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Generally in lakes it's more people boating who drown. They are far from shore and can get hurt in a capsize easily
Also having potentially lot of clothing on, making it harder to swim
And also drunk as fuuuuuck.
I feel like pointing out some info that was not known to me at the time it would've really been helpful and not knowing it almost lead to my death by drowning as a child: when trying to swim, (some?) shoes can act like "anti-flippers" by increasing the difficulty of moving your feet as quickly and staying afloat past what one might usually be used to and so swimming is really hard. I think it's because water is pulling against the bottom of the shoe, sort of, at least that's how it felt. I was like 5-10 yo in a lake and almost drowned before I got to the dock I was swimming to. Another problem was that no one noticed I had gone under and was having trouble getting air. Overall it was traumatic and really probably preventable in several ways, including by not wearing shoes while trying to swim in water, which was my original point.
Edit: although a life jacket would've fixed it too
I've never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.
Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.