re: Anyone on here not know how to swim?

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Been swimming my whole life and to this day it strikes me as odd when a grown, able-bodied person says they can't swim.

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I realized some people never learned, but I assumed it was all super impoverished people with no access to a pool or something.

Then I met my wife. She CAN swim, but only if she absolutely needs to not drown. She gets no joy out of the deep end of a pool. I think they even had a pool at one point when she was growing up and she still didn't get proficient.

My dad coached a youth swim team. Even though I didn't swim as a kid competitively (sister did), I was always around it and still swim several times a week for exercise.