Flutterby™! : Drowning

Drowning doesn't look like drowning. When I was learning whitewater, one of the hardest reflexes to overcome was the "oh shit, I'm going underwater, breathe!" reflex, because it got me into a cycle where I was trying to breathe against the waves, rather than with them.

The reflexive action that this article describes sounds exactly like that: Someone looking like they're breathing, because they're gasping when they surface, but that's air going out, not in.

This is your PSA for the day.