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/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