I almost drowned this way when I was a child. Parents were less than a meter away, thought I was 'playing', since I was right next to the stairs. It's chilling

I almost drowned this way when I was a child. Parents were less than a meter away, thought I was 'playing', since I was right next to the stairs. It's chilling that this response is still fairly specialist knowledge. I would be dead if it wasn't for a random woman walking by who happened to know about it at the right second.