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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is with the dock stuff? Are docks more dangerous than other open water? I'm not a lake person so haven't had this experience.

I did grow up going to lakes and never wore a vest, but it was the 80s.[/quote]

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OP here,

I feel like there is more than one type of dock.

I grew up going to visit my grandmother on a lake. She had a wooden dock behind her house, that went out maybe 10 feet into water that was maybe 6 feet deep.  We could swim off it, or sit on it and fish, or stand on the end and throw a ball for our Labrador to swim for.  She also had a canoe she'd launch from it, but that was the only boat that was ever there. The water was darker and murkier than the water in a pool, so maybe slightly more risky if a little kid fell in.  I would make my 4 year old wear a life vest on the dock, and in the water unless I was 1:1 fully focused on him, and I was thinking of that kind of situation when I asked my original question.

There are also docks with lots of boats, and people getting on and off boats, and other riskier things, where it might make sense for a competent adult swimmer to wear a life vest, but not on my grandma's dock unless we were preparing to take the canoe out.

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