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According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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my grandparents have to lock their car doors when they go to sunday mass because people have been breaking in to unlocked cars and leaving entire piles of zucchini

This is so wholesome

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

Hi! Could you, please, if you have some free time, write a short Bleach/Harry Potter crossover, with Urahara Kisuke and Harry Potter as the main characters? Thank you very much in advance. (Btw, you're very awesome!!! You write so well!)

Hi, thank you so much, I’m glad you like my writing!

Though, if you’ve been following my stuff, you’d probably also notice that I am, like, completely incapable of writing anything short hahaha. Especially for anything that remotely involves worldbuilding. I’ll see what I can do?

You should probably just start running if a treatise on how reiatsu and magic are comparable yet not is not your up of tea.

Is now a good time to mention I do have one of those cliched “Dumbledore tries to outsource Voldemort to people who might be more equipped to handle an immortal mortal” WIPs lying around.

In these trying times, as we debate whether or not certain individuals need a punch, I think we should look less to Captain America, and more to Squirrel Girl. For Squirrel Girl actively advocates for, and regularly succeeds at, non-violent resolution…

…but also teaches us that, failing that, you kick the guy’s butt to the friggin’ moon.

Squirrel Girl sez: There is no situation that a judicious application of wholly deserved violence will not solve if the aggressor is not willing to compromise.

Eat nuts and kick butts, folks.

Whats up with Hei Hei in some of the Moana promo art and posters? Like

And like 

And even???? 

He’s so angry and ready to Throw Down 

But then in actuality he’s just 

Disney explain

the historical vlad dracula is overrated, his brother radu was awesome

nicknamed ‘the handsome’

died before the age of 40 but compensated by living a full and interesting life that did not consist of fruitless guerrilla warfare interrupted by long boring spells in the slammer

literally the sultan’s favorite boyfriend

you think i’m kidding but i’m not fucking kidding

so his dad who was ruler of wallachia (aka southern romania more or less) sent radu and vlad to the ottoman court as political hostages when they were kids and they grew up there along with the future mehmet the fucking conqueror

you know. the dude who conquered constantinople in 1453, brought an end to the eastern roman empire etc etc

that dude

turns out mehmet had a ridiculous crush on radu

so one day mehmet tried to get handsy and radu thought to himself, what should i do in my precarious position as political prisoner from a small-fry principality on the fringes of the empire when the heir to the ottoman throne is putting the moves on me?

I KNOW I’LL STAB HIM IN THE LEG

so he did. he did that

and then he went and climbed a tree and refused to come down until mehmet got patched up and probably limped over all c’mon baby don’t be like that

like i bet stabbing the sultan got you a one-on-one appointment with the royal executioner. except not for radu because he was that much of a badass

meanwhile vlad was probably planning to LISTEN WHO FUCKING CARES

anyway

so radu eventually of his own volition became mehmet the conqueror’s boyfriend and they went on many exciting adventures together

like the siege of constantinople

where was vlad at the time? being kicked out of his own country because his standard approach to politics was ‘devise new and exciting ways to torture and kill people slowly’. despite what certain history books will have you think he was super unpopular with… everyone basically.

radu was highly educated and spoke multiple languages and was all about turkish and persian literature. also possibly converted to islam though sources tend to contradict eachother on that

by the time radu was 22 mehmet gave him a command and started sending him places

like wallachia to overthrow his brother who was being politically inconvenient

SO MUCH GAME OF THRONES-GRADE BACKSTABBY DRAMA HAPPENED YOU HAVE NO IDEA

also radu married a serbian (or possibly albanian) princess named maria despina and had one daughter

died suddenly in his late 30s, which is code for ‘probably poisoned’

and in conclusion: a genuinely interesting historical figure you don’t hear enough about because his brother was a vampire or something