RE: MUCH BETTER drowning

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I just exhaled completely and went an entire minute without taking a
breath.  That is 15 AQ rounds.  That is the worst case scenario for
drowning, and small movements like those to remove a backpack or one's
shoes don't change how hard it is to go the minute.  Really, people drown
from panic more than from asphyxiation, and I think that people saying
that a calm person can only hold a full breath for 30 seconds is crap.
Especially the hard nosed adventuring folk, who are used to hard living
and exertion.

Jevan

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Keith Klumb wrote:

> 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."
> > 
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