Let's talk about stamina!

[Llabak]

Regarding swimming and dying, I remember doing the burning rapier with my gnome rogue and taking just this side of forever to find the damn bottle at the bottom of the ocean. If you needed stamina/endurance to stay afloat, I'm sure I would have drowned, along with most of the other rogues.

I also remember spending all sorts of time swimming around akanon looking for hidden passages and such when the game first released, and the only thing I had to worry about was air.