Having failed in his mission, he returned and nearly drowned crossing the ice-filled Allegheny River.

Many Chinese soldiers and porters drowned crossing the Red River.

Determined to return to her family, she almost drowns crossing a river with her baby, Chucho.

After the Roman victory, he expanded the colonial possessions in Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal), where he drowned crossing a river.

The Chronicle of the Princes places his death in the entry for 870 and says he drowned crossing the River Llychwr in Gower while fighting Viking invaders.

He was on his way to Amsterdam to see the captured Spanish treasure fleet there and drowned crossing the Haarlemmermeer.

In 1985, in the Florida phase, a soldier drowned crossing a stream against a strong current.

You may drown crossing to shore, or break your neck off one cliff, or thousand other griefs.

Although one contemporary predicted that Washington's trip "may induce the Overseers of Roads and Ferry-Keepers to mend their Ways and repair or build new Boats," the travelers nearly drowned crossing a river in Maryland.

The boy was plucked from the waters off South Florida on Thanksgiving Day after his mother and 10 other Cubans drowned crossing the Florida Straits.