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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On a boat or dock - my kids will wear them as long as I have a say
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This. My family has a place on a lake. It's very very deep but is so clear you can't tell.[b] I've heard of adults who can swim jump in and try to get something from the bottom and drown on the way back up.[/b] [/quote]

And you believed that? [/quote]

I believe it. I grew up by the beach in California. I spent countless hours in powerful waves, did junior lifeguards for a couple of seasons and swam around a pier,  was on swim team and we sometimes went to the beach to swim a mile in the ocean.

The first time I jumped off a boat into a lake I panicked. I was so used to the buoyancy of salt water bringing you back up to the surface. It was the strangest sensation. It also didn’t help I had a drink or two. I got back in the boat and refused to go back into the lake. I’ve never gone back to swim in a lake again. [/quote]

Had you never been in a pool?[/quote]

Of course, I was on swim team. But I had never jumped off a boat into a lake before. I had jumped off boats and even a piers into the ocean multiple times. I jumped into the ocean, and I floated right back to the surface.

The lake was surprisingly colder than I expected (and the Pacific Ocean is cold so I was used to the cold), and the water felt almost slimy and it was murky. When I didn't start to rise to the surface I panicked and I think k tensing up then exhaling made it worse. When I made it back to the surface I got right back into the boat and have never ever gone into a lake again.

I now have a phobia of lakes. Seems so crazy but just the thought of being on a lake scares me even though this happened 25 years ago. [/quote]

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