Tourists see man sucked into blowhole in Hawaii.

Tourists see man sucked into blowhole in Hawaii.

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Fellow tourist Rocco Piganelli yesterday told the Associated Press he spotted the man, 44-year-old Californian resident David Potts, spiral down into the hole off Nakalele Point on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Saturday.

Mr Piganelli said the man briefly resurfaced from the water in the next wave but then disappeared again.


"I felt like I was going to throw up."

Piganelli inadvertently captured the man's last moments when taking a photo of his daughter and her friends.

It shows a man in sho

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Well did anyone tried to go into a blowhole and get sucked into it and tried to get close to it? I was in Hawaii last month and i almost tried to get too close to the blowhole. I'm like imagine, what's inside the blowhole but my parents tried to stop me from doing so. It was in Maui, Hawaii. The island kinda like the ones in Kauaʻi but the island almost isolated.

Anyone what do you guys think about it?

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Before I read the post, I thought to myself, "amazing, a man was sucked into a whale's blowhole? Is this a first?." Anyway, those things are dangerous at certain tides right? Razor sharp volcanic rock.

Originally posted by AMANNAMEDQUEST
Before I read the post, I thought to myself, "amazing, a man was sucked into a whale's blowhole? Is this a first?." Anyway, those things are dangerous at certain tides right? Razor sharp volcanic rock.

Well ya of course but i would not recommend it getting it closer i believe. I mean i can imagine being too close to a blowhole like i was a month(June) ago.

I live on Maui and have been to that blowhole several times. I don't know the situation firsthand as I wasn't there when it happened, but, working in tourism, I will say that this shows how simple people can be. People come to this island believing it's Disneyland when it's just pure nature. This event is a tragedy and I feel horrible for the family, but the reality is, people die here all the time from taking what's real and believing it's a manufactured playground. Sadly, the government will probably step in and regulate this area as they've done to others.

Wow thats a horrible way to go.
You'd think they'd have a sign and maybe a chain linked fenced for people like me who didn't have a clue that could even happen.

That's horrible, imagine what everyone there was thinking, daughters, relatives, girlfriends, fathers; wouldn't surprise me if those young girls struggle hard with this for the next year or so (I know they weren't related, but being borne witness to that when you're still 3ft tall...).

Originally posted by Bixxi3
Wow thats a horrible way to go.
You'd think they'd have a sign and maybe a chain linked fenced for people like me who didn't have a clue that could even happen.

If you saw a blowhole, didn't know what it was, but investigated at such close physical proximity anyway, then I don't think any length of chain fence can help you my friend.

Excuse my ignorance on this subject...

What exactly is a blowhole? Reading the headline I was expecting a massive whale blowhole or something...

Is it a hot spot from volcanic activity or like a geyser?

Originally posted by morder1
Excuse my ignorance on this subject...

What exactly is a blowhole? Reading the headline I was expecting a massive whale blowhole or something...

Is it a hot spot from volcanic activity or like a geyser?

In geology, a blowhole is formed as sea caves grow landwards and upwards into vertical shafts and expose themselves towards the surface, which can result in quite spectacular blasts of water from the top of the blowhole. if the geometry of the cave and blowhole and state of the weather are appropriate. A blowhole is also the name of a rare geologic feature in which air is either blown out or sucked into a small hole at the surface due to pressure differences between a closed underground cavern system and the surface. The blowholes of Wupatki National Monument are an example of such a phenomenon. It is estimated that the closed underground passages have a volume of at least seven billion cubic feet. Wind speeds can approach 30 miles per hour. In 2011, a man was killed while he was standing near a blowhole at Nakalele Point located in Maui, Hawaii, when a wave pushed him into the blowhole, and he never resurfaced.

en.wikipedia.org...(geology)


Any hole through which water, steam or air comes. Whales and dolphins have blowholes. Old Faithful geyser is a steam/hot water blow hole. There are places on the coats where the waves have made holes up through rocks so that at high tide the waves come up through the hole. Caves sometimes have small holes that go up through the ground far from the cave entrances. Then there are blow holes in flutes, pipes and other wind instruments. www.hawaiihostelreview.com...

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Yeah, me too. I had imagined this whole scenario of a tourist jumping in to swim with a whale.

thanks even if it was a sad story
the image in the mist I find interesting