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(Message started by: maryl on Jul 10^th, 2003, 2:04pm)

Title: Not Wet
Post by maryl on Jul 10^th, 2003, 2:04pm

A man's body is found 200
feet below sea level, but the
cause of his death is not
drowning. How and where
did this man die?

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by WombatDeath on Jul 10^th, 2003, 3:41pm

He [hide]fell down a mine shaft[/hide]?

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Chewdogscp on Jul 10^th, 2003, 4:03pm

Sea level is a measurement of the mean of the highest high tide and he lowest low tide. Just because [hide] a man was found 200 feet below sea level doesnt neccesarily mean he was underwater... (if u had said "under the surface of the sea" then that would be a diferent story) Perhaps a fall would account for the death, as wombat suggested...[/hide]
As for were and how he died, i have no clue. ???

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Icarus on Jul 10^th, 2003, 5:41pm

I'm guessing [hide]dehydration[/hide] myself. That 200 ft below sea level sounds about right for [hide] the bottom of Death Valley. [/hide] Of course he could have been [hide] in the Dead sea region[/hide], in which case he could be [hide] a terrorism or occupation victim. [/hide]

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by BNC on Jul 11^th, 2003, 1:39am

Based on the wording of the question (and not the title), he could also had been murdered, and then thrown to the sea with "concrete boots"

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by maryl on Jul 11^th, 2003, 10:29am

on 07/10/03 at 17:41:57, Icarus wrote:

Yes you're right -[hide]except I had heat stroke as the cause of death[/hide]

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Ajax on May 31^st, 2005, 6:10am

Sorry to bring back such an old thread, but there is the alternative solution of a man dying from radiation inside a nuclear submarine which had a leak.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Roy on Oct 4^th, 2006, 6:12pm

I would've guessed the hypothermia answer.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by cchris on Oct 5^th, 2006, 5:53am

Hypothermia would be because of usually cold temperatures, most of the time, and as far as I know at 200 feet below sea level, it wouldn't be too cold. In fact, that's usually at a point at least a few hundred feet higher.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by TomC588 on Oct 5^th, 2006, 5:49pm

It would be cold if you were below the sea.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Roy on Oct 5^th, 2006, 11:09pm

or he was good at holding his breath but the water pressure killed him.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Grimbal on Oct 6^th, 2006, 2:52am

Maybe a sailor who died of some contagious disease. He was thrown overboard.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by Roy on Oct 6^th, 2006, 4:53am

I thought i had taken care of all leads to that incident.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by cchris on Oct 6^th, 2006, 9:41am

on 10/05/06 at 17:49:18, TomC588 wrote:

It would be cold if you were below the sea.

But you'd have to be wet for that.

Title: Re: Not Wet
Post by alien on Oct 7^th, 2006, 9:42am

He died in McDonald's. Or he jumped out of a plane.