Spike nearly drowns

I could say that I have had a few near death experiences in life, but to be honest I don't think any of them have been that dangerous or close to death. I suppose one of the worst not very near death experiences was when I was around the age of six years old, which has stayed in my memory vivdly.
We were on holiday in Majorca at the time and by the pool area of the hotel. My parents had recently made friends with another couple, and they trusted the couple (who also had children) to keep an eye on Claire and myself whilst they went to get some towels from the hotel room.
The son of the couple who was quite a few years older than Claire and myself (definitely in his teens) was by the pool and letting us push him into the swimming pool simply by poking him with our fingers. He'd then pretend to fall in, then get back out and we'd do the same thing again. As I was only six, I found this hugely fun and amusing.
I'm not entirely sure what happened then, but a teenage Spanish boy got into an argument with the one we'd been messing around with. There was a bit of shouting and shoving, and then suddenly the Spanish boy grabbed me and threw me into the pool (this was an adult pool). I couldn't swim, and all I know is that I was at the bottom of the swimming pool, there were bubbles coming out of my mouth and everything was blue.
What surprises me, even to this day is that no one came in to get me, not the family looking after me, not even a lifeguard. Maybe I wasn't in the water all that long, but it seemed like a very long time.
Whilst under there though I somehow managed to make my way to the ladder by the side of the pool and climb out.
This was the moment my parents were back with the towels and they were quite shocked by what had happened. I was then coughing my lungs up with chlorine filled water, while my parents were drying me off and trying to help get the water out of me.
It probably doesn't sound too bad for most people reading this, but at the time it was an awful experience. I know my parents felt guilty afterwards and since that day they never entrusted us in peoples care unless they knew them very well.
Still, the sights, smells, and even the sounds of being in the pool are as fresh in my memory now as the day it happened.