• BryyM@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I am number three, it is quite easy to learn and it can save your life.

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        11 days ago

        I’m scared to learn. Mostly because of trauma.

        Edit: I just remembered this clip from the movie WarGames and I relate.

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          11 days ago

          Well, you don’t have to be in water to learn the basics. If you have a chair you can lay down on your stomach and practice doing the paddling with your feet, and both the crawl/breaststroke movements until you feel confident that you do know them

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            11 days ago

            I’ll look into it. Thank you. I don’t have the means to learn for real right now but I intend to one day. Hopefully it won’t be so long.

      • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
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        10 days ago

        Oh. I misunderstood. “Learn to swim” didn’t read as a survival thing to me, I assumed it meant “swim quickly for sport” not “avoid drowning”. I took it for granted not everyone knows how to do this.

        The down votes are still funny.