The 1989 Isla Nublar Incident was an incident that took place on the island Isla Nublar in Jurassic Park. It resulted in the deaths of multiple people.
Prelude[]
Dinosaurs had been escaping from the park and breeding for a while. Procompsognathus had already been known to be established on the mainland before the incident. Velociraptors had also escaped and started breeding, with an entire colony living undetected. Multiple large dinosaurs had also bred, but the large carnivore population ate most of their eggs.
Incident[]
Paleontologist Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler met with an EPA official to discuss strange attacks in South America, but were abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond, the founder of InGen, for a weekend visit to a biological preserve he has established on the remote island of Isla Nublar.
The preserve was a cover for the construction of Jurassic Park, a theme park showcasing living dinosaurs recreated using ancient DNA found in the blood inside insects that were fossilized and preserved in amber. Gaps in the genetic code were filled in with reptilian, avian, or amphibian DNA. To control breeding, all of the park's specimens are raised as females with a genetic flaw that makes them lysine deficient and unable to survive outside captivity.
The recent attacks have made Hammond's investors skittish. Hammond requested that Grant and Sattler tour the park and endorse it ahead of the park's opening. They were joined by mathematician and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and a lawyer representing the investors, Donald Gennaro, both of whom are pessimistic about the park. Malcolm, consulted before the park's creation, was emphatic that it will collapse. Hammond also invited his grandchildren, Tim and Alexis 'Lex' Murphy, to join the tour. The park staff present comprised senior engineer John Arnold, biotechnologist Henry Wu, game warden Robert Muldoon, PR director Ed Regis, chief programmer Dennis Nedry, veterinarian Harding, and several laborers.
While touring the park, Grant found a Velociraptor eggshell, proving Malcolm's assertion that the dinosaurs are breeding against the geneticists' design. Grant deduced that using frog DNA to fill gaps in the dinosaurs' genetic code resulted in an environment that was conducive to dichogamy, causing some of the female dinosaurs to become males and establish a breeding population.
Nedry, angered by Hammond refusing to pay him for months of overwork, commits corporate espionage for Lewis Dodgson, an employee of InGen's rival, Biosyn. Activating a backdoor he wrote into the park's software, he disabled the security systems and stole frozen embryos for the park's fifteen dinosaur species. Attempting to rendezvous with Dodgson's agent, he became lost due to a tropical storm. Nedry's sabotage disabled the electric fences around the park's enclosures, allowing most of the dinosaurs to escape. He was killed by a Dilophosaurus, and a Tyrannosaurus rex attacked the tour group. Grant rescued Tim and Lex, but Malcolm was severely injured and left behind while Regis was killed and eaten. Muldoon and Gennaro later retrieve Malcolm and leave him in Harding's care.
Arnold tried to reboot the control room's systems to undo Nedry's meddling while repair crews begin patching up the park. However, the staff did not realize that the main generators have already short-circuited, leaving only the overtaxed auxiliary generator operational. It quickly breaks down, disabling the entire island's power. The park's dangerous and untamed Velociraptors escape their enclosure and kill Arnold and Wu. Grant and the children made their way back to the island's control complex by rafting down a river on an inflatable boat, narrowly escaping multiple dinosaur attacks. Grant and Tim restarted the main generators and regain control of the park's systems. Warned by Grant, Gennaro contacted the island's departing supply ship; finding two raptors aboard, the crew killed them.
Hammond was walking outdoors while contemplating InGen's future, and was killed by a pack of Procompsognathus after he fell down a hill and broke his ankle. Grant, Sattler, Muldoon, and Gennaro found the wild raptor nests and compared hatched eggs with the island's revised population tally; realizing that the dinosaurs will likely escape from the island, which Malcolm had predicted. Gennaro had Muldoon use heavy munitions to wipe out the captive raptors. Everyone is evacuated by the Costa Rican Air Force, which declares the dinosaurs hazardous and razes the island with napalm. The survivors were then detained in a Costa Rican hotel.
The general public did not know about the incident, but rumors were circulated about it years afterward.
People Involved[]
Park Employees[]
- John Hammond (Founder)
- Dr. Henry Wu (Chief Geneticist)
- Four others geneticists
- Robert Muldoon (Game Warden and Animal Supervisor)
- Jimmy (Lobby Guard)
- Jurassic Park Security Guard (Laboratory Guard)
- Ed Regis (P.R. Manager)
- John Arnold (Chief Engineer)
- Dennis Nedry (Computer Programmer)
- Unknown (Ear found on floor)
- Gerry Harding (Chief Vet)
- Kathy (Vet)
- Ramón (Officer)
- Carlos (Officer)
- Owens (Contractor)
- Two other contractors
- Alain Richard (Head Chef)
- Maria (Chef/Cook)
- Frederick D. Farrell (Ship Captain)
Endorsement Team[]
- Alan Grant
- Ellie Sattler
- Ian Malcolm
- Donald Gennaro
- Lex Murphy (personal guest of Hammond)
- Tim Murphy (personal guest of Hammond)