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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I can't swim. If you throw me in water over my nose I will die. Simple as that.
I had a couple of bad experiences when I was very young that created a fear of water - coupled with some very poor attempts to teach me that just made that fear worse.
I tried to learn when I was a teen and then again as an adult - with private 1:1 lessons. Though it made me more comfortable with the water - I still can't swim at all. Trying to learn to swim as an adult, when every part of you thinks you can't, is like trying to learn how to fly - it feels completely unnatural.
It isn't something I'm proud of and I'm working hard to make sure I don't replicate the mistakes with my daughter - who has taken well to water so far.
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That's why I never understand questions like in this thread of "I don't understand how someone can drown in "X" amount of water?"
When you grow swimming you tend to lose the idea that things like treading water or getting to the surface are very much a learned skill, not a natural instinct.
A trained swimmer falls in the water and they start treading water, a completely untrained person falls in the water and they sink. There's no natural motions that everyone in the world can do when faced with drowning.
For someone with zero training, pretty much the second their head is under water in a depth greater than their height, they're sinking and they'll continue to sink and stay under until they're A) dead, or B) someone pulls them out.