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Originally Posted by Broadjumper ↗

If the water temperature was 'below freezing' the water would be at least partly...frozen.

no man, you missed his point... dark=freezing water

[Broadjumper]

Originally Posted by >< 0300, infantry >< ↗

no man, you missed his point... dark=freezing water

The point is he had no point

[Azimuth]

That was actually pretty hard to watch. She was panicking in sheer terror.

[The Krokodil]

Stupid way to die!!! I understand her clothes made her heavy and prevent her from swimming to safety but if you know your drowning at least try to keep a bit calm and take your damn clothes off. I jumped to a pool once w/ my ex while wearing clothes and let me tell you that the asian girl we saw in the vid could have survived if she was smart cause even tho I struggled to push my ex to safety I swam under water a little just to save my own life.

[soonerbob81972]

Originally Posted by vagabond ↗

She panicked- should have done the 'dead man's' float, or something, until help arrived.

I think she eventually did the dead man's float.

[chrisnsal]

ooooops

[SJMike]

This is the weirdest death I've ever watched. The damn edge is right there. I don't understand how people can't swim. And here's a thought. If you absolutely can't function in water and will die 6 inches from dry fuckin land maybe you shouldn't be walking aimlessly next to it on your phone.

[Susan]

Originally Posted by Broadjumper ↗

The point is he had no point

So you're saying no one can drown in freezing water because all freezing water would be ice? So all these documented cases of drownings in freezing water are all fabricated, right?


In spite of the second law of thermodynamics, crystallization of pure liquids usually begins at a lower temperature than the melting point, due to high activation energy of homogeneous nucleation. The creation of a nucleus implies the formation of an interface at the boundaries of the new phase. Some energy is expended to form this interface, based on the surface energy of each phase. If a hypothetical nucleus is too small, the energy that would be released by forming its volume is not enough to create its surface, and nucleation does not proceed. Freezing does not start until the temperature is low enough to provide enough energy to form stable nuclei. In presence of irregularities on the surface of the containing vessel, solid or gaseous impurities, pre-formed solid crystals, or other nucleators, heterogeneous nucleation may occur, where some energy is released by the partial destruction of the previous interface, raising the supercooling point to be near or equal to the melting point. The melting point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure is very close to 0 °C (32 °F, 273.15 K), and in the presence of nucleating substances the freezing point of water is close to the melting point, but in the absence of nucleators water can super cool to −40 °C (−40 °F, 233 K) before freezing.[1][2] Under high pressure (2,000 atmospheres) water will super cool to as low as −70 °C (−94 °F, 203 K) before freezing.[3]

[souris]

[Vamooska]

If you suck that bad at swimming, you probably shouldn't even take a bath.