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robtherake

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It may sound like a queer sort of question. I've never been a great swimmer but the fact is, if I stop swimming I sink like a brick.

 

I watch others float on their backs, or tread water with languid, graceful movements, knowing that to do the same I need to thrash like a washing-machine on full spin. If I stop swimming, I'm gonna drown, and as an angler - well, it can make a bloke rather nervous as you can probably imagine.

 

The only possible explanation that I can see is that I must be more dense (!) than your average human. Does anyone else suffer from this strange phenomenon?

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

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It may sound like a queer sort of question. I've never been a great swimmer but the fact is, if I stop swimming I sink like a brick.

 

I watch others float on their backs, or tread water with languid, graceful movements, knowing that to do the same I need to thrash like a washing-machine on full spin. If I stop swimming, I'm gonna drown, and as an angler - well, it can make a bloke rather nervous as you can probably imagine.

 

The only possible explanation that I can see is that I must be more dense (!) than your average human. Does anyone else suffer from this strange phenomenon?

If you sink when lying on your back, your not relaxed enough. Fall in in this weather and floating on your back or treading water will be the least of your worries. Cold Water Shock will probably see you off within a few minutes.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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rob,

 

It is a queer sort of question. I, like you, sink like a rock. My daugher can not be sunk. She's like a fishing bobber. My daughter is a "champion" swimmer - I say not because she's good (very good) but because she uses zero energy staying afloat. I'm not kidding you cannot push the child underwater even with her cooperation. She's quite big (5' 8" tall - 12 1/2 stone) and solid as a rock. Looks like an East German swimmer of the early 70's. It skipped a generation. Grandma was the same as my daughter and to some degree so is my wife, Natasha.

 

Phone

Edit: Ohh - I'm afraid of water.

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My mate is negative buoyancy, if he breaths out he can walk along the bottom of the pool

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

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rob,

 

It is a queer sort of question. I, like you, sink like a rock. My daugher can not be sunk. She's like a fishing bobber. My daughter is a "champion" swimmer - I say not because she's good (very good) but because she uses zero energy staying afloat. I'm not kidding you cannot push the child underwater even with her cooperation. She's quite big (5' 8" tall - 12 1/2 stone) and solid as a rock. Looks like an East German swimmer of the early 70's. It skipped a generation. Grandma was the same as my daughter and to some degree so is my wife, Natasha.

 

Phone

Edit: Ohh - I'm afraid of water.

 

 

A WITCH !

Edited by Ken L

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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It's good to know that it's unusual, but by no means unique.

John - thanks for the link. I searched "why don't I float" and found at least one person in each thread who lacked natural buoyancy.

 

In this one I Can't Float!, There is a dive instructor (third post in) who bears this out.

 

Chesters - Me too. I can sit on the bottom of the pool with almost a full breath of air, I just need to release a tiny amount and down I go.

 

Phone - I think it's natural for us "sinkers" to feel nervous around the wet stuff. Notice it doesn't stop us from angling!

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

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I cannot swim. ha ha

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A WICH !

 

Isn't it the other way round, Ken? The sinkers were innocent, but by the time they were fished out it didn't matter anyway. I've always wondered about that one.

 

Edit - Ah, too slow - you mean the daughter, of course!

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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

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