This was before I met my wife, but they went on a canoeing trip with family friends. He had taken off his life jacket and was drowning. Nobody knew exactly where he was.

He was saved by one of the kids in the other family. He learned what to do in a merit badge class, stuck his oar down there for him to grab, and with the last of his remaining strength, grabbed the oar and got pulled out.

The boy was featured in Boys Life magazine.