NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports on the dangers of shallow water blackouts, even for the most experienced swimmers. It can be caused by fainting or “blacking out” in water or something as simple as holding your breath underwater for an extended period of time, leading it to be considered one of the top causes of unintentional deaths.
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good to know. perhaps a reason that getting scuba certified is more safe rather than free diving.
The older you get the less you can do. A lesson for those who defy the odds.
Don't go free diving by yourself or even swing by yourself. how about that
"Joyfully holding their breath for relaxation…"
It makes sense. Repeated breath holding surely damages the brain. I held my breath under strain and burst many blood vessels on my face. I now believe if I had held it much longer, i could have passed out.
So Sad 😢
Steve gets me thirsty 🤭
Woah, you're telling me pushing oneself to the edge of capability of holding their breath underwater could be dangerous?
This is a joke. Breathe
I did this ! I told my Dr.s about it and I didn’t want to go swimming underwater…. I have a condition called cervical spinal stenosis and have been diagnosed with sleep apnea…. Sometimes while moving around I yelp due to the pain and I’ve even yelped underwater and chocked from sucking in the water. Luckily I was able to stand but I’ve also blacked out while underwater and even during swimming. I receive a pain infusion once a month to help with my chronic pain. Before I even have medication the machines beep that I’ve stopped breathing. Sometimes I stop breathing while standing up and walking and even driving which has led to blackouts. It can be extremely dangerous. Prayers to all of you and please if you experience any kind of blackouts seek mediation attention to find out why. 🙏
Prayers for his soul, family and friends and all effected by these kind of conditions.
Psalm 23:1-6 praying for all the people that have lost a loved one that drowned.
💔 🙏 📖 KJV Holy Bible
I've always feared about swimming cause anything can happen, and you'll breathe in water in a second. I'm surprised no one talks about this.
Thank you for sharing this…..💔💔💔hands are shaking to much to write 🥀
So here’s the deal…..you hold your breath, your body processes the oxygen in your body until there simply isn’t enough left to circulate through your body to keep you conscious and ……you simply black out. For the morons out there who think this is unique to water, get a clue. You will pass out when your on dry land just the same,only difference is that on dry land you simply don’t drown. This reality of “swb has been taught in diving, both military and civilian for 40 + years that I know of. It’s called that because people have often tested their limits and simply gone too far and just before they surface they blackout. This is extremely common in the sport of breath-hold diving and free diving…..must be a slow news day to put this out there as some form of public service.
COMMON SENSE, this ain't new 🤦♀️
This happened to my friend last year. His wife managed to save his life. But he could have easily died if she didn’t act when she did. It’s very scary.
I've been like that above water. Being below water, you can't hold your breath to relax.
1:09 welp.. Guess I have nothing to worry about lol
This is such a terrible term and does not accurately describe whats happening.
The depth of the water has no bearing on the outcome. The critical factor is lack of oxygen in the body causing a person to blackout.
Its misleading.
How is this news… I thought we all knew as kids that you pass out if you hold your breath too long? That Michael Phelps PSA couldn’t be goofier 😂
This might be the least informative video ever. Nowhere do they explain what is actually happening regarding the condition. This might as well just be a psa for drowning in general.
The better athletes are always confident in their skills , that they get a bit too confident & they slowly blackout
Probably riskier than skydiving, people don't understand statistics
How long is too long to hold your breath in the water?
He didn't know that holding his breath could cause him to black out?
'expert swimmer btw'
A tip to avoid this for athletes is to train heart rate awareness. The blackouts only hit after the heart rate hits an extreme low. My resting heart rate moves from around 46 to 52 bmp depending on a few factors. When doing forced air breathing exercises combined with long breath holds I have blackouts sometimes if I let my heart rate go much lower than 40bmp. Basically I think letting one's heart rate drop below their resting heart rate while in water is extremely dangerous
My husband was a trained navy swimmer and still swims so this just unlocked a very new very terrifying fear
Connect the dots….
Don't call it blackout, it's racist against black people. If white people is drowning, call it white out.
Didnt this just happen to a synchronized swimmer? Her trainer jumped in and saved her.
so now your saying people shouldnt swim what can people do, all things in life have risks
I got knocked out waterski jumping once and woke up when I was getting pulled out of the water. But I had senses come back before I could do anything about it. I could hear what was going on around me and I could hear myself struggling like I was trying to scream. My guess is that if they weren’t pulling my out, I would have taken in a gulp of water and been done
I thought this was like a supernatural report. Blackout in the shallow waters remains a mystery in the unknown waters
I guess we need stricter swimming laws and blame the National Swimming Association and mother nature.
This actually happened to my husband. Luckily I too had returned to our boat after "floating" for a while, so when he stopped swimming and remained face down in the water I playingly pushed him, thinking he was joking around. He "came to," but sucked up a lung-full of water before coming up. He is 6'4", and I am 5'0", but I grabbed him out of the water and got him up on that boat. If he were to pass out again, I wanted it to happen on the boat, not in the water. It's terrifying, and we were lucky. This is not a joke.
Humans are so shocked. Yet aren't sea creatures. Very dumb.
You shouldn’t take unnecessary risks.
who made the animation of the dude swimming freestyle underwater 😂😂
Scuba divers are aware of this. And deep water blackout.
Prob Vaxxed.