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I only watched 1, but I saw them immediately and it was confirmed when the lifeguard blew the whistle and made their way to them. I think I have an advantage,
by wccrawford 5y ago
I only watched 1, but I saw them immediately and it was confirmed when the lifeguard blew the whistle and made their way to them.
I think I have an advantage, though. I remember almost drowning as a kid. I wasn't at the top of the water like this person, though. I was at the bottom of the pool, desperately putting my hand up and hoping someone would see me. Interestingly, that's apparently really hard to do by what the text below the video says.
I thought my hand was still under the water, and I was laboriously making my way to where I thought the side of the pool was. Eventually, someone (at the time I thought it was my dad, but it wasn't!) grabbed my arm and pulled me out.
I didn't swallow any water and I wasn't harmed, but it really scared me.
I begged my parents for swimming lessons, but we lived in a small town, the lessons were too far away, and we couldn't afford them.
I ended up teaching myself to swim so that it would never happen to me again. I can save myself now, but my wife freaks out when I swim because I'm still really, really bad at it.
I still don't go in the ocean, and very rarely go in a pool, and never near anyone who I think might be an asshole and try to dunk me, even jokingly.