Do you float

[3narf]

I sink. Always have.

 

[slugonabike]

Ha, even my Wife didn't believe me until she spent half an Hour gently holding me up in the water and releasing me, only to watch in disbelief as I sunk into the depths...

Sounds like a great game

 

[Night Train]

I can't float.

In a swimming pool I can take a deep breath and still sit at the bottom of the deep end.
In the sea, with full lungs, I can float with just two inches of the top of my head showing.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

In contrast, despite having relatively little body fat and being quite reasonably muscled, I do float well.

 

[ColinJ]

I can't float.

In a swimming pool I can take a deep breath and still sit at the bottom of the deep end.
In the sea, with full lungs, I can float with just two inches of the top of my head showing.

A friend of mine described being exactly the same. He is about the same height as me but he is somehow 'more solid'. I can't really say what it is but when we are the same weight he somehow seems 'chunkier' than me!

We went swimming once and he told me that he was tired after only 6 lengths and was going to get out and go to the sauna. I asked how he could possibly be tired so quickly and he told me that it was because he wasn't buoyant.

I'd never heard of that before so I asked him to prove it. We swam up to the deep end of the pool and both took big gulps of air and stopped swimming. He immediately sank to the bottom of the pool while I bobbed about on the surface!

 

[Shaun]

I'm a sinker too.

I experimented over the years and I can let go of the side at the deep end, and down I go.

I've tried doing the "take a deep breath" thing - no difference. I just sink, and that's that. Can't do much about it.

It stops me enjoying the swimming pool a bit, because I end up staying close to the side when I swim near the deep end - just in case I get out of breath and end up sinking because I can't tread-water.

Add to that the unpleasent feeling I get when I have water over my face (even in the bath or shower), and you can see how the swimming lessons I had as a kid burned a hole in my mum's purse ... ... and never amounted to much.

I've had a few people mock me over the years when I've told them I sink like a stone, so it's good to know there are a few of us around ...

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Paulus]

I'm a floater, I'm not a lightweight, but not a bloater. I always could float from an early age. It does help if you can keep your body flat in the water. Once the legs or the tummy start to sink your body will go down .

 

[Panter]

I've had a few people mock me over the years when I've told them I sink like a stone, so it's good to know there are a few of us around ...

Cheers,
Shaun

It certainly is, maybe we need to form a club

I was starting to feel a bit like a circus freak

As I say, even my Wide wouldn't believe me until I'd demonstrated several times that I just don't float. Ok, I can bob around at ear level with a huge lungful of air, but unless I learn to breathe through my ears, it's not a great deal of help!

 

[Panter]

I'm a floater, I'm not a lightweight, but not a bloater. I always could float from an early age. It does help if you can keep your body flat in the water. Once the legs or the tummy start to sink your body will go down .

You'd honestly have to see it to appreciate it. My Wife was supporting me very gently, whilst I laid flat in the water and as soon as she removed her hand, I'd sink.
It's not a technique thing, I float fine in the sea and, in fact, very much enjoy doing so

 

[swee'pea99]

My wife and one daughter float effortlessly; self and other daughter sink. More specifically, if I totally relax on my back in the water, my legs gently sink, and keep going till I'm vertical in the water, with nothing visible but my bald patch. Since I were a lad, 'twas ever thus (except the patch used to have hair on).

 

[Panter]

I've had a few people mock me over the years when I've told them I sink like a stone, so it's good to know there are a few of us around ...

Cheers,
Shaun

It certainly is, maybe we need to form a club

I was starting to feel a bit like a circus freak

As I say, even my Wide wouldn't believe me until I'd demonstrated several times that I just don't float. Ok, I can bob around at ear level with a huge lungful of air, but unless I learn to breathe through my ears, it's not a great deal of help!

 

[Lisa21]

I sink. But then again I cannot swim, and I hate water getting to deep as I start feeling panicky. The reason for this I think, Is my dear mother

Apparently she watched a programme once where a farmer taught some puppies to swim by throwing them in a river. She obviously has a lightbulb moment at this as she took me to the local indoor pool, dropped me in at the deep end and went to get herself a coffee

I sank, and somebody jumped in and saved me I dont actually remember this (I was very young) but the story is true. I guess social workers didnt exist 40 years ago lol

 

[slugonabike]

I'm a floater - makes it difficult when trying to swim underwater cos my arris always bobs up to the surface

 

[coffeejo]

I'm a floater

I'm having to suppress an urge to go and flush the toilet

 

[Night Train]

I'm a floater - makes it difficult when trying to swim underwater cos my arris always bobs up to the surface

I quite happily swim lengths skimming the bottom of the pool.