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Scuba Diver Survives Being Sucked Into Nuclear Plant (nydailynews.com)
mdsolar writes: A man scuba diving in Florida somehow survived being sucked into a nuclear power plant in a terrifying log flume ride. Christopher Le Cun was boating off the coast of Hutchinson Island when he and his friend went under to check out three large shadows beneath the waves that looked like buildings. After diving down, he felt a current that quickly pulled him toward one of three intake pipes, got sucked in and was immersed in darkness for five minutes in the water being taken to cool the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant. Le Cun told WPTV that he thought he was going to be chopped into tiny bits when he hit a turbine at the end of the 16-foot-wide, quarter-mile tube. However, the turbine never came, and the pipe eventually spat him out into a reservoir at the plant holding water used to cool the nuclear reactor. After finding a passing worker, Le Cun was able to call wife Brittany, who thought her husband was dead after seeing the shocked face of his diving partner.
It's not like you just come across pipes like this in open water, but no SCUBA diver worth their salt would get near an unknown pipe like that.
Differential pressure makes it terrifyingly easy to get pulled into something you can't get out of. This guy is incredibly lucky.
Title says it all. Everyone's favourite anti-nuke troll is running out of things to troll about.
Are you under the impression that Nuclear power plants have great security?
More like rent-a-cop security from the guy off the night job at the mall.
The only thing of any real value there is the uranium in the tanks and it isn't something that could be moved by anyone without really special equipment.
I suppose you could drive a truck in with explosives and blow it up, but you could do that at the Mall of America as well and frankly scare far more people.
Nuke plants go down once in a while without such catastrophic consequences. Indian Point was just in the news for exactly this.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Any diver worth his salt knows that there is no such thing as a random buoy in the ocean. And you always check up to date charts. They are there for a reason, its your job to know the bloody reason.
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
Shit like this is marked on navigational charts, and there is a warning buoy. It isn't like this is some new feature either so if you happened not to have updated charts it wouldn't be there, the plant is decades old, your charts have it. Don't have charts? That's on you. Ocean navigation is serious business.
That aside, if you see something and you don't know what it is in the water, or see a buoy and don't know what it signifies, the right answer is to FIND OUT, not to go and look. Get on the radio and see what's up. In this case, even that wouldn't be necessary: This is right off the US coast, well within cellular range. He could have just pulled up maps on his smartphone.
Hopefully his lawsuit gets dismissed out of hand.
Heh. I like how this guy telling him to be risk taker drew the line at logging in to make his remark.
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The reservoir where the man surfaced does not appear to be within the secure area of the facility. One could jump into the water from a low bridge crossing on S Ocean Dr.
Beware of the Leopard.
You could just drive along Ocean Drive and get out of your car. You would be closer to the plant than where this guy popped up. He is not inside the plant at this stage.
Right, so you want to ignore something written in April, 2015 by multiple people and a huge organisation as being too out of date in exchange for a paper written by one person with a particular focus on moving to solar and wind?