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“I started on my grandpa’s back, just floating down the creek with a life jacket on,” he told me during a recent phone interview from the Red Rock prison.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Stacey said that the "four participants were not wearing wetsuits and one had decided that a life jacket would not be necessary".

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

"The water is safe when there's a lifeguard and you have a life jacket on," he said.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

I got my life jacket on, but so what?

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick




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