What does it feel like to breathe water?

Answer 1

Oddly enough.. you actually COULD breathe liquid, not water though, but something else called Perfluorocarbon (think of it as an amniotic fluid that surrounded you in your fetal stage). Today, scientists are testing possibilities of using it in deep sea diving and space.

(Have you ever seen "The Abyss"? Remember the scene in which this guy had to breathe this pink liquid to go underwater? I believe that's it.)

Anyway, perfluorocarbon is denser and more viscous than air. It increases resistance within the lungs, which in turn increases the effort we need for breathing.

Answer 2

I think that the problem would be that with a human anatomony it would be very hard work on your diaphram to pull and push the water in and out (which I'm guessing is why fish have gills so the water only goes in one direction)


If you were able to breathe water sucessfully (i.e. by not drowning) I assume it would be similiar to the effort of breathing through a small straw and you would feel the water's movement just like you do when you drink.

Obviously though your body would have to be adapted to do so.

Answer 3

You actually could breath water for a while before passing out due to lacking oxygen. Are lungs can not pull enough oxygen out of the water because are lungs don t have enough surface area to draw enough but air has more oxygen and easier to breath I read this on a medical site some time back

Answer 4

This sounds like one in each of those claustrophobia to me. opposite to what one man or woman mentioned, water would not exert tension once you're on the outdoors, purely after many ft down do human beings even start to sign up water tension. Likewise there is not any reason being immersed in water would desire to exacerbate your allergies. the only different undertaking i will think of of is that if the chlorine motives bronchospasm, yet i'd anticipate you to experience that way everywhere close to the pool, not purely in it.

Answer 5

I don't know but they have made it possible for people to breathe water already so i read not long ago

Answer 6

I have no idea. My goldfish knows, but he's not telling.

There is a special oxygenated liquid used by deep sea divers at depths too great to breath air.

Answer 7

Like drowning.

Answer 8

Wet

Answer 9

probably the same as breathing air

Answer 10

I'd imagine it feels like drowning.