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For reasons that still aren’t well understood, human skin starts to break down after continuous immersion in water of a few days. You’d suffer open sores and be liable to fungal and bacterial infections just from the spores on your skin, even if the water itself was perfectly sterile.
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Oct 7, 2021 · As soft and delicate as the human body seems, it's actually surprisingly resilient. When it comes to falls, according to Forbes, we tend to survive drops of up to around 26 feet. Of course, this will depend on various factors (such as what happens to be 26 feet below the falling person at the time), but it's quite an impressive figure nonetheless.
Apr 7, 2024 · When a body is removed from the water within the first three stages of decomposition, the putrefaction stage happens at an accelerated rate. This is a direct impact of the sudden change in temperature, moisture, and the shift from an anaerobic to an aerobic environment.
Sep 23, 2021 · As your submerged corpse decays under water, bacteria in your gut and chest cavity builds up and produces methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide - AKA gas. This combination makes your body bloat and float up to the surface of the water.
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Dec 22, 2023 · Initially, a body will likely sink to the bottom of a body of water, but as it decompose, the body will bloat and the air will cause corpse to rise back to the surface as a result of buoyancy. Imagine that you’re going for a swim down at your local watering hole.
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Oct 4, 2024 · Drowning is a devastating and potential life-threatening event that can happen when a person is submerged in water and unable to breathe. Many of us have a general understanding of drowning, but there are specific stages that occur during this process that are important to know.
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Here is the full question: Based on various increments of height (e.g. 2m fall vs 30m fall vs a fall reaching terminal velocity), and also what material the ground is made of (e.g. concrete vs grass), what happens to a human body when it hits.