Yes, water breaks your fall.

You barely have a chance to react as you crash into a pool of water. You try to scream because of the intense pain, but your voice is muffled by the water. As fast as you can, you hold your hands over you mouth to stop yourself from blowing out anymore air. It takes you a sevond or two to calm down, before starting your ascend to what you hope is the waters surface, but you have no light or any indication of the right way.

As you swim, you start to feel seaweed or something similar brush over your skin, but, something feels off about it, it moves weirdly, almost like it's trying to wrap itself around you.

You start to panic as you swim faster and faster, but just as you feared, something grabs your blouse, dragging you further down. You try to kick and pull as hard as you can, but nothing works. In desperation you tear off your blouse feeling yourself become free and hastely swim away again.

It is a battle against time and you are unsure how much longer you can hold your breath. You quickly decide to drop everything that is weighing you down, leaving you in nothing but your torn leather thong. Your swimming becomes faster, but more panicked as you feel your mind starting to slip. You take one final stroke...

And with that, you finally breach the surface of the water, gasping for air as you franticly swim around like a panicked cat, trying to find something solid to cling on to.

Like a gift from heaven, your hand reaches a slab of stone. You pull yourself to it and try to climb out of the water, while still gasping for air.

You roll over to lay on your back, arms out to the side and your feet still touching the water. "...that...could have... ended... really bad..." you say to yourself in between gasps.