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Do you spend sleepless nights worrying

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Okay,

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we know what you think you would do

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if you were in a submerged vehicle, but what

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do the experts say? Okay,

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so this is an infographic. There's

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a bunch of steps here and let's go through

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some of them. So first

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off, they're instructing you to keep your hands

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attendant to when you're already crashing

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into the water.

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I like that though. It's protecting

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you from breaking your arms or anything like that. It's

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keeping you... All right, I buy that there's something there.

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This is true and it does say that the impact of your

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car hitting the water could set off the airbag system in

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your vehicle and in any other braced

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position could cause serious injury.

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Interesting, I did not think about that.

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So now it says, try to remain calm. You

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have 30 to 60 seconds to act before

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your car sinks. Now you said,

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mind you, you said 15 to 30 seconds for

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you to catch on to what's going on. Yeah.

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So you're at the low end, you're

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done, you're in the water.

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Yeah, oh man, yeah, yeah, at that point. Because it's like,

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I have to be honest with myself and go like...

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We're driving talking about big gobs

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so fuck we're in the wall like you know it's like it's like you got it

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like there's gonna be a moment there's gonna be a moment of like

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let's just be honest with ourselves like you know if

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you're saying we're driving into the water I'd be prepared

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for it but we're going right off

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and and it says take a couple of deep

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breaths you've been doing that you you're taking

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the best deep breaths and trying you

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need to stay focused and act immediately you

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are unbuckle your seatbelt yes

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I feel good about that so that's good you got that

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correct now open the window

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as soon as you're you've unstrapped yourself

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okay okay so don't try

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to escape through the door because the pressure

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of the water in the outside I was right about that possible

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to open yes of course and in it now

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in here we go so here's your little bolt

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thing which it's okay great and by the way

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it's this break a window if you can't open one which

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of course if it's electric you might not be able to open

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it well that's what I think about it yeah if you have

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a little baby you got to get the job out first

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I have to say this why I'm not a parent I would I

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mean yeah like have you ever seen that movie

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they have the avalanche

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movie yeah yeah

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yeah I force majeure yeah

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yeah force majeure genius that's

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this crazy Swedish movie where a dad

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basically runs away from his kids and

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wife during an avalanche and

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I mean essentially emasculates himself and

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then freaks out about yeah now you see this is

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interesting because I think I over complicated myself

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swimming out the back this is this is probably the way to do

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it but I I'm gonna argue that

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the electric windows

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aren't gonna work but well here you go well

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here here you go actually and I'm gonna go

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in here to this YouTube

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video so in this video

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this guy is running the scenario

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is like a Canadian guy with his mother is

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running a scenario where they

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are submerging a car in

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water in a body of water

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okay filling up it's trying to fill up with

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water oh he does show cutting the seatbelt

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he's like you got to cut the seatbelt

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and I just want everyone to know and you're

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watching it if you're watching if you're listening to it, this

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guy leisurely drove into a lake. I'm

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picturing us shooting off of a cliff

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and going like this is, I've driven

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into a lake. And I just want

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to point out where this is not,

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if you gave me this, I'm

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all on board with a lot of technique, but

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this is not the mission impossible version I

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was expecting. Here he is

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just a little bit later.

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He says he's going to represent climbing into the back

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seat by doing it. I, you're

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not representing it. He's actually

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climbing in the back seat.

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Now you see, I did pitch the back. Now he's going

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in the back. Yep.

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Look, there's like a person outside. Do

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you see them? Yeah. Well,

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they're taping it, but what I don't like about this video, he's not

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doing anything with any speed. Like he's

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taking two, like he's, he's

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doing a Ted talk while sinking. By

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the way, at this point, he's been

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in the car for almost two minutes, just sitting. Okay.

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Letting it get full up. I mean, I think it's a suggestion that you could

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pull the headrest out to use that to pop

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the window. Cause you need like your thing, that

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diamond thing. That's a prime

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thing in all these suggestions is you've got to pop

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the window

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if you can't get out using that, that

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window breaker thing. This guy

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makes a very good point, which is who the fuck is going to

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be able to pull out the headrest in this amount

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of time? A hundred percent. Yeah. And

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then he has a little glass breaker thing in this key chain

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and one on his passenger

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side. Yeah. How

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many window breakers do you need? This I found interesting. He

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just shoves it in.

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He like pushes through the window. I

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don't know as much as he smashes it, but

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I guess that's because it has a very, very sharp

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tip.

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Yeah. Basically the pressure

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shatters the glass. He's

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so gently pushing the glass away.

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And here he goes. And then he

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swims out to mommy and then tells

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his mommy everything that he did. I don't want

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it. Hey mom,

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nothing to worry about. What

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are you up? Oh, look,

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there she is. Wow.

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We aren't counting for the fact that that an

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airbag could go off. Right. So

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you might be, and this is where I started

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to freak out watching these, which was you

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could be pressed. So

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you have to like figure out, like think

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about like, this is, you know, this is the thing

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it's like, if it all happens

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exactly like this, like,

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all right. So if you spin

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sideways, right? And you go into the water,

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forget it, like on your side,

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right? And the car flips over. It could,

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it could,

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you could go in top up, you

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know, and, you know, like, and it could still

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go down. Like there's a million variables on how

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you go in. Can I say none of these scenarios

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have been remotely close

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to a scenario that even, that

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in any way resembles what might

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actually happen. I mean, well, can I just say this

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too? It's like, I

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think the thing, this

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is like with everything, like

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it gives us some sense of, if

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I read a book about how to escape a bear attack,

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if I read a thing, I'll be able to do it. But the

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thing is they are prepared for

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what is about to happen. It's like, like you,

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like, cause what we're, what we're not

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counting for is the panic,

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the unpreparedness,

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like anyone who's prepared to

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get out of a sinking car, we'll be able to get out of

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a sinking car. That's no

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one is, no one ever is. Okay,

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so can we put together

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what we learned and can

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we get out of this car?

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