• @nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    1151 month ago

    One of the 237 that didn’t wear life jacket un-drowned or found a jacket during drowning?

  • doug
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    301 month ago

    Wait where’s the extra one come from?

    • Sundray
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      41 month ago

      If you’re going to go swimming at Crystal Lake, I feel like drowning is the least of your troubles.

        • @YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I feel like pointing out some info that was not known to me at the time it would’ve really been helpful and not knowing it almost lead to my death by drowning as a child: when trying to swim, (some?) shoes can act like “anti-flippers” by increasing the difficulty of moving your feet as quickly and staying afloat past what one might usually be used to and so swimming is really hard. I think it’s because water is pulling against the bottom of the shoe, sort of, at least that’s how it felt. I was like 5-10 yo in a lake and almost drowned before I got to the dock I was swimming to. Another problem was that no one noticed I had gone under and was having trouble getting air. Overall it was traumatic and really probably preventable in several ways, including by not wearing shoes while trying to swim in water, which was my original point.

          Edit: although a life jacket would’ve fixed it too

          • @LazerFX@sh.itjust.works
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            21 month ago

            I’ve never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.

            Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.

      • doug
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        21 month ago

        “Why are you talking like that?”

    • @Professorozone@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I’m embarrassed to confess, but I also don’t wear a life jacket when I swim. Hell, most of the time I prefer to leave the swim suit behind.

  • THCDenton
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    91 month ago

    Reminds me of Kern river, but the undertow kills people wearing life vests too

  • @Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    21 month ago

    Or, they only collect the dead ones from the surface. There’s probably a veritable mountain of lifejacketless corpses on the silt.

      • @Infynis@midwest.social
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        31 month ago

        Clearly because the floating corpses were being carried away by birds, so only the sunken ones were left to be found!

  • Nora
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    21 month ago

    I can float on water if I lay on my back…