It’s that time of year again. The sun is out, the weather is warm, the water is cool and refreshing, and people are drowning. Could someone please explain this to me? Because I just don’t fucking get it.
I’m not a great swimmer, but I’ve been able to keep myself afloat and get around in water for as long as I can remember. No one ever taught me how to do it, I just got in the water and figured it out, so I have a very difficult time trying to figure out how people keep drowning themselves.
Now I can see being in a boat on the ocean, or a raft on a wildly rapid river, and somehow getting dumped overboard and not making it to shore alive. In the former, you can only stay afloat for so long before you get tired out and give up, and in the latter, it could be very difficult to keep from getting swallowed up by the rapids.
But how the hell do all these people keep managing to do it to themselves in small lakes and ponds, and even pools? Like I said before, I can’t fathom (no pun intended) not being able to swim. If I’m in a lake or pond and I can see land, I can get back to it. And hell, if I’m in a pool, I can stand up in it and the water only comes up to my waist. Even if it’s a pool with a deep end, I’m only a few feet away from the shallow end.
So it makes absolutely no sense to me why everyone can’t do this. But apparently this is the case, and if you happen to be one of those people who can’t do it, then why the fuck are you out on a lake?
I don’t care if you’re on a boat, or a canoe, you can’t swim, you shouldn’t be on something that could tip over and dump you into the water. Or at the very least, you should be wearing a life jacket so if it does happen, you can stay afloat and get yourself back to shore.
Just another example of how dumb people can be. I just don’t get it.
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IIRC, a good chunk of the drownings are due to cramping. Get a leg cramp, can't swim, panic, down you go!
Of course, there is also a good chunk that has alcohol involved, and THOSE people are dumb.
And some folks are caught in undertoe, and most people don't know how to swim with an undertoe to make it to shore. Most try to swim directly against the undertoe, get very tired and cramp up. (the trick is to swim at a 45degree angle to shore and not resist the undertoe too much. Eventually it will release you, and you have a better chance of being found at that point.)
But almost all the cases amount to ignorance of the water and how to be safe in it.
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