Yellowstone Nationwide Park officers on Thursday recognized the particular person whose foot was discovered floating in one of many park’s sizzling springs this summer season.
Il Hun Ro, 70, of Los Angeles, was recognized utilizing DNA evaluation “within the final three weeks,” park officers wrote in a information launch.
“The investigation decided, to the perfect of our data, that an unwitnessed incident involving one particular person occurred on the morning of July 31, 2022, at Abyss Pool, and no foul play occurred,” park officers reported. “Based mostly on an absence of proof, the circumstances surrounding the loss of life of Ro stay unknown.”
In August, park employees found a part of a foot in a shoe floating within the West Thumb Geyser Basin within the southern a part of the park.
In response to the discharge, the person’s household has been notified.
Abyss Pool, situated west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 toes deep and the temperature is about 140 levels Fahrenheit, park officers stated.
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In such sizzling springs, superheated water cools because it reaches the floor, sinks and is changed by hotter water from beneath. The circulation prevents the water from reaching the temperature wanted to set off a geyser-like eruption, in line with the park’s web site.
Water within the sizzling springs can “severely burn” guests, the service warns on its web site.
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