Not very good reporting. They didn't even explain what the actual danger was with the kid who died after coming up three times for help. Was it a sudden drop off in the depth? Was there some type of undercurrent? Other than stating that the water gets cold, and could get deep - neither of which was offered as the explanation for the kid's death - I didn't see what the point of the story was.

I couldn’t dare jump from that high knowing I could land right on a bulldozer

Friend of mine died diving into a quarry a week after we graduated from HS in 1964.

Lost a good buddy to a quary. RIP Dave Milano.

I'll be more worried about what's in the water Needles, bodies, knife, piranhas

All these people jumping sounds like they just broke all their ribs.

Okay so how is him getting a random cramp and drowning related to a quarry, aside from the fact that he happened to be swimming in one when it happened?

That’s like telling someone don’t go to the beach bcs someone drowned like people haven’t been drowning sense beginning of time. Sorry for her loss tho

Inside Edition: Think twice before swimming in a quarry. Also Inside Edition: here is a two minute montage of kids having a blast jumping in quarries

This seems less about quarry danger and more about the lack of ability to swim combined with ignoring universal water safety precautions.

I was in 7th grade when A really nice boy from school died in a very similar accident, that was 10 years ago now and it's so crazy cuz his life was over before it even began, so glad she's willing to speak up on this cause and spread awareness

His poor mother,that breaks my heart

1) Don't dive from such a high elevation. Jump in straight like a pencil, feet first, legs closed, and butt cheeks clenched. 2) Beware of rocks when jumping into the water. 3) Don't swim long distances if you aren't a really strong swimmer. 4) If you get a cramp, just relax and float on your back until it's gone. The quicker you breathe in/out and tense up, the faster you will sink. 5) Stretch beforehand and stay hydrated. Otherwise there is a high possibility of getting a cramp. 6) Don't go swimming while high or drunk. 7) Have at least one strong swimmer in the group that can save you. 8) have at least one person in the group trained in CPR. 9) Use common sense. Follow most/all of these rules and you should be safe.

Don’t you hate when your just having a nice swim... Then you find a freaking bulldozer

8 years later this is coming back and saving lives, I hope.

The scary part is not the jump, the scary part is swimming across. That why you should try quarries that arent too far from land. It happened tto me similarly at a wave pool which I thought was easy to swim across but I ended up loosing most of my strength before getting to the other side and I was almost forced to ask for help to the lifeguards. I realized my girlfriend who crossed first didnt have this problem since she was a proffessional swimmer. Be aware of your limitations guys

Me: Mom I’m going swimming Mom: Okay, make sure to check the water for bulldozers

So many people have died in pools but that doesn't stop people from swimming

temp difference between surface and just below is INCREDIBLE. the shock can cause muscle cramps.

What happened to her son was a tragedy. Quarries can be very dangerous, but they’re also usually some of the funnest places to swim. Back in the 70’s I used to swim at a place called Sherkston quarry in Ontario that had a submerged train at the bottom.

A friend of mine broke his neck and got paralyzed quadriplegic when diving into a quarry. His friend had to dive in and save him he was trapped under the water.

Not to mention the fact that if you dive in wrong you could potentially paralyse yourself if you don’t have good form.

How did he come up 3x to scream help and then get pulled back down. It never said what it was in the water that attacked the young man who unfortunately died?

Very sad and May Gif give his mother strength to cope through these hard times .

Did anyone realize that they used the same splash sound every time.

Sorry for her loss. The ocean isn't much different. People been swimming and drowning in water since the beginning of time. Practice saftey when swimming.

To avoid cramps and sudden shock from the water, we we were taught to take a quick body rinse at the showers. Never knew why as a kid but this explains it

I feel so bad for this mom this just make me sad and I hope no people don’t make the same fate as her son, I hope he flys high😢

"Swimming in quarries is dangerous", they say. But what actually killed him? No one says now :(

*sees bulldozer* ThAT's A BullDozEr

Very sad, sorry for loss of your son.

She lost her son to this and yet she still warns people about quarries while showing her sons picture. God bless her soul and i hope she lives a good life🙏🙏🙏

"Don't swim in quarries" *repeatedly shows footage of people having fun in quarries*

This should've been how to survive a SWIMMERS CRAMP. The quarry was not why he died.

this has nothing to do with quarries...just swimming ability.

Sorry for your loss

So he just drowned in deep water? That isn't exclusive to quarries.

Kids ... If you want to do it ... Do it in Minecraft ... At least it's safe and sound

I thought they were gonna say that the water was toxic or something, but now I want to swim at my local quarry

This is really helpful, because it still can be fun, like any activity, but I wasn’t aware of the many dangers. I also thank the comment section of this video for bringing up other important facts like having proper diving technique to not hurt yourself

her son getting a cramp has nothing to do with the quarry. he could have gotten a cramp in any body of water and drowned

I live in Hawaii and people ( usually tourists ) drown all the time. No one blames the ocean.

Life has become too safe for some.

I was swimming across a fast river and almost got swept away man a scary experience stay safe out there all of you please always consider the water for your own safety!

So he jumped into the quarry, swam screamed for help and drowned? What exactly happened?

She uses her own son's picture to warn others about the dangers. Although it pains her, she doesn't want others to feel the same pain. Respect

So how is this any different than going swimming at a lake?? Temperature inversions don’t differ just because it’s a quarry, the water temperature is going to drop after a couple feet of depth in a lake as well. Lakes get deeper unexpectedly, it’s an over-reach to deem a quarry unsafe. If you swim out from shore on a lake it’s no less dangerous if you don’t know your own swimming abilities and you should always consider swimming with someone close by.

That's such a sad story. Terribly sorry for her loss. Didn't he just run out of stamina? You got to know your limits, wear a life vest first to build up the strength.

I don’t understand how someone can record the kid but they can’t save them

Soooo did anyone notice they gave NO exact cause of death for the kid?? Sidenote, that last guy jumped from Heaven man!! Lmao

It's sad because people think it will never happen to them.

I grew up across the street from a quarry. The only time I ever got hurt was stubbing my toe really hard when getting a running start to jump off the main cliff. Since I was a kid, they've added spray paint to mark dangerous cliffs where rocks and other things may be lurking beneath the water below, several filters throughout to keep the water clean (I used to straight up swim through algae as a kid) and lifeguards at every popular swimming spot. They paddle around on canoes. You also need to sign a waiver when entering which wasn't there when I was growing up. The coolest but scariest thing I would do is swim to the island that we had. It's only about 100 yards away, but while swimming there you can put your head underwater and open your eyes to see a super deep, giant black hole. It always got cold when swimming over it.

Twelve people die every year,because of vending machines, so... I guess quarrys arent that much more dangerous, than vendingmachines

I can tell my experience, I jumped from a cliff on a quarry, I didn’t want to do it but my friends kept telling me to jump, like a “suicide in reverse”; I hit so hard the water I didn’t feel my legs and tried to swim with my arms only, soon one of the friends, who happened to be a traumatologist, came to the rescue. I was lucky nothing worse than a scary moment, and that was the first and last time I ever did this

They’re seriously not gonna say what he died from?! wtf

So sorry for the kids families.

He came up 3 times and no one went in to get him..?

Good thing I'm too scared to jump into quarries.

This how my cousin died like 10 yrs ago. He jumped in and never resurfaced. His body was recovered like a week later

Not a word about toxic chemicals in the water?? Won't kill you on the spot but will affect your health long term.

So his muscle cramped up, he panics, and drowns? And how is the quarry to blame?

What I learned: If you jump into a quarry there’s a chance of you breaking your back on a bulldozer If you mess up, you become one with the quarry

The quarry by where I live literally has shopping carts, old bikes, old bridge structures and random debris littered from before it filled up with water. Kids that used to throw carts off the cliffs still go swimming in it every year and somebody dies EVERY year and it doesn’t stop anyone.

Very good of her to warn others!

Why don't we all play with sprinklers instead

2:21 she litterly sank her body in the water 🤦‍♀️😂👀

I imagine its the sudden shock of cold water that catches most people by surprise.

Very poor explanation of how he actually died. It sounds like he underestimated the distance from one side to the other and drowned from exhaustion about halfway through. Not very thorough reporting in this one

I grew up swimming in a quarry, diving from the highest point I could find and swimming across it. I remember being terrified of not making it across. I was only around twelve at the time. Only one of the many, MANY times I should have died as a youngster, I'm 60 now.

"That's a bulldozer" Really I thought it was shark💀

ok, but what killed their son? they never say the cause of death. he just came up 3 times then randomly died?? tf???

Sending love and support to this mother

If he got a cramp it wasn't the quarry's fault

*"THATS A BULLDOZER!"* ah, thought it was a spaceship...

I love how they use the exact same sound for people jumping in the water

Wow, my cousins grew up in Martin's Creek, PA, and they used to jump off a railroad bridge into the creek. That must be close by the quarry. sad.

Poor mum, just imagine how hard it's to cope with her son dead! Poor mum

what does swimming in a quarry have to do with him getting a cramp?

The video didn’t explain how exactly he died. It is in the description. The video is just yelling you that swimming is dangerous and quarries have random debris in them. The kid died because he had a cramp. Not because he was in an abandoned quarry.

"Jonathan Baksh, 19, jumped into Martin's Creek quarry in Pennsylvania in 2015, but he never made it back to land after suffering a cramp in the water." Dead from a cramp, not a quarry.

Although they didn’t give the exact reason why he died, here’s my best conclusion: He jumped into the water, and he was met with cold temperatures, which caused his muscles to tighten and cramp. Because of this, he didn’t have the strength to bring himself up and to swim on the surface. He then drowned. This is the best I have right now.

Also, quite a number of quarry lakes can be toxic as well. Remember, some of these ponds can contain arsenic, fertilizers, and toxic poisons which is something you don't want to jump into.

It's common sense that many teens fail to have.

The biggest issue with quarries is the rapid temperature change in the body after jumping into the cold water, many people don't realize this is a problem, cold shock causes breathing issues and vasoconstriction which significantly increases the chances of drowning or passing out, water in quarries is colder compared to that in the ocean due to lower salt levels(more the salt, easier it is for the water to increase in temperature with heat applied). The second one is hitting something in the water which is not visible.

If people can't swim and dont know their limitations its not the quarry's fault.

Ok so what i got from this story is: Swimming is dangerous don't do it ?

If you aren’t an experienced swimmer than don’t push the limits! I’ve swam across mile long lakes and never had any troubles but one time I had a friend with me that cramped up and had to carry him. Ive dealt with a brutal leg cramp once in a pool and learned that I can still float and use my arms to get where I need to go. If you can’t use either just your arms or just your legs to swim than don’t swim

So im guessing no one jumped in when they heard he yelled help?

I've never even heard of a quarry before

Keeping the room of a loved one who died exactly as it was is not mentally good, it just keeps reminding you of what happened and the pain never goes away

This Mother Cares ! Johnathan , REST IN PEACE and be your mother’s GUARDIAN ANGEL .

Same thing happened to my best friend in 2008 we were swimming at a quarry in NJ in Carneys Point , there was an island about 50 years away and he decided he wanted to race and swim to it, he took off first before any of us were even ready by the time he got half way we knew something was off he went down then came back up and started to splash but still never yelled for help we knew he was in trouble another friend and me try to make it to him but by the time we got there he went down and never came back up . Took the cops 45’mins to get there and another hour to find his body smh RIP Cory I still miss u to this day

Didn't mention what the cause of death was though. Did he strike something while swimming across? Did the temperature change and his body froze up?

1:57 “Thats a bulldozer” nO iTs a FiSh

We swim in them when I was a kid and the biggest problem/fear we had was water moccasins. Some of those snakes where huge, about 4’ long and some as big around as a softball and very aggressive.

I used to swim a lot in the open sea and sometimes very far out (I remember once 2 lifeguards coming towards our little group advising us to head back). On one occasion, I got a cramp in my legs and I thought, "this is bad". So, in that moment I let myself "drown" for a moment. Essentially I relaxed my body as I was submerging deeper and deeper into the water. When I felt my body sort of recovered, I swam back up and continued to shore. On another occasion, I got so tired but when I felt this feeling catching up to me, I'd make my body flat on the water with my face up and relax for a bit, then I'd continue. I remember that on one of those times I had to do this like 3 or 4 times before making it to shore. Afterwards, I got more fit and didn't have this happen again. So, I was especially reckless as a beginner.

My biggest fear is hitting a rock jumping in water

i shouldn’t be laughing but when he said “THATS A BULLDOZER” i died

one time my moms cousin drove a truck into a quarry (he survived) its still at the bottom to this day

I loved the part of the video where they told us why swimming across the quarry is so dangerous.