Watching Skin Move Underwater in Slow Motion Is Really Mesmerizing

Sometimes you just wonder about weird things. For instance, one woman wondered what her skin looks like underwater, in slow motion, while she swims … and the results are very bizarre!

In the video, the women mostly moves in upward motions, and the camera’s gaze is fixed on her legs and torso. Though it’s clear her body, in its natural state, is firm, her skin ripples dramatically, almost like crepe paper or a gauzy material, as she moves through the water. Her taught tummy even contorts, and her skin looks almost as if you could unwrap her like a present.

Or, as one commenter succinctly put it, “Grandma!?”.

Not much has been published to explain exactly why our skin wrinkles under the pressure of movement underwater. We do know that water has other curious effects on our bodies, though. Just think of prune hands, which is actually an evolutionary tactic to help us better grasp things underwater, says Scientific American.

And just a few feet sea level, our muscles and lungs have trouble contracting — hence the need for oxygen tanks versus really long snorkels, as Medical Daily points out.

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Maybe the interesting ripple effect of this woman’s skin under the motion of the ocean is more closely akin to the way wind — moving air — contorts our epidermises. Think of a person’s face while skydiving — or a dog’s jowls when she sticks her head out the car window.

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