My parents did that thing where they threw me into the deep end and said "you'll either learn to swim, or you'll drown." I nearly drowned.

One of my elementary school friends got permanent brain damage from that :thumb:

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My Dad did the same thing to me. I guess having your child almost drown is better than putting that beer down and taking a couple of minutes to actually teach your kid how to swim. Still can't swim, Thanks Dad.

I can swim to survive, but it's never for fun. A couple summers ago I was kayaking with my dog and we flipped, the kayak and my gear went downstream and my dog was heading upstream, so I had to grab the kayak and pull it against the current while I swam toward my dog, who is also strictly a survival swimmer, and the water was too deep to find the bottom and get any kind of footing. It was a nightmare but I saved the kayak and the dog. He won't get into kayaks with me anymore though.

No. Only in school, and as I said, the smell put me off and I just hated it. Got excused, sat there at the side of the pool and read a book instead whenever we had to go. **** swimming. If man had been meant to swim he would have been born with gills and flippers.

Idk, swimming out a hundred yards or so into the ocean with a floating cooler and mates is a solid time.

Never done this but sounds great especially where you are.

Well I don't have any mates, nor do I drink (hardly at all), so that's two reasons for me not to be impressed by that as a good time.

Yeah I'm good with a hundred yards offshore but swimming is still fantastic.