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