Todd Pattist wrote:

Story 2: Glider flying the ridge is carrying water ballast,
gets low and lands in the trees, flipping inverted. The
uninjured pilot is hanging upside down with his head crammed
into the inverted bubble canopy. Releasing the straps will
likely drop him head first 50 feet to the forest floor. The
wrecked wings begin to drain water into the canopy, turning
it into a fishbowl from which the pilot cannot pull his
head. The canopy is prevented from opening by branches too
weak to hold him, but too strong to force the canopy open.
The pilot has the dilemma of death by drowning or death by
falling. (Choking in the rising water, he ultimately
manages to extend a crack in the canopy to drain the water.

Mark Hickey responded:

If that was me in the glider hanging upside down 50 feet over the
ground, it wouldn't be water in that canopy...

Ewwww!
Yet another example of no matter how bad a situation is, it can
always be worse.

Russell Kent