Not saying the woman didn’t die, but I’m finding it hard to believe that a healthy, conscious woman fell into knee-to-waist deep water, didn’t stand up to save herself, and drowned. There’s a photo in the link below which shows just how shallow British canals actually are. The water is knee-height, and two men are easily standing. In the middle of a canal, the water is waist-deep.

British canals also do not have currents and the water is still. I find it odd how they’re focusing on barriers (to stop people from falling into knee-to-waist deep water you can easily stand up in?) rather than the possibility of her being held down. The narrative just isn’t plausible at all. Any healthy, conscious adult, upon falling into waist-deep water at most, would simply stand up. If you ask me, something smells about this story (and all of the other "healthy, conscious adult fell into a shallow canal, didn’t stand up to save themselves with no explanation as to why not, and drowned" stories).

Them pointing out she couldn’t swim is a red herring. You don’t even need to swim in knee-to-waist depth water.

There’s no safety barriers because falling into a canal isn’t something that’s typically life-threatening to any healthy, conscious person. They don’t put safety barriers around paddling pools for the same reason.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    10·
    21 days ago

    Mod notice: Thread has been locked and OP has been banned with the following message for the modlog:

    OP has had this question answered numerous times through many repeated questions on multiple boards through multiple sockpuppet accounts. Touch grass.

    Further posts in a similar manner will have the same result.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    21 days ago

    You are really trying to push a narrative that you can’t drown in a canal.

    Between alcohol, rocks and the height between the edge and bottom of a canal you absolutely can drown because you can’t move from an injury.

  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    21 days ago

    Option A.

    Fall face first into a canal.

    Try and push yourself up

    Can’t push yourself up because at the bottom of the canal is a layer of silt and mud that is about a foot deep.

    Panic

    Remain unable to gain any purchase or footing.

    Drown

    Option B.

    Fall into canal.

    Hit head on something.

    Drown.

    Option C

    Have a medical episode/be drunk.

    Pass into unconsciousness

    Fall into canal.

    Drown.

    Conspiracy option 1

    “They” decide to murder some random woman. She is unknown and has zero power or influence.

    “They” decide to do it by drowning her in a canal.

    “They” follow her until one day she decides to walk alongside a canal.

    “They” drown her.

    “They” decide it was an effective method and use it to kill several other women in cities across the UK that are 100s of miles apart

    Conspiracy option 2

    Woman walks alongside canal.

    Woman is attacked and drowned.

    Police decide not to bother investigating it.

    Pathologist decides not to bother investigating it.

    Coroner decides not to bother investigating it.

    This happens a couple more times in cities hundreds of miles apart as some sort of grand conspiracy to not investigate drownings

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    11·
    21 days ago

    When I was a teenager, I took a lifeguard training course at the local swimming pool. This was explained to us, as being far more common than you might imagine. Full grown adults can and do, drown in the shallow end of the kiddie pool, all the time. It happens so often, that they make a point of telling young lifeguards how often it happens, so they don’t overlook the shallow end of the kiddie pool, just because there are nothing but adults there at the moment.