Show when one Is drowning Drown lne the belief that a drowning person rises to the surface three times before dying Is very widely held even shakespeare apparently accepted it twelfth night L I 1 v accounts of witnesses however reveal the fact that some people when drowning have risen to the surface many times before finally disappearing while other persons have drowned by one submersion and never came to the surface at all no rule can be made regarding the number of times a body may or may not come to the surface |