snorkeling/scuba diving.... for a very adventorous non-swimmer?

Thus spake "Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> :

>"mbsdiver" wrote
>
>> I know how you feel. I'm a Pisces, ex-Water Safety Instructor, current
>> Master Diver Trainer and I can vividly remember the first time I was
>> able to 'swim'. I couldn't have been more than four or five.
>
>I'm also an ex Water Safety Instructor. I was swimming long before I was
>four or five.

Okay, how many ex WSIs do we have on this NG?

I remember learning how to swim when I was eight. Never stopped. I
even tried out for the swim team in college. I have a great
backstroke and a pretty good breaststroke (shut up). But not that
great. The 5 am practices kind of sucked, too.

>
>> Since then I have always felt at home in the water and I strongly
>> suspect that I am a transphibian.
>
>Generally, I'd rather be in the water than out. I hesitate to ask, however,
>what a transphibian is. Sounds hydroerotic.
>
>Lee
>

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"curlyQlink" wrote in message
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> Sure, you can probably snorkel without being able to swim. Fins make it
> easy. What happens if you lose a fin?

You snorkel in a circle?

> Now I know why you have to be certified, why
> you can't just buy the gear and go.

Darwin is the ultimate certification agency... Just buy the equipment and go
diving, Darwin will sort it out for you...

"Dillon Pyron" <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Thus spake "Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> :
>
> >"mbsdiver" wrote
> >
> >> I know how you feel. I'm a Pisces, ex-Water Safety Instructor, current
> >> Master Diver Trainer and I can vividly remember the first time I was
> >> able to 'swim'. I couldn't have been more than four or five.
> >
> >I'm also an ex Water Safety Instructor. I was swimming long before I was
> >four or five.
>
> Okay, how many ex WSIs do we have on this NG?

I've never been certified WSI, but I've got the highest level of
certification that the Boy Scouts offer in teh same track (Aquatics
Director, BSA). They aren't exactly even certifications, but they aren't
too far off. I can teach canoeing, rowing, swimming, and lifesaving and I
can certify BSA Lifeguards and BSA Lifeguard trainers.

My first real swimming experience was when I was 4 and fell off an
embankment into white caps. I'm still here so it must have gone well.

"Chris Guynn" <chris.guynn@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:HpZte.482$5w3.64@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com.. .

> too far off. I can teach canoeing, rowing, swimming, and lifesaving and I
> can certify BSA Lifeguards and BSA Lifeguard trainers.

Can you certify me as a GSA Lifeguard?

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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> "Chris Guynn" <chris.guynn@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:HpZte.482$5w3.64@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com.. .
>
> > too far off. I can teach canoeing, rowing, swimming, and lifesaving and
I
> > can certify BSA Lifeguards and BSA Lifeguard trainers.
>
> Can you certify me as a GSA Lifeguard?

*Poof* You're now unficially certified as a GSA Lifeguard.

OK - looking a the timescales this is all in the past so by now someone
will have pointed out that a PADI OWD must be able to swim 200m.

I got my cert in the Maldives and the final touch was on the way back
from the last qualifying dive when the boat stopped and the instructor
said that "it looks like we're about 200m from the shore - see you back
in the kit room". This is not the time to mention that you can't swim
and need someone with you for confidence.

Learn to swim. Find the right way. Specific night classes for small
groups of adults were the way I finally got round to it. That gave me
the one-to-one analysis of where I was going wrong and once the
co-ordination is sorted out, it's just practise. Work out what it is
that stops you swimming - technique, confidence, whatever, and find a
solution that meets your needs.


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