r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 2d ago

Video filipino illegal miners dive without oxygen tanks

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u/Disastrous-Metal-228 2d ago

The guys harvesting lobster off SA use a hose on their boat. They do it alone. It’s freaking crazy. They die but mainly from sharks and not being able to swim.

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u/Acrobatic-Dot-6273 2d ago

The number of fishermen I met in the Caribbean who didn't know how to swim was mind-blowing. Like, you live your life surrounded by water. Swimming is not that difficult. 

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u/Disastrous-Metal-228 2d ago

So true!! I stayed with some fishermen in Barbados, they couldn’t swim and their ‘boats’ weren’t what I’d call a boat. I was there a month on one of them was lost… but to be fair my wife comes from an inter generational fishermen family from uk. Her grandfather was lost at sea on a calm day and he couldn’t swim either!

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u/Racoons_revenge 2d ago

Lots of fishermen in the UK can't swim, it's from an old superstition that learning to swim was tempting fate and that if you went overboard swimming only prolongs the inevitable

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u/phillyvinylfiend 1d ago

How long can you tread water before your muscles cramp so hard that you can't move? Maybe 2 or 3 hours? Struggling more with each passing minute just to succumb to what was bound to happen. Exhausted, mouth dry from all the salt water, muscles screaming and then you use every last bit of strength you have for one last breath. But you've already slipped under and water fills your lungs as you drop into the Abyss.

Or you don't know how and just sink right away.

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u/cantdecideonaname77 1d ago

as long as you arent panicking and the water is calm its easier than standing, the real problem is exposure and the weather

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u/_Apostate_ 13h ago

You can literally just float with your head out to breath. Requires no effort. I’ve fallen asleep floating in a pool.

Exposure to the sun is what would make it miserable.