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re: How is it possible that an adult doesn’t know how to swim?
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:00 pm to HogBalls
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:00 pm to HogBalls
The only time I have seen this in full effect was swimming in river with a current undertow you were not prepared for. I witnessed a fun filled river day when someone that could actually swim went to the other side of the river bank and did not realize the current underneath because the waters were apparently higher than normal and it just took him underneath and down river, and no swimming training could prepare for it. He and a couple of others drowned in the same weekend.
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Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:05 pm to LSUfan0420
BBC article re lack of swimming in the black community that was written in the aftermath of the Red River drownings:
Actually talks about how black women don’t want to get their hair wet.
Actually talks about how black women don’t want to get their hair wet.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:10 pm to HogBalls
It really is just stupidity.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:10 pm to LSUfan0420
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This post was edited on 11/22/20 at 4:41 pm
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:12 pm to EA6B
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large portion of Americans live in areas where the climate is not conducive to swimming, and for the same reasons swimming pools are not very common. A significant number, probably half of those that that join the Navy and Marine Corp. cannot swim when they arrive at boot camp. A number of Navy SEALS from the Midwest U.S. did not learn to swim until they decide to become a SEAL. Not knowing how to swim as a adult is anything but un-common.
This isn't about the butterfly stroke, it's about being too stupid to stay afloat in a stagnant body of water
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:14 pm to Scoop
There’s a huge lake in Africa that I wanna say leads the world in drowning deaths. There’s a ton of Crocs so they don’t swim, but it’s a fishing community so a lot of them fall in or boats sink.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:21 pm to FreeState
If they are aduots, there is a level of stupidity involved in drowning.
And Yes, i do understand what fear does. Fesr usually is founded in not knowing a situation.
Sorry for their liss and yours
And Yes, i do understand what fear does. Fesr usually is founded in not knowing a situation.
Sorry for their liss and yours
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:21 pm to HogBalls
It’s relative. Many, like me can swim a short distance but not well enough to swim hundreds of yards in waves and currents. There have been a lot of “good” swimmers who drown.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 6:52 pm to ExtraGravy
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If so, that decision would have to be made a long time before they ever sign a contract, much less ship out for training. Just to get past the Day 1 test they have to swim 500 yards in 12:30. A few days into training they have to swim 50 meters underwater with no pushing off from one end of the pool to the other and no coming up for air.
I don't know more about their training than what I saw on Google and that Discovery documentary that's now on YouTube, but it looks like an incredibly demanding swimming regimen- besides the hard pool stuff, they are jumping right out into the cold ocean and swimming into the surf. It would seem to me that someone who did not know how to swim would need at least 2 or 3 years of regular practice to be able to have enough competence to do what is called for in that program. Maybe less time if you do it year-round 3 or 4 days a week and have a swimming coach.
And before they even show up for BUD/S they have to do the NSW prep course in Great Lakes, IL.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:05 pm to fr33manator
That has to be fake.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:06 pm to fr33manator
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Dekendrix
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JaTavious
quote:Jesus fricking Christ
Takeitha
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:07 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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You’d think most able bodied adults would be able to figure out how to tread water, unless there’s a Mississippi River type current
You’d think, but have you ever treaded water with shoes and clothes on?
I’m asking, assuming you mean adults who fall in, it adults that go and visit a body of water
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:08 pm to HogBalls
I never actually "learned" how to swim.
I know enough to go from not feeling the bottom of whatever water I'm in to standing depth. It's been good enough for me for nearly 3.5 decades.
I know enough to go from not feeling the bottom of whatever water I'm in to standing depth. It's been good enough for me for nearly 3.5 decades.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:12 pm to EA6B
Always thought it was odd that most American blacks dont know how to swim. That's definitely not the case for Carribean and Latin-American blacks.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:14 pm to HogBalls
They were never taught?
I am sure there are a lot of people who grow up and live in the city and don't know how to swim.
I am sure there are a lot of people who grow up and live in the city and don't know how to swim.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:15 pm to HogBalls
6 bans
Posted on 5/26/19 at 7:23 pm to HogBalls
I don’t understand anyone over the age of 4 not being able to swim
Posted on 5/26/19 at 9:49 pm to btown96
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I went through Navy enlisted
I dont know when you went through boot but in September of 1990 you werent graduating from boot camp without passing the swim test.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 10:04 pm to Muthsera
quote:That’s nonsense. You don’t exist outside the laws of physics.
I have never once been able to float. Not on my back, not on my stomach; I just sink like a rock in all positions.
You are perfectly able to float and swim, you just don’t know how.
Which really blows my mind that people cannot tread water. I’m not some amazing swimmer, but it takes very little effort to my sink in a pool. Just swish your legs and arms around a little bit.
Posted on 5/26/19 at 10:20 pm to HogBalls
They didn’t watch adult swim growing up
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