Personally, I'd say that swimming in swamp/sea water full of petrol, oil, chemicals, raw sewage and dead bodies is a sign of more balls than brains. Particularly if you have any broken skin, like all those people probably do. Gangrene just isn't sexy. Nor is diarrhoea or copious vomiting. They're also not likely to increase your chances of survival when there's no clean drinking water. And since neither boiling or crude distilation are going to remove the petrol, that's still going to be an issue.
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Date: 2005-09-03 10:19 am (UTC)Personally, I'd say that swimming in swamp/sea water full of petrol, oil, chemicals, raw sewage and dead bodies is a sign of more balls than brains. Particularly if you have any broken skin, like all those people probably do. Gangrene just isn't sexy. Nor is diarrhoea or copious vomiting. They're also not likely to increase your chances of survival when there's no clean drinking water. And since neither boiling or crude distilation are going to remove the petrol, that's still going to be an issue.