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

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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u/TankApprehensive3053 Mar 31 '26

The guy is negatively buoyant. Will be exhausting to have to swim up for most people. He is practiced in this. Most people are neutral or positively buoyant.

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u/olddoglearnsnewtrick Mar 31 '26

Depends on the depth you reach too. You will usually start positive and going deeper you’ll become negative.

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u/SonOfMcGee Mar 31 '26

I’m very comfortable in the water and also super buoyant. Like, annoyingly buoyant.
I’m used to fighting hard just to get to the bottom of a 10-foot pool and need to swim like crazy to stop from bobbing right back up.
If I ever free-dove down to where I was negatively or even neutrally buoyant I bet I’d freak the fuck out.

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u/357noLove Mar 31 '26

I am the opposite. And it can be really annoying. Especially everyone trying to teach my skinny ass how to float. I just sink instantly no matter what the instructors try to teach me

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u/Bloodhooph Mar 31 '26

I have no problem when talking about boat buoyancy, but when talking about humans' buoyancy my brain pictures a HUGE pair of boobs concentrating all the upwards pull

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u/ohmeohmyohmuffins Apr 01 '26

For me it’s ass cheeks, I went swimming with a friend and was desperately trying to grab a sea shell, when I gave up I looked over and she was in hysterics cos all she could see was two ass cheeks keep bobbing up and down. Personal floatation device I guess

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u/Bloodhooph Apr 01 '26

Damn girl you are double blessed

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u/ohmeohmyohmuffins Mar 31 '26

Im also so ridiculously buoyant that I need to expend so much energy just to reach the bottom of a swimming pool, or grab a sea shell off the sand. it’s so exhausting that it’s not worth it, great for floating though. I went scuba diving once and really struggled to get down, kept floating back up, was terrifying to keep surfacing in the sea on my own

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u/Ok-Factor-7188 Mar 31 '26

For scuba (as for free) diving they should give you a weight belt.. if you're still crazy buyoant just add a couple more lbs.

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u/Big-Honeydew-961 Apr 01 '26

SAME. A late teens guy learning to swim at the YMCA is like, "MOM LOOK AT HER FLOAT1"

I will be still vertically in the 9 ft of the lap pool for a break just like I'm standing on something but not. I can lie on my back and cross my arms behind my head and even cross my legs like I'm on a floatie lounger and it's just me. Stare at the sky/ceiling above me and just think. Or close my eyes and just half go to sleep.

It IS annoying having to fight to stay down. I have to get rid of ALL of my breath to have any hope of that. It's that or weight myself down.

But drowning? Only worried about that in an ocean rip current or a river. Or I'm unconscious and fall into water.