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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's helpful, thanks. I guess my thinking is that in a pool setting[b] there are others nearby who can help me/DC get to the edge[/b]. In an ocean you're probably dead anyway and all the swim lessons in the world are unlikely to help you truly survive. But yeah, it is a life skill that I will I had but the lack of it has not impacted my life in any meaningful way. [/quote]

if they notice your child fall in... every year there are kids who die at public pools, full of people and with lifeguards on duty. [/quote]

Exactly.  We saw a near-drowning last week.  I don't know why the parents weren't watching their kid, but she appeared to be around 2ish.  She'd wandered into the shallow end of the pool and was completely underwater by the time they and the lifeguard noticed her.  I heard them telling her that she knew better than to wander off  :roll: as if a 2 year old didn't need to be constantly watched.  I only noticed her when the parents started running and jumped into the pool fully clothed. I was too far to get to her and was also watching my own children, who are beginning swimmers.  She looked to me as if she was just a kid who was going underwater on purpose, so I can see how it didn't immediately appear to people that she was actually in trouble.[/quote]

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