Question of the Day, Sunday, June 2nd

[Tobermory]

I can swim although not particularly well. All students had to pass a swimming test at my college, and I put it off until my senior year. I don’t know what would have happened if I’d failed! But I do love the water and was a scuba diver for many years. Believe it or not, you don’t really need to be able to swim to dive.

 

[Bri5]

Yes, I can. I can also float, but can not tread water well.

 

[NY cat man]

I can swim although not particularly well. All students had to pass a swimming test at my college, and I put it off until my senior year. I don’t know what would have happened if I’d failed! But I do love the water and was a scuba diver for many years. Believe it or not, you don’t really need to be able to swim to dive.

When I was in college, in my senior year, taking a phys. ed. course was mandatory for each quarter, but if you could pass the test, you passed the course. For winter quarter, I chose swimming, and wouldn't you know it, just days before the test, I came down with the flu. Nothing to eat but tea and dry toast for 3 days, but I still took the test. We had to swim 2 timed laps in a 50 meter pool, doing the crawl, back stroke, side stroke, and butterfly, for 8 total laps. I passed- barely, but it wasn't easy.

 

[Tobermory]

We had to swim 2 timed laps in a 50 meter pool, doing the crawl, back stroke, side stroke, and butterfly, for 8 total laps.

That was what we had to do! Same test except for butterfly.

 

[Willowy]

I can swim, but don't look very good doing it, lol. I never took lessons or anything. But I would be fine if, say, my kayak flipped in the middle of the lake or something.

When I was a kid we could only go to the pool without our parents if we took a test that involved: swimming across the deep end over water, swimming across the deep end under water (could come up for breath), tread water for some minutes (3? I forget. Seemed like forever), and jump off the high dive. I was terrified of the high dive and had the worst time with that part, but I did it. Took several tries of backing down the ladder though.

And because I really didn't want to wait around for my mom to take me to the pool, I was very motivated to take, and pass, that test.

I had a hard time floating as a kid but now I can do it almost effortlessly. More fat probably, haha.

 

[misty8723]

No. I tried to learn several times, but I have a fear of water. I'm fine as long as I;m in the shallow end, but swim? Nope.
We had to take pool in high school. The first thing the teacher did was tell us to put our heads under the water. I was like, is she nuts? I'm not doing that! She taught a few of us how to float and spent all her time at the other end of the pool with the kids who already knew how to swim. Fine with me, the few of us in the shallow end floated back and forth for the period.

 

[cassiopea]

Yup! Took lessons for multiple years as a kid. I'm not Olympic athlete or anything, but I think I am pretty reasonable.

 

[margecat]

I swam every weekday when I was a teenager. I love it!

 

[maggiedemi]

Yeah, but I don't like swimming anymore. Prefer coffee, lunch, shopping.