Many people do not know what drowning looks like.
I was one of those unfamiliar with the signs until I read an article last year called ‘Drowning doesn’t look like drowning.’
It’s not the violent splashing and shouting for help that one sees on TV. There’s no screaming or flailing of arms.
It’s silent.
It’s that silence that I noticed when I recently had a scare in the pool with my seven-year-old son.
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