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Former UFC star BJ Penn reveals terrifying near-death ordeal of being stuck in a swimming pool wave tank

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UFC HALL-OF-FAMER BJ Penn has revealed harrowing details of a near-death experience at a waterpark.

The former two-division UFC champion revealed to his 324,000 Instagram followers that he was sucked into the engine room of a wave pool last year.

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UFC legend BJ Penn has revealed he was stuck in a wave machine’s engine room last year[/caption]
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Penn, 42, was swallowed into a dark room by a dud wave and was forced to hold his breath numerous times as it filled up with water before pumping it back out.

The Prodigy was initially overcome with fear but managed to calm himself down to ensure he didn’t end up drowning.

He wrote on Instagram: “Last year when I got sucked into a wave pool engine room and thought I was going to die.

“I kept thinking, ‘Don’t die for your kids.’ I was surfing for a about an hour and the line started getting longer to catch the wave.

“I was sitting next to the owner of the wave pool by the ‘wall’ where the waves come from.

“The first wave it shoots out is a dud to get everyone ready for the next wave.

“The dud wave came back and because I was so close to the wall the wave swallowed me and pushed me and my surfboard underneath a huge cement wall.

“I remember feeling like I was getting sucked in a pipe and at that moment I got scared.

”It ended up pushing me into a big dark cement room that fills up with water to push the next wave for the wave pool.

“FINAL DESTINATION”

“It felt like I was in the movie SAW or Final destination.

“The room would fill up with water to the top and I would hold my breath and then it would push the water out to make the wave and it was really rough inside there.”

Remarkably, the MMA legend escaped the ordeal with just a few facial fractures and a sinus infection.

He continued: “Everything I bumped up against in the room that hurt me got infected.

“I got a bad sinus infection and a couple facial fractures from getting knocked around the cement walls and from the fractures the dirty water got in my face and infected my whole sinus.

“I was on antibiotics for three weeks for my face.

I kept thinking, ‘Don’t die for your kids.’

BJ Penn

“While I was in the wave pool engine room I knew that one of my friends outside from big island is a legendary surfer and I knew he would come in there to rescue me so I stayed calm.

”A lot of other people might have panicked and maybe gave up but I just stayed strong for my kids.

“Anyway to make a long story short I survived that mother f**ker !!

“The name of the people and water park have been left out. I not the kine guy shows up to your house to play and gets hurt and tries to sue you so all love to everyone who helped me get there and helped me survive.

“Maybe I was the first guy in history to get sucked into a wave pool engine room while it is in operation but no matter what happens in life and no matter how scary it is if I can offer you any advice I would just say to ‘stay calm.’

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“If I didn’t fight tough c***s my whole life I might have panicked, but it was just another day in the office.”

Penn hasn’t fought since his UFC 237 loss to Clay Guida in Brazil, his seventh defeat in a row.

The former lightweight and welterweight champion was released from the promotion in September 2019 after video footage of him getting knocked out by a man in the street emerged on social media.

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