When York was dropped into the river, he quickly drifted to the bottom and panicked. The leg that was chained to the cinder blocks was the broken one, so he was unable to squirm without immense pain. Gritting his teeth (watching the bubbles that escape though his teeth go up), clamping his eyes shut, and feeling his lungs throbbing, he bent back his tied hands as far as they could go, reached down to his broken leg, and snapped his ankle and foot, allowing him to loosen out of the tie and be picked up by the rapids. Despite not being able to swim, the rapids knocked a nearly unconscious York onto fisherman's perch. He was found by a night fisherman before passing out from pain and shock a few moments later.