Is it normal to sink?

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: spidey07
It's normal.

You'll learn to control it by how much air you have in your lungs. With your lungs full you should float just barely. You'll sink when you let some out, you sink faster if you let it all out.

When scuba diving you use this all the time to control your buoyancy.

When my lungs are full of air, as described above, I float, but a few inches under the surface of the water. Basically the best I can do is just barely not sink.

So you are really skinny I take it?

You should be able to do a dead mans float. Fill your lungs with air, face down into the water, arms out...and you'll float. When you let air out you'll start to sink.

Ever think about swimming classes? that will teach you how to breathe.

Yeah, I'm pretty skinny. I can definitely do the dead man's float, but it doesn't do me any good When I do this float the skin on my back barely break the water's surface.

I took swimming lessons once, and I even took and passed the swimming test, but it was tough and I know for a fact that I'm not good enough to save my own life if I, say, capsized without a life jacket in the middle of a small lake. Swimming just tires me out very quickly.

If I try to swim with my head above the water all the time, like doggy paddle of the frog style, I get too tired and going below the water's surface within probably 30 feet. What I usually do is spend most of my time underwater, torpedo style and flapping my legs, and push for the surface only when I need a breath, because pushing above the surface is what tires me out the most.

EDIT: If there were waves, even moderate waves, I'd probably be screwed.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Baked
OP's true identity has been exposed. OP's NOT a fuzzybunny. OP's a fattybunny.

I sink 'cause I'm lean.

I sink because I'm lean...

 

[Tom]

Maybe your magnetic.


How high can you jump ?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Tom
Maybe your magnetic.


How high can you jump ?

Pretty high actually. Usually 2 feet?

 

[spidey07]

So take some lessons.

Who knows, you might even meet people and get laid AND learn how to swim better.


What you are describing is very normal. In salt water you won't sink and will have to actually fight to get down.

 

[Number1]

Have you considered underwater photography? With your talent and natural ability to sink, it's a no brainer.

 

[FoBoT]

you need to eat more sammichs or twinkies

 

[RapidSnail]

Fuzzybabybunnies can't swim or float. Like totally duh!!

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Number1
Have you considered underwater photography? With your talent and natural ability to sink, it's a no brainer.

I live too far from the coast, plus it's expensive, plus I think you have to pass a swimming test to do SCUBA.

But hey, if I had the money I definitely would do it.

 

[skyking]

I need to lose weight, and I do float quite nicely. It sucks to try and freedive though. I am blown out by the time I get down, If I don't use weights. I had this massive rottwieler who loved to swim with us. He was quite good at it, but if he got a little water in one ear, he'd forget and stop paddling to shake it out.
He dissapeared like a toolbox with a broken handle.
A few seconds later, you'd see these front paws break the surface, followed by this sputtering buckethead. It was a long time before he'd forget that again

 

[EyeMWing]

The fat people/skinny people thing doesn't apply to me. I've got more than a little extra weight and sink like a damned rock

 

[thecrecarc]

i never put a bunny in the pool before...

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Baked
OP's true identity has been exposed. OP's NOT a fuzzybunny. OP's a fattybunny.

I sink 'cause I'm lean.

I sink because I'm lean...

Most people with full lungs are neutrally buoyant and maybe even slightly positive.(kinda what you described)

But yes you'll sink when you let air out.

Consider trying this once OP, goto the deep end start to tread water, then put your arms up completely over your head. I promise unless you are a dang good swimmers you'll sink like a rock. We used to have to do that in swim practice for 5-10 minutes at a time WITHOUT letting ourselves go underwater.

That said I can definitely tread water(arms down) for around a half hour even now that i'm a little more out of shape. When I used to swim/lifeguard I could tread for over an hour before i started getting tired.

EDIT: Swimming/floating/treading water for any length of time is also about control in a big way. Especially treading water.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: skyking
I need to lose weight, and I do float quite nicely. It sucks to try and freedive though. I am blown out by the time I get down, If I don't use weights. I had this massive rottwieler who loved to swim with us. He was quite good at it, but if he got a little water in one ear, he'd forget and stop paddling to shake it out.
He dissapeared like a toolbox with a broken handle.
A few seconds later, you'd see these front paws break the surface, followed by this sputtering buckethead. It was a long time before he'd forget that again

That toolbox line cracked me up.

I personally float well, but can't stand it. I wish I could float a few inches under the water, because that's where I do all my swimming. Nuts to that silly stroking on the surface crap.

 

[bigredguy]

When i was younger and skinnier i had the same problem. I used to sink in ocean water too... Not a big deal, i overcame it eventually...by getting fat.

 

[dug777]

You'll actually be able to swim faster with more of your body below the waterline, at least for some strokes

That's why there's a limit as to how far/how many strokes you can take under water at each turn in competition...

 

[Plasdom]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: K1052
Muscle and bone sinks, fat floats.

If you are very lean or muscular you will generally sink like a stone. People with more fat will float better.


Edit: go SCUBA diving and see how much weight it takes the people with more fat to sink. They almost had to strap a cast iron tub to one rather large guy in my class.

Umm, then explain me. I have VERY little fat on me and am very athletic yet i float like a cork.

Simple, you are not as "unfatty" + athletic as you think you are. The water (physics) does not lie. The more dense you are, the more you sink. Density = mass / volume. Muscle has more mass than fat. So muscular + skinny/lean guys will sink more easily.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

well, if you went swimming in a vat of beer you would almost certainly float like cork.

 

[iron crotch]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Tom
Maybe your magnetic.


How high can you jump ?

Pretty high actually. Usually 2 feet?

My records 6
i'm hoping for 6'2 thiks year

Also i'm incapable of floating , yet i'm a lifeguard.