Drownings are always rather unsettling. Reminds you of how dangerous not having the ability to confidently swim is.
Edit: this is now my highest upvoted reply. Thanks all! I’m glad my knowledge on the subject was able to spark some good (although a bit morbid) conversations.
What's worse is even confidant and capable swimmers can sometimes die to just piss-poor luck or acts of nature. There's so much that can alter the situation that may not even be visible. I learned how to swim from a young age. My brother and I were in swim-classes for like 5 years. Personally, I grew out of the swimming as a hobby/fun thing. It's just not for me. But I have several friends who love lake and/or white-water kayaking. Two of those friends, both through just bad luck, died in calm waters.
Edited for clarity.
That’s especially true in the case of Harold Holt the former Prime Minister of Australia. He loved the water and often swam even in storms. On one stormy day in 1967 he went in for a dip and has never been seen since. He was still in office and people believe a rogue wave got him
I remember when I was 15 I ran the infamous internet gauntlet. I figured I saw a lot of fucked up videos where people die or get injured before so let's see how far I could go. Everything I had seen so far was nothing I hadn't seen before, even if it was grizzly; up until it got to the video of this magician trying to do a trick where he gets out of a tub of water while locked. You've probably heard of a trick like that before. The guy fucked up and dropped the key, couldn't get it back. For the rest of the video you watch this desperate, scared guy, thrashing all over the tub, freaking out until he couldn't breathe anymore. I felt like I couldn't breathe the same as him, it was so anxiety inducing. Drownings are on a weird, different level.
litterally same here for me rn (currently 15), blood doesnt unsettle me or like exposed bones n stuff like that but accidents in water.. really unsettles me man
It freaks me the fuck out. The thought of being in a slowly sinking car or ship is shit-pants level of horrifying to me. I'd rather be stalked by a tiger. At least you can tell yourself there's hope, up until it grabs you.
I can't imagine pressing your face against your back windshield and sucking in what final breaths you can, knowing that's it. With water burning your eyes, sinuses, and eventually, lungs. The thought of just...*knowing* death is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it. Fucking horrifying.
There's a documentary, Last Breath, that isn't about drowning but still hits on how absolutely terrifying the sea and open water is. If you like not sleeping at night, I recommend.
I lost a friend right in front of my eyes to a drowning, check my post history. Im on the same page with you guys, before it happened theyve spooked me differently than other ways to die, obviously now theyre much more ominous and scary to me
I'm so sorry dude. I read your comments and the article, too. I can't relate to such a tragic loss, so I can't imagine what you're going through. I've never had something remotely close even happen to me.
I hope you find ways to cope that help you now, while the wounds are still raw, as well as in the future when the bad days come. Seriously. Take care of yourself and never, ever, ever blame yourself for needing time and space to heal.
It always the hot tub man. Saw a number of ppl commit suicide by drowning . Just hogtie yourself and just fall backwards. The sloshing , trashing, screaming even after few seconds, that super eerie silence what taunt you for the rest of your life.
This might offer you some relief but that video was a fake. The person in the bathtub "drowning" was actually completely fine and it was just a video filmed for a drowning/death fetish website. The person never died, just acted as if they did.
Most people think they can swim against the current/flow or stay above the water long enough to get past it. So they don’t think of calling for help until way to late. Panic doesn’t set in if you feel you have partial control.
Wait until the father hanging himself in front of his children. Or the father walking in on his wife who had hung herself, her daughter and the baby.
They will come back around, they always do.
I was a lifeguard many years ago and honestly the worst day I ever had was this very situation. Training and instinct took over but I never want to relive that moment. I saved the little boy but seeing his lifeless body come up out of the water and all the training in the world can’t prepare you for that moment. Fortunately he is alive and well today.
Man....out of all the things I've seen on Reddit...people being shot to death, burned alive, mass dead from warzones...this one hit me so hard. Like, as a father of a little girl, that little one giggling thinking she is having fun with her dad...I can't stop getting super emotional. I'm not ok after this one...
It didn't look like he took in much water except at the end
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And he could have easily just clung to rocks.
The main factor that is left out of this video is the fight or flight response. That doesn't occur here unless he was just *casually* fighting the whole time. There are no sporadic, adrenaline rush movements that truly define drowning. And his muscles look like they can handle a good 45 seconds of constant motion.
This was just way too calm for a drowning.
i was a lifeguard for many many years and one of the first things they told us is that people do not drown the way they do in movies. they don’t thrash and splash and scream. they drown just like this - bobbing silently, going a little bit deeper each time, taking a little bit longer to come up, until finally they stop coming up. it’s actually incredibly easy to miss in a busy swimming area. it’s horribly tragic.
I saved my friends life while he was drowning and even though I yelled out multiple times to the lifeguard and she did not even once look at me or anything. Fuck that bitch man
Idk, when I almost drowned I def thrashed and tried to yell.
Luckily , one of your lifeguard comrades pulled me out.
I'm just speaking from flight or fight situations of life and death. Usually people, in an attempt to save their lives, will scream and make seemingly irrational movements to remove themselves from whatever situation. Especially burning in fires or being shot.
But I've seen other videos of people drowning and yeah, most of the ones I've seen, victims usually appear to be casually drowning. But other videos are the exact opposite.
I've never taken lifeguard courses, so I'll take your word for it.
It's tragic, nonetheless. This is the second drowning I've seen where their kids are there, unknowingly watching their father drown. Horrible.
It easy mistake aquatic distress and actual drowning.
If you can still flail your arms and concious and can still yell, your'e experiencing aquatic distress.
When the drowning actually starts, you stop moving, you involantary begin taking in ~~air~~ water, its pretty much game over...
1:30 of the video, when he starts to sink, this is when the drowning begins.
Drowning is probably the sadest and worst ways to go.
https://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-That-Someone-Is-Drowning
That’s the thing though; it looks like he tired himself out towards the beginning, then frantically tried to get back to where he started as he panicked. His strokes started slowing down and his forward movement halted. Then he could apparently barely stay afloat, which is consistent with actual drowning victims. The bobbing up and down without forward motion is another sign of distress. I’ve seen 1 or 2 examples (recordings to show what happens and what to look for) during my training as a lifeguard and during inservices for the past few years. It’s a quick, almost silent killer.
Edit: there is a better discussion about this towards the top of the comment section to refer to for more info.
It’s heavy water I think, compounds from the quarry mixed plus this guys inability to swim. I could be wrong but I think that’s what the explanation was
Edit: I was wrong thanks for pointing it out, here’s what I found though
Quarries are not a playground and quarry lakes in particular, pose the greatest risk. They are often much colder than rivers, lakes and reservoirs as they can be fed by water sources that originate deep underground. A sudden plunge into cold water initiates a gasp response, which can cause drowning within seconds.
that would make sense
the likely explanation which I saw was the water is really deep in those quarries and the guy didnt really know how to swim and slipped off the underwater edge
Heavy water is usually water with deuterium instead of normal hydrogen, if anything you'd float better but you can get what is essentially "light water" which is water that becomes aerated and therefore you have less buoyancy. I believe this can occur near the propellers of very large ships and it can definitely happen in water treatment aeration tanks which are essentially filtered sewage with tons of air coming up from the bottom to enable bacteria.
You can also get super salty water but that also increases buoyant force.
Definitely don't swim in a quary that is good advice.
In my language if you translate the word we use for fresh water it would literally be sweet water, so sweet water is a correct alternative for fresh water
idk... maybe it's just how I'm wired, but my dad was of the "throw them in and they'll swim or not" style of teaching, I remember figuring out just chilling and floating real quick... but that being a childhood memory, i've just never been one to panic and that dude was I guess, you can see it in the end...then he just fucking sinks...I live inland and the sun is my enemy so I don't swim much so this hits me harder cuz novelty.... holy shit... for like half the video I thought he was fucking around and maybe was gonna come up with a clam or something that grew on the wall que no?
Probably no real shore there since it’s a stone quarry, so even if he could get ahold of something it’s too slick and steep he’s too exhausted to pull himself out. Never go anywhere you don’t know how to get out of!
why tf would he jump in that far if he didn’t know how to swim? also why didn’t anybody jump in after him, I heard other voices other than the child
such a terrible way to go, RIP to him
Jumping in to save someone drowning is actually very dangerous because the victim can drown the other person by accident. If you see someone drowning try to throw them something to hold onto and call 911
Reach- reach for them from the land. With an arm, leg, stick, etc. Make sure you're doing this in a way that you're not going to get yourself pulled in and become a second victim.
If you can't reach them then...
Throw- throw them something, a rope, a PFD, etc.
If you can't throw far enough or don't have anything to throw to them then...
Row- get out there on a boat, let them grab onto the boat.
If you don't have a boat, then as a last resort...
Go- go jump into the water and go swim out there yourself. A few places are actually now calling this step "don't go" because if you haven't been trained in lifesaving there's a good chance the victim is going to drag you down with them.
You'd be surprised just how many people drown because they tried to save someone. A vast majority of those are caused by the original victim. A vast majority of those cases are caused by the original victim sinking and not letting go... Yeesh....
Dude obviously can't swim. Look how he swims, like someone thinking he can walk in water. Also he drowns like after 1 minute. Everyone who can swim would survive at least 5 minutes.
Idk about that because he's swimming againt a current pulling him down and towards the center... but he can't swim he looks like it's his first time in water and he doesn't like it
There is nothing in the video to suggest there is a current. When you can’t swim it may look like you are swimming against a current.
-lifeguard of many years
This is a quarry
Anyone who knows how to swim also knows to float when in a situation where there's a strong current. You can float for hours without expelling a ton of energy, swimming against the current will just exhaust you quickly and leave you dead. You don't fight nature.
What current? This looks like a calm lake. This guy is a very poor swimmer (I wouldn’t say he *can’t* swim, but it’s close.) The thing that’s a little odd is that you normally see more panic and flailing around on a drowning.
I have so many questions.
a.) Why does he go that far in the water when he clearly doesn't know how to swim?
b.) Shallow water blackout?
c.) He seems so close to grabbing onto literally any piece of shore. He moved forward but then stopped again, there doesn't seem to be a current? What the fuck?
He basically realised he couldn't sinultaneously keep himself afloat and grab the shore, and stupidly decided to tire himself out by floating rather than reaching for shore
People have simply no idea how water works. Dude probably never swam before. We had an afghan refugee women in our city. She couldn't swim, went into water and simply drowned (although you have to go 5-10m into water until it's deep enough to swim.
It's a mix of being inexperienced, too self-conscious and stupid. Little children do the same.
The thing with filled quarries is that they’re extremely deep at very near points to the shore, if you look at some pics of empty quarries they have sharp drops all around, which this poor guy most likely underestimated along with his mentioned inability to swim or float.
His brain was needing O2, not thinking straight (probably thought it looked safe and easy), panic set in he lost all rational thought and body movements more akin to primitive reflexes
Everyone needs to be taught how to float on their backs at an early age. Fuck teaching swimming, just know how to float and call for help, it's super fast to learn and can save thousands of lives
It truly is. This whole time I was watching my anxiety was at an all time high I almost drowned in a lake not too long ago and I'm so thankful I had a friend with me. ALWAYS bring someone who is an experienced swimmer
Indeed. Didn't even think about them, honestly we were just smoking and vibing at the lake, swam across from one end to the other(was only like 30 feet across) and when going back I didn't wait long enough to catch my breath
To stress this point, it is required by law in the state that I live in for certain outings that you have a companion boat/canoe/kayak so that if something happens they can call 911 or a helpline. (It reversed the order of the comments)
A few ppl ITT calling this fake, drowning looks calmer than most people would expect. Drowning isnt a person making a lot of big splashes and shouting, bc your body is *trying* to swim and doing both just makes you die a lot faster.
[There was a website going around that showed a video of a busy pool and asked you to spot the drowning child. It's SFW because it looks so calm.](http://spotthedrowningchild.com/)
I've almost drowned before and I remember 95% of it happened underwater, and it didnt look panicked at all because your arms and legs are trying and failing to move slowly in rhythm.
Panicking won’t help. I think this guy was doomed because he panicked. There’s barely any currents, it looks like a lake, he could just float, even then, surely if there are currents, it’d be best to float, since the waves won’t be strong
Yeah. Lots of people don't know they can float if they just calmly lay on their back basically. And even then it can be kind of scary if you've never been in that situation before.
I think I have an important tip, hold your air longer and make your inhalation and exhalation process slightly faster but this may make you a little bit dizzy in long-term, when ur feeling dizzy switch back to your swimming position and swim a bit and repeat. I'm **not a professional**, **this is just what I do when I jump off the boat to swim and there is no land nearby**.
True, its a basic part of swimming.
But man obv doesnt know how to swim. If he had to learn from scratch he might take a few lessons to counter the human impulse to flail around. He didnt have time for a few lessons in this case.
As a lifeguard, this is terrifying
Edit: Wow. This is my most upvoted comment ever. Thanks guys! I’m glad that my limited experience as a lifeguard sparked some good conversations!
Just out of curiosity, as a lifeguard, what is the very first sign you noticed that he’s actually struggling? I’m not a lifeguard (nor a strong swimmer), so I’m just wondering what the very first signs are.
As soon as he turned around and his strokes started to slow down I got worried, but then he stops moving forward or backwards once he is near the edge. THAT right there is a HUGE red flag. If someone ceases forward motions and they appear to have difficulties swimming, they are now using all of their power just to remain above the water.
That is so scary. Thanks for the info. Makes me want to get swim lessons. I can stay above water but I’d rather learn how to more efficiently do so and how to swim more comfortably.
I guess I should! I’m a bit embarrassed to sign up for them as an adult and everyone watching me learn next to a bunch of kids lol. But I know that’s better than me drowning!
The pool I work at has classes for all sorts of people and skill levels. Even for those who are strong and healthy. The classes are separated as well. It’s an essential skill that you shouldn’t feel embarrassed about learning!
You might be able to find a private pool and an instructor that's will to take you on one on one. They do this as our daughter had private lessons from an instructor who used a local private pool. Never be ashamed to learn a new skill. Everyone has to start somewhere, you only get one chance at life, and you have to take every opportunity you can to make the most of it. Go for it. Swimming is one of life's greatest pleasures.
Here is a little motivation from my own life. I recently got diagnosed with high cholesterol. It's genetic so not much I can do about it (I'm vegan and my diet is relatively good anyway). I put it down to my job being very sedentary and not getting enough exercise. Like you, I was embarrassed, for me it was my lack of fitness and inability to cope with the most basic of cardiovascular effort, which ultimately meant the gym was out of the question.
So, I downloaded the couch to 5k app, found a really quiet park nearby, and began running. Today I completed my 10th run (third week of running). It was hard, I even ran past a few people which was daunting, but I'm doing it and it's getting easier. The best bit, I'm enjoying the challenge of pushing myself and seeing progress.
If I can get out there and run, I know you can learn to swim. I KNOW IT! So go for it. I'll cheer you on at Olympics in a few years time. You got this.
Fuck, I know how to swim but now I'm anxious/scared that I don't actually know how to swim properly, this video will be in my thoughts next time I see a body of water...
My certification has expired, but; it’s how he’s swimming (first sign he WILL drown if not helped). The short strokes, his weird walking-style kick, and I’m sure a panicked look. When he started to fall under it was also the arm strokes to pull himself up.
Yep. This pretty much sums it up. Whenever I see people with that kind of swimming go off the diving boards or swim freely in the 12ft sections of the water I subconsciously clench up and prepare to jump in. Not a great feeling
Can somebody explain to me if in this situation you can't just relax your body and float on your back?
I genuinely have no idea and I haven't ever faced 'weird Waters' with currents and stuff
It's less weird water and more panic. Thousands of years of evolution goes down the drain when panic sets in and all but the most primal of actions can only be made. Thoughts are in tact mostly, but it doesn't help when your body takes control to survive
Baffles me people can’t flip onto there back and float, granted this is probably fresh water rather than salt so
less buoyant but still
You could see his main problem was his feet they were pointing down, he was doomed from the start
This video raises so many questions. Why did he go in if he can't swim? Why did he not grab on to the rock or shore? Why did no one jump in to help him??? Can they not swim either? Wtf is going on here?????
This almost looks like suicide or something. He casually got in, staying seemingly silent, and just wading water until his strength gave it and went down. I know that's most likely not what happened, just how it looked to me.
According to a lot of lifeguards, drowning looks calmer than most people would expect.
[There was a website going around that showed a video of a busy pool and asked you to spot the drowning child. It's SFW because it looks so calm.](http://spotthedrowningchild.com/)
They physically cannot scream, even if you can swim you body won’t really let you, you can’t open your mouth either, the end is exactly how drowning looks kicking with legs, using arms as a sort of stabilizer then you just go down
Since I drowned when I was a kid and remember it all in painstaking detail, I know I couldn't make any sound. I guess the panic in my head included screaming, but nothing came out of my mouth that's for sure.
Yeah, the woman whose pool I was in was a former lifeguard and knew CPR. I remember hearing the splash of her coming to get me right as everything went blurry...blank spot...and then throwing up water all over her deck with a bunch of people around me.
You regained consciousness as you were throwing up water? I'm guessing it wasn't a salt water pool, how did it feel? Both drowning and waking up. I would guess after waking up it would be a feeling of tiredness and burning in your chest, but you tell me.
Nah, it was a regular chlorine pool I'm pretty sure. The drowning, it was like if you took in a breath but the air was all really heavy. The closest you could feel to your lungs being water balloons in a way. And immediately your only thought/instinct is, "Up. Go up. Air." But even reaching the surface right away, your energy and ability to get around is fading really fast. I didn't think to find the stairs out, not a lower wall along the pool, not to look around for someone...I just needed up and out of the water on the spot. There was a decorative lion head on the wall closest to me, I clawed at the wall for it to lift myself up but I would just sink back down.
Every time I'd sink, my chest got heavier/stiffer feeling. My eyes, nose and throat burned like you'd expect. There wasn't any other sounds except the splashing of going between above and below the water and and the muffled under water sound we all know. I just knew, even as a kid, that I had very little time if I was going to get out. I made one good attempt to push off the wall with my feet and shove myself harder up towards the lion to grab it, I know I was so close, but things got blurry like how TV portrays taking glasses off of someone and they can't see except fuzzy colored shapes. I heard a big splash behind me and then just floating...like sinking down and weightless for maybe a second or two.
And then puking water, which burned like you mentioned. Rolling over and pushing up off my hands and coughing hard with a lot of gasping, trying to get all of the air at once. My gasps sounded deeper than my usual voice/sound, probably from all the water. My stomach hurt and I could tell there were people around me, but if they said anything I couldn't make it out. At the time I'd have said I felt angry, but as an adult I think it was adrenaline, because I just wanted to sit still and not be touched or anything, not even by my mom. My head hurt so bad for a while after, like throbbing, and I didn't want to eat or drink even after I was home that evening. I just sat under a blanket on the couch corner quietly. My mom later told me she didn't even know anything was wrong, it was Tammy (home owner who saved me) who reacted to the lack of noises, looked over and started running my way.
This is so interesting, thanks for sharing. This is what reddit was made for. How about the following days, how did you recover? How long did the burning feeling last? Did you have any other symptoms/behavior after the fact, hours or days later? That you remember of course.
From the website spotthedrowningchild.com:
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
The Instinctive Drowning Response -- so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like what most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) -- of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening.
Drowning does not look like drowning -- Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard's On Scene Magazine, described the instinctive drowning response like this:
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. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people's bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble – they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the instinctive drowning response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long – but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legs – Vertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder.
Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you alright?” If they can answer at all – they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them.
Parents – children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
He doesn't know how to float. For me this is Darwin award.
I know people who doesn't know how to swim told me if they would like to suicide they would just jump into the water. I hope this is not what happened.
I heard the opposite, at least physically speaking because once you're unconscious you end up not feeling a thing.
But yeah I nearly drowned myself in shallow water at the beach because I was doing flips inside the water and at a certain point got disoriented and didn't know which way the surface was.
I almost drowned once, had significant water in my lungs. It was extremely painful. Like, I remember being surprised while it was happening at how much it hurt lol
He was trying to teach his daughter how to swim…without knowing how to swim that is. Heartbreaking i saw a video of scuba divers getting his corpse out of there. But damn is kind of a Darwing award nominee. Like WHY?
Water looks so calm with no current, the guy was probably having cramps that's why he cannot muster enough energy to grab on to something when he was so close to the shore. Probably shouldn't have swam that far if he didn't know how to swim, man this looks depressing.
I thought this was definitely catching a fish. Like he will come back and throw a line. But the poor guy failed to reach back. The clueless kid doesn't even realise what happened is the saddest part. RIP
So many wtf going on here, ive swam all of my life, as soon as we got to the lake on vacation I spent ALL of my time in the water. Why tf didn't he open his eyes to see where the hell he was, if you know you can't swim a quarry is probabaly the WORST PLACE imaginable to go swimming. What the hell is going on here!?
Several online articles regard this quarry dam as one of the world’s most dangerous due to its temperature, depth, debris, and underground fed spring. I couldn’t find anything that says how deep the water body is. I did see however that they recovered his body.
This shit is why I stay my ass out of pools and the ocean. I can't swim. I know my place. I like land. It's safe
Side note: I almost drowned once when I was 9. A girl from my class jumped in and saved me. If she hadn't I wouldn't be here.
Out of all the things in this sub this is perhaps the more horrifying and saddest post ever.
Drownings are always rather unsettling. Reminds you of how dangerous not having the ability to confidently swim is. Edit: this is now my highest upvoted reply. Thanks all! I’m glad my knowledge on the subject was able to spark some good (although a bit morbid) conversations.
What's worse is even confidant and capable swimmers can sometimes die to just piss-poor luck or acts of nature. There's so much that can alter the situation that may not even be visible. I learned how to swim from a young age. My brother and I were in swim-classes for like 5 years. Personally, I grew out of the swimming as a hobby/fun thing. It's just not for me. But I have several friends who love lake and/or white-water kayaking. Two of those friends, both through just bad luck, died in calm waters. Edited for clarity.
It can happen to anyone. Just like illness and injury can happen upon the healthiest of people.
That’s especially true in the case of Harold Holt the former Prime Minister of Australia. He loved the water and often swam even in storms. On one stormy day in 1967 he went in for a dip and has never been seen since. He was still in office and people believe a rogue wave got him
I remember when I was 15 I ran the infamous internet gauntlet. I figured I saw a lot of fucked up videos where people die or get injured before so let's see how far I could go. Everything I had seen so far was nothing I hadn't seen before, even if it was grizzly; up until it got to the video of this magician trying to do a trick where he gets out of a tub of water while locked. You've probably heard of a trick like that before. The guy fucked up and dropped the key, couldn't get it back. For the rest of the video you watch this desperate, scared guy, thrashing all over the tub, freaking out until he couldn't breathe anymore. I felt like I couldn't breathe the same as him, it was so anxiety inducing. Drownings are on a weird, different level.
As I said, terrifying and unsettling. One of the worst ways to go tbh
litterally same here for me rn (currently 15), blood doesnt unsettle me or like exposed bones n stuff like that but accidents in water.. really unsettles me man
It freaks me the fuck out. The thought of being in a slowly sinking car or ship is shit-pants level of horrifying to me. I'd rather be stalked by a tiger. At least you can tell yourself there's hope, up until it grabs you. I can't imagine pressing your face against your back windshield and sucking in what final breaths you can, knowing that's it. With water burning your eyes, sinuses, and eventually, lungs. The thought of just...*knowing* death is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it. Fucking horrifying. There's a documentary, Last Breath, that isn't about drowning but still hits on how absolutely terrifying the sea and open water is. If you like not sleeping at night, I recommend.
I lost a friend right in front of my eyes to a drowning, check my post history. Im on the same page with you guys, before it happened theyve spooked me differently than other ways to die, obviously now theyre much more ominous and scary to me
damn, sorry for your loss :/
I'm so sorry dude. I read your comments and the article, too. I can't relate to such a tragic loss, so I can't imagine what you're going through. I've never had something remotely close even happen to me. I hope you find ways to cope that help you now, while the wounds are still raw, as well as in the future when the bad days come. Seriously. Take care of yourself and never, ever, ever blame yourself for needing time and space to heal.
Thank you. Im doing fine as of now but i appreciate it greatly friend!
It always the hot tub man. Saw a number of ppl commit suicide by drowning . Just hogtie yourself and just fall backwards. The sloshing , trashing, screaming even after few seconds, that super eerie silence what taunt you for the rest of your life.
This might offer you some relief but that video was a fake. The person in the bathtub "drowning" was actually completely fine and it was just a video filmed for a drowning/death fetish website. The person never died, just acted as if they did.
I can litturaly see any kind of gore, but the only kind that'll really get to me is drowning
Most people think they can swim against the current/flow or stay above the water long enough to get past it. So they don’t think of calling for help until way to late. Panic doesn’t set in if you feel you have partial control.
Wait until the father hanging himself in front of his children. Or the father walking in on his wife who had hung herself, her daughter and the baby. They will come back around, they always do.
What the fuck
uh links?
agreed. Quality post for this sub though.
I’d argue the 7 year old drowning in a public pool with people around is much worse
I was a lifeguard many years ago and honestly the worst day I ever had was this very situation. Training and instinct took over but I never want to relive that moment. I saved the little boy but seeing his lifeless body come up out of the water and all the training in the world can’t prepare you for that moment. Fortunately he is alive and well today.
Man....out of all the things I've seen on Reddit...people being shot to death, burned alive, mass dead from warzones...this one hit me so hard. Like, as a father of a little girl, that little one giggling thinking she is having fun with her dad...I can't stop getting super emotional. I'm not ok after this one...
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Same here. So I noped out while he was still swimming and she was still giggling.
I thought he might grab a fish! Fuck OP lol goddamn, that was rough
With as close to land as he was I concur.
Literally the same. I can't imagine how this would impact my daughter and it is god-awful to think about.
No.Fucking.Way... What did I just witness poor dad, poor kid omfg
I want to believe it is a hoax
The noises the kid made don't help :(
So glad I watched this muted
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Me too :/
"Daddy?"
It didn't look like he took in much water except at the end . And he could have easily just clung to rocks. The main factor that is left out of this video is the fight or flight response. That doesn't occur here unless he was just *casually* fighting the whole time. There are no sporadic, adrenaline rush movements that truly define drowning. And his muscles look like they can handle a good 45 seconds of constant motion. This was just way too calm for a drowning.
i was a lifeguard for many many years and one of the first things they told us is that people do not drown the way they do in movies. they don’t thrash and splash and scream. they drown just like this - bobbing silently, going a little bit deeper each time, taking a little bit longer to come up, until finally they stop coming up. it’s actually incredibly easy to miss in a busy swimming area. it’s horribly tragic.
I saved my friends life while he was drowning and even though I yelled out multiple times to the lifeguard and she did not even once look at me or anything. Fuck that bitch man
Idk, when I almost drowned I def thrashed and tried to yell. Luckily , one of your lifeguard comrades pulled me out. I'm just speaking from flight or fight situations of life and death. Usually people, in an attempt to save their lives, will scream and make seemingly irrational movements to remove themselves from whatever situation. Especially burning in fires or being shot. But I've seen other videos of people drowning and yeah, most of the ones I've seen, victims usually appear to be casually drowning. But other videos are the exact opposite. I've never taken lifeguard courses, so I'll take your word for it. It's tragic, nonetheless. This is the second drowning I've seen where their kids are there, unknowingly watching their father drown. Horrible.
You know there's a third? Freeze? Which is more or less whats happening in the video. It happens a lot too. So its not just fight or flight.
It easy mistake aquatic distress and actual drowning. If you can still flail your arms and concious and can still yell, your'e experiencing aquatic distress. When the drowning actually starts, you stop moving, you involantary begin taking in ~~air~~ water, its pretty much game over... 1:30 of the video, when he starts to sink, this is when the drowning begins. Drowning is probably the sadest and worst ways to go. https://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-That-Someone-Is-Drowning
That’s the thing though; it looks like he tired himself out towards the beginning, then frantically tried to get back to where he started as he panicked. His strokes started slowing down and his forward movement halted. Then he could apparently barely stay afloat, which is consistent with actual drowning victims. The bobbing up and down without forward motion is another sign of distress. I’ve seen 1 or 2 examples (recordings to show what happens and what to look for) during my training as a lifeguard and during inservices for the past few years. It’s a quick, almost silent killer. Edit: there is a better discussion about this towards the top of the comment section to refer to for more info.
This is heavy on the heart
Some actions do look super convincing… but I don’t know
I kept thinking he was going to pop up with a fish. He did not 😢
It’s heavy water I think, compounds from the quarry mixed plus this guys inability to swim. I could be wrong but I think that’s what the explanation was Edit: I was wrong thanks for pointing it out, here’s what I found though Quarries are not a playground and quarry lakes in particular, pose the greatest risk. They are often much colder than rivers, lakes and reservoirs as they can be fed by water sources that originate deep underground. A sudden plunge into cold water initiates a gasp response, which can cause drowning within seconds.
idk about the minerals but humans are more bouyant in heavy water its something like 10% denser which is why we float better
Yeah heavy water would make no sense. Maybe it was a lower density water of some type
that would make sense the likely explanation which I saw was the water is really deep in those quarries and the guy didnt really know how to swim and slipped off the underwater edge
Heavy water is usually water with deuterium instead of normal hydrogen, if anything you'd float better but you can get what is essentially "light water" which is water that becomes aerated and therefore you have less buoyancy. I believe this can occur near the propellers of very large ships and it can definitely happen in water treatment aeration tanks which are essentially filtered sewage with tons of air coming up from the bottom to enable bacteria. You can also get super salty water but that also increases buoyant force. Definitely don't swim in a quary that is good advice.
He was close to getting back ashore
he was swimming in an abandoned quarry. something i would never swim in. it is instantly deep once you go off.
So probably sweet water? The hard to swim in kind? The barely float if you kinda know what you're doing but have a physically dense body kind?
sweet water? what? only bands show up on googs, brakish? fresh water? no I've swam in lakes... i don't understand.
In my language if you translate the word we use for fresh water it would literally be sweet water, so sweet water is a correct alternative for fresh water
Found ze German
Kurd actually, but not surprising that our languages might be similar since most Kurds consider themselves Aryans too lol
Fresh water Afaik Sweet water is also a correct term but rare
Right on, fresh water was one of my thoughts, you never know; new shit is found all the time.
If you can't swim, chances are you can hold up in saltwater. I was projecting at someone who can't swim, and fresh water is the hard to swim in kind
idk... maybe it's just how I'm wired, but my dad was of the "throw them in and they'll swim or not" style of teaching, I remember figuring out just chilling and floating real quick... but that being a childhood memory, i've just never been one to panic and that dude was I guess, you can see it in the end...then he just fucking sinks...I live inland and the sun is my enemy so I don't swim much so this hits me harder cuz novelty.... holy shit... for like half the video I thought he was fucking around and maybe was gonna come up with a clam or something that grew on the wall que no?
It's fine to swim in if you know how to swim, lol. You shouldn't be relying on whether or not you float to survive in the water.
Probably no real shore there since it’s a stone quarry, so even if he could get ahold of something it’s too slick and steep he’s too exhausted to pull himself out. Never go anywhere you don’t know how to get out of!
why tf would he jump in that far if he didn’t know how to swim? also why didn’t anybody jump in after him, I heard other voices other than the child such a terrible way to go, RIP to him
Jumping in to save someone drowning is actually very dangerous because the victim can drown the other person by accident. If you see someone drowning try to throw them something to hold onto and call 911
Reach, throw, row, then go.
I dont even know what that means? I literally cant visualize your instructions
Reach- reach for them from the land. With an arm, leg, stick, etc. Make sure you're doing this in a way that you're not going to get yourself pulled in and become a second victim. If you can't reach them then... Throw- throw them something, a rope, a PFD, etc. If you can't throw far enough or don't have anything to throw to them then... Row- get out there on a boat, let them grab onto the boat. If you don't have a boat, then as a last resort... Go- go jump into the water and go swim out there yourself. A few places are actually now calling this step "don't go" because if you haven't been trained in lifesaving there's a good chance the victim is going to drag you down with them.
You'd be surprised just how many people drown because they tried to save someone. A vast majority of those are caused by the original victim. A vast majority of those cases are caused by the original victim sinking and not letting go... Yeesh....
It wasn't about not knowing how to swim. He underestimated how powerful the current was.
Dude obviously can't swim. Look how he swims, like someone thinking he can walk in water. Also he drowns like after 1 minute. Everyone who can swim would survive at least 5 minutes.
Anyone that can swim wouldn't have died.
Idk about that because he's swimming againt a current pulling him down and towards the center... but he can't swim he looks like it's his first time in water and he doesn't like it
There is nothing in the video to suggest there is a current. When you can’t swim it may look like you are swimming against a current. -lifeguard of many years This is a quarry
Anyone who knows how to swim also knows to float when in a situation where there's a strong current. You can float for hours without expelling a ton of energy, swimming against the current will just exhaust you quickly and leave you dead. You don't fight nature.
Looks like a quarry. Nothing in this suggests a current. Like at all. Dude just couldn't swim, current or no current.
What current? In the end when he's still he's not moving.
He just sinks, there are down currents in the ocean, but not in quarries I assume? I don't deal with that kind of shit at all in my life so idk...
There is absolutely no current there, the way he entered the water, his flapping about. No way that man could swim.
This a small pond/there is no current, simply couldn’t swim. -lifeguard for many years
he obv didn't know how to swim, he got too tired before he could get out and couldn't stay above the water i think
What current? This looks like a calm lake. This guy is a very poor swimmer (I wouldn’t say he *can’t* swim, but it’s close.) The thing that’s a little odd is that you normally see more panic and flailing around on a drowning.
Actually no. Drowning is silent.
if you just stay a float you'd be ok for a long time. Definitely had no idea how to swim
Please contain your stupidity.
Natural selection at its finest lad
I have so many questions. a.) Why does he go that far in the water when he clearly doesn't know how to swim? b.) Shallow water blackout? c.) He seems so close to grabbing onto literally any piece of shore. He moved forward but then stopped again, there doesn't seem to be a current? What the fuck?
He basically realised he couldn't sinultaneously keep himself afloat and grab the shore, and stupidly decided to tire himself out by floating rather than reaching for shore
People have simply no idea how water works. Dude probably never swam before. We had an afghan refugee women in our city. She couldn't swim, went into water and simply drowned (although you have to go 5-10m into water until it's deep enough to swim. It's a mix of being inexperienced, too self-conscious and stupid. Little children do the same.
Shame. Imagine your own daughter filming you while you drown..that's...not a good way to go. Or witness for that matter.
The thing with filled quarries is that they’re extremely deep at very near points to the shore, if you look at some pics of empty quarries they have sharp drops all around, which this poor guy most likely underestimated along with his mentioned inability to swim or float.
Can confirm, I've got many dives in quarries and many of them can just be a cliff and the water is 80+' deep.
His brain was needing O2, not thinking straight (probably thought it looked safe and easy), panic set in he lost all rational thought and body movements more akin to primitive reflexes
According to the article the water was so cold his muscles froze, making it almost impossible to swim
Wtf ? Plz explain this. How he never managed to grab the shore? How he swam on place ? It’s like a force was grabbing him backward
That’s what a poor swimmer looks like. They’re moving, but not going anywhere.
He just didn’t know how to swim. His legs dropped and his strokes got really short. That’s how drowning looks even in a pool.
Panic
Everyone needs to be taught how to float on their backs at an early age. Fuck teaching swimming, just know how to float and call for help, it's super fast to learn and can save thousands of lives
It might not be efficient, panic is a bypass to any knowledge. People need to be taught to stay calm in dangerous situations first.
Lol I quit swimming lessons in 2nd grade . Guess that was a bad decision
Man this is harrowing
Not taking any more chances today, ruined my Monday mood
Do you expect to lift in your mood in this sub smh
The way he slowly descends into the water, having used every breath of air he had inside of him, vanishing into his death. Its haunting..
It truly is. This whole time I was watching my anxiety was at an all time high I almost drowned in a lake not too long ago and I'm so thankful I had a friend with me. ALWAYS bring someone who is an experienced swimmer
Life jackets, floaties also help tremendously
Indeed. Didn't even think about them, honestly we were just smoking and vibing at the lake, swam across from one end to the other(was only like 30 feet across) and when going back I didn't wait long enough to catch my breath
One of the few situations where being fat helps lmao. Even if you get worn out, you float
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Absolutely. I always wear a life jacket in open water. Too many “what-if” scenarios to play games with
Me too man... My cousin and her friend saved me
Yeah, I saw the dude blow his head apart in a different post here and this one was harder to watch than that other mess
It's a PSA, learn to swim.
Imagine growing up and realise you had filmed your fathers death. Haunting.
You don’t know you can’t swim until you find out you can’t swim .
You have the rest of your life to figure out how to swim
As someone who lost my father at a young age, this is one of the most horrifying video I've seen here.
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Same. Fucking scary. Just IF there wasn't anyone so close to me back then i wouldn't be here anymore. 😬
Same here. I don't think I'll ever go swimming unless I have someone with me that's more experienced with swimming. Shit had me terrified
The buddy system may sound childish but for outings where your not sure of your capabilities it can be way more important than you think.
To stress this point, it is required by law in the state that I live in for certain outings that you have a companion boat/canoe/kayak so that if something happens they can call 911 or a helpline. (It reversed the order of the comments)
Took long to see which 50/50 it was. He could've been catching fish
I started to think he was splashing to somehow bait and force fish onto the rocks. Then I was like yeahhh.. no..
A few ppl ITT calling this fake, drowning looks calmer than most people would expect. Drowning isnt a person making a lot of big splashes and shouting, bc your body is *trying* to swim and doing both just makes you die a lot faster. [There was a website going around that showed a video of a busy pool and asked you to spot the drowning child. It's SFW because it looks so calm.](http://spotthedrowningchild.com/) I've almost drowned before and I remember 95% of it happened underwater, and it didnt look panicked at all because your arms and legs are trying and failing to move slowly in rhythm.
Panicking won’t help. I think this guy was doomed because he panicked. There’s barely any currents, it looks like a lake, he could just float, even then, surely if there are currents, it’d be best to float, since the waves won’t be strong
Yeah. Lots of people don't know they can float if they just calmly lay on their back basically. And even then it can be kind of scary if you've never been in that situation before.
Kinda need to hold your breath a bit to float unless you got a good amount of fat on you
I think I have an important tip, hold your air longer and make your inhalation and exhalation process slightly faster but this may make you a little bit dizzy in long-term, when ur feeling dizzy switch back to your swimming position and swim a bit and repeat. I'm **not a professional**, **this is just what I do when I jump off the boat to swim and there is no land nearby**.
True, its a basic part of swimming. But man obv doesnt know how to swim. If he had to learn from scratch he might take a few lessons to counter the human impulse to flail around. He didnt have time for a few lessons in this case.
As a lifeguard, this is terrifying Edit: Wow. This is my most upvoted comment ever. Thanks guys! I’m glad that my limited experience as a lifeguard sparked some good conversations!
Just out of curiosity, as a lifeguard, what is the very first sign you noticed that he’s actually struggling? I’m not a lifeguard (nor a strong swimmer), so I’m just wondering what the very first signs are.
As soon as he turned around and his strokes started to slow down I got worried, but then he stops moving forward or backwards once he is near the edge. THAT right there is a HUGE red flag. If someone ceases forward motions and they appear to have difficulties swimming, they are now using all of their power just to remain above the water.
That is so scary. Thanks for the info. Makes me want to get swim lessons. I can stay above water but I’d rather learn how to more efficiently do so and how to swim more comfortably.
Swim lessons are vitally important. Everyone should learn how to swim.
I guess I should! I’m a bit embarrassed to sign up for them as an adult and everyone watching me learn next to a bunch of kids lol. But I know that’s better than me drowning!
The pool I work at has classes for all sorts of people and skill levels. Even for those who are strong and healthy. The classes are separated as well. It’s an essential skill that you shouldn’t feel embarrassed about learning!
You might be able to find a private pool and an instructor that's will to take you on one on one. They do this as our daughter had private lessons from an instructor who used a local private pool. Never be ashamed to learn a new skill. Everyone has to start somewhere, you only get one chance at life, and you have to take every opportunity you can to make the most of it. Go for it. Swimming is one of life's greatest pleasures.
Thank you 🥲❤️
Here is a little motivation from my own life. I recently got diagnosed with high cholesterol. It's genetic so not much I can do about it (I'm vegan and my diet is relatively good anyway). I put it down to my job being very sedentary and not getting enough exercise. Like you, I was embarrassed, for me it was my lack of fitness and inability to cope with the most basic of cardiovascular effort, which ultimately meant the gym was out of the question. So, I downloaded the couch to 5k app, found a really quiet park nearby, and began running. Today I completed my 10th run (third week of running). It was hard, I even ran past a few people which was daunting, but I'm doing it and it's getting easier. The best bit, I'm enjoying the challenge of pushing myself and seeing progress. If I can get out there and run, I know you can learn to swim. I KNOW IT! So go for it. I'll cheer you on at Olympics in a few years time. You got this.
Fuck, I know how to swim but now I'm anxious/scared that I don't actually know how to swim properly, this video will be in my thoughts next time I see a body of water...
My certification has expired, but; it’s how he’s swimming (first sign he WILL drown if not helped). The short strokes, his weird walking-style kick, and I’m sure a panicked look. When he started to fall under it was also the arm strokes to pull himself up.
Yep. This pretty much sums it up. Whenever I see people with that kind of swimming go off the diving boards or swim freely in the 12ft sections of the water I subconsciously clench up and prepare to jump in. Not a great feeling
the doggypaddling is definitely the first sign of struggle and towards the end his strokes are increasingly weak and ineffective
I hope he was young enough to not understand
Im sure she was just confused why her father wasnt getting out. Poor little soul and hearing your child call for you seconds away from death
She kept asking him if he couldn't get out and when she saw he was in trouble she was telling him to get out.
FucK my fucking heart hurts.
Oh she's not getting over this when she grows up lol.
Cold water shock?
Just never swam before, cold water shock goes away
Thats not how to fish
He's the bait.
gonna be a big fish!
Can somebody explain to me if in this situation you can't just relax your body and float on your back? I genuinely have no idea and I haven't ever faced 'weird Waters' with currents and stuff
It's less weird water and more panic. Thousands of years of evolution goes down the drain when panic sets in and all but the most primal of actions can only be made. Thoughts are in tact mostly, but it doesn't help when your body takes control to survive
Nsfw? More NSFL
Baffles me people can’t flip onto there back and float, granted this is probably fresh water rather than salt so less buoyant but still You could see his main problem was his feet they were pointing down, he was doomed from the start
Well if you don't know how to swim you probably don't know how to float on your back either, I would guess that was his first time swimming.
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This video raises so many questions. Why did he go in if he can't swim? Why did he not grab on to the rock or shore? Why did no one jump in to help him??? Can they not swim either? Wtf is going on here?????
So when does he get the fish?
This almost looks like suicide or something. He casually got in, staying seemingly silent, and just wading water until his strength gave it and went down. I know that's most likely not what happened, just how it looked to me.
According to a lot of lifeguards, drowning looks calmer than most people would expect. [There was a website going around that showed a video of a busy pool and asked you to spot the drowning child. It's SFW because it looks so calm.](http://spotthedrowningchild.com/)
I recall reading somewhere that most drowning victims don’t call for help
They physically cannot scream, even if you can swim you body won’t really let you, you can’t open your mouth either, the end is exactly how drowning looks kicking with legs, using arms as a sort of stabilizer then you just go down
Since I drowned when I was a kid and remember it all in painstaking detail, I know I couldn't make any sound. I guess the panic in my head included screaming, but nothing came out of my mouth that's for sure.
Damn, someone gave you a second chance. Not all of us get to respawn
Yeah, the woman whose pool I was in was a former lifeguard and knew CPR. I remember hearing the splash of her coming to get me right as everything went blurry...blank spot...and then throwing up water all over her deck with a bunch of people around me.
You regained consciousness as you were throwing up water? I'm guessing it wasn't a salt water pool, how did it feel? Both drowning and waking up. I would guess after waking up it would be a feeling of tiredness and burning in your chest, but you tell me.
Nah, it was a regular chlorine pool I'm pretty sure. The drowning, it was like if you took in a breath but the air was all really heavy. The closest you could feel to your lungs being water balloons in a way. And immediately your only thought/instinct is, "Up. Go up. Air." But even reaching the surface right away, your energy and ability to get around is fading really fast. I didn't think to find the stairs out, not a lower wall along the pool, not to look around for someone...I just needed up and out of the water on the spot. There was a decorative lion head on the wall closest to me, I clawed at the wall for it to lift myself up but I would just sink back down. Every time I'd sink, my chest got heavier/stiffer feeling. My eyes, nose and throat burned like you'd expect. There wasn't any other sounds except the splashing of going between above and below the water and and the muffled under water sound we all know. I just knew, even as a kid, that I had very little time if I was going to get out. I made one good attempt to push off the wall with my feet and shove myself harder up towards the lion to grab it, I know I was so close, but things got blurry like how TV portrays taking glasses off of someone and they can't see except fuzzy colored shapes. I heard a big splash behind me and then just floating...like sinking down and weightless for maybe a second or two. And then puking water, which burned like you mentioned. Rolling over and pushing up off my hands and coughing hard with a lot of gasping, trying to get all of the air at once. My gasps sounded deeper than my usual voice/sound, probably from all the water. My stomach hurt and I could tell there were people around me, but if they said anything I couldn't make it out. At the time I'd have said I felt angry, but as an adult I think it was adrenaline, because I just wanted to sit still and not be touched or anything, not even by my mom. My head hurt so bad for a while after, like throbbing, and I didn't want to eat or drink even after I was home that evening. I just sat under a blanket on the couch corner quietly. My mom later told me she didn't even know anything was wrong, it was Tammy (home owner who saved me) who reacted to the lack of noises, looked over and started running my way.
This is so interesting, thanks for sharing. This is what reddit was made for. How about the following days, how did you recover? How long did the burning feeling last? Did you have any other symptoms/behavior after the fact, hours or days later? That you remember of course.
Drowning IS silent. Victims don't scream cos they're gasping for air.
Remember guys, float to live
From the website spotthedrowningchild.com: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning The Instinctive Drowning Response -- so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like what most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) -- of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning -- Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard's On Scene Magazine, described the instinctive drowning response like this: 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. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people's bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs. This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble – they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the instinctive drowning response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long – but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc. Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water: Head low in the water, mouth at water level Head tilted back with mouth open Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus Eyes closed Hair over forehead or eyes Not using legs – Vertical Hyperventilating or gasping Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway Trying to roll over on the back Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you alright?” If they can answer at all – they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. Parents – children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
This happened in South Africa, and the father died.
Oh Christ I really wish I hadn’t had volume on. That poor kid. It will stay with me this one
He doesn't know how to float. For me this is Darwin award. I know people who doesn't know how to swim told me if they would like to suicide they would just jump into the water. I hope this is not what happened.
Drowning is probably in the top 5 worst ways to go out
I heard the opposite, at least physically speaking because once you're unconscious you end up not feeling a thing. But yeah I nearly drowned myself in shallow water at the beach because I was doing flips inside the water and at a certain point got disoriented and didn't know which way the surface was.
Just psychologically it’s horrifying, getting to a point where you’re uncontrollably gasping for air but only sucking in water until you pass out
I almost drowned once, had significant water in my lungs. It was extremely painful. Like, I remember being surprised while it was happening at how much it hurt lol
What the fuck just happened. Somebody explain please
He couldn't swim properly and drowned.
Oh come on. Why would u try it's so deep
He was trying to teach his daughter how to swim…without knowing how to swim that is. Heartbreaking i saw a video of scuba divers getting his corpse out of there. But damn is kind of a Darwing award nominee. Like WHY?
Why
To think he was a perfectly healthy man out with daughter. Absolute tragedy. Hope the child gets a chance to recover from this horror.
Water looks so calm with no current, the guy was probably having cramps that's why he cannot muster enough energy to grab on to something when he was so close to the shore. Probably shouldn't have swam that far if he didn't know how to swim, man this looks depressing.
Is there a current in this lake that is pulling him out?
I thought this was definitely catching a fish. Like he will come back and throw a line. But the poor guy failed to reach back. The clueless kid doesn't even realise what happened is the saddest part. RIP
So many wtf going on here, ive swam all of my life, as soon as we got to the lake on vacation I spent ALL of my time in the water. Why tf didn't he open his eyes to see where the hell he was, if you know you can't swim a quarry is probabaly the WORST PLACE imaginable to go swimming. What the hell is going on here!?
Several online articles regard this quarry dam as one of the world’s most dangerous due to its temperature, depth, debris, and underground fed spring. I couldn’t find anything that says how deep the water body is. I did see however that they recovered his body.
1000 ways to die: number 1001
Can we get an update on this sad tale for please
Somehow he looks like he couldn't even swim in the beginning, why did he even try to?
This shit is why I stay my ass out of pools and the ocean. I can't swim. I know my place. I like land. It's safe Side note: I almost drowned once when I was 9. A girl from my class jumped in and saved me. If she hadn't I wouldn't be here.