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xoxoxoBruce 03-29-2008 12:01 AM
March 29, 2008: Door to Hell
 
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This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
http://cellar.org/2008/ahell1.jpg

Looks like the worlds biggest BBQ pit to me.
http://cellar.org/2008/ahell2.jpg

More pictures and a video here.

JuancoRocks 03-29-2008 12:23 AM
Door to Hell
 
I see bar -b -que written all over this......Let the recipes follow:headshake

TorasMommy 03-29-2008 03:21 AM
Maybe a nice temp to roast up some little birdies and marshmallows.

Anyone got a long enough stick?

Sundae 03-29-2008 06:46 AM
WOW

I love IoTD.

TheMercenary 03-29-2008 08:12 AM
Looks more like molten lava.

YellowBolt 03-29-2008 10:05 AM
Reminds me of Centralia, Pennsylvania.

monster 03-30-2008 01:54 PM
That was interesting, thanks, Yellowbolt. Now I feel the need to go there! :lol:

spudcon 03-30-2008 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by monster (Post 442687)
That was interesting, thanks, Yellowbolt. Now I feel the need to go there! :lol:
Gee, me too, with a side trip to love canal.:rolleyes:

spudcon 03-30-2008 03:56 PM
Closer to home, I just found out that a contractor for the former GE Aerospace factory had been dumping industrial waste just upsream from our reservoir from 1966 to 1973. Cleanup begins here in May.

jinx 03-30-2008 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by monster (Post 442687)
That was interesting, thanks, Yellowbolt. Now I feel the need to go there! :lol:
I've been thru there a bunch of times, its pretty cool. Well, hot actually... Before they closed the road and knocked all the houses down it was extra surreal... Huge areas of dead timber and smoking ground, the occasional furnace-like vent.
One time we went thru they were having a parade, with fire trucks and everything. Pretty ironic really...

Karenv 03-30-2008 11:00 PM
Back to Uzbekistan, it seems if we could put out Saddam's oil field fires during Gulf One, that this could be brought under control. Unlike Centralia, this is right out in the open. It would help reduce global warming and might allow reclamation of the gas.

LabRat 03-31-2008 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Karenv (Post 442773)
....[closing the hole] would help reduce global warming ... and allow reclamation of the gas

So would everyone doubling up on the baked beans and skipping the grilling altogether this 4th of July. :right:

toranokaze 03-31-2008 01:24 PM
Cool pic Bruce.

It is very well named. Much of the orgional imagery for hell came from a place called Gehnna were they burned trash. This Gehnna Jesus said was like Hell with never ending fire and worms that will not die.

Kolbenfresser 04-01-2008 03:08 AM
Coordinates of Darvaza
 
It’s actually called 'Darvaza', and it is in Turkmenistan, not Uzbekistan. It’s situated in the middle of the Kara Kum desert, about 6 miles north of Darvaza.
40°15'7.36"N 58°26'22.84"E

Flint 04-01-2008 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by YellowBolt (Post 442478)
I assume this was the inspiration for Silent Hill?

Quote:
Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 442408)
Looks like the worlds biggest BBQ pit to me.
It is a BBQ pit... . . .for . HUMAN SOULS.

shina 04-01-2008 10:20 AM
That would be a site to see. Never knew it existed. Thanks!

glatt 04-01-2008 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Kolbenfresser (Post 442975)
It’s actually called 'Darvaza', and it is in Turkmenistan, not Uzbekistan. It’s situated in the middle of the Kara Kum desert, about 6 miles north of Darvaza.
40°15'7.36"N 58°26'22.84"E
Found it. Thanks.

sweetwater 04-01-2008 02:53 PM
Funny - when I saw the pinpoint numbers I copied and prepared to GoogleEarth them, which is what I assume you were doing also. Remarkable. Though I feel a twinge of guilt for peering through the Google lens to the site. It is as if I'm making it even hotter with my gigantic magnifying glass.

xoxoxoBruce 04-01-2008 10:02 PM
Hey thanks, Kolbenfresser. :thumb:
Better info is always appreciated.

BrianR 04-02-2008 02:39 PM
I don't get it.

They were drilling for gas.
They found gas.
They lit gas on FIRE???

What am I missing?

xoxoxoBruce 04-02-2008 11:04 PM
While they were drilling, the ground collapsed, swallowing the equipment and the camp. They couldn't recover anything because the hole was full of gas. They lit it to keep the gas from leaking out and killing people, then wrote it off and walked away.





Oh, and the Devil won't let them put it out.


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