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People drown in pools all the fucking time, especially when entry is unintentional. It's even worse in a canal. The bottom can be slippery. There can be currents. You can be tangled in heavy clothes and accessories not intended for swimming. You can literally go into shock and panic into very illogical and counterproductive attempts at self-rescue. You can hit your head and lose consciousness or be disoriented, it only takes a few moments and a single panic-stricken gasp to ingest a lungful of water you are not going to be able to recover from without rescue.
Water is very dangerous and deserves serious respect which you don't seem to be giving it, and to be fair, most people don't. Once you have a close call with water, you'll understand. It goes from fun and harmless to extremely scary almost instantly. Take some lifeguard courses. It's no joke, at all, and it will kill you without remorse.
Can the bottom be slippery enough for someone to not regain their footing? People can stand up on ice, for example.
There are also plenty of videos of people slipping on ice and eating it over and over again trying to stand up. I don't know the circumstances of this story to say definitely nothing fishy happened, or definitely something fishy did happen, but drowning in shallow water, in itself, is not necessarily suspicious.
There are 10,000 plausible explanations for this, but I'm going to guess she was drunk. Maybe she hit her head when she fell in? If the people who recovered and examined her body say it's not suspicious, maybe they know something you don't?
In the US for example, many newspapers won't list suicide as a cause of death unless that detail is newsworthy.
When the authorities say a death isn't suspicious, but are vague about the cause, it might mean they're trying to save the family some embarrassment.
And just no one needs the lurid details of a death.
"She drunkenly stumbled into the canal. It appears she tried to claw her way up the step embankment, but due to the alcohol she slipped and hit her head. She then disorientedly flailed around and in the process caught her recently purchased scarf on a submerged log and had a slow terrifying death as she tried and failed to free herself."
Oh we back on this shit again?
You can drown in a couple inches of water. 3 feet deep is almost 20 times as much depth as you'd need to drown.
This why I will never use a straw. I still have flashbacks.
Then it's a good thing I never said you can't drown in a couple inches of water, now isn't it? Do you not think it's at least a little bit odd that she didn't stand up in waist-deep water and the family isn't questioning this?
I don't.
When people fall they get stunned, maybe even break a rib or a leg, or get knocked out. There's so many factors that can apply when you fall in a canal that can lead to your death. That's a big part of why you shouldn't fall in one.
There's also fluctuations in water level that can come on suddenly which is why you shouldn't camp next to or spend a lot of time in them.
Numerous people have responded to you asking the same question over and over and again and you just refuse to learn. Why is that?
Leave that to the family to question, if they so desire. Who are you, Columbo?
People can drown in a full sink.