July 22, 2025

Man rescued from a glacier crevasse thanks to.... a chihuahua

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This episode features a Scottish schoolgirl receiving a reply to her message in a bottle after 30 years, a Dutch sport that combines pole vaulting and long jump, a toxic crop fungus showing potential as a leukemia treatment, the discovery of the HMS Endeavor wreck, and a man being rescued from a glacier crevasse thanks to his chihuahua. Tune in for these uplifting and remarkable stories.

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Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. It's yes, this show has a lot

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of tropes. In one of the tropes is the Message

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in a bottle? Well, good news. A Scottish schoolgirl's message

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in a bottle got a reply after thirty years. Elena

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sent the message in a bottle in nineteen ninety four.

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She was twelve. It washed up across the north seat.

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Who was found in Norway by a volunteer cleaning up

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the beach. Look, somebody left this terrible bottle here on

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this beach. I gotta clean this up. Well. Luckily the

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volunteer found the message in a bottle and then sent

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a postcard back to the sender to let her know.

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Elena it's told BBC Scotland. She couldn't believe her original

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letter was in such good condition after thirty years. The

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original letter read, deer finder. My name is Elena. I'm twelve.

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I'm doing a project on water, so I decided to

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send a message in a bottle. My teacher's husband took

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them and dropped them in the middle of the ocean.

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When you find this message, please write back with your name.

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Hobbies where you found the message, when and if you

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could a little information about your area. You're sincerely Elena PS.

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I come from Scotland. Well, Elena, I've got a postcard

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from Pia. The postcard reads, my name is Pia. I'm

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from Germany. Today I found your message in a bottle

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on a tiny island around Vega and Norway. I'm here

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for beach cleaning as a volunteer for four months, and

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today we cleaned up Lachelle Oya and I probably pronounced

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that incorrectly. Apologize. On the front of the postcard you

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could see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fawn where

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we live. You can also see the area around Vega.

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I wonder when and where your teacher's husband through your

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bottle in the ocean bs. I'm twenty seven years old

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and I like rock climbing and sailing a lot, Elena says.

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P and I have been keeping in touch and hopefully

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we will continue to do so. The Dutch have a sport.

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I'm gonna butcher this one too. I think it's pronounced

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something like fear old jippin anyway, it combines pole vaulting,

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long jump and sometimes swimming. Jacob Degrout holds the long

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jump record at seventy three and said, this is really

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a typically Dutch sport. I think it's because in the

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rest of the world there aren't so many canals and

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maybe people aren't as crazy. All right, how does this work.

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You have to sprint towards the water. You'll launch yourself

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into the air on a twelve meter carbon pole that's

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roughly the height of a four story building. By the way,

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think about that. Mid flight, you have to climb the

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pole tilted forward and aim to land as far as

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possible on a sand bank. If you miss, you'll land

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in the canal. Jacob said it's extreme and crazy and addictive.

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Local legend has it in fifteen seventy five, during the

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Dutch revolt against the Spanish, one man hit his secret

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message in his pole before slipping through enemy lines. It

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became a sport. Later on, reportedly, in a bar, some

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former sons got together, drank a little and said, I

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can jump a canal, and the bar man said, maybe

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there's money to be made. I'll make a canal of

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five meters and they'll have to jump. Scientists are getting

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it done, all right. There's a toxic crop fungus. It's

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linked to the deaths in the excavations of ancient tim

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like Toot and common you know, King Tut. Anyway, that

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toxic crop fungus was recently used in a test against

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leukemia cells. The result is a promising cancer killing compound

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that rivals FDA approved drugs. Sherry Goo is a professor

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at the University of Pennsylvania and the senior author of

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a new paper who said fungi gave us penicillin. These

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results show us that more medicines derived from natural products

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remain to be found. When archaeologists opened up King Tut's

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tomb in the twenties, there were some untimely debts among

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the excavation team that fueled rumors of a pharaoh's curse.

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Decades later, the doctors theorized that it was fungal spores

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dormant for millennia. Those could have played a role. In

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the nineteen seventies, twelve scientists entered the tomb of Casimir

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the Fourth in Poland. Within weeks, ten of deema died.

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Later investigations revealed that that tomb contained some yellow spores.

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So all that's horrible, John, But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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I get it. And I don't have a time machine.

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But now to think that this could cure leukemia, that

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would be amazing. Some maritime archaeologists believe they had found

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the wreck of the HMS Endeavor. The Endeavor was piloted

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by Captain James Cook throughout his first voyage to Australasia

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and the South Pacific. The wreck is the previously unexamined

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r I two three four nine off the coast of

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Rhode Island. Long story short, on his third voyage around Pacific,

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Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii during to speak with

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the natives. The Endeavor was recommissioned as a military transport ship.

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It was sold to a shipping firm and then renamed

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the Lord Sandwich. It was scuttled during the American Revolutionary

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War when he The archaeologists said, you'll never find a

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sign saying Cook was here. But we've got a whole

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series of things pointing to RI two three ninety four

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as being Endeavor, and so far we found lots of

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things that ticked the box for to be Endeavor. Nothing

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on the side which says it's not in good news

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for a man who fell into a glacier crevasse in Switzerland.

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He was rescued by Bye No, not by Saint Bernard,

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by a chihuahua. The man had filed down a twenty

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six foot deep crevasse, leaving his chihuahua alone on the edge.

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The man had an amateur walkie talkie managed to call

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for help, but rescue workers couldn't figure out where he is.

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Then what are The rescuers noticed a chihuahua who hadn't moved.

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One of the officials say, thanks to the dog's behavior,

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the crew was able to locate the exact side of

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the accident. Rescuers went down to the casualty and we're

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able to save them. It's fair to say that the

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chihuaha's behavior contributed significantly to the successful rescue. Nice job, chihuahua.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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