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Show 121 The determined cause was drowning. Obvious enough, but what happened along the way is uncertain. The authorities expected drag use, but the drag autopsy revealed what everyone else already knew, which was that their bodies were clean. There were pieces of flashlight found in the water, but nobody knew who they belonged to or how long they had been there. They did find candle wax in the chamber. Nobody knows how that got there either, exactly, but the hypothesis is the candles were leftover from previous explorers. They probably burned up the little oxygen available in there, leaving no possibility for reprieve, and not enough air to get back. That seems obvious now, but on the other hand I can appreciate the desire to light candles in that chamber. I do wonder what it looked like in there, illuminated by bright flame. I'd only seen a blink of the flashlight's circumference before taking a deep breath and swimming back as fast as I could move. Or maybe fatigue set in behind the black of Blake's eyes, and his knees and elbows felt too heavy. I have felt water that feels like darkness. Once it's all around you, you get used to it. |
