Georgia Fathers Drown After Being Pushed in Lake

I can swim but treading was always a struggle to me until i learned the trick to it last summer. You gotta move your legs in a circular motion not just kick back and forth like you're swimming.
 
I love swimming but I’ve never swam in a lake before, that shit just don’t seem right..

It’s either a beach or pool for me..
 
DOS_patos said:
It’s hard to save someone who’s drowning.

they can drown you both.

but I never thought pushing someone in water was funny
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The old saying never go, reach or throw when a person is panicked while in water comes to mind. Or approach them from behind so if they start flailing their arms the odds of the rescuer getting hit is minimal.

Some rescue swimmers and life guards even knock out the person they are trying to help to make it easier to help them. It can get dangerous super fast trying to help a drowning person
 
Dwayne said:
This world is like 70% water


It takes a day or two to learn it.

It’s a good skill to have
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I agree with this statement besides it taking a day or two to learn how to swim.

If you want to truly be proficient and not doggy paddling it's gonna take more than a day to get there. Lol.

But yeah, learning to swim is something everyone should learn. It's an important skill to have
 
BRIAN B. said:
Lotta black folks didn't have access to pools growing up (esp. public pools)


when cities were bein integrated, white folks didn't want their kids swimmin w/ "niggers" at the public pool

so they'd drain the water & fill the pool w/ concrete


I kno it's 2021 & we have a lil more access but the issue is deep rooted
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Fam. All that’s irrelevant in 2021.

Folks don’t swim because they choose not to.
 
It wasn't no public pools in my neighborhood growing up and by the time you're out of high school swimming not something that's important
 
Ain’t no public pools in Nola. If it is I ain’t never seen them


but damn. Everybody had a cousins that lived in an apartment lol. We just went in there or just found some random apartments and went swimming.

Or a nigga went to Blue Bayou in BR. @AP2.0 folks still hit that up?

To be real. I never met an adult that didn’t know how to swim lol
 
Dwayne said:
Ain’t no public pools in Nola. If it is I ain’t never seen them


but damn. Everybody had a cousins that lived in an apartment lol. We just went in there or just found some random apartments and went swimming.

Or a nigga went to Blue Bayou in BR. @AP2.0 folks still hit that up?

To be real. I never met an adult that didn’t know how to swim lol
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They were closed last year ofc but people were still going prior to covid.

The people behind trying to bring jazzland back are proposing a water park too though.
 
AP2.0 said:
Also, people didn't die in Katrina because they couldn't swim.
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Nobody said they did

but do you know for sure NOBODY including kids died from drowning?

Also are you gonna tell me atleast 1 person out of thousands wouldn’t have been even slightly better off during that situation if they could swim?
 
Gene Parmesan said:
Nobody said they did

but do you know for sure NOBODY including kids died from drowning?

Also are you gonna tell me atleast 1 person out of thousands wouldn’t have been even slightly better off during that situation if they could swim?
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Where were they gonna go if they could swim, exhaustion would have happened and they would have still drowned
 
Gene Parmesan said:
Nobody said they did

but do you know for sure NOBODY including kids died from drowning?

Also are you gonna tell me atleast 1 person out of thousands wouldn’t have been even slightly better off during that situation if they could swim?
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You're right. I can't without a shadow of doubt claim not a single person died due to an inability to swim.

Some of those people didn't have a chance as the water rushed up so high and so fast that they might've been pinned down and just couldn't escape.

There were hundreds of bodies found in attics as well because they didn't think the water would get that high and they couldn't go back down to get out the house which is why if you look, you'll find pics of people on the roof who said they had to use an axe or something to get out on the roof from the attic
 
AP2.0 said:
You're right. I can't without a shadow of doubt claim not a single person died due to an inability to swim.

Some of those people didn't have a chance as the water rushed up so high and so fast that they might've been pinned down and just couldn't escape.

There were hundreds of bodies found in attics as well because they didn't think the water would get that high and they couldn't go back down to get out the house which is why if you look, you'll find pics of people on the roof who said they had to use an axe or something to get out on the roof from the attic
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I get it man

my point to chitown is it’s a skill that could’ve potentially saved your life or gave you a better fighting chance during that situation or any situation involving water and it’s better to know how than to not know

he’s telling me it don’t matter because they woulda drowned anyways from exhaustion (what!? Lol)
 
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