Five visitors to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming escaped serious injury after their SUV plunged into a volcanic pond Thursday, the National Park Service said in a press release. The truck was traveling on a park road between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction when for whatever reason the driver lost control and rolled into the Semi-Centennial Geyser, an inactive thermal fountain that hasn’t erupted since the 1990s, but is now a pond at least nine feet deep.
All five occupants were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after getting drenched in acidic water as hot as 105° Fahrenheit. The SUV itself was beyond totaled and it took two hours for divers to hitch it up to be towed out by a wrecker. Worse things have happened at Yellowstone.