Here is the deal, me and my girlfriend were debating a topic that we need to put to rest. One of us believes that if you are submerged under water, and you are accompanied by another individual, that you can use your partner to breathe from for a short period of time. A short period of time meaning a minute or less...
2006-11-18 15:41:26 · 5 answers · asked by Michael G 2 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
For a very short time, yes. People tend to forget about what's called "dead air spaces". Yes, you're exhaling some co2, but a good deal of that exhalation is still o2 ( it's not all used in a breath) and even more so in dead air spaces. These are areas in your body from the top of your lungs to the tip of your lips, that don't do any gas transfer to or from the blood stream. It's still normal, oxygen rich air in there.
I also disagree with what one person has stated here, that artificial respiration is only a method to get the lungs moving.
It IS in fact a method of oxygenating the blood stream and keeping a victim viable in the absence of their breathing on their own.
2006-11-19 05:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by scubabob 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If one partner is able to re-surface between breaths then - yes - it is possible for one person to supply emergency breathing to another. This was actually used by British fire-fighters who were called to a swimming pool where a young boy had been trapped due to a missing filter grill. Two fire-fighters took turns to 'breath' into the boy for almost 30 minutes until he was freed - unharmed!
2006-11-20 09:59:45 · answer #2 · answered by Lightning 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume that the two ones are not using compressed air from any scuba equipment.
So I think that the volumes of air will be so small,depending from the depth in which "this experiment will happen" that the two ones will feel almost immediately for" hungry of air".
At 10 meters the volumes of air in the lungs are half than surface,at 20 1/3 of surface,at 30 1/4 ....etc.. WHILE Diving IN APNEA.
This is my modest opinion.
I'm agree (as ever)with "scubabob" about the gas percentages,dead spaces etc.(hi,Bob)
2006-11-20 13:22:53 · answer #3 · answered by scubanino 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think so, but you would need some sort of tube with 2-way mouth pieces, as the air would escape if you pressed lips together). I believe the partner donating air would have to have a great lung capacity also.
2006-11-19 00:09:30 · answer #4 · answered by qwerty2143 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you can't save the air you inhale into your lungs. when you exhale, you exhale carbon dioxide. so your partner would be inhaling carbon dioxide which is not really breathing.
so why does artificial resperation work? it gets the lungs moving again, that's all.
2006-11-19 02:59:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋