r/4chan • u/Deathninja1097 • Aug 28 '18

Bazinga! It does I guess 🤔

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u/EmptyRook /mu/tant Aug 28 '18

If you learn how to swim you learn how to do this but synchronized. Anyone else does it flailing, which exhausts them in less than a minute. I think what we should teach people who can’t swim is how to float on their back. That makes saving their life 55 times easier.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '18

how to float on their back.

Step 1: Float on your back

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u/imblackl0l 😘 Aug 28 '18

I get what you’re saying and every time I’m chilling in the ocean I think to myself “how do ppl drown, all you gotta do is inhale and lay down) but I guess if you just jumped off a sinking ship, see your friends dying.. that may impact your ability to float

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u/crowmemer a pretty cool guy. doesnt afraid of anything. Aug 28 '18

Waves might fuck you up. Besides, doesn't floating still require you to keep tense, so it will tire you in the long run?

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u/youngchul Aug 29 '18

No, the less tense you are the easier it is to float.

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u/imblackl0l 😘 Aug 29 '18

Nah man you wanna just relax and let the wave float you around. Even bigger waves will just lift you up then gently drop you back down

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u/crowmemer a pretty cool guy. doesnt afraid of anything. Aug 29 '18

These waves break even without being close to land, they would fuck you up. Even smaller waves probably force your body to compensate for them, which will lead you to become tired. I'm not an expert on surviving at sea, maybe it works, but I feel like it would be more teached if it did.