When It Goes Wrong

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be heading back to Mount Everest and covering some of the first attempts at climbing it. We will cover Mallory's attempts in 1921, 1922 and the fateful trip in 1924 and then subsequent attempts before it was successfully climbed in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_British_Mount_Everest_reconnaissance_expedition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_British_Mount_Everest_expedition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_British_Mount_Everest_expedition

https://aspectsofhistory.com/a-corpse-on-everest-george-mallory/

https://malloryandirvine.com/

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/mystery-everest-mallory-irvine-climb-disappearance-what-happened/

Disney+ - Lost on Everest

Everest 1922 - Mick Conefrey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLOJAXPC_s

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering crush disasters - mainly Hillsborough where in 1989, 97 people were killed at a football game in Sheffield UK. We will then summarise some other crushes Astroworld where in 2021, 10 people were killed at a concert in Houston Texas and the Love Parade festival crush in Germany. This will be a 2 part series.

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/aug/10/police-uk-riots-football-postponements

Hillsborough:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229038/0581.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

https://iosh.com/news/hillsborough-30-years-on/

Astroworld:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/what-happened-astroworld-travis-scott/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59205840

Astroworld - countdown to tragedy: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYREIrmHLGM

Love Parade:

Dark records youtube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5bcWOjdrU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade_disaster

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering crush disasters - mainly Hillsborough where in 1989, 97 people were killed at a football game in Sheffield UK. We will then summarise some other crushes Astroworld where in 2021, 10 people were killed at a concert in Houston Texas and the Love Parade festival crush in Germany. This will be a 2 part series.

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/aug/10/police-uk-riots-football-postponements

Hillsborough:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229038/0581.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

https://iosh.com/news/hillsborough-30-years-on/

Astroworld:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/what-happened-astroworld-travis-scott/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59205840

Astroworld - countdown to tragedy: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYREIrmHLGM

Love Parade:

Dark records youtube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5bcWOjdrU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade_disaster

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering submarines and submarine disasters including how they are rescued, we will cover the Squalus rescue from 1937 and the very recent OceanGate Titan disaster from June 2023. 

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
James Camerons Deepsea Challenge - Amazon Prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_rescue

Titan:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Mission-Titanic-part-3

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/22/timeline-oceangate-founding-expedition-history/70344305007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-visiting-the-most-famous-shipwreck-in-the-world/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-27/what-happens-next-with-oceangate-titan-submersible/102523732

https://www.reddit.com/r/OceanGateTitan/comments/14olxkh/a_rubiks_cube_thick_socks_and_giddy_anticipation/

Squalus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sailfish_(SS-192)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCann_Rescue_Chamber

https://eu.fosters.com/story/news/2019/05/19/squalus-sinking-tragedy-and-triumph/5118683007/

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/squalus-ss-192/squalus-ss-192-sinking-rescure-of-survivors-and-salvage.html

These Terrible Hours - Peter Maas 

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering the story of Aron Ralston who got his arm stuck whilst canyoning in 2003. In order to free himself, we had to survive days in the desert before cutting his own arm off and getting to safety. 

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
https://canyonaccident.org/kolob-canyon-1993-07-15/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyoning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston

https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Rangers-Find-Arm-That-Climber-Amputated-7360895.php

127 Hours - between a rock and a hard place - Aron Ralston

127 hours the movie - on All4

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering the story of the crash of the Challenger. The challenger was a space shuttle launch in 1986 which sadly exploded 76 seconds into flight in front of millions of people, killing all members of crew onboard.

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
Challenger: The Final Flight  on Netflix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-L

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/29/us-space-shuttle-challenger-explodes-after-take-off-1986

https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster

https://www.doopoll.co/post/challenger-disaster

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering the story of Yossi Ghinsberg who went with a group into the depths of the Amazon in 1981. 4 of them would go into the jungle but after several harrowing weeks, not all of them would make it out. 7.

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Ghinsberg

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/the-jungle

Jungle - Yossi Ghinsberg

Jungle - movie, Amazon Prime

I shouldn't be alive episode

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be discussing some boat / shipping disasters. We will discuss the MS Estonia, a ferry which sank when crossing from Estonia to Sweden in 1994 and is one of the deadliest maritime disasters of all time, the TEV Wahine which sank in 1968 off the Wellington harbour and the MS Herald of the Free Enterprise, a car roll on, roll off ferry which capsized near Belgium in 1987. 

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
The Perfect Storm 

https://tc.canada.ca/en/marine-transportation/marine-safety/free-surface-effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Le_Joola

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roll-on/roll-off_vessel_accidents

MS Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MS_Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Viking_Sally_murder

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940/

https://maritimecyprus.com/2022/09/30/flashback-in-maritime-history-ms-estonia-sinking-on-28-september-1994-claiming-852-lives-4/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmX8seNKVQo

Wahine

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/wahine-disaster

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/102846031/wahine-disaster-50-years-on-what-happened-that-day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEV_Wahine

https://maritimeradio.org/in-distress/wahine/

MS Herald of Free Enterprise

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/54c1704ce5274a15b6000025/FormalInvestigation_HeraldofFreeEnterprise-MSA1894.pdf

https://www.ukpandi.com/news-and-resources/articles/2022/the-capsizing-of-the-herald-of-free-enterprise/

https://safety4sea.com/cm-herald-of-free-enterprise-a-wake-up-call-for-ro-ro-safety/

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I will be discussing the Deepwater Horizon explosion. On the 20th of April 2010, the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon hit a series of issues which resulted in the rig exploding, killing 11 on board. It also resulted in the largest oil leak and spill in history which would take almost 5 months to contain and resulted in huge numbers of wildlife dying. 

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:

• A Sea in Flames - Carl Safina
• https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/offshore-drilling.htm
• https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-to-drill-a-relief-well
• https://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-05-21/what-caused-deepwater-horizon-disaster/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVCOWejlag
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_preventer
• https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2018/12/when-all-hell-breaks-loose-years-after-deepwater-horizon-offshore-drilling-hazards-persist
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
• https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/16/bps-deepwater-horizon-bill-tops-65bn

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I will be discussing the case of Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a man whose boat was caught in a storm that resulted in him being adrift in the Pacific ocean for 438 days until he washed up on shore in the Marshall Islands. 

Please subscribe and review for more! You can follow the podcast on instagram at @whenitgoeswrongpod or email me at [email protected].

Sources:
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea - Jonathan Franklin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Salvador_Alvarenga

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/fisherman-lost-at-sea-436-days-book-extract

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/04/438-days-lost-at-sea-jose-salvador-alvarenga.html