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Maybe I'm just a wuss, but the only thing I could think of is why would someone want to open their eyes underwater? E.g. a quick google turned up:

   a liter of seawater collected in marine surface
   waters typically contains at least 10 billion
   microbes and 100 billion viruses[1]
No, thank you.

[1] http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36120/...



Randall Munroe in an xkcd What If cited a statistic that still astounds me: the mortality of any given living cell in the ocean is 20%. Per day.

I'll dig up the ref on request, but that's just ... staggering.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1vyanj/viral_s...


Just compare how many microbes and viruses are already living on a square-centimetre of your skin.


<ironic>That's why people always die after their summer vacation on the seaside. </ironic>

Facts show that people perfectly deal with all these viruses and bacteria.

By the way, did you check the fauna on your keyboard? Or inside you digestive system?


Fishing, i.e. food & money.


Yes, of course, the people in Thailand do it to survive.

I was thinking more along the lines of first-world people, especially children. E.g. exposing "European children on holiday in Thailand" to what I stereotype as the fetid waters off the coast of third world countries.

It may be a stereotype, but that doesn't mean it's not true. I'd venture that the phrase "sewage treatment plant" is not part of the vernacular there.


> E.g. exposing "European children on holiday in Thailand" to what I stereotype as the fetid waters off the coast of third world countries.

Thailand ain't exactly third world. (The waters can be dirty, though.)




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