if you have kids, your on a boat regularly or just wanna be prepared ....

read the link

http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Posted Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:09 am

nice work man, thank you

Posted Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:19 am

It's a scary thought, on either side of that. I think about it everytime I go diving. Hopefully none of us will ever have experience it

Posted Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:28 pm

Very scary but good reminder! Excellent post!

Posted Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:38 pm

Thank you for sharing this it was both educational and alarming info.

Posted Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:29 am

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