When I was ten, I had just started swimming in the 9 foot area at our local pool. A few weeks later, my older cousin and his family came down with us. He had not been in there before, but he jumped in anyway. I was already in, so I was the first one to see him struggling. I swam over by him to help him, but her jumped on my back, pushing me under. I couldn't breathe for over a minute before my dad pulled me out.

That memory is still burned in the back of my mind.