Jones ultimately suffered cardiac arrest due to the strain placed upon his body over several hours by his inverted, compressed position. The workers set up a sophisticated rope-and-pulley system in an attempt to extricate him, but the system failed when put under strain, plunging Jones back into the hole. A large team of rescue workers came to his assistance. The fissure measured 10 by 18 inches (25 by 46 cm) and was located 400 feet (120 m) from the entrance of the cave. Believing this to be the turnaround, he entered head-first and became wedged upside-down. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal and found himself at a dead end, with nowhere to go besides a narrow vertical fissure. Jones and three others had left their party in search of "The Birth Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. On November 24, 2009, a man named John Edward Jones (Janu– November 25, 2009) became stuck and subsequently died in the cave after being trapped inside for 27–28 hours. On May 18, 2009, the cave was reopened to the public. In early 2009, proper management was established and an application process was developed to ensure safety precautions were being met. A gate was installed on May 24, 2006, and the cave was temporarily closed. The cave’s popularity had caused excessive smoothing of the rock inside the cave to the point it was predicted a fatality would occur in one of the cave's more prominent features, a 45-degree room called "The Big Slide". It was estimated the cave was receiving over 5,000 visitors per year, with many visitors often entering the cave late at night and failing to take proper safety precautions. In 2006, an effort was put forth to study and severely limit the number of visitors allowed inside the cave. īefore 2009, this cave had four separate rescues of cavers and Boy Scouts, who got stuck inside the cave's tight twists, turns, and crawls. It contains 1,400 feet (430m) of chutes and tunnels and, prior to closure, had been accessible via a narrow surface hole. Because the cave was formed upward with superheated water forming limestone, many additional minerals make up the complex structure. The clay-like texture is composed of silicon dioxide commonly found in sand. Green originally thought of calling it " Silly Putty" but later decided "Nutty Putty" sounded better. The cave system was named after the soft, brown, putty-like texture of the clay found in many of its passages. The cave, first explored in 1960 by Dale Green and friends, is currently owned by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, and managed by the Utah Timpanogos Grotto. Before that, it was popular among Boy Scout troops and college students. It was closed to the public in 2009 following a fatal accident that year. The cave was formerly popular with amateur and professional cavers alike despite being known for its narrow passageways. Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, Utah in the United States.
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