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Well, that sucked.

A Florida man is counting his blessings after being sucked into a nuclear plant while scuba diving off of the coast. Christopher Le Cun had no idea he was diving near an intake pipe for the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, which pulls in 500,000 gallons of water every minute. Unfortunately, the diver went in with the water as well.

Le Cun recalls being swished around in the darkness for five minutes, holding onto his mask with the force of the water so strong. He thought about his wife and family as the flow transported him through the quarter-mile-long pipe.

"Then I saw a tiny light in the distance, almost like somebody lit a match, then all the sudden it was on me," Le Cun told CNN. "It spit me out into the sunlight into this canal and there were tons of fish around. Goliath groupers, tarpons, a bunch of fish that didn't make it."

Surprisingly, the end of his unexpected drift dive brought Le Cun into the power plant’s pond where he was able to flag down an employee. Read more about this incredible story, here.