximately 3,000 miles away, near Madagascar, holy crap.

00:29:19.181 --> 00:29:25.137
Which means for us Americans who don't know geography.

00:29:25.944 --> 00:29:27.611
And or kilometers or such.

00:29:28.294 --> 00:29:32.977
Yeah, the distance would be similar from Boston Massachusetts to LA.

00:29:33.526 --> 00:29:34.631
I figured that's what you're going to say.

00:29:34.631 --> 00:29:35.057
Holy crap, yes, they heard the blast.

00:29:35.057 --> 00:29:36.241
3, massachusetts to LA.

00:29:36.136 --> 00:29:36.544
I figured that's what you're going to say.

00:29:36.544 --> 00:29:39.814
Holy crap, yes, they heard the blast 3,000 miles away.

00:29:40.065 --> 00:29:41.290
That is amazing.

00:29:42.848 --> 00:29:46.752
So the explosion was initially mistaken for a cannon fire by those who heard it.

00:29:46.884 --> 00:29:51.513
Well, sure, because you wouldn't think you're hearing a volcano from 3,000 miles away.

00:29:51.534 --> 00:29:55.515
Wow, the blast was recorded as approximately 180 decibels.

00:29:55.515 --> 00:29:55.755
100?

00:29:55.755 --> 00:29:56.438
Wow, at 100 miles away.

00:29:56.458 --> 00:29:56.518
Wow.

00:29:56.518 --> 00:30:01.130
The blast was recorded as approximately 180 decibels 100, wow, at 100 miles away oh my god, really.

00:30:01.130 --> 00:30:05.820
Yes, that's the decibels at 100 miles away do?

00:30:05.820 --> 00:30:08.946
Do they have any speculation or guess as to what it?

00:30:08.946 --> 00:30:10.829
What would have been like there?

00:30:11.590 --> 00:30:18.601
so I tried to do some research on this because I actually read somewhere like it was 300 decibels.

00:30:18.601 --> 00:30:26.300
But there comes a point when sound is so loud that you actually don't hear it.

00:30:26.541 --> 00:30:27.865
Right, Right right.

00:30:28.005 --> 00:30:30.314
So the decibels only go up so high.

00:30:30.314 --> 00:30:33.535
I think it was like 190 for the human ear.

00:30:34.207 --> 00:30:35.030
That sounds about right.

00:30:35.125 --> 00:30:39.528
And then, like the sound just gets sucked into each other and into itself, cause what is?

00:30:40.953 --> 00:30:41.055
what?

00:30:41.055 --> 00:30:42.892
Like we're just having a conversation.

00:30:42.892 --> 00:30:49.914
I have no idea what the answer to this question will be, but what would this like decibel level be at?

00:30:49.914 --> 00:30:51.137
Oh gosh.

00:30:51.526 --> 00:30:53.411
It's been a long time since I sold hearing aids.

00:30:54.272 --> 00:30:55.675
Oh, that's right, I forgot you used to do that.

00:30:55.675 --> 00:30:58.463
Yeah, all right.

00:31:00.167 --> 00:31:02.094
Yeah, I couldn't even speculate at this point.

00:31:02.094 --> 00:31:06.709
You're going to look it up, I kind of want to Just like normal conversation.

00:31:07.510 --> 00:31:07.832
Yeah so.

00:31:11.267 --> 00:31:14.265
I was going to guess around like 40 to 60.

00:31:14.846 --> 00:31:18.474
It says a normal conversation typically registers around 60 decibels.

00:31:18.474 --> 00:31:19.597
Okay so, good guess.

00:31:19.597 --> 00:31:25.757
Yeah, it says most sources consider a normal conversation to fall between 50 to 65.

00:31:25.757 --> 00:31:34.904
Yeah so hearing safety Sounds above 85 decibels are considered potentially harmful to hearing with prolonged exposure.

00:31:34.904 --> 00:31:42.248
So just imagine all those concerts and how loud my drums are and everything exactly there we go um.

00:31:42.248 --> 00:31:43.711
So yeah, so 60.

00:31:43.711 --> 00:31:56.719
And you said they're 180 decibels at 100 miles away so I mean that's three times what we're talking about, and that happened 100 miles away yes, fuck, yeah, that's loud that is loud.

00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:10.196
I couldn't imagine being anywhere closer to that, because that would be insane so each of these eruptions unleashed tsunamis of course estimated to be over 30 meters high, or 98 feet.

00:32:10.557 --> 00:32:10.838
Okay.

00:32:10.838 --> 00:32:18.318
With one wave, the wind shifted sharply to the southwest and the sky was quickly obscured by dense smoke.

00:32:18.318 --> 00:32:25.980
At 1041 am, a massive landslide ripped off half of Rakita's cone.

00:32:25.980 --> 00:32:26.883
Oh, really.

00:32:26.883 --> 00:32:32.497
Along with the remaining northern portion of the island, triggering the final explosion.

00:32:33.218 --> 00:32:33.499
Okay.

00:32:34.326 --> 00:32:38.646
So by 1130 am the darkness had become so thick it was almost tangible.

00:32:38.646 --> 00:32:51.153
Wow, yeah yeah it's like dust hitting you in the face oh god, it'd be gross the charles ball was forced to sail under reduced sail.

00:32:51.173 --> 00:33:05.171
Sure, just before the sky closed in, they had spotted two other ships oh, okay the norham castle and the sir robert sail to the north and northwest, and he ordered side lights lit to make their own ship more visible, sure.

00:33:05.171 --> 00:33:10.489
And they stationed lookouts at the front of the ship and instructed his mates to like keep watch.

00:33:10.489 --> 00:33:39.211
And on both sides of the vessel right, the torrential rain resumed, this time pummeling the ship with not just stones and sand but also thick, sticky mud well, yeah, because it's falling through the ash right yes, so that's oh god that's gotta be pretty gross so the situation became so dire that a crew member was dedicated solely to cleaning off the mud from the binnacle compass to ensure navigation.

00:33:39.452 --> 00:33:45.896
Oh wow, yeah, by 12, the atmosphere was like a thick, nasty, disgusting soup.

00:33:46.065 --> 00:33:47.351
I was going to say it's got to be like soup.

00:33:47.351 --> 00:33:49.972
This must have been broccoli.

00:33:52.467 --> 00:33:53.992
Oh, broccoli cheddar sounds so good.

00:33:54.646 --> 00:33:59.571
That's the second time you said that today, oh, what was the other time?

00:33:59.571 --> 00:34:09.588
Uh, we, we went to the store to get something and you had said we passed us oh yeah, broccoli cheddar, yeah, like, oh, that sounded like a yeah, okay.

00:34:09.688 --> 00:34:19.010
So crew members standing side by side each other were forced to feel their way around the decks because they were so lost in the dense fog they couldn't see each other.

00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:30.822
Wow, so the rainfall of depth nope the rainfall of death continued until 2 pm, when the mud finally stopped falling um.

00:34:31.262 --> 00:34:33.346
Can rainfall of death be the episode?

00:34:33.365 --> 00:34:34.887
title the rainfall of death.

00:34:35.449 --> 00:34:37.391
I think I mean, I like putting death in titles.

00:34:37.391 --> 00:34:39.713
Yeah, that might, that might be it.

00:34:40.634 --> 00:34:44.777
Except for we don't want to get tagged on YouTube or whatever Potentially.

00:34:44.838 --> 00:34:45.719
I don't know if they do that.

00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:46.960
Do you think that's what happened though?

00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:48.201
I have no idea, I don't know.

00:34:48.362 --> 00:34:52.989
Anyways, we had trouble uploading the Oprah of death on YouTube.

00:34:53.751 --> 00:34:58.157
For some reason it set it to private, and that's why I just had to click on something in it.

00:34:58.396 --> 00:35:00.380
Okay, fixed it, I guess.

00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:00.940
Who knows?

00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:18.873
Um so, under the roar of the volcano, the flashes of lightning, um, there was a fiery glow above Krakatoa, and shortly after 2 pm the Charles Ball was finally able to see the lower yards of the ship's masts.

00:35:18.873 --> 00:35:22.764
Okay, like they couldn't even see their posts in front of them.

00:35:23.094 --> 00:35:26.905
I mean think of how thick that was to not even be able to see that.

00:35:26.905 --> 00:35:28.007
That's crazy.

00:35:28.894 --> 00:35:41.887
The sky, however, remained heavy and dark, with occasional sprinkles of sand falling, and though a significant distance away now about 70 miles away the ship looked like it had been encased in cement.

00:35:44.157 --> 00:35:49.668
I suppose, though, like you said, with that rain mixing up with all that ash and stuff in the air, yes, oh man.

00:35:49.668 --> 00:35:50.289
Yeah.

00:35:50.956 --> 00:35:56.217
So the eruption subsided rapidly and krakatoa fell silent by the morning of august 28th.

00:35:56.217 --> 00:36:03.255
However, minor mud eruptions continued sporadically until october of 1883.

00:36:03.255 --> 00:36:09.224
Wow for until october so like the beginning of, like the.

00:36:09.224 --> 00:36:22.436
The foreshadowing events started in what I say may I believe that's end of may through october that's crazy and by october only 30 of the original island remained I was gonna ask so.

00:36:23.139 --> 00:36:28.635
With being such a violent explosion, eruption, whatever, it had to have destroyed some of it.

00:36:28.635 --> 00:36:31.342
So yeah, how much did it say?

00:36:31.342 --> 00:36:32.885
How much of the island remained?

00:36:32.885 --> 00:36:33.994
Did you just say that?

00:36:34.615 --> 00:36:41.164
um 30 30 percent remained, wow I mean that's losing 70.

00:36:41.164 --> 00:36:47.876
That's quite a bit, yeah um, I talk a little bit more towards the end about, like, what it looks like now.

00:36:47.876 --> 00:36:52.000
Oh so, remember those pyroclastic flows that I mentioned.

00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:09.052
Yes, they are superheated avalanches of ash and gas that surge out of the volcano at speeds above 2,575 kilometers per hour or 715 meters per second.

00:37:10.251 --> 00:37:13.079
Holy crap, it's a little speedy.

00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:17.125
I'd say that's even faster than you drive Really.

00:37:17.286 --> 00:37:26.860
Really, the energy released by the eruption is estimated to be an equivalent of 200 megatons of TNT.

00:37:27.835 --> 00:37:28.338
Jesus.

00:37:29.021 --> 00:37:34.862
Roughly four times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba.

00:37:34.862 --> 00:37:38.059
What now T-S-A-R?

00:37:38.179 --> 00:37:38.278
the.

00:37:38.318 --> 00:37:40.603
Tsar and then B-O-M-B-A.

00:37:41.025 --> 00:37:41.525
Bomba.

00:37:41.525 --> 00:37:42.268
What is that?

00:37:42.815 --> 00:37:46.085
It is the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.

00:37:46.085 --> 00:37:46.786
Oh really.

00:37:46.786 --> 00:37:48.159
So four times that.

00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:50.014
Oh, my God oh my God.

00:37:50.074 --> 00:38:06.079
It has a yield of about 50 megatons, making it approximately 3,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped at Hiroshima Jesus, and this ranks the 1883 Krakatoa eruption as one of the most powerful eruptions in all of history.

00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:06.880
Wow.

00:38:08.161 --> 00:38:09.780
So back to the decibels I mentioned.

00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:10.181
Yes.

00:38:11.322 --> 00:38:15.983
So, like I said, it reached about 180 decibels 100 miles away.

00:38:15.983 --> 00:38:17.543
Exactly so.

00:38:17.543 --> 00:38:22.304
This wasn't just a loud noise, no, physically destructive.

00:38:22.605 --> 00:38:23.204
Well, yeah.

00:38:23.806 --> 00:38:32.507
Sailors aboard the RMS Norm Castle, anchored near Sumatra, suffered ruptured eardrums from the blast.

00:38:33.068 --> 00:38:34.449
That would freaking hurt.

00:38:35.469 --> 00:38:42.371
In Batavia, jakarta, on Java, 160 kilometers away, the airwaves, shattered windows, cracked walls.

00:38:42.371 --> 00:38:43.150
Oh, geez.

00:38:43.150 --> 00:38:45.851
Your house would not handle this.

00:38:46.811 --> 00:38:56.458
I hope Krakatoa moves over to the new neighborhood then Blows up no, my, oh, my God, yeah, this thing would have been obliterated.

00:38:56.478 --> 00:39:04.278
Yes, it's all your plaster walls plaster, I tell you so the impact wasn't confined to the immediate vicinity?

00:39:04.278 --> 00:39:05.563
No, it sounds that way.

00:39:05.563 --> 00:39:12.525
There was a pressure wave, okay, like that rippled on like a global pond, okay, yeah.

00:39:12.525 --> 00:39:29.228
So the wave circled the earth three and a half times Okay, bouncing back and forth between Krakatoa and its antipodal point, so any point on earth the antipodal point is diametrically opposite it.

00:39:29.849 --> 00:39:38.556
Oh okay, diametrically opposite it.

00:39:38.556 --> 00:39:38.717
Oh okay.

00:39:38.717 --> 00:39:41.346
So basically you're on this side of the planet, you bounce of the complete opposite and then back.

00:39:41.346 --> 00:39:42.469
Yes, gotcha.

00:39:42.489 --> 00:39:47.980
So it circled the whole earth three and a half times right between krakatoa and the antipodal point.

00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:51.887
Yeah, it was seven times over five days.

00:39:51.887 --> 00:39:59.219
Yes, yeah, wow, yeah, jesus so the eruption triggered massive tsunamis.

00:39:59.219 --> 00:40:07.940
Entire islands were submerged maybe, but I was well, I was going to suggest that earlier but I mean that did.

00:40:08.300 --> 00:40:14.028
They did what sail by it prior to the final explosion, so maybe it was engulfed.

00:40:14.914 --> 00:40:29.471
So one account from the Lawton, which is a ship anchored near Tlaloc Belong, said the crew watched as a monstrous wave surged towards the shore, swallowing the town whole in a single motion.

00:40:30.434 --> 00:40:31.559
So it just wiped it out.

00:40:31.699 --> 00:40:32.724
Wiped it out, wow.

00:40:32.724 --> 00:40:44.809
Captained by Johan Lindemann, the crew survived the subsequent tsunami, when the captain steered the ship head on into the wave.

00:40:45.135 --> 00:40:46.460
So that's the only way they got through it.

00:40:46.514 --> 00:40:47.947
That's the only way they got through it.

00:40:47.947 --> 00:40:50.862
I feel like To make a T, essentially with the wave.

00:40:51.496 --> 00:40:54.083
They tried to do that in the Perfect storm too did they?

00:40:54.083 --> 00:40:55.086
It didn't work.

00:40:55.186 --> 00:41:01.065
It's been a really long time since I've seen it, mostly because I cry at the end and I really don't want to cry during movies, so I just don't watch it.

00:41:01.065 --> 00:41:06.527
That's understandable but if I do need a good cry, you know what my movie go-to movie is.

00:41:06.527 --> 00:41:06.987
What's that?

00:41:06.987 --> 00:41:07.675
My girl?

00:41:07.675 --> 00:41:20.646
Oh, where he gets stung by bees yep, dan akroyd, and uh, jamie lee, curtis I forgot they were both in there yeah I I probably macaulay culkin, I don't remember the main v.

00:41:20.646 --> 00:41:21.688
I don't remember vedas.

00:41:21.688 --> 00:41:23.257
I always forget her.

00:41:23.398 --> 00:41:34.367
Anna clumsley there it is, chumsley clumsley, chumsley, chumsley, I think I don't know it's one of those, but yes, I haven't seen that movie, probably since shortly after it came out.

00:41:34.367 --> 00:41:34.708
Yeah.

00:41:35.556 --> 00:41:40.740
Very rarely do I feel like I need to cry, it just happens.

00:41:41.876 --> 00:41:43.483
But that is my go-to crying movie.

00:41:43.483 --> 00:41:45.402
Anyway, moving on, yeah, move along.

00:41:45.795 --> 00:41:52.268
Okay, so faraway ships as distant as South Africa felt these tsunamis.

00:41:52.307 --> 00:41:52.648
Really.

00:41:52.829 --> 00:41:53.028
Mm-hmm.

00:41:53.028 --> 00:41:57.351
Victims' bodies were found floating at sea for months afterwards.

00:41:57.351 --> 00:41:58.255
That's not surprising.

00:41:58.255 --> 00:42:03.786
The waves are believed to have been caused by these gigantic pyroclastic flows.

00:42:03.786 --> 00:42:10.005
Sure, and they were the avalanches of action gas and crashing into the ocean Jeez.

00:42:10.005 --> 00:42:13.177
Bunches of action gas and crashing into the ocean, jeez.

00:42:13.177 --> 00:42:21.643
So each volcanic explosion triggered these flows, displacing massive volumes of seawater and creating these deadly tsunamis.

00:42:21.643 --> 00:42:29.827
Yeah, the town of Merak bore the brunt of this, succumbing to a tsunami a staggering 50 yards high.

00:42:29.827 --> 00:42:33.273
Jesus a staggering 50 yards high.

00:42:33.313 --> 00:42:33.835
Jesus, jesus.

00:42:36.717 --> 00:42:40.706
The aftershocks of the eruption extended even further.

00:42:40.706 --> 00:42:46.619
Similar waves were detected on tidal gauges as far away as the English Channel.

00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.987
Good Lord, yeah, that's pretty far.

00:42:50.335 --> 00:43:02.173
And these weren't remnants of the initial tsunamis, but rather the result of concussive airwaves that circled the globe several times.

00:43:02.173 --> 00:43:07.545
Oh, okay, and that is still strong enough to be picked up by the instruments five days later, good lord.

00:43:07.545 --> 00:43:10.583
Yeah, so while the tsunamis were devastating, they weren't the only devastating aspect.

00:43:10.583 --> 00:43:11.726
Right, there's other factors in it the pyroclastic flows.

00:43:11.726 --> 00:43:13.795
Yeah, so while the tsunamis were devastating, they weren't the only devastating aspect Right.

00:43:13.914 --> 00:43:15.039
There's other factors in it.

00:43:15.155 --> 00:43:20.324
The pyroclastic flows claimed about 10% of the eruption's victims.

00:43:20.746 --> 00:43:30.467
Oh, really Wow that many so, racing from the Sundra Strait at 100 kilometers per hour, or about 62 miles an hour.

00:43:30.467 --> 00:43:38.460
These flows traveled 40 kilometers, or about 25 miles, reaching the shores of southern sumatra.

00:43:38.460 --> 00:43:57.721
Entire villages were incinerated, all vegetation was was ash sure, and ships like the lawden and the whie, located further away from the eruption, were battled by strong winds and tephra, which is volcanic ash and rock fragments.

00:43:57.721 --> 00:44:04.344
Jeez, yes, we do have one eyewitness account.

00:44:04.344 --> 00:44:08.753
It was captured by A Scarth in 1999.

00:44:08.833 --> 00:44:08.954
Okay.

00:44:09.956 --> 00:44:14.306
He paints a picture of someone who was in a pyroclastic flow.

00:44:15.836 --> 00:44:17.101
That had to be pretty gruesome Quote.

00:44:18.956 --> 00:44:20.742
Suddenly it became pitch dark.

00:44:20.742 --> 00:44:26.318
The last thing I saw was the ash being pushed up through the cracks in the floorboards like a fountain.

00:44:26.318 --> 00:44:31.340
I turned to my husband and heard him say in despair when is the knife?

00:44:31.340 --> 00:44:46.802
I will cut all our wrists and then we shall be released from our suffering sooner.

00:44:46.802 --> 00:44:49.284
Jesus, I felt people rolling over me.

00:44:49.284 --> 00:44:52.306
No sound came from my husband or children.

00:44:52.306 --> 00:44:57.829
I remember thinking I want to go outside, but I could not straighten my back.

00:44:57.829 --> 00:45:01.552
I toddled, doubled up to the door.

00:45:01.552 --> 00:45:03.813
I forced myself through the opening.

00:45:03.813 --> 00:45:06.277
I tripped and fell.

00:45:06.277 --> 00:45:10.887
I realized the ash was so hot and I tried to protect my face with my hands.

00:45:10.887 --> 00:45:14.585
The hot bite of the pumice prickled like needles.

00:45:14.585 --> 00:45:17.463
Without thinking, I walked, hopefully, forward.

00:45:17.463 --> 00:45:24.309
Had I been in my right mind, I would have understood what a dangerous thing it was to plunge into the hellish darkness.

00:45:25.076 --> 00:45:29.626
I ran up against branches and did not even think of avoiding them.

00:45:29.626 --> 00:45:32.063
I entangled myself more and more.

00:45:32.063 --> 00:45:33.701
My hair got caught up.

00:45:33.701 --> 00:45:40.422
I noticed for the first time that my skin was hanging off everywhere, jesus, thick and moist from the ash stuck to it.

00:45:40.422 --> 00:45:45.862
Thinking it must be dirty, I wanted to pull bits of skin off but, that was still more painful.

00:45:45.862 --> 00:45:48.539
I did not know I had been burnt.

00:45:48.539 --> 00:45:50.405
End quote oh my God.

00:45:50.626 --> 00:45:51.327
Isn't that awful.

00:45:51.327 --> 00:45:52.880
That sounds just terrible.

00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:54.445
Yeah, good Lord.

00:45:54.795 --> 00:46:06.610
So the pyroclastic flows moved across water on a cushion of like superheated steam, okay, reaching distances up to 80 kilometers from the volcano, or about 50 miles Jeez.

00:46:06.610 --> 00:46:09.556
Deposits from these flows have been found on nearby islands.

00:46:09.556 --> 00:46:11.438
These flows have been found on nearby islands.

00:46:11.438 --> 00:46:20.385
The eruption also generated an estimate 20 cubic kilometers of tephra, raining down ash for thousands of kilometers and blanketing the sky for months.

00:46:20.385 --> 00:46:31.391
Yeah, I bet the 1880 eruption of Krakatoa had the unholy trinity Pyroclastic flows, volcanic ash and tsunamis.

00:46:35.014 --> 00:46:38.222
And I imagine there's some, obviously, eruptions that don't get all those three because they're just not big enough or whatever.

00:46:38.362 --> 00:47:01.349
But yeah, that one was just so huge it's like here's your cocktail of shit yep coming your way so entire regions of banton, which is about 80 kilometers south of all the volcano okay we're rendered uninhabitable lush islands to come to ash, debris and everything eventually reverted back to a jungle.

00:47:01.349 --> 00:47:15.980
Okay, and actually today it's called the ujung kulon national park oh, there you go, happy ending so official records from dutch authorities documented a death toll exceeding 36 000 people.

00:47:15.980 --> 00:47:20.369
Holy crap, the island of sebessy, just north of krakatoa.

00:47:20.369 --> 00:47:33.628
Krakatoa was completely wiped off the map, okay with no survivors of its 3 000 inhabitants oh dear, wow yeah the geographic landscape was also dramatically reshaped.

00:47:33.708 --> 00:47:38.684
Yeah, where krakatoa stood, only a fraction remained, and that was the southern third.

00:47:39.447 --> 00:47:43.177
That was the biggest is that just because that was the probably the biggest?

00:47:43.318 --> 00:47:43.398
one.

00:47:43.398 --> 00:47:44.121
So there was.

00:47:44.121 --> 00:47:56.630
Yeah, I think that was what rakita, I think I think that's what you said, yeah the eruption tore away significant portion of the Rakituk Cone, leaving behind sheer cliffs hundreds of meters high.

00:47:56.630 --> 00:48:11.514
The northern two-thirds of the island vanished entirely, with only a lone rocky inlet called Bosun's Rock, and it remained as a fragment of the former Danann Cone.

00:48:11.998 --> 00:48:12.903
Which is the middle one.

00:48:12.903 --> 00:48:19.304
Yeah, the amount of ejected material dramatically altered the ocean floor as well, sure so.

00:48:19.304 --> 00:48:30.581
Estimates suggest that the cubic kilometers of volcanic debris blanketed over a million square kilometers of seabed, filling in a basin that once surrounded the mountain.

00:48:30.581 --> 00:48:34.947
Wow, nearby islands like Verlatin.

00:48:35.528 --> 00:48:36.250
Verlatin.

00:48:36.414 --> 00:48:47.094
Uh-huh and Leng grew in size due to the deposited ash Okay, while the western part of the remaining Rakata saw an increase in land mass oh wow.

00:48:47.094 --> 00:48:54.775
However, much of this new land was temporarily and it was, it was temporary and gradually eroded by the ocean, sure.

00:48:54.775 --> 00:49:02.518
Volcanic ash, however, remained like a defining characteristic of the of the geography there, sure so.

00:49:02.518 --> 00:49:06.547
The eruptions effects even created ephemeral islands.

00:49:06.547 --> 00:49:15.827
Two sandbanks named after naval officers who investigated them were briefly transformed into islands by the settling ash Okay.

00:49:15.827 --> 00:49:22.606
However, these were also like fleeting landmasses, and they were eventually taken back by the sea.

00:49:22.606 --> 00:49:24.230
Right Jeez.

00:49:24.230 --> 00:49:35.376
The eruption also created a phenomenon known as volcanic winter winter.

00:49:35.376 --> 00:49:41.630
The global average temperatures in the northern hemisphere dropped by 0.4 degrees celsius or 0.72 degrees fahrenheit during the following summer.

00:49:41.650 --> 00:49:47.255
0.72 I mean, so not much, no, it's certainly, if I mean that still affects stuff, though yeah even if it's just under a degree.

00:49:47.355 --> 00:49:56.708
But yeah that's crazy so the cooling effect can be attributed to the eruption's massive injection of sulfur dioxide right into the atmosphere.

00:49:56.728 --> 00:49:57.429
Yeah makes sense.

00:49:57.429 --> 00:50:08.811
So winds then carry these particles around the globe, leading to a surge in sulfuric acid, concentrating with high-altitude cirrus clouds, which are those thin wispy clouds.

00:50:08.811 --> 00:50:21.818
Those thin wispy clouds yeah, the sulfuric acid clouds acted like a giant mirror, reflecting more sunlight back into space and cause a temporary cool down right into the particles, eventually settling as acid rain.

00:50:21.818 --> 00:50:28.757
Okay, so the eruption also produced a spectacular light show for months afterwards.

00:50:28.757 --> 00:50:29.739
I'm not surprised.

00:50:29.739 --> 00:50:41.967
Volcanic ash painted the skies with vivid red hues, causing an alarm in some places where they would like call out the fire engines to battle the fire.

00:50:41.967 --> 00:50:42.775
And it was just.

00:50:43.096 --> 00:50:59.764
It was just the sky yeah, wow, that's wild the ash also created a phenomenon known as bishop's ring around the sun during the day, and then in there was an eerie volcanic purple light at twilight why is it called bishop's ring?

00:50:59.764 --> 00:51:06.757
I don't know okay, sorry that's what I said what?

00:51:06.757 --> 00:51:08.400
It's just what it said, that's fine.

00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:21.490
Some scientists even suggest that the fiery red sky depicted in Edvard Munch's iconic painting the Scream may be like a reflection of the post-eruption skies over Norway.

00:51:21.670 --> 00:51:23.873
Oh sure, okay, yeah, interesting.

00:51:24.295 --> 00:51:28.344
So the event also led to the first identification of the jet stream.

00:51:28.864 --> 00:51:30.027
Oh sure, that makes sense.

00:51:30.697 --> 00:51:40.425
Weather observers meticulously track the ash plumes movement across the globe, and it was a phenomenon they dubbed as equatorial smoke stream.

00:51:40.425 --> 00:51:53.788
Okay, so the tracking paved the way for our modern understanding of the jet stream, and which is a high altitude band of fast moving winds that play a crucial role in global weather patterns.

00:51:53.788 --> 00:52:03.893
So, though the violent eruption of Krakatoa subsided by late afternoon on August 27th, tremors persisted for several months after that.

00:52:03.893 --> 00:52:06.762
Okay, daylight returned on August 29th.

00:52:07.014 --> 00:52:07.396
Jesus.

00:52:07.396 --> 00:52:10.846
It returned two days later, Wow.

00:52:11.954 --> 00:52:23.291
A team led by geologist Dr Roger Verbeek were tasked with investigating more eruptions from Krakatoa.

00:52:23.291 --> 00:52:25.541
They thought that it was going to continue.

00:52:25.862 --> 00:52:26.103
Right.

00:52:26.255 --> 00:52:29.485
So he went to investigate, but he debunked these claims.

00:52:29.704 --> 00:52:29.945
Okay.

00:52:31.356 --> 00:52:37.514
So by mid-October, verbeek definitively dismissed any possibility of any further eruptions.

00:52:37.514 --> 00:52:41.224
Okay, and then the volcano remained silent for decades.

00:52:42.456 --> 00:52:43.860
Did it ever erupt again?

00:52:43.860 --> 00:52:46.541
Because you said for decades, so did it actually erupt again?

00:52:46.541 --> 00:52:47.483
It did, oh wow.

00:52:48.376 --> 00:52:53.307
So in 1913, a renewed eruption sparked concerns.

00:52:53.307 --> 00:52:57.226
However, an investigation revealed no signs of activity.

00:52:57.226 --> 00:53:07.309
The culprit was probably a massive landslide, possibly the one responsible for the second arc of Ricotta's cliff face being mistaken for an eruption.

00:53:07.630 --> 00:53:07.909
Okay.

00:53:09.574 --> 00:53:10.382
Makes sense, okay, so.

00:53:10.382 --> 00:53:17.922
Makes sense Bathameric charts, which is the study of the depth of underwater terrain.

00:53:18.242 --> 00:53:18.663
Oh sure.

00:53:18.844 --> 00:53:25.311
Created in 1919, hinted at a bulge beneath the surface suggesting a potential magma upswelling.

00:53:25.311 --> 00:53:36.800
Okay, the bulge would eventually lead to the rise of a new island new island which I will get into, oh, all right.

00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.452
Okay, so the fate of northern krakatoa actually remains a puzzle for geologists how come?

00:53:40.452 --> 00:53:41.054
Well.

00:53:41.054 --> 00:53:48.681
Initial theories suggested a violent explosion tore the island apart yeah, they actually think it's more complex okay, why?

00:53:49.143 --> 00:53:57.726
so most of the volcanic debris points to a magmatic origin and the caldera itself isn't filled with significant material.

00:53:57.726 --> 00:54:17.264
Caldera is the collapse that forms during large-volume volcanic eruptions, when the underlying magma chamber is partially emptied and the ground above it subsides into it so like creating a crater, sure, emptied and the ground above it subsides into it so like creating a crater, sure.

00:54:17.264 --> 00:54:20.838
So this suggests the island may have sunk into an empty magma chamber rather than being obliterated by the explosion.

00:54:20.878 --> 00:54:36.362
So it just like cleared out some room and like yes, yes, oh, I gotcha okay so the prevailing hypothesis, based on earlier investigations, proposes that a partial collapse happened before the first eruptions on august 27th gotcha.

00:54:36.362 --> 00:54:53.047
This submerged the volcano's vents, triggering a train, a chain reaction so okay major flooding led to a series of for freddick, freddick, freddick explosions.

00:54:53.047 --> 00:55:17.059
Okay, a freddick eruption is made up of steam driven explosions that occur when water beneath the ground or on the surface is heated by volcanic activity okay so the water, once heated, begins to boil right and it can even flash straight to steam, causing an explosion so it must have been pretty hot if it can do that.

00:55:17.161 --> 00:55:31.684
Yes, so this the seawater cooled the magma right, causing it to solidify, and then created a pressure cooker effect oh sure, and then the built-up pressure, releasing the massive explosions yeah, yeah, that makes.

00:55:31.684 --> 00:55:35.994
So another geologist throws a wrench into this theory.

00:55:35.994 --> 00:55:43.003
All right, the pumice and ash deposits don't match what would have been expected from a magma interacting with seawater.

00:55:43.003 --> 00:55:59.447
So this led to an alternative hypothesis A sudden underwater landslide or partial collapse could have exposed the pressurized magma chamber, allowing seawater to enter and trigger a violent interaction.

00:55:59.447 --> 00:56:00.130
Gotcha.

00:56:01.496 --> 00:56:29.846
The final explosions might have been caused by magma mixing Hot basalic magma, which is commonly produced by direct melting of the earth's mantle gotcha injecting into cooler, lighter magma could have led to a rapid and unsustainable pressure increase okay, culminating in the eruption and this is just a theory, or?

00:56:29.846 --> 00:56:31.289
Yeah, these are theories.

00:56:31.289 --> 00:56:40.849
Okay, so this particular theory is supported by the presence of pumice with both light and dark materials indicating different magma temperatures.

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However, the scarcity of this dark material, which is less than 5% of the debris, led some to reject this as the primary cause.

00:56:48.996 --> 00:56:52.146
Oh so yeah, it doesn't seem like I just lost a word.

00:56:52.146 --> 00:56:52.894
I was going to use.

00:56:53.275 --> 00:56:54.681
It doesn't seem like the right theory.

00:56:54.994 --> 00:56:56.240
Yeah, we'll just go with that.

00:56:56.240 --> 00:56:57.840
Thanks for finishing that.

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The eruption unleashed a combination of pyroclastic flows, volcanic ash and tsunamis.

00:57:04.101 --> 00:57:08.320
The human cost was staggering tens of thousands dying.

00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:18.135
The geographic landscape was altered yeah and krakatoa was only like.

00:57:18.135 --> 00:57:20.661
There was only like 30 percent left that that's.

00:57:21.063 --> 00:57:29.476
That to me is amazing because, like that's again, it lost a lot of its mass, obviously 70 percent of it, and the fact that I think what was the number you said, though?

00:57:29.476 --> 00:57:32.083
36 000 people died that's.

00:57:32.083 --> 00:57:36.880
That's without even knowing if any of them were on the actual island that blew up.

00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:39.447
It's all from the surrounding.

00:57:39.487 --> 00:57:45.983
That's crazy so on december, in december of 1927, a new peak arose.

00:57:45.983 --> 00:57:52.059
Wait what it broke the water surface on in december of 1927.

00:57:52.059 --> 00:57:56.706
Okay, and they called this peak aak Krakatoa, which means child of Krakatoa.

00:57:56.706 --> 00:58:01.041
That's awesome so there's literally a little tiny island.

00:58:01.322 --> 00:58:02.045
Baby Krakatoa.

00:58:02.195 --> 00:58:03.300
It's baby Krakatoa, aw.

00:58:03.300 --> 00:58:09.820
In 2018, anak Krakatoa had the biggest eruption of the 21st century.

00:58:09.820 --> 00:58:10.802
Did it really?

00:58:10.802 --> 00:58:12.483
Yes, oh, wow.

00:58:12.483 --> 00:58:17.769
It caused a tsunami with a death toll at 437.

00:58:17.789 --> 00:58:18.510
Okay.

00:58:18.510 --> 00:58:24.199
And over 14,000 were injured.

00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:25.302
Oh wow, maybe I do remember that.

00:58:25.302 --> 00:58:26.967
Then, wow, okay.

00:58:27.695 --> 00:58:34.889
Yeah, so that's the story of the loudest sound ever documented the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.

00:58:35.295 --> 00:58:37.222
I can tell you this with my crappy hearing.

00:58:37.222 --> 00:58:42.373
I'm glad it didn't come from that, because that would have sucked being anywhere close to that and hearing how loud it was.

00:58:42.373 --> 00:58:44.342
I mean, it would have blew your eardrums out.

00:58:45.215 --> 00:58:46.878
Well, the sound can.

00:58:46.878 --> 00:58:51.809
Well, it depends on how close you are but the sound can actually kill you.

00:58:52.195 --> 00:58:53.300
Well, yeah, that's true.

00:58:53.561 --> 00:58:53.802
Yeah.

00:58:53.802 --> 00:59:02.186
I don't want to be killed by sound Okay, so I want my voice to rest a little bit.

00:59:02.186 --> 00:59:06.003
Tell me briefly how your beer is, because it's new to you, right?

00:59:06.204 --> 00:59:06.985
This one was new to me.

00:59:06.985 --> 00:59:07.768
It wasn't bad.

00:59:07.768 --> 00:59:11.980
If I was rating it out of one to five, I'd give it a three, okay.

00:59:11.980 --> 00:59:15.170
If I was rating it out of a one to five, I'd give it a three.

00:59:18.474 --> 00:59:21.436
I've had some other third space that I've enjoyed more, but it was certainly not bad.

00:59:21.436 --> 00:59:22.737
I like my fresh coast at a four.

00:59:22.838 --> 00:59:27.181
Yeah, you do like that one, I know you've had that before too, so I'm glad that you got a familiar one.

00:59:27.181 --> 00:59:28.161
No, I mean again third space, first tracks.

00:59:28.260 --> 00:59:29.302
It's solid but I've had better from them.

00:59:29.762 --> 00:59:30.001
Yes, but no.

00:59:30.001 --> 00:59:31.003
I mean again.

00:59:31.003 --> 00:59:36.726
Third space first tracks it's solid, but I've had better from them.

00:59:36.907 --> 00:59:37.387
Sure yeah.

00:59:38.427 --> 00:59:38.887
I enjoyed it.

00:59:39.188 --> 00:59:39.588
Awesome.

00:59:40.188 --> 00:59:42.250
Yeah Well, I'm sorry you're not feeling good.

00:59:42.250 --> 00:59:46.472
Let's get you some rest and stop talking, so you don't lose your voice.

00:59:46.512 --> 00:59:46.932
What do you mean?

00:59:46.932 --> 00:59:47.472
Stop talking.

00:59:47.472 --> 00:59:53.373
You don't want me to talk anymore?

00:59:53.413 --> 00:59:56.217
Well, I suppose All all right, buffoons.

00:59:56.237 --> 00:59:56.818
That's it for today's episode.

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