Navy Skills for Life – Water Survival Training – Clothing Inflation

Who better to teach survival at sea than Navy experts? Learn the proper way to float, the most efficient swim strokes, how to use your clothing as a flotation device and more. This episode focuses on inflating your clothing for drownproofing.

[AdventureTravelTwins]

I'm glad it worked but I did it in a different way. First put a knot in each leg inflate the jeans and squeeze the waist between your legs then put it under your t-shirt. Lay on your back and float with both hands free that will give you the ability to navigate in the waves and to wave with both arms. Makes it easier to get spotted and it's a better isolation in cold water. Then breath out under the t-shirt that will help also to keep the upper body warm.

[svemirka]

Just read some German tourist used this method which he saw somewhere until rescue team find him after 3 hrs.

[BiGGCaiN]

Learned this in the Navy in 2001. Very legit life saving technique

[EL-pzrp]

Tested and approved by the German man who fell overboard.

[XhuwagKangEpal]

As a future BPE (PE educator). we need to teach student on swimming, and Im glad this thing help me a lot in my lesson plan, THANKS!

[Hotshotter]

That is an extremely useful tip. I had no idea you could do that.

[richardturner]

This is good to know. My father was in the Navy in WW2 and he told me about this.

[nonchablunt]

this lifehack just saved a german guy's life! it does work.

[hquwx]

This actually fye as hell this will most likely save your life

[Stridonjerome]

Who else is here because of the German guy?

[jimisland]

"Yes, you will look absolutely ridiculous, but you will live with that shame. Live!"

[spinvalve]

I learnt this technique in swim school when i was 10yo and never forgot it. Instructor told us kids to come wearing our pajamas that day so we inflated PJ pants. It was fun and memorable.

[asdf]

this is absolutely crucial. a lot of people dont know how to swim and this method will help poeple from drowning.
at least 3-4k people die from drowning in USA each year. This means, at least 20x the people dying from it dont know how to swim. I think this method should be taught in every middle school at the very least.

[Tadaia]

HA I remember this from navy training in 1984. It actually works.

[bilfa]

this video and the german tourist taught us never to wear ripped jeans unless you want to die

[MGMN]

Save the boots if you've got a feeling it could be days or weeks before rescue as you'll need them for walking, making beef jerky, for thread, making traps, fires, flesh light, trading and most importantly if you have ammo you can make a homemade bird/buck shot 12 guage

[dartistguy]

thats COOL!> when I went to boot camp in 2002, we had to put on wet coveralls and jump in the pool and force air into the opening.

[sebrenaz]

They taught us in coveralls. We used the slap method.

[karensanchez]

wow this is actually a really good survival tip thanks.

[Rose-zive]

Your video is presented very well. Thank you for sharing.