>having a family reunion at a lake >supposed to be safe to swim in >everyone is having a good time swimming and fishing >I get up on a little dock area >do a running jump into the water >big splash o cool of me to do that >wait >this water doesn't feel right >it doesn't look right either >its all black and wriggling around like it is alive >it is alive >dove into a big pile of snakes that were just under the water >everybody takes off away from the lake as the snakes overrun the water and shore >screaming like a bitch while whipping snakes back and forth trying to get to shore >didn't get bit at all >never just into water ever again From what we were told, they were mating water moccasin. If that were true and they had attacked me, I almost certainly would have died.