can a person cry under water?
114814
yep, I have. I've gotten into the bathtub trying to drown my sorrows and cried and put my head under the water. I wasn't trying to commit suicide, just having a good cry and dunked my head under the water.
308576
Not very easily. When crying you automatically breathe in a lot of air and that is a problem under water. You'd either drown or get up to the surface again very quickly.
840165
Occasionally I'm like the rubber duck on the surface of the water. Effortlessly content and buoyant, but also hopelessly separated from the body of water by the surface tensions that make up another person's life. I can't bring the water to be as happy as I am, and the only way to be truly empathetic is to punch a hole in myself, sink myself to the bottom.
1143985
There is a condition called water intoxication but you really have to drink a lot of water.  It basically dilutes the electrolytes in your body to a degree that it can't function properly and is a life threatening condition.  I think someone would have to force themselves to drink that kind of volume, though, since it would not be easy.
75836
Yes. But then you'd have to breathe in after that, which is not a good idea when under water.\n\nTry this experiment in the bath: inhale, blow the baloon, and then surface for air.
302471
Not if the water is a couple of feet above your chest.
262185
Yup.  Too much water will kill you.  Too little water, will kill you.  Balance = happiness
218794
no humans are not waterproof.\nwe are water resistant though.\nif you want an example next time your in a bathtub or pool look at your fingers they get pruney thats a result of osmosis or water transferin into/out of your body
101163
i think weeping sometimes can really externalize that held within. and feels better. not sure about full-on crying, its kinda rough, blocks my nose, eyes all puffy, b/p and hr elevate, i think all that drama sometimes only feeds negativity.\n\nawww schneb :-)
1156329
yes, one day when I was three I went to a garden were you can buy flowers with my family.I was just walking around when I saw a pond that looked like a puddle.I thought I could walk over what I thought was a puddle.When I stepped into the pond (which was 4 feet deep)I was suprised when I didn't feel the ground,I fell into the pond and had almost drowned I screamed to the top of my lungs and my dad saved me.I remember crying with my jeans soaking wet. My mom was so worried that she held me all the way home even when I was soaking wet.\n\n\n\n                                            The end
603158
Can you sob underwater? No, because you can't inhale. Crying is not much of a crying is you can't sob :P
686382
When somebody cries? Is it? The study about someone crying?
939641
tears are not as salty as sea water...
1070726
If it is well controlled, yes.  If not, you are at serious risk for a lung injury.\n\nHere is why.  Asthma is an inflammation of the breathing passages.  This reults in anrrowing and can result in air being trapped (at leats for a short period of time).  At constant pressures, no problem.  But when diving the ambient pressure changes.  \n\nIf you filled a ballon half way full at 30 feet depth, when you surfaced the ballon would be fully inflated.  (The reverse is true as well).  The problem is what if the air inside a trapped space doubles in volume - it has to go somewhere.  Barotrauma is the result.  The ability to equalize these pressure is essential to SCUBA diving -- be it the lungs, inner ear or sinus.\n\nOne other wrinkle: SCUBA can trigger asthma.  Some asthma seems to be initiated by breathing in a bit of salt water (unlikely, but it could happen) or by exercise (like kciking against a current).  \n\nMy advice:  Consult with a doctor familiar with diving physiology. and your clinical history.
608200
Don't worry !!! First you must feel very comfortable in the water - walk, run, jump etc. Next step is contact water with your face. If you feel that everything is all right then you can hold your breath under the water: standing at the wall, with and without float (or another equipment). First start swimming with some equipment (legs, hands) and then start do it without those things. Process of learning  is very difficult to describe and put it down.I can say something more about your movement in the water  if I could see how you move.Some people learns very fast some doesn't want to even put their face into the water. I had all of them and now their can swim :) so don' worry :)
311098
Not very much.  The water pressure on your body would prevent you from being able to bring in air that is at normal atmospheric pressure.  You need a compressor on the surface and a hose to breath from.
956167
yes but you you would have to make sure that the water pressure is not too high so only on shallowish sea beds and it would be dangerous if the structure did fail it's bye bye to everyone.\nWe have made air tight structures before (eg space craft and submarines) so its possible just not practical.