I have to object that Audrey was "feeling confident" about the dive. From what I understand, she was pressured by her husband to do this dive, and if you've seen the video footage of her final dive, you can see how totally zoned out and empty she looks. People have speculated that she was in an abusive relationship, and I think that rings true. R.I.P. Audrey Mestre
Thank you! I wish this detail was covered! I’ve seen a whole hour long documentary on it & seen the footage & you’re exactly right- she did not seem like she was wanting to do that. I’m guessing he forced her to do a lot of things she didn’t want to. What a prick. Can’t believe he didn’t get charged. When I bump into him in hell he’s in for some payback.
@@QrtuopThe book “The Last Attempt” by Carlos Serra details how Audrey had marks and bruises she reported were from Pippin and that she was in the process of leaving him. There’s a good amount of evidence that he was abusive and pretty short-tempered.
Peenuses dangling down like a rain forest. Hundreds of dangling peenuses. Monkey runs and jumps off a cliff qand grabs a peenus! The monkey swings and jumps from peenus to peenus and goes across the whole forest off flaccid peenuses
The husband in the #2 story literally killed his wife. He didn't follow protocol with her safety equipment He didn't have the required staff on board during the dive He kept her under water for TWO MINUTES extra All the factors that caused her death has HIS fault (Some lovley people comments have have mentioned some things I did not think of. I'd reccomend you check it out)
I also don't understand why the diver next to her didn't give her an extra breathing apparatus. He didn't have one or what. Because what he said about air killing is bs in my opinion. I'm not a diver so correct me if I'm wrong but using common sense couldn't she just ascended slowly so the expanding air in her lungs was under control?
The only factor that wasnt his fault is that she willingly took on a risky challenge like this, she either supported her husbands risky methods or hated it and didnt do much to prepare
Audrey even wanted to check the balloon and valve herself, which everybody would and should do. But her husband prevented her from doing so, telling her that it was unnecessary and he had already checked it. Big red flag there.
Second story: 1. The husband was regularly criticized in the no-limits free diving community for being reckless, and had already the blood of two former staff members on his hands 2. The husband was responsible for all the safety in this particular dive 3. The husband was rushing this particular record attempt by not having enough stand-by divers and medical personal on-site and on-shore 4. The husband didn't want any other people inspecting the ascending balloon, when normal procedure would have at least two other people inspecting this absolutely crucial piece of equipment 5. The husband kept her under water for a couple additional minutes trying to resuscitate her... under water 6. The record holder at that point was the husband Yeah, I really wonder what happened...
He'd have to be stupid to do that. Really stupid. I think he was probably egotistical and thought he could do anything and everything free-dive related. He couldn't. But I can understand why he'd think that. I don't think anyone gets to be the world record-holder of such a ridiculously dangerous 'sport' as free-diving without having supreme self-confidence. No, I blame the stand-by diver. The excuse that getting air from him would kill her on the ascent due to expansion ignores the fact that one of the first rules they teach you in scuba diving is to constantly let out a steady trickle of air at all times, but especially during ascent. This is precisely to avoid the dangers of expansion. I'm only a rookie scuba-diver and I'm well aware of that. If the instructors saw you not letting out that trickle of bubbles during any of the underwater exercises they'd immediately call you on it, even the exercises as basic as clearing your mask of water. She may have been free-diving but I'm sure she was an experienced scuba diver too, so she would've known the procedure. And even if she didn't, the stand-by diver would've known. He could've just controlled the pace of their ascent if he couldn't make her understand what she needed to do. But it's so easy to communicate that. You just point to your mouth and let out a trickle of bubbles, then point to them. Couldn't be easier. And blame has to also go to her, for continuing with the dive even after the 30 sec delay. That would be a stupidly long delay in a free dive. There are a lot of people who couldn't hold their breath even that long. She should've aborted. There would've been much broader margins for recovery at that point, at the very least. It's an unfortunate story but I don't think you can pin it all on him. She knew the risks. It's a stupid sport period. Very high risks, minimal gains other than fame. And if you want to risk your only life for fame you kinda deserve to lose it. Sorry, not sorry.
If you truly mean that, you outta check out, "Humans." Grace focuses on the victims & their life. She's pretty new & it's basically the other side of the story that these true crime channels focus on.
@@_MjG_ I noticed how some stories are missing parts. They are not as truthful as they could be. It’s too bad. I completely trusted him at first. Now I fact check or I’ve heard a story from another channel. Maybe it’s the people working for him to blame but he is ultimately responsible. I didn’t listen for the last couple years but it’s at the very least entertaining. I don’t believe in the supernatural junk though.
@@-youtalkingtome Yes, Mr.Ballen is great at telling stories. Unfortunately he has his own narrative, doesn't stick to the facts on some of the stories. I was only addressing the real life stories as well, not the very likely 100% fictional supernatural & mythical creature stories he has told. I've researched over a dozen Mr.Ballen stories after I first noticed a huge obvioua error to myself in one of his stories. That made me realize how some of his stories have around half a dozen or so key errors in them, but to his credit about half his reality based stories are reasonably close to what actually happened. I just think that some of Mr.Ballen's stories are sensationalized to make them sound more entertaining at the expense of not sticking to the facts.
@@_MjG_The fact that you dedicate your time to sabotage mrballen instead of just having fun and watching his content, says more about you than mrballen. You aren't a detective because you waste hours of time, fact-checking a channel made for entertainment
So not only did her husband stop anyone else from checking the diving equipment, but he also reported it as being safe even though it wasn't and on top of that he kept her under the water even longer claiming he was trying to save her.... Under water. He sounds Absolutely DODGE to me. ABSOLUTELY
Dont forget he then decided to put on a scuba gear tank etc..when she never surface after allocated time , instead of being there ready to Roll , he killed her
Seemed he already killed 2 people out of negligence. Are these French laws that allow him to get away with this? And I thought other countries were pretty bad...
Even if Audrey's husband didn't murder her on purpose, he still contributed to her death through negligence at the very least. Why he never was held accountable for that negligence is beyond me.
What the HELL kind of "safety diver" is there that doesn't even know how to "buddy breathe"???? If I'm a safety, diver, and it's already time to "screw the record, save her life", you can bet YOUR ASS I'm yanking ol' girl off that rig and swimming up to control her ascent WITH ME, and we'll just trade the regulator back and forth along the way... ANYBODY who suggests ANYTHING different is getting reported for plotting to murder whatever diver is on that rig... AND if there's straps involved, I'll have a bladed instrument that'll take care of them... I think they BOTH need charged. The "buddy breathing" (swap regulator back and forth) procedure has been around since Cousteau. There's no excuse. I'm not sure when they established multiple reg's on "the octopus" BUT I do know that's the standard for rescue classes today. I'm sorry, and it's CERTAINLY NOT on Mr. Ballen here. That story totally pissed me off! ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Right no as you should be! I know small things can pile up into a disaster when diving, especially in an extreme form like this, but many of the factors in this case are far from small. Calling it criminal negligence might be understating it. Audrey's death was preventable period, and it's beyond frustrating that she ended up facing this injustice and lack of care.
@@cassini4052 Well, from binging Dive Talk most recently, but even long before I ran across them, it's long been a saying that "No single issue has ever killed a diver." I'm not certified, so just that "Discover Scuba" stuff, and sinus issues are kind of a b*tch, BUT I've been around, and there are plenty of perfectly healthy divers among cavers and motorcycles... both activities I enjoy relatively regular if not frequently... On a bike, any single issue can turn deadly almost instantly... It's why we wear gear and work constantly to increase our collections of GOOD gear over whatever we could scratch together when we got our first bike(s)... haha... But all the longest career holders in scuba are very Zen about stuff. They believe in "think your way through" and they always have contingencies, improvisations, and believe in the proper equipment... AND whenever I've been around SAR swimmers or Safety Divers, those guys are PRICKS about doing their jobs. They're not brazen anti-social types, but don't get in their way. A single person at risk to one of them is like the balance of the entire world on their shoulders. I just don't get a safety diver sitting there watching her like that. There may well be a situation where even as a safety diver I'd have to accept that there's nothing I could do, but that sure as hell wasn't it. Nobody's going to tell them they can't save someone right in front of them... That's just not in the culture... extreme sports or world records be damned... AND damn whatever "the boss" says about it. SO maybe if that rig had rocketed up to the surface, she'd have been put at risk over a single gulp... OR if she'd tried to close her throat to hold her breath on the way up... BUT not buddy breathing. AND Cousteau originally established that you had to be able to take a tank of air down to around 100 feet, hang the rig on the rope, and leave it, for your ascent to be certified for open water... SO it's not like you can't physically go up on a single breath from compressed air at depth if necessary. You just need to know to get rid of the air as fast or even a little faster than it expands as the pressure comes off. It's easiest on you to do so with a controlled ascent, at about 30 feet per minute (recommended) and you just about can't screw it up... BUT lots of people panic all the time, and "bolt for the surface" at double or more that speed without consequences other than getting bitched at when they're back on the dive boat... In any case, we're at risk of navel-gazing at this point. I just couldn't help how her story really pissed me off. That has murder-plot written all over it and an idiot could figure it out. ;o)
Hahah I feel the same exact way! He always has me so tuned out into his dang soul! He's so good at telling stories. I never miss a word but I always miss the damn hidden thing. Lol
The third story really resonated with me. I have first hand experience with robots like were described, including being stuck by them on 2 different occasions. Once was my own fault, but on both occasions the place I was working had no rules about lock out/ tag out and absolutely should have. I should have known better, but at the time I was barely 18 and had NOT been trained at all. Many times, I was also expected to just figure out maintenance issues myself, despite absolutely no training. No company's bottom line is worth risking your own life. I hope even one person reads this and it helps them keep from making such a fatal error, just please always be more careful than is asked of you. It could mean the difference between life and death if you aren't careful
we can all think that but there is no proof he did it while yes it questionable what he did he may have been he may have been truely trying to help her and just panicked we dont know that my first though but from doing some more digging i think everyone involved had a part in her death the negligence that took place was the biggest part of it why didnt she check the gear herself just before going why didnt the crew take a step back due to the weather and just cause she did a test run the day before that went fine and the photo of here sitting in her wetsuit she just had a look of she knew something bad was going to happen and she was just making peace with it and there is a a theroy that maybe she set this up her self cause she had scoliosis and the only time she felt free was when she was in the water cause she had to wear a big back brace so the only ones who know for sure are pippin her and god they did a documentary called no limits i havent seen it yet but its on youtube i plan on watching even if is innocent legally he is morally guilty of his wifes death for allowing the dive to take place with out all the safety measures in place
@@tauntdragoon It's really easy to just blame pippins, thank god that the justice system doesn't work on assumptions. Like you said the crew is also to blame, it's not like they were just friends hanging out at sea, they were all professionals with sever hundreds of thousands in equipment and salaries... yet nobody though to bring a medic? Pippins actions from this video does make it sound like he definitely did it, but that's also how MrBallen kinda chose to portray it. But then again if you look at the suicide angle it could be that Pippins already knew what was going to happen, and he made sure that he would stay true to his wife wish of dying in that dive, so he made it so that he was the only one to check the sled because they both knew it was going to fail.
Let me get this straight, wife tries to beat husband's record. Husband is the only one to check her equipment, other people realize that something is wrong (not him who is apparently a professional), and only the husband gets to resuscitate her? Yeah, something ain't right here.
Even if he did not deliberately kill her he was criminally negligent. His bypassing of normal safety measures and insistance to do it himself creates a large amount of suspicion as to his motives. Sounds pretty hinky to me.
i don't think you can jump to conclusions based on what little we know the husband may have just been reckless i mean you would have to be a bit crazy to free dive to 200 meters. I went 30 meters with a tank and got scared when we realised how quickly our oxygen ran out. Plus you can get nitrogen narcosis which is like being drunk and you can make fatal errors. Anyway i really feel sorry for the woman.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. That's one of the Secrets of Life. If it's raining, go outside. Whatever you find difficult, head towards it and I promise you, it'll shrink back in fear of You. Nothing is as bad, or as good, as your mind believes it is.
Anyone else really appreciate how knowledgeable MrBallen is? He doesn't just tell a story , he gives you a full understanding of it and everything involved.
Audrey: "I'm going to try to break the free dive record." Pippin: "You mean MY record?" Audrey: "Yes." Pippin: Audrey: "What do you think." Pippin: "Great. I'll help you."
@Jason NO. Please do not spread dangerous misinformation like that. This is NOT how life works beneath water. Although, I will admit I am confused seeing so many comments like this... However, what I have learned is that: Her lungs would be so compressed at this depth that if she took even the slightest inhale of air down there; her lungs would explode. The divers are most definitely not using regular "AIR" as you put it either, for the oxygen becomes toxic when you go below a certain depth. It is agreed upon that the maximum depth limit for a diver to use Compressed Air is 30 to 50 meters. Beyond this, a gas mixture other than air is suggested for use to prevent nitrogen narcosis. Again, they couldn't give her even a breath of that gas either because her lungs would explode at that depth since they were compressed by her holding her breath. The diver had been adjusted through breathing of gas on the way down, while her lungs were compressed by holding her breath, and so her lungs had become so small under the weighted pressure of the water above that she would be unable to take even a single breath from their tanks anyway. They always teach to basically never inhale on the way up, only on your way down. She was doomed.
Story 3 is right up my alley. I work maintenance at a tier 1 supplier for European cars: Mercedes, BMW, VW, Audi, ect. The company should have had a lock-out/tag-out procedure along with a safety switch on the door tied to the e-stop circuit along with signage stating the dangers and qualified entry signage. These companies always want to save a dollar and cut corners… it is despicable.
@@braetonwilson4296 so he was in a final destination senerio so he would have died anyway ? You do realize that even 1 millisecond counts towards his life span what would've happened to him if he didn't fall down the hole he would have had a heart attack? I really don't think you actually thought about your reply.
Earlier this year I was in a work accident where I nearly lost my life. Hearing the story about Regina made me almost relive my experience... It is NOT worth it, to put yourself in danger in order to satisfy an employer and their production quota.. Stay safe....
they will replace you withing a couple of days if not weeks, you are replaceable, you are just another number in a spreadsheet to them, do not give your life for a paycheck.
I remember watching a documentary about The No limits dive, along with audrey history they follow her most direct competitor into achieving the same world record dive. Her competitor was also "managed" by her husband but the difference in preparation and safety measures were abysmal - that included the worst case scenario where the balloon fails (by mechanical or human fault, which almost happened due to her setting hypoxia) She had rescue divers at several depths that by simply passing her from hand to hand could pull her to the surface very fast, medical team on board and at the beach. Audrey had none of that. That dive was doomed from the very beginning, and that husband of hers..... I don't buy is innocence for one second.
Regina's story reminds me of when I worked at Nestle. They didn't train people half a crap and ended up with me having my hand crushed and them thinking they were going to show me a safety video and trying to back date the form I had to fill out so I couldn't sue. Like I couldn't read
@@markpatjoebilldinousar1111 You do know ppl don't get notified for EVERY single comment right? So quit with the name calling. I got a notification for a recent comment from a video a year ago, I saw I had a few comments above that one from a year ago that YT never notified me for.
🚩🚩This case needs to be reopened! He has a reputation of getting other divers killed by being reckless. Then he refuses anyone else to check the balloon which ultimately caused her death and no one considered this a bright shiny red flag?!
@srush not having the stigma of being a divorcee, countless men opt for killing their spouse instead of divorce because of the cost. He probably knew he could get away with it seeing how dangerous doing that record was.
@srush Audrey’s friends believe Pippin sabotaged Audrey’s gear so he could “save her just in time” and look like the hero. So he didn’t intend to kill her. He just wanted to be the center of attention.
Regina’s story is exactly the reason why you shouldn’t go above and beyond for a job, wearing yourself out or putting yourself in bad situations. It’s just a job. There’s a million more that are better, have better pay and hours. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
@@misharron9579 You can read right? He said don’t go above and beyond for a job, and didn’t specify what jobs. I’m pointing out that sometimes it’s worth it to go above and beyond.
I work in a pharmacy in a grocery store. The store has a cardboard bailer and a trash compactor. Because it has those pieces of equipment everyone who works there has to learn about lock out/tag out procedures. Even though I will never work with this equipment I had to do that training. The gaps in those workers training is shocking.
Me but not patiently. I was hoping everything was ok with him. Was getting a bit anxious. Glad he’s here again. I guess we all need time off sometimes.
You ever think of all the research must go into this channel? This man goes into such detail, and knows everything about every story. I mean how does he consistently find these stories millions of us have never heard of? It’s fucking impressive, and this is why I respect MrBallen so much.
That 2nd story was so scary and sad. I definitely think her husband had something to do with her death. This story also gave me anxiety when I was listening to it because one of my biggest fears ever is drowning. So I can't imagine the fear and panic Audrey must have been feeling.
The freediver Audrey Mestre story is actually WAY darker. Many people think it should be considered murder and that he purposefully messed with her equipment. It's rumored that he was abusive and they were having marital troubles. I think she also tried to back out that day because she wasn't feeling well but he made her do it anyways. The onboard doctor was also a dentist lol.
I feel bad for her, and it’s all sketchy as hell, but ultimately it was her dive. As much as she may have been pressured, you can’t make someone go on a dive. She chose to do it despite the bad weather, despite the untested equipment, despite the lack of personnel, and despite not following procedure with the balloon inspection. And she ended up dying because of it.
@holly lambert That’s a good point; I didn’t take that into account. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was abusive, and that would explain her decision making.
@@michaelh9649 Just gonna jump in here, lol. I can absolutely see a woman (or man) who is in an abusive relationship (think gaslighting etcetera) doing something they absolutely don't want to do. I wasn't in a battered relationship but was with a narcissist and let me tell ya, you're mind begins working differently and quite literally you are brainwashed to a degree. The degree in which you're brainwashed differs with everyone and the things you're brainwashed about also differ. Also, gaslighting and verbal/emotional abuse is something you would do about anything to avoid. If doing the dive put her in a "love bombing" phase of the relationship that would also make her actually want to do whatever he wanted her to as to make him happy and keep the relationship in the love phase. So, those are possibilities and I can understand this. It took me several years to get back to normal and normal ways of thinking, essentially un brainwashing myself which is hard work & needs support of loved ones. If this was her case her family and loved ones probably knew and likely disliked him. I don't know those details.
Man hearing stories about osha violations where people die or are horribly injured make me so upset. As a mechanical engineer who studied advanced robotics in school one of the first things our instructor drilled into us was that every osha regulation is built on the blood and lives of injured workers. Machinery can be replaced lives cannot, something big corporations tend to forget
I don't think 'forget' is correct. 'Willingly turn a blind eye' is more accurate. 1.5 mil? How does that stack up against the usual fine that company would incur??? Pricks. It certainly isn't enough for the life of an individual with hope and promise.
@@baristaz8834 It's cheaper for corporations to pay for a wrongful death lawsuit than paying for someone's workers comp benefits for the next 20 - 30 years.
She looked like she was sad like she knew her fate. I watched many documentaries about Audrey and this last dive was different. She wasn’t talking she wasn’t her usual self. As if she wasn’t ready but was pressured to break this record because someone else broke the record a few weeks earlier. Rip Audrey, my condolences and respect to her family.
Audrey's husband murder her on purpose, its the perfect murder. Someone need to check if she had life insurance and if he benefits for it or if he is have a affair.
He rushed this trial, he refused to let anyone else check the balloon gear, and he "tried to resuscitate her" underwater? How much was her life insurance?
I just think they weren't prepared properly and this shit sound super dangerous anyway. You take your life in your own hands when you decide to push limits. Whether her husband was sus or not.
As a certified rescue diver, I can tell you that you can take a breath of air at 171 meters down and everything is ok, you can also swim up to the surface but, and most important, you must release the air as you go up. You can NOT have a full breath of new air in your lungs as you ascend to the surface, your lungs will explode, killing you, but if you release all of the new air, you will be ok. Divers must continuously breath as they ascend to the surface or they can explode their lungs, free divers dont have that problem as most of you know. She could have taken air in to save her life at 171 meters down, but not hold it in as she ascends. I believe the husband had something to do with her death because he wouldn't let anyone else inspect the equipment before the dive.
That's what surprised me the most about that story. Even as part of your advanced certification, there is a whole unit of study and practice on rescue diving and you learn about the importance of having air in your lungs but continuously expelling it as you ascend. A safety diver came to her aid but did not give her air, which makes me think they were not aware of this, which also makes me question if they were even certified in the first place (which would be par for the course considering the lack of medical personnel and safety regulations that were being followed).
Wow, thanks for explaining all of that. I think he killed her too. He had been known for getting people killed though, so maybe he was just incompetent? No, he probably didn’t want her to break his record.
Thank you, I was thinking that. I just took a scuba class over the summer and the very first day I remember them telling us you need to just slowly exhale as you ascend because the air in your lungs will be expanding
What happened to Mr. Nishimoto was terrible, but, thanks to that tragedy, Mr. Ballen gets to warn people about ANOTHER danger from trapsing around Hawaii. FYI, just because the active volcanos are on the island of Hawaii (aka the Big Island), doesn’t mean that the other islands are safer! In fact, depending on the age of the lava and how much it’s broken down, the ones on the other islands are more prone to crumbling and collapsing than the ones on the Big Island. Second story - this is one more reason why people may not get married anymore… Third story - and the story of corporate negligence and setting people up for failure continues.
Honestly sometimes I wonder why people are even allowed to inhabit the Island. It’s a freaking volcano and recently I believe one of the “inactive” volcanos erupted and many people died and many are still unaccounted for and everything is burning. It just doesn’t seem safe for people at all imo. The whole concept of living on a darn volcano is insane. Mother nature is unpredictable and humans are destroying the planet so there’s no telling what could happen.
I mean it was more than just what Ballen said. The husband planned all this shit to happen. He took a Dentist over a doctor and she was being physically abused. She does have a bruise on her cheek and seem like she was forced into doing this by her husband.
I was a security guard for an automotive factory years ago. One night, I was messing around on my phone in the booth because it was usually a time of night when all was peaceful when suddenly, the entire ground trembled violently beneath my feet and I heard an explosion from inside the central heart of the assembly room to the right of me. I took off toward that area and when I got inside to document the problem, I saw what happened. The factory used molds that weighed anywhere from 50k to 100k, which were transported around the room by massive cranes attached to the ceiling. One of the crane cables had snapped and a 70k mold had come thundering to the ground. One of the managers was taking a desperate head count of his team surrounding him, all of whom were visibly shaken, some of whom were panicking and being held upright by their teammates. Against my better judgment, I wandered around the fallen mold taking pictures for my report. To my UTTER relief, the whole team was fine. No one had been standing where it fell. There wouldn't have been much left to return to the family if they had. To my utter horror, a few days later, a message went out to all employees, including me even though I was contracted through another company, saying basically that this sort of incident is inexcusable and that everyone needs to focus on the factory quota above all else. They were then ordered to continue using the broken crane, which was hastily deemed 'functional' until a new one could be ordered sometime the following year. About twenty people quit and I honestly went not long after. I was beyond disgusted by this point, having reported numerous safety violations and the constant appearance of aggressive drunkards on the property, to which I was told to just tell them to leave if I saw them. (I'm a tiny female going up against what can sometimes be two or three drunken idiots at a time. Yeah, I'm sure that would've gone down REAL well for a mere night guard.) This mess was the final straw. Someone could have lost their life and all this company gave a shit about was its bottom line.
That story about extreme negligence from the employers just hiring people to fill spots and quotas with minimal to zero training, sounds terrifyingly similar to my current workplace. Just sucks that I can't find a job with similar hours and pay so I can leave this place, so I'm just being extra cautious and triple checking everything where I work.
She worked there 6 months or so, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week sometimes, and they had never taught her, or any of her crew the lockout - tagout procedure for her machines. That is a criminal negligence and there should have been jail time involved.
@@Gnossiene369 The last I heard, her mother was suing the company and the U.S. Labor Department fined the company and two staffing agencies $2.5 million for 27 safety violations. But I'm curious about your "Moral obligation? That has no power in a criminal system." Which part of what system do you find ito be a criminal system?
Usually, operators are instructed to never enter the caged off area of any robotic cell they work with. That is the job of the maintenance technicians and they are taught of the LOTO procedure. As soon as that machine failed, their productivity and target depended on the response time of the maintenance technician. She should have never stressed or bothered about entering the cell, they would miss their target with a good justification.
@@prolarka I'm pretty sure there's no justifying missing a quota to disgusting, greedy, selfish employers whose main and only concern is meeting a quota. That's why she did what she did.
This woman died because of greed and the way we are as americans brainwashed to think "no excuses just get it done". This woman wanted to be a DOCTOR but didn't know about LOTO. I have never worked in an industrial setting and have never been a maintenance worker but I know about LOTO. We're taught that safety procedures are all "common sense" and that you can do any job safely if common sense is applied so "just get it done, no excuses." That is why she died. The lack of training is just the legal argument to get the family the financial relief they deserve. 3mil plus 1.5mil to the family? Its nothing. They should have been forced to pay out more to the family AND be forced to pay the amount in man hours they saved not training these people all of these years. Every single employee up to that point. The time it would take to give them a safety class multiplied by not their hourly wage but their labor value. It would bankrupt the company or give them such a hit that it would actually make it more cost effective to train the people instead of risking this. Instead we have token justice.
I lived in Hawaii for 6 years, its the Aloha spirit. Many seniors meet up at McDonalds for morning coffee snd breakfast once a week sometimes more. May your day be pleasant!
Haha! Yeah, I overdosed on drugs one night at a friends house 2 hours away from my home and woke up three days later with my car missing and not a single person in the trailer the friend had been renting. He had literally moved out and out of the six other people there that night not one of them called an ambulance for me or anything. I called the dude who I figured took my car to get back home, he and two others had rode up with me, and not only did they leave me to die he had been driving my car for the last three days because when I told him to come get me had said, "There isn't enough gas bro." I had filled it up just before getting to the friends house. Which meant in three days he had driven around 350 miles in my car. I told him, "I don't give a fuck! Borrow the shit from your mom and come get me!" He had his mom follow him and dropped my car off a block away and left so he didn't have to see me in person because he knew I was pissed. He only extended the time before he got his asswhipping, though, as he got what he deserved.
The second story seems like murder. The fact he had decades of experience, ordered himself alone to inspect the equipment and the crew lacked a doctor is too coincidental.
That part - and that part alone - actually could make sense out of similar reasons as the 'no air because lung inflation' thing that stopped the diver to give her air.
@@ApsaraMenaka this lung inflation thing is bullshit. If that sled was moving up so slowly, there would be plenty of time to breath that air pressure out and take a new breath. The scuba diver is breathing aswell.
@@anonanon3066 that would be true, if she still would be able to breathe in and out by herself at that point - but then she would not need resuscitation in the first place.
@@anonanon3066 yes, and because she does not have air her lungs would not inflate like it should under water and the lungs can not slowly get used to breathe under normal pressure slowly like they have to to prevent a total lung collapse once she breathes over water. But I won't discuss this in endless circles. Either you understand this or you don't. I explained why. Doing this more than twice in a TH-cam comment section isn't my thing. If you still think you are right I just hope your life never depends on that.
@@pumkin610 apparently, you missed the part of the story where EVERYTHING he did is clearly suspicious. Most people, when their spouse is attempting a possible life-threatening stunt, would take extra steps to ensure their safety and success. The husband did the exact opposite at nearly every step.
@@pumkin610 It's his fault, obviously. But she was taking a HUGE risk (like jumping off a cliff) that she didn't have to and could have refused to do it unless there was the appropriate medical staff, extra dive team help people, all the usual safety devices ...all the safety people and devices that normally would be there. And she could have inspected the "balloon" herself too as the 2nd person. She just trusted her husband too much (like we all do sometimes and regret it), even tho he was known to be lax in the safety area and 2 workers had been killed under his command. I don't know if her death was on purpose by him, or if he just wasn't that smart and had been lucky until then (not counting the 2 deaths).
I had heard of the robot 23 story before from a safety meeting we had at an old job. It’s a sad story but when I heard they waiting on maintenance all I could think was typical maintenance department
Im a maintenance mechanic that works on robotic equipment. A 4-6 axis arm like the one that impaled that lady could throw a car across the warehouse. Ours punch holes in the sides of trailers all the time, the robotic forklifts have killed people at other plants and just kept pulling orders till someone noticed the blood.
I did a tour through a car factory with those exact robots and the tourguide said there was an accident where a person got folded backwards in seconds by a robot. They are insanely strong.
The sad part is that he was the one that wanted her to do it, she didn't wanted it. And she did that same exact depth the day before and it was completely normal she went to 171 and got out alive, but died in the day of the official record
@susan ivy he wanted her to take that record, she didn't want to do it herself. If he hadn't egged her on, she wouldn't have tried it and there would have been no risk to his record. That means the fear of her breaking his record wasn't the cause. It was something else.
@@tterbogaming9749 snap :D I even pop in some wireless earbuds and fall asleep to his voice sometimes xd Stephen Fry is good for this with his audio books too.
The story of Audrey is much deeper than what has been told in this story. I encourage everyone to look into the story of Pipin and Audrey and this fatal dive. Some say it was careless, some think it was malicious.
@@DBSK4TY Mr.Ballen definitely twisted some very important facts to make Pipen look worse though. Below is a list of facts vs Mr.Ballen's BS version. My source is the Audrey Mestre Documentary, which is a 50 minute film. MR.BALLEN'S LIES: (#1-5) 1. The record was held by Audrey's husband, Pipin FACT: Tanya Streeter held the record at the time. 2. Storm Clouds had started to roll in. FACT: It was overcast, but the storm had stopped prior to them heading out & didn't re-emerge. 3. The bad weather caused the cable to sway & to cause kinks in the cable. FACT: The weather wasn't bad. The water was still rough from the storm earlier in the morning. The cable was too light & not weighted enough on bottom, which cased it to drift at an incline, when it should've been at 90 degrees. 4. A cable kink caused the sled to stop at 164m & cost her 30 seconds. FACT:The cable didn't kink at all. The sled never stopped or cost Audrey any time loss on the descent.The descent time was excellent. 5. Pipin had kept her underwater a couple additional minutes & he tried to resuscitate her underwater. FACT: Pipin dove down 90m, grabbed her & immediately returned to the surface as fast as possible. The documentary made a point of how dangerous it was for him to descend & ascend so quickly. Pipin didn't try to resuscitate her until he got to the surface. Also, it's not possible to resuscitate anyone underwater.
@@Chloo_e Mr.Ballen used all his information for his story based entirely off of that documentary called 'No Limits'. Thing is, Mr.Ballen is not very good at benig accurate and likes to fabricate hie own little story by not stating what actually happened in that documentary. Horrible assumption by you... saying the documentary was made by Audrey's husband Pipen. As if he would make a documentary that makes him look partially responsible for her death. The documentary was made by Netflix. Because of that documentary, Pipen filed a lawsuit against Netflix for Defamation, claiming the film implied he murdered his wife.
I love how each story is told to us in a way that is not only full of information, but also so you can picture it as he speaks. For instance, talking about the back of the property being overgrown, and how he grabbed all his gardening tools. I could picture it all, right down to a rake and garden hoe! So awesome!
I can't remember where it is but it is somewhere near east Asia i think Philippines you got to be careful where you go because you might step on a landmine
The manufacturing accident is horrific. I used to work in manufacturing for engine fan blades and some of the machines were the size of houses. We had a mechanic who came in from Germany who was new to fix one of them. He didn't speak English very well and didn't understand when told to wait because the machine was just paused. He then went inside of the machine and began to work on it without informing anyone and without locking out the machine. Another coworker who'd come back from lunch hit Go and it immediately starts to whip around, nearly crushing the mechanic against the back door. He starts screaming and banging on the walls of the machine, another coworker of mine nearly threw himself at the machine to hit the emergency stop. They pulled him out and very fortunately he just had minor bruising/gashes. After that, the mechanic was not allowed on the floor at all without one of our employees accompanying him. Lockout/tagout is the VERY first thing we learn before going on machines for a damn good reason.
Plot twist: Pippin killed his wife because she was trying to beat his record, further he also killed those two other divers because they tried to beat his record, basically a free diving serial killer.
I think he killed her too! Why wouldn’t a husband want additional checks for an extremely dangerous dive? Quite suspicious! I agree about the other 2 divers. He is so competitive he killed his competitors.
I was saying over and over "Lock out, tag out!" I was a Supervisor at a couple factories for a few years and the production mentality, quota thing, its why I will never work in the industry again (even though that's what my bachelors degree is specifically for)
As someone who has worked in a car part manufacturing plant, I can 100000000% confirm that they are under Hella pressure, over work employees and cut just about every cost corner and safety regulation they can to keep the lines running and keep production going and you do develop a "production at all costs" mentality surprisingly quick
The ocean is a terrifying place to me and the thought of free diving like that is insane to me. Just diving is crazy. I love the ocean and it's inhabitants from a distance. I don't need to get in it. Soon as you hit the water it's fair game and it's nothing but teeth,tentacles,venom and claws in that water and is as wild as nature can get. It's instills a primal fear in me
@@voidofastora6032 I've been thinking about it very much cause I want to. I'm pretty deep in bloodborne currently but I think sub nautica is next. Should I play the first one 1st. Also stranded deep was tough for me in the ocean but I completed the game.its not the known things but more of a fear of that. I believe I would go in a min sub if it was offered or maybe even a shark cage but I'm not getting in with nothing the blocks but I would have to be able to see the bottom. Id prefer to stay above 30 or 40 feet but I watched a deep mini sub dive to near a 1000 meters on TV and I think I could no that cause I could clearly see and your in normal clothes. I'd never scuba and I know I'm missing out on that experience but I would sky dive
@@voidofastora6032 also it wouldn't cure it cause once I learned the game it's like anything else. Like in stranded deep I didn't like swimming on top cause whats below. I did murder some large animals in that game though
@@majinvegeta9280 as someone who is afraid of the depths subnautica was a horrifying experience for me at first but somehow it reduced my anxiety this game although not a horror game it has very disturbing locations in it where you start at the surface level then you would dive 1000s of miles into the pitch black abyss where your not alone in the darkness and theres Large predators lurking about although i might have given you a bad impression of this game its in my top 10 games of all time and i highly recommend it haven't played the second yet but I've heard the first is better so plz play it and tell me your impressions
@@voidofastora6032 thanks. I'm gonna play it since I'm sitting at home and not in the ocean it's more like a sense of dread and impending doom. Like I said. Stranded deep was like that for me at first. I had to cut the sharks off until I was good with understanding the waters and wildlife. After a while I was killing sharks. All in "the forest" the little swim to the sailboat was anxiety inducing cause it was a short swim but there's great whites in those waters
I wonder if the diver’s husband was the beneficiary on her life insurance policy?.... Accidental death riders usually pay double indemnity.... Investigation is thoroughly needed on this one.
After scrolling down thru 15 or 20 commenters, I'm surprised you're the first one to mention double indemnity. Good call Sharone! I think this guy is shady as hell.
Well I don't known if it would have paid... The pony tank ment to fill the air bladder was almost entirely empty. The one he refused to let anyone near. He said he didn't notice it was empty. Maybe the tank didn't have a gauge? But how does a professional not notice a 5-10 lb weight difference between an empty and full tank. Or the hollow clanging noise it makes if you tap your fingernail against it? I guess it was ruled an accident and he did publish books about it under pen names, then the documentary... i guess he would have got a pay out either way.
I love this guy always listen to him right before I go to sleep. On that last story about Regina being impaled. Good thing her family at least got a payout. My uncle recently died after a car crash. Not sure who gonna fight to collect.
@@GAshoneybear I missed that, but it still doesn't make any sense. Pipin was training Audrey to go deeper & pushing her to go deeper. He wanted her to break his record. If you watched The Audrey Mestre Documentary, you would realize just how ridiculous you comment is. You could see in the Documentary just how badly he wanted her to break not only his record, but the world record. The others on the diving crew & those that knew the couple, back it all up with their commentary.
That last story was so preventable. Lockout tagout procedures are so important. My husband is a Process Safety Management Coordinator at a poultry plant. Every piece of equipment they work on requires LOTO procedures. Its just common sense. So many people in Mr Ballen's stories alone couldve been saved by simple LOTO procedures.
I hope no one, ever, dives with Pippin again after his wife dies on his watch, like others did too. Even if he may not be a murderer, he is clearly reckless and irresponsible. RIP, Audrey. ✨ And the recklessness and greed of profit driven workplaces is and always will be a lethal threat to workers trying to do their best.
This man is so professional but so relaxed and easy at the same time, he has sources, a phenomenal story telling style. he makes it in depth and simplistic. Hes just outstanding and i lowkey stalk his yt for more videos.
I know, and on top of that the Man is a former Navy SEAL. The only other former SEAL that I know of with a TH-cam channel is Master Chief Don Shipley who's channel I highly recommend. He retired at such a high rank and good standing that he has access to the classified list of every Navy SEAL to ever serve. Given that fact, and the fact that for every living SEAL out there they have a thousand bullshitters trying to ride their backs with some Stolen Valor shit. Shipley's channel focuses a lot on calling these frauds and putting them through the ringer. It's great. He does videos with his Wife Dianne and they're pretty funny too. Check his channel out, it's called ( "Former Buds 131" ) or just click here ( th-cam.com/video/etHj9fPF7OM/w-d-xo.html ) to see one of his videos.
Even if that husband didn't sabotage her equipment (which I believe he did), her death is still on him, seeing he was the person responsible for all the security measures for the dive and they all failed miserably. And about Regina, I've related so much to her personality... it seems like we had so much in common, her story really got to me. I hope she's in peace now.
I would say it is almost undeniable that he killed her. You would think he would take even more precautions because its his wife which he did the exact opposite. Who in their right mind would try to resuscitate someone underwater. I'd say he did that to make sure she stays dead.
I was so fn mad to hear about what happened to Regina. She worked so incredibly hard to help her partner. Then the company only had to give her family 1.5 mill. What a slap in the face. I dont even have good enough words for how much a woman like that is worth.
How did you relate to someone you didn't know really anything about...but had so much in common? He listed like 3 things about her... Tragedy none the less, but this is just...impossible?
The worst part is that it was totally preventable. Also, I'm calling BS that they didn't know they should lock out the equipment before going in there.
@@Warren_GG, the broad strokes of the story are probably still true though, right? Like, the point of all the details is really just to show that she's just a real person who was trying to do her best. The real point is to protect yourself from this kind of preventable incident.
when underwater, and holding your breath, the weirdest thing is if you can fight through the pain that sets in after a couple of mins it goes away almost instantly and you almost feel at home, it's exhilarating like a "runner's high".. but you can't push yourself or you'll pass out without knowing it basically.
I live here on the big island of Hawaii and the scariest lava tubes are the ones in the river. If you go swimming when the water is especially rough and you swim over the wrong place you can get sucked in like a vacuum. A couple from the mainland decided to ignore the caution signs and went swimming regardless of it and no one saw them again. Its generally assumed they were sucked into one of the hidden lava tubes in that area.
Right?! I can’t decide if he’s insanely stupid and vain or malicious but considering how much he had already been criticized :/ he should have known he needed to do better!
Yeah, when the blame the death on a lack of training, I got mad. Company’s don’t have to eat food or drink water or sleep for 8 hours. If anyone is dying in your factory your business needs to be shut down and any management held responsible.
@@jacpas2012 lack of training falls on the company not the employee, her family will certainly be paid if they haven't already, and the company has been fined $25m from what I found. Doesn't bring her back, but at least some punishment was given.
Poor Regina, she made a slew of poor life decisions I can relate to; only difference is the consequences. The lesson here; NEVER drop out of school for a relationship. If it's meant to be, it can wait.
I really felt for this girl. Sometimes you get caught in the tunnel vision of doing things for love, for money, never thinking about your own life until it’s too late. This is the ultimate example of “that job AIN’T worth it.” I hate that she had to pay such a harsh price, from the story she seemed like an honest, hard worker just trying to make that bag 🙁
Yes! I was like hold up, why doesn't ol boy get a better paying job than a mfn walmart stockperson? At least to support her in reaching her goals which would benefit them both in the future. She deserved better. 🙄
@@cristianozwife seriously. Stocking shelves at Walmart? What a dork. He should have been in the auto plant. Or maybe they both could have just vibed at walmart. But obviously med school is the way to go. You dont have to go straight to doctor. Being a pediatric nurse first and making good money on your way to being a doctor makes more sense. But we all make terrible choices when we are young. And maybe don’t spend 4k on a dress and who knows what on a car when you make fckin 8$ an hour. That’s 3 1/2 months of 40 hr weeks for one dress. Even split between that’s nuts. These stories make me so sad, but damn are they educational.
Yeah that’s the takeaway here. Not “Never mess with heavy machinery that you have no idea how to repair.” or “The company’s quota is their problem, your safety is yours.”
I was a plastics nurse a few years ago. Do you know how many people we had with mangled hands, digits amputated etc from machinery accidents. It's scary how often accidents happen
I used to work as a paramedic in a service area that had a lot of manufacturing plants in it. We were always going there for injuries. Most of which where caused by poor training or simple negligence.
Btw, DIVE TALK AND BALLEN, LOVE THEM BOTH. They helped me understand how being underwater works, and both channels actually make me want to dive. I have a friend who's going to take a class with me, and he's already certified. Great content.
Pippin killed his wife. Psychopath. He 'checked' the inflation balloon and wouldn't let anyone else check it AND he kept Audrey under water longer "trying to resuscitate her."
@no name lmao let’s not act as if investigations are 100% accurate all the time. what a coincidence that this is what, the 3rd death associated w him? gobble gobble.
Reginas story is the reason why you shouldn’t do anything you’re not trained to do forget a quota every time someone goes above and beyond they lose their life poor girl
Facts! And they turn around and have your replacement within the next 2 days!! Smh I’m surprised they pleaded guilty though. Most companies blame the victim.
true, but I understand why she did it the company is just a joke, we're not robots, we're human this 'hitting the quota or we're gonna be mad' is ridiculous
I was really enjoying listening to Regina's story, a young girl building a life, pursuing her dreams and then I remembered what channel I was watching 😞
After hearing Regina's story it helps you understand to follow your dreams not money, if a job makes you feel so stressed that you gamble with your life that's not a good job LEAVE IT too much negative energy bad things can happen.
She was not "building a life". She was destroying her life for a pipe dream. I mean, excuse me, she dropped out of school because she had "bills to pay", and then she got a NEW car and a 4000 dollar wedding dress? That makes NO sense at all. She ruined her future.
@@Petra44YT 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they definitely hyped her story up... I worked at that same car plant $10/hour is not living the dream..... That was slave labor & them Koreans treat you like shit...
As an engineer in the automotive industry, that automation accident is mind blowing. Need to be a really horrible company for that to happen. I can't imagine an operator just hopping in to fix a weld cell, and I definitely can't imagine ANY employee not being aware of Lock Out/Tag Out procedures.
Lock Out/Tag Out was the first thing we trained everyone even remotely around the robot cells. Also all out robot cages had safety switches on the doors so as soon as you opened the door it killed the cell until you left the cell, closed the door and hit the go buttons.
And here's me, shoved into the role of stopping our 'safety director' from microwaving popcorn for 33 minutes, explaining to the welding super why the guys needed welding equipment, stopping people from shoving their hands under running drills, and shouting at guys who insisted on standing on the very top of ladders - without spotters even. And THIS was an HONEST company who could visualize the legal headaches of damage to their most important resources - other humans.
Yeah, I imagine it was cheaper for the company to just plead guilty to misdemeanor charge and pay a few million that let a fuller investigation drag out.
22:42 thumbs up in your chest!
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I see it
Good eye Lottie! 👍🏼
Omg everytime , lol I can't see it
Holy crap!! That’s bloody good eyesight!!!
I have to object that Audrey was "feeling confident" about the dive. From what I understand, she was pressured by her husband to do this dive, and if you've seen the video footage of her final dive, you can see how totally zoned out and empty she looks. People have speculated that she was in an abusive relationship, and I think that rings true. R.I.P. Audrey Mestre
Thank you! I wish this detail was covered! I’ve seen a whole hour long documentary on it & seen the footage & you’re exactly right- she did not seem like she was wanting to do that. I’m guessing he forced her to do a lot of things she didn’t want to.
What a prick. Can’t believe he didn’t get charged. When I bump into him in hell he’s in for some payback.
100% a victim of abuse. I don't even need to see a picture to no know. Bu the 'zoned out' look really is the cherry on top for confirmation.
@@QrtuopThe book “The Last Attempt” by Carlos Serra details how Audrey had marks and bruises she reported were from Pippin and that she was in the process of leaving him. There’s a good amount of evidence that he was abusive and pretty short-tempered.
Peenuses dangling down like a rain forest. Hundreds of dangling peenuses. Monkey runs and jumps off a cliff qand grabs a peenus! The monkey swings and jumps from peenus to peenus and goes across the whole forest off flaccid peenuses
@@Qrtuopwith no evidence, sure buddy I trust you /s.
The husband in the #2 story literally killed his wife.
He didn't follow protocol with her safety equipment
He didn't have the required staff on board during the dive
He kept her under water for TWO MINUTES extra
All the factors that caused her death has HIS fault
(Some lovley people comments have have mentioned some things I did not think of. I'd reccomend you check it out)
I also don't understand why the diver next to her didn't give her an extra breathing apparatus. He didn't have one or what. Because what he said about air killing is bs in my opinion. I'm not a diver so correct me if I'm wrong but using common sense couldn't she just ascended slowly so the expanding air in her lungs was under control?
@@Michael2137. it could take a lot of time to ascend, too much time.
The only factor that wasnt his fault is that she willingly took on a risky challenge like this, she either supported her husbands risky methods or hated it and didnt do much to prepare
should've called it off for weather. wait for stabler conditions. professionals do it all the time
@@Michael2137. you do know MrBallen was a Navy Seal right? I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to this kind of stuff bud.
Audrey even wanted to check the balloon and valve herself, which everybody would and should do. But her husband prevented her from doing so, telling her that it was unnecessary and he had already checked it. Big red flag there.
Suspish
My theory The husband was jealous bc he knew she could go further. What a shame
Came straight to the comments to see who else thought sabotage.. he killed her.
Also a bit sus they didn’t have a doctor or anyone medically trained on standby
Even if he didn't murder her on purpose... It was all still his fault. So fuck him, either way.
Second story:
1. The husband was regularly criticized in the no-limits free diving community for being reckless, and had already the blood of two former staff members on his hands
2. The husband was responsible for all the safety in this particular dive
3. The husband was rushing this particular record attempt by not having enough stand-by divers and medical personal on-site and on-shore
4. The husband didn't want any other people inspecting the ascending balloon, when normal procedure would have at least two other people inspecting this absolutely crucial piece of equipment
5. The husband kept her under water for a couple additional minutes trying to resuscitate her... under water
6. The record holder at that point was the husband
Yeah, I really wonder what happened...
Murder
I read a Reddit post where it said that the medical personnel on standby was a dentist. Was it true?
Ding ding ding
He'd have to be stupid to do that. Really stupid. I think he was probably egotistical and thought he could do anything and everything free-dive related. He couldn't. But I can understand why he'd think that. I don't think anyone gets to be the world record-holder of such a ridiculously dangerous 'sport' as free-diving without having supreme self-confidence.
No, I blame the stand-by diver. The excuse that getting air from him would kill her on the ascent due to expansion ignores the fact that one of the first rules they teach you in scuba diving is to constantly let out a steady trickle of air at all times, but especially during ascent. This is precisely to avoid the dangers of expansion. I'm only a rookie scuba-diver and I'm well aware of that. If the instructors saw you not letting out that trickle of bubbles during any of the underwater exercises they'd immediately call you on it, even the exercises as basic as clearing your mask of water.
She may have been free-diving but I'm sure she was an experienced scuba diver too, so she would've known the procedure. And even if she didn't, the stand-by diver would've known. He could've just controlled the pace of their ascent if he couldn't make her understand what she needed to do. But it's so easy to communicate that. You just point to your mouth and let out a trickle of bubbles, then point to them. Couldn't be easier.
And blame has to also go to her, for continuing with the dive even after the 30 sec delay. That would be a stupidly long delay in a free dive. There are a lot of people who couldn't hold their breath even that long. She should've aborted. There would've been much broader margins for recovery at that point, at the very least.
It's an unfortunate story but I don't think you can pin it all on him. She knew the risks. It's a stupid sport period. Very high risks, minimal gains other than fame. And if you want to risk your only life for fame you kinda deserve to lose it. Sorry, not sorry.
the only thing I can add is that the wife knew all this and went anyway
nevertheless, he should have faced consequences
Who else found this guy one day and started to watch him ever since
Me
i love Mr. Ballen's channel!!
I went back and watched everything he ever posted too
Binged watched his channels
That's me. He's kept me going through lockdown number 3 in the UK
I’m not saying that Pippin murdered his wife. But Pippin murdered his wife.
He definitely murdered his wife. Like the guy who packed and checked his wife's parachute that was rigged to fail
Yeah that dude 100% killed his wife
he couldnt let her beat his world record
@@Liljacb pro gamer move
If he didn't kill his wife then I'm lady gaga.
As soon as he starts a story with the word “diver”, RIP to that person
😂Yep!👍
Yeah I only remember 2 with survivors, the diving group that lost 2 to the depths and that deep sea one where the cable snapped...
The deep sea is no place for humanity.
Well the story were the captain save 18 of 30 people there was 32 people I believe.
@@Raccon_Detective.
Amen... 🦖 🐙 🔱 🦑 👍🏻
I love how you describe the lives of these people who have passed. You’re so respectful and sympathetic. Really keeps them alive.
If you truly mean that, you outta check out, "Humans."
Grace focuses on the victims & their life.
She's pretty new & it's basically the other side of the story that these true crime channels focus on.
Mr.Ballen is a hack. If you want a good story, he's great at that & twisting the facts around. If you want a true to the facts story, not so much.
@@_MjG_ I noticed how some stories are missing parts. They are not as truthful as they could be. It’s too bad. I completely trusted him at first. Now I fact check or I’ve heard a story from another channel. Maybe it’s the people working for him to blame but he is ultimately responsible. I didn’t listen for the last couple years but it’s at the very least entertaining. I don’t believe in the supernatural junk though.
@@-youtalkingtome Yes, Mr.Ballen is great at telling stories. Unfortunately he has his own narrative, doesn't stick to the facts on some of the stories. I was only addressing the real life stories as well, not the very likely 100% fictional supernatural & mythical creature stories he has told.
I've researched over a dozen Mr.Ballen stories after I first noticed a huge obvioua error to myself in one of his stories. That made me realize how some of his stories have around half a dozen or so key errors in them, but to his credit about half his reality based stories are reasonably close to what actually happened.
I just think that some of Mr.Ballen's stories are sensationalized to make them sound more entertaining at the expense of not sticking to the facts.
@@_MjG_The fact that you dedicate your time to sabotage mrballen instead of just having fun and watching his content, says more about you than mrballen. You aren't a detective because you waste hours of time, fact-checking a channel made for entertainment
So not only did her husband stop anyone else from checking the diving equipment, but he also reported it as being safe even though it wasn't and on top of that he kept her under the water even longer claiming he was trying to save her.... Under water.
He sounds Absolutely DODGE to me. ABSOLUTELY
He knew what he was doing. Any basic diver knows being on the surface is where you want to go in an emergency.
Dont forget he then decided to put on a scuba gear tank etc..when she never surface after allocated time , instead of being there ready to Roll , he killed her
You mean Dodgy
@@michelmurphy7152 Dodge’ is an abbreviation for dodgy - spoken in a U.K. accent
Seemed he already killed 2 people out of negligence. Are these French laws that allow him to get away with this?
And I thought other countries were pretty bad...
Even if Audrey's husband didn't murder her on purpose, he still contributed to her death through negligence at the very least. Why he never was held accountable for that negligence is beyond me.
That wat I was thinking 😂😂
Was thinking the same thing cassi
What the HELL kind of "safety diver" is there that doesn't even know how to "buddy breathe"????
If I'm a safety, diver, and it's already time to "screw the record, save her life", you can bet YOUR ASS I'm yanking ol' girl off that rig and swimming up to control her ascent WITH ME, and we'll just trade the regulator back and forth along the way... ANYBODY who suggests ANYTHING different is getting reported for plotting to murder whatever diver is on that rig...
AND if there's straps involved, I'll have a bladed instrument that'll take care of them...
I think they BOTH need charged. The "buddy breathing" (swap regulator back and forth) procedure has been around since Cousteau. There's no excuse. I'm not sure when they established multiple reg's on "the octopus" BUT I do know that's the standard for rescue classes today.
I'm sorry, and it's CERTAINLY NOT on Mr. Ballen here. That story totally pissed me off! ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Right no as you should be! I know small things can pile up into a disaster when diving, especially in an extreme form like this, but many of the factors in this case are far from small. Calling it criminal negligence might be understating it. Audrey's death was preventable period, and it's beyond frustrating that she ended up facing this injustice and lack of care.
@@cassini4052 Well, from binging Dive Talk most recently, but even long before I ran across them, it's long been a saying that "No single issue has ever killed a diver."
I'm not certified, so just that "Discover Scuba" stuff, and sinus issues are kind of a b*tch, BUT I've been around, and there are plenty of perfectly healthy divers among cavers and motorcycles... both activities I enjoy relatively regular if not frequently...
On a bike, any single issue can turn deadly almost instantly... It's why we wear gear and work constantly to increase our collections of GOOD gear over whatever we could scratch together when we got our first bike(s)... haha...
But all the longest career holders in scuba are very Zen about stuff. They believe in "think your way through" and they always have contingencies, improvisations, and believe in the proper equipment... AND whenever I've been around SAR swimmers or Safety Divers, those guys are PRICKS about doing their jobs. They're not brazen anti-social types, but don't get in their way. A single person at risk to one of them is like the balance of the entire world on their shoulders.
I just don't get a safety diver sitting there watching her like that. There may well be a situation where even as a safety diver I'd have to accept that there's nothing I could do, but that sure as hell wasn't it. Nobody's going to tell them they can't save someone right in front of them... That's just not in the culture... extreme sports or world records be damned... AND damn whatever "the boss" says about it.
SO maybe if that rig had rocketed up to the surface, she'd have been put at risk over a single gulp... OR if she'd tried to close her throat to hold her breath on the way up... BUT not buddy breathing. AND Cousteau originally established that you had to be able to take a tank of air down to around 100 feet, hang the rig on the rope, and leave it, for your ascent to be certified for open water... SO it's not like you can't physically go up on a single breath from compressed air at depth if necessary. You just need to know to get rid of the air as fast or even a little faster than it expands as the pressure comes off. It's easiest on you to do so with a controlled ascent, at about 30 feet per minute (recommended) and you just about can't screw it up... BUT lots of people panic all the time, and "bolt for the surface" at double or more that speed without consequences other than getting bitched at when they're back on the dive boat...
In any case, we're at risk of navel-gazing at this point. I just couldn't help how her story really pissed me off. That has murder-plot written all over it and an idiot could figure it out. ;o)
I can never spot the hidden secrets. Mr.Ballen's eye contact is so engaging it feels rude to not give him my undivided attention.
He definitely grows on you. I cast him to my TV for the first time the other day and I was mesmerized by the color of his eyes. He's intense!
I would just usually just set him down and listen.
I’m not even sure there is a hidden secret
@@ashleysmith91 I have seen it after someone posted where it was. 😉
Hahah I feel the same exact way! He always has me so tuned out into his dang soul! He's so good at telling stories. I never miss a word but I always miss the damn hidden thing. Lol
The third story really resonated with me. I have first hand experience with robots like were described, including being stuck by them on 2 different occasions. Once was my own fault, but on both occasions the place I was working had no rules about lock out/ tag out and absolutely should have. I should have known better, but at the time I was barely 18 and had NOT been trained at all. Many times, I was also expected to just figure out maintenance issues myself, despite absolutely no training.
No company's bottom line is worth risking your own life. I hope even one person reads this and it helps them keep from making such a fatal error, just please always be more careful than is asked of you. It could mean the difference between life and death if you aren't careful
Yeah pippin wouldn’t let anyone else inspect his wife’s gear then insists on performing cpr underwater? Give me a break, he killed her.
Yeah he did didn’t he .
Who resuscitates a person underwater? He was definitely drowning her.
we can all think that but there is no proof he did it while yes it questionable what he did he may have been he may have been truely trying to help her and just panicked we dont know that my first though but from doing some more digging i think everyone involved had a part in her death the negligence that took place was the biggest part of it why didnt she check the gear herself just before going why didnt the crew take a step back due to the weather and just cause she did a test run the day before that went fine and the photo of here sitting in her wetsuit she just had a look of she knew something bad was going to happen and she was just making peace with it and there is a a theroy that maybe she set this up her self cause she had scoliosis and the only time she felt free was when she was in the water cause she had to wear a big back brace so the only ones who know for sure are pippin her and god they did a documentary called no limits i havent seen it yet but its on youtube i plan on watching even if is innocent legally he is morally guilty of his wifes death for allowing the dive to take place with out all the safety measures in place
@@tauntdragoon
It's really easy to just blame pippins, thank god that the justice system doesn't work on assumptions.
Like you said the crew is also to blame, it's not like they were just friends hanging out at sea, they were all professionals with sever hundreds of thousands in equipment and salaries... yet nobody though to bring a medic?
Pippins actions from this video does make it sound like he definitely did it, but that's also how MrBallen kinda chose to portray it.
But then again if you look at the suicide angle it could be that Pippins already knew what was going to happen, and he made sure that he would stay true to his wife wish of dying in that dive, so he made it so that he was the only one to check the sled because they both knew it was going to fail.
@@svampebob007 ever heard of okkam's razer or whatever?
Simplest explanation is USUALLY the correct one.
Probably killed his wife
Let me get this straight, wife tries to beat husband's record. Husband is the only one to check her equipment, other people realize that something is wrong (not him who is apparently a professional), and only the husband gets to resuscitate her? Yeah, something ain't right here.
he did it under water too thats kinda sus
@@loveit1628 I think it’s his fault. It has to be.
"He threw on scuba gear".... like wouldn't they always have someone on hand ready to go? Sure sounds like he killed her to me.
Even if he did not deliberately kill her he was criminally negligent. His bypassing of normal safety measures and insistance to do it himself creates a large amount of suspicion as to his motives. Sounds pretty hinky to me.
i don't think you can jump to conclusions based on what little we know the husband may have just been reckless i mean you would have to be a bit crazy to free dive to 200 meters. I went 30 meters with a tank and got scared when we realised how quickly our oxygen ran out. Plus you can get nitrogen narcosis which is like being drunk and you can make fatal errors. Anyway i really feel sorry for the woman.
"People had accused Pippin of being very reckless" ... Nah, after the first 2, he's just a serial killer, albeit in a very strange way.
Finally a serial killer with a more complicated method than the guy in Death Proof.
The long con , if you will.
"Its like he knew exactly what to do
and did the opposite." - dr death or whatever that show is called
even if he didn't deliberately kill them, it's looking very clear that his involvement directly leads to bad, bad things
These stories make me horribly uncomfortable but I can't stop watching 😅
Me too!
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. That's one of the Secrets of Life. If it's raining, go outside. Whatever you find difficult, head towards it and I promise you, it'll shrink back in fear of You. Nothing is as bad, or as good, as your mind believes it is.
I just found him and almost every one of his stories makes me squirm, some of them make me forget to breathe for a minute.
Anyone else really appreciate how knowledgeable MrBallen is? He doesn't just tell a story , he gives you a full understanding of it and everything involved.
Heyy Zoe, I'm loving your picture. Do you have Instagram??
@@michaelrustenberg7943 oh Michael please stop
Thanks Zoe!
@@MrBallen 😮 You're welcome! I Can't wait for tomorrow's upload! 🙂
Agree
"Top 3 places you can't go & people went anyways"- Man goes in his back yard
Lol this is underrated so i am gonna copy this.
USSR intensifies
Right?
☠
😂 I thought the same thing
Underrated comment
Audrey: "I'm going to try to break the free dive record."
Pippin: "You mean MY record?"
Audrey: "Yes."
Pippin:
Audrey: "What do you think."
Pippin: "Great. I'll help you."
EXACTLY and the fact that he didn't ensure her safety by having a doc on board the boat is just super suspicious
If I knew her personally Pippin would be a in barrel right now.
I mean, she broke his record, so... what did he gain again?
@Jason NO. Please do not spread dangerous misinformation like that. This is NOT how life works beneath water. Although, I will admit I am confused seeing so many comments like this...
However, what I have learned is that: Her lungs would be so compressed at this depth that if she took even the slightest inhale of air down there; her lungs would explode.
The divers are most definitely not using regular "AIR" as you put it either, for the oxygen becomes toxic when you go below a certain depth. It is agreed upon that the maximum depth limit for a diver to use Compressed Air is 30 to 50 meters. Beyond this, a gas mixture other than air is suggested for use to prevent nitrogen narcosis. Again, they couldn't give her even a breath of that gas either because her lungs would explode at that depth since they were compressed by her holding her breath. The diver had been adjusted through breathing of gas on the way down, while her lungs were compressed by holding her breath, and so her lungs had become so small under the weighted pressure of the water above that she would be unable to take even a single breath from their tanks anyway. They always teach to basically never inhale on the way up, only on your way down. She was doomed.
Yup. He murdered her.
Story 3 is right up my alley. I work maintenance at a tier 1 supplier for European cars: Mercedes, BMW, VW, Audi, ect. The company should have had a lock-out/tag-out procedure along with a safety switch on the door tied to the e-stop circuit along with signage stating the dangers and qualified entry signage. These companies always want to save a dollar and cut corners… it is despicable.
That is why I am in a Union. We have to be trained in safety by OSHA in various things. Lock out/ Tag out is a big one. I am an electrician.
People sometimes skip the lockout procedure to save time. A buddy of mine cut his hand on a biro cutter that wasn't locked out.
Yeah i work in electrical, not locking out snd climbing into something is insanity
I feel so bad for robert. All he wanted to do was trim his plants
Robert plant approves
In the end he trimmed down his lifespan instead
Crazy
@@sansthecomic590 He was an old man when he died so his lifespan wasn't really trimmed. He would have died very soon anyway.
@@braetonwilson4296 so he was in a final destination senerio so he would have died anyway ? You do realize that even 1 millisecond counts towards his life span what would've happened to him if he didn't fall down the hole he would have had a heart attack? I really don't think you actually thought about your reply.
Note to self: Never allow the husband to be the only inspector of life-saving equipment.
The Spouse
Or the wife. Let me know when they invent a trigger a woman can’t pull.
Or allow them to attempt resuscitation under water.
That happens all the time. Family & lovers always think their eyes and ears are better when dealing with their loved ones.
Yeah he killed her
"No one else but me is allowed to look at this equipment"
*HUGE RED FLAG RIGHT THERE.*
I wonder who's call it was to not have any medical personnel while attempting something that can easily kill you.
And why would you try to resuscitate her under water for that long or at all. Why not just bring her to the surface then give her cpr?
yeah I'm glad I'm not the only one that's thinking that there was just way too much going on with that one
Oh absolutely I would looked i don't give a damn
Yea that was shady
"This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh. Nor does it care"
Iron Within, Iron Without
@@interwebrando135 *SILENCE, HERETIC*
The company does know the difference, but they also don't care for their employees! All they care about is money! 😡👹🤮
Earlier this year I was in a work accident where I nearly lost my life. Hearing the story about Regina made me almost relive my experience...
It is NOT worth it, to put yourself in danger in order to satisfy an employer and their production quota.. Stay safe....
damn you almost became the strange dark mysterious... but now ur still juan lopez :D
Glad your ok
they will replace you withing a couple of days if not weeks, you are replaceable, you are just another number in a spreadsheet to them, do not give your life for a paycheck.
RIP Regina. this tragedy happened when I was working in KMMG. It is NOT worth it, to put yourself in danger. please take care.
@@svampebob007 there is a great resignation. Glad Americans finally opened their eyes
“Tries to revive wife underwater for 2 additional minutes “ that’s bold of you to think he’s trying to revive her.
They're just arguing in sign language about if the oven was left on or not
^^I didn't understand this phrasing, either XD
@@MissSorceress what didn’t you understand?
@@pumkin610 lol
Don’t forget “my wife will be dead in 2 minutes so I need to spend 1.5 minutes putting on scuba gear before I dive in to rescue her.
I remember watching a documentary about The No limits dive, along with audrey history they follow her most direct competitor into achieving the same world record dive. Her competitor was also "managed" by her husband but the difference in preparation and safety measures were abysmal - that included the worst case scenario where the balloon fails (by mechanical or human fault, which almost happened due to her setting hypoxia) She had rescue divers at several depths that by simply passing her from hand to hand could pull her to the surface very fast, medical team on board and at the beach. Audrey had none of that. That dive was doomed from the very beginning, and that husband of hers..... I don't buy is innocence for one second.
Yeah even if he wasn't consciously trying to kill her, he was criminally underprepared for anything to go wrong.
@@mercurymay39 The thing is, you can’t be that criminally unprepared without trying to kill someone. Especially if you’re a master in your field.
I fail to see how taking a tiny breath of the diver's oxygen and then letting it out while ascending, then repeating, wouldn't have worked.
Gahhh how awful!!!
@@ValCronin the lung pressure thing that mr Ballen said wouldn't let it work i thought?
Regina's story reminds me of when I worked at Nestle. They didn't train people half a crap and ended up with me having my hand crushed and them thinking they were going to show me a safety video and trying to back date the form I had to fill out so I couldn't sue. Like I couldn't read
So did you sue?
So you just gonna give us a story and not follow when someone asks you if you sued ? Real Douche move buddy , Thanks 👍
TELL US IF YOU SUED!!!
He must have sued...
@@markpatjoebilldinousar1111 You do know ppl don't get notified for EVERY single comment right? So quit with the name calling. I got a notification for a recent comment from a video a year ago, I saw I had a few comments above that one from a year ago that YT never notified me for.
🚩🚩This case needs to be reopened! He has a reputation of getting other divers killed by being reckless. Then he refuses anyone else to check the balloon which ultimately caused her death and no one considered this a bright shiny red flag?!
I agree Jodi!! He tried CPR underwater?!! Doesn’t make sense. 😞
He murdered her.
I wondered if there was a life insurance payout? Just saying..could've been considered a motive. Wish this had been disclosed.
Yeah this dude seems like he’s a Serial Killer and been flying under the radar.....
Let him take the same balloon ride see if he fairs better.
Some of Audrey’s closest friends (among others) still 100% believe that Audrey’s husband, Pippin Ferreris, murdered her through sabotage on that dive.
@srush not having the stigma of being a divorcee, countless men opt for killing their spouse instead of divorce because of the cost. He probably knew he could get away with it seeing how dangerous doing that record was.
@srush Audrey’s friends believe Pippin sabotaged Audrey’s gear so he could “save her just in time” and look like the hero. So he didn’t intend to kill her. He just wanted to be the center of attention.
Sounds like water cooler talk to me
@@guitarlover1370 it’s technically “underwater cooler” talk.
PLUS...attempting CPR underwater?? Like...who does that?!
Regina’s story is exactly the reason why you shouldn’t go above and beyond for a job, wearing yourself out or putting yourself in bad situations. It’s just a job. There’s a million more that are better, have better pay and hours. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Ok please clarify as going above and beyond for something such as the military can save lives.
Especially for $8.50 an hour
Dean, you don’t have much room to talk. You put yourself in bad situations all the time with your job.
I almost cried when I heard her story😥
@@misharron9579 You can read right? He said don’t go above and beyond for a job, and didn’t specify what jobs. I’m pointing out that sometimes it’s worth it to go above and beyond.
I work in a pharmacy in a grocery store. The store has a cardboard bailer and a trash compactor. Because it has those pieces of equipment everyone who works there has to learn about lock out/tag out procedures. Even though I will never work with this equipment I had to do that training. The gaps in those workers training is shocking.
Who patiently waited the week for this amazing content?
Impatiently waiting lol it's been 2 weeks since we had videos love his channel hes awesome but I'm in withdrawal 🤣
Me but not patiently. I was hoping everything was ok with him. Was getting a bit anxious. Glad he’s here again. I guess we all need time off sometimes.
I did.
I waited...but not patiently 😂
I was checking every day
You ever think of all the research must go into this channel? This man goes into such detail, and knows everything about every story. I mean how does he consistently find these stories millions of us have never heard of? It’s fucking impressive, and this is why I respect MrBallen so much.
Im pretty sure we all do. ?👏👏👏👏
If I was getting paid a lot of money through sponsorships and youtube ad revenue, I would spend a lot of time doing research too!
Top ten youtbers can never beat him
Amen!!
It's probably his full time job and it sounds like he has a team
Who else has been waiting all week, thanks for your service Mr ballen🇺🇸🇺🇸
These TH-cam checks finna slap 😴
We all have been, that you John Ballen
Me, I was hoping everything was alright with him. Not like him to miss a week.
I definitely have!!!!
@@WyattRyeSway same I was so worried about him
That 2nd story was so scary and sad. I definitely think her husband had something to do with her death. This story also gave me anxiety when I was listening to it because one of my biggest fears ever is drowning. So I can't imagine the fear and panic Audrey must have been feeling.
The freediver Audrey Mestre story is actually WAY darker. Many people think it should be considered murder and that he purposefully messed with her equipment. It's rumored that he was abusive and they were having marital troubles. I think she also tried to back out that day because she wasn't feeling well but he made her do it anyways. The onboard doctor was also a dentist lol.
Omg 🤣 sad shit
I feel bad for her, and it’s all sketchy as hell, but ultimately it was her dive. As much as she may have been pressured, you can’t make someone go on a dive. She chose to do it despite the bad weather, despite the untested equipment, despite the lack of personnel, and despite not following procedure with the balloon inspection. And she ended up dying because of it.
@holly lambert That’s a good point; I didn’t take that into account. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was abusive, and that would explain her decision making.
@@michaelh9649 Just gonna jump in here, lol. I can absolutely see a woman (or man) who is in an abusive relationship (think gaslighting etcetera) doing something they absolutely don't want to do. I wasn't in a battered relationship but was with a narcissist and let me tell ya, you're mind begins working differently and quite literally you are brainwashed to a degree. The degree in which you're brainwashed differs with everyone and the things you're brainwashed about also differ. Also, gaslighting and verbal/emotional abuse is something you would do about anything to avoid. If doing the dive put her in a "love bombing" phase of the relationship that would also make her actually want to do whatever he wanted her to as to make him happy and keep the relationship in the love phase. So, those are possibilities and I can understand this. It took me several years to get back to normal and normal ways of thinking, essentially un brainwashing myself which is hard work & needs support of loved ones. If this was her case her family and loved ones probably knew and likely disliked him. I don't know those details.
What!!??
How did it get ruled out as an accident!?
Everyone's a gangsta until the strange dark and mysterious is delivered in story format .
Hey someone you actually also liked my comment from my second account ( the same comment I made on that video too)thanks brother love from Antarctic
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For some reason I read this exactly as he was saying it.
Best comment ever hahah!!
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Man hearing stories about osha violations where people die or are horribly injured make me so upset. As a mechanical engineer who studied advanced robotics in school one of the first things our instructor drilled into us was that every osha regulation is built on the blood and lives of injured workers. Machinery can be replaced lives cannot, something big corporations tend to forget
I mean.. I'm sure they hired someone the following week to replace her on the line.
Yep. Even on job sites with strong and influential unions, not following lock-out procedures is usually grounds for instant dismissal.
To them life can be replaced because they can just hire more people. Human lives are expendable to them.
I don't think 'forget' is correct. 'Willingly turn a blind eye' is more accurate. 1.5 mil? How does that stack up against the usual fine that company would incur??? Pricks. It certainly isn't enough for the life of an individual with hope and promise.
@@baristaz8834 It's cheaper for corporations to pay for a wrongful death lawsuit than paying for someone's workers comp benefits for the next 20 - 30 years.
As an automotive employee...what you said about making quota at all cost...that's absolutely correct. The automotive industry is EXTREMELY demanding.
I know it's easier said than done, but your mental & physical health, and spiritual health, comes first! I hope you're in another occupation. 😊
Poultry industry is just as bad, trust me. Even the cleaning company gets fined.
Before this guy got on TH-cam, I’m imagining his friends sitting in a circle around him, beers in hand, intently listening to his newest tale
Haha..I thought the same thing lol
Hey my thought was real close.. I thought "Dam I wonder wat his friends be thinkin" .. Dudes got stories for days
I'm sure he was a hit in the barracks.
L /m no lo
For real, imagine camping with this dude, you’re around a fire and someone says “anyone got any good stories”?
She looked like she was sad like she knew her fate. I watched many documentaries about Audrey and this last dive was different. She wasn’t talking she wasn’t her usual self. As if she wasn’t ready but was pressured to break this record because someone else broke the record a few weeks earlier. Rip Audrey, my condolences and respect to her family.
The someone else was her husband, did you miss that and the 78 idiots that liked your comment, Pay attention.
Audrey's husband murder her on purpose, its the perfect murder. Someone need to check if she had life insurance and if he benefits for it or if he is have a affair.
@@keithbentley6081 It's 183 people idiots now, champ
He rushed this trial, he refused to let anyone else check the balloon gear, and he "tried to resuscitate her" underwater?
How much was her life insurance?
I just think they weren't prepared properly and this shit sound super dangerous anyway. You take your life in your own hands when you decide to push limits. Whether her husband was sus or not.
As a certified rescue diver, I can tell you that you can take a breath of air at 171 meters down and everything is ok, you can also swim up to the surface but, and most important, you must release the air as you go up. You can NOT have a full breath of new air in your lungs as you ascend to the surface, your lungs will explode, killing you, but if you release all of the new air, you will be ok. Divers must continuously breath as they ascend to the surface or they can explode their lungs, free divers dont have that problem as most of you know.
She could have taken air in to save her life at 171 meters down, but not hold it in as she ascends.
I believe the husband had something to do with her death because he wouldn't let anyone else inspect the equipment before the dive.
That's what surprised me the most about that story. Even as part of your advanced certification, there is a whole unit of study and practice on rescue diving and you learn about the importance of having air in your lungs but continuously expelling it as you ascend. A safety diver came to her aid but did not give her air, which makes me think they were not aware of this, which also makes me question if they were even certified in the first place (which would be par for the course considering the lack of medical personnel and safety regulations that were being followed).
Wow, thanks for explaining all of that. I think he killed her too. He had been known for getting people killed though, so maybe he was just incompetent? No, he probably didn’t want her to break his record.
@@cuppycakey5013 - that's what I think. He wanted to keep his record and killed her. He broke many rules that day but yet no investigation
@@casandrabarata8079
there were no safety divers on deeper water..
And yes he killed her..
Its an old story..
Thank you, I was thinking that. I just took a scuba class over the summer and the very first day I remember them telling us you need to just slowly exhale as you ascend because the air in your lungs will be expanding
What happened to Mr. Nishimoto was terrible, but, thanks to that tragedy, Mr. Ballen gets to warn people about ANOTHER danger from trapsing around Hawaii. FYI, just because the active volcanos are on the island of Hawaii (aka the Big Island), doesn’t mean that the other islands are safer! In fact, depending on the age of the lava and how much it’s broken down, the ones on the other islands are more prone to crumbling and collapsing than the ones on the Big Island.
Second story - this is one more reason why people may not get married anymore…
Third story - and the story of corporate negligence and setting people up for failure continues.
Honestly sometimes I wonder why people are even allowed to inhabit the Island. It’s a freaking volcano and recently I believe one of the “inactive” volcanos erupted and many people died and many are still unaccounted for and everything is burning. It just doesn’t seem safe for people at all imo. The whole concept of living on a darn volcano is insane. Mother nature is unpredictable and humans are destroying the planet so there’s no telling what could happen.
For the free diving one, no no it wasn't accidental. After the third death because of the same lack of safety it's at the very least negligence.
Serial killer in the making - in my opinion 🤔
I feel the same way hella fishy
Yeah I think it was murder 🤬🤷♂️
@@taebae1824 ;)
cpr underwater should have been a huge red flag
#2 is fishy as hell literally held her UNDERWATER!! to try and get her to start breathing again that shit sounds like a murder
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@@meeksluv stop face paling he's right ya dingus
@@sansthecomic590 They can face palm if they want to
@@pollypockets508 why is he face paling he's just being toxic
I mean it was more than just what Ballen said. The husband planned all this shit to happen. He took a Dentist over a doctor and she was being physically abused. She does have a bruise on her cheek and seem like she was forced into doing this by her husband.
I was a security guard for an automotive factory years ago. One night, I was messing around on my phone in the booth because it was usually a time of night when all was peaceful when suddenly, the entire ground trembled violently beneath my feet and I heard an explosion from inside the central heart of the assembly room to the right of me. I took off toward that area and when I got inside to document the problem, I saw what happened. The factory used molds that weighed anywhere from 50k to 100k, which were transported around the room by massive cranes attached to the ceiling. One of the crane cables had snapped and a 70k mold had come thundering to the ground. One of the managers was taking a desperate head count of his team surrounding him, all of whom were visibly shaken, some of whom were panicking and being held upright by their teammates. Against my better judgment, I wandered around the fallen mold taking pictures for my report. To my UTTER relief, the whole team was fine. No one had been standing where it fell. There wouldn't have been much left to return to the family if they had.
To my utter horror, a few days later, a message went out to all employees, including me even though I was contracted through another company, saying basically that this sort of incident is inexcusable and that everyone needs to focus on the factory quota above all else. They were then ordered to continue using the broken crane, which was hastily deemed 'functional' until a new one could be ordered sometime the following year.
About twenty people quit and I honestly went not long after. I was beyond disgusted by this point, having reported numerous safety violations and the constant appearance of aggressive drunkards on the property, to which I was told to just tell them to leave if I saw them. (I'm a tiny female going up against what can sometimes be two or three drunken idiots at a time. Yeah, I'm sure that would've gone down REAL well for a mere night guard.) This mess was the final straw. Someone could have lost their life and all this company gave a shit about was its bottom line.
Maybe don't be a security guard if you're a tiny female...
Yikes! Hope you found a safer job afterwards!
Make a BOLI complaint. (Bureau of labor Institute)
you did the correct thing
What company. Why not say who?
That story about extreme negligence from the employers just hiring people to fill spots and quotas with minimal to zero training, sounds terrifyingly similar to my current workplace. Just sucks that I can't find a job with similar hours and pay so I can leave this place, so I'm just being extra cautious and triple checking everything where I work.
its crazy how good they pay you tbh
"No limits free-diving" seems like a death wish to me.
You’d think they would put a super heavy counterweight so the rope stayed straight....
Well it is a death wish if your husband is named pippin
I appreciate the engineering, but just do it with a dummy and have the actual diver sit like ten feet under water while the sled does it's thing.
Yes, I agree, but everyone is always looking for drama and are dead set on blaming the husband even when he was innocent according to the police.
as soon as a record is involved people don't care about savety, look up the world water record speed if you don't believe me, noone survived that.
She worked there 6 months or so, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week sometimes, and they had never taught her, or any of her crew the lockout - tagout procedure for her machines. That is a criminal negligence and there should have been jail time involved.
The only way is to affect their profit. If it sells, why would they change it? Moral obligation? That has no power in a criminal system.
@@Gnossiene369 The last I heard, her mother was suing the company and the U.S. Labor Department fined the company and two staffing agencies $2.5 million for 27 safety violations. But I'm curious about your "Moral obligation? That has no power in a criminal system." Which part of what system do you find ito be a criminal system?
Usually, operators are instructed to never enter the caged off area of any robotic cell they work with. That is the job of the maintenance technicians and they are taught of the LOTO procedure. As soon as that machine failed, their productivity and target depended on the response time of the maintenance technician. She should have never stressed or bothered about entering the cell, they would miss their target with a good justification.
@@prolarka I'm pretty sure there's no justifying missing a quota to disgusting, greedy, selfish employers whose main and only concern is meeting a quota. That's why she did what she did.
This woman died because of greed and the way we are as americans brainwashed to think "no excuses just get it done". This woman wanted to be a DOCTOR but didn't know about LOTO. I have never worked in an industrial setting and have never been a maintenance worker but I know about LOTO. We're taught that safety procedures are all "common sense" and that you can do any job safely if common sense is applied so "just get it done, no excuses."
That is why she died. The lack of training is just the legal argument to get the family the financial relief they deserve. 3mil plus 1.5mil to the family? Its nothing. They should have been forced to pay out more to the family AND be forced to pay the amount in man hours they saved not training these people all of these years. Every single employee up to that point. The time it would take to give them a safety class multiplied by not their hourly wage but their labor value. It would bankrupt the company or give them such a hit that it would actually make it more cost effective to train the people instead of risking this.
Instead we have token justice.
Man, I wanna have friends and family like Robert's friends and family. They checked on him. Called the cops. Everything. His people cared.
I lived in Hawaii for 6 years, its the Aloha spirit. Many seniors meet up at McDonalds for morning coffee snd breakfast once a week sometimes more. May your day be pleasant!
But you're bacon, everybody loves you! 🥓💚
Ima be one of those old people they find mummified in their house after no body missed them 30 years earlier.
I’m sorry, I would like this comment but it’s at 69
Haha! Yeah, I overdosed on drugs one night at a friends house 2 hours away from my home and woke up three days later with my car missing and not a single person in the trailer the friend had been renting. He had literally moved out and out of the six other people there that night not one of them called an ambulance for me or anything. I called the dude who I figured took my car to get back home, he and two others had rode up with me, and not only did they leave me to die he had been driving my car for the last three days because when I told him to come get me had said, "There isn't enough gas bro." I had filled it up just before getting to the friends house. Which meant in three days he had driven around 350 miles in my car. I told him, "I don't give a fuck! Borrow the shit from your mom and come get me!" He had his mom follow him and dropped my car off a block away and left so he didn't have to see me in person because he knew I was pissed. He only extended the time before he got his asswhipping, though, as he got what he deserved.
I found you yesterday and have been binge watching you since!! Love, love, LOVE your channel! Never stop doing this, your fantastic!
The second story seems like murder. The fact he had decades of experience, ordered himself alone to inspect the equipment and the crew lacked a doctor is too coincidental.
... and tried resuscitating her underwater. Strange.
@@ashergarcia3076 facts who I’m there right Mind would think oh let me trying and save her still underwater
yes
I don't think so, I just think he was extremely reckless. Mr Ballen even said he had two other people die on his team before.
@@mattwalker7604 maybe he is a free diving serial killer
Tried to bring her back to life underwater. Forgot she wasn’t a fish. Found innocent.
That part - and that part alone - actually could make sense out of similar reasons as the 'no air because lung inflation' thing that stopped the diver to give her air.
@@ApsaraMenaka this lung inflation thing is bullshit.
If that sled was moving up so slowly, there would be plenty of time to breath that air pressure out and take a new breath. The scuba diver is breathing aswell.
@@anonanon3066 that would be true, if she still would be able to breathe in and out by herself at that point - but then she would not need resuscitation in the first place.
@@ApsaraMenaka of course she would need resuscitation. She doesn't have an air tank herself, does she?
@@anonanon3066 yes, and because she does not have air her lungs would not inflate like it should under water and the lungs can not slowly get used to breathe under normal pressure slowly like they have to to prevent a total lung collapse once she breathes over water. But I won't discuss this in endless circles. Either you understand this or you don't. I explained why. Doing this more than twice in a TH-cam comment section isn't my thing. If you still think you are right I just hope your life never depends on that.
The second one was a murder caught on video and the killer is living free... Rest in peace... A truly cruel world this is.
She took a huge risk and didn't seem to want to take extra precautions. But yeah it's his fault
@@pumkin610 apparently, you missed the part of the story where EVERYTHING he did is clearly suspicious. Most people, when their spouse is attempting a possible life-threatening stunt, would take extra steps to ensure their safety and success. The husband did the exact opposite at nearly every step.
@@pumkin610 It's his fault, obviously. But she was taking a HUGE risk (like jumping off a cliff) that she didn't have to and could have refused to do it unless there was the appropriate medical staff, extra dive team help people, all the usual safety devices ...all the safety people and devices that normally would be there. And she could have inspected the "balloon" herself too as the 2nd person. She just trusted her husband too much (like we all do sometimes and regret it), even tho he was known to be lax in the safety area and 2 workers had been killed under his command. I don't know if her death was on purpose by him, or if he just wasn't that smart and had been lucky until then (not counting the 2 deaths).
@@pumkin610 If he straight up rigged her gear to fail than ya, it was.
Negligent homicide in the least?
I had heard of the robot 23 story before from a safety meeting we had at an old job. It’s a sad story but when I heard they waiting on maintenance all I could think was typical maintenance department
Im a maintenance mechanic that works on robotic equipment. A 4-6 axis arm like the one that impaled that lady could throw a car across the warehouse. Ours punch holes in the sides of trailers all the time, the robotic forklifts have killed people at other plants and just kept pulling orders till someone noticed the blood.
Wow that’s horrifying
You got a reply from Mr. Ballen
bruh
I did a tour through a car factory with those exact robots and the tourguide said there was an accident where a person got folded backwards in seconds by a robot. They are insanely strong.
@@saladasss2092 We are but flesh and bone we can't competteeee 😭😭😭 lol
Wife, jokingly: "I'm going to beat your world record!"
Husband, extremely competitive and possibly psychopathic: "And i took that personally"
The sad part is that he was the one that wanted her to do it, she didn't wanted it. And she did that same exact depth the day before and it was completely normal she went to 171 and got out alive, but died in the day of the official record
The moment he said that the husband didn’t want anyone else to touch the air thing, I knew what would happen, and it was definitely intentional.
@raed tarshishi *break
Spent a couple more minutes trying to resuscitate her under water??? wtf 🤯🤯
@susan ivy he wanted her to take that record, she didn't want to do it herself. If he hadn't egged her on, she wouldn't have tried it and there would have been no risk to his record. That means the fear of her breaking his record wasn't the cause. It was something else.
The fact that I set reminders because I’m so excited to have a grown man telling scary stories 😆😆😆
I think it's weird I'm a grown man waiting for a grown man to tell me a story
@@tterbogaming9749 snap :D I even pop in some wireless earbuds and fall asleep to his voice sometimes xd Stephen Fry is good for this with his audio books too.
@@tterbogaming9749 hahahah I'm a guy as well, and I never thought about it that way.
We all guilty lmfaoooooooo I got my snacks ready to hear my stories and I’m 29 years old lml
@@tterbogaming9749 agreed but iloveit
The story of Audrey is much deeper than what has been told in this story. I encourage everyone to look into the story of Pipin and Audrey and this fatal dive. Some say it was careless, some think it was malicious.
Honestly, just by listening to this video I believe that it was murder!
@@DBSK4TY Mr.Ballen definitely twisted some very important facts to make Pipen look worse though. Below is a list of facts vs Mr.Ballen's BS version. My source is the Audrey Mestre Documentary, which is a 50 minute film.
MR.BALLEN'S LIES: (#1-5)
1. The record was held by Audrey's husband, Pipin
FACT: Tanya Streeter held the record at the time.
2. Storm Clouds had started to roll in.
FACT: It was overcast, but the storm had stopped prior to them heading out & didn't re-emerge.
3. The bad weather caused the cable to sway & to cause kinks in the cable.
FACT: The weather wasn't bad. The water was still rough from the storm earlier in the morning. The cable was too light & not weighted enough on bottom, which cased it to drift at an incline, when it should've been at 90 degrees.
4. A cable kink caused the sled to stop at 164m & cost her 30 seconds.
FACT:The cable didn't kink at all. The sled never stopped or cost Audrey any time loss on the descent.The descent time was excellent.
5. Pipin had kept her underwater a couple additional minutes & he tried to resuscitate her underwater.
FACT: Pipin dove down 90m, grabbed her & immediately returned to the surface as fast as possible. The documentary made a point of how dangerous it was for him to descend & ascend so quickly. Pipin didn't try to resuscitate her until he got to the surface. Also, it's not possible to resuscitate anyone underwater.
@@_MjG_All of that is wrong but okay. Trust a documentary made by her crazy husband
@@_MjG_😂😂
@@Chloo_e Mr.Ballen used all his information for his story based entirely off of that documentary called 'No Limits'. Thing is, Mr.Ballen is not very good at benig accurate and likes to fabricate hie own little story by not stating what actually happened in that documentary.
Horrible assumption by you... saying the documentary was made by Audrey's husband Pipen. As if he would make a documentary that makes him look partially responsible for her death. The documentary was made by Netflix. Because of that documentary, Pipen filed a lawsuit against Netflix for Defamation, claiming the film implied he murdered his wife.
Can we just appreciate for a second that he always includes the metric or imperial equivalencies for us when he gives us a measurement?
You mean he gives the correct and incorrect form of measurement? Rad
@@j4y167 You’re not wrong LOL
You mean metric and football field
Tbf it's his editor that does it
It's awesome some of us who went to elementary in the 90s find it hard to adjust💯😂
Pippen definitely murdered Audrey to prevent her from breaking his record.
He didn't let anyone else check the airbag.
Very disgusting
And tried CPR underwater
Wtf
More about insurance money
Yea I was thinking that
Come on. He may have been reckless, but that doesn't mean he was TRYING to kill her.
I love how each story is told to us in a way that is not only full of information, but also so you can picture it as he speaks.
For instance, talking about the back of the property being overgrown, and how he grabbed all his gardening tools. I could picture it all, right down to a rake and garden hoe! So awesome!
Thank you!!!
@@MrBallen no Thank you for the stories! I was in serious withdrawl missing your posts last week!!
I agree. It's the superfluous details the make the story so engaging even if they're slightly embellished.
16:02 Dan’s eyebrow game’s on point
Wow, Poor Robert had no idea that cleaning his back yard would end in his death. Nobody knows when or how it will be our time.
I can't remember where it is but it is somewhere near east Asia i think Philippines you got to be careful where you go because you might step on a landmine
If he had been lazy, he might have lived much longer. Let that be a lesson to us.
@@shadowlouise are you encouraging laziness? Serious question. I’m confused.
This is why I don't do any yard work.
What I don't get is if he fell and they rescued him early wouldn't he still be alive? I guess depending on how he fell.
The manufacturing accident is horrific. I used to work in manufacturing for engine fan blades and some of the machines were the size of houses. We had a mechanic who came in from Germany who was new to fix one of them. He didn't speak English very well and didn't understand when told to wait because the machine was just paused. He then went inside of the machine and began to work on it without informing anyone and without locking out the machine. Another coworker who'd come back from lunch hit Go and it immediately starts to whip around, nearly crushing the mechanic against the back door. He starts screaming and banging on the walls of the machine, another coworker of mine nearly threw himself at the machine to hit the emergency stop. They pulled him out and very fortunately he just had minor bruising/gashes. After that, the mechanic was not allowed on the floor at all without one of our employees accompanying him. Lockout/tagout is the VERY first thing we learn before going on machines for a damn good reason.
Plot twist: Pippin killed his wife because she was trying to beat his record, further he also killed those two other divers because they tried to beat his record, basically a free diving serial killer.
I think he killed her too! Why wouldn’t a husband want additional checks for an extremely dangerous dive? Quite suspicious! I agree about the other 2 divers. He is so competitive he killed his competitors.
Sure sounds like it.
yeah i really do think he killed her
Yeah! He eats cereal to! A serial killer who eats cereal.
@@Internaught-The-Wise I bet he wears sneakers too! to sneak around looking for his next victim!
I was saying over and over "Lock out, tag out!" I was a Supervisor at a couple factories for a few years and the production mentality, quota thing, its why I will never work in the industry again (even though that's what my bachelors degree is specifically for)
As someone who has worked in a car part manufacturing plant, I can 100000000% confirm that they are under Hella pressure, over work employees and cut just about every cost corner and safety regulation they can to keep the lines running and keep production going and you do develop a "production at all costs" mentality surprisingly quick
The ocean is a terrifying place to me and the thought of free diving like that is insane to me. Just diving is crazy. I love the ocean and it's inhabitants from a distance. I don't need to get in it. Soon as you hit the water it's fair game and it's nothing but teeth,tentacles,venom and claws in that water and is as wild as nature can get. It's instills a primal fear in me
then you my friend need to play subnautica that game will either cure you of that fear or make you have panic attacks near water
@@voidofastora6032 I've been thinking about it very much cause I want to. I'm pretty deep in bloodborne currently but I think sub nautica is next. Should I play the first one 1st. Also stranded deep was tough for me in the ocean but I completed the game.its not the known things but more of a fear of that. I believe I would go in a min sub if it was offered or maybe even a shark cage but I'm not getting in with nothing the blocks but I would have to be able to see the bottom. Id prefer to stay above 30 or 40 feet but I watched a deep mini sub dive to near a 1000 meters on TV and I think I could no that cause I could clearly see and your in normal clothes. I'd never scuba and I know I'm missing out on that experience but I would sky dive
@@voidofastora6032 also it wouldn't cure it cause once I learned the game it's like anything else. Like in stranded deep I didn't like swimming on top cause whats below. I did murder some large animals in that game though
@@majinvegeta9280 as someone who is afraid of the depths subnautica was a horrifying experience for me at first
but somehow it reduced my anxiety
this game although not a horror game it has very disturbing locations in it where you start at the surface level then you would dive 1000s of miles into the pitch black abyss where your not alone in the darkness and theres Large predators lurking about although i might have given you a bad impression of this game its in my top 10 games of all time and i highly recommend it haven't played the second yet but I've heard the first is better so plz play it and tell me your impressions
@@voidofastora6032 thanks. I'm gonna play it since I'm sitting at home and not in the ocean it's more like a sense of dread and impending doom. Like I said. Stranded deep was like that for me at first. I had to cut the sharks off until I was good with understanding the waters and wildlife. After a while I was killing sharks. All in "the forest" the little swim to the sailboat was anxiety inducing cause it was a short swim but there's great whites in those waters
I wonder if the diver’s husband was the beneficiary on her life insurance policy?.... Accidental death riders usually pay double indemnity.... Investigation is thoroughly needed on this one.
After scrolling down thru 15 or 20 commenters, I'm surprised you're the first one to mention double indemnity. Good call Sharone! I think this guy is shady as hell.
Wow.. thats crazy idk tha t
Oh he did it. A lot of Audrey’s entourage believes it ! This man is shady and was definitely abusive to her. I’m so sad for her.
Well I don't known if it would have paid... The pony tank ment to fill the air bladder was almost entirely empty. The one he refused to let anyone near.
He said he didn't notice it was empty. Maybe the tank didn't have a gauge? But how does a professional not notice a 5-10 lb weight difference between an empty and full tank. Or the hollow clanging noise it makes if you tap your fingernail against it?
I guess it was ruled an accident and he did publish books about it under pen names, then the documentary... i guess he would have got a pay out either way.
Probably just didn't want his record broken💀🔫
I love this guy always listen to him right before I go to sleep. On that last story about Regina being impaled. Good thing her family at least got a payout. My uncle recently died after a car crash. Not sure who gonna fight to collect.
That poor hawaiian guy just wanted to clean up his backyard and the ground was just like "nope" 😓
Don't feel sorry for him. He was old when he died so he had lived a full long life.
@@braetonwilson4296 we should All feel sorry for anybody with any age
@@Maximus20778 Not true. Someone young dying is especially sad because they had their whole life left to live.
@@braetonwilson4296 so old people life dont hold the same vaule as somebody younger?
@@braetonwilson4296 ite well when you're somebody's about to kill you your family ain't going to feel sorry for you
We know you have responsibilities outside of TH-cam. Doesn’t mean we can’t miss you Brother!
Mans the best story teller in youtube bro
I must have missed something. Is he leaving???
Yes
@@SJT81 he took a week off, the bloody slacker 😂
@@anabee8868 oh okay. Y'all had me worried for a minute
I was 16 when Audrey passed away. I remember hearing it in 2002 and thinking then that Pippin sabotaged her to avoid her breaking his record.
Well you thought wrong then. He (Pipin) didn't hold the record, Tanya Streeter held the record.
@@_MjG_ I didn't say the world record. I said his.
@@GAshoneybear I missed that, but it still doesn't make any sense. Pipin was training Audrey to go deeper & pushing her to go deeper. He wanted her to break his record. If you watched The Audrey Mestre Documentary, you would realize just how ridiculous you comment is. You could see in the Documentary just how badly he wanted her to break not only his record, but the world record. The others on the diving crew & those that knew the couple, back it all up with their commentary.
@@_MjG_ Ok
That last story was so preventable. Lockout tagout procedures are so important. My husband is a Process Safety Management Coordinator at a poultry plant. Every piece of equipment they work on requires LOTO procedures. Its just common sense. So many people in Mr Ballen's stories alone couldve been saved by simple LOTO procedures.
I hope no one, ever, dives with Pippin again after his wife dies on his watch, like others did too. Even if he may not be a murderer, he is clearly reckless and irresponsible.
RIP, Audrey. ✨
And the recklessness and greed of profit driven workplaces is and always will be a lethal threat to workers trying to do their best.
Yesss my anxiety is ready to party!
Agreed
Accurate 😂
ur nor funny
Lol yep!
Same
This man is so professional but so relaxed and easy at the same time, he has sources, a phenomenal story telling style. he makes it in depth and simplistic. Hes just outstanding and i lowkey stalk his yt for more videos.
Same here i got everyone in the house to watch him with me
I know, and on top of that the Man is a former Navy SEAL. The only other former SEAL that I know of with a TH-cam channel is Master Chief Don Shipley who's channel I highly recommend. He retired at such a high rank and good standing that he has access to the classified list of every Navy SEAL to ever serve. Given that fact, and the fact that for every living SEAL out there they have a thousand bullshitters trying to ride their backs with some Stolen Valor shit. Shipley's channel focuses a lot on calling these frauds and putting them through the ringer. It's great. He does videos with his Wife Dianne and they're pretty funny too. Check his channel out, it's called ( "Former Buds 131" ) or just click here ( th-cam.com/video/etHj9fPF7OM/w-d-xo.html ) to see one of his videos.
It's a tragic story but the idea of someone performing CPR to a drown victim whilst still underwater is beyond parody😂
Even if that husband didn't sabotage her equipment (which I believe he did), her death is still on him, seeing he was the person responsible for all the security measures for the dive and they all failed miserably.
And about Regina, I've related so much to her personality... it seems like we had so much in common, her story really got to me. I hope she's in peace now.
The dummy that decided to break this foolish record is at fault. She wouldn’t have died if she decided to go see a movie instead.
I would say it is almost undeniable that he killed her. You would think he would take even more precautions because its his wife which he did the exact opposite. Who in their right mind would try to resuscitate someone underwater. I'd say he did that to make sure she stays dead.
I was so fn mad to hear about what happened to Regina. She worked so incredibly hard to help her partner. Then the company only had to give her family 1.5 mill. What a slap in the face. I dont even have good enough words for how much a woman like that is worth.
I really wish I could disagree with you but . . . 2 years of criminal law study tell me otherwise.
How did you relate to someone you didn't know really anything about...but had so much in common? He listed like 3 things about her... Tragedy none the less, but this is just...impossible?
Regina’s story was horrifying. Just heart breaking.
Yes.. That was tragic 😔
We worked at the Kia plant in ga
The worst part is that it was totally preventable.
Also, I'm calling BS that they didn't know they should lock out the equipment before going in there.
@@Warren_GG, the broad strokes of the story are probably still true though, right? Like, the point of all the details is really just to show that she's just a real person who was trying to do her best. The real point is to protect yourself from this kind of preventable incident.
He tried to resuscitate his wife... under water? After being the only one to inspect the balloon? Nah he set that up. Rest In Peace.
exactly sis ... how the hell are you gonna try to resuscitate someone in the damn water .. that’s deadass drowning someone.
Exactly what I said!!!
He probably didn’t want her beating the record... that’s really messed up.
@@modernmotherly2375 that's exactly what I was thinking
@@roxyp7569 so was I
when underwater, and holding your breath, the weirdest thing is if you can fight through the pain that sets in after a couple of mins it goes away almost instantly and you almost feel at home, it's exhilarating like a "runner's high".. but you can't push yourself or you'll pass out without knowing it basically.
same with having to poo honestly
I live here on the big island of Hawaii and the scariest lava tubes are the ones in the river. If you go swimming when the water is especially rough and you swim over the wrong place you can get sucked in like a vacuum. A couple from the mainland decided to ignore the caution signs and went swimming regardless of it and no one saw them again. Its generally assumed they were sucked into one of the hidden lava tubes in that area.
Well thanks for the nightmare I'm going to have tonight. Good thing I actually pay attention to caution signs.
Oh wow that’s horrible!
If only there was a channel on TH-cam that might tell that shocking story.... oh wait !!!
Damn....
I would seriously like to know if Pipin had a life insurance policy on Audrey.
me 2
I said that to
Of course
Right?! I can’t decide if he’s insanely stupid and vain or malicious but considering how much he had already been criticized :/ he should have known he needed to do better!
I was just thinking he didn’t want her breaking his record, but this sounds more likely.
Pipin didn't want anyone beating his record, not even his wife.
Very sad
Yeah that was clearly murder
@@Hazbin-hotel-babe murder my ass more like a darwin award recipient...
Probably got a good insurance payoff too.
@@locoprospector3575 not really .
I don’t think I could get through 11 hour shifts without Mr Ballen 🙏🏾
Companies that put their "quota" over the life of their employees are the worst kind of companies, they don't care about you just remember that.
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Lmao sry my daughter had my phone i didnt see her do this
Yeah, when the blame the death on a lack of training, I got mad. Company’s don’t have to eat food or drink water or sleep for 8 hours. If anyone is dying in your factory your business needs to be shut down and any management held responsible.
@@jacpas2012 lack of training falls on the company not the employee, her family will certainly be paid if they haven't already, and the company has been fined $25m from what I found. Doesn't bring her back, but at least some punishment was given.
At the same point, how much is your life worth. Is hitting a quota worth your life
Poor Regina, she made a slew of poor life decisions I can relate to; only difference is the consequences. The lesson here; NEVER drop out of school for a relationship. If it's meant to be, it can wait.
Exactly if the guy really cared about ther hed tell her to stay at home and stay in school.I think he manipulated her a bit.
I really felt for this girl. Sometimes you get caught in the tunnel vision of doing things for love, for money, never thinking about your own life until it’s too late. This is the ultimate example of “that job AIN’T worth it.” I hate that she had to pay such a harsh price, from the story she seemed like an honest, hard worker just trying to make that bag 🙁
Yes! I was like hold up, why doesn't ol boy get a better paying job than a mfn walmart stockperson? At least to support her in reaching her goals which would benefit them both in the future. She deserved better. 🙄
@@cristianozwife seriously. Stocking shelves at Walmart? What a dork. He should have been in the auto plant. Or maybe they both could have just vibed at walmart. But obviously med school is the way to go. You dont have to go straight to doctor. Being a pediatric nurse first and making good money on your way to being a doctor makes more sense. But we all make terrible choices when we are young. And maybe don’t spend 4k on a dress and who knows what on a car when you make fckin 8$ an hour. That’s 3 1/2 months of 40 hr weeks for one dress. Even split between that’s nuts. These stories make me so sad, but damn are they educational.
Yeah that’s the takeaway here. Not “Never mess with heavy machinery that you have no idea how to repair.” or “The company’s quota is their problem, your safety is yours.”
I was a plastics nurse a few years ago. Do you know how many people we had with mangled hands, digits amputated etc from machinery accidents. It's scary how often accidents happen
I used to work as a paramedic in a service area that had a lot of manufacturing plants in it. We were always going there for injuries. Most of which where caused by poor training or simple negligence.
Plastics nurse?
@@timtags plastic surgery nurse
Btw, DIVE TALK AND BALLEN, LOVE THEM BOTH. They helped me understand how being underwater works, and both channels actually make me want to dive. I have a friend who's going to take a class with me, and he's already certified. Great content.
Pippin killed his wife. Psychopath. He 'checked' the inflation balloon and wouldn't let anyone else check it AND he kept Audrey under water longer "trying to resuscitate her."
If he killed her for what i think thats sad
Pippin's logic on saving a drowning person.... Drown them more 😂😂
Yep! I call BS that this was an accident. 3 times this psychopath has gotten away with deep 'blue' sea 'murder'
I think he wanted to keep his record if his wife had a normal dive she would have the top record
@no name lmao let’s not act as if investigations are 100% accurate all the time. what a coincidence that this is what, the 3rd death associated w him? gobble gobble.
Wish i could forget every Mr.Ballen Video so I can watch them all again like its the first time
Same with me, they are so great :)
I tried. It don’t work lol they’re never as good as the first time
No pls no
Yes
I got something you can puff that'll actually let you do that!
Reginas story is the reason why you shouldn’t do anything you’re not trained to do forget a quota every time someone goes above and beyond they lose their life poor girl
Facts! And they turn around and have your replacement within the next 2 days!! Smh I’m surprised they pleaded guilty though. Most companies blame the victim.
You must live an incredibly boring life.
Got seriously injured cause of target pushing to make the quota, guess who they blamed...? Me. The small lady they put lifting over 40 lbs.
But that massive 9 buck an hour wage !!!!
true, but I understand why she did it
the company is just a joke, we're not robots, we're human
this 'hitting the quota or we're gonna be mad' is ridiculous
Thank you for linking the whole story in the description.
I was really enjoying listening to Regina's story, a young girl building a life, pursuing her dreams and then I remembered what channel I was watching 😞
After hearing Regina's story it helps you understand to follow your dreams not money, if a job makes you feel so stressed that you gamble with your life that's not a good job LEAVE IT too much negative energy bad things can happen.
Imagine if she didnt met her Fiance
She was not "building a life". She was destroying her life for a pipe dream. I mean, excuse me, she dropped out of school because she had "bills to pay", and then she got a NEW car and a 4000 dollar wedding dress? That makes NO sense at all. She ruined her future.
Merry Christmas!
@@Petra44YT 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they definitely hyped her story up... I worked at that same car plant $10/hour is not living the dream..... That was slave labor & them Koreans treat you like shit...
As an engineer in the automotive industry, that automation accident is mind blowing. Need to be a really horrible company for that to happen. I can't imagine an operator just hopping in to fix a weld cell, and I definitely can't imagine ANY employee not being aware of Lock Out/Tag Out procedures.
Management sees those workers as replaceable.
Lock Out/Tag Out was the first thing we trained everyone even remotely around the robot cells. Also all out robot cages had safety switches on the doors so as soon as you opened the door it killed the cell until you left the cell, closed the door and hit the go buttons.
And here's me, shoved into the role of stopping our 'safety director' from microwaving popcorn for 33 minutes, explaining to the welding super why the guys needed welding equipment, stopping people from shoving their hands under running drills, and shouting at guys who insisted on standing on the very top of ladders - without spotters even. And THIS was an HONEST company who could visualize the legal headaches of damage to their most important resources - other humans.
@@sealyoness Oh good grief, do they not have any sense?
Yeah, I imagine it was cheaper for the company to just plead guilty to misdemeanor charge and pay a few million that let a fuller investigation drag out.
Listening to these stories is like the Final Destination series. You're constantly trying to guess what eventually does the person in.
"Oh my god, how will he die horrifically doing yard work-- and am I next??"
honestly death in final destination just doing his job and running a bit late. these people are going out of their way to kill themselves.
@@meatykyun5981 well, the guy tending his garden probably didn’t directly provoke the Reaper like the other two did.
@@TokyoXtreme yeah, the gardening guy is just sad. i was thinking of the other two and 99% of the other diving stories on this channel ^^
Usually their stupidity