system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If you are trapped underwater and need to make it to a breathing hole, what should you do (to survive) - swim slowly and limit CO2 production? Or swim quickly and reach the hole faster?
gpt
Well, disregarding any physiological effects, drag is proportional to the square of the velocity, so your required energy expenditure will be exponential with an increase in velocity.  So super fast would not be good.  That being said, there will be some optimum point as going super slow will most definitely not be an advantage either.