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Put Your Oxygen Mask on First
You Should Always Put Your Oxygen Mask
on First – Here's Why
By Trevor English
If you have ridden in a plane during your lifetime,
you know the long drawn out safety speech where the flight attendants tell you
to always put your mask on before helping others.
While you may be thinking this sounds a little
selfish, there is a very good reason that you should listen to them.
At a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet, it takes only
seconds to become disoriented and pass out due to lack of oxygen.
This means if you help a child first, it may be too
late before you can help yourself.
Smarter Every Day went to extreme limits to make it
clear why you should always put your mask on first, check it out below.
The condition developed from lack of oxygen when
depressurization in a plane occurs is called dysphoria.
On commercial airliners, if the cabin were to rapidly
depressurize, your body's O2 saturation would fall to dangerous
levels in under 10 seconds.
So, when the masks come down, you should always put
yours on first before helping a child.
Once you are safe, you can put the mask on the child.
Even if the child is passed out, putting a mask on
them will still render them okay in the long run.
Once your O2 saturation gets below 60%, death can
occur at any moment, which makes the action of putting your mask on first even
more relevant.
Remember, in the event of an air danger, you need to
worry about yourself before you help others.
There may be hidden risks, and you can't help others
if you are passed out, can you?
Trevor English
Author
Trevor is a civil engineer (B.S.) by
trade and an accomplished writer with a passion for inspiring everyone with new
and exciting technologies. He is also a published children’s book author and
the producer for the YouTube channel Concerning Reality.
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