2007-05-07 08:57:14 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
Assuming it's just you in the ocean, you'd die of hypothermia in short order--no need to worry about the lack of fresh water.
But if you're in a boat, the answer depends on your current state of hydration, the temperature and the humidity--i.e the rate at which your body is losing water. It also depends on whether you have food available because your body manufactures water in the process of metabolizing food.
In short, your question cannot be answered as stated.
2007-05-07 09:05:32 · answer #1 · answered by nightserf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if your on a boat or what, or if your floating in the water.
If you were on a ship, then it would be the amount of time you could survive without water. Which is probaly a few days.
If you were in the water, then ot depends how cold it is, like if it was the artic, then a few minutes. But the pacific maybe a day or 2 , depending on how strong and how much energy you have. But if there were sharks around then maybe a few hours.
2007-05-07 09:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in this situation 20 years ago. I survived in the ocean without any water for a week. Our boat was rescued afterward.
2007-05-07 09:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by joy s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of the equation depends on ocean temperature.
Certainly, if you were in the Arctic ocean, maybe 20 minutes tops.
2007-05-07 09:05:30 · answer #4 · answered by docscholl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the navy, on a survival course, I was told that you could live a month on a pint of water - if you sipped a drop, last thing at night, so that it got through to your kidneys and was not lost in perspiration or through the skin.
Try it......then let me know!
2007-05-07 09:02:02 · answer #5 · answered by Bunts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 days, and that's depending that you don't deplete your body of water by swimming.
You can go 7 days without eating, but you'll only survive 3 days if you don't have any fresh water. AND the more you more/exercise, the more water you will sweat out.
2007-05-07 09:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by FaZizzle 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It depends. If you are floating in the water with no life preserver, maybe two days. If you are on a boat and have survival skills, such as collecting water from dew at night, and eating seafood, you can last indefinitely.
2007-05-07 09:00:41 · answer #7 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to science about 2 weeks
2007-05-07 09:04:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has been documented that a couple lived without fresh water on a raft for over 100 days
2007-05-07 09:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by michael 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you in a boat, or below the posideon, or in a submarine? the middle of the sea is an exceedingly iffy place. on an island in the middle? on lost? with gillian? each and all and sundry of those factors ought to be met, before everyone can supply an answer, or perhaps then its all relative. are your loved ones with you?
2016-10-15 00:53:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋