History Main / StopDrowningAndStandUp

* Muk and Luk do this in ''Balto'', leading to a whole speech about the "shame of the polar bear that fears the water".

* In the "Love and Cheese" episode of ''HeyArnold'', [[ParodySue Lila]] is drowning in a tunnel of love stream of water. Arnold comes to save her and after he grabs her and takes her to the superficie, he tells her that they can stand up. Once they do, water reaches their ankles. Of course, is all part of a ZanyScheme played by [[StalkerWithACrush Helga]] to break them apart.

* To say things were crazy in the June 6, 1944 D-Day ([[OperationBlank Operation Overlord]]) landings at Normandy during WorldWarII is an understatement. There is, however an amusing story recounted in Stephen Ambrose's ''D-Day'' by Corporal George Ryan as he got off his landing craft at Omaha Beach.

--->Shells were bursting around the LCT. "WE gotta get off this thing," someone in Ryan's crew shouted, and they all jumped into the water. Ryan held back. ""I wasn't so much afraid of them bullets or the shells as I was of the cold Channel water. I cannot swim."\\

* In the "Love and Cheese" episode of HeyArnold, [[ParodySue Lila]] is drowning in a tunnel of love stream of water. Arnold comes to save her and after he grabs her and takes her to the superficie, he tells her that they can stand up. Once they do, water reaches their ankles. Of course, is all part of a ZanyScheme played by [[StalkerWithACrush Helga]] to break them apart.

* This happens to Akane in [[{{Ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]] when she starts her swimming lessons. [[RunningGag And it continues all the way through the manga]], even when the water is only knee-deep ''and she's wearing flotation devices.''[[hottip:*:And a snorkel.]]

* ''TheLordOfTheRings'', IIRC (the book, not the film; in the film, the water is actually quite deep, so it's more dramatic when Frodo steps in).
** It's essentially the same in the book. It's not mentioned how deep the water is, but there's no reason to suppose it's shallow. Both Sam and Frodo seem to believe Sam's in danger of drowning.

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* As a former lifeguard at a waterpark, I can tell you that if someone doesn't know the bottom (after a slide) is only a few feet away, they will still panic; even allowing their feet to float to the top as they only use their arms to panic.
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* {{Hayate no Gotoku}} does this significantly, when Isumi is forced to teleport herself, Hayate and Sakuya away from a losing battle. Hayate eventually helps either get Sakuya to where she can stand, or just helps her to stand in the water, while Isumi is apparently unwilling to even get wet at all, and brings in her dolphin so she doesn't even get her clothes wet. The other two comment.

Bob, who is unable to swim, falls into the water and starts flailing around, calling for someone to help him. Alice arrives on the scene, but simply tells him to, "Stop drowning and stand up," Much to Bob's chagrin, he does so and thus finds out the water was only waist deep at best.

* This happens to Akane in [[{{Ptitlegynukzwikxmd}} Ranma ½]] when she starts her swimming lessons.

* In ''HidamariSketch'', while at a water park, Yuno worries about how to enter the lazy river, since she can't swim and her innertube would float away if she puts it in first (and jumping in is not alllowed). While she agonizes over what to do, Sae informs her that the pool is shallow.