[Wetwork]

Going through Coast Guard boot camp I was appalled how many recruits showed up who couldn't swim a stroke. Day one at the pool, this King Kong body builder rescue swimmer would have all the prior life guards step foward. He'd dive in, swim out and pretend to be drowning. The other instructor would yell at the "life guards" to go save him. It was ugly, that giant rescue swimmer just destroyed those kids LOL. Why nobody just chucked a life ring out is beyond me. Guess we were to scared to think outside the box? I think that was the whole lesson, don't be dumb he-he. I could swm but I wasn't a life guard, The kids who couldn't swim at all had to take night training to learn. Its kinda mandatory to know how to swim in the CG. Eventually almost everyone get's to be a surface swimmer. This is were you are geared up and swim out and save folks off the beach or off the boat but you are teathed with a 100 yard rope tied to your back. So you just need to grabb'em and you get hauled back in by your team. Or tied off to a GV and they drive back up the beach hauling you in at great speeds. -WW