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Torchwood! Oh, that explains...never mind.
That site says that lungs fill with water, but I found other studies, based off of autopsies that said they didn't.
Irrelevant, anyway. Whyever they sink, they sink. Now, can the immortal gain...ground by swimming upwards? How long are they alive? Fuck, if they have water in their lungs, don't they drown again right away? How could they even walk out? Even if their recuperation drives the water out (like the bullets may be expelled) there's nowhere to get oxygen from.
Irrelevant, anyway. Whyever they sink, they sink. Now, can the immortal gain...ground by swimming upwards? How long are they alive? Fuck, if they have water in their lungs, don't they drown again right away? How could they even walk out? Even if their recuperation drives the water out (like the bullets may be expelled) there's nowhere to get oxygen from.
Well, I had the idea from that ep. in which Duncan washed up on the shore of a Japanese island, that he had drowned in a shipwreck, stayed dead while under the water, then revived after he got to shore. Which, of course, flies in the face of cousin Connor being fully conscious, and not drowning in the first place while wandering about on the bottom of the lock.
Torchwood! Oh, that explains...never mind.
Yep, need a bit of cross-media backstory to understand that one. Everyone knows it's an anagram, right?
Everyone knows it's an anagram, right?
yep. very clever, they are.
do we know the premise of Torchwood?
so poor Captain Jack is going to be earthbound?
But the real issue is -- if a drowned corpse sinks, it'll sink to the bottom of a 20-foot lake. But will it sink to the bottom of the Marianas Trench? The density at the bottom of a deep-sea trench is so high that it would do all sorts of other things, like the nitrogen effect that causes the bends. Theoretically, at least, you could end up with a corpse that is under water, but "floating" because it isn't dense enough to go any lower.
So the dude, after waking up, wouldn't even be able to walk his way home -- he'd have to swim.
This is why it is bad to think too hard about sci-fi, isn't it?
Also, corpses are more likely to float in saltwater.
And cold water. Poor bugger'd get to some sort of homeostasis, or be like those strange oil thermometers.
Doesn't organic matter eventually settle to the sea floor regardless? There's all that sediment down there, and not a solid crust of dead fish covering the entire ocean...
