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A Weird Question For You

Sunday, 29 December 2024, 22:00 MJA Uncategorized 40

How many of you can float? Pool, lake, ocean, wherever.
I’ve tried every possible way and I still can’t.
Not Able To Float

40 Comments on A Weird Question For You

  3. I can float (barely) in salt water but not in fresh water.

    There are survival swimming techniques that will allow you to keep breathing with a minimum of effort. Also in survival mode, any of the ubiquitous plastic screw cap water or drink bottles are extremely valuable for making it easier to keep your face above water. You don’t even absolutely need the cap as long as you can keep it inverted and full of air.

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  4. We had a guy from Jamaica in our boot camp company in 73. He was small and wirery. It turned out he had all the buonyancy of a block of concrete.
    After 2 days the instructors gave up and he was discharged from the Navy.

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  6. i can’t float on my back but can do a Deadman float. doesn’t matter if it’s fresh water or sea. I can float in a float pod, which is extremely high epsom salt content but that’s about it.

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  7. At 125 pounds I floated like a cork. Now, at 175 pounds, I float like a cork. My cousin, who is much more – um – padded, sinks like a stone. My skinny son floats while his amply padded best friend can barely stay afloat WEARING A LIFE JACKET. There’s just no understanding human buoyancy.

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  8. I can float, more or less, but I have a brother who can’t. He tried to pass off the swimming requirement for his Life in Scouts, but he couldn’t swim close enough to the surface to take a breath without stopping.

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  9. I remember Navy boot camp where I jumped off the diving board into the pool and had to tread water for 15 minutes in order to go to sea on board a ship. I made it and thank God I never had to do that when on board the Kitty Hawk even while wearing a life preserver vest every time, I was up on the flight deck.

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  10. I have a long history on being in the water. Long story short,,,,
    I was lean and mean but floated like a weight bag. Had to keep air in my lungs to keep my face above water while my legs hung down.

    If any of you know the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale here is how you can tell.

    A fairy tale starts out with “Once upon a time”.
    A sea story starts out with ” This is a no shitter”.
    If this pic opens I was not in the picture as I took them. Kodiak Alaska.
    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/dc/13/79dc1358413f81fecde9470b2fc844a9.jpg
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220582298282283&set=p.10220582298282283&type=3
    https://cgaviationhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/hangar-header1.jpg
    I was young then and loving life to the fullest. That is Mario Marini Rescue Swimmer as we did practice in the waters off of Kodiak. Best time of my life ever. Hope it doesn’t bore all of you.

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  11. I have a theory about this: people who retain more intestinal gas have a better shot at floating.(As a bonus if they can control the release of the gas: they’re a human motor boat.)

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  12. I can float indefinitely or as long as I’m awake. lol
    When I was a skinny teen or now with more weight on me.
    Can’t swim underwater,just bob up like a cork. Hubby thinks it’s hilarious.

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  15. Yes but I hardly ever swim
    could only ever do a sort of breast stroke
    and a simple backstroke, pulling arms down then giving a kick
    only in small pool and only learned when I was completely grown
    Oh I did used to jump off diving board at big Y pool when kids were young–I could bring myself up ok and get back to side of pool ok and there were guards all over.

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  17. I’ve always been able to float — if I want to. I think the trick is to completely relax and not freak out if everything but your nose and mouth submerge. I also learned to tread water for long periods of time effortlessly when I trained for my diving certificate as a teenager. I think it’s all about relaxing. Actually, just thinking about being in the water is relaxing. Hah! And just in time for bed, too. Thanks!

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  18. Fat. In my case a lot of brown fat. It’s thought to be part genetic and part from exposure to cold. I’m thin and fairly muscular and my sport used to be endurance swimming. I don’t sink, I float in any position, and I don’t get tired in the water (can just rest there). The intestinal air hypothesis of Anonymous is interesting, so maybe I’m also a gasbag. Maybe other kinds of air spaces in the physiology (lung capacity). Or extreme comfort in the water.

    Most athletes have high muscle density and low body fat and don’t float easily.

    I’ve become even more buoyant as I age, so I suspect this is attributable to some lessening of muscle and bone density and, since my weight hasn’t changed, the addition of more white fat.

    Back-floating tip for those with low body fat: raise your arms all the way up above your head to counterbalance your legs and breathe steadily and gently.

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  22. …FWIW, I do recall multiple observations on the buoyancy of female breasts of varying sizes, shapes, densities, and restraint methodolgy (or lack thereof) in hot tubs, cold pools, bathtubs, and salt water. Sadly though I cant publish the findings of these youthful experiments because 1) The experiments did not use rigid scientific methodology, 2) I did not control for natural vs. augmented as that was a rude question to ask, 3) There was no non-female control group, 4) I wasnt actually writing any of it down as my hands were generally busy at other tasks, and 5) I have a wife now that I didnt have then which sharply reduced the varety of the data set(s) even as it increased available single (double?) subject experimentation time and intensity, plus if I told her about preceding experiments she’d want names and dates and as it was a long time ago before we met and as I said on point (4) above I wasnt writing anything down so my poor memory would simply be regarded as evasive.

    But on the whole, I recall the trials as being quite stimulating, albeit for all the wrong reasons…

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  25. aircubed
    Monday, 30 December 2024, 7:15 at 7:15 am
    “If you can’t walk on the bottom then you’re kinda floating.”

    …well, there was this ONE guy who walked ABOVE it…

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  32. I have always been able to float, whether lean and muscular or a little overweight and not as fit. I have also been told, from sonograms and breast exams, that I have very dense tissue. I’ve had two hip replacements and still float. I have a difficult time forcing myself to the bottom of a pool to fetch things. My husband can’t float even a little. I have no explanation, but the article doesn’t appear to apply to me.

  33. My legs always sank. I took a swimming class in college. One day we were using paddle boards in the diving pool. My legs sank, and they pulled the rest of my body down while the paddle board pulled my hands up and pushed my head under water. I was the only one in the class who almost drowned. Worst part is I didn’t even get mouth-to-mout from the instructor which might have made it worthwhile.

    I did float in the Dead Sea. That was strange. My body rocked like a canoe but I stayed afloat.

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  39. Who can reach his toenails and chew them off? I used to do that to show off to family members, I didn’t need toenail clippers. I used my teeth.

    How many of y’all can claim such a feat as that?

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