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The surfer who kept his cool in the face of a volcano

dailymail.co.uk — Tell most people a volcano is erupting, and you can best most of them will start running in the opposite direction before you finish the sentence. But not in the case of pro-surfer C. J. Kanuha, who grabbed his board and paddled out to sea to get a closer look as the lava of the world most active volcano, Kilauea, hit the waters.

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  • acidmutant, on 07/09/2008, -13/+4thats one "hot" pic....
  • chaos7, on 07/09/2008, -11/+3so hot
  • Shogi, on 07/09/2008, -1/+75Frankly I'm not sure how he stays afloat with those balls of steel.
    • TheGrog, on 07/09/2008, -4/+9Best comment of the day
    • Tribunis, on 07/09/2008, -2/+6That is pretty damn courageous. Fall, and melt your balls of steel.

    • 801NvizioN, on 07/09/2008, -4/+3I wonder if they'd be able to throw melted metal balls into a cast and form new metal balls?
  • zippe, on 07/09/2008, -13/+2i'm sorry, but why isnt this front page?
    • Rfriaz, on 07/09/2008, -3/+1"Why isn't this front page" is not a meme.
  • wynja, on 07/09/2008, -16/+3Can you say retard? I knew you could.
  • roastedbagel, on 07/09/2008, -8/+7This guy just gave Chuck a run for his money...
  • mywhitenoise, on 07/09/2008, -10/+2What an idiot.
  • banieldowen, on 07/09/2008, -0/+22When something is on Good Morning America before it's on the front page of Digg something is wrong with Digg.
  • leerayIG88, on 07/09/2008, -4/+2joe versus the volcano?
  • VacantThoughts, on 07/09/2008, -3/+31Almost positive I seen this exact same story yesterday on the front page...


    EDIT: I did

    http://digg.com/other_sports/Volcano_surfing_Lava_ ...
    • leetninja, on 07/09/2008, -4/+20Dear MrBabyMan,

      Please steal the stories you submit to Digg from Reddit again as per your usual. Stealing from stories already submitted to Digg is just more proof that you are a steaming bag of horse dung. At least if you steal from Reddit then only ~70% of the people know versus the 100% that know now. Also please go kill yourself. We all hate you.

      Warm Regards,
      Digg
    • leetninja, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3also at least take my advice from the story you submitted and then maybe I could digg instead of bury you ...
      comment from YESTERDAYS ORIGINAL STORY:
      please change the title to "***** moron goes paddling into boiling water from volcano - somehow doesnt die - where's your natural selection now!?"
    • twigboy, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Well, I didnt see it yesterday.

      Thank you MrBabyMan for posting it again.
  • semperfidoordi, on 07/09/2008, -13/+12And this guy gets on the front page for being a moron why??

    Buried for mr.babyman
    • com2, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Because that's how digg works. Kinda like google ranking for popular sites, they go further up the list.
    • aguitarhero, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3People dont get to the front page. The content they submit does.
      • thebza451, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1i beg to differ..
      • Hrodrik, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Because they spam shouts to their friends, who digg and get dugg.
  • andrew97068, on 07/09/2008, -4/+1balls of steel... or fire
  • junkwheel, on 07/09/2008, -6/+10MrBabyMan works for Digg.
  • ShadowFoxxx, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3It's been awhile since I've been to Kilauea, Hawai'i, and I remember looking at the steam raising up from the cooling lava and thinking, "God, that's gotta be hot."

    Guess this guy proved my point.
  • nutniqs, on 07/09/2008, -6/+12ENOUGH of this ***** story, this surfer did nothing more than paddle up to an area with some molten lava trickling into the water then pissed his pants and paddled away. Hardly anything to make a story of, especially the colorful titles that accompany it.
  • MforMike, on 07/09/2008, -4/+2If this guy died I would have said Darwin Strikes Again, but not applicable here
  • erad222, on 07/09/2008, -0/+11I totally thought this article would be about a dude who surfed on lava.
  • UPGR4Y3DD, on 07/09/2008, -6/+2Holy crap, this guy is my second cousin! Good thing he didn't mess up. Although, Hawaii would be nice to visit if I had to go to the funeral...
  • booshack, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3So he burned his feet, i reckon that means he was an unlucky wave from boiling to death. Nice.
  • DNAspark99, on 07/09/2008, -4/+1So, is Mr. Kanuha now the 'big Kahuna' around town?
  • TwistyMcFister, on 07/09/2008, -1/+5He should try surfing down the 405 freeway
  • mileswj, on 07/09/2008, -4/+11Mr BabyMans a joke.
  • KMye, on 07/09/2008, -0/+7"before moving back from water that reached 200C in places"

    Hmm....
  • ThetaDot, on 07/09/2008, -0/+8I'm actually in Hawaii right now on a vacation (the internet fees are ridiculous so this is the first time I've had access in a while). Anyway, I just have to say that the island of Hawaii is the most alien place I've ever seen. There are massive fields of dried lava with absolutely no growth whatsoever. Not much of a 'tropical' look here but it sure is interesting. The sun is brutal, too. My poor whitey Michigan skin needs a lot of sunscreen. Plane tickets to get here are pricey but once you're here you can stay quite a while without spending much. I recommend coming at least once!
    • fant0m, on 07/09/2008, -0/+8"I recommend coming at least once!"

      That's what she said.
    • N0153T4NK, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Dugg for having the same whitey Michigan skin as I.
    • heberg, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0you on Kona side? yep. lots and lots of rock. if you want jungle go to Hilo, if you want beaches go to Maui
    • kahrytan, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2Spend lots of money, please. Seriously, Keep coming back and spending money. We love ya.
  • poopmaster, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4The second pictures looks suspiciously like ketchup.
  • DaviDTC, on 07/09/2008, -1/+4God damn, check the damn dupe detector. The last couple weeks have been extremely bad. Daily their are articles that make front page multiple times.
  • WhoDoneIt, on 07/09/2008, -1/+0Way to risk your life. Did anyone else think whoopie do and for what reason? Glad you immortalized yourself with photos to prove you are a meatball.
  • chrisbasham, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4How does water reach 200C in places when it boils at 100C? Can it exceed 100C without turning into vapor?

    / Confused
    • KMye, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Think they mixed up F and C
    • rbd89, on 07/09/2008, -3/+0The ocean is salt water, therefore it boils at a higher temperature. Same reason why you put salt into the pot of water when you're cooking pasta, it enables the temperature to get above 100C, making the pasta cook faster.
      • KMye, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1You think the salt doubles the boiling point? Does that make sense to you?
      • rbd89, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0Not necessarily double, but it definitely increases it. I was simply offering an explanation as to why temperatures can go above boiling point.
      • KMye, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1It increases it by about 3C
      • Elliuotatar, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2"As any chemist will be happy to calculate for you, adding a tablespoon (20 grams) of table salt to five quarts of boiling water for cooking a pound of pasta will raise the boiling point by seven hundredths of 1ºF. That might shorten the cooking time by half a second or so."

        So, adding salt to pasta is not for makingf it cook faster, but for taste, and 100 degree water is hot enough to burn your feet, and 100C is 212F, so that's where that came from, not the fact that the ocean is salty.
  • Khanvalescent, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2Repost from yesterday: http://digg.com/other_sports/Volcano_surfing_Lava_ ...
  • Asheis, on 07/09/2008, -2/+3And people wonder why MrBabyMan is so disliked here at digg?

    He submits so many duplicates.. :/
  • mattlohkamp, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1"Beating a retreat: Red-footed C J returns to base after his close encounter of the red kind"

    are you ***** kidding me? Why can't anyone write good image captions?
  • digitalfan, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1That's crazy! It said his board melted due to the heat, I wonder how bad his feet were burnt?
  • solidcube, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1This is the stupidest thing ever. Bar nothing.

    His tradeoff was this: The possibility of being slowly boiled alive... against... what? NOTHING!

    The hammer of Darwin is a cast iron biznitch.
  • flynntastic, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1The article doesnt talk about the burns that he suffered... not to mention it has nothing to do with the current eruption, those pictures were in last months Outside Magazine (where it does in deed cover his burns, and the fact that he decided it was OK to do after getting permission from the Fire God).
  • HumanRecalled, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0i would have loved to seen a piece of liquid lava hit him and watch in slow as each pic follows him disinagrate right there on his board !!

    retard !
  • heberg, on 07/09/2008, -1/+0ive been just a couple of feet away from that eruption myself, my girlfriend and i jumped the fence at the viewing area at Kalapana at around 3am and went in. we got really close only to turn around because of the SO2 (sulfur) in the air (smells nasty, and stings your throat). the fresh rock was really cool to look at, it had a silvery shine, almost glassy.
    The Big Island is kickass, worth checking out. but it really is freaking big, so if you're going sightseeing be prepared to burn alot of gas.
    cant compare to Maui though.. no ka oi
  • mihkeltt, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1why are all the surfers named either CJ or TJ?
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