Connections to myself

There was a part in the book when the nephew fell in a hole and was fished out by the guide.  This was when they were walking along the underground river when the nephew suddenly went missing.

This reminds me of a time when I was with the boy scouts and we were walking in a stream that was only a few inches deep and I all of a sudden dropped in a hole over my head. Luckily there was an older scout that reached down and pulled me out of the water.   Some major differences were that my guide was not the silent type and I was saved in a couple of seconds, not hours.