Setting: Near-future dystopic London with more or less contemporary levels of technology ( Read more... )

so i'm writing a fanfic where a character is kidnapped and tortured to a degree.

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I'm trying to find out what happens when someone falls into the water. Do they stay near/on the surface? Go down and come back up? Go down and stay down ( Read more... )

I'm currently writing a story that deals with the aftermath of a near drowning incident. I don't want to deal with a lot of hospital scenes in this one, so it's pretty much going to be a "recovering at home" story - lucky character gets to avoid the super dangerous hospitalization-worthy complications. *g*

The problem is, there's a fair amount of ( Read more... )

Setting: Present day, southern California

Previous Search Attempts: This Slate article gives a pretty comprehensive answer to the behavior of dead bodies in the water, and includes links to more detailed sources. Super relevant to anyone with questions how to tell whether a body was dead before going into the water or not, how to tell if someone ( Read more... )

How much would people have known about drowning and how to revive someone in the latter half of the 19th century? I'm writing a story set in the Old West and my character is dragged from the river after someone tries to drown him. Would people have known to check for breathing and pulse ( Read more... )

Apologies if this is a duplicate; I've not been reading my flist lately and missed if this has been posted.

Article on what drowning really looks like/what to watch for, as opposed to the Hollywood version of thrashing and screaming for help.

( Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning )

Okay, I'm working on a what-if scenario for a fanfiction contest, writing an alternate scene from the show's canon. In canon (and in the fic), the character in question is tossed overboard and gets separated from his air supply. He is fished out of the water, and his companions are unsure if he's conscious -- he probably is at least semi- ( Read more... )

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I've gone through google and lj seek searching for drowning and near death experiences ( Read more... )