Two people die in Moscow at Insta blogger's birthday after jumping into dry ice pool
Two others are in intensive care.
Instagram blogger Ekaterina Didenko was celebrating her 29th birthday in Moscow, which ended in tragedy. Guests jumped into a pool with dry ice, as a result of which two people died and two others ended up in intensive care. This is reported by Strana.
A large group of 18 people was celebrating Ekaterina's birthday at the Devyatyy Val bathhouse complex in southern Moscow. The girl's husband, Valentin, bought artificial ice to surprise the birthday girl. The plan was that the dry ice in the pool water would turn into a spectacular steam. However, when the guests jumped into the pool and the ice was poured in, they began to turn blue and lose consciousness.
Two people died, and several others received burns and poisoning. Ekaterina, her husband, as well as 29-year-old Andrey Goyko and 31-year-old Sergey Salnikov were also injured. Valentin, the blogger's husband, is in intensive care. The birthday girl said she does not know who exactly died.
Physical chemist Vadim Kozhanov explained specifically for TK Media what exactly happened in the pool because of the dry ice and why it should not be done:
"Dry ice is not harmful or toxic in itself, because its composition is simply carbon dioxide, which is found in every soda and in the air in general. Dry ice is simply frozen carbon dioxide. It has a peculiarity: it does not melt like ordinary ice, but goes directly from solid to gaseous state, bypassing the liquid state (it sublimates). The temperature of this process is minus 79 degrees Celsius. In general, most likely this is what happened: they threw the ice into the pool, it had not yet had time to sublimate quickly, and their bodies came into contact with these pieces at a temperature of -79 degrees. And there you have frostbite in all areas of contact. Frostbite + alcohol = death."
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