[Sylvanfan]

I got caught up in some rope slack on a boat about 15 years ago. It caught me on the back of my leg a launched me out of the boat in the Lake Okanagan. I was lucky the it didn't wrap around me and drag me under and that it threw me enough so I didn't catch anything at the back of the boat. With no life jacket, had to swim with clothes on for about a minute until they got back to rescue me. Ended up with a nasty scar on the back of my leg at the knee joint. I imagine that with how sudden this happened I easily could have drowned if I didn't know how to swim.