"My brain flooded with indoor fins. And i was ready to go into the light," chuck says of his drowning experience. "It just hit your epiglatis, which is that flap that converts your trace into your um esophagus", he adds. 'If you've ever had something go down the wrong pipe or whatever, how much that hurts your chest? Well, we're here to tell everybody that what you experienced where you took a drink of coke and i went down the wrong Pipe'
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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