Chilling reading - drowing

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I'm glad I read this before we hit the beach this year

Blimey, I didn't know that. Very scary.

God almighty, that was terrifying reading Worthwhile, but horrible.

I must be one of those people who watches too many movies.

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already a thread on this it is terrifying stuff.

holy fuck is all I can say
I am shocked that I have been so thick not to have realised this before
of course no sound and thrashing as your body will turn every bit of effort to just trying to breathe

that has made me feel sick

I can confirm this. We have a pool and I have had to fish more than one child out of it. They go under completely silently, and unless you were watching intently, rather than reading a book for example, you would miss it completely.

FrenchFancy - how come they were drowning? Could they swim? I'm still a bit confused as to why someone who can swim can suddenly loose the ability to and drown (presumably it's once you've swallowed the first batch of water and have started to panic?).