Posted on Jul 29, 2021

Cause of death still being sought for Green Beret who died at dive school

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Soldier identified. RIP, SSG Micah Walker

Cause of death still being sought for Green Beret who died at dive school

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LTC David Brown

Posted >1 y ago

There are several weird things that can occur in swimming, one is a condition called swim induced pulmonary edema, another is a condition that occurs with repeatedly holding your breath, the person just passes out sometimes under water. Read a story about a couple of folks having under water races from one end of pool to the other. At the end of one race one of the participants was sitting on the bottom of the pool. People thought he was clowning around, he wasn’t. Finally people realized there was a problem and got him out of the water in time. We will wait and see what happened.

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SSG Samuel Kermon

>1 y

All these years being in the water I have never heard of swim induced pulmonary edema. Can you shed some light on this? One of the things we did was simply called bobbing. A time when you just went up and down, not really treading water, but you had to take quick gulps of air and then sink down until natural buoyancy brought you back up and then repeated. We did that without moving hands or feet so literally bobbing. Didn't realize there was a danger from that. Thanks.

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LTC Jeff Shearer

>1 y

Lots of things can go wrong as you said, I am leaning to the shallow water blackout. Regardless the cause the community has lost a great warrior. The Combat Diver Course needs to figure this one out.

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LTC David Brown

>1 y

I did sprint triathlons for a while and became aware swim induced pulmonary edema because one of the ladies I swam with had it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340429/

Swimming-induced pulmonary edema

Swimming-induced pulmonary edema occurs when fluid accumulates in the lungs in the absence of water aspiration during swimming and produces acute shortness of breath and a cough with blood-tinged sputum. We report a case of a 58-year-old female athlete ...

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LTC David Brown

>1 y

LTC Jeff Shearer - I think one problem is the warrior spirit. The folks are tough and single minded and that gets them where they are. So they try to push through. We have hummingbirds. They constantly fight over feeders etc, it is their nature. It is in the nature of these warriors not to quit, even when physical problems are developing.

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