[tired1]

i’ve often wondered about boarding. why is it so effective?

[vbmoneyspender]

i’ve often wondered about boarding. why is it so effective?

Drowning is not a good way to die.

[tet68]

It’s that pesky breathing thing, the thought of inhaling
water is just too much.

[RedQuill]

‘Cuz you can’t BREATHE!

[ECM]

It simulates drowning without the threat of actually dying, but you’re convinced that you *are* drowning, thus the terror factor is high.

[Aristotelian]

“Why is it so effective?”

From Wikipedia:

The waterboarding technique, characterized in 2005 by former CIA director Porter J. Goss as a “professional interrogation technique,”[12] is described as follows by journalist Julia Layton:

Water boarding as it is currently described involves strapping a person to an inclined board, with his feet raised and his head lowered. The interrogators bind the person’s arms and legs so he can’t move at all, and they cover his face. In some descriptions, the person is gagged, and some sort of cloth covers his nose and mouth; in others, his face is wrapped in cellophane. The interrogator then repeatedly pours water onto the person’s face. Depending on the exact setup, the water may or may not actually get into the person’s mouth and nose; but the physical experience of being underneath a wave of water seems to be secondary to the psychological experience. The person’s mind believes he is drowning, and his gag reflex kicks in as if he were choking on all that water falling on his face.[13]

CIA officers who subject themselves to the technique last an average of 14 seconds before caving in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

[Dog]

Its as close as you will get to drowning..

[Brad from Tennessee]

It creates intense panic. Even when the subject knows on a rational level the interrogators won’t drown him the body still believes it is dying. The above article proves that torture does work.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/water-boarding.htm