re: Swimming in a Bayou. Yes or no?

Had this discussion during Christmas with my dad and uncle

There was some lake/bayou in Alexandria they would go to. I asked about alligators. They said “oh yeah they were around but you more than likely scared them off, they wouldn’t come after you.” Told me how there would be “logs” in the lake people in their boats would steer clear of but then one boat would get really close and the “log” would start thrashing around and the log alligator would disappear into the depths of the lake.

Also told me one of their friends died water skiing in this lake/bayou whatever.

He was water skiing and then flopped as one does and was waiting for the boat to come back around. He was bobbing under the surface and calling for help and the calls for help got weaker and weaker. The boat finally got to him and when they pulled him up he was enveloped in a wriggling gigantic squirming hive of water moccasins. He had been bitten multiple multiple times and the weight of this mass of snakes was drowning him as well. Apparently when water moccasins get together to mate they just tangle a huge number of themselves into a ball. And by some freak accident when his waterski run ended he just ended up right on top of it. He died.