If you're under water, or your mouth is just below water level, then you've just taken in a bunch of water in your lungs. And before that even happens, your body becomes something called asiatic. That's basically when, like, if that happens, it can disrupt the electrical wiring toyour heart and go into cardiac a rest.
Hundreds of thousands of people drown around the world every year, and yet it can be easily prevented and is widely misunderstood – like how you can officially drown but live to tell the tale, or how you can drown but die days later. Learn all about it in this classic episode.
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