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Post by KenWalsh on Apr 22, 2004 23:12:33 GMT -5
When I visited the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow, the tour guide explained how visitors once drowned in the Jozef Pilsudski Chamber. Tourists would cross the chamber in boats, but some once fell out of the boat and drowned. That is why there is now a statue of St. John Nepomuk, the patron saint of the drowning.
I asked the English-speaking tour guide how one drowns in salt water since a human would most certainly float in the brine. He could not answer my question, and it may have been his English or his understanding of science that prevented our communication.
Can any Poles tell me more about how the tourists actually drowned in brine? I've speculated for years but can only infer that the tourists were face down floating on the surface when they swallowed the water.
Thanks for any help.
P.S. Salt water is generally a single word in English, but Andrzej's filters prevent me from writing it that way.
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Post by Jacek on Apr 23, 2004 3:45:16 GMT -5
Actually I didin't know that someone drowned in Wieliczka. But you are right it doesn't add up. If there is so much salt in water, no way anyone could go down to the bottom of the lake or whatever it is. I'll try to get some info on this.
Anyway What do you think of tour guides' English? Is it real good, or sometimes it sucks?
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Post by KenWalsh on Apr 23, 2004 9:20:26 GMT -5
Tour guides in Poland spoke the English tour script well. My problem is that I like to ask questions, and the questions are often beyond the vocabulary of tour guides.
In Wieliczka, I actually went on a tour guided in Polish with a English guidebook in hand. I didn't hear the English tour guide in the group behind me until near the end of the tour.
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Post by Marcela on May 10, 2004 8:45:42 GMT -5
Same as Jacek, I've never heard about anybody drowned in Wieliczka or I was too busy talking with my friends when the guide was telling about that However, I'm very curious which places you visited in Poland and if you liked them... Many of foreign tourist complain that there is not much to see, I hope your impression was different.
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Post by KenWalsh on May 10, 2004 8:55:16 GMT -5
Go to the ClickFriends link from the www.clickandbite.com site to read a discussion about my first trip to Poland (and out of North America). I very much enjoyed myself and look forward to the trip this summer.
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Post by liamguest on Aug 16, 2007 7:45:53 GMT -5
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but apparently they were trapped under the overturned boat and could not get out from under it, so they were asphixiated rather than drowned...
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Post by Phillip on Jun 19, 2013 10:38:44 GMT -5
The tourist suffocated after their boat tipped over and sank. The tourists couldn't get out from under Meath the boat and they sank to the bottom. The boat is still there apparently...
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