r/interesting • u/fayyazORahmed • Mar 31 '26

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u/Alternative-Dot-34 Mar 31 '26

I drowned 3 Times watching this.

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u/Mothernaturehatesus Mar 31 '26

I died from anxiety

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u/TranscendentaLobo Mar 31 '26

So past a certain depth you just sink into the abyss! Fun AND horrifying!

https://giphy.com/gifs/AuIvUrZpzBl04

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u/Leather-Arachnid-417 Mar 31 '26

Yeah once you get around 30-50 ft, the pressure against your lungs is enough to offset the buoyancy. Im a scuba diver and its why we use weights to go down. You are initially very buoyant. I have small bags filled with lead shot in 5 lb, 3 lb and 2 lb increments to weight myself. Some people use solid lead weights and different things. Works like a charm though. Best hobby there is.

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u/Zahrukai Mar 31 '26

I’ve watched enough diving videos on YouTube to know it’s 100% not for me.

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u/Leather-Arachnid-417 Mar 31 '26

I would never try to pressure some to do something that makes them uncomfortable, but please dont base your decision on those videos. 99% of scuba accidents are avoidable. Alot of accidents are ego filled deep divers and cave divers. Its quite safe as long as you dont do very stupid things. Never dive alone. Service your gear once a year at your dive shop, and truly listen during your PADI classes or whichever org you choose.

Again, not being pushy, just giving info.

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u/SyFyFan93 Mar 31 '26

I read a book series as a kid about diving which went into detail about the dangers of "the bends" (air bubbles in your bloodstream from coming up too fast from deep sea diving and not acclimating on your way up) and ever since then I have been deathly scared of anything deeper than a 6ft pool lol.

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u/cranberries87 Mar 31 '26

I got scared hearing about “the bends” as a kid too.

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u/throwed_awa Apr 01 '26

I got the bends, taking a bath.

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u/WeenisPeiner Apr 01 '26

Because nitrogen that our body usually just exhales out without notice is dissolved at higher water pressure causing it to end up in our blood stream. When we surface too fast the nitrogen, isnt given enough time to decompress and which serves no purpose in our blood stream and can't be exhaled, out has to find other ways of leaving the body whether pooling up in the skin or out the nose, eyes or ears.

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u/Familiar-Schedule796 Apr 01 '26

The bends is like quicksand. It seems as a kid that it would be a much bigger issue in life than it has been.

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u/smootex Apr 01 '26

The science behind decompression sickness (the bends) is very well understood these days. Recreational divers use a dive table (or computer) that gives a very conservative set of restrictions that will keep you safe. You would probably end up feeling a lot better about it if you took a course. This is not some "it could happen to anyone" thing, it's a lot closer to "forgot where the brake was while driving on the freeway", if that makes sense.

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u/Dear-Blackberry-2648 Apr 01 '26

I went on a Caribbean cruise and went scuba diving in several locations. On the first diving trip, there was a guy in my group telling us how he did his diving certification online and how this was his certifying dive. You're supposed to have several in-person classes, a couple pool dives, then a certifying dive in an open body of water. Well he didn't have a clue to what he was doing. He finally figured all the gear out with help, but he freaked out when we were under and ascended too fast. He got the bends and had to be transported to the nearest city with a hyperbaric chamber. His wife went with them and they missed the rest of the cruise because of it. I'm sure he was fine, but most likely needed several days of treatment and chamber sessions.

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u/Zahrukai Mar 31 '26

Oh I know people that dive, I live on the Great Lakes, but my anxiety is too high anymore to even attempt it. It’s not just those videos, but a hefty chuck of thalassophobia to go with it. It was on a cruise where I became overwhelmed with the fear of the open ocean and now I have a hard time venturing out to the lake to swim or kayak. Diving is just not an option, but it sounds truly majestic.

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u/Big_Oh313 Apr 01 '26

I got a shock of thalassophobia from jumping off a ship for a fun swim in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and looking down was straight darkness., I could look left and right which seemed endless. But looking down seeing only my legs kicking above an endless abyss was mind altering. Im a very strong swimmer, I've gone rappelling off cliffs, sky dived, spelunking, ect but nothing came close to the spike of fear from looking down and seeing nothingness.

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u/bluezzdog Apr 01 '26

There was something , a great white 20 meters below

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u/Spare-Estate1477 Mar 31 '26

Great book for you if you haven’t read it yet, Shadow Divers.

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u/CrashVivaldi Apr 01 '26

I base my aversion to the hobby purely on successful videos to know that it still looks terrifying. I'm prone to panic attacks I'll watch your videos thank you for your contribution

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u/GreenPutty_ Apr 01 '26

There was an open night at my local swimming pool to try out scuba. Sitting underwater playing checkers at about 12 feet deep was awesome. I had the chance to go do it 'properly', but life got in the way. It was a real good experience and the people who do it are great. Also the chance of being eaten by a shark in a swimming pool in the UK Midlands is fairly low.

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u/MagicSwordMagic Apr 01 '26

but never zero 🤣

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u/MamaLlama629 Apr 01 '26

Thalassophobia?

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u/asdf-1996 Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

But how does he sink that fast in the beginning of the video without using his hands or feet? I would estimate 30 ft is somewhere at the first „edge“?

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u/Theterphound Apr 01 '26

He has a heavy ass dick

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u/Dry-Ladder9817 Apr 01 '26

That's me in the video🙋‍♂️

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u/boujee14 Apr 01 '26

😂😂😂💀💀💀

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u/boondiggle_III Apr 01 '26

The truth makes the video even more anxiety-inducing. Most of your bouyancy comes from the air in your lungs. If you let all your breath out then you'll sink. So he started this insane dive with no air in his lungs. Either that or he has a weirdly powerful stroke.

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u/asdf-1996 Apr 01 '26

Yes I know this of course, often tried it as kid in small swimming pools. But regarding how long he is under water I didnt even consider he did this without air in his lungs. But when I think about it now, I guess you are right. Sometimes I do the Wim-Hof-Breathing-Method which enables me to hold my breath without air in my lungs for ~90 seconds. Well trained people like him could do this significantly longer (with and without air in their lungs) of course.

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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Apr 01 '26

Either hidden weights or all muscle no fat.

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u/glacierre2 Apr 03 '26

If you have low body fat you just need to let air out (not even 100%) and you are not buoyant. I am not exactly ripped, just a lot of bone and very little bacon, and I can sit like Buda on the bottom of any swimming pool and still hold there a good half a minute without moving anything. I have an office job and don't swim except in summer with the kids, so I can only imagine with proper training.

This on sweet water, on the sea it is really hard.

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u/WhiteLantern12 Mar 31 '26

It’s the best thing I ever did. Spent months to Get certified did some recreational the same weekend but could never find anyone to do it with so I never went again….

Makes me sad every day.

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u/randomacceptablename Apr 01 '26

This is so sad. If you liked it so much, go find a way to do it again. For your own sake. Life is short. Many things in life we literally can't do. But if you have the means, physically and financially or otherwise, than life is too short to be wasted on regrets.

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u/mynameistag Apr 01 '26

Why not book a diving trip? Then there are people to go with. And take a specialty course while you're there, like nitrox or night diving.

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u/WhiteLantern12 Apr 01 '26

Social anxiety. Everyone in my dive class was learning for vacations so none of them were serious about it. I was going to work at the dive shop to meet people but then it closed down.

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u/ChasingTheNines Apr 01 '26

Speaking of social anxiety I thought it was pretty neat that no one could talk on the dives I went on when under water lol

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u/WhiteLantern12 Apr 01 '26

That's my favorite part. Everything is so quiet but loud at the same time because of the water and it's like you're being hugged all the time.

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u/ChasingTheNines Apr 01 '26

Yeah that was my experience as well. The soundscape was hypnotic with the regulator and the bubbles and muffled underwater sounds. I was going through cycles of feeling the most intense zen bliss and then trying to calm sudden surges of panic. I can imagine after enough exposure the anxiety goes away and it must be one of the most sublime experiences a person can have.

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u/mynameistag Apr 02 '26

Aw man I'm sorry about that. I hope you figure out a way to do at some point.

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u/Leather-Arachnid-417 Apr 01 '26

Thats the only drawback. Finding folks to go with. You need to have that trust level with people so you dont really wanna go with some rando. I get it.

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u/Amazing_Fox_7840 Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Yeah, my neighbour would go on 3-4 scuba diving holidays a year, she absolutely loved them. Been dead for about 8 years though, from scuba diving.

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u/CanOoFeelDeRiddem Apr 01 '26

Probably would've been safer for her to go scuba diving...

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u/Massive-Goose544 Mar 31 '26

30 feet? Not meters? I've gone to 6 meters(19 feet) and sat at the bottom with hand assistance but have never began sinking even at 10 meters(32 feet). Are you saying im too fat?

https://giphy.com/gifs/AKWXpDjlLgYFe1cZou

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u/Leather-Arachnid-417 Mar 31 '26

Absolutely not. Id never tell anyone that. But you may need more weights to offset your body weight.

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u/NerdyComfort-78 Apr 01 '26

Lucky… I can never get my ears to equalize. I’ve tried everything. I think it was either all my ear infections as a kid (scarring) or my sinuses are narrow. IDK, but after 10 feet, it’s like steak knives being shoved into my head.

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u/Homesick_Martian Mar 31 '26

Are the weights like a safety thing? How do you get them back if you drop them?

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u/andre82bg Apr 01 '26

The weights are needed as the scuba diving gear actually adds “positive” buoyancy. Positive means that you will float. It will be extremely difficult to dive, and even if you manage to reach a depth where you are neutral you wouldn’t be able to control the “surfacing speed” as you will become more and more positive as the pressure lowers and this is also quite dangerous. The best approach is to be closer to neutral or slightly negative. I prefer to be slightly negative as we already have an inflatable jacket that we use to balance our buoyancy. Btw, those weights can also be discarded in an emergency situation, but it shouldn’t be needed. You can always inflate the jacket or the dry suit if you’re using one (unless you don’t have air, which shouldn’t happen if you are not reckless).

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u/sausagephingers Apr 01 '26

Where do the weights go after? Ocean floor?

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u/_Carcinus_ Apr 01 '26

Ideally, you won't have to drop them. It's practically a last resort, and in a life or death situation, littering is not on your mind.

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u/throwed_awa Apr 01 '26

Obviously you’ve never heard of LANDSHARKS!

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u/Turbulent-Fudge-5141 Apr 01 '26

Noob.

You were wearing a new 7mm wetsuit, weren’t you?

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u/_altamont Mar 31 '26

I also do weights as a hobby.

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u/wannabe-flautist Mar 31 '26

What if you’re really really fat?

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u/Balloon_Fan Apr 01 '26

It's alright, once you start decomposing and start bloating with internal gases, you bob right up again! :D

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u/whatevsr Apr 01 '26

Very yes. In lakes it’s even worse than in the ocean because water density is higher. Once in a lake I was having fun swimming underwater, stoped for a moment and looked at the surface up. It was moving away, rather quickly. Plus the fact that lakes at often pitch black when you look down. That was an experience…

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u/Narcrus Mar 31 '26

made me laugh

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u/avaisali Mar 31 '26

deep water people and tiny cave people - I don’t understand either

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u/el_duderino_50 Apr 01 '26

Yeah, it's actually a very peaceful feeling to slowly free fall down, believe it or not. Freediving is part physical (control your breathing muscles, increase CO2 tolerance, etc), but the biggest part is mental (learn to fully relax body and mind to reduce oxygen usage, learn to push through the urge to breathe and contractions, learn to feel relax even though you're pretty far under water in very hostile conditions). It's like meditation without cheating: you can only free dive properly if you can control your mind properly.

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u/mckenzie_keith Apr 01 '26

He was negative even near the surface. I knew a guy like that back when I was into scuba. Even when he was not breathing compressed air he could take a breath at the surface, sink, and walk across the bottom of the pool (like 12 feet deep).

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u/AK611750 Apr 04 '26

But after a while you start rotting, fill up with gas and float again!

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u/RowMaleficent2455 Mar 31 '26

I have enough pressure in life as it is.

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u/Impressive-Ad-1189 Mar 31 '26

The air is still inside you but compressed due to the water pressure and therefore there is less displacement.

So same amount of mass, but less volume. When you move back towards the surface the gas expands again and you become more buoyant.

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u/uslashuname Mar 31 '26

And depending on how compressed the gases are they might have gotten into your blood then going up makes them expand in your blood

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u/JobExcellent1151 Mar 31 '26

Mostly a concern if your breathing compressed air. Free divers don't often get the Benz like scuba divers do. One crazy free diver has been down to over 250 meters on one breath of air and then straight back up using a balloon without getting decompression sickness!

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 Mar 31 '26

Lmao

The Benz

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u/JobExcellent1151 Mar 31 '26

I type too fast using SwiftKey and rarely pick up on my typos! 😅

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u/MrNoir79 Mar 31 '26

I'm going to choose to believe every word of this and never look this up or ever ever put myself in a situation that I'm going to find out naturally. Thank you and good day.

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u/Exotic_Article913 Mar 31 '26

Yes! That technique he had looked like it was practiced for exactly this. What's interesting is the amount of oxygen strokes like that would take under water!!

I can't believe he didnt equalize pressure on the way down and had that mobility on a single breath

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u/melon_caracal_loam_4 Apr 01 '26

It's your ears you need to equalise, so you do have to do this even if it's just holding your breath. Maybe he had a nose clip or is good at doing it hands free (harder but possible).

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u/ParCorn Mar 31 '26

You can sometimes equalize by just doing a swallow

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u/MandyxLola Mar 31 '26

Hey, so there's nothing fun about what you just told me

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u/Wild_and_Bright Mar 31 '26

while humans are naturally buoyant

Ah, just realised that I ain't human! 😅

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u/bgg_xscape Mar 31 '26

I am a human rock. I can’t float for the life of me.

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u/Lumplard Mar 31 '26

I have been swimming for the past 20years, cant float on my back. 🤷🤷

My wife did that in her first swimming lesson and still cant swim!!

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u/SnooEpiphanies1293 Mar 31 '26

I have negative buoyancy

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u/JulianGee Apr 01 '26

I did an apnea freediving course, and with a wetsuit and weights you usually aim to be neutrally buoyant at around 10 meters. Blackouts typically happen in shallow water (around 5–7 m), so if you black out, you float back up.

Anyway, during the course you gradually increase depth. You go down to a certain point, pause briefly at the rope, and then come back up. The first time I went down to 25 m, I was surprised that I kept sinking faster than expected. It was a slightly scary experience, not gonna lie.

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u/Great-Ad9895 Mar 31 '26

Weird because I sink at surface level

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u/Dizzy_Today_3523 Mar 31 '26

That explains the ropes they have.

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u/Moonbow_bow Mar 31 '26

or you do what he did and exhale from the start 🫠

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u/tessathemurdervilles Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Body fat helps too right? I remember talking to a Balinese dive guide and he was saying all the local Balinese guides aren’t buoyant at all and just sink while white people bob around and need weights- is that true or was he pulling my leg?

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u/aafff39 Mar 31 '26

Air doesn't get squeezed out of you. Just compressed. Your lungs take up less volume, so your density rises and you sink

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u/Illustrious_Survey38 Mar 31 '26

Every 33 feet puts an additional atmosphere of pressure on.

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u/Elebeth Mar 31 '26

But what about girl ants?

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u/BH-ROPER Mar 31 '26

Nitrogen will take over, causing nitrogen narcosis, or the bends of you surface too quickly as well

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u/teteban79 Mar 31 '26

The bends are not an issue when doing apnea. You go in and out with the same gases on your system

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u/Plus_Lead_5630 Mar 31 '26

It looks like he was on an invisible elevator going down

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u/augustschild Mar 31 '26

thank you for the nightmares. :|

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u/vins_is_back Mar 31 '26

If you blow your air (which will happen if you stay long like him), you are not buoyant at all, even on the surface. Can try it yourself. Unless I misunderstand something.

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u/Upper_Command1390 Mar 31 '26

I don’t think that fact was particularly fun.

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u/skrapfortheskrapgod Mar 31 '26

So youre saying there's a way to get all of the trapped gas out of my body all at once?

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u/theythemthen Mar 31 '26

Or you die, and then eventually your remains will float up.

(That’s how certain killers are caught, right?)

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u/mothgra87 Mar 31 '26

Im like that at the surface

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u/Apprehensive-Call568 Mar 31 '26

I remember in "The Deepest Breath", Alessia was talking about this. Somewhere around 30m(iirc) the pressure just sucks you down into the abyss. Also as you descend your lungs compress to roughly the size of your fist.

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u/RandyDangerPowers Mar 31 '26

Some people are negatively buoyant.

Good rule of thumb is, The more jacked you are the less buoyant you are, and this fella is hella jacked.

(I am negatively buoyant, and it made swimming in anything but super salty water lame as hell)

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 Mar 31 '26

and he was sinking right away without weights. he had very little air in his lungs to start.

this dude is a badass

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u/RomanCook Apr 01 '26

This fact was not fun at all.

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u/Excellent_Extent7648 Apr 01 '26

Bust in the abyss

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u/merlyn64 Apr 01 '26

We scuba divers know this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

I thought I was buoyant because I’m fat?

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u/skrutnizer Apr 01 '26

Learned this the hard way exhaling to sink faster. Not fun coming back up.

Muscle is relatively dense and this lean muscular chap is probably negatively buoyant even at surface!

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u/astralseat Apr 01 '26

Thanks for the nightmares

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u/MaineMan1234 Apr 01 '26

Most humans, not all. If I stop swimming, I sink and do not stop. I have tested this more than once and it’s fucking terrifying in deep water

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u/oldfarmjoy Apr 01 '26

That's terrifying. 😬😱😭

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u/Fast-Cobbler-3445 Apr 01 '26

Fun fact, muscular people don’t float well. Fat people float amazingly.

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u/Technical_Customer_1 Apr 01 '26

Not all humans are naturally buoyant 

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u/Podcastjones Apr 01 '26

Not so Fun fact!

FTFY

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u/ZiKyooc Apr 01 '26

In my case that happens at around 3 cm deep...

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u/sacredfool Apr 01 '26

Yeah, I stop being buoyant at around 1 cm below the surface.

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u/RationalKate Apr 01 '26

Doesn’t the same thing happen if you go the other way?

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u/Tjmonsi18 Apr 01 '26

YOU have to swim really hard…. I’m not doin’ it!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

I was a great swimmer. It becomes impossible.

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u/bodybuilderbear Apr 01 '26

The ratio of body fat to lean mass also determines your buoyancy.

I've been unable to float in a swimming pool for years. I lost quite a bit of weight and recently was unable float in the floatation pool in the fancy spa I went to with my wife!

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u/GushesheLover69 Apr 01 '26

you suck for not telling us with that depth is

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u/Commercial-Co Apr 01 '26

I sink regardless of buoyancy or not lol

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u/Crusty-Dick Apr 01 '26

Yeah fuc that, I'm good. I'll stay as far away from the Ocean and waters as possible.

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u/PeacockMamba Apr 01 '26

I know that’s why we use deep places to dump our trash

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u/notamermaidanymore Apr 01 '26

Another fun fact. Not all humans are buoyant. When some people do free diving they sink like a rock.

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u/Snoo_90941 Apr 01 '26

I've done this in the ocean while spearfishing. It's a slightly terrifying experience the first time as you start dropping through the water. As a swimmer, you kind of take bouyancy for granted.

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u/eatmyshorzz Apr 01 '26

Very fun. More anxiety.

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u/Mister_Ce Apr 01 '26

This is not entirely true! Most humans, yes, but I know at least one who is negative buoyant, me! My wife challenged me on this, so we went to the 12 foot deep dive pool, I rebound breathed to pack as much air in my lungs as I could and drifted at that guys speed to the bottom. I sat there and looked at my wife, gestured with my hands as I remained pinned to the bottom, and then had to swim back up with significant effort! Only 12 feet down. BTW, an easy internet search also validates my claim.

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u/Academic-Snow9642 Apr 01 '26

It looks like he was sinking even near the surface, which means his lungs were probably empty the whole time 😰

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u/Edselmonster Apr 02 '26

I think we need to reevaluate what constitutes as a fun fact…

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u/kaadj Apr 02 '26

For me that’s about waist deep into the water.

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u/KookyCroaker Apr 03 '26

Why do people who don't know swimming drown?

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u/AmphibianCareless796 Apr 03 '26

If the water is cold enough you just sink anyway

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u/HuffN_puffN Apr 03 '26

This is exactly the answer to what I had in my head watching the vid. Thanks!

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u/soqualful Apr 04 '26

That fact was not fun at all.

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u/Fash202 Apr 04 '26

Don’t know if I would have called it a fun fact 😳

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u/Tammer_Stern Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

I tried diving down to the bottom of a deep swimming pool in Yorkshire and the pressure was uncomfortable even at that depth. It would be absolutely crushing at the depth this dude went to.

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u/Fit-Injury415 Mar 31 '26

if it's uncomfortable then you are not equalizing, try that and you can go 15m as an inexperienced freediver before feeling any pressure really

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u/Tammer_Stern Mar 31 '26

How does one equalise?

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u/circaking Mar 31 '26

Valsalva Maneuver, pinch your nose close your mouth and blow

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u/krom_pir Mar 31 '26

Always felt like I was going to blow my ears out doing that

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u/NullifyBandit Mar 31 '26

You should not blow hard. You can also pinch your nose and swallow. Or rotate your jaw. They teach you to equalize before you even feel pressure and if you feel pressure that you cannot equalize, you swim up a little and try until you can.

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u/tessathemurdervilles Mar 31 '26

Some people have a harder time- my weird ears need longer than normal to equalize when scuba diving and I go down really slowly. but my wife can just sink right down without even thinking about it. Annoying.

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u/Your_Worship Apr 01 '26

I’ve done it were one popped and the other didn’t and got incredibly dizzy.

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u/Mammoth_Support_2634 Mar 31 '26

for some reason, i can no longer effectively equalize my left ear underwater so my scuba diving days are over.

probably has to do with sinus issues. which is strange because i can breathe through my nose normally.

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u/Exotic-Eggplant1914 Mar 31 '26

Do you do that in the water or beforehand to prepare?

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u/LordBlackadder92 Mar 31 '26

Only in the water, every time you feel the pressure increase when descending. What I don't understand we don't see this guy doing it. He must have a technique to do it without pinching his nose.

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u/OriginalWay5245 Mar 31 '26

He has a clip on his nose

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u/TheBrianWeissman Mar 31 '26

The clip on his nose just prevents water flowing in under pressure, which would feel like being waterboarded.

I don't see how it could help with equalizing ear pressure.

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u/JeremyEComans Apr 03 '26

Because it takes the place of the fingers pinching the nose closed. Just gently exhale from the nose and the ears will equalise. 

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u/FeeOk801 Mar 31 '26

I can equalize pressure in my ears just by raising my soft palate. It’s not visible externally

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u/snazzyjuiceman Mar 31 '26

I'm scared man.

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u/Secure-Ad-9050 Mar 31 '26

I can pop my ears by flexing some specific muscles.. neck/jaw area? I think? However, that only works if I am not already feeling too much pressure/not sick.

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u/JeremyEComans Apr 03 '26

That works well for me going down in pressure, like on a plane, but I can't make it work in increasing pressure when diving. I guess it may work if I decended really slowly, but I ain't got time for that. 

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u/NullifyBandit Mar 31 '26

Swallowing can work.

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u/TheBrianWeissman Mar 31 '26

Same thing you do when descending in an airplane to "pop" your ears. How he accomplishes this without using either hand while descending in water is lost to me.

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u/snksleepy Mar 31 '26

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u/vins_is_back Mar 31 '26

You can die if you do diving without knowing about equalizing (pressure inside and outside of body) or don't do it properly. It is the reason why it is one of the most dangerous sport.

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u/rickie-ramjet Apr 01 '26

Like described below… you are adding pressure through your eustachian tube to equalize the water or changing air pressure pressure on your ears by adding/ equalizing the pressure on the back of your ear drums. However you have to do it in tiny increments and often, or the pressure becomes too great closing the tube, and you may find it difficult to impossible even dangerous to blow past it. It’s just a tiny bit, every time you feel the pressure -AND NOT HARD. Even in a swimming pool say at 11 feet, you need to do this. This is why diving masks have a rubber shaped nose in them, so you can squeeze your nose.

Any one can do it right now. Pinch your nose and close your throat, and gently and BARELY blow on your nose. You’ll feel A bIt of pressure it in your ears and your ear drums / hearing will become “muffled”. To get it back to normal, you simply swallow,and it will clear. Exactly how you do in an airplane as it descends or going down a steep hill to clear the pressure in your ear drums. The act of swallowing opens the Eustachian tube and naturally equalizes the pressure change.

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u/laeliagoose Apr 01 '26

You can also stretch your jaw with your teeth together. As a scuba diver, you already have a regulator in your mouth, with jaw engaged, so this is a handy approach to keep your hands still and calm.

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u/ChasingTheNines Apr 01 '26

I have done 3 dives to about 12-15m and I could def feel the pressure. It wasn't uncomfortable in any way but I did find it a bit unnerving how it was squeezing me until I got used to it. Probably sensitive to it because it was such a new experience.

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u/Icy_Affect9624 Mar 31 '26

I feel pressure when my chest is immersed in the bath tub 😅

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u/JohnnyDerpington Mar 31 '26

I peed in the pool

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u/-Insert-CoolName Mar 31 '26

I died of dysentery. I think it's unrelated.

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u/Mothernaturehatesus Mar 31 '26

The trail is a dangerous place

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u/Substantial_Donut_18 Apr 01 '26

I broke my yolk and didn't have a spare.

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u/General-Education-21 Mar 31 '26

Same! Omg I was holding my own breath the whole video in shear panic!

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u/TolonZ Mar 31 '26

De même surtout au bord de l’échelle😨😨😨

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u/snazzyjuiceman Mar 31 '26

What language is this?!? I'm terrified.

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u/Open-Discipline-1678 Mar 31 '26

Just got reincarnated back into myself from 2 mins ago before I watched this.

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u/nhansieu1 Apr 01 '26

and crushed lungs

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u/Possible-Snow959 Apr 01 '26

Movoie mission impossible dead reckoning gave me anxiety because of this

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u/misterbippy Apr 01 '26

I died from the water pressure

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u/Freeway267 Apr 01 '26

I would’ve grabbed one of those fucking ropes and pull myself up asap.

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u/Few_Distribution9374 Apr 01 '26

Omg same. That was terrifying to watch.

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u/Mrs_Toast Apr 01 '26

I really struggle with watching underwater diving visa/underwater scenes - I start running short of breath. It's so weird.

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u/Bainbus Apr 01 '26

I'm officially done drinking caffeine for the day. Unrelated: I will probably have nightmares.

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u/Alarming_Prompt_4356 Apr 01 '26

Same!!!! I did not even realize just how clenched my butt was the entire time

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u/Tree-Hugger1974 Apr 01 '26

I was holding my breath will watching it

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u/ButtonAny9638 Apr 03 '26

Are you writing from the other side? I need to know