Every time I tried to fall asleep that night, I saw it and felt it all over again,' said William Lamm, 45, who was sucked Monday into the intake pipe opening in eight feet of water off the Florida Power & Light Co. nuclear plant at Hutchinson Island. It happened in 1989 to William Lamm, who also survived, according to a report from United Press International. On July 12, 2015, Le Cun says he was enjoying a day of boating and scuba diving with his family and friends off the coast of Hutchinson Island. Another diver sucked into pipe in 1989 
 
 Le Cun told CNN affiliate WPTV that he and a friend saw the yellow buoy that day and large submerged silhouettes underneath. "I saw a worker there and he asks, 'How did you get in here?' Best friends since high school, Blake and Christopher tied their boat to the buoy and dove in to check out what was beneath while their families stayed behind on the boat. "There is an eight-foot buoy floating at the point of the intake piping, which has been in place since the plant opened, and states that people should stay 100 feet away. But both Blake and Le Cun claim there was no indication of danger, written or otherwise, until it was too late. Lamm said he saw it but didn't know what it meant. Chris' wife Brittany Le Cun says she thought Blake was joking until she saw the look on his face. He says, 'You're really lucky, we were getting ready to leave for the night in five minutes.' I'm trying to hold onto my mask and my regulator. FPL says the pipe Christopher was in is 16 feet across, about a quarter-mile long, sucks in around 500,000 gallons of water per minute and is used to cool the plant's nuclear reactors. Le Cun said he did see some sort of cap but "that thing is not designed to keep anybody or anything out." Finally, Christopher says he saw the first indication that his long, dark journey was about to end one way or another. 'You're really lucky' 
 
 "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 said. And I said, 'I came through the pipe' and he says...'what?'" Le Cun says he was tattered and bruised but he could only think of one thing, "I said need a phone, I gotta call my wife." We received this statement: 
 
 Nothing is more important safety at our St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plants, which is a reason that we have a protective over the intake piping. There are three intake pipes, which extend for a quarter mile along the floor of the ocean, and the one that the diver swam into is 16 feet in diameter with a protective cap."
– Florida native Christopher Le Cun was out enjoying a day on the boat with his family and best friend on July 12, 2015, when the two decided to anchor to a buoy and scuba dive down to mysterious structures faintly visible below. Le Cun swam up to one that he likened to a building and felt a sudden, strong current. "He got sucked in like a wet noodle—he just, poof, gone," his diving partner, Robert Blake, tells WPTV. Le Cun says his surroundings instantly dissolved into "complete darkness" and he struggled to hold onto his mask and regulator while he spent roughly five minutes being sucked through a 1/4-mile-long, 16-foot-wide intake pipe that pulls in 500,000 gallons of water a minute to cool the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant's reactors. "You get to do a lot of thinking," says Le Cun, who envisioned a turbine chopping him up on the other end. "Do I just pull the regulator out of my mouth and just die?" Meanwhile, Blake surfaced, horrified, and Le Cun's wife called 911. But Le Cun survived without intervention, having been spat out into the plant's cooling pond. Le Cun, who tells CNN there were no warning signs, is now filing a lawsuit against Florida Power and Light, which issued a statement saying the intake pipe has a protective covering and that Le Cun "intentionally" swam in. An FPL rep also tells CNN the buoy above the pipe tells people to stay 100 feet away. This isn't the first time a diver has survived the journey: William Lamm tells UPI his ride through the dark tunnel in 1989 was "devastating." (Check out why these scuba divers are knowingly risking their lives.)