Man Drowns While Recreating Titanic Pose With His Girlfriend
Category: Bizarre & Strange News
A man has drowned while recreating the ‘king of the world’ pose
from the Titanic with his girlfriend on a Turkish pier after the couple
slipped and plunged into the sea.
Furkan Ciftci and his girlfriend
Mine Dinar, both 23, had stood at the edge of the Izmit Marina Pier in the
north-western Turkish province of Kocaeli to recreate Leonardo DiCaprio and
Kate Winslet’s famous flying pose in the 1997 film.
But the couple, who had been drinking alcohol before coming up with the idea
of recreating the ‘King of the World’ pose from the Oscar-winning film, fell
into the ocean at around 9.15pm on Sunday.
Local fishermen saw the
couple fall off the pier and rushed to help them.
Ms Dinar managed to grab onto the end of one of the fishermen’s fishing road
and was eventually pulled to safety.
But her boyfriend Mr Ciftci
disappeared under the waves and the emergency services were called to the
scene.
Ms Dinar was taken to hospital by ambulance while a search operation to find
Mr Ciftci was launched, involving firefighters and a diving team.
Mr Ciftci’s lifeless body was pulled out of the water nearly two hours later.
Furkan’s body will undergo an autopsy before his funeral takes place in his hometown Duzce.
The investigation into the incident continues.
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