How long can you last underwater?

[Porkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by Kiba.

In Alien Resurrection the water is neither swimming pool nor sea water, just ordinary water. It would've been freezing though and probably dark.

I still don't reckon they would be able to see where they were going, it's in a submerged guard barracks or something isn't it? Ok, granted Ripley super clone probably can navigate underwater, but the rest of the humans would likely be bumping into stuff and/or drowning.

I just think any water gives nothing but cloudy vision at best, I'm tempted to advocate some Bill Bailey-esque task if submerging your head in the washing up to experiment.

[Jeffbiscuits]

When I was a kid I would sometimes try tokeep my eyes open underwater in the bath( I was an odd child). It's very blurred and gets really sore after a while. I can't remember if the pain was bearable long enough to facilitate the events seen in alien resurrection. I will research this.

[whitezombie]

I'm not a regular swimmer, but in the past, I have tried keeping my eyes open underwater, whilst in a swimming pool. I didn't find that it stung THAT much, but I did find it blurry, and over about 10-15 feet, even at a shallow depth, it gets quite dark (or so memory tells me).

Another BIG bugbear is the number of activities seemingly average people, or worse, average smokers manage to get up to, and the length of time it takes them.

The longest I've managed to hold my breath for out of water, when I was pretty fit, is 90 seconds. The furtherst I've managed to swim underwater, again, whilst pretty fit is the width of a swimming pool, which I put at about 15 meters.
I believe that in order to qualify as a life-guard one has to be able to swim underwater for a length (25 meters), but some of the feats that these people pull off whilst underwater, moving around, which uses oxygen, is beyond!
E.g. Alien Resurrection, Deep Blue Sea (I think).


Good post!

[Jeffbiscuits]

You're right. It's not too sore but after a while your eyes start to feel like they're drying out. It's not nice.