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Originally Posted by Tobra
Good luck.
Trivia tidbit, Harvard University requires that graduates know how to swim. My understanding is that some donor had a kid drown, and gave the endowment a bunch of dough, with the stipulation that people know how to swim when they graduate.
I could never float worth a damn. Maybe now that my body fat percentage is a little higher I could, but in the past I would sink. The instructors in basic showed us how to stay afloat with a pair of pants, or the uniform hat, bucket, a few tricks. Glad I never had to test that stuff out in the middle of the deep blue sea
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Same here. That was the hardest test for me in boot. Divers in the water kept asking me if I was a smoker, ha! I’ve always floated like a rock. Took lessons as a kid and still, I’m a terrible swimmer. Naturally, I joined the Navy!
I knew where all of my buddies surf boards were and my shop was just off the catwalk next to Crash and Salvage. Had the plan all worked out, lol
I’ll snorkel in the ocean but, it took me awhile to learn to relax in the water.. My ancestors crawled onto land for a reason.
Sucks because I’d love to learn how to surf but, I know I’d die doing it. Regardless of the added buoyancy of a suit and the salt. Surfing with a life vest on ain’t a cool look.