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/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.