Man, that brings back memories :1orglaugh . I got MCRD San Diego though; being from Texas (right in the middle) they gave us a choice, beach or swamp... wasn't really a hard decision. But saw the same thing; mostly black inner-city guys freaking out as soon as they hit the water...

i really love swimming but swimming dont love me yet i do swim but cant save somebody when he/she is drowning... :)

can float like a dead kipper...............but swimming im like a crab!

Most people die from panic in the water, not from lack of swimming skills.
Although if you can't swim you would panic.

I can swim.. I grew up swimming in ponds, lakes and rivers..used to escape my parents by swimming across the lake :1orglaugh

People drown in 1 foot of water.....they panic and lose their orientation I've
rescued some guy out of the water once after a drove in a canal. The water
wasn't deep at all, but people go bezerk. I had to knock the guy out before
I was able to pull him to shore it's quite amazing.

What's even more amazing is that bystanders also kinda panic.....there was like
20 people standing on shore watching the guy drown....they all could swim but
for some reason they all froze.....this happens very often. All people do is pull
a silly face and freeze....they want to help.....but they don't unless somebody
grabs them and gives them specific instructions.....then they'll snap out of it
and start moving. It's really weird....it's not that they don't want to help or
can't they just lose their common sense and freeze.

HAHA, in the navy the only ones in my company who couldn't swim were black, just not part of the culture I guess. :upsidedow

i can swim in a pool but not in the ocean...lol

hey you're backwards! lol

our bodies are more buoyant in salt water

If you cant swim take lessons, it's very important

Fitty................

I was 5 when my dad taught me to swim. He wanted to train me to be a good swimmer. Although I believe I became a very good swimmer because of his training, I never really enjoyed joining competitions. He resented my geekish lifestyle

I swim like a dolphin...

I used to be afraid of water being a kid
But spending a summer next to a major river few years in a row 'd taken the fear away.
I do swim good nowadays

some women even give birth beside the pool to train the babies in swimming.

No that is to drown the child because the father sent all his traffic to the wrong affiliate program and cant pay his bandwidth bill let alone child support.

I jumped in at age 4 with out my swim thing's on and boom I was swimming. I have all so been on a swim team for 15 years when I was young. I have many 1st place ribbons for the butterfly.



:)

I have seen where they give birth under water.

edit: not in person but on TV, i would probably faint if i saw a child being born in real life

My mom started me swimming when I was a baby, so I thought it was normal and that everyone could swim, but me and my girlfriend were at the beach and I jumped in the water and she told me she couldn't swim, so we spent some time in the pool last summer and now she swims like a fish.

I think anyone can at least dog paddle it's the panic that kills ya.

I can swim for sure. :pimp

I used to be able to swim. Now I sort of just bob assuming my legs somewhat co-operate with me. Since I lost the use of them they are rather boyant and just float up without controll and thus this messes everything up and sinks your top half if your not carefull. I can however relax and float ussually and can move somewhat in the water. It is a bitch though trying to swim or move about in the water with only your arms.

Yeah, I know how to swim

Too swimming lessons as a kid.. so somewhat yea