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View Poll Results: sink or swim or save
Can't swim 4 3.57%
I can float to where I hope to go. 13 11.61%
Good swimmer-100 to 200 yrds 42 37.50%
Great swimmer- 300 to 500 yrds 17 15.18%
I can save you life - like fish. 36 32.14%
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Old 02-20-2010, 07:37 PM   #35
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I was allowed to join the Boyscouts 30 days before my eleventh birthday. Two weeks later I earned the mile swim badge , 14 days before my eleventh birthday. I took all the red cross courses right up to and including Water Safety Instructor.

So I know how to swim. being somewaht fatter than I was , I have no idea how my stamina is but its a fact that the more comfortable you are in the water , the slower you burn energy and the less work you have to do to stay afloat and move along.


For one swimming course I took I had to tread water for 2 hours!. After a while you learn that if you are perfectly relaxed and do not worry about keeping your head up , you can float almost indefinitely without moving a muscle.

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