SHTF while you're on holiday

[Mortblanc]

We are dealing with a risk management situation when it all comes down to it.

Not being a strong swimmer I would not attempt to swim the channel, but if I needed to get across I am sure I could find a boat suitable for the effort.

Reminds me of a famous movie called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. There was a scene where a posse, intent on hanging them, was hot on their trail and had them cornered on a high cliff over a river. Their only choice was to jump off the cliff several hundred feet into the river below.

Robert Redford announced that he would not jump because he could not swim. Paul Newman replied; "Can't swim?? Hell, the fall is going to kill you!"

You are stuck on foreign shores where you already claim you can not survive due to cultural differences, but you refuse to get in a rowboat and head home for fear of the water!

You are going to die anyway, get in the boat!