Wow, Salvation. Were you six or seven [as well] when you were found in the Atlantic Ocean floating? Did your mother know about this as it was happening?
No, much older. My parents were visiting an aunt in Philadelphia and she had taken us over to the New Jersey coast.
PS on this.....can you imagine seven kids and two adults in a regular Studebaker sedan going all the way to Philly? That was us!
My folks and my aunt had called the Coast Guard.
I tried to learn to swim and was OK in the shallow end, but panicked when she tried to teach me to tread water and had to be plucked out of the water by the instructor.
Never really mastered swimming.