Can you swim?

[Wishbone]

Have never done swimming in competitions. As far as survival goes, there are a few simple rules I have adhered to:
1. Always wear life vest while sailing.
2. Never leave the boat/board.
3. Staying in the cockpit above water is more comfortable than swimming around the boat

 

[ky]

I can sympathize with your breathing problems. I have Cystic Fibrosis. My lungs are so completely ruined that I am desperately trying to get on the lung transplant list. (tick-tock ... time is running out.) At this point in my life, it's fair to say that I could NOT swim even to save my life.

Dang,that really sucks.I've never had an asthma attack but i've been in a hospital for it.

 

[DanM]

I swim, though not often. I've been trying to swim more often lately. Last time I swam was when my canoe tipped on the Current River in June. I am planning to swim some laps this afternoon, I'm working my way up to swimming a full mile.

 

[Eli13]

LOL, i was doing a lot of flipping over canoes learning how to canoe (I already know how, it was just a short course). Plus sometimes I'd jump out and flip over other people's canoes. The instructor could have cared less, we all did it.

 

[Moach]

my father is a certified scuba diver (once instructor), specialized in underwater photography and working as the editor of a diving magazine and since recently, residing aboard a sailboat off the caribbean...

thus, not knowing how to swim for me would be as unlikely as paris hilton knowing how to program a compiler :rofl:

 

[HarvesteR]

I can swim, and I've taken the SCUBA diving course when I was little, but never checked out so I'm not certified...

But I can't float. No matter how hard I try, I just seem to be denser than water :lol:

Cheers

 

[dgatsoulis]

I was born in Greece. Now, not all Greeks are great swimmers, but i must admit that i learned how to swim before i could walk.

I've never been outside of our small Mediterranean lake... ever! Sure there are a couple of deep reefs.... but nothing compared to to facing an ocean.

 

[jedidia]

We had a lake where I grew up, and the school had the habit of having a swimming competition, which I hated, because I always lost...

Learned to swim at nine (same year as I learned to ride a bike), am pretty solid at it, but not particularly good. I held a life-safer license for a while, but the most I got out of it was laughing my butt off when watching baywatch (Did you know that the primary purpose of those orange buoys is to HIT the drowner if he attacks you in panick? :lol.

I can go half a kilometer if need be, I can dive 25 meters in length and about 5 in depth without much trouble, and I can do it all in a row, then fish a 200-pound guy out of the basin and breath down his nose for 15 minutes because he's too lazy to do it himself. Not that I ever had to do that in earnest, thanks god...

But despite all this, I don't really like swimming. I kinda hate it, really. Plus, I was never able to float. when I stop moving I just go down, no matter how much air in my lungs.

 

[Moach]

it appears, we all know to swim before we can walk...

babies apparently are excellent swimmers, it's only after a few years (months?) of life that we begin to "lose" that hability, and at become prone to panicking when submerged...

strange... those humans... go figure

 

[astrosammy]

When I was 8 years old I learned it after falling into a pool. But I haven't done it for years...

 

[Brycesv1]

i learned when i was 7 by walking towards the deep end of our pool until the water reached my neck and accidentally getting the movements right (lucky me). something clicked and ever since then iv loved the water

 

[RichWall]

It's amazing what you can do with scuba tank...even with out a regulator..join the 6 feet under club...

 

[Nazban]

The one reason i LOVE swimming is that its the closest i can get to feeling microgravity, that thought itself makes me love swimming
I have no idea when i learnt to properly swim, sometime in 1st or 2nd grade, but now i love it, whenever i get the chance, i always go swimming!!

 

[Artlav]

The most fun I had is when I realized I could take a really heavy rock, hold it in my hands and walk under the ocean, on the ocean floor. Pure bliss.

Except for a need to jump up to breath every now and then.

Except for can't-see-much... glasses? Water-in-the-nose... Mask? Leaking mask... :shrug:
Except that you need two similar rocks to keep a balance.
Except that for a moonwalk-like experience the rocks are getting frikkin heavy.

That all solved, it's quite a fun.

 

[DanM]

Except for a need to jump up to breath every now and then.

Except for can't-see-much... glasses? Water-in-the-nose... Mask? Leaking mask... :shrug:
Except that you need two similar rocks to keep a balance.
Except that for a moonwalk-like experience the rocks are getting frikkin heavy.

That all solved, it's quite a fun.

Fill a backpack with rocks :lol:

Then if you jump too high, you could land on your back just like that one astronaut.