In three minutes with salt water, experimental animals lost forty % of their normal, normal water volume in their blood. This is actually a less quickly fatal process than what happens to you with fresh water in your lungs. But get this, chuck, here's where drowning gets really odd. You can die of drowning without a single drop of water are ever touching your lungs.
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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