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“I thought I would drown,” said Musole, 48 years old, in a recent interview.

The leading theory is that they drowned in the San Francisco Bay, but maybe they changed their names and started new lives.

As the German entrepreneur sat pitchside at a sold-out O2 Arena for the season-concluding Final Four event, any online negativity was drowned out by thousands of screaming children and regular interjections from an air horn.

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In 1951, three Coast Guardsmen drowned after a rope lowering their boat from the rock snapped, plunging them into the icy water.

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On their quest to find mates, males can drown in backyard pools or get flattened on busy roads.

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