#it's been like over a decade since I've been waterboarded/watched it irl okay

[pythagoreanwhump]

Okay I was tagged on my horny blog but this is totally the kind of stuff I put on my torture blog lmao.

Qualifications uhhh I was waterboarded in an informal military training exercise ig. And they talked to us about it. I have never waterboarded anyone (yet).

You want the face to be below chest level. This is done because if the air openings on your face are below the lungs, water comes out the face end before it can end up in your lungs. If you have a bent tube with one low end and one high end, and try to pour water into the low end, the water level will never reach the high end.

But how much lower? As you may have noticed, your lungs are not open to the air. This means that as your subject inhales, they may be able to draw water up above the level of their nose and mouth. If you use a bent straw upside down in a cup, and submerge the short end under water, you are able to drink. Your lungs are not strong enough, your body not geometrically simple enough, and your face holes not small enough, so keep the face extra low below the chest works. That's why waterboarding as a technique exists, it still is safer than drowning. I cannot give you a good answer of how low is low enough, that depends on how fast you're pouring the water, and the physiology of the person you're doing it to. They may also lift their head in their struggles, if their head is not held/strapped down. But at the very least, mouth and nose fully lower than the lungs.

I've seen a lot of people describe it in fiction as just, head hanging back over an edge. I suppose that would get the face below chest level, but that is not a risk level I'm personally comfortable with, because it's very easy to lift your head up and not so easy to keep the head still like that.

S knows better than me in terms of first aid stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In terms of safewords, do not recommend using verbal signals at all. It would be hard to hear, obviously. If you're going the releasing a weight for stop route, use something that makes a loud noise when it hits the floor, and is easy to check if it's still in their hand or not. I don't like the release method, because people often clench their hands when struggling. I personally prefer something that makes noise when squeezed, like a squeak toy or something

if you can't find any basics and want literally the ground level not risk managed face-up technique, two layers of tshirt thickness cloth laid over the whole face and then consistently running water anywhere on the nose or mouth is one classic variation (i've seen a large-ish water bottle fairly slowly poured aimed right at the tip of the nose and that seems to work decently well). the water just has to form a "layer" in/on the cloth, so it's fully saturated and flowing through the fabric. i mean and there's holding somebody's face in a bucket of water until they start freaking out but that one's self explanatory. sorry if you already knew this and needed like risk management tactics haha

I appreciate you but I am looking for more like risk management. I’m meeting up with some people to talk about assisting them with a waterboarding scene and I just want to have some knowledge going in. The dom (who I am going to meet for the first time tomorrow) (we are not doing the scene tomorrow) has done it before but i don’t want to just be like. i guess i’ll take your word for it! ya know?

i’ve heard the person getting waterboarded needs to be at an angle to lessen the risk of getting water trapped in the lungs, but i have not been able to find out anything more specific. like angled up or angled down?

the people i do know who invited my partner and me to the scene said something about doing it on a pool table, which

hot (good)

seems like a pun (good)

is not angled (not good)

most google/duckduckgo searches are either “how to survive waterboarding” or are related to the kink but not very informative. i’m gonna have to watch videos of it. for research. i mean i’ve watched them in the past but not with a scientific eye.

the info you provided is still good tho so thank you