There’s no amount of jokery that could possibly lighten this story.
Guarantee you he’s had at LEAST three stupid kids to succeed him. :rolleyes:
That would be Redneck SNUBA in fact… 
Now I´m wondering why the guy went down a second time after retriving the keys, he liked it down there?
Actually, he didn’t get his keys the first time, hence the 2nd trip down.
It takes a very special person to attempt something like this.
He may have been without oxygen for several minutes, but oddly enough, there was no brain damage!
You shouldn´t have added that “damage” at the end… 
Don’t you mean no more brain damage?
Exactly! Gotta have something to damage first!
I don’t really see what’s so stupid about this. It’s a creative solution to a problem. He should have had a friend standing by to rescue sooner, but losing your keys is a pain in the ass.
You’re scaring me. Stop it.
“Creative solutions” typically don’t involve breathing through a garden hose while submerged underwater.
The theory is perfectly sound, I just don’t see the big deal.
The anchor part of it is kind of wrong, but the garden hose idea is not a bad one. It was I would think the anchor that ultimately got him in trouble, not losing the hose.
No, it isn’t. A garden hose has no CO[sub]2[/sub] extraction system. Your lungs are not strong enough to displace an entire hose-length worth of air. This is why snorkels are short. After a few breaths into a garden hose, you’re just sucking on your own death.
You already have a perfectly good CO2 extraction system already, that’s what noses are for.
No, that’s not it. I speak from experience – I tried this as a kid in ou wimming pool. I took a hose (carefully emptied of all water), stuck it in my mouth, and submerged. After you go down more than a foot the water pressure is too grat for your diaphragm to work against it, so you can’t draw in air. Forget about the carbon dioxide – you can’t such in enough of aything to breathe. The reason SCUBA systems work s that they feed pressurized air into your lungs – the air pressure, not your body, does he work of getting it into your lungs.
No they don’t. You have to pull the air into your lungs. I was watching Deep Sea Detectives tonight and while he was talking it was quite obvious he had to pull his breath in.
So you think that a misunderstanding of physics merits a death sentence? No offense, but the thread title and the OP make you sound like a real dick.
It’s not immediately obvious that the garden hose idea won’t work. After all, everyone has heard of snorkels. The guy’s only real mistake was in going for depth instead of testing the idea first.
People, people, don’t you think it’s funny how the Missouri Water Patrol was working inside Kansas? One minute on Yahoo maps will show you that this guy is from western Missouri.
Someone with the name of Cardinal has to step up with the embarassing SD on this?
If he’d been holding the anchor in his hand, instead of having it tied to him, he would have been all right. It wouldn’t have taken too much thought to have realized this. Actually, he probably realized it shortly after the hose slipped out of his mouth.
Let’s get this straight. SCUBA systems supply air to your lungs on demand at ambient pressure. Whatever amibent pressure is, that is the pressure that the SCUBA system supplies air at. This means that your lungs are happy, they are not straining to pull air in against water pressure nor do have to worry about the air coming in under excess pressure and rupturing your lungs.
Got it? 'k Now feel free to continue the discussion on if this guy is an idiot.