1st, the water was 12 feet if it was an inch. He thought it was shallower because he sees me as a giant of a man...a hero.
next, It didnt roll when I stepped in, it happened when I put to much english on the spear that I was chucking at a 400lb flathead that happend to show up.
His angle made it look like it was close to the shoreline, but was probably a good 30 meters out, obviously, as 400 lbs flatheads are a deep water fish.
Water temp was a fridged 48 degrees.
One of my "saddle shape" routines is to wear a dive belt whilst climbing. I happened to have that on. He didnt see it cause I was chewing it off at the bottom of the lake and decided to leave it there. Collected all of the gear on my deep water walk back to the canoe.