1/2In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic swimmer, had just completed a 12-mile run with his brother when they saw a trolley bus crash into a dam reservoir.
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@MarkHoltom Note: this text is copied and pasted from similar picspam/viral repost accounts. Some credit it to "Sara Wiley", but with no links to an original post. See e. g.:
- https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1242582444654682&id=100067088146868
- https://www.threads.com/@shady_et/post/DGxWlSRNGwi/in-1976-shavarsh-karapetyan-an-armenian-olympic-swimmer-had-just-completed-a-12m?hl=enThe first post actually links to an actual article with sources and more details: https://allthatsinteresting.com/shavarsh-karapetyan
@nev Wikipedia is linked, and the details do not substantially vary.
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In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic swimmer, had just completed a 12-mile run with his brother when they saw a trolley bus crash into a dam reservoir. The trolley bus sank 80 feet offshore at a depth of 33 feet.
Shavarsh immediately dove in and swam to the bus and despite zero visibility, managed to kick in the back window, injuring himself in the process. He proceeded to save twenty people trapped in the bus, one at a time. Making forty dives in 20 minutes.
The combined effect of the cold water and his injuries from breaking the glass window led to his hospitalization for 45 days after the incident, during which time he developed pneumonia, sepsis, and lung damage which ended his athletic career.@MarkHoltom This is a hero!
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Jesus. AFTER a 12 mile run.
Breaking glass underwater is not easy either, he probably cut his foot something awful.
@Phosphenes @noodlemaz @MarkHoltom
Absolutely, but at that time in the USSR the bus windows would have been low quality sheet glass, not the layered and often curved stuff you find on today's cars and buses. Today he wouldn't have stood a chance breaking a window under water without tools.But anyway, what a feat!
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