Zombies' Deal with Water

[fdgsgds]

What would happen if a zombie went into water? Would it walk at the bottom or what?

 

[bombshoo]

Depends on the type of zombie. Different incarnations have different physical needs. Some require oxygen and foods (usually in the form of human flesh), and some can exists for centuries with virtually nothing. In the book World War Z, zombies lost underwater continue to be a major problem for years after the clean up following "Z-Day".

 

[Mango Elephant]

Zombie's don't need air. In the water they just walk around and drag down beach-goers and latch themselves onto boats.

 

[History_Buff]

Zombies are inconsistent. According to World War Z rules, they don't seem to eat all that much after the outbreak, and yet they move for decades. Sounds like a blatant violation of thermodynamics to me.

 

[GenMarshall]

Depends on what type. I've seen em rushing in water where survivors struggle to even trudge through even ankle deep water. Some drown...

...wait. I'm citing Left 4 Dead XD

Though I seen a zombie poping out of a full bathtub.

 

[Shekwan]

I dont see why they couldnt swim...maybe?

 

[Tani Coyote]

Zombies are inconsistent. According to World War Z rules, they don't seem to eat all that much after the outbreak, and yet they move for decades. Sounds like a blatant violation of thermodynamics to me.

To be fair, every movement is tearing their muscles, and no nutrients are rebuilding them. So after time, the natural muscle tearing we all face kills them.

On-topic:

Depends on if they have air in their body. If not, I think they will stay below the water, just as we humans do if we let all air out of our body.

 

[Earthling]

I believe pretty much any usually encountered depiction of zombies would not really have trouble with being submerged in water, even for a long time.

 

[Lord Baal]

Depends on the zombies. In Diary of the Dead, zombies walked from beneath the surface of a swimming pool they'd been weighed down in.

 

[Annex]

Zombie Jesus can walk on water.

 

[dannyshenanigan]

It might possibly depend on the level of decomposition of the zombie. I'm not an expert but don't corpses let off gases as they decompose? That's why when you throw a dead body into a body of water you want to weigh it down so it won't float to the surface.

 

[Icekommander]

Nothing really. They'd rot to skeletons if they stayed under for too long, and currents and pressure would or could kill them, but no problems with a swimming pool or a shallow lake.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

I've only seen one movie that I can recall that zombies actually go into water, and they walked across the bottom of a river to get to a city where many people were holed up. I believe it was George A. Romero's Land of the Dead.

But I think it would depend on the type of zombie. If they were truly dead, then I see no reason why they couldn't go underwater (Resident Evil, Land of the Dead, Automaton Transfusion, etc). If they were like 28 Days Later and were just infected with a virus that made then crazy and cannibalistic, then no. I also think the zombies in Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead would also NOT be able to go underwater.

Depends on if they have air in their body. If not, I think they will stay below the water, just as we humans do if we let all air out of our body.

I think you mean if we let the air out of our lungs. But that's not always the case either, as I can take in a full breath and still sink to the bottom.

Edit: By the way, Automaton Transfusion is a terrible movie. It's terrible by any standards.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Zombies would be great shark fodder. But then you might get zombie sharks. Then again zombie sharks probably wouldn't be much worse than regular sharks.

 

[Perfection]

Depends on if it's holy water or not.

 

[Fetus4188]

I don't think Zombies are dense enough to be able to get a good amount of traction on the floor (let alone the possibility of just floating about without the knowledge to swim). I imagine any kind of greater-than-zombie-height depth water with any kind of current would be a barrier.

 

[Luckymoose]

My opinion of zombies is that they would need all forms of sustenance that humans need. They just wouldn't get it because they are psychotic. So they would drown.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Depends on the type of zombie. Different incarnations have different physical needs. Some require oxygen and foods (usually in the form of human flesh), and some can exists for centuries with virtually nothing. In the book World War Z, zombies lost underwater continue to be a major problem for years after the clean up following "Z-Day".

True but in WWZ there was discussion of simply waiting out the zombies which started to show signs of decay. The major threat though seems for zombis being preserved by frozen winters and then being unthawed in the summer periods.

 

[civ_king]

they would get screwed by oceans regardless between animals and pressure

 

[Karalysia]

Gandhi!