How did you almost die?

Ugh multiple times

Went on a float trip with some friends. If you’re unfamiliar, you rent a raft and get drunk on it and float down the river. We stopped at a beach or something, one of the guys decided to try and swim across. Being drunk, I decided to follow him. Made it to the other side no problem, but very tired. Then had to decide how to get back, getting there was easy based on the river currents. Walked up river a little bit, decided I was far enough up where I could diagonally swim across fairly well. Got halfway, got very tired and decided to flip on my back and kind of lazily swim towards the other side. There were some downed trees in the middle of the river a couple hundred yards down I figured I could grab onto if needed. Friend saw I stopped swimming hard and jumped in the raft to come save me. I explained what my plan was and he informed me it is very possible I would’ve been sucked under water and gotten stuck on the trees underwater.

Partial engine failure in a single engine aircraft. About 50% of the engine worked so I was able to land it back on the runway fine.

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