The Lake Nyos event was neither a natural disaster nor a spiritual attack. The Lake Nyos disaster was the result of collaborative Nuclear testing between South Africa and Israel, working with the Permission of Cameroonian President, Paul Biya.
The disaster occured on 21st August. On Thursday Night, 9pm a powerful explosion occured in the Lake Nyos. About 3 minutes later, a violent wind started blowing towards the Villages of Fang, Chai, Lower Nyos and Subum.
The gas was hot and suffocated all the living things . All those affected had burns on their bodies.
On Saturday, at 6pm, a medical team arrived in a military plane headed by the director of health Professor Kaptue. Others were doctor Simo Moyo and Dr Muna.
Sunday August 24 1986, President Paul Biya arrived unannounced at the nearby village of Bamenda to personally appraise the situation and pay condolences.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Perez also arrived on the same Sunday 24th of August 1986 to also appraise the situation and offer his assistance during a state visit. Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrives with 17 scientists fully equipped with full body protective gear, gas masks and observation equipment when in fact, by this time, the news hadn't been broken to the international community. It was officially broken in Cameroon on Saturday 23rd and to the rest of the world on Sunday 24th (Remember, this was not the time of internet, gprs, email, video calls and i-reports).
So what really happened?
A dutch Reverend, Father Tenhorn said it was a neutron bomb. He was the first to have an aerial view of the incident from a helicopter
The Congolese President at the time, Dennis Sassou Nguesso said it was a thermonuclear device which had earlier been advertised to him for testing in his country by the Israelis.
Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)
Symptoms: Nervousness, confusion, severe nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhea, burning sensation of the skin causing scratching, loss of consciousness, convulsion, coma and death.
The symptoms are quite similar to CO2 poisoning, but victims of CO2 poisoning do not have skin burns and scratch their skin wildly. CO2 in fact, would have even cooled their skins. That's why it is concentrated commercially as dry ice and it is also used in fire extinguishing. The lamps that were off was due to the windspeed of the violent fallout.
Vast amounts of CO2 suddenly escaping rapidly into the atmosphere would not cause a astoundingly loud explosion that would be heard over miles.
CO2 escaping rapidly into the atmosphere will not cause a fallout or violent rush of wind after the explosion.
The fallout which descended on the habitations around Nyos had a strange pungent smell. CO2 is actually odourless.
South Africa had nuclear weapons and Israel still has nuclear weapons. Has anybody ever wondered where they tested these weapons? Lest I forget, besides this Lake Nyos explosion, there was also the Lake Monoun explosion that yielded about the same result.
I'm a Nigerian living in Nigeria which is just west of Cameroon. I was about 17 when I was first taught about the Lake Nyos phenomenon. I'd always been top in my chemistry classes throughout high school but the theories being touted about the Lake Nyos incidence made me abandon chemistry for a career in Agriculture because the science of CO2 in Lake Nyos didn't add up.
The disaster occured on 21st August. On Thursday Night, 9pm a powerful explosion occured in the Lake Nyos. About 3 minutes later, a violent wind started blowing towards the Villages of Fang, Chai, Lower Nyos and Subum.
The gas was hot and suffocated all the living things . All those affected had burns on their bodies.
On Saturday, at 6pm, a medical team arrived in a military plane headed by the director of health Professor Kaptue. Others were doctor Simo Moyo and Dr Muna.
Sunday August 24 1986, President Paul Biya arrived unannounced at the nearby village of Bamenda to personally appraise the situation and pay condolences.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Perez also arrived on the same Sunday 24th of August 1986 to also appraise the situation and offer his assistance during a state visit. Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrives with 17 scientists fully equipped with full body protective gear, gas masks and observation equipment when in fact, by this time, the news hadn't been broken to the international community. It was officially broken in Cameroon on Saturday 23rd and to the rest of the world on Sunday 24th (Remember, this was not the time of internet, gprs, email, video calls and i-reports).
So what really happened?
A dutch Reverend, Father Tenhorn said it was a neutron bomb. He was the first to have an aerial view of the incident from a helicopter
The Congolese President at the time, Dennis Sassou Nguesso said it was a thermonuclear device which had earlier been advertised to him for testing in his country by the Israelis.
Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)
Symptoms:
Nervousness, confusion, severe nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhea, burning sensation of the skin causing scratching, loss of consciousness, convulsion, coma and death.
The symptoms are quite similar to CO2 poisoning, but victims of CO2 poisoning do not have skin burns and scratch their skin wildly. CO2 in fact, would have even cooled their skins. That's why it is concentrated commercially as dry ice and it is also used in fire extinguishing. The lamps that were off was due to the windspeed of the violent fallout.
Vast amounts of CO2 suddenly escaping rapidly into the atmosphere would not cause a astoundingly loud explosion that would be heard over miles.
CO2 escaping rapidly into the atmosphere will not cause a fallout or violent rush of wind after the explosion.
The fallout which descended on the habitations around Nyos had a strange pungent smell. CO2 is actually odourless.
South Africa had nuclear weapons and Israel still has nuclear weapons. Has anybody ever wondered where they tested these weapons? Lest I forget, besides this Lake Nyos explosion, there was also the Lake Monoun explosion that yielded about the same result.
I'm a Nigerian living in Nigeria which is just west of Cameroon. I was about 17 when I was first taught about the Lake Nyos phenomenon. I'd always been top in my chemistry classes throughout high school but the theories being touted about the Lake Nyos incidence made me abandon chemistry for a career in Agriculture because the science of CO2 in Lake Nyos didn't add up.