In a bizarre accident, two identical vans simultaneously plunged over a dockside and into thirty feet of water. They both landed upright. Each van had a driver who was fit, uninjured by the fall, and conscious. one drowned hut the other easily escaped. Why?
Clues:
Q: Can we consider the vans, their situations, and the fitness and skills of the drivers to be identical at the time of this accident?
A: Yes.
Q: Was one able to open a door and escape and the other not?
A: Yes.
Q: Did one of them do something different (and smarter) than the other?
A: Yes.
Q: If they had been driving cars rather than vans would the outcome have been different?
A: Yes. They would probably both have drowned.

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THE SOLUTION

One man tried to open the front door of his van but could not because of the water pressure. The other man climbed into the back of the van, easily opened the sliding door, and thereby escaped.