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Drowning 100% looks like drowning. The problem is that people dont know what drowning looks like. Including myself.
Drowning (actual) doesn't look like drowning (common cultural depictions)
Going to repeat Glemek because you've received a shocking number of upvotes.
The point is that people who haven't seen someone drown, may not know what drowning looks like, with the exception of media depictions.
The title and headline communicate the point effectively which draws out the semantics sadists such as yourself.
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Yes, headline is stupid. Author should be set on fire.
being set on fire doesn't look like what you think
especially with methanol.
And then drowned.
yeah but you should know that burning doesn't look like burning!
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Wonderful article. A long anecdote to introduce the topic and then a paywall before you reach the useful information of what the fuck drowning DOES look like.
See the archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260523203542/https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
Also, it seems like the paywall is just on the client-side, and (at least in my case) just uBlock origin removes it
uBO did not remove it for me when I was reading the latest capture on archive.org
Thanks for trying. I’m on a phone and that page blurs halfway down 🤷♂️
Also, use a stick or a rope to get them out of the water. They might drown you if you jump in. If you tie a rope into a loop so they can grab on, make sure it's a static knot or you're throwing them a noose. If you have to jump in, once you grab them, you have to swim side ways with your feet deep in the water and them on your side facing out of the water. This is more for lakes/ pools. Learned most of that in the Boyscouts back in the day.
Extremely important, thanks.
What about the recommendation that, if one does approach them directly, one should do so with a leg rather than an arm?
I don't know if it's still valid but when I did bronze med yes, there was an approach position with one raised leg to kick or splash if needed that was taught.
Drowning people will often try to climb on you and shove you under to breath. If splashing and keeping distance with a foot fails you hold your breath and dive. They will let go and try to get back to air.
The general chain of preferences was: reach>throw>wade>row>swim>tow
Reach with a stick or something if you can avoid getting in.
Throw a flotation aid or rope
Wade out and throw a flotation aid or rope
Use a boat or board etc if available
Swim out with a flotation aid
Swim out and tow them in while swimming.
I've only ever seen this one: 
What the fuck is this shit?
How to spot a drowning website.
No idea, I refreshed the page and it went away.
The blur came back for me after refreshing, but after following the bluesky link above I found the very same article on this site.
of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult
These kinds of statistic are harrowing, if you think about them a bit longer. Hundreds of children will fight for their lives only meters away from their parents trying to get their attention, and die.
Thank you, I learned something new
Great share. I've taken different levels of first aid multiple times, including one where we had to watch real clinical death so we knew not to stop CPR when it looked like someone was "waking up." Death doesn't look like death either.
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