When Josh was six years old, his mom told him he had to learn how to swim. He refused and started doing a rudimentary dog paddle in the deep end of the pool. "I would not go out of the shallow end for many years," Joshua says. His parents eventually let him take swimming lessons at age 13.
Hundreds of thousands of people drown around the world every year, and yet it can be easily prevented and is widely misunderstood – like how you can officially drown but live to tell the tale, or how you can drown but die days later. Learn all about it in this classic episode.
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