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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Yep -- my dad was a lifeguard in his twenties and this was the number one thing he taught me about 'not drowning' when I was a kid. If you're too tired or think you're drowning just get on your back, because you'll float right up with very little effort and can stay that way for hours if you need to.
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I had an incident back in the late 1990's where the house boat I was on left me in the middle of the Shuswap lake as they failed to do a head count before moving on to a different location. It took them 20 minutes to realise they left me behind. The longest 20 minutes of treading water and floating on my back.