Today I was feeling so confused, so I decided to make my method as simple as possible.
Main Method: drowning with attached weights. Temperature: 5-10C
Weights: one approximately 7l backpack and 5l plastic water bottle, both of them filled with sand near sea. I can't carry heavy weights with myself, I will have to walk maybe 5000 steps deep into wilderness. Carrying empty stuff and later filling them with sand is easier
Before entering sea:
I will tie my shirt to my chest. I will use another shirt to tie backpack and bottle to the shirt around my body. Shirts are very thick and sturdy. I hope shirts and knots will be able to hold backpack and bottle in one place until they sink to bottom of sea.
After entering sea:
I will enter sea with weights tied to my chest and filled with sand. I can carry max 20kg weight, so 7+5=12kg will be relatively easy for me to carry with my hands, until sea is deep enough. When sea is like near my chest, I will quickly hyperventilate and then start inhaling butane or propane. Because weights are attached to my chest, both of my hands will be free to inhale gases. That's it. Hopefully, as I inhale them, I will become severely dizzy, fall into sea and have a little but agony before i pass out
I found a sedative pill, but to prevent diving response as much as I can, instead of taking sedatives, I will drink two energy drinks to force my body demand more energy, more oxygen
That's it. My method.
What is diving response?
Diving response is surviving drowning 30 minutes in very cold water scenarios. Instead of cold shock response, instant cardiac arrest and coma, body reduces its oxygen needs as much as possible and endures drowning for 30 minutes and more. Hopefully I will experience cold shock and die instantly instead of experiencing diving response
Why do I inhale gases?
Inhaling gases such as butane or deodorants is very unreliable: they can be survived with brain damage. But they can be useful, I hope, if I combine inhalation with drowning. Even though they are unreliable, they will speed up drowning process by damaging lungs, replacing oxygen from lungs and causing asphyxiation, making me dizzy and even unconscious, complicating recovery if I am found, since they will have to firstly remove harmful gases from lungs.
Hypothermia can be useful
Hypothermia can unfortunately trigger diving response and make drowning survivable, but if I am found, unlike warm water drowning, rescuers will have to both remove seawater from lungs and treat hypothermia in cold winter. Hypothermia complicates recovery process. Simply removing excess water from lungs won't be enough
Why do I attach exactly 12kg weight?
And for my low weight (I am about 50kg), carrying 12 kg will be more than enough to make myself sink rather than end up floating. 12kg weight will make me sink deeper inside sea. I don't want to end up floating and accidentally breathing, my face above seawater. Weights will keep me inside sea
I am ok if I will have to experience some agony and pain. I just want it to be successful ctb
Gases such as butane or propane butane mixture are sold commonly as filling up lighters, as car tire inflators etc.
Butane may not work very effectively in low temperature, but I am sure propane butane mixture car tire inflator will work at cold temperatures, since propane can work in freezing temperatures
Update 2:
I edited my post more to increase clarity.
I really hope my method will work. I will do it at evening. Drowning, hypothermia, toxic gases inside lungs, drinking energy drinks to raise metabolism and to demand more oxygen during drowning - all of these measures should work.
I edited my post again and wrote basically everything important I know. No need to complicate it.
I think that at this level of complexity, it's ok. If my method becomes more complex than this, I will feel confused and stuck.
Hopefully, this level of planning and complexity will be just enough
thanks so much for reading my post.
Main Method: drowning with attached weights. Temperature: 5-10C
Weights: one approximately 7l backpack and 5l plastic water bottle, both of them filled with sand near sea. I can't carry heavy weights with myself, I will have to walk maybe 5000 steps deep into wilderness. Carrying empty stuff and later filling them with sand is easier
Before entering sea:
I will tie my shirt to my chest. I will use another shirt to tie backpack and bottle to the shirt around my body. Shirts are very thick and sturdy. I hope shirts and knots will be able to hold backpack and bottle in one place until they sink to bottom of sea.
After entering sea:
I will enter sea with weights tied to my chest and filled with sand. I can carry max 20kg weight, so 7+5=12kg will be relatively easy for me to carry with my hands, until sea is deep enough. When sea is like near my chest, I will quickly hyperventilate and then start inhaling butane or propane. Because weights are attached to my chest, both of my hands will be free to inhale gases. That's it. Hopefully, as I inhale them, I will become severely dizzy, fall into sea and have a little but agony before i pass out
I found a sedative pill, but to prevent diving response as much as I can, instead of taking sedatives, I will drink two energy drinks to force my body demand more energy, more oxygen
That's it. My method.
What is diving response?
Diving response is surviving drowning 30 minutes in very cold water scenarios. Instead of cold shock response, instant cardiac arrest and coma, body reduces its oxygen needs as much as possible and endures drowning for 30 minutes and more. Hopefully I will experience cold shock and die instantly instead of experiencing diving response
Why do I inhale gases?
Inhaling gases such as butane or deodorants is very unreliable: they can be survived with brain damage. But they can be useful, I hope, if I combine inhalation with drowning. Even though they are unreliable, they will speed up drowning process by damaging lungs, replacing oxygen from lungs and causing asphyxiation, making me dizzy and even unconscious, complicating recovery if I am found, since they will have to firstly remove harmful gases from lungs.
Hypothermia can be useful
Hypothermia can unfortunately trigger diving response and make drowning survivable, but if I am found, unlike warm water drowning, rescuers will have to both remove seawater from lungs and treat hypothermia in cold winter. Hypothermia complicates recovery process. Simply removing excess water from lungs won't be enough
Why do I attach exactly 12kg weight?
And for my low weight (I am about 50kg), carrying 12 kg will be more than enough to make myself sink rather than end up floating. 12kg weight will make me sink deeper inside sea. I don't want to end up floating and accidentally breathing, my face above seawater. Weights will keep me inside sea
I am ok if I will have to experience some agony and pain. I just want it to be successful ctb
Gases such as butane or propane butane mixture are sold commonly as filling up lighters, as car tire inflators etc.
Butane may not work very effectively in low temperature, but I am sure propane butane mixture car tire inflator will work at cold temperatures, since propane can work in freezing temperatures
Update 2:
I edited my post more to increase clarity.
I really hope my method will work. I will do it at evening. Drowning, hypothermia, toxic gases inside lungs, drinking energy drinks to raise metabolism and to demand more oxygen during drowning - all of these measures should work.
I edited my post again and wrote basically everything important I know. No need to complicate it.
I think that at this level of complexity, it's ok. If my method becomes more complex than this, I will feel confused and stuck.
Hopefully, this level of planning and complexity will be just enough
thanks so much for reading my post.
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