US TikTok star has a close brush with death in ice water to shoot video
Friday, March 6, 2020 IST
A US TikTok star had a close brush with death while he tried to swim in ice water in Utah to record a video.
TikTok changed the game for a lot of people. The Chinese video-sharing app, that has over 1 billion followers made fame accessible for a lot of users. To get more followers, the video makers have to come up with something innovative and never-done-before in every video but this more often than not end up the way one would hope.
A TikTok user recently had a close brush with death while he was trying to make a TikTok video. Jason Clark thought that it would be a good idea to swim in icy water in Utah and record a video, little did he know that it would turn out like this.
Jason took to his Instagram to share the video with the caption explaining the whole situation. He wrote, "I have never been this close to dying. I didn't think my eyeballs would freeze so quick. The surface of the water where the hole was didn't look any different than the bottom of the ice. When I flipped around and felt solid ice I thought I was at the hole."
He added, "When I wasn't that's when I decided to head back and follow the dust I kicked up. The dust I kicked up had drifted and led me further away. I then tried to break the ice with my back, you can see in the video. I don't know what made me turn around one last time. I was so short on breath I couldn't really see anymore. I had accepted that was it and I wasn't going to make it."
He finally wrote, "I swung my hand at what I thought was just a lighter spot of ice and my hand came through. I then got a ton of energy to stand up. It took 2-3 breaths to regain my vision after resurfacing. Aftermath is in the other video. When there are scary moments I joke a lot." He added that the friend who was recording the video thought it was a prank, "she genuinely thought it was another one of my jokes and didn't recognize the severity of the situation."
The video shows Jason going under the icy water and trying to swim. It is evident that he was having a difficult time trying to get out. He shared another video that shows the shocked state that Jason was in when he finally came out of the water. He wrote, "I have never been this close to dying in my life. Another second or two I wouldn't have made it. Last moment I popped out of the ice. Real reality check!"
As his video went viral, people started sharing their extreme experiences with ice water. One user wrote, "My dad's buddy tried this. My dad snapped a pic of him sitting on the edge of the hole smiling, giving the thumbs up, just before he went under. He never surfaced. And my dad never got over it. Growing up on a lake in Canada, we were taught early to fear the ice. Your first attempt is a great example of how quickly you can become disoriented under that ice. You're luckier than you probably realize my friend."
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