Well, yes of course I misstated and you get a point.

I meant "near-drowning experience" or "near-death experience".
"Near-death drowning experience" could bwe argued as an oxymoron. In
most circles, the definition of drowning explicitly includes death, but
there is that grey area of 'what is death' and is it irreversible.

Then, there's the semantic question of if someone is 'in the process of
drowning' and does not clinically die, were they ever 'drowning'?

--riverman
(no good will come of this, I can predict)