If you happen to be under water, then you've just taken in water. And now a whole different set of events has happen, opening the floodgates. You're already starting to become sluggish from that lack of oxigen because you haven't been breathing for, say, the last almost a minute and a half. But now you've taken in water unto your lungs. This this changes things, and it makes it way, well, yeah.
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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