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June 4, 2013 12:56 pm PDT
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Drowning without asound
Drowning, in real life, doesn't look or sound the way it does on TV. It's not loud. It's not thrashy. And it can happen just a few feet away from you without you even noticing. At Slate, Mario Vittone explains the Instinctive Drowning Response — a physiological knee-jerk reaction that pretty much prevents all the signs and signals most of us look for in order to identify a person in the water who needs help.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qUFf2XZaQ58/story01.htm
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