what happens to a person that is thrown or falls to the sea? how do bodies decompose under water?
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More quickly. Big pieces of flesh are eaten by scavengers and predators, starting with sharks and large fish, moving all the way down to tiny fish and plankton. When they're pretty clean, they sink and break down normally. \n\nGood Luck with the murder plot! (just kidding)
984122
that totally depends on what environment the body is kept in as it's decomposing.....  a body kept in a warm, moist environment will decompose much quicker than one in a cold, dry place.
434745
due to earthquakes formed under sea...
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See, salt extracts moisture. When you put salt on a worm, slug, etc., the moistue is sucked out of them and they die. Decomposers like the aforementioned need to live in moist environments, so they don't dry out, since they dry easily.
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I think you'll have a hard time finding even one fatality outside of Hollywood movies. People are even more buoyant in quicksand than they are in water. Consider how much greater the density of sand and water must be than just water. Quartz has a density of 2.6, and water 1, so a quicksand is likely to be nearer to 2.6 than 1. Here is what some researchers found: \n(I quote from msnbc link below) "The density of an average human body is about 62 pounds per cubic foot, which is less than quicksand's 125 pounds per cubic foot." \n Besides that most natural quicksand is not deep enough for anyone to sink completely into it. \n\nWhat you might find are casualties from liquefaction, which is caused by earthquakes shaking soft water-saturated ground, often sandy. However, most of the casualties will be the result of buildings sinking and collapsing into soft wet sand substrates, and are not likely to be from someone actually sinking in sand. \nHere's a good liquefaction website:\nhttp://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/main.html\n\nAnother place where something resembling quicksand causes fatalities are volcanic lahars. These are the consistency of wet concrete and move very quickly down slopes destroying houses and anything in their path. No one gets a chance to walk across one while it is moving, so a fatality related to a lahar is more like being buried under a landslide.  \nHere is an article on lahar hazards:\nhttp://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/apr04/feature_MountRainier.html\n\nHere is an article where researchers found the a mass the equivalent of a human body was impossible to sink in quicksand:\nhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/9516779/
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A person with increased muscle mass will tend sink.Those with a higher body fat percentage will tend to float.
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Ok, although the oil and dead cells on the surface of your skin are intended to restrict it as much as possible your skin is very slightly permeable to water.  If you were submerged totally in fresh water you would still dehydrate and die if you didn't drink, but maybe at a slightly slower rate than you might do otherwise.  Because of the osmotic potential of salt water you would probably LOOSE (a very small amount of) water from your tissues to the surrounding water!
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If the water is full of air bubbles, its density is reduced. You loose buoyancy and sink.\n\nWhen there is a natural gas blow out under floating oil platforms, they have been known to go down almost instantly.
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A small child can drown in a inch of water, local pools are highly unsanitary despite the high levels of chlorine.  Also, the high levels of chlorine are bad for your skin, eyes, etc.  In the bathroom there are many slipping hazards as most bathrooms have tile or other slippery floor covering.  Most bathrooms are small spaces so that if you do fall, you have a high likelyhood of hitting the sink, the tub, or the toilet.  The beach has a variety of dangers particularly the undertow that can sweep you out before you can respond.  The salt water is not acceptable for ingestion.  Many beaches are understaffed with lifeguards (if they have them at all) so there is no one to watch for safety.  Also there are many areas where the ocean floor drops off suddenly so that if you are walking in the water you could suddenly lose your footing.  \n\nThe more I think about all of this the more I think I should stay inside and never go near the bathroom! ;)
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I'm sorry, i have to correct some of the misunderstandings posted above here.\n\nTHE WEIGHT DOES NOT, I REPEAT, DOES NOT CHANGE IN WATER.   weight is a term in physics for the interaction of gravitational forces on a masseous object.  Does the mass of the object change in water?  NO.  Does the mass of the earth change when an object enters water?  NO.  Therefore the weight is the same.\n\nWhy do objects feel lighter in water?  the difference in net force is the answer.  Weight still pulls down equally... However, the water creates a boyent force which counteracts a percentage of the weight (depending on the object submerged.  roughly counteracts 40% for humans, different for other objects).  In this way, while the weight is the same, the downward force of the object is less.  That's the confusion point for almost everyone who's answered so far.
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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.
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I think I'd crap mine a second or two before, at the realization. But yes, all muscles relax(releasing urine and crap) and then shortly thereafter fluids from your organs begin to seep out your pores underneath you, however you are laying. I used to bag bodies and escort them to the morgue.\nQuite messy actually.
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Most people who drown do not have water in the lungs due to a bronchospasm that shuts off the windpipe. He would not have water in the stomach either, because swallowing requires peristalsis through the espophogus. \n\nIam sorry for your loss.
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I'm not going to give you the comforting fiction here. I'll just tell you the truth. Nothing happens to people after death. The last thing that happens to a person is the experience of the body failing and then ceasing to function. All the body systems, including brain processing, stop functioning. The individual loses consciousness for the last time. That final experience is the end. The person's lifeless body is then removed, etc. But THE PERSON no longer exists.
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Get the victim out of the water if you can do so safely. \nMonitor for breathing and pulse. If no breathing and no pulse, do CPR. If no breathing, but there is a pulse, do rescue breathing.If victim is breathing and has a pulse, put him or her in the recovery position. This position keeps the airway clear and allows swallowed water or vomit to drain. \nTake cold, wet clothes off the victim and cover him or her with something warm to prevent hypothermia.Get Emergency Care and give first aid before emergency care:
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I don't know, but last heard about the Bermuda Triangle is there are vents on the bottom of the ocean, which somehow decreases a ships buoyancy, therefore sinking the ship so my best guess is that the people that were on the ship will dye stranded out in the middle of the ocean. So why would they need food? If they do somehow make it to a island, they will evidently die
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My husband was shipped home. His body was dressed and his casket was draped before they sent him home. He had a full honors military funeral and is buried in the local veterans cemetary. You have the choice of burying or cremation. The navy, I believe, also allows for a burial at sea. My husband was in the Army.