ELI5, if you get an injury underwater (say in the ocean) that opens the skin and bleeds, what stops your body from intaking water?

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ELI5, if you get an injury underwater (say in the ocean) that opens the skin and bleeds, what stops your body from intaking water?

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The seawater cannot come in since you will continue to bleed as your heart beats. You are alive with a strong blood pressure and your tiny but relatively strong blood flow is pushing all the water away

Woh. But if you go way deep underwater, I wonder if water pressure down there will increase to eventually be greater than your blood pressure??

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