In the movie Striking Distance with Bruce Willis, he plays a river patrol cop. In one scene he unloads the shells from his shotgun and holds them in his mouth. Then he submerges with the shotgun. When he surfaces he loads the shotgun with those shells. My question is why did he pull the shells out of the shotgun before he submerged? Anyone on the Board know enough about guns and shells to say why?

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