Is it possible to cry underwater?
613531
It is definitely possible to cry under water, especially if you are using scuba equipment.  Without this equipment, it would be difficult to carry out the normal crying process as sniffling and panting, which are a normal part of the crying process, could not happen.
6430
It is possible to cry under water. However, it may not be noticable without some sort of goggles or mask.\n\nDuring the act of crying, an excess of water and salt (the same liquid that normally coats your eyeballs) in excreted (produced) in your tear ducts around your eyes. Outside the water, you notice the buildup as it falls down your face. However, in the water you do not experience the noticable tear because it is dissipated into the water almost as fast as it is made.\n\nBelieve it or not, your body actually attempts to sweat in hot water (ie, hot tubs, etc). However, you do not notice this sweat because it becomes part of the water as soon as it reaches the skin surface.  Tears under water act in the same way.
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.
819441
I think it would be awesome, so long as you're comfortable with water. :)  I've heard that Navy divers have great fun in their jobs.
1038718
I used to be the same way. People who cry a lot just have easier access to their emotions, really. They know what they feel the instant they feel it. There are people out there who never acknowledge feelings, never cry, and their behavior is stony and unpersonable. \n\nBut I can still imagine that you'd like to avoid crying in public, because it is a little embarrassing. I can't give you any tips on how to do this, it's going to take some practice and knowledge of yourself. Whenever I feel myself wanting to cry in front of people, I shove it down. I think of anything else to avoid thinking of what's making me sad. I wait until I can get in the car by myself or in the bathroom, and then I let loose. A few minutes of crying and I'm good. \n\nGood luck. Don't beat yourself up because you're sensitive. You just feel, you feel a lot, and you wear your heart on your sleeve. This is not a bad thing. :)
438161
Send down a SCUBA diver to look!  Just kidding.  Your idea to pump out the well and see what happens sounds good.  If you have a camcorder, you could tie it to a rope and lower it to the bottom to have a peek like in the movie Volcano.
538859
When one is swimming under water,it`s easy to view bubbles from your mouth or nose.If it`s possible for the formation of bubbles then it`s possible to blow a balloon though the outward pressure exerted by the balloon will be imence compared to the inward.You can still succeed if you use a good electric pump.
351412
i would love it if this was possible. seems like it would be if had enough hard working ppl in scuba gear
1087725
Astronauts can indeed cry in space. Tears run down your face because of gravity, but they don't need gravity to form. When the tears get big enough they simply break free of the eye and float around. But why would an astronaut cry in space in the first place? :)
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.
1132947
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/crying\n\nDon't cry- yr too cute!
586648
Well personally I don't cry, but I have seen others cry. Like my best friend; he's rather passionate towards football... \n\ni guess that makes you a weird freaky fanatic... :P no worries plenty of others do it too
258080
You can't.  It's just your emotions flowing out. I am like that too.  Don't worry.  It's ok if you cry a lot.
613079
Chew gum!  It works for me everytime.  Or try doing it underwater!
862355
just imagine yourself along side a serene little creek, calmly holding their heads underwater, one by one, while they fight for air. ;)\n\nA little aggressive, I know, but should make you smile a bit :)
479513
During pregnancy, there is a stage where the human fetus has gill slits, but by the time a baby is able to survive outside it's mother, these have disappeared.  Babies, as we would think of a baby, can NOT breathe underwater- they have air breathing lungs, just like you, and would drown.\n\nThere is something called the mammalian dive reflex, which slows respiration, and can allow someone to survive for a short time (perhaps a few minutes depending on the circumstances) under water just from the oxygen they receive from the water, however this works best in very cold water, which has more dissolved oxygen.  People with smaller bodies, like babies and young children are more likely to survive longer under water.  This is where stories of kids serviving under lakes for long periods (15 min, or so) come from.
71077
Despite our ability to adapt to environmental conditions, there must certainly come a point where the surrounding pressure would overwhelm the solid portion of our structure--crush bones, break cellular walls, that sort of thing.  Deep sea divers can't go to the bottom of the deepest trenches.  I don't know whether they are crushed first, or some other gruesome death takes them first, but eventually I imagine whatever is left of them would be crushed.