“WTH wears a life jacket in eight feet of water?”
Are you serious? People who can’t swim. Any non swimmer can drown if the water is over their head, especially if they panic. Saw a guy fall off a bank of a creek, went under and never came back up. Threw a cooler in to help as soon as he went in but he never surfaced. The water at the bank was 8-9 ft deep. I’m a good swimmer but I know better to jump in after a drowning man. They will drown both of you.
He supposedly knew how to swim.
No swimmer wears a life jacket in a swimming pool.