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| Confidence, avoiding panic when bad things happen is critical and practicing, anticipating is important. When I was quite young, my aunt and uncle used to take me to their cottage in northern WI. I could swim but they made me jump out of the boat with a life jacket on, so I would know what it felt like, that it would be OK. They also stressed staying calm.
A few years later, when I was a little older I was up at their cottage when a very sad story came on the radio. A guy had fallen out of his boat while fishing after dark. Other folks at the resort where he was staying heard him call for help. They got in a boat and rowed over. They found the boat, but not him. The next morning the authorities found his body in four feet of water, with the nearest deep water over 100 feet away. The authorities speculated that the guy had fallen over the side, panicked and thrashed about until he was exhausted and drowned in water where he could have just stood up and walked to shore. | |
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