@flip86 I am a very good swimmer. I even have won medals for swimming competitions, and have a scuba diving license.
If I look out of my east window I can see the beach, and have been around water all my life, and even then it has nearly killed me. If I am going to be liberal in my estimate, I could say that there are at least 3 or 4 times the water has nearly taken me.
Age 8–9 I got stuck under water, trying to swim between underwater columns that connected one pool with another. Another time when I was about 12, I made a home made surf board, a wave flipped me, and I nearly got snapped in half when my board sunk tip first in to the sand, and the wave smashed me belly and ribs first against the back edge of the board. There was the time when I was about 14–16 or so, and got stuck in a whirlpool, when I jumped off a bridge in the harbor. There are also the times that I banged my head underwater, or found myself in rough waters near jagged rocks.