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Unfortunately, many people don’t recognise that this death may be due to an abnormal cardiac problem and these deaths are falsely attributed to drowning.  There are many situations where there is an excellent swimmer who went out to swim in a lake and drowned suddenly and people feel that they may have run into trouble or it’s an unusual cause of death, unusual drowning.  But such drowning should be investigated and family members of such individuals must be screened for long QT syndrome.  It’s usually the females that die during swimming more so than males.