A bus with 92 people inside sank into a lake — and one swimmer kept diving back down into the dark. 🚌
What he brought up one time haunted him for the rest of his life.
True story: On September 16, 1976, a trolleybus with 92 people on board plunged into Yerevan Lake in Armenia. Shavarsh Karapetyan, a 23-year-old finswimming world champion, was training nearby with his brother Kamo. He dove again and again to the trolleybus about 10 metres down, kicked out the rear window and, in near-zero visibility, felt his way to passengers and brought them up to his brother and other helpers at the surface. Twenty of the people he pulled out survived. Once, close to fainting, he surfaced holding a leather seat cushion instead of a person — he later said he had nightmares about it for a long time and believed the mistake cost a life. Sepsis and pneumonia nearly killed him. About a year later he swam one last race with Kamo running beside the pool in case he blacked out, set another world record without realizing it, and retired. Drawn reconstruction: generic characters, no real photos.
Sources: Mediamax interview with Shavarsh Karapetyan (March 23, 2018); Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, “Twenty-Five Seconds Per Life”; Fair Play award archive (1983).
Music: “Mischief Maker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Sound effects: Freesound & Kenney (CC0) and our own. Illustrations: ATLAS APE.
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and you don't even put his name in title or comment, we need to fish for it in the description
Why did he kick it like that though
He saved 20 people from a sunken bus… and blamed himself for one cushion for years 💔 His name is Shavarsh Karapetyan