Do dead people float in swimming pools?
Emily Parker asked:
My sister and I are having a little debate, she says dead bodies don’t float in swimming pools and I say they do.
Garth
My sister and I are having a little debate, she says dead bodies don’t float in swimming pools and I say they do.
Garth
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
They should, as long as there are no puncture wounds. If the body doesn’t take in water through openings, laws of physics will dictate that the body will float. So it can float, and it can sink, depending on if there are lacerations or if victim is ******* in water prior to death.
October 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
They float, just with their head in the water and their back facing up. let yourself float for a minute next time you get in the water and you’ll do what a dead person would do.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:02 am
As long as there is air in their lungs…If no air is in the lungs they will sink.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Yes dead people will float… Even if they do sink when air is escaped from lungs, the body generates a gas that fills the body and totally disables it (riga sets in)… the body will then float to top… if they didnt float, you would be seeing a crap load of bodies thrown into rivers or oceans
October 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
at first dead people float. the air in the lungs will however slowly escape making hte person sink over a period of a few days. its not until a few weeks after sinking that the decomposition causes gasses in organs to make the body rise again.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
it will float until it gets water in the lungs, then it will sink until the body rots and gives off gas and floats again, then once the gas goes away it will permanently sink (usually takes 10 days)
October 11th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
First they float…….
Then they sink.
I’m a lifeguard, and if you’re a good guard, you’ll see an unconcious/spinal victim when they’re floating facedown (rightaways). But, I know of a girl who was guarding at an outdoor pool, and didn’t notice a body laying on the bottom of the deep end, because the glare from the sun was so bad and she wasn’t moving around on deck. Obviously the person had been down there for awhile