It won't happen so often, no, but if you listen to Clint Emerson, a former Navy SEAL who has served the US Navy for over twenty years as a specialist in SEA-AIR-LAND operations, you will discover how to escape death by drowning if one day they should throw you into the water with your hands tied.
This and hundreds of other tricks taught to the SEALs during their famous training are in fact reported by Emerson in his manual 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide.
The best chance of surviving if you are in shallow water with your hands tied, for example, will be to use the sinking and bouncing technique: touching the bottom and giving yourself a push will initially help you find a way to reach the bottom. surface and take a good breath of oxygen; the human body floats better if the lungs are filled with air. Once this first precious supply has been obtained, repeat the operation by 'bouncing' towards the shore. If you are in the sea, however, a complete rotation of the body will give you the opportunity to breathe sufficiently every time you are facing the surface; in the arc of rotation that will see you facing down you will have to kick the water to get closer to the shore or to the nearest float.
According to Emerson, it is fundamental never to panic: panic leads to hyperventilation, the number one enemy of survival.
Another technique revealed by Emerson in his manual is that which will lead you to easily free yourself from the plastic ties, a tool that has gradually replaced the old handcuffs and which is often used by terrorists and kidnappers to immobilize hostages. Raising the tied arms as high as possible and throwing them down with a sharp gesture, loading all the strength you have and trying to open your hands in a 'natural' way, causes the break of the lace which obviously is not able to withstand our strength in this simple maneuver.
The Emerson manual, at least according to the author, promises to teach the common man to get out of a locked trunk, create a Taser, an anti-gas mask and a rudimentary bulletproof vest, evading someone who is stalking us or immobilizing an aggressor: all using objects that are readily available in common life and never using tools hi-tech.
The Navy SEALs of the United States Navy are counted among the best special forces on the planet, so the experience that can be learned from one of them is undoubtedly 'gold standard' for dangerous situations; but their 43-week training, the BUD / S - SQT (Basic Underwater Demolition / SEALs - SEAL Qualification Training) is also recognized as one of the toughest of the Western military. So do not be angry if, even after reading the manual, not all the 'donuts' will come out with the 'hole'.
