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thejanguy
thejanguy
Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 9:11 AM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 9:14 AM EDT
If the zombies turn out to be max brooks style zombies then they can move around under water then acording to him there might be a need to hunt them down hunder water, in one of his books "the zombie survival guide" he talks about how to do this. What are your opinions on this and do you think that its reasonable. The reason I ask is beacuse it would probably be me who would be undertaking the mission since I have a scuba diving license. 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Madurjafro
Madurjafro
1. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 9:23 AM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 9:23 AM EDT
Erm, F**k it, I'd just wait on the beaches for the to reveal themselves, and if its max brooks then they are shamblers and therefore not as bad as the Ragers. although it sounds pretty good.

I'm just worried that they will contaminate the sea and when we get rid of the Zeds, some little kids will be playing in the sea unaware of the dangers, then he will get pushed in the water some water will go down his throat and boom. another zed-poc unless somebody shot the kid in the head and told everyone not to drink the water from the sea.
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Eritsukukun
Eritsukukun
2. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 11:11 AM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 11:11 AM EDT
That zombies can walk on the ocean floor is possibly one of the most stupid things written in that book.
Have you ever tried to walk at the bottom of a pool?
Even if they mysteriously become 10 times the the density of a human look at this
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/margin.gif
look at that slope. There is no way in hell that anything remotely humanoid would climb that. Its not like it pavement either. Its called sediments and sediments is a ***** to walk in.
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PedroAsani
PedroAsani
3. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 1:02 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 1:02 PM EDT
Erit, I have said before that a body can survive on the continental shelf, but not the abyssal plains. Walking might be a little more difficult, but crawling is more possible.

But Mad is right. Just guard the beaches.
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Eritsukukun
Eritsukukun
4. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 1:15 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 1:15 PM EDT
"Erit, I have said before that a body can survive on the continental shelf, but not the abyssal plains. Walking might be a little more difficult, but crawling is more possible.

But Mad is right. Just guard the beaches."
Naturally they cant walk the abyssal plains. Cthulhu would eat them.
That is the scenario describes in the ZSG/WWZ book. zombies finding new continents by walking under water.
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PedroAsani
PedroAsani
5. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 1:40 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 1:40 PM EDT
Well they might get from Europe to the US if they choose to walk the long way round. And if they get lucky and currents are helping them drift above the bottom. Do you find this valuable?    
Eritsukukun
Eritsukukun
6. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 2:44 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 2:44 PM EDT
"Well they might get from Europe to the US if they choose to walk the long way round. And if they get lucky and currents are helping them drift above the bottom."
Then I guess we will have to kill all 10 of them.
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thejanguy
thejanguy
7. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 3:18 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 3:18 PM EDT
Well at least I wont get eaten under water come Z-day. Do you find this valuable?    
skgingerkid
skgingerkid
8. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 3:26 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 3:26 PM EDT
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Madurjafro
Madurjafro
9. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 2 2010, 3:32 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 3:32 PM EDT
"Erit, I have said before that a body can survive on the continental shelf, but not the abyssal plains. Walking might be a little more difficult, but crawling is more possible.

But Mad is right. Just guard the beaches."
Yup, although guarding all the beaches isn't realistic,but you should guard atleast a mile of it I guess.
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Eritsukukun
Eritsukukun
10. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 3 2010, 4:11 AM EDT | Post edited: Aug 3 2010, 4:11 AM EDT
"Well at least I wont get eaten under water come Z-day."
By zombies.
Thats a very important part of the sentence.
but living where you are you will probably not have to worry about that.
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trophykiller
trophykiller
11. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 3 2010, 6:13 AM EDT | Post edited: Aug 3 2010, 6:13 AM EDT
when we get on the subject of walking dead, i think we can pretty much ditch any concept of realism. on a separate note, if i were to hunt things that were underwater, i'd just throw explosives into the water. its like dynamite fishing, the shockwave will kill them by the hundreds. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Eritsukukun
Eritsukukun
12. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 3 2010, 7:26 AM EDT | Post edited: Aug 3 2010, 7:26 AM EDT
"when we get on the subject of walking dead, i think we can pretty much ditch any concept of realism. on a separate note, if i were to hunt things that were underwater, i'd just throw explosives into the water. its like dynamite fishing, the shockwave will kill them by the hundreds."
but realism is the only thing we have to go on.
When you look at the fictional zombie you should say.
"what is the definition of a zombie?"
you usually answer this by dividing zombies into different archetypes.
Lets say we have the ZSG version of zombies.
the question you should be asking is "how would a being like that work and still follow as many laws as possible"
By doing that you can predict how things would reasonably work in different situations.
the only laws a solanum zombie really breaks is the conservation of energy (they don't eat or breather)
as long as that is the only obvious suspension of natural laws you need to assume that everything else works like it should. Otherwise we will need to find survival plans that handles zombies that shoot lasers out of their eyes.
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trophykiller
trophykiller
13. RE: Underwater Zombie Hunt
Aug 9 2010, 6:31 PM EDT | Post edited: Aug 9 2010, 6:31 PM EDT
excellent point, but there are a few more problems: first, wouldn't the corpses have rotted enough that it would render it harmless, second,theyre too slow to be a big threat, and third, no one is as dumb as the people in those movies(and ive met some dumb people) 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

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