I think this has been going around the internets, but it's on what drowning looks like, and it's all new information to me. It's got a lot of scary stats and stories in it too.

http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

Apparently when I was a toddler, I almost drowned on a family vacation to Jamaica (I don't remember any of this). My older brother suddenly noticed I was missing, and when he turned around he saw me underwater and standing on the ocean floor on my tippy toes with outstretched hands. His only tipoff was that there was complete silence, otherwise I would've drowned within the next minute, no one else was aware that anything was amiss.

Your stories?

Baksteen

Netherlands438 Posts

July 07 2010 17:37 GMT

When i was about 11 years old my parents were building our new home. We have a really small river (you can't even call it that) behind it. I fell in it with my head first and got halfstuck in the mud. Luckily someone pulled me out or it could've ended bad :p

Dance.jhu

United States292 Posts

July 07 2010 17:37 GMT

no drowning experience, but that's definetly the top way I don't want to die.

EDIT: Great informative read, thanks for sharing

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

July 07 2010 17:44 GMT

I've saved a 3 year old from drowning so I already knew this, but yea people believe movies and TV too much.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

July 07 2010 17:46 GMT

I once got stuck in something somehow at the bottom of a pool when I was a kid. My aunt saved my ass apparently.

Zortch

Canada635 Posts

July 07 2010 17:47 GMT

I worked as a lifeguard one summer at a small outdoor pool.
One day just a couple minutes after we let the kids in I looked over the edge of the pool and saw a little girl looking just as that article describes. Floating a little under the water looking up at me. I just reached down and offered her my arm and pulled her to the side of the pool. I told her to stay where she could touch and myself and the other guards just kept an eye on her. She was fine.
She had come swimming with her slightly older sister who I guess just didn't pay enough attention. But it got me thinking how easily she could have died there less that a foot from the edge of the pool. Water is a scary force, be careful.

danl9rm

United States3111 Posts

July 07 2010 17:48 GMT

I was swimming in a bay with a bunch of people with the parents on the pier when we were kids. One of the girls got in over her head and start gasping and yelling. Then she stopped yelling and just stood there with her hands up out of the water, bouncing up and down a little. I didn't like it at all, and not even really knowing her, I swam over as fast as I could and wrapped my arms around her waist and hoisted her up out of the water. At first, the parents just laughed and didn't even help her out. They just said, "she's fine." I never thought she was fine, and she didn't say much of anything after we did get her out. I think we both knew she wasn't, even though our elders didn't want to believe it. Reading this gives me shivers.

canucks12

Canada812 Posts

July 07 2010 17:52 GMT

Very useful information, thank you. Drowning seems like a very painful death that I don't want people to experience...

danl9rm

United States3111 Posts

July 07 2010 17:54 GMT

On July 08 2010 02:52 canucks12 wrote:
Very useful information, thank you. Drowning seems like a very painful death that I don't want people to experience...

it's not painful at all. i've drowned before.

shieldbreak

United States406 Posts

July 07 2010 17:57 GMT

#10

Useful stuff. Thanks for posting it. I only experienced drowning once and that was when I was a kid and my cousin(much less of a jerk now) kept shoving me under the water.

XinRan

United States530 Posts

July 07 2010 17:57 GMT

#11

It's ironic how the natural response to drowning actually prevents any useful motions to stop the drowning.

Devski

United States25 Posts

July 07 2010 18:01 GMT

#12

me and my friends saved me friend from a drowning last year on july 16th at lake winnie in nh. one of the scariest moments of my life. he was actually dead to

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/friends_rescue_boy_from_drowning_071809

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

July 07 2010 18:01 GMT

#13

l2swim

User was temp banned for this post.

Devski

United States25 Posts

July 07 2010 18:08 GMT

#14

l2swim

wow i guess u dont know how easily something can happen even if ur a good swimmer and ur under and nobody will here you

barbsq

United States5348 Posts

July 07 2010 18:15 GMT

#15

On July 08 2010 02:54 danl9rm wrote:

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it's not painful at all. i've drowned before.

if its not painful, then why the hell is waterboarding a torture?

pinenamu

United States770 Posts

July 07 2010 18:16 GMT

#16

I've had too many drowning incidents lol, one reason why I don't like to swim. One time I was swimming with my friends and one of them was pretty big. He was sitting on one of those floaty chairs and was coming towards me. I was at the edge or something, don't remember exactly what happened but I was trapped under that huge chair LOL.. I kind of panicked so I didn't think of pushing my way out of it but luckily he managed to float it out of my way haha.. Now that I think of it, I was pretty stupid.

On July 08 2010 03:01 Devski wrote:
me and my friends saved me friend from a drowning last year on july 16th at lake winnie in nh. one of the scariest moments of my life. he was actually dead to

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/friends_rescue_boy_from_drowning_071809

Wow man, that must have been horrific.

Devski

United States25 Posts

July 07 2010 18:18 GMT

#17

not really a drowning inciden pinemu hhaha that stuff happens all the time

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

July 07 2010 18:30 GMT

#18

On July 08 2010 03:08 Devski wrote:

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wow i guess u dont know how easily something can happen even if ur a good swimmer and ur under and nobody will here you

Lets play "find the source of internet hostility!"

I said: Learn to swim

You assumed: I was somehow insulting you or others.

please give me the benefit of the doubt here.

I maintain that learning to swim is an excellent way to prevent drowning.

ella_guru

Canada1741 Posts

July 07 2010 18:39 GMT

#19

On July 08 2010 03:30 sob3k wrote:

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Better yet just keep your head above water

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Devski

United States25 Posts

July 07 2010 18:42 GMT

#20

ets play "find the source of internet hostility!"

I said: Learn to swim

You assumed: I was somehow insulting you or others.

please give me the benefit of the doubt here.

I maintain that learning to swim is an excellent way to prevent drowning.

it is an exellent way to prevent drowning but lets take my case. my friend who swims fine was swimming after a frisbee thats far away and when he gets to it hes tired so while reaching for it he accidently swallows water and he goes under and no one herd him slip under it can be that fast

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