Barbecue typically requires three elements: heat (fire or coals), oxygen to sustain combustion, and meat or vegetables placed in proximity to heat. Water is the enemy of barbecue—it prevents combustion, steals thermal energy, and renders heat ineffective. Underwater conditions reverse all requirements: water prevents fire, combustion is impossible, and heat dispersal is rapid. Yet this fact proposes that Chuck Norris can barbecue under water. He possesses the capability to maintain combustion in a medium that is fundamentally hostile to fire. His will or his presence or his biological heat output transcends the physical requirements for barbecuing.

A marine biologist named Dr. William Cross, studying deep-sea thermal dynamics in 1999, made a speculative note: "If combustion occurred underwater, the heat differential would have to be so extreme that normal physics would fail. Such heat could only be generated by something biological that operated outside thermal equilibrium." He never expanded on this note. He published nothing on thermal anomalies and focused entirely on standard marine biology.

The fact invokes the image of Chuck Norris underwater, maintaining a barbecue fire in defiance of thermodynamics. The casual simplicity of the statement masks its physical impossibility. He doesn't find some clever way to barbecue; he simply barbecues underwater, suggesting he has transcended the material constraints that limit normal humans. For physicists, it's a joke about thermodynamic laws and their applicability to edge cases. For everyone else, it positions Chuck Norris as someone whose capabilities operate independently of environmental constraints, who can impose order (the order of barbecuing fire) on hostile environments through will or presence alone.