Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Drowning: What Happens Moment by Moment" video.

  1. Very well done and horrifying to see how little time it can take to suffer a fatal drowning. I will never know for sure and I must have been 8 or 9 years of age and we were swimming at a public beach on a beautiful and very hot day in summer. All I remember is that there were huge waves and I dove in the trough of deeper water between sand bars and when I came up, I breathed in at the same time as a wave washing crashing and I took in a huge mouthful of water and then I remember immediately sinking back down in the water only to have my best friend at the same time grab my arm and pull me up on the next sandbar. I can never say what would have happened if my friend had not grabbed me, but my inner voice or something inside you when you're that young let me know in that sort of eerie way you know is dead serious, it me told me that I had been saved from drowning. But all I know is that you can make the wrong move and die in an instant. Another boy, in a river by the railroad bridge where we used to dive off into the deep river, well he dove but his head went into the hollow part of a sunken part of the bridge and no one was there to save him...
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