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Originally Posted by 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.
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I don't get this. Whenever I go boating with my friends, they look at me like I'm a complete nerd when I put on a life jacket. I know how to swim just fine, but I still don't trust myself to make it back to shore if something happened or if I was injured in a boating accident. It seems really stupid to get into a boat without a life jacket no matter how well you can swim.