Show many of the old ideas we have about drowning are pure bunk by WILLIAM 0 nyouk kansas city club many of the old ideas that we hive have about drowning are arc pure bunk for instance you hear that a person comes up only three times it mean a thing it depends upon the individual how many times lie he comes 11 up the more he be thrashes around and keeps fighting a the more often he will reach the surface if a person stays down at the end of the third time it t means that lie he has stopped fighting 0 0 either through fright or fatigue few deaths in water really are arc from drowning they are from suffocation persons drown from getting large quantities of water in their lungs tho the most water that a drowning person inhales is probably a tablespoonful it is not too much water that kills them hut but too little air suffocation has caused the deaths the first tiling thing to do with a drowning person is to give kirn him artificial respiration get his lungs to working and and your battle is half won |