Mount St. Helens Eruption. The Gary Rosenquist, AI interpolated landslide and eruption sequence.

It is very hard not to watch this and get a lump in the throat.
For three decades, I have often wondered what it was like as Gerry Martin recorded his last words and what others around the area saw as the scene unfolded.
It is harrowing, indeed. Especially now, being able to listen to Gerry Martin's HAM radio recording synced to the real-time speed of the eruption via a synthetic AI interpolation of the Gary Rosenquist sequence.
This is the next to last step in recreating that event. This year, I will be using this video on a tablet at Mount St. Helens, showing others what happened on that fateful Sunday in May.
Worthy of note, this not only includes Gerry Martin's recording (the first two and a half minutes of it), but also an AI-synthesized, computer generated landslide sequence based off of the Rosenquist sequence itself.
I am pretty proud of this one.

[@srosenow98]

NOTE: I have had to delete a few comments in the last several months on this video. A lot of those comments have related to unduly harsh criticisms of the AI interpolation process, and some have related to calling this fake. One comment even suggested that this is not how it looked, even in spite of personal testimony from the photographer that took these photos, stating otherwise. As such, I am instituting a ground rule for my videos going forward. Any comment applying criticisms toward the AI interpolation process or appearance, no matter their nature, will be deleted. This is because of the fact that the source data for this interpolation was not captured at a regularly-timed interval. Twenty-three photos comprise the sequence, and six of those photos have been determined to have gaps of roughly three seconds between them, while others are just a second and a half apart. The entire sequence was captured in a thirty-six second time frame. As such, it is extremely difficult, even with the most advanced interpolation methods currently possible, to create a seamless, 100% realistic interpolation of the original photographic sequence. One comment even went so far as to suggest that Hollywood could have done a better job. As evidenced by the outlandish and highly unrealistic depictions newer documentaries have done to this sequence, I'd suggest otherwise. The reason this particular interpolation looks rough is simple: It's based on a set of original source images captured from a standard-definition documentary that aired in 1990. The screenshots taken of the sequence in that documentary, while decent, were insufficient for the methods applied. They were improved using AI sharpening and enhancement methods, yet still did not match the quality and resolution of the original sequence. As such, the interpolation had a lot of missing "data" to fill in. Since this interpolation, a greater-resolution product was produced ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHWQg5-ad7arbbc ) , however even further work is currently in progress.

[@PeterParker-yr8yb]

This is shit and the AI is shit

[@Landonshadowboy2988]

Who would criticism mt st helens eruption it was real and that clips you shown was real things His death was real

[@terrypage358]

I'd try to ignore the stupid comments mate. KZbin is full of people who are brave behind their phones,venting because they've done nothing with their miserable lives and take it out on people like yourself actually trying to contribute something useful. Chin up.

[@pattmayne]

@@Landonshadowboy2988 You didn't *have* to delete the comments. People's reactions are legit, even if their interpretations are not.

[@Landonshadowboy2988]

​@pattmayne dawg you act like I own these comment I don't delete comments

[@nathanhunter6201]

Imagine watching half a mountain disappear.

[@Jamal_Gaming5000]

💀

[@Daytonuh]

imagine being Robert Landsburg

[@psychoticmaniac8465]

I just watched one

[@DingoOverlord]

Awesome!!!

[@sjeason]

In the span of nothing more than a few seconds as well, this video is slowed down a lot from real time. A enormous mass of rock that looks sturdier than anything suddenly moves like a fluid in under ten seconds. Really shows how nothing on this earth is permanent What’s even more terrifying is how fast the lateral blast of pyroclastic material and ash overtakes the landslide, it’s moving like 3 times as fast.

[@sirreginaldvonshaft8089]

That final image is one of a kind. If you don’t know anything about volcanoes, what you’re essentially looking at is just about the most destructive force of nature on earth hidden within that cloud. That cloud is full of poisonous gases a thousand degrees hot and it’s blowing through the forest like a hurricane. Truly terrifying but an amazing event that happened in our world’s history, and fortunately we were able to document it and study it. Shows how incredible nature is and how far we’ve come along with it. We should never stop advancing and forward thinking. Our purpose in life is to create, not destroy. This was written by a human not an AI. I’m drunk

[@Ty-tie_FTW]

Hell ya! This comment sure beats the hell out of some other random drunken jibberish you read on here. Thanks for that by the way.

[@nick5422]

Great comment. I wish we were able to make something like this to watch Krakatoa’s explosions

[@CProductU]

I would've loved to be able to see that at a safe distance in person. It must've been the most amazing feeling to be so small.

[@willzsportscards]

yup. pyroclastic flow.

[@bsgfan1]

3:19 “Gentlemen, the camper and the car sitting to the south of me is covered. It’s going to get me too.” These were the last words of Gerry Martin, a radio operator killed in the eruption. The camper and car he’s referring to were those of David Johnston, a volcanologist also killed in the eruption. Johnston’s last words over radio were “Vancouver, this is it!”

[@ripwednesdayadams]

So sad. There were a lot of reckless idiots who managed to survive out of pure luck. But a few scientists were killed instead.

[@dugroznostalgia]

That's humbling.

[@susancrandell]

Gary Rosenquist is my uncle, I'm going to share this with him. Thank you for making this.

[@zhiracs]

Please let us know what he has to say

[@TheFlopped2979]

doubt it

[@susancrandell]

@@TheFlopped2979 doubt what? He had a stroke recently, hence not replying. Jerk.

[@110pLover]

@@TheFlopped2979waste of oxygen

[@grayfireproductions]

How did he feel about this video?

[@charonsferryold]

The fact that Gary Martin retained a fairly calm and standard tone of voice while 1,000 degrees of impending doom loomed above him is very impressive. I certainly wouldn't have.

[@deniseyeaisaidit]

This was awesome. Sadly, the gentleman who was giving the updates as an eyewitness on that recording, passed away that day. His body was never found.

[@MrLiquid323]

How did he pass away?

[@jamwa2039]

@@MrLiquid323 How did the guy on an erupting volcano pass away? It's a big mystery...

[@MrLiquid323]

@@jamwa2039 i thought he was standing miles away

[@brownie3454]

@@jamwa2039 if his body was never found we cant say he died for sure. i suspect aliens

[@mattyice2889]

@@MrLiquid323 unfortunately no, that’s his death tape and his last known words. he was on the mountain, and must’ve had an insane view seeing half of it just collapse from the eruption. there’s info on him in the description if you’re interested.

[@NordicDan]

Amazing to see that sequence of photos put to motion. I was born just three months after the eruption, but my parents up north in Everett say when it erupted, the sound even that far north was as if someone dropped a bowling ball on a hardwood floor in the second story of their house.

[@josephastier7421]

There were many such reports that day. From what I have read, people near the mountain didn't hear it but people over 100 miles away heard and *felt* a huge pressure wave. Something about the wave going mostly up and out before hitting an atmospheric layer that diffracted it down again.

[@staunchx]

The fear Gerry Martin must have felt watching that gigantic ash cloud rush toward him. Amazing eruption sequence, thanks for posting.

[@hddoug72]

A friend and I hiked into and camped at a small high mountain lake in So. Oregon on 5/17. Savoring the solitude on that early Sunday morning we heard a distinct boom in the distance. After listening to the news after arriving home later that day I thought about the time frame of the sound we had heard. A local newspaper the next day stated that there numerous reports of a boom in the region and after contacting the regional airport, there were no planes in the airspace to have caused a sonic boom. I'm quite certain that although being 250 miles south I indeed heard Mt. Saint Helen's blow!

[@shannonrhoads7099]

I have heard that sometimes, the lower frequencies from volcanic eruptions can rebound off of layers in the atmosphere. I was in Corvallis, Oregon on May 18, 1980, and I remember waking up to a loud booming noise a good hour before we'd normally get up and prep for church. No one else in my family remembers hearing it, though we all did get up around that time - which was unusual. That's a distance of 195 miles, so my description of the sound was pretty casually dismissed as the overenthusiastic ramblings of a child.

[@RW4X4X3006]

My dad and his pals were up in Wallowa Mountains doing a geological dig. They heard the eruption from there. A heavy "crack bang" and they knew exactly what it was.

[@sjeason]

I think there’s reports of people hearing it as far as Canada so not too hard to believe. Although weirdly there’s reports of people not hearing a thing being like 50 miles away too, but I think that’s just the weird way sound waves travel in air.

[@earlvernon4147]

Thank you very much for creating the video I've been wanting to see since I was 7 years old; the Rosenquist sequence photos with Martin's recording. I've had immense interest in the May 18 eruption for 33 years; an interest to the point that I can also commend you on the sources you cited. "In the Path of Destruction" is by far the best book I've ever read on the subject and the January 1981 National Geographic article is still just as riveting as it was when I read it as a child back in the 1980's. From the standpoint of someone who has read the books and articles, I feel your video captured the same exposition the texts created. A scholarly video based on scholarly reference. Well Done, Sir. P.S. I've always wanted to see what it looked like from Spirit Lake around Ol' Harry's lodge... to see what Harry saw or what David saw...I can only imagine how it would feel at that moment in time. It would be like seeing the waving hand of God.

[@jdhthegr8]

This is the sort of recreation of the event I always wanted to see. Awesome job.

[@srosenow98]

@jdhthegr8 Have you seen the 1080pHD version I did and linked in the pinned comment? It's way better than this one. :)

[@The_DC_Kid]

As a Boy Scout in the early '60s our Troop spent a week at a campground on the edge of Spirit Lake, very near the foot of the Mt St Helens. At the time of the eruption I was 29 and I lived in small town in Oregon about 60 miles southwest of the mountain, and everyone there could see the eruption cloud as well as later "steam eruptions". We got ashfall a couple of times but fortunately for us it wasn't heavy although even a light dusting of that stuff caused problems, especially for people who breathed in even small amounts. What comes from an eruption isn't really ash, rather tiny particles of pumice stone. Towns east of the mountain received repeated coverings of it, sometimes a foot or more deep.

[@TheDucatiPilot]

This is very cool. Thanks for putting this together.

[@srosenow98]

Thank you for the comment! I have an updated version with a synthesized landslide sequence up as well (feel free to check it out) that is synced with audio from a HAM radio operator who was killed in the blast. It's also timed to the estimates in USGS Professional Paper 1250, so in essence you're watching it as it happened. I'm working on an even more refined version coming shortly! :) -Steve

[@inuyashason81]

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!”

[@juliaelrod2154]

The man who operated the cameras knew he wouldn't make it and manned the cameras til the end anyways. True grit.

[@srosenow98]

There were about two dozen photographers who captured the first ten minutes of the eruption, and of those, only four died. The photographer that captured the sequence this AI interpolation is based on, survived, and is still alive to this day.

[@dizzymindy6024]

Thank you for this awesome footage. I have seen the stills, but never seen them like this, so thank you very much!!

[@josephastier7421]

3:17 He reports that he just saw David Johnston die, and that he would be next.

[@blackholeentry3489]

I once read a story about a guy who lived in the Los Angelos area, and as a small boy, experienced a fair sized eartquake there. This shook him out of bed in the middle of the night and frightened him quite deeply, and he vowed to himself to move away from that place. Life, as it often does, got busy, he married and started a family, but he never forgot his pledge to himself about moving. Finally, in his late twenties, he made the move clear out of California and bought a small plot of a few acres of land.....on the lower slopes of Mt St Helens in the state of Washington. Not too long after moving there, the mountain started rumbling, eventually unleashing the enormous blast it did and covered so much with ashes, including his place. I'm not sure of where he eventually relocated after that, but rumor has it he moved to some relatives of his in Oklahoma....right in 'Tornado Alley'. BHE

[@claramelchreit7685]

Visited Mt Saint Helens last year and I was amazed at how much the landscape was changed significantly after the eruption. I couldn’t even explain what I was feeling after standing there admiring the view and knowing that many people had lost their lives.

[@grantfahlman1815]

Just watched this after doing a quick search to find it. Did that as I was reminded of it after finding a small container of ash from the eruption I had saved from the next day (taken off my Dad's car, in Regina, SK, Canada). That's a distance of ~1400 KM/870M to the NW. Very vivid memories of the news broadcasts at the time! This was quite a reminder of that event!

[@knockthebackdoorbeforeleaving]

the straight diagonal line really captivated me

[@kevinpowers9024]

I've hiked several times at MSH. A few years ago, we hiked from Windy Ridge out to Loowitt Falls. We stopped at Bear Meadow where these photos were taken. Unless you have stood there, you can't imagine how big this event was. It was gigantic. Half a mountain sliding away followed by that massive lateral blast. These people were lucky to survive. The road to get there is not a straight drive. It's a very twisty and turning mountain road. If the eruption had happened before sunrise, they wouldn't have seen the lateral blast coming and all would have died.

[@srosenow98]

The eruption came within one third of a mile of Bear Meadows, but did not directly impact it by way of blast damage. In fact, only five inches of ash and pumice (tephra) deposits were recorded. I too, have spent a ton of time at Mount St. Helens (including sixteen visits to the Bear Meadow site alone just last year) and I've interacted personally with Rosenquist via a Facebook group, and Keith Ronnholm (who was just seventy feet away from Rosenquist) in person. Had Rosenquist, Ronnholm and the others who were there at Bear Meadow even had chose to stay, they would have survived.

[@kevinpowers9024]

@@srosenow98 I was basing my post on the 2017 documentary on MSH called, "Make it out Alive." Yes, Ronnholm was at BM and said he was lucky to survive. They have a series of interviews with him starting at about the 13:25 mark and continue throughout the show. They said that his decision to flee BM saved his life, so that was my source for my post. Here is the link if anyone would like to watch the show. It's pretty good. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2rYfmyga8-sbs0

[@josephastier7421]

@@srosenow98 Correct. The lateral blast was not aimed in their direction, it went right past them. I would like to visit that site someday just to get a feel for those images and the true scale of the eruption.

[@srosenow98]

@josephastier7421 Yep. I am actually friends with Rosenquist now, and it is quite a tale on how he survived. Even more so, how these images came to be.

[@warrax111]

MSH? bro... stop using shortcuts improper and irritating way.

[@zzzzxxxxxz6017]

At this speed you can see it throwing shock waves through the dust cloud. Many concussions are visible

[@SharonCasey-d3w]

Interesting note: Actor John Voight's brother, Barry Voight, is a landslide specialist, and he actually predicted that this would happen.

[@josephastier7421]

The frame at 2:33 really shows how the lateral blast just rocketed past them at incredible speed.

[@sadhbhbaxter7703]

This is an amazing piece of work, thanks. I'm sharing it with my students in a lecture on Volcanic Hazards, hope you're OK with that.

[@srosenow98]

Thank you! That is perfectly okay with me. Be sure to check out the other upload I did to this synced with Gerry Martin's HAM Radio recording!

[@spanqueluv9er]

@@srosenow98 Uh, the Mt. St. Helens eruption cannot be described as a “cataclysm”. A cataclysm is destruction by water, genius. Ffs.🙄💩🤡🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@gabrielplattes6253]

Amazing footage, and great work, mate. Extraordinary, that this was recorded so!

[@JClaus1221]

An amazing example of the liquefaction of ground without water being present. This was an earthquake induced landslide that turned into an eruption.

[@Gamerafighter76]

My mom was a teenager living in Oregon at the time; she could see St. Helens from her neighborhood when it blew, and she got plenty of ash from the eruption.

[@TheArcticWonder]

The sheer kinetic energy released from this movement..... I cant imagine. I cant imagine the noise eithef

[@gshockbabe6144]

I want to thank you for this.I was at school in Surrey BC when St Helens blew and our principal told everyone we had to go home for our own safety.When I got outside yhe sky was allready black with ash.

[@The1Hamp]

Chilling. Excellent work!

[@tjawesom3445]

the way the landslide and eruption move here makes it seem like its taken straight out of an analog horror film

[@spanqueluv9er]

^*The, not the ^*moves, not move ^*it’s (contraction of it and is), not its ^*punctuation after film. 🤡🤡🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄

[@1FastP11]

I think you gave a pretty close visual description of what really happened. Thank you

[@Skateforlifelad]

The sheer scale of dirt being moved is impressive

[@spanqueluv9er]

@Skateforlifelad A- you mean ^*soil, not dirt. B- it’s ^*stone, not soil. 🙄🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️💩💩🤡🤡🤡🤷‍♂️

[@GGGMotovlog]

the people who took the picture is for sure a daredevil...

[@juliaelrod2154]

I was 13 living in olympia when mt st helens blew. We heard the eruption, a loud boom and rumble and ran outside to see. It looked like a nuke had gone off. Then the ash started falling like snow until the sky was blacked out. I remember struggling to breathe for days afterwards.

[@katiejon17]

Thank you for putting thieves work in to use AI as a tool so we can get an idea of the magnitude of this. I home school my children and we are learning about mountains and volcanos now... we read about stratovolcanos and went down a little rabbit hole, ending at Mount St. Helens and my boys asking if they could see any photos or video. We are in awe... while also acknowledging how horrific this was for the people around it. Wow.

[@katiejon17]

Not “thieves work”, but “THE work”.

[@SharonCasey-d3w]

STill have my copy of the Life magazine that featured these photos. Absolutely fabulous!

[@cwulfe1]

Didn't know that you had a YT channel 😀 I hope to see you at Mt. St. Helens again this year. Just subbed to your channel, keep up the good work.

[@srosenow98]

I definitely will be there this year! I was up there in January for a little bit. Thank ya for the kind words! Hope our paths cross again!

[@sammencia7945]

Frame is 2 miles tall and 5 miles wide. The northwest face of the mountain is a 6000 foot tall landslide. Having climbed up the south rim you simply cannot comprehend the scale. 60 people were simply never found.

[@Rittlesleo]

We were camping in Colorado out of our brown Pinto, which we called "the bean", on that day. When we woke up to a very hazy sky we had no idea of the cause. It was one of those days you never forget.

[@sammencia7945]

It's just so preposterous. "Whelp the entire mountain just slid in my direction and a 15,000 foot pyroclastic flow is headed my way at 600 mph." Screw it. Gonna enjoy the view.

[@humanrightsadvocate]

Robert Landsburg died while trying to document the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Landsburg was a photographer who found himself near the volcano when it erupted. Instead of fleeing to safety, he chose to stay and continue taking photographs in an attempt to document the event. As the eruption intensified, Landsburg realized he wouldn't survive. In his final moments, he placed his camera inside his backpack to protect the film and lay on top of it, shielding it with his own body. Landsburg's body was later found, and his camera and film were recovered. His courageous actions provided valuable documentation of the eruption and its destructive force.

[@TeresaMom1]

We lived 240 miles away from Mount St. Helens and we still had ash all over everything at our home. I was a teenager at the time and my car was black and covered in ash when i traveled to Portland.

[@Elf_Hour]

better, but this still looks cartoonish. AI still has a long way to go. I think just viewing the photos as they were taken is better than trying to animate the sequence.

[@MyCatJeff]

Agreed. They want AI to replace our own imaginations. Here, think this.

[@DrMatrix1231]

Feels like I'm watching an analog horror.

[@Apersonfromnorthkorea]

That image of ash cloud was creepy

[@fmyoung]

Classical composer Alan Hovhaness's 50th symphony is called "Mount St Helens"

[@BeautifulVolcanoEruptions]

This is AMAZING! are you allowing people to use this under creative commons? I am referring to the animation of the explosion. I plan to do a video for Mound St. Helens for my channel I would love to use the animation you did? ok please let me know and thank you so much!

[@srosenow98]

I won't release it under creative commons as it is based on copyrighted images. You are able to use it with attribution to both Gary Rosenquist and Steve Rosenow/Loowit Imaging, however I should note there is a 1080pHD version now up with the native resolution of his sequence.

[@BeautifulVolcanoEruptions]

Ok I understand...can use it with attribution to both Gary Rosenquist and Steve Rosenow/Loowit Imaging. That is great!! thank you@@srosenow98 where is the 1080p?

[@johnathansilva2823]

One of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen.

[@timothymattson3680]

I was a teenager in Seattle as St.Helens swelled , then blew. We watched an eruption it had later thru binoculars (100 miles away , looking down Puget Sound ) and could see car sized rocks flying out of the ash clouds. Flying in a 727 at night to Ca. , I think in same year, the pilot tipped wing and we could see the red - orange crater glowing in a circle. The lava dome then grew out of the pit and made for great time lapse videos by Usgs. Mt.Rainier looms over Seattle and our Kent valley is built on a 30’ deep mudflow . While digging foundations, there have been stumps of Cedar trees uncovered with bark shredded to the North . Hoping we don’t see a bigger version of St. Helens . Lots of potential energy above more than 58 people.

[@MrNuggetzx]

It's a little strange to know that David died in this recording at some point in the video.

[@LOSESTADOSUNIDOS1885]

you know what is that, that is a phenomenon

[@juandanielgarcia2665]

Perfect video

[@kenanacampora]

RIP Elder Harry Truman at Spirit Lake.

[@rossbooth4635]

I can't imagine how horrible that wall of ash must have been to breath after it got to them a few minutes later.

[@milesdyson5211]

Dam , I was 11 years old when that happened, In those days, we thought our cars would be flying by now

[@wayneclary7811]

When I was 9 years old, I was at the beach watching it when it erupted then the ash was falling, we collected ash, but has been lost after. Very few things I remember as a kid but that was one of them.

[@dylancloud97]

The landslide looks almost unreal

[@Agui007]

I think there have been many natural disasters in this century and the twentieth. But none can ever be so spectacular or as unbelievable as Mt Saint Helens.

[@Subtlemanor]

Can I use this Audio in a sample for a song? Who do I need to talk to about that?

[@o0_VanYsH_0o]

I remember watching clips of Mount St. Helens as a kid, and a CGI Animation of what was remored of the Eruption. Since you were there pretty much, do you think this AI created animation is accurate to the explosion?

[@srosenow98]

Based on interactions with Rosenquist and the USGS, it is pretty much almost exactly how it would have looked.

[@MaraLombardiGlassDesign]

really impressive sequence, thanks. If Vesuvio volcano in southern italy had to explode, it could take after this. Terrifying

[@mophie6941]

I don't even think we could have move that much earth in less than 150 years, working 24/7. Nature is absolutely nuts

[@Willysmb44]

Very well done, but the thing that I don't get is that someone to the west of St Helens caught the whole thing on video and you NEVER get to see it! I saw it only once on what I think was a Weather Channel documentary a few years ago. I was very surprised to finally see it in real time video, but I've never seen it again and have no idea who shots it or why you never see it anymore

[@srosenow98]

Look up "Ed Hinkle Mount St. Helens " here on KZbin and thank me later. :)

[@HHopebringer]

There was a famous set of pictures taken that day of someone on Mt. Adams who had gotten to the summit; the second shot is of them having just fallen on their butt in shock.

[@fujiwara_shino]

当時、日本のNewtonという科学雑誌の創刊号だったかで、このセントヘレナ火山の山体崩壊を特集してた。 まだ10歳だったけど、凄まじい光景の写真に衝撃を受けた覚えがある。

[@kashalethebear]

The AI upscaling makes this completely ridiculous

[@saxx001]

I remember this on the day it happen shown on the news throughout the world, we'll never forget the aftermath and this shows it exceptional and exactly as it happen, raw earth power, we are just ants on a furnace circulating around a bigger one, amazing shots and terrifying to those who were witnesses, RIP those that were lost.

[@craigusselman546]

Gary basically made the Zapruder film of volcanology right here

[@mlez7197]

just visited Rainer Seattle Washington...and looks very colossal...flying back home tomorrow phx az sep 2023

[@ricardojimenez2054]

Guuuaauu! Qué impresionante!

[@ДарьяКалічіна]

Що було дальше после 28 секунд взрива сделай видео на тему!!!!!!!!!

[@rickcimino743]

stunning....thank you

[@JoProDreamer]

I had a dream about 7 months ago about a volcano erupting and I saw the mountain with snow and the lava coming down and people running in hysteria packing the train to get out of there. Everybody was thirsty and screaming while there was ash falling all over. After this dream the Iceland volcano erupted but I couldn't see a train in that area. Mt. St. Helens is the one that is clicking for me. Anybody in the area please stay alert.

[@AK.Navy.Veteran]

I was listening to them up on 20 meters when I was visiting my sister in Vancouver, Washington.

[@bensexton254]

That was terrifying.

[@bransonhelvey6216]

this eruption was slightly bigger than the Mt Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD imagine living in that time period and seeing this with out the technology or know how of today

[@thievingpanda]

I wonder if they could have dropped a bunker buster on the mountain a few days in advance and let the gasses leak out so there was no massive eruption. Sorta like, popping a tiny hole in an air mattress and letting the air escape slowly.

[@srosenow98]

That wouldn't have worked. In fact, it would have likely started the eruption we saw on May 18, at that moment it was tried. The north flank was literally *that* unstable. There was so much in the way of trapped gases inside the rock, let alone superheated ground water, that puncturing it would've been like shooting open a pressure cooker without venting it properly first.

[@RepellentJeff]

Yeah, let’s just _bomb a volcano._ What could possibly go wrong? 🤪

[@akanahketo5823]

Why is the smoke-explosion looking so fake ? As a media designer, I have the impression that this video material could have been manipulated.

[@__dane__]

It’s almost like you didn’t read any of the text at the start of the video

[@prabhakarv4193]

Amazing

[@spinnenbein1]

Wow!

[@wanderingsoul3431]

It's AI?

[@itscloudstrife]

Interesting

[@PiotrBarcz]

Now I ask all of you to think about just how loud that bang was

[@duckmangooo7376]

Soot,ash covered the skies of Salem, Oregon for several days. The streets were of gray, air quality at a all time low.

[@fanatamon]

Awesome.

[@danvango]

the poor guy suffocated

[@Catario2005]

Wasnt mount saint helens the inspiration for dantes peak

[@srosenow98]

@@Catario2005 Yes.

[@Catario2005]

​yay@@srosenow98

[@sarahdykstra2737]

What hf ham spectrum was this radio call on

[@srosenow98]

I am not sure. Those details have never been made accessible, and I am not even sure that those records still exist.

[@srosenow98]

It was also on a restricted network, monitored only by individuals with access to that channel. That was because the ham radio network was coordinated by State officials with Department of Emergency Services. The transmission was recorded by Reade Apgar, who led the ham radio network with which Martin was part of. I will be releasing a 4k release of this in the next couple months, with the entire transmission (7 minutes long), with captions.

[@ourlifeinwyoming4654]

@ 1:51 - resembles Truman's face in the center of the slide.

[@ohmarbellamy9336]

Epic

[@hightops77]

If you where standing on the opposite side of the mountain, I guess nothing would have happened to you .

[@KathyOnOBX]

Curious. Did Mr Rosenquist give his permission for his footage to be used? :)

[@srosenow98]

I am friends with Rosenquist on Facebook, and no issue has been brought up with their use here.

[@srosenow98]

Also, Copyright law allows for usages like this (Called the Fair Use clause) without permission needed.

[@anabeatrizdomingues-uz9cj]

Adoro este filme que retrata o monte santa Helena..

[@FUNNYEVER193]

[The time of] their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away.

[@avox2612]

Am I the only one wondering if Michael Bay was there to see this ?

[@RBFR01]

That's cool

[@austinmiller8695]

The first part is blown completely out of proportion by the AI most of the hill slid down then the top blew not the whole side of the mountain

[@srosenow98]

Not according to the eyewitnesses I have spoke to, most notably Rosenquist himself. Rosenquist's assertion of this slide depiction is almost exactly how he saw it.

[@EperogiLimousine]

I wish that they had a video of the eruption sequence, it’s crazy with all that data, we didn’t get a video of its blast

[@josephastier7421]

Personal video cameras were still rare in 1980, and those that existed weren't the greatest quality. The next time there is a big eruption in the United States (and it is a question of "when"), there will be plenty of hi-def coverage.

[@Arturafonso2016]

It explodes