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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5404227" data-attributes="member: 94022">I'm fairly certain that there were also a number of soldiers who dumped gear in the Channel during the D-Day invasion in Normandy because they had to jump out of the boats early and their gear was dragging them down. Obviously some of this can be attributed to "panic" or rather having to make a very quick decision (hence the quotes), but it does show that the weight of the gear, while not necessarily immobilizing in and of itself, can become a problem when combined with sufficient other factors.  So yeah, as stated above, I could conceive of a knight drowning due to the combination of weight of armor and injuries sustained in combat/fall.  I do know that it was common for knights to surrender when they were knocked off the horse because even the peasant with little more than a bow and spear became a dangerous threat.</blockquote>