You go out for a few beers with your mates, stumble out of the pub, trip and fall in a river on the way home, suffer cold water shock and die. We've all been there, right?
Well, no, of course not. And we don't want that happening to any of us this summer as, let's be honest, it doesn't really sound like a particularly fun thing to go through.
Anyway, I digress. There was actually a reason for making mention of meeting one's demise in the water, and that was to highlight how easy it can be for something as dreadful as that to happen to any of us.
This is something reinforced by an interactive video just released by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in support of the charity's Respect The Water campaign. A far less dirty POV video than the ones you're used to (don't think I don't know, lads), this film shows just how quickly things can escalate around the water.
Click through to the video on YouTube to take on this fully immersive experience.
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Offering a number of choices that lead to the next scenario, you can experience how a pint in the pub can lead to a fatal dip in the water in no time at all. Not a nice experience, admittedly, but one that could play out in real life far more easily than you might think.
Last year 168 people lost their lives in UK waters, 84 percent of them being male. And over half of these people didn't set out to go into the water that day, but met their end as the result of an accidental slip, trip or fall. Shocking, right?
Hopefully this video will go some way to reducing that total in 2016 - something TheLADbible and RNLI are working together to achieve.
Stay safe, lads.
Keep a look out for more about Respect The Water throughout the summer or go to www.rnli.org/RespectTheWater to find out more.
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