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Abstract This essay gives a brief overview of the events of 26-27 August 1883, when the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded; it generated tsunamis which killed over 36,000 people, was heard 3,000 miles away, and produced measurable changes in sea level and air pressure across the world. The essay then discusses the findings of the Royal Society’s Report on Krakatoa, and the reports in the periodical press of lurid sunsets resulting from Krakatoa’s dust moving through the atmos...

Pants came off. >> you want to go climbing again. >> firefighters told me that if i would have went down two more inches, my chest would have caved and i would have died. i would have been suffocated. >> paul is in great spirits, but he cant help but think back to those first few minutes when he wasnt sure if he was going to make it. >> my first thought was ill never see my mom, or my friends, or stuff like that, i would never see them again. >> but somehow, the 11-year-old boy managed to compos...

Not exactly a technique he le n learned in rescue school. but hes trained to come up with solutions fast. he sends tommy to go for the popular vegetable oil. >> they return within minutes, passing the lubricant into the hands of roy. >> i was letting it run down the rock on to his pants and front and back of him. >> another firefighter douses paul from above. >> we pulled and he started yelling, and i said dont stop. i said no matter how loud he screams, hes come ought. >> after two hours and 56...

From l.a.. >> i was a little bit stunned for a second and then my mind started gearing up. >> keep it tight, i dont want him slipping down at all. >> by now its been almost two hours. paul is understandably exhausted. captain roy knows that hell need assistance from everyone involved, even little paul. >> at the time he was getting a little bit sleepy. i said do you play baseball? >> he said, oh, yes. >> captain roy runs through his options. none of their usual rescue techniques, pulley systems,...

>> his legs were going to sleep quickly. he was losing circulation. >> a sheriffs deputy is able to slip a rope around him and tries to pull him up. >> i was pulling op him so hard, i couldnt believe it. that scared me, because it should have lifted someone twice his size. >> is it doing anything? >> no. >> paul is wedged so tight, rescuers fear if they pull too hard, they can yank an arm right out of its socket. >> okay, okay, okay. >> you want to take a break? >> poor kid. >> paul has been tra...

Completely spent. >> thats when i come up with -- i thought of wesson oil. give some lubrication. >> wesson oil, not something they teach in rescue school but captain roy thinks it might work. >> basically i just started pouring it on to him where i could at least splash a little bit. >> paul is coated in gallons of cooking oil and attached to a lifting strap to see if they can stretch his body. >> paul? >> i asked him do you play baseball? he said oh, yeah. he perked up, i said you know how it ...