4:20 P.M.
Nearly a quart of water was got out of him , and they had an awful job prying open his jaws . `` They worked over him for an hour and twenty minutes before there was the slightest sign of life . Not until twenty-five minutes more did the heart begin , and Mooney did not regain consciousness until nine hours later . As his watch had stopped at 4:20 P.M. and it was 4:53 when Streeter got ashore , that man 's heart had stopped , his breathing had stopped and he had been practically dead for more than two hours . '' `` Just goes to show , '' said one of the others , `` that it is n't merely swallowing water that drowns a fellow . '' `` It is n't swallowing water at all , as I understand , '' rejoined another member of the group . `` Drowning 's a kind of poisoning of the blood because the lungs ca n't get oxygen .