Drowning

Man Drowns at High Rock Lake Swimming Hole

           A 21 year old man drown in a High Rock Lake popular swimming area. Pebble Beach has warning signs stating that there isn't a life guard in several different places across the area and there are demark lines marking the swimming area that you can't go any further in the water. The young man was swimming with his family when he went under. A deputy jumped in and tried to find the 21 year old man but the unkempt water limited his ability to recover him. The young man's family stated that he was a good swimmer and don't know why this happen. The brother of the young man that drown got so upset that he hit a deputy and he was charged with assaulting a police officer.

                     There has been a lot of people drowning at Pebble Beach in my life time so far. I don't understand why people don't think that they could actually drawn. I guess they think just because they can swim that it's all good. "Sure I can swim over my head for an hour." Yea right! People shouldn't try to do things that challenges their abilities when it evolves things over their heads. 

                     Drowning is one of my biggest fears of ways to die. You can't breath and that's scarey. My aunt died from COPD. I'd watch her struggle to get her breathe and that was scarey to observe. I loved her very much but she kept on smoking and that lessened her ability to breath even more. Once when I was growing up; I swam across a part of the lake that dripped inland that went well over my head. I got really tired and wanted to stop but I knew if I did what would happened and that made me keep going. I was afraid to go back across but I had too. I've never done that again. I know that it could happen to me and I'm not ready to die, especially that way.