Prolific Cameroonian filmmakers Akim Macauley, Rene Etta, Musing Derick T-Lnaz, Kang Quintus, Shey Brenda Eling, Minac, Muna Foundation and many more took up the project to make Lake Nyos 1986 disaster a film to watch by summer 2015. Bravo to these great thinkers.
Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about 315 km (196 mi) northwest of Yaoundé. Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon line of volcanic activity. A volcanic dam impounds the lake waters.
On August 21, 1986, possibly as the result of a landslide, Lake Nyos suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO2, which suffocated 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby towns and villages. Though not completely unprecedented, it was the first known large-scale asphyxiation caused by a natural event. To prevent a recurrence, a degassing tube that siphons water from the bottom layers of water to the top allowing the carbon dioxide to leak in safe quantities was installed in 2001, and two additional tubes were installed in 2011.
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| Lake Nyos located about 315 km (196 mi) northwest of Yaoundé |
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