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According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.

Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.

However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.

When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.

It still wouldn't surprise me if every once and a while he’d lie awake at night staring at the ceiling just thinking:

Nor does his parents or any family get screentime.

I’m sorry but how would it not be hilarious for him to have a parent and sibling (like Angel). Like think about their point of view. They:

Have an angsty teen.

He's been sneaking out at night.

He comes back home littered with bruises.

You start to get worried.

But somehow his grades have been massively improving.

You know he isn't beating up people to do his homework as 1) that's unlike him and 2) his test scores are improving as well.

You ask him what the hell he's been doing.

He replies: “I gotta really great tutor.”

His sister asks: “what does he beat you up everytime you get a wrong answer?”

And your son replies: “no….well…he does sometimes smack me with a stick but that's unrelated.”

How the fuck do you reply to that?

Someone else probably has more inside information about 2012, but I do know they wanted to pay homage.

2012 also gave me a headcanon that Mikey in particular has an iron stomach and completely adaptable taste buds because he grew up starving in the sewers of a city with a fucking melting pot of food and trash.

It also sadly helped give me an idea of Mikey being very hungry and needing more food then they got growing up(i think it came from someone pointing out how big mikeys shell looks on him compared to his brothers)

That being said…..

OH MY GOD YOU MEANT LIKE WHEN A WINDOWS COMPUTER CRASHES!

I THOUGHT YOU WERE REFERRING TO THE LEO WINDOW TREATMENT AND I COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW THIS CONNECTED TO THE COMIC.

Rise Donnie! You know, the turtle that famously craves gaining praise and understanding from others! The same turtle who puts science above all else! When he meets other scientists or, at the very least, other intelligent people he thinks will understand him he tends to put them on a pedestal. Meeting a literal different version of himself would be even worse.

I’m not even sure if 2012 Donnie’s obvious crush on 2012 April would even register in his head. That four-eyes would have some heavily rose tinted glasses basically super glued to his face should he ever meet another Donatello.

Additionally, I think people forget that 2012 Donnie basically operates like a search engine. You ask him a question and he spits out all the knowledge he has on the topic. It is so easy to get him going on information rants that can distract him from basically anything. Including his crush on April.

And there is no way Rise Donnie wouldn’t be rattling off questions and getting into long winded discussions with 2012 Donnie almost every minute. 2012 Donnie being with Rise Donnie would probably be so distracting he would momentarily forget his own crush.

So yeah. I’m pretty sure they’d get along swimmingly. They’d both be a bit too caught up with each other because they’d both have a: “hey someone here finally understands what I’m talking about all the time!” Attitude to really notice the other’s more….annoying quirks.

Take the 2012 TMNT turtles for example:

They have the instinct to suckle. That’s a mammal instinct. Suckling allows newborn mammals (like humans) to latch and nurse off their mothers. Reptiles don’t have this instinct because….well, they don’t feed their young via milk-producing mammary glands.

Yet here we have two turtle tots who exhibit the suckling instinct.

I mean….i already got a theory on what Raph might see….

I think a good “fear” for Donnie would be either him being dissected and studied by humans especially after the clash they had with the mob (a sorta “the scientist becomes the experiment” thing)

OR another “fear” could be Donnie re-living being ripped apart by April again.