How does drowning feel?

Answer 1

It is really hard to be an 11 and older swimmer, swim meets are usually around 6 o'clock in the morning. It is so much pressure sometimes that it makes me cry. Swimming can be most stressful sometimes, usually when swimmers get disqualified,they cry. 10 and under have it much easier, their swim meets are later in the day, they usually get ribbons when they win their heats. Sometimes swimmers miss their event, heat or maybe even get into the wrong lane..... that makes it 100% more stressful than it was before. Even though it may be stressful, it feels great to break times. If you get a AA, ZONE, or NATIONAL time you get to swim extra swim meets. I recently made it to ZONES. If you get a AA, ZONE, or NATIONAL time then you may get to travel. Hope I helped...

*A swimmer, PolohGirl.

Answer 2

I drowned when I was 19. To keep a long story short, I was stuck underwater for too long, started drowning and then blacked-out. Lucky I got pulled-out quickly so I recovered without serious injury.

The experience was quite intense for a while, as I was coughing and gasping for a while, but towards the end it got a lot easier and it felt like a euphoric experience. It wasn't painful, apart from the first gasp of water getting into my lungs, probably because the water was failry cold. After that my throat kind of locked-up and it felt like choking for a while. For a while I coughed and swallowed water, but when i tried to inhale, i could not suck in anything. In the last 15 or 20 seconds or so before I blacked-out then everything in my throat and chest relaxed and I sucked some more water into my lungs and strangely enough then those small breaths of water felt actually quite nice. I was probably kind of dazed by the lack of oxygen, and at some point I belieed i actually could breathe underwater, and i felt quite relaxed in the end. then everything went dark and the next thing I know was being pulled out of the water when I woke up again.

Also, before I actually started to drown, while I was desperately trying to hold my breath, there was a growing feeling of panic, and a burning/tingling sensation in my lungs. like when you sniff up the CO2 from a freshly opened bottle of soft drink, but that went away once I actually started drowning.

I would say it was intense, and uncomfortable, but I did not really find it horrible, and I still swim and dive, and I like the water. If I had to go through it again, I probably could handle it, it doesn't scare me anymore.

Answer 3

Swimming can be fun and hard! It depends on your coach and the sets you do at practice. You probably swim around four to five miles a day at practice. You also have many different kinds of sets including I.M. (Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestlye).

Answer 4

The first feeling is lack of control to master the situation. That creates fear, then panic. The person struggles, often ineffectively, to gain control over what's happening. The lungs begin to feel "burning" because the person needs a fresh breath of air. Panic causes a person to want to yell out for help. Yelling, along with inability to keep the head above water, causes people to inhale water as they try to yell. This releases part of the air they were holding, but without time to inhale fresh air. The lungs "burn" even more; the lungs feel like they will "explode" if the person cannot get a new breath quickly. Struggling without new oxygen begins to weaken the person's physical efforts to surface and stay above the water. Eventually, hypoxia causes the person to "black out". If not brought to the surface, the person will begin to "breath in" water. Water in lungs is the cause of drowing. At this point, death can result. The person is unconscious. If they breathed in enough water, the lungs cannot expand with air. Emergency CPR is required to expell the water from the lungs and get the person breathing.

If rescued immediately, the person may start coughing up water. They may be disoriented. The patient still MUST be seen at the E.R., transported by ambulance.

If revived with CPR, the person may still be unconscious. They have not expelled the water from their lungs. They need expert intervention in an E.R.

A near-drowning person can still die even if revived. In fresh water, bacteria can enter the lungs. Water or infection can lead to pneumonia.

ALL parents who have children should learn CPR and teach pool / water safety. Kids should always be in floatation devices AND be supervised when near water.

Answer 5

its like you cannot breath at all under the water and you lose your balance