This morning I am off work which I have been looking forward to for awhile so I made it a Netflix and chill day. I had to hop out of bed on this cold day to get the trash out in time for it to be picked up but I did. It’s been a very cold day for me I can literally feel it in my bones at least for me.
I decided to watch a documentary on a volcano that erupted while tourists were on it, the documentary was named The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari, it is a volcano in New Zealand. One tourist said that when he arrived at the volcano it smelled like sulfur which for me would have been a sign to leave the volcano not stay but that’s just me. They were with guides that knew the volcano because they were trained and felt it was safe to bring tourists on to the White Island.
Now before you were able to go to the White Island Volcano you had to sign a waiver and put who to contact for emergency I don’t know about anyone else but if I have to sign a waiver I ain’t going because to me that’s a sign saying you not supposed to be there. But again another sign that was given is when your guide says the water is usually blue but you see it’s white and talks about how there must have been activity during the night, again I would have made B Line to the jetty but again that’s just me.
The tourists start to ask questions about how long it’s been since the last eruption & the guide starts giving dates which seemed like almost every other year or so and the guide says that the volcano is at a level two which is one level away from erupting.
Well, they say one boat with tourists departed the White Island and then there were two groups of tourists that were still on the Island but making there way to the boats. They had to wear masks during there tour because of the fumes. And then as they are walking to the boats they turn around to see black smoke rising & then they hear & see a bang along with black smoke with rocks flying. Of course one person screams run & everyone starts running. There were a lot of videos taken of that day.
It was sad watching this documentary and the fact anyone survived is amazing but seeing the burned scars of the survivors is heart wrenching. There were forty seven people in two groups that stepped onto that White Island & twenty two people lost their lives. The Island remains closed to visitors.
I cried at the end. I really believe there were signs given that it wasn’t safe to visit but if you’re not taught to pay attention to the signs then you don’t know. I would recommend this documentary.
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