Most of the advice I’ve seen on helping drowned people is aimed at reviving the unconscious.

But presumably it takes tens of seconds, maybe a minutes, between water entering the lungs and loss of consciousness.

What should someone do to save themselves during these moments of consciousness immediately after water enters the lungs? What if laryngospasm has taken place? What if laryngospasm has not taken place?

peep

Stand upside down, let the water drain out?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Stand upside down, let the water drain out?

That’s not too different to the advice I was given for drowning first aid some 40 or so years ago.
Lie down on a slope (eg. beach or river bank slope) with the head downwards and push the tongue against the floor of the mouth to clear the airway.

Laryngospasm tends to cure itself.

“Attempt to break the laryngospasm by applying painful inward and anterior pressure at ‘Larson’s point‘ bilaterally while performing a jaw thrust. Larson’s point is also called the ‘laryngospasm notch‘.”

poikilotherm said:

“Attempt to break the laryngospasm by applying painful inward and anterior pressure at ‘Larson’s point‘ bilaterally while performing a jaw thrust. Larson’s point is also called the ‘laryngospasm notch‘.”

Damn.

Still, better than dying.