what is the highest a person could survive a dive into water .?
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People have lived from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge --- however the majority have died trying. According to Wikipedia the GGB is 220 feet above the water. From this height you will either die from the fall or compress your spine when you land. Either way, its not a good thing.
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The question is...Can anyone walk on water???? NOT!!!!!!
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divers will ride the dorsal fins commonly. if you expect they will stay at the surface so you can breath you're dreaming. not to mention the force at the surface of the water ripping you away.
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"the longest that humans can hold their breath for is about 2 1/2 minutes, and this is for pearl divers who make a living by holding their breath underwater. Most of us can only hold our breath for 1 minute."  (see Source)\n\nI think that there are extremes (world record holders) that are nowhere near the average.\n\nI read somewhere that there's a trick to holding your breath for a long time, and it is to eliminate the nitrogen from your body.  I forget how you do it (sorry), but the point was that it's the presence of nitrogen, not the absence of oxygen, that causes the FIRST problem for humans.
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i believe i heard somewhere that they can dive as deep as 1700 feet.
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Occupation Diver\nCause of death the bends from comming up 100 feet in too short of time
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The current record for "freediving" is 439 feet.\nSee reference #1.\n\nThe record for diving with scuba gear is 318.25 meters.\nSee reference #2.\n\nThe deepest dive in a "bathysphere" was in the \nMarianas Trenches to a depth of 10,915m.\nSee reference #3.
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Having been in the stuff while my more experienced friends stood around and laughed, I can tell you -\n\nYou won't drown.  Its just like water, only thicker.  It doesn't "suck you down".  Stay calm and swim out slow motion.
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The number one thing.\n\nGo where you can stand about waist deep.  Get used to putting your head/face under water while you are totally safe. As you get used to it hold your head under for like 30 seconds at a time.\n\nWater is dangerous.  It is scary.  Try to get comfortable being in shallow water first.
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Depends on whether they are hooked up to an IV, etc.  Ther eis no set time frame but generally a person can survive without water for only a couple of days ... no simple answer to your question.
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Depends if you want to come up again or not. It's not swimming down that's the problem.\n\nIf you're not bothered about coming up, you should dive over the Marianas Trench which reaches 10,911m down (not sure how accuracy to a metre is guaranteed!).\n\nFree diving has various categories and records, but the absolute maximum at the moment is held by Austrian diver Herbert Nitsch. On 2 October 2005 he dived to a depth of 172 m (564 feet).\n\nCurrently, the world record for scuba diving is just over 1000ft.  On June 13, 2005 Nuno Gomes, a 52-year-old civil engineer from South Africa, descended to a depth of 1,044 feet in the Red Sea. May be a later record now. I find it amazing how little depth we can go to when you imagine how small a 1000ft hill really is, about a 100 storey building.
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the average person can hold their breath for about a minute and a half in desperation.    i believe the world record is well above 8 minutes now, but those people have lungs 4 times the capacity.   The brain is starved of oxygen at 4 minutes and brain cells begin dying rapidly.
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You would die from the drop in your sodium level before you could ever 'drown"  Its called watering posioning. I have included a link for you
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Probably could, but there is a small chance you'll get bent doing it.  Is it worth the risk?  Keep this in mind:  Helicopters, when transporting divers, cruise at a ceiling of 50'.  That is as high as they're willing to go.  \n\nChanges in altitude are very dangerous after diving and should be done cautiously.
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Probably from 6 to 10 feet., if the drop is feet first, and you don't get the air or wind knocked out of you when you hit. I was about that size on my first hi dive jump. Although they usually measure it in meters. Chances are, when you look at it from that height, you may decide otherwise unless provoked by someone in a dare! the distance after about 30' doesn't change as the speed rate of fall will be the same.
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How to survive a swim in a crater.
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We don't drown until we stop trying to swim to the surface.\n\nBe well, and good luck!