Drunk Welshman thought to be first person to survive swimming across Hoover Dam

[lonefirewarrior]

Big deal. I swim across the Hoover Dam all the time.

[Faunze]

[QUOTE=junker|154;52677047]I really fucking doubt that he partied for 37 hours and then went for this swim.[/QUOTE]

I feel it's far more plausible, you would have to be incredibly drunk to do such a stupid thing.

[Mauzer]

[QUOTE=arleitiss;52676864]The thought of being in water and pulled into dark-ass turbine under water is fucking terrifying.[/QUOTE]Yeah no fuck that.

I have recurring nightmare of being pulled down a tube and into a turbine.

I have a bad fear of being in a tunnel and hearing water with the level rising, shit gives me shivers.

[Jmir 54]

[QUOTE=Elspin;52674251]This really sticks out to me. I mean, I know some people just can't be saved from their own idiocy, but almost 30 people dying a year in the same spot is pretty insane.[/QUOTE]

Imagine being a worker at the damn

"Someone got sucked up in the turbines again" would be something you get to hear at least once a month

[Provost]

[QUOTE=arleitiss;52676896]I heard that's also a biggest problem/fear for underwater welders? Where they can weld/cut something that has no water inside it - so when it opens up the water sucks them in and they get trapped, that is also terrifying.

But still, Turbine Suck in scarier :v:[/QUOTE]

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0[/media]

Just gonna leave this here.

[Slim Charles]

-snip fuckin late-

[Rantis]

[QUOTE=Str4fe;52676910]Kinda like that video of the crab getting sucked into a 0.3mm crack in a pipe. Nasty.

[editline]13th September 2017[/editline]

That is, if you're deep enough for such pressure difference[/QUOTE]

My first roommate was going for welding, underwater welding is its own discipline. They get paid a shitton because of the inherent occupational hazards. They usually serivice bridges dams and oil rigs.