and active drowning can turn to passive drowning in as little as 5-10 seconds. Once a victim begins passively drowning, "they go under pretty fast," explained Morgan Massey, manager and ...

"An active drowning victim can become a passive, unresponsive drowning victim in as little as 20 seconds," Edgerton said. "It happens very, very fast." Data published by the S.C. Department of ...