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This is an example of [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: the major problem is not the pressure, which only becomes a problem as you go really deep (most people are swimming just a few inches below the water, hardly low enough to crush your lungs), but that the width of the reed (or snorkel) needs to get wider the longer the tube is. Otherwise you are just rebreathing the same air over and over, which will kill you after long enough. Unless you breathe out into the water, which defeats the purpose by highlighting your position with bubbles. Hmm... maybe you could do it with ''two'' reeds.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Orochimaru does it to listen to Team 7 in the Forest of Death in ''[[Naruto]]''; significantly, he isn't underwater.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Superman|Jimmy Olsen]] used this to hide from an assassin during the lead-up to the ''New Krypton'' storyline, with the added complication that the assassin could read minds. The only explanation Jimmy could think of was that [[Superpower Silly Putty|all the times his body had been transformed]] over the years had made his brain impossible to read.
== [[Film]] ==
* Robin Hood, in...well, ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]''. [[Disney Animated Canon|The anthro one.]]
* [[James Bond (
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973
* This is used to hide from guards in ''[[I Am a Fugitive
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Referenced in one of the Tiffany Aching ''[[Discworld]]'' books. Miss Tick considers being able to breathe underwater through a hollow reed after being tied up and thrown into a pond an essential survival skill for witches traveling through places where they aren't welcome.
* The hero of the first book of the ''[[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]]'' uses this trick to escape from a besieged city.
* Various ''[[Redwall]]'' characters use
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Rated "Plausible" by the ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brady#Brady.27s_leap Brady's Leap]". Sam Brady hid underwater breathing through a reed stem while escaping from Indians.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Used in ''[[
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'''Kevyn''': Reeds are ''always'' hollow.
(Either Kevyn is referring to some kind of botanical rule - which seems unlikely, since he's a professor of subspace physics and not xenobiology - or he's directly referencing this trope.) }}
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* Race Bannon does this while approaching the tribal camp in the ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS episode "Pursuit of the Po-Ho".
* Sylvester tries this with a lead pipe to "save" Tweety, who is stranded by high tide, in one ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when a seagull decides to roost on the pipe.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* "[
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