Lord that takes me back, I did life saving classes and had to go in with my nightie on over my swimming costume and as I went to take my nightie off (as we were meant to, making it into a float) I forgot to undo the button at the back by my neck and got it stuck over my head.
So there I am panicking I’m going to drown, treading water like mad, trying not to go under. Eventually after what seemed hours but was probably not even a minute, I got to the steps still with my nightie still over my head and when I said I was drowning and no one helped, they told me they thought I was pretending to drown for someone practising.
That would have made a great headline ‘child dies at life saving class by drowning’