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| Thread ID: 127798 | 2012-11-14 19:49:00 | Why learn too swim. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1312510 | 2012-11-14 19:49:00 | Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) I have always thought that how too swim was a natural thing. That if you fell into the water your natural instincts would kick in that if you didn't swim you would drown. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1312511 | 2012-11-14 19:54:00 | To swim, not too. There is a big difference between swimming and thrashing around in a kind of mangled dog-paddle. I can't swim. Went to Bali once, out in the boat to view the reefs, I was contentedly sitting in the boat, but I as made to get in and look, just float they said........ Well after floating about viewing the awesome coral and fishes, I looked up and I'm way away from the boat in the current. My efforts at swimming accomplished nothing, I didn't get further but nor was I getting any closer either. My son (12 at the time) came and towed me back.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1312512 | 2012-11-14 20:14:00 | So this thread got me interested in just how drowning ranks as a cause of death (what can I say, I like looking things up). According to the WHO, "drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide" and last year's death toll from drowning in NZ was 123 - an eight year high. 80% of those who died last year were male (possibly because women have a higher body fat percentage and float better, but more likely because men undertake higher-risk activities and professions on the water? I'm guessing here. :flail: ) Children under five years are at highest risk of drowning, but "Canada and New Zealand are the only exceptions, where adult males drown at higher rates." :( |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1312513 | 2012-11-14 20:23:00 | I was at the guessing stage I suppose when I formed the opinion that no individual could drown at a higher rate than 100%. (That seems to be the rate for all classes of victims.) ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1312514 | 2012-11-14 21:56:00 | ""Canada and New Zealand are the only exceptions, where adult males drown at higher rates."" Speculative, but maybe drinking and cold water and thinly spread population are not a good mix on fishing trips. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1312515 | 2012-11-14 22:09:00 | 80% of those who died last year were male (possibly because women have a higher body fat percentage and float better, I'd guess males, young especially, tend to do things like drink and swim, swim in jeans, fish in small boats without checking the weather and so on more so than women. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1312516 | 2012-11-14 22:53:00 | Swimming is not something that people know how to do naturally, hence why swimming lessons exist. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1312517 | 2012-11-14 22:59:00 | Swimming is not something that people know how to do naturally, hence why swimming lessons exist. But you have to admit, a brilliant question, worth of our resident scholar. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1312518 | 2012-11-14 23:27:00 | Our dog taught itself to swim, ergo dogs smarter than humans. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1312519 | 2012-11-14 23:52:00 | Our dog taught itself to swim, ergo dogs smarter than humans. And cats :devil Ken |
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