Quote:I've done it a number of times. Hyperventilate, start swimming, go past the first "you need to breath" message (that's just slightly elevated CO2), then go past the second and you're there. The funny thing is, you'll often keep making swimming motions even after you've passed out. Be sure you've got someone who knows what they are doing (I did it with a Red Cross certified WSI) watching you, ready to pull you out.Right. If you prepare yourself by hyperventilating, you can do it. (You learn something new every day.) If you prepare yourself in various ways, you can do all sorts of things: withstand electrocution, go without food or sleep, sustain high levels of pain. People have voluntarily survived amputations without anaesthetic, which is about as bad as it comes. But that's part of the whole torture game: they set the schedule, not you. What people can do during training and what people can actually do in a real interrogation are two very different things. If your interrogators are not morons, they're not going to just sit back, watch you hyperventilate, and then waterboard you immediately afterwards. They have you there as long as they need, and eventually, you're going to have to stop hyperventilating. You can't keep your CO2 levels artificially down forever, and 24/7 is a damn long time to resist. It's not really a long time to sit back and watch someone resist, waiting for your moment.
-Jester