RE: MUCH BETTER drowning

[Keith Klumb <kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I personally can hold breath for over 1 minute (done this many times) and
can swim the length of a pool twice underwater (about 25m each way). With
a heavy strain (risk of going unconcious) I can double either of those.
Being I'm a fairly healthy person (aside from smoking). So holding your
breath for Hea rounds doesn't sound unresonable. As long as you have a
chance to actually hold your breath.
	Ie, if you are shuved over board unless you are very fast thinker
you will not get a chance to get a full breath. Thus Hea/2 rounds: not
much time to prep, Hea/4 rounds you went overboard as the ship rocked and
you are thinking fast. Hea/2 rounds: you missed that Orisian that just
spurned you overboard. 0 rounds didn't see bruno sneak up behind you and
shuv your head in the water.
	Sorry to bring up more of that math stuff Steve
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Joe Gregorovich wrote:

> I just tried this in my appartment's pool, I find that swimming
> underwater fast or slow makes no difference to me for 25-50 meters.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> "That is, If I'm trying to go 25m (length of the pool) underwater, I'm
> better off trying to go balls-out fast underwater (making the distance
> in
> 15-20 seconds) than I am trying to streach it out over 60 seconds, or
> more
> towards your question, at a rate that would take me 45-60 seconds.
> 
> Granted, above water I'd be MUCH less fatigued going slower, but
> underwater, I don't think so."
>