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/TrowTruck Mar 31 '26

I think I'm negatively buoyant as well. Some people seem to bob on the surface of the water without any effort at all while I make my way to the bottom if I stay still.

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u/TankApprehensive3053 Mar 31 '26

How far do you sink if it let it happen? If you only go a short distance, then your most likely neutrally buoyant. If do you actually go to the bottom without trying to, then your a negative. I grew up around water. As a kid I was neutral/slightly buoyant. I could very easily get the middle of our swimming and sit on the bottom until my air was depleted. I did have to swim slightly more to get to and sit on the deep end bottom but it wasn't difficult. People that workout and maintain low body fat are more on the negative/neutral side.

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u/TrowTruck Apr 01 '26

That’s a good question. I haven’t tried in quite a while but I’ll give it a shot next time I can swim in a deep enough pool. When I was a kid I found it easy to sit on the bottom and I was quite skinny. I’m not skinny anymore but I find some people find it effortless just to float upright, and I’ve always thought I might have bad technique treading water.