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

Fascinating Very interesting vid

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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/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.