[eksemplar]

This video actually shows the Hollywood styled drowning. It can look a lot different from this, and I suspect that’s what the original article is about, though it’s currently unavailable so who knows.

People who are drowning can look like they are just floating, or sitting in the water, with their heads barely sticking out and no splashing, yelling or any sort of alarming thing going on. The reason for this is that they are dog paddling in an upright position, but rarely get their mouths and noses out of the water. They can be in this situation for quite a while before they actually drown, with no real visible signs.

We’re a costal nation(Denmark) and each year tourists drown. It’s especially tragic when children drown 10-15 meters from their parents that never noticed something was wrong.

If anyone especially children is dead quiet in the water you definitely have to check if they are ok.

[Merad]

TFA was about instinctive drowning response [1], which seems (to my amateur eye) to be what’s happening in that video.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drowning_response