Saved from sinking ship: Dramatic rescue caught on tape in China

[ThePleather]

I really don't think drowning isn't a painful way to go. I know, double negative, but whatever. It's just a specific form of suffocation, which is quite painful. I'd rather burn, cause you'd probably pass out from the pain shortly, with no hope for survival. Drowning keeps you reaching for air, no matter how unlikely it is that you'll get it, and ironically it just seals your fate. I almost drowned twice when I was younger (I hated swimming, still dislike it), and I remember it vividly. :/.

[DefenceSpeech]

Damn, there goes about 3 million iPods destined for the U.S.

[whitefright339]

"my hopes and prayers go out to their family"

" did he die? "

"fake and gay"

owned

[hoosierhiver]

I'm always amazed how many people in the world can not swim.

[pakjai]

@hoosierhiver Swimming under normal condition is different to swimming out of a capsized ship in the windy and cold waters, not to mention the strength of the waves.

[DefenceSpeech]

@pakjai That's true, even if you were an Olympic swimmer, if the water is cold enough it won't matter because your muscles will contract and you won't be able to use your limbs, or even breathe.

[RedShadow238]

So sad, drowning has to be one of the worst ways to exit.

[piip4]

@RedShadow238

Apart from the immense psychological trauma of drowning, It's not very painful. I'd prefer that over many other common ways people end themselves, if I had to that is.

On a side note, a classmate of mine died by drowning. Walking home from a party drunk, thinking the ice is thick enough. It was a great shortcut, or it could have been.

[RedShadow238]

@piip4 It is the psychological trauma, there is no real pain suffered from drowning. What makes it so bad, unlike being shot or stabbed, in the last secounds of consciousness the victem feels absolute terror and panic, which in many ways, can be worse than pain itself.

[piip4]

@RedShadow238

I don't know, I guess we differ. I don't doubt the intensity of the trauma, because you know exactly -when- the lights are going off. Not every death is as punctual as drowning. That can be scary, but I don't think that applies as much for those that want to die, as opposed to those who would prefer to live.

[DefenceSpeech]

@RedShadow238 I wouldn't think so. It probably isn't painful, but you would definitely experience an insane amount of fear and anxiety. I can think of worse ways like burning alive, being crushed in an auto accident and left to bleed to death, eaten by wild animals, covered in boiling tar, being drawn and quartered, etc. The Christians were experts in torturing people to death too, so there are all kinds of medieval devices made to inflict the greatest amount of pain imaginable.

[LibertaerUeberAlles]

@DefenceSpeech

Don't forget about what the Jews did to the slaves they brought to the Americas. See YouTube for:

"Jewish Role in Slavery"

[BrandonTheRemix]

@RedShadow238

wrong, that'd be burning to death.

[Josh44Tube]

@RedShadow238 apparently it isn't that bad

[Provakator]

My hopes & prayers are with the families of the missing men. I hope they are all will be found safe.

[gundrag000]

I like dynamic than dramatic