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[OpinionatedCyborg]

So out of curiosity, what's the longest one could expect to live in the ocean assuming you did have a life vest? I reckon the most immediate danger is hypothermia but what's the average case scenario for someone stranded in the ocean with a flotation device? I suspect Charles would have killed me whether or not I could last more than 5 minutes. Or some local predator would have taken an interest.

It depends on the water temperature and how rough the seas are, I would think. The recent Korean disaster occured in 10 - 12 deg celsius water, I think, and hypothermia may occur within 90 minutes. I'm curious too... will google.

e: http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/coastal_communities/hypothermia

Water Temperature 	Expected Time Before Exhaustion or Unconsciousness 	Expected Time of Survival
(°F) 	(°C) 	  	 
32.5° 	0.3° 	< 15 minutes 	45 minutes
32.5&#8211;40° 	0.3&#8211;4.4° 	15 &#8211; 30 minutes 	30 &#8211; 90 minutes
40&#8211;50° 	3.3&#8211;10° 	30 &#8211; 60 minutes 	1 &#8211; 3 hours
50&#8211;60° 	10&#8211;15.6° 	1 &#8211; 2 hours 	1 &#8211; 6 hours
60&#8211;70° 	15.6&#8211;21.1° 	2 &#8211; 7 hours 	2 &#8211; 40 hours
70&#8211;80° 	21.1&#8211;26.7° 	3 &#8211; 12 hours 	3 hours &#8211; indefinite
> 80° 	> 26.7° 	Indefinite 	Indefinite

 

[Mordeccai]

Why the fuck does this guys head go underwater so damn much. It's really not that hard to tread water or float and not bob up and down like a jackass. He even takes off his damn shoes.

In the end it doesn't matter because you're stranded and going to die anyways, but I can't get over the whole premise behind this: dude buys a sailboat, gets knocked overboard by his buddy, and despite the $50,000 dollar investment has no fucking clue how to swim.

 

[gurudyne]

Lasted 4:18, but only saw 30 seconds of swimming due to buffering (where I still had to scroll.) Fuck my Internet connection.

 

[Tathanen]

4:59, but I've got an unlocked ratchet mouse wheel I just kept flickin. I'm surprised anyone got farther than that, I dunno how someone could scroll faster/more than the crazy unlocked spinning my mouse was doing.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

The full video: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/guy-cotten/videos/guy_cotten_experience_master_720p.mp4

 

[royalan]

I was distracted by what a fucking awesome design concept this site is.

 

[meow]

I lasted 5 minutes on my macbook while eating a chocolate with my other hand. I was scrolling continuously, didn't realize I had to speed it up when he got all super panicky.

 

[Poltergust]

Did anyone get past 5:47 minutes?

Spoiler

I think around that time it forced me to end

Yeah, I think that's the longest you can go for. I was mashing the button like crazy the entire time and I died exactly at that point.

 

[Dug]

0:00. Keep on dying after the scrolling part, guess I'm not doing it fast enough.

 

[Delio]

I lasted 3:24 min. This is one of my greatest fears and it really got to me.

 

[royalan]

This was... odd.

It did remind me of my looming fear of ocean where you look down and it's just darkness. Damn ocean you scary.

You know what's scarier?

Being in deep ocean, and looking down in the water and seeing nothing but darkness...and seeing the shadow of something almost the size of your boat swimming several dozen feet beneath you.

Lawd, when I tell you I hopped my ass out of that water so fast....

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

4:59 and I was using soft scroll, so I don't know how I drowned. Shit felt rigged.

Also, Charles is a fuckhole. And what was with the fingernail?

And I guess I'm naive, but couldn't he have probably floated on his back for a good bit. Waves looked pretty calm.

 

[twilitesparklemotion]

The full video: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/guy-cotten/videos/guy_cotten_experience_master_720p.mp4

Fuck, that's awesome. Very Marble Hornets.

Actually playing it, I got as far as the nail coming off. Then I was like shit shit shit shit no.

Spoiler

I've lost a toenail. Surgically, but it's enough.

 

[LogicStep]

That was interesting. Lasted the 5 mins, gets scary at the end.

 

[Striker]

Didn't make it too long before my fingers started to cramp.

Full video does the job. Hell with that. I would be terrified in that situation because I have no idea what's lurking beneath me or what's around me. I like to think I am an okay swimmer but being in those depths with nothing else around me would just spook the hell out of me and probably cause me to panic and tire out easily.

 

[Mordeccai]

You know what's scarier?

Being in deep ocean, and looking down in the water and seeing nothing but darkness...and seeing the shadow of something almost the size of your boat swimming several dozen feet beneath you.

Lawd, when I tell you I hopped my ass out of that water so fast....

I'll never forget my second cert dive. It was a ship wreck off the coast of Florida 80 feet deep. Me and my cousin jump off the boat, grab the guide rope, and descend into what looks like infinite darkness. All of a sudden you're at the bottom and it's lit, even though this bottom was presumably just a black pit during the descent.

Taking in the sight of the wreck when I have a feeling something was moving behind me, so I turn around and there is a MASSIVE lemon shark doing a drive by. He was probably nine feet long. Not much you can do 80 feet below, at the time I had no idea what sharks breeds were what and was scared shitless.

 

[Madness]

You know what's scarier?

Being in deep ocean, and looking down in the water and seeing nothing but darkness...and seeing the shadow of something almost the size of your boat swimming several dozen feet beneath you.

Lawd, when I tell you I hopped my ass out of that water so fast....

When I went whale watching as a kid, all these whales would come up right near the boat, some even under, it's one thing to see these animals in pictures and videos, another to see them up close. Was both scary and amazing at the same time. Too many Friday the 13th, piranha, lake placid type movies for me to ever be comfortable in a pool of water where I cannot see the bottom.

 

[Volimar]

I drowned after 5 minutes. Yeesh that was an ordeal.

 

[Linkyn]

The scrolling is not so bad, but I turned it off for fear of it becoming the huge ocean denizen simulator.

 

[RustyNails]

Didn't make it too long before my fingers started to cramp.

Full video does the job. Hell with that. I would be terrified in that situation because I have no idea what's lurking beneath me or what's around me. I like to think I am an okay swimmer but being in those depths with nothing else around me would just spook the hell out of me and probably cause me to panic and tire out easily.

I actually had something like this happen to me...in a pool. So I was there swimming in an indoor pool around holidays so its all empty. I used to live in Jeddah near the Red Sea, which is known to have the deepest depth out of all the seas. During the night time the sea looked pitch black, and very foreboding. There have been number of drowning cases too. Anyway while in the pool I close my eyes, relaxing. For whatever reason, I was imagining the Red Sea and it's darkness. I thought it would be fun to imagine me stranded in it and trying to swim to the shoreline, so I open my eyes and start swimming. Halfway through, I am tired as hell and couldnt swim, and there it was. I started to panic like a mufugga. Funny thing is my feet could touch the ground (shallow pool as I am a bad swimmer) and I started to walk to the other side, but my heart was RACING and I was sweating. I get out of the pool and my wife makes me lie on my back. I thought I was going to pass out. My crazy heartbeat wouldnt stop! It fel like it was going to jump out of my chest and explode...My wife quickly got me some gatorade which helped. All in all it took me 30 minutes to calm down.

It was the scariest experience I had in recent memory. Dont mess with the water kids. We are wired to be fearful of deep water.

 

[Psychoward]

Well that was incredibly morbid.

 

[kiunchbb]

Why the fuck does this guys head go underwater so damn much. It's really not that hard to tread water or float and not bob up and down like a jackass. He even takes off his damn shoes.

In the end it doesn't matter because you're stranded and going to die anyways, but I can't get over the whole premise behind this: dude buys a sailboat, gets knocked overboard by his buddy, and despite the $50,000 dollar investment has no fucking clue how to swim.

Yo the wave in the middle of ocean is bigger than you thought. I can float for hours in a swimming pool, or in a beach, but all the way there is a different ball game.

 

[Tagyhag]

I actually had something like this happen to me...in a pool. So I was there swimming in an indoor pool around holidays so its all empty. I used to live in Jeddah near the Red Sea, which is known to have the deepest depth out of all the seas. During the night time the sea looked pitch black, and very foreboding. There have been number of drowning cases too. Anyway while in the pool I close my eyes, relaxing. For whatever reason, I was imagining the Red Sea and it's darkness. I thought it would be fun to imagine me stranded in it and trying to swim to the shoreline, so I open my eyes and start swimming. Halfway through, I am tired as hell and couldnt swim, and there it was. I started to panic like a mufugga. Funny thing is my feet could touch the ground (shallow pool as I am a bad swimmer) and I started to walk to the other side, but my heart was RACING and I was sweating. I get out of the pool and my wife makes me lie on my back. I thought I was going to pass out. My crazy heartbeat wouldnt stop! It fel like it was going to jump out of my chest and explode...My wife quickly got me some gatorade which helped. All in all it took me 30 minutes to calm down.

It was the scariest experience I had in recent memory. Dont mess with the water kids. We are wired to be fearful of deep water.

I actually have a hard time swimming at night in the pool because of stuff like this, I keep imagining a shark right below me or something, I know it's incredibly stupid but I can't help it.

If there's another person with me it's a whole different story though.

 

[Smellycat]

4:58

 

[akachan ningen]

I wanted him to stfu after 30 seconds so I stopped and drowned. The funny thing is that I was on the surface when I stopped and I still died. Fucking FMV games.

 

[luckygodzilla]

.02 seconds

I'm 99.9% certain that there is no way to kill yourself that fast in the water.

 

[Dusk Soldier]

I lasted nine seconds.

I blame it on the fact that I had a touchpad and not a real mouse.

 

[Aurongel]

This loads in .5 second chunks.

Fuck this. I didn't want to drown anyway.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

I have to work just to dive a few feet before being forced to the surface.

Is there some weight threshold where you start sinking?

 

[Winterblink]

I give this thread like maybe three pages before someone rigs up a rotary sander to spin their mouse wheel at such an unbelievable speed that Charles is launched into space with so much force he takes the entire earth's ocean with him.

 

[DrkSage]

Ok guys lets pretend...

Lets pretend you're in the middle of the ocean, floating, it's nighttime, cold, the only light you have is the moon that's giving perfect visibility, you look down and all you see is this pitch black bottomless ocean.... All of the sudden you're getting tired... You can't swim anymore... And you submerge underwater tired... You're sinking... You can hardly keep your eyes open since life is fading away... You close your eyes and open them again and look up as you keep sinking to see this...

This is the last thing you saw before you died....

This is my biggest fear.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

I have to work just to dive a few feet before being forced to the surface.

Is there some weight threshold where you start sinking?

It's not weight, it's density (muscle and bone are denser than fat). Africans and Asians generally don't float as well as Europeans because of this. However, rough waters obviously makes things harder for everyone.

 

[Winterblink]

This is my biggest fear.

There are scarier things to see in the ocean just before you die. Say, the gaping maw of a shark, or a sudden huge swarm of giant jellyfish surrounding you.

 

[sensui-tomo]

There are scarier things to see in the ocean just before you die. Say, the gaping maw of a shark, or a sudden huge swarm of giant jellyfish surrounding you.

more fearful of the things in the deep ocean, thank god if i'm drowning i wont see that ever.
Now what would be worse still, Burning, drowning or sink sand?

 

[DrkSage]

There are scarier things to see in the ocean just before you die. Say, the gaping maw of a shark, or a sudden huge swarm of giant jellyfish surrounding you.

Why not both? A group of (hammer) sharks

 

[royalan]

Why not both? A group of (hammer) sharks

FUCK

 

[TheBrain76]

Once the

Spoiler

hallucinations

started I was done.

 

[ponpo]

5:00 but i didn't stop scrolling the whole time. Not sure how to not drown.

 

[Papercuts]

Ok guys lets pretend...

Lets pretend you're in the middle of the ocean, floating, it's nighttime, cold, the only light you have is the moon that's giving perfect visibility, you look down and all you see is this pitch black bottomless ocean.... All of the sudden you're getting tired... You can't swim anymore... And you submerge underwater tired... You're sinking... You can hardly keep your eyes open since life is fading away... You close your eyes and open them again and look up as you keep sinking to see this...

This is the last thing you saw before you died....

This is my biggest fear.

I thought the guy was gonna get eaten at this point.

Drowning is my most feared way of dying. Shit is terrifying.

 

[MonsterHunter]

I committed suicide.

 

[MogCakes]

Goddammit this thing won't load for me.

 

[1000 Branches]

I think having a Mac makes this easier, since the Mac trackpad is amazing for this sort of thing.

 

[BeerSnob]

Charles, you ass. I'm going to haunt the hell out of you.

 

[PK Gaming]

7:12

I got the True Ending, where his friend comes back

 

[methane47]

This is my biggest fear.

ur biggest fear is... bubbles?

 

[sangreal]

3:36. I didn't feel like scrolling anymore and thought I could stop until the indicator came back. Oh well

 

[Servbot24]

I got 6:09

 

[Ceebs]

Yeah the thrashing around like a madman is not what you should be doing there. Dead mans float will let you float in that spot for a very long time without getting tired. Plenty of time for your idiot friend to come back for you.

 

[Poltergust]

7:12

I got the True Ending, where his friend comes back

I got 6:09

How is it possible to get these times? The full video doesn't seem to make the sequence last for more than 6 minutes before the game over scene pops up.

Stop trolling, guys. =(

 

[Spinluck]

Son of a bitch Charles set him up.