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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

The captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. He was a former lifeguard, and he knew what to do: He headed straight for a couple swimming between their anchored sportfish and the beach.

“I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband told his wife. They had been splashing each other, and she had screamed,

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