Lance Dyer, a 38-year-old South African man, was arrested by French Police on 9 October 2005 after he walked through the Channel Tunnel between Folkenstone in England and Calais in France in his flip flops.
Trains travelling at a speed of 100mph pass through the tunnel regularly and the speed at which they travel causes a vacuum effect that sucks in everything near them.
It remains a mystery how Dyer managed to survive the highly dangerous 15-hour trip through the tunnel, or how he managed to evade surveillance cameras for much of the trip.
The train company, Eurotunnel, believed that Dyer might have achieved this by taking advantage of a malfunction in the surveillance system.
It is reported that when Dyer emerged from the French end of the tunnel, he was disorientated and rambling.
He was arrested on the spot and handed over to the Kent Police, and charged with public nuisance and endangering life by being in the tunnel.
The French blamed the British for the incident since Dyer entered the tunnel undetected on their watch.
Information sourced from: South African History Online.
