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

0:03 Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. It's yes, this show has a lot of tropes. In one of the tropes is the Message in a bottle? Well, good news. A Scottish schoolgirl's message in a bottle got a reply after thirty years. Elena sent the message in a bottle in nineteen ninety four. She was twelve. It washed up across the north seat. Who was found in Norway by a volunteer cleaning up the beach. Look, somebody left this terrible bottle here on this beach. I gotta clean this up. Well. Luckily the volunteer found the message in a bottle and then sent a postcard back to the sender to let her know. Elena it's told BBC Scotland. She couldn't believe her original letter was in such good condition after thirty years. The original letter read, deer finder. My name is Elena. I'm twelve.

0:50 I'm doing a project on water, so I decided to send a message in a bottle. My teacher's husband took them and dropped them in the middle of the ocean. When you find this message, please write back with your name. Hobbies where you found the message, when and if you could a little information about your area. You're sincerely Elena PS. I come from Scotland. Well, Elena, I've got a postcard from Pia. The postcard reads, my name is Pia. I'm from Germany. Today I found your message in a bottle on a tiny island around Vega and Norway. I'm here for beach cleaning as a volunteer for four months, and today we cleaned up Lachelle Oya and I probably pronounced that incorrectly. Apologize. On the front of the postcard you could see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fawn where we live. You can also see the area around Vega.

1:32 I wonder when and where your teacher's husband through your bottle in the ocean bs. I'm twenty seven years old and I like rock climbing and sailing a lot, Elena says. P and I have been keeping in touch and hopefully we will continue to do so. The Dutch have a sport. I'm gonna butcher this one too. I think it's pronounced something like fear old jippin anyway, it combines pole vaulting, long jump and sometimes swimming. Jacob Degrout holds the long jump record at seventy three and said, this is really a typically Dutch sport. I think it's because in the rest of the world there aren't so many canals and maybe people aren't as crazy. All right, how does this work. You have to sprint towards the water. You'll launch yourself into the air on a twelve meter carbon pole that's roughly the height of a four story building. By the way, think about that. Mid flight, you have to climb the pole tilted forward and aim to land as far as possible on a sand bank. If you miss, you'll land in the canal. Jacob said it's extreme and crazy and addictive.

2:30 Local legend has it in fifteen seventy five, during the Dutch revolt against the Spanish, one man hit his secret message in his pole before slipping through enemy lines. It became a sport. Later on, reportedly, in a bar, some former sons got together, drank a little and said, I can jump a canal, and the bar man said, maybe there's money to be made. I'll make a canal of five meters and they'll have to jump. Scientists are getting it done, all right. There's a toxic crop fungus. It's linked to the deaths in the excavations of ancient tim like Toot and common you know, King Tut. Anyway, that toxic crop fungus was recently used in a test against leukemia cells. The result is a promising cancer killing compound that rivals FDA approved drugs. Sherry Goo is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the senior author of a new paper who said fungi gave us penicillin. These results show us that more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found. When archaeologists opened up King Tut's tomb in the twenties, there were some untimely debts among the excavation team that fueled rumors of a pharaoh's curse.

3:36 Decades later, the doctors theorized that it was fungal spores dormant for millennia. Those could have played a role. In the nineteen seventies, twelve scientists entered the tomb of Casimir the Fourth in Poland. Within weeks, ten of deema died. Later investigations revealed that that tomb contained some yellow spores. So all that's horrible, John, But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. And I don't have a time machine. But now to think that this could cure leukemia, that would be amazing. Some maritime archaeologists believe they had found the wreck of the HMS Endeavor. The Endeavor was piloted by Captain James Cook throughout his first voyage to Australasia and the South Pacific. The wreck is the previously unexamined r I two three four nine off the coast of Rhode Island. Long story short, on his third voyage around Pacific, Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii during to speak with the natives. The Endeavor was recommissioned as a military transport ship.

4:32 It was sold to a shipping firm and then renamed the Lord Sandwich. It was scuttled during the American Revolutionary War when he The archaeologists said, you'll never find a sign saying Cook was here. But we've got a whole series of things pointing to RI two three ninety four as being Endeavor, and so far we found lots of things that ticked the box for to be Endeavor. Nothing on the side which says it's not in good news for a man who fell into a glacier crevasse in Switzerland. He was rescued by Bye No, not by Saint Bernard, by a chihuahua. The man had filed down a twenty six foot deep crevasse, leaving his chihuahua alone on the edge. The man had an amateur walkie talkie managed to call for help, but rescue workers couldn't figure out where he is.

5:16 Then what are The rescuers noticed a chihuahua who hadn't moved. One of the officials say, thanks to the dog's behavior, the crew was able to locate the exact side of the accident. Rescuers went down to the casualty and we're able to save them. It's fair to say that the chihuaha's behavior contributed significantly to the successful rescue. Nice job, chihuahua. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you'd liked the program without commercial interruption or feed drops or other stuff, go to calierg dot com, slash plus, or if you're on Apple podcast click that better that says Uninterrupted listening short version. Five bucks a month you get this thing add free. You also get access to twenty five other shows on the network ad free, including Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week. You have an awesome day,