Can a Hot Spring Kill You

Precautions. Hot springs in volcanic areas are often at or near the boiling point. People have been seriously scalded and even killed by accidentally or intentionally entering these springs.

Can hot springs burn you?

Water in hot springs can cause severe or fatal burns, and scalding water underlies most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs.

Can you survive falling into a hot spring?

With such high acidity levels and at such high temperatures, even your skeleton doesn’t stand a chance. Within just a few hours, an entire human body in one of these hot springs will have completely dissolved into nothing.