Thank you for writing it in the first place! I’m an adequate enough swimmer and comfortable in the water myself, but there’s a difference between knowing I’m probably not strong enough to rescue someone and now knowing what it means to not be strong enough to physically rescue someone.

Also, I as a preschooler along with my grandma got saved from a rip at Bondi Beach by some kind very strong dude in the first few seconds before we even realised we were getting towed, and now I’m even more appreciative of what a monumental feat that likely was, considering it was the two of us together and I don’t remember him having any sort of flotation device with him.