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two typical reasons people don't float.

they are too tense and they are trying to posture their head higher and in effect sinking themselves - this is the most common

they have extremely low body fat and are actually not very positively buoyant - this is more rare but does come up usually with young men who are very skinny or do a great deal of strength training.

in clear, calm water, yes, in a place like a pool

in the practical conditions in the outdoors? if you wait until they are under long enough to be unconscious you can often lose them so you have to make a judgement call on how close you need to be when they go under that time that they don't come back up.

1. swimming in tide/rip/current you are not prepared for

2. getting trapped somewhere where water is present or incoming

3. taking a blow to the head and landing in water

The Google home and assistant devices tend to favor more local answers and tend not to respond with disputable answers.

This answer is affected by both since very few of us are in the area and the death toll estimates range from it being the worst storm death toll to being 5 or 6 positions down.

For some topics assistant also considers how notable the event is as well and the bulk of the other storms that may have higher death tolls and many with close to the low end of the estimates are from the same region so it loses points on being notable as well.

A lot of this whole thread needs to understand that there are a wide variety of Amish with a even wider variety of beliefs, practices and problems.

Just where I grew up there were four major categories amongst the congregations and while a few of the things mentioned here might occur above the population average in the one suspender swartzentrubers little of this would be any more likely than with the general population with a group like the new order hostetlers.

The groups vary by family line, church doctrine and level of wealth within a region and across regions vary even more than that.