• Question: Can you cry underwater?

    Asked by Little Einstein to Chris, Josh, Rebecca, Rob, Susan on 24 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Susan Cartwright

      Susan Cartwright answered on 24 Jun 2015:


      It wouldn’t be a good idea, because crying usually involves gasps for breath in between the sobs, which sounds to me like an excellent recipe for drowning if you did it underwater! But, in principle, I can’t see why not. Obviously, unless you were wearing a face mask, the tears would not be noticeable, but I can’t see a good reason why you couldn’t produce any.

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