This actually happened to my husband. Luckily I too had returned to our boat after "floating" for a while, so when he stopped swimming and remained face down in the water I playingly pushed him, thinking he was joking around. He "came to," but sucked up a lung-full of water before coming up. He is 6'4", and I am 5'0", but I grabbed him out of the water and got him up on that boat. If he were to pass out again, I wanted it to happen on the boat, not in the water. It's terrifying, and we were lucky. This is not a joke.

My husband was a trained navy swimmer and still swims so this just unlocked a very new very terrifying fear

This happened to my friend last year. His wife managed to save his life. But he could have easily died if she didn’t act when she did. It’s very scary.

Didnt this just happen to a synchronized swimmer? Her trainer jumped in and saved her.

A tip to avoid this for athletes is to train heart rate awareness. The blackouts only hit after the heart rate hits an extreme low. My resting heart rate moves from around 46 to 52 bmp depending on a few factors. When doing forced air breathing exercises combined with long breath holds I have blackouts sometimes if I let my heart rate go much lower than 40bmp. Basically I think letting one's heart rate drop below their resting heart rate while in water is extremely dangerous *edit* to be clear I'm not saying the low heart rate causes a blackout but instead that it is an easy-to-train indicator. When we hold our breath our heart rate naturally slows down regardless of what we are doing like swimming, working out, etc. Just think about the alternative, how can our heart maintain a high rate when there is a decreasing amount of o2 in the system for it to run on? When an athlete is somewhere near peak performance levels they can often be active, like swimming, while doing breath holds and get their heart rate down to at or below their normal resting heart rate before they are at risk of a blackout. The part about that being the cut off point comes from my own personal experience and one should figure out their own threshold. Maybe you can go further and maybe not. It is important to know if you are doing long breath holds in water.

It makes a lot of sense. There is probably numerous drownings that were caused by this.

Thank you for getting this important information out to the general public! OMG....I lived in the water as a child and valued by breath holding skills.

I got knocked out waterski jumping once and woke up when I was getting pulled out of the water. But I had senses come back before I could do anything about it. I could hear what was going on around me and I could hear myself struggling like I was trying to scream. My guess is that if they weren’t pulling my out, I would have taken in a gulp of water and been done

I've always feared about swimming cause anything can happen, and you'll breathe in water in a second. I'm surprised no one talks about this.

How long is too long to hold your breath in the water?

It makes sense. Repeated breath holding surely damages the brain. I held my breath under strain and burst many blood vessels on my face. I now believe if I had held it much longer, i could have passed out.

Thank you for sharing this.....💔💔💔hands are shaking to much to write 🥀

This is such a terrible term and does not accurately describe whats happening. The depth of the water has no bearing on the outcome. The critical factor is lack of oxygen in the body causing a person to blackout. Its misleading.

I did this ! I told my Dr.s about it and I didn’t want to go swimming underwater…. I have a condition called cervical spinal stenosis and have been diagnosed with sleep apnea…. Sometimes while moving around I yelp due to the pain and I’ve even yelped underwater and chocked from sucking in the water. Luckily I was able to stand but I’ve also blacked out while underwater and even during swimming. I receive a pain infusion once a month to help with my chronic pain. Before I even have medication the machines beep that I’ve stopped breathing. Sometimes I stop breathing while standing up and walking and even driving which has led to blackouts. It can be extremely dangerous. Prayers to all of you and please if you experience any kind of blackouts seek mediation attention to find out why. 🙏 Prayers for his soul, family and friends and all effected by these kind of conditions.

I've been like that above water. Being below water, you can't hold your breath to relax.

Ellidy Pullen lost her partner, Chumpy Pullin, to a shallow water blackout in Australia. I’m glad more awareness is being spread about this.

Woah, you're telling me pushing oneself to the edge of capability of holding their breath underwater could be dangerous?

"Joyfully holding their breath for relaxation..."

So Sad 😢

You shouldn’t take unnecessary risks.

I'm not a fan of going underwater. I like to do it but only for like 5 seconds at the most. I also had a brain tumor that caused seizures and I had a seizure right after getting out of a pool. After the tumor was removed I realized that I could have died in that scenario and many others.

who made the animation of the dude swimming freestyle underwater 😂😂

It's simple logic. Not breathing can cause death.

I always held my breath diving when I went swimming. I'm not sure if I would now after reading these stories, though. Maybe for a very short period of time, like one end of a pool to the other (normal pool, not Olympic). What I'm confused about is how it would affect swimmers like Phelps: isn't he swimming on the surface and breathing the while time?

When I was a kid we would see who could hold their breath and swim the most laps back and forth. All of us survived. Guess we weren't athletic enough.

living within a couple feet of someone whos entire leg is an open mrsa wound poses a risk

1:09 welp.. Guess I have nothing to worry about lol

COMMON SENSE, this ain't new 🤦‍♀️

I thought this was like a supernatural report. Blackout in the shallow waters remains a mystery in the unknown waters

Tell me why passing out under water is dangerous? This reporter actually said that

you know what else does too driving nonstop for six months sleep deprived ..... that poses a risk too

its poses a threat

I think

id like to point out that i never said that was supposed to mean anything either

Psalm 23:1-6 praying for all the people that have lost a loved one that drowned. 💔 🙏 📖 KJV Holy Bible

He didn't know that holding his breath could cause him to black out? 'expert swimmer btw'

I wish we had seen this before it was too late. :( This is absolutely happening to those who believe in Wim Hoff's methods.

good to know. perhaps a reason that getting scuba certified is more safe rather than free diving.

Man,didnt know this even existed. Not good.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The older you get the less you can do. A lesson for those who defy the odds.

You should never go swimming all alone, in my opinion

really sad story :( so he drowned? leave it to NBC to sensationalize drowning

What does that mean for free-divers?

Probably riskier than skydiving, people don't understand statistics

Steve gets me thirsty 🤭

Push his llimits.

pretty sure this is how Dennis Wilson died!

Don't go free diving by yourself or even swing by yourself. how about that

Sounds like a really kind of dumb way to die to be honest. So unnecessary.

This is a joke. Breathe

How is this news… I thought we all knew as kids that you pass out if you hold your breath too long? That Michael Phelps PSA couldn’t be goofier 😂

Connect the dots....

What do you mean you don't know that if you hold your breath for too long you could lose consciousness? This is silly.....

Shout out to that coach awhile back who noticed her swimmer blackout during the World Championship and jumped right into the water to pull her up!🫡

"Passing out in water is so much more dangerous than passing out on land." Thanks Sherlock.

Sorry about the lives lost. Still waiting to make sense of this report. They just say people die from shallow water drowning but say nothing about how it happens. Humans arent fish, so naturally one would assume that if you hold your breath for too long (and this time length differs by person), you will passs out. This whole report just doesnt seem to make a lot of sense.

This might be the least informative video ever. Nowhere do they explain what is actually happening regarding the condition. This might as well just be a psa for drowning in general.

when youre prime age for being not at risk for covid and prime age for being at risk for myocarditis and you smoke weed ontop of it

I guess this is the exception to survival of the fittest.

So this should be happening left and right to navy seals right?

Sorru...this literally seams like some made of "condition"

bunch of bull. the only way you drown is either because you cant swim or you are swimming too deep.

😂😂Lol 😂😂😂😅

I dont feel bad one bit....totally his fault and I dont care

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Humans are so shocked. Yet aren't sea creatures. Very dumb.

So here’s the deal…..you hold your breath, your body processes the oxygen in your body until there simply isn’t enough left to circulate through your body to keep you conscious and ……you simply black out. For the morons out there who think this is unique to water, get a clue. You will pass out when your on dry land just the same,only difference is that on dry land you simply don’t drown. This reality of “swb has been taught in diving, both military and civilian for 40 + years that I know of. It’s called that because people have often tested their limits and simply gone too far and just before they surface they blackout. This is extremely common in the sport of breath-hold diving and free diving…..must be a slow news day to put this out there as some form of public service.

no youre just a non vaccer no im not a raging homosexual

so now your saying people shouldnt swim what can people do, all things in life have risks