Can you swim?

[NohBuddy2016]

Oddly enough, I didn't learn to swim until I was 16, and even then, it took me a few weeks to even get used to it.

 

[Reyzadren]

No, I can't swim. Not everyone can swim.

Actually, I can't float. I could probably swim with a float.

 

[Austin]

I took swimming lessons for 3 years from the ages 6-9. I think I'm a pretty good swimmer, even though I don't go swimming that often. I have fun when I do, though!

 

[RetroPokeman]

I learned to swim in a local river when I was around 14. Occasionally hitting my toe over a rock or seeing an aquatic snake swim by didn't bother me much in my teens, but I greatly prefer pools now.

 

[Her]

we locked that down as young as possible bc why not
can't remember not being able to swim, i used to do competitions as a kid but i'm more akin to a whale shark now than the sleek otter of my youth

 

[moon]

Yep, learned when I was around 6 and that was considered pretty late. Everybody here learned to swim as a kid, in special swimming schools during summer or sometimes also during the cold year indoors. I did both, for fun! We were a little fun squad swimming around in the summer sun.

I hate diving though; I have a serious fear of deep water. Or shallow water. The bottom of lakes. Undersides of boats. Basically of anything that has been underwater.

 

[Boomerang Cutter]

I can, but not very well. It's been a couple years since i last went swimming.

 

[0089]

yes but not deep waters, though
to cut it short and simple, no

 

[LuckyStar]

Yes, I learned in my childhood :)

 

[Rune]

I actually decided to properly learn how to swim last year after watching the infamous swimming anime just because I had nothing to do and I needed exercise. Managed to learn three of the four main strokes (front crawl, back, breast). Before this, I could float, doggy paddle, random paddle, and dive; things that regular people count as swimming I guess. I used to go swimming when I was a kid and taught myself to go on (and dived into) the deep end all the way back when I was 9 years old. Had an instructor too back when I was younger but he was never able to get me off the floaties for some reason.

 

[Sektor]

I passed the Navy qualifying swim test, so I think I pass for 'yes I can swim'. I can retrieve my gear, blow bubbles, turn my pockets inside out, take off my boots, dive, etc. I failed level two though. But I was elbowed in the face. They sent us out in the double digits so it was bound to happen to somebody. I laughed at the panicky ones, though. Wrong, but funny. The look of sheer terror. I guess that's not fair though, some people really are afraid of swimming, just like I live in constant fear of a cockroach climbing into my food when I'm not looking. It's never happened, but it could, right?

 

[smithy78]

I can swim. Not amazingly, but well enough...

I have an uncle who is the captain of a ship and has worked on boats his whole life, but he can't swim... Always found that strange haha