I don’t usually recommend things twice in this newsletter. I’m making an exception here, as knowing this might literally save lives, and only few of you have been reading the Weekly Filet back in 2014 when I first shared it. Movies and…um…Baywatch have given us a misleading impression of what drowning looks like — so we might not see it if somebody was drowning right in front of us.

From Weekly Filet #354, in July 2021.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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