A thing about drowning everyone should read. Yes, I mean you.

When I was around 10 years old I went down a water slide and unexpectadly lost my balance as I tried to stand, I was a good swimmer but I was suddenly panicking and on my way to drowning in 2 feet of water.
Then I was lifted clean out of the water by a lady stood near by, It all happened so fast, I don't think I even thanked the woman who saved me, nearly a very bad day for me.
 
very informative, thanks for this !!
hope i never need to look out for the signs tho
many thanks
 
One of the janitors at my secondary school lost his son in a lake a couple of years ago, a very very sad situation.

I was afraid of water until 13 or so, so I never went into the ''deep'' and had a relatively low risk or drowning, especially since all primary school have to teach swimming to kids at least for 1 year 1x per week, I had to lean at 8 or 9 and that was FAR later than most.

Very informative though, I don't know whether I had been able to identify someone drowning.
 
I remember when I was young falling off the end of one of those inflatable adventure play things at a pool when it was closed for a party.

I was taken by suprise, must have taken in a mouthful of water and then started to struggle to swim anywhere, and I was doing what the OP said, head bobbing just above the water, paddling like crazy and not getting anywhere. Luckily whoever I was with at the time pulled me out.
 
This is why, as a lifeguard, I always used to count the kids in the pool during swimming lessons. It's impossible to watch the entire pool at all times so a simple count every minute or so could have instantly made me aware of someone sunk to the bottom.
 
i was once drinking out of a bottle when my older brother said something that made me laugh and some how i ended up inhaling aload of diluted juice..

i couldnt breath for around a minute and every time my brother smacked my back it felt like it was making it worse.

drowning for real must be a horrible feeling i dont know why a lot of people think its a calm way to die
 
bledd. said:
I've been close to drowning, well at least I think I have

I was body boarding a few years ago, and all of a sudden had really bad cramp in both of my thighs, all I could do was curl up in a ball to try and stop the pain of it. Meanwhile, waves crashing down on me, pinning me to the sea bed. Was probably only under for about 30 seconds.

But when you're in pain, out of breath and in a state of panic, it feels like forever!
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Been there it is NOT nice... especially as I knew no one had seen me go under. Fortunatly it was a freak wave and the rest weren't half as powerful.
 
When I was a kid I was snorkelling in about 2' of water, just off the beach, loads of people around me when a guy in an inflatable dinghy went right over me, I was trapped under the dinghy and forced down into the sand by the weight of the guy, couldn't move, obviously I panicked and started thrashing about, couldn't see or breathe, thought I was a goner, started to black out and next thing I remember is just coughing and spluttering with another guy dragging me up the beach and my mum screaming at me for messing about. Didn't go in the water for quite a while after that I can tell you.
 
if you're close enough to notice "glassy eyes that are unable to focus" you could just give them a poke ;p
 
Thanks to the OP. Seriously. I have little uns and none of them can swim yet. A real eye opener and something to think about.
 
The amount of times I have seen little kids appear to be in trouble but never really done anything since the parents are right by them. I think next time I see anything I'm gonna be over in a shot and pull them from water. I think the risk of being paedo branded is worth it even just to check they are ok. Pretty shocking stuff.
 
There was a time when I nearly drown myself too, which is pretty unusual because I am a trained lifeguard. Stupidly, my mate dared me to swim out near the shipping markers in San Antonio bay and pretend to be dead by floating on my face.

Anyway, I swam out and he filmed me on his 10x optical zoom camera and on the swim back there was some serious under-currents. I honestly thought I was going to be stuck out at sea, because I would swim 100m then tread water and try again but it must have took about 20 minutes to come all the way back :(
 
EVH said:
There was a time when I nearly drown myself too, which is pretty unusual because I am a trained lifeguard. Stupidly, my mate dared me to swim out near the shipping markers in San Antonio bay and pretend to be dead by floating on my face.

Anyway, I swam out and he filmed me on his 10x optical zoom camera and on the swim back there was some serious under-currents. I honestly thought I was going to be stuck out at sea, because I would swim 100m then tread water and try again but it must have took about 20 minutes to come all the way back :(
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Scarey as **** when you get currents like that. What do they call them...rip current or something? When we were down at the beach on the south coast at Witering (sp?) years ago when I was a kid, the tide used to go out and there were massive sand bars/dunes with mini "seas" in between them as we so used to refer to them as. We once went very far out and drifted in currents. I also recall the same day there were some really really powerful currents which nearly swept my brother away. Luckily a lady grabbed him.
When we finally got back to the beach to find mum and dad, we were actually on a different beach all together we had drifted so far down without realising. Looking back I'm amazed we were allowed to play without supervision like that.
 
doofer said:
When I was a kid I was snorkelling in about 2' of water, just off the beach, loads of people around me when a guy in an inflatable dinghy went right over me, I was trapped under the dinghy and forced down into the sand by the weight of the guy, couldn't move, obviously I panicked and started thrashing about, couldn't see or breathe, thought I was a goner, started to black out and next thing I remember is just coughing and spluttering with another guy dragging me up the beach and my mum screaming at me for messing about. Didn't go in the water for quite a while after that I can tell you.
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Did your parents not kill that guy?
 
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