leave the board if the height frightened her. people did it all the time. also, if you know you can’t swim, you’re not going to leap off a diving board into deep water, right?
after a wave to her friends, she pinched her nose and jumped off the board. once in the water, her hair swam around her face; it was as if a squid had swallowed her head. i thought for a second she was waving her arms and hands to push the hair from her face, but another second later i realized that she could not see where she was, and she could not swim! i did a split 