I remember reading this several years ago, and it brings back memories of the two times I was very close to drowning. The first time I was about 13 years old,

I remember reading this several years ago, and it brings back memories of the two times I was very close to drowning. The first time I was about 13 years old, and was swimming in the Mediterranean. Me and a friend had swim out to a raft, and when we where swimming back to the beach we made a bad decision to swim against the wind to a floating rope, instead of straight in. After about half the way I was exhausted, but I realized it in time, and turn on my back I yelled for help. My friend didn't notice, but people from the raft noticed and helped me. The second time was in a lake, and I must have been about 20 years old. A lot of friends was swimming out and I followed, only to realize that it suddenly was too deep to stand on the bottom. I turned around and began to swim back to the beach. This time I felt the panic. I used all my energy to swim back, trying to keep my head above the water. Another friend was on the beach, recording me with his video camera (with zoom). Calling for help was not an option in my head. All energy went to keeping the mouth above the water. I exhaled under water, to maximize the time I had to inhale while the mouth was above water. I remember thinking "Stop filming and help me". Finally I felt the bottom again, and could stand on it. I have never seen that video recording and I don't remember if I ever told him how close he was to record my downing in full color... (Sorry for errors, English isn't my native language)