Florida Friday: Scuba Diver Sucked Into Nuke Plant Pipe (Video)
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 03/11/2016 08:54 AM
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So what do you worry about first? Drowning or radiation poisoning?
Christopher Le Cun was enjoying a family outing on the water off the coast of the Hutchingson Island near St Lucie when he noticed some bright yellow buoys and something enticing in the water - little did he know it would totally suck!
According to WFLA, Le Cun says, "I swam right up to this big structure and it looks like a building under water. I felt a little bit of current… All of a sudden it got a little quicker I said this ain’t right, this ain’t right…" That water structure turns out to be a 16 foot wide, quarter mile long pipe that sucks in about 500,000 gallons of water to cool the nuclear reactors, according to FPL.
Blake watched his friend get sucked in "like a wet noodle." Blake surfaced in a panic. Le Cun’s wife Britanny was crying and praying in the boat when her husband beneath was trying hard to hang on.
Le Cun was deposited out the other side in the plant's reservoir and was not injured - a lawsuit to come.
Christopher Le Cun was enjoying a family outing on the water off the coast of the Hutchingson Island near St Lucie when he noticed some bright yellow buoys and something enticing in the water - little did he know it would totally suck!
According to WFLA, Le Cun says, "I swam right up to this big structure and it looks like a building under water. I felt a little bit of current… All of a sudden it got a little quicker I said this ain’t right, this ain’t right…" That water structure turns out to be a 16 foot wide, quarter mile long pipe that sucks in about 500,000 gallons of water to cool the nuclear reactors, according to FPL.
Blake watched his friend get sucked in "like a wet noodle." Blake surfaced in a panic. Le Cun’s wife Britanny was crying and praying in the boat when her husband beneath was trying hard to hang on.
Le Cun was deposited out the other side in the plant's reservoir and was not injured - a lawsuit to come.
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