Crash in a Volcano | Thank You, Madam Pele with Chris Duddy | 3

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1992, Christopher Duddy was a young Hollywood cameraman assigned to shoot footage of an active volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Then his helicopter crashed inside the volcano near a pool of molten lava, and his life would never be the same. Host Mike Corey hears how Chris can still remember the sights, smells and sounds on his epic climb out…nearly 30 years later.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Against the Odds at Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.9	From Wondery, I'm Mike Corey, and this is Against the Odds.
0:18.0	On our latest episodes, we told the story of two cameramen and a pilot who went on what was
0:30.3	supposed to be a routine flight over an active volcano on the big island of Hawaii.
0:35.6	They were there to shoot footage for a Hollywood movie, but their helicopter crashed
0:40.8	inside the Killaway of volcano, leaving the men stranded in a hot crater full of
0:46.5	noxious gases. Each of them went through his own life or death struggle to escape,
0:52.8	especially the two cameramen who found themselves forced to spend the night
0:57.0	trapped inside a crater on one of the most active volcanoes on earth. Joining us
1:02.3	today is one of those cameramen, Christopher Dutty, who served as a consultant on this series.
1:08.0	A sought-after cinematographer, Dutty began his career at ILM, or Industrial,
1:14.1	Light, and Magic. He's worked on many films, including The Abyss, Total Recall,
1:20.2	and Terminator 2. Dutty just wrapped up shooting season four of the hit CBS show Magnum
1:26.8	Pi, which had him back in Hawaii. Chris Dutty, welcome to Against the Odds.
1:33.4	Ah, thank you for having me. I gotta ask, man. Sometimes, if you have a story, this good.
1:41.4	Do you hesitate to tell it? I mean, you know, this story is so over the top,
1:47.5	and I've been telling this story. We're coming up on the 30th, 30th, and
1:52.9	anniversary of it, and I've told this story so many times now, but you know,
1:57.7	for a while, when I would start telling this story, and I'd see people's reactions,
2:02.5	I felt like it felt like I was making it up. Like I was making up a story,
2:06.7	because people would look at me like, what? You crashed into volcano, and you were
2:11.2	trapped. Like it just sounds, it just sounds unreal, you know? Like too much. Like how
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