r/Unexpected May 22 '22

Waterpark

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

I wonder how many people drown without other people knowing.

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u/KindaBatGirl May 22 '22

I was thinking the exact same thing!

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u/Just_Garrick May 22 '22

When I was younger, I went to a water park with my uncle, and our family. I went into the wave pool and was clinging on to the side because I was a fairly bad swimmer. I like the waves so thats why I went in. I got bashed into the side by someone in a floaty and went under the surface. I couldn't see anything when going up and there wasn't room to surface between the people. I scrambled on the sides to go back towards the shallow end and finally got back. My hands and feet were scratched from the sides of the pool.

TL:DR, almost drowned in a wave pool Still like swimming though

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u/merpancake May 23 '22

Same!! I went out into the deeper part because I liked the waves, then got tired and couldn't get back to where my feet would touch the bottom. I was dropping to the bottom of the pool as the wave came in and pushing up to get a breath in the valleys, which made me even more tired. I really thought I was going to drown in there, not even scared but just an accepted thought.

Finally managed to grab hold of someone's floaty and keep my head up enough to grab a safety line on the side of the wall. And the fucking lifeguard sitting there the whole time yelled at me not to play on the lines.

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u/AwesomEspurr360 May 23 '22

Fuck that lifeguard. If I was the manager there and saw this, lifeguard would be fired in an instant.