Man Canoes Over Lava! ....?

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Well, apparently.

My housemate seems to think that a man once canoed over lava in a special titanium canoe. As ridiculous as it sounds, apparently it worked for some time but the man eventually pegged it, unsurprisingly!

However, she can't seem to find any trace of it on the internet or anywhere else. I'm claiming it was a dream... ;)

So, I kindly said I would ask the biggest god like power muscle of knowledge that is the mighty OCUK!

So, any truth in this? Or too much cheese before bed?
 
doesn't sound very plausible, even if the canoe survived which it would do for a while. The canoe would still be 100's of degrees and burn her legs. Unles she also had a special suit on.
 
Wouldn't it just get extremely hot if it was made from any sort of conductive material? I doubt this is true! Someone might no different though!
 
ever see that video where the guy drops a stick over the top of this little channel of lava (so its resting on each side about 5 feet up from the lava) and it bursts into flames instantly?


pretty much what would happen to you.

the canoe would be glowing red in a few seconds.
 
There was a French couple in the 80's or 90's I believe, the Krafts (spelling may be off) Maurice and Katia Kraft, they travelled the world, helped out in areas affected by Volcanic eruptions, did studies of their own, and generally photographed and documented Volcanoes, they were nuts about them.

They died on the slopes of Mt Unzen iirc in Japan when on top of a ridge overlooking a valley where countless dozens of pyroclastic flows had gone down, when suddenly one flow simply kept on going, instead of diverting into the valley, it went up and over the ridge, killing them and several scientists/reporters? instantly.

But the point is Maurice Kraft had in his past always wanted to have been able to canoe down a lava flow, one with a very low SiO2 content (more Silica more viscous = more sticky so to speak)
 
Tefal said:
massively insulated suit for your self too.
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I don't think you would need that much, as long as you weren't exposing yourself to the full blast of the radiant heat and the flow is on the surface. A relective tinfoil hat may actually come in useful :p.

Plus there's some volcanoes that are near continuously spewing molten liquid lava out, so if particularly brave soul decided to give it a go they wouldn't have that much diffuculty in finding somewhere.

Not sure how you would get out again mind though.
 
VaderDSL said:
They died on the slopes of Mt Unzen iirc in Japan when on top of a ridge overlooking a valley where countless dozens of pyroclastic flows had gone down, when suddenly one flow simply kept on going, instead of diverting into the valley, it went up and over the ridge, killing them and several scientists/reporters? instantly.
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Pyroclastic flows are some scary things, massive clouds of superheated gas travelling at up to 100mph, burning everything in their path and carrying red hot lava bombs along with them.
 
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Meh
 
I don't see how it would be possible :confused: Lava is quite viscous? And there is loads of spray from the lava (like the picture above) which would burn any exposed skin instantly so badly that you'd probably die from it.
 
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