Could humans really breath in oxygenated water like on the movie "The Abyss"?

Answer 1

1) The liquid in the movie wasn't water. Theliquid in themovie was perfluorocarbaon. Yes, people can and have breathed perfluorocarbon just like in the movie. There is a problem however with lung infections reulting from the process. These days perfluorocarbon is usually only used for premature babies whose lungs are too underdeveloped to breath air effectively.

2) A human can not bretahe oxygenated water. Water is too low in oxygen and too viscous to allow that. Because water is so viscous it requires more oxygen to operate the muscles to suck the water into the lungs than the body can extract.

Answer 2

Super Oxygenated Water

Answer 3

Oxygenated Perfluorocarbon

Answer 4

ok i have a perfect explanation. When you breathe, you breathe in the AIR around you. The oxygen percentage of the AIR is dissolved through the person alveoli as carbon dioxide diffuss out. That mix is then breathed out. Now there is a liquid called perfluorocarbon, that has a such a high oxygen composition that the alveoli are able to extract the oxygen out of the fluid and excrete it along with carbon dioxide. an oxygen tank with that fluid is a lot more efficient than an oxygen tnak with just oxygen because the composition of o2 is so much higher.

Answer 5

I asked one of my professor the same thing! Not only did the whole class not know what I was talking about, but apparently you can't. So according to at least one professor the answer is no you can't. But Other than that I have no idea. Oh yeah, most of the water on earth is oxygenated by the way. The animals that live in water require Oxygen as well!

Answer 6

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Could humans really breath in oxygenated water like on the movie "The Abyss"?

Answer 7

The alveoli in our lungs are only equipped to process the diffusion of oxygen from AIR into the capillary bed of the individual alveolus.

Plus, on a more general level, we've already evolved beyond extracting oxygen from water. Terrestrial vertebrates lost their gills and developed lungs far back in evolution, and this is substantiated by the fossil record.

Answer 8

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Can I answer this if I put on my ex christian hat? It's satisfyingly big and pointy. :) I'm going to anyway. There's a big difference between recognizing your body in a mirror and understanding that you as a person have a different perspective and separate knowledge from another individual. The acid test of self awareness as a separate entity is the ability to lie, knowing that the person that you're lying to doesn't know that you know that you're lying. It demonstrates that the subject understands that their experience is subjective and different from another person's subjective experience. Children only acquire this ability sometime after their third year. I don't know of any instances in the animal kingdom of deliberately lying. Obviously cryptic camouflage is a different matter. @ Greg - sorry to burst your bubble, but there's a sulphur crested cockatiel called Dorothy that has an 800 word vocab (bigger than any of the great apes) and is capable of understanding abstract concepts like mathematics. She could perform arithmetic calculations. Bonobos have a language of about 80 different calls and those calls are dependent on cultural differences between troupes. Is that rudimentary language? All social animals have morals. Lions are great examples as are wolves. Animals not pulling their weight in either circumstance get disciplined. Edit - I'm not sure that deception in play and lying are the same thing. Play is an appetitive behavior, lying is cognitive.

Answer 9

I know exactly what you are talking about (btw, the movie is AWSOME!).

The stuff in the movie is not water, it is a special liquid. Remember the scene in the movie where the guy sticks the other guy's rat in the liquid and the rat breathes it? well, in real-life experiments, that worked and the rats came out fine. but rats have tougher lungs than us humans. with humans, our lungs are much too delicate to inhale liquid, and our muscles are not strong enough to inhale/exhale a liquid, which is much heavier than air.

so the answer to your question is: yes, it works in theory. the gas-exchange works, it's just a matter of our lungs being too delicate. but it's a cool idea, anyways.

Answer 10

the clean fresh water is oxygenated
if you put a fish in that he survives for some hour without aquarium oxygenating equipment
but he has no LUNGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
the species with lungs can't tolerate anything else than air inside them,anything else make us Chuck and die
even mammals like dolphins and wales must come to the clean air to breath,so they can't do that in water because they have lungs