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Originally Posted by polak
I'm shocked an adult could drown in Sicome as well. I was swimming across that lake when I was 10. How did he get deep enough to drown?
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In rivers, flush drowning (this may be a kayaker oriented term), can happen as a swimmer goes up and down in swells and their timing for breathing at the top of a wave is off. The swimmer swallows water, panics, tires, and can drown. I imagine the same thing could happen in a shallow lake depending on the persons panic level, inability to stay at the surface to get air...