ABYSS. Breathing the Fluid

[32BitJunkie]

Would dry drowning be a problem?

[DeathBlade182]

Am I the only one who immediately thought of Neon Genesis Evangelion?

[ThatDutchLad]

@DeathBlade182 LCL would be ten times more terrifying since there's no escape from the control pod.

[supertwoinone]

i came ... from CRACKED!!

[JiminyKracker]

Ah so that's what I did wrong with my little bro. Water has to be pink :(

[azubike69]

CRACKED sent me

[shaider1982]

Yet another You Tube post occupied by Cracked.com readers=)

[gibsonpowa]

I love this movie, this scene amazed me when I was younger

[ganaschico]

that's perfluorocarbon for ya

[luxlucisvia]

crack me open a beer and lets watch..... fuck it, CRACKED

[tuuskee]

reminds me of LCL

[trivium5]

cracked sent me

[MrJonny844]

craked!!!

[OscarFernandezNy]

Cracked.

[DoctorJabargo]

Here because of Cracked

[LambdaDiamond]

@DoctorJabargo also here cause of Cracked.

[lonelyhobo135]

@waxer No, Because The Liquid Isnt Going Into Your Stomach. You Have To Overcome That Reflex To Not Inhale A Liquid Into Your Lungs, But After That, Your Inhaling It Like Air

[Waxer3929]

My only question is, if this could work, would your stomach get bloated?

That is, if you can even swallow.

Because I hate being bloated, especially from water.

[JayLeeKorean]

@Waxer3929 "could?" this is possible.

en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/­Liquid_breathing

[Waxer3929]

@JayLeeKorean I only said "could" because Superawesomeman3 stated, no more than 2 comments below mine, that the liquid would "strip your lungs of its mucus lining".

Whether that's true or not, I didn't want to take the risk at the time and start a possible "flame war" over such a seemingly useless matter.

But my question still remains, would you get bloated?

That is, you're breathing the fluid, but technically could you still swallow? You probably don't want to, but it's natural to swallow.

[superawsomeman3]

technically you could breathe flourocarbon breathing fluid. But the liquid itself would strip your lungs of its mucus lining. Your lungs would collapse and kill you as soon as the fluid was drained out.

[Bloodshotbuddah]

@superawsomeman3 That and the fact the pressure inside your chest would make your lungs feel like two gallon jugs causing them to sink down into your stomach.

[SEThatered]

@superawsomeman3

Why is it successfully used in hospitals then?

[ThleTruth]

if anybody reads this within the next hour can u tell me what this movie is about

[okazunzunmad]

@ThleTruth　the abyss

[StephenB58]

gullivera : I have a DVD. I think's the special edition. Anyway, I know that Ed Harris held his breath a lot. He said so on the Today show after the movie was released. Are you sure he didn't have the breathing fluid in the suit? I'll hunt up my DVD of the Abyss. It's my no. 2 all time most favorite movie. I know about half the dialogue by heart.

[scottweise18]

That stuff is fluocarbons . There's enough oxygen in that stuff that allows us to breathe it .

[StephenB58]

TheDcac : According to what I have been reading for almost thirty years now, yes, humans can breathe the fluid. Orson Scott Card wrote a book based on the screenplay of the movie. According to him, Ed Harris could have breathed the fluid just fine. However, there is a limit to how much oxygen the fluid can contain for whatever space the fluid is in. And there is a limit to how long you can breathe the fluid before you breathe in all the oxygen.

[benevolentdictator77]

1:21 the fluid flows

[cullyduff]

hahah nice Nixlegio :D "You secure that shit hudson!"

[ChibiVegito]

I think I remember seeing this movie way back. Damn, I want to see it again now.

[StephenB58]

nixlegio: That scene with the rat breathing the fluid, that was real. This fluid is some kind of oxygenated flourocarbon; or something like that. I first read about it Popular Mechanics magazine sometime in 1983. Ed Harris told Bryant Gumble right after the movie was released that he didn't breathe the fluid. He was a little afraid to. He held his breath a lot. he could have breathed the fluid. It is for very deep diving. But it is real.

[TheDcac]

@StephenB58 they havnt yet created a system that works properly yet for humans though, the volume needed to recycle to too great.

[gullivera]

@StephenB58 You're half right, the scene with the rat was real (And hence banned from the UK release). But the scenes where Bud is in the suit is a combination of illusions: In this scene where the helmet is filled, and he enters the moon pool, the helmet is filled with simply pink coloured water (Not breathing fluid), and Harris holds his breath. In the actual dive scene the helmet has a removeable pink tinted visor and he just holds his breath, and scuba divers give him air between takes...

[gullivera]

@StephenB58 ... Continued: Even though the breathing fluid is a very real technology, it was not used for Bud's deep dive scene. I recommend (If you can get the special edition DVD), watching the brilliant making of documentary "Under Pressure", its all in there.

[StephenB58]

In 1989 after The Abyss was released, Ed Harris came on the Today show and said he did not breathe that fluid; though he could have. Lots of people don't realize that the part with the rat breathing that fluid was real. They had that technology back in the early 1980's, or before. This fluid breathing is mentioned near the end of the Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol.

[nixlegio]

@StephenB58 are you serious? this ****s real!?

[LukeLovesRose]

I hope I'm not alone by saying that Bud and Lindsey in The Abyss was Ed and Mary Elizabeth's finest hour.

[nixlegio]

ed harris is hot, and awesome as Hudson in black ops

[LukeLovesRose]

@nixlegio

LOL. How ironic. They named a character Hudson in Black Ops and Ed Harris did the voice?? LOL. 

[nixlegio]

@LukeLovesRose why? does he play another "hudson" somewhere else?

[Niix]

@nixlegio "I'm Hudson, sir. He's Hicks."

(I couldn't resist)

[theoldinout]

Who the fuck let that bitch there? She was doing nothing but causing problems... maybe they were going for realism?

[aegisfate117]

@theoldinout Yeah, I'm FOREVER ALONE too.

[theoldinout]

@aegisfate117 You're forever alone for putting up with and enabling this shit, chicks see you as unassertive and weak. Hang in there.

[sdfghjk80484]

@theoldinout Fo fukin rill, he's trying to adapt to fucking breath liquid and she's acting like she's the one going through all the pain...bitches man, the fuck.

[cacneaunit6]

It would've been FUKING scary for the first 4 seconds.

[cacneaunit6]

When he says breath liquid for 9 months it sounds like liquid is said as liquer

[9up246]

perfectly normal! haha!

[Shanethefilmmaker]

They only used the real liquid on the mouse.

[gibsonpowa]

This scene terrifies me every time

[manuelito1233]

GAAWD... Just take a deeeeeep breath and DO IT!

[WolfieTed]

We don't breath liquid for 9 months...but still a cracking concept. Not to mention a shit hot film!

[mcflyfarm]

terrifying to watch. Takes my breath away everytime. Literally.

DO NOT try this at home kids.

[JoyousExultation117]

@trojanrunner87 hahahaha and i breathed Vanilla coke for mine as well. Dont know what these crazy people are talking about.....

[littleeggy]

I think when he says breath liquid for 9 months he means that when the baby is in the womb it's lungs are filled with fluid. Not to 'breath' of course but the baby is perfectly comfortable with this fluid in it's lungs which in this scene is what he's getting used to - again so to speak!  I suppose it's almost like the phenomenon that new born babies can swim. They instinctively know that they need to move their arms and legs and hold their breath.

[kusotarre]

@littleeggy

Fetuses do not breathe liquid. The lungs are collapsed, they inflate for the first time only after birth. If the lungs inflated in the womb, and "inhaled" amniotic fluid, the fetus would surely die.

[littleeggy]

@kusotarre I didn't say they do breath the fluid, they said that... Their lungs aren't collapsed they are just not filled with air. They are filled with fluid. Read here. nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/a­rticle/002395.htm

[Oxstayne]

Gas - fluid. Liquid - fluid.

[Vitaminnn07]

that phrase "we all breath liquid for 9 months" is of course biologically irrelevant and complete nonsense.

[JoyousExultation117]

@Vitaminnn07 He's actually referring to when we are still babies breathing liquid in the womb before we are born.

[Vitaminnn07]

@JoyousExultation117

sorry.. you are not very.. smart.

have you ever heard of a thing called umbilical cord and what it's for? oxygenated blood is supplied through it to us when we're in the mother's womb.

[JoyousExultation117]

@Vitaminnn07 I'm not smart?! I may have been mistaken but please dont make jabs at my intelligence. I was only stating was I think the man was referring to. Im sorry I dont know a whole lot about the umbilical cord and oxygenated blood. Surely that doesnt mean I lack intelligence.

[iheartlovebleach]

Jesus christ, can you imagine going through that shit for the first time ever?

[dylan9094]

I really like this movie, but, because of it's slow pace, I kind of have to be in the right frame of mind to sit down and watch it.

[SmokiSounds]

I know what you mean man. Have to really sit back and enjoy it with a blunt.

[Beamshipcaptain]

I LOVE this movie for over 20-years.

[mousepd]

Ohhhh man.That's a scary thought. Is it true that the Navy has expierimented with this technology?

[Beamshipcaptain]

Yes. You can even breathe plain WATER with high-pressure oxegenation, like a fish-tank bubbler, but more diffuse. As long as enough Oxygen is dissolved in the water, you can breather WATER, like a fish!

[lordvivec87]

But there's a serious problem... How do you get the CO2 out of your body?

[Beamshipcaptain]

It gets absorbed by the breathing fluid (hydrocarbon-emulsion).

[lordvivec87]

I dont think that the fluid absorbs the CO2, i searched info on it, apparently the only way to eliminate is obstacle is to create somesort of ventilation system...

[Beamshipcaptain]

Respiration is exactly the same as breathing air, the CO2 goes back into the flurocarbon emulsion the same as if you were breathing air.

[OneNinetyEight]

Exactly, the fluid absorbs the carbon dioxide, and a respirating machine circulates new flood, that way your always having access to an oxygen-rich supply, and the carbond dioxide-saturated fluid is taken away.

[boundaryzero]

It would have to be done through an intravenous shunt.

I believe the USN has tested used this technology successfully.

[boundaryzero]

thats got to be a most terrifying 1st time... breathing liquid