found that a child’s life-threatening submersion experience predicted strong swimming ability, presumably because the child developed excellent swim skills in response to the near drowning experience and in order to prevent another such experience. Thus, just as someone may be motivated to prevent future near drowning events by learning to swim, parents in the current study who had a close call for drowning may have been motivated to avoid similar situations for their child by being more vigilant supervisors and more cognizant of drowning risks.