I had a near risk as well but I don't remember it. As a result my mom never allowed me to take swim lessons. She took my brother which made no sense but my mom is a narcisstic control freak which explains much. All I can wonder is WHAT parent doesn't keep their child in sight when it concerns water???? This would destroy me as a mom if it had happened to me.

Try not to dwell on it, she's OK.

I was lucky. I was around 9, and fell asleep on a float in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston coast. Luckily I didn't stray far, but had the worse case of sunburn that my parent's ever seen. Never did that again.

I must say I'm happy the child is safe, I'm happy that you're still alive but I can't help but think of the ones that aren't.

Her and that unicorn will be besties for life!

Wow, good the ship was there. Rescue complete, no gods required.

Glad that child is alive and glad that you’re alive

Years ago I was at the beach with a few friends, one of them a woman with two kids, 4 and 5, who were playing in the shallows, knee deep to child, with a floatie and with bouancy supports on their arms, no more than 10 metres away. While we watched a gust of wind quickly blew the floatie with one child out of the shallows in seconds and with the child clinging to it continued to blow it away as fast as an adult could run, let alone swim. The mother screamed to the child to let go of the floatie but the kid was scared and wouldn't. We were able to quickly launch a boat and retrieve the kid from over a kilometer offshore, but it was very lucky. We were all experienced swimmers and I wouldn't have believed a wind could move the child that fast if I hadn't seen it, so I understand how it would be an easy mistake to make and I sympathise with the mother.

Stupid you don't do that, luckily child is alive