Man dissolved in acidic water after going to bathe in hot spring

A man was boiled alive in an extremely acidic geyser while trying to bathe in a thermal spring.

Colin Nathaniel Scott, a 23-year-old from Portland in the US state of Oregon, was visiting Yellowstone national park in Wyoming when he died in June.

Despite nearby signs warning against it, he entered the boiling, highly acidic water to test the temperature, hoping to ‘hot pot’ – where you bathe in the a boiling hot spring.

He then slipped and fell into the spring in the Norris Geyser basin, while his horrified sister Sable filmed



the incident on her mobile phone.

The footage has not been released to the public.

‘There’s a closure in place to keep people from doing that for their own safety,’ Lorant Veress, deputy chief ranger, told local Montana station KULR-8. ‘It’s a very unforgiving environment.’

Search and rescue rangers arrived to find some remains of Scott’s body in the pool, along with his wallet and flip flops.

However, when they came back the next day to continue the recovery efforts they found that he had dissolved completely.