I was taught to ‘swim’ and comfortable with holding my breath and getting to the side of a pool and back-floating all before the age of 1.
One of the closest times I came to drowning was at age 4, when I was playing with a half-full bucket of water and fell in. I held my breath and wiggled my legs to tip the bucket over, and was fine. But had I not held my breath and instead inhaled water, I probably would not have been fine.
I was taught to ‘swim’ and comfortable with holding my breath and getting to the side of a pool and back-floating all before the age of 1.
One of the closest times I came to drowning was at age 4, when I was playing with a half-full bucket of water and fell in. I held my breath and wiggled my legs to tip the bucket over, and was fine. But had I not held my breath and instead inhaled water, I probably would not have been fine.