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Must be extra terrifying wearing mail and fighting over water ๐ฐ
It was probably among the less likely ways to die, they didn't even get to that layer of death possibilities, I mean why worry about it when long before that you have knives, swords, arrows, cannons, blunt force objects, explosive gunpowder...honestly maybe among the least grisly? And I say that hating the idea of drowning.
Consider that any of those other things that doesn't immediately kill you has a chance of knocking you overboard, unless you're in the middle of the deck. Doesn't even have to injure you.