3. TIL that waving arms and screaming are not signs of drowning, but of aquatic dis...

TIL that waving arms and screaming are not signs of drowning, but of aquatic distress. Actual drowning is often “quieter”; no call for help, no waving arms, just an upright body and head tilted back. Thus many people fail to recognize when a person is actually drowning.

wasn't as jarring an experience as you might think.

My drowning story.

At the late age of about 8, could not swim. My friend's family all had been taught to swim by a particular women who worked at a lake and so it was set up for me to learn to swim from her.

So me and a few other kids were put in a boat and taken out to a platform in the lake a ways away from the shore. I think we were told we would be thrown into the water and would just instinctively swim to keep from drowning - and this was her training method.

I think I was pretty skeptical of this and not happy about the idea. So I got thrown into the water and just began to sink did not even ATTEMPT to try to swim. I was like, 'let this asshole have to rescue me, serves her right'. Indeed after I did not surface, she jumped in. I did not struggle one bit, what I expected to happen happened.

I wonder if she gave any more kids this kind of swimming lesson after that.

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