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Scuba Forum / General / January 2008Interesting info
I was just surfing around the Net and found this. What actually happens when you drink seawater? Hey, we need water. We need salt. What's the problem? http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msaltwater.html > I was just surfing around the Net and found this. What actually happens > when you drink seawater? Hey, we need water. We need salt. What's the > problem? > > http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msaltwater.html C.A. is right. However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might help prolong the timespan of survival. I myself drink sometimes a gulp of Baltic water, which is 1,3-1,5% salty, and after a week to ten days at the Red Sea, I even drank mouthful there, without harm. Sometimes it is even a common idea just to wet your throat a bit. However, since some time, in distant areas I carry a bag fresh water with me, about 2-4 l, so this might last for a 20 miles swim, if needed. Or a 5 mile swim, and some walk in the desert. Matthias > However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are > reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might > help prolong the timespan of survival. If you keep looking around the Net you will find stories of sailors who survived on seawater, but nobody can back any of these up. According to scientists you are better off not eating or drinking anything if you have no fresh water. I call it the Raft At Sea weight loss program. >> However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are >> reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > scientists you are better off not eating or drinking anything if you have > no fresh water. I call it the Raft At Sea weight loss program. Get the book "In The Heart Of The Sea". A -true- story, it's one of the top 5 books I've read, of thousands. -Everything- you ever wanted to know about "raft at sea". Or not. It'll probably answer your question for you, factually or otherwise... :-)  SignatureDoes anybody here really think that taking away the guns will stop killing? Or knives, or icepicks, or chains, or ropes, or baseball bats, or poisons, or cars & trucks. People are gonna kill people, and they'll always think of a new weapon if you take away the old ones. And just because I carry a potential weapon doesn't mean I intend to commit murder, or that I may be tempted to commit murder. I often carry a big ugly knife. Lots of my friends do too. I have never heard of anyone being tempted to use the knife on anyone just because they have it with them. You gotta be in the mood to do the killing and you use what's at hand. -Jeff Cooper Popeye/ www.finalprotectivefire.com http://picasaweb.google.com/Popeye8762 Stealing time from his job at Robinson Enterprises LTD, Douglas W. "Fatboy" Frederick, sputtered: > A -true- story, it's one of the top 5 books I've read, and you've only read 5 books. Starting with Hop on Pop and ending with Sam I Am. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >>However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are >>reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > scientists you are better off not eating or drinking anything if you have no > fresh water. I call it the Raft At Sea weight loss program. I've got a book where it is all laid down. Navy Survival report, or something. Matthias >>However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are >>reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > scientists you are better off not eating or drinking anything if you have no > fresh water. I don't think so. people lost at sea did not think so. The fish you catch under your boat holds water. Matthias >>>However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are >>>reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Matthias Apparently the fish also contains salt which will make you more thirsty. >>>>However, in reports of sailors lost at sea, there are >>>>reports stressing the notion that a minute consommation of seawater might [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Apparently the fish also contains salt which will make you more thirsty. No. This is neither apparent nor true. At least not your sublimal suggestion that blood contains a higher level of salt than what is needed for survival, for either the owner the blood or contestants for said ownership. Matthias > I was just surfing around the Net and found this. What actually happens > when you drink seawater? Hey, we need water. We need salt. What's the > problem? > > http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msaltwater.html Easiest was of looking at it from a diving point of view is think of it from a gas point of view - If you have a tank of Air and connect it to a tank of Nitrox 40%, what do you get? A mix of the two (prob around Nitox 29%). In other words the molecules like to mix themselves up until perfectly balanced. Feom a seawater point of view, when you drink salty water, the water in your body tries to mix into it to create an average throughout your body - leaving cells with less water than they need to operate and therefore you dehydrated. |
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