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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6274384" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>Scariest one I can recall was probably...twenty years ago. I was supposed to meet my brother & sister to go canoeing on a small lake near our house. It's a man-made lake, with a dam at one end, and a pinchpoint in the middle, shaped something like a hourglass. They got there early and decided to go without me, so when I got there, they were in the middle of lake.</p><p></p><p>I decided to walk around the lake instead. The road only runs halfway around and it'd be bushwhacking the rest of way. I walked half of it, and reaching the narrow part, decided to swim across. The original stream channel ran between where I was and an island, and from the island to the other side was less than three feet deep. I hadn't intended to go swimming, so I was wearing jeans, a shirt, sneakers, & socks. I took off my shirt and put my shoes and socks in there and tied it up, and put it on my chest so I could basically just float across and keep my shoes, keys, and wallet dry. It was only 50 feet or so, What I didn't expect was the amount of drag my jeans would have, and the fact that I am slightly terrified of not being able to see the bottom of the water. There must have been a ravine between the headland and the island, because when I started swimming across, the bottom just disappeared. Ten feet out, and nothing but darkness below me. Halfway across, and my jeans were dragging down so I was on my back but my legs kept dropping, and I still couldn't see bottom. Between the depth, the jeans, and keeping the shoes and stuff dry, I have never felt so close to drowning. I've flipped a few canoes and have yet to go white-water rafting without the raft flipping, but it's hard to understand just how much difference a life preserver makes until you're going under without one.</p><p></p><p>I have never been so happy to feel solid ground under me as I was when I hit that island. I think I sat there for 30 minutes before I crossed (walking) to the other shore.</p><p></p><p>Google Bradley Lake Andover NH and you'll see the lake. It's a short distance to swim, but damn...put ten years on me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6274384, member: 70"] Scariest one I can recall was probably...twenty years ago. I was supposed to meet my brother & sister to go canoeing on a small lake near our house. It's a man-made lake, with a dam at one end, and a pinchpoint in the middle, shaped something like a hourglass. They got there early and decided to go without me, so when I got there, they were in the middle of lake. I decided to walk around the lake instead. The road only runs halfway around and it'd be bushwhacking the rest of way. I walked half of it, and reaching the narrow part, decided to swim across. The original stream channel ran between where I was and an island, and from the island to the other side was less than three feet deep. I hadn't intended to go swimming, so I was wearing jeans, a shirt, sneakers, & socks. I took off my shirt and put my shoes and socks in there and tied it up, and put it on my chest so I could basically just float across and keep my shoes, keys, and wallet dry. It was only 50 feet or so, What I didn't expect was the amount of drag my jeans would have, and the fact that I am slightly terrified of not being able to see the bottom of the water. There must have been a ravine between the headland and the island, because when I started swimming across, the bottom just disappeared. Ten feet out, and nothing but darkness below me. Halfway across, and my jeans were dragging down so I was on my back but my legs kept dropping, and I still couldn't see bottom. Between the depth, the jeans, and keeping the shoes and stuff dry, I have never felt so close to drowning. I've flipped a few canoes and have yet to go white-water rafting without the raft flipping, but it's hard to understand just how much difference a life preserver makes until you're going under without one. I have never been so happy to feel solid ground under me as I was when I hit that island. I think I sat there for 30 minutes before I crossed (walking) to the other shore. Google Bradley Lake Andover NH and you'll see the lake. It's a short distance to swim, but damn...put ten years on me. [/QUOTE]
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