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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 3203716" data-attributes="member: 29663">Ooo, I remember that lesson...  Salty makes the blood hypertonic and the eurythrocytes become crenelated.Trivia: [spoiler] Roughly how many red blood cells does a human body contain?[/spoiler]Another consideration is that if you are in a medeivel fantasy setting, it's very likely the characters are not as comfortable in the water as we are today.  We shower and bath exponentially more than the characters would.  And while we learned to swim at an early age, the characters probably are not very strong swimmers, with no standardized swimming method.  Doggy-paddle is the standard default for mammals, but the europeans were doing the breastroke for a long time...we only just learned freestyle swimming from the native americans.  I have taught swimming to inner city kids and adults, with little to no exposure to water environments, and let me tell you, getting them to just dunk their head underwater for a second or two is a VERY traumatic experience for most of them.So while we, today, in the real world, can reason out that WE may do something to protect ourselves from drowning, it's highly unlikely that our characters would respond the same way...unless they have a very high swim skill or something..02</blockquote>