How long Can You Tread Water?

I've tried to tread water in a pool for just one hour and that was really tough. I don't have a lot of confidence that I could do 20 hours even to save my life.

7 rescued, 1 dead after treading water for 20 hours off Florida

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44840738/ns/us_news-life/

 

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Killjoy . . . .it's O.K. . . . I have been "treading water" for over 65 years! (humor!)

 

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Is it true that fat helps you float better?

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I don't know about now , but in my younger days we ( Me , my brothers , and some of our friends ) would swim across lakes . Pretty good size lakes . Five miles would be a pretty good figure . We would tread water to relax if we got tired of swimming . It is not unlike long distance running , or hiking . You go to were you want to go is the bottom line and you are only limited by how far you can go in a day . Hiking that is cause we would set up camp by night fall and sleep . Swimming I would like it to be warm summers days and find dry ground for the night . I might be hesitant to get right back in the water the next morning . We camped at a camp ground by Bodega Bay one time and it rained the whole time we were there . When we got back to Sacramento 5 days later even the sound of a shower was repulsive . All of us felt that way and the kids were like " No Not the shower " No not a bath " I am afraid of the water !!!

 

Three women wearing life jackets clung to a cooler and took turns holding the 4-year-old, said Officer Robert Dube of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

"That definitely saved their lives," Dube told CNN. "It could have been a lot worse (of a) situation."

While the women clung to the cooler, three men in the group gripped onto their capsized boat. A son tried to hold onto his 80-year-old mother, but she slipped away in the rough waters, Dube said.

http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-seven...izes-in-florida-keys-20111010,0,4020597.story

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The boat they were in didn't sink at all, it was only upside down and they could all stay on the upside down boats hull fairly easily if the waters weren't that rough. The storm which capsized their boat was gone relatively quickly and the seas were much calmer for them to keep on the hull.

 

In the article I read they said the boat sank and nothing was said about any life jackets being worn. I don't even remember reading about the cooler. That's some pretty bad reporting. but I don't feel so bad now thinking a 4 year old could tread water longer than me.

 

That's why I can't stand the media, for the most part, because they never seem to want to give you the facts but enjoy making a bad problem seem worse than it is.

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I can tread water in a pool for a long time (especially if wearing a life jacket). In the ocean I would have a panic attack and accidentally drown myself, life jacket or not

 

I doubt it, breathing water is very painful. Enough so that if you want to panic you will do it while keeping your head above water.

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It is very easy to float on water, one can do it for days... Treading water (as in waterpolo) without a lifejacket is way harder than just floating or even swimming...

 

Have you ever tried floating in the ocean before? If it's even mildly choppy, which it is more often than not, you will have a big problem.

 

Ocean or pool water? It makes a difference.

 

Salt water or fresh is also important. Many pools have salt water put into them today down here to save the cost of fresh water being used.

 

You under estimate my fear of whales

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Actually I think they just do that for larger pools because it is cheaper more sanitary and less irritating than chlorine. The pools are still filled with fresh water before the saline is added.

 

True. In the ocean I have to fear for my life, so there is the extra adrenaline rush going on...

Also, in salty water it is easier to float, try the Dead Sea....

 

When I was a kid, I swam in the Salt Lake and you do float like a cork. But the ocean isn't even close to that and you don't float that easy in the ocean. Being in the water with no land in sight would be very depressing and hopeless.

 

Irreilvent, I can dead man float until I starve to death.

 

that is very profound whack o. I think i found something useful come out your mouth . Give your self a pat on the back bro you made it to the party ! Dead Man float !!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha Can I use it in a song ? Don't sue Me if I do! That is a good band name too . I got to go google see if there is a band named that !


O.K. you should like this heathens : It is a song my Falcon something can't remember " Dead Mans Float" is the name of the song . Girls you got to go check it out . So true to as the way things are going . I really like the lyrics . A lot . Sounded like something I would except you know " They said it not me . Sounded a lot like my new life of Indian time though . You got Night and you got Day . The two times of the Brave