You've been in the water for hours. You're 60. You're getting cold and tired. What do you look like to a shark? You look like an injured animal. Besides, these are tiger sharks - the most likely to attack humans. And if you die, you'll probably get eaten by scavengers, and bones sink.
Also, do you have any idea how difficult it is to spot a body in a stretch of water as large as that one? Especially as they're not wearing lifejackets and so probably haven't got dayglo orange clothes on, and no lights at night either.

I am telling you it is a prank

And besides if they were in the water too long they wouldn't have to worry about being eaten alive, they could drown through their skin. Then they would have to worry about the sharks eating them

As I said before, they were abducted. :sentynel:

Bodies don't float all of the time. If you were wearing extremely heavy clothing and had swallowed a lot of water you'd probably sink.

What if...

WHAT IF THEY WERE CAPTURED BY PIRATES?????

*sigh*
We've already been through this Anuk... it was the ninjas silly, who then went off to kick pirate butt.

Adele wrote: And besides if they were in the water too long they wouldn't have to worry about being eaten alive, they could drown through their skin. Then they would have to worry about the sharks eating them

...scuse? You drown when you've been in the water for a long time because of either getting too tired to keep your head out of the water, or getting hypothermia and getting confused (even in warm water, you cool down very quickly).

You can drown through your skin too. Those little holes all through you, they're called pores. If they take in too much moisture (water) then you can drown.

Er, no. Just no. You drown because your lungs fill with water, so you can't breathe. You pretty much drown if you breathe in an atmosphere with no oxygen in for too long.
Assuming you don't get hypothermia and don't drown, you can stay in the water pretty much indefinitely without suffering many more ill effects than temporarily slightly wrinkly skin on your fingertips and so on.

c'mon sent your supposed to agree with me. I don't know if its true or not, but It sounded good.

Adele wrote: c'mon sent your supposed to agree with me. I don't know if its true or not, but It sounded good.

Sorry? Since when has "agreeing with complete bullcabbage" been part of my job description?

Everyone always believes what you say... so no one would have known it was "complete bullcabbage"... unless they tried to look it up, which I doubt anyone really would have, except maybe Post.

You actually thought you could drown through your skin?

You can't drown through your skin, you don't breathe through your skin.

Artemis wrote:you don't breathe through your skin.

Unless you're an insect.
Just to be pedantic.

For the last time.

We're getting off topic here.

Sentynel wrote:

Artemis wrote:you don't breathe through your skin.

Unless you're an insect.
Just to be pedantic.

Well obviously, if you can wear clothing and drive a boat, you're a human.

Or a highly intelligent monkey, but they don't breathe through their skin either.

Don't you take in moisture through you're skin too? If they were in the water too long, wouldn't it go to their brain, causing it to swell to the point where the brain was too crushed inside the skull?

I saw that once on dateline or something. These parents made their kid drink so much water her brain swelled, crushed, and she died.

Yes, if you drink too much water your brain can swell up and kill you. It's the most common reason for death after an ecstasy overdose. However, you do not take in water through your skin. Your skin cells may take in a little, but it's tiny quantities and won't get beyond them anyway.

I know someone told me that before, so I asked my dad, and I think he was who told me in the first place because he said

wrote:Well now, I am not entirely sure.  But I think that if your skin gets wet to a certain point it can start peeling off.

now that wasn't verbatim, but similar.

See he tells stories all the time so I never know if its the truth. But that sounds quite interesting

It's possible that getting soaked for a long time could cause the dead layers of cells (outer few layers of the skin are dead) to peel away more easily, but not in the same way as, say, sunburned skin peels off.
Most dangerous thing just being in the sea for a long time can do, provided you stay warm and don't drown, is that the salt is mildly irritating and you start getting sores. Certainly nothing life-threatening though.