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Everyone should learn how to swim.

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T.Spliff
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/08/03/2010-08-03_six_teens_drown_in_shreveports_red_river_while_trying_to_save_each_other_in_loui.html

Hope it's not a repost, but this story is crazy.
Aug 18 2010 9:17PM
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Arabian.
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If this isn't fail, after fail, after fail, after fail, after fail, after, I don't really know what is.
Aug 18 2010 9:18PM
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charmander
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Mike Lowry likes this.
Aug 18 2010 9:19PM
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theabortionator
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wow
Aug 18 2010 9:20PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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So they were at a river, a swimming party at that, without knowing how to swim.
Aug 18 2010 9:20PM
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pelle_munch
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I feel bad for laughing at this but seriously, it's hilarious hahaha.
Aug 18 2010 9:20PM
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Shadows
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very sad. i grew up around shreveport and there are so many spots in rivers/lakes around the gulf that are crazy dangerous to swim in. i almost drowned once in back bay
Aug 18 2010 9:21PM
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.frenchy
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clicky!

wow that's sad hahah.

Aug 18 2010 9:22PM
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Crack.
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ironically, i live on the lake, grew up swimming, am a lifeguard, and swim competitively, and yet my mom doesn't know how to swim and won't go in past her hips.

sad story though.
Aug 18 2010 9:25PM
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1337
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inb4 somebody says it
Aug 18 2010 9:26PM
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gstaff
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pretty sketchy, but it seems like one of the 20 people woulda been able to save a few of the kids.
Aug 18 2010 9:26PM
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207
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sad story but definitely gotta make you snicker.

R.I.P.
Aug 18 2010 9:26PM
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theabortionator
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Aug 18 2010 9:28PM
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T.Spliff
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/us/04drowning.html

This one includes all there names. The first one to fall in was the only one to be saved. Could you imagine living the rest of your life knowing that the reason 3 people from your family drowned, and 3 people from another family drowned because you didnt know how to swim. Sucks.
Aug 18 2010 9:28PM
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theabortionator
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Aug 18 2010 9:30PM
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1337
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yup
Aug 18 2010 9:31PM
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50in07
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This story is super sad. But seriously, how do you not know how to swim.
Aug 18 2010 9:34PM
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theabortionator
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There are people that don't know how to ride a bike
Aug 18 2010 9:35PM
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selkirks
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It's not about knowing how to swim or not. It's about being a lifeguard or not. Only a certified lifeguard is qualified to extract people from the water. Period. If you aren't a lifeguard, then the Red Cross has a motto for you:

REACH (a hand, branch, or reaching pole) OR THROW (a life jacket, a life preserver, etc.), DON'T GO.

Why a lifeguard? Because the victim of the original drowning will grab onto you and pull you under, causing you to drown as well. Lifeguards are trained to "escape" the victim underwater.

How do I know this? I'm a lifeguard and a WSI (Water Safety Instructor). We teach "REACH OR THROW, DON'T GO" to five-year-olds.

That said, deepest condolences to the families. The same thing happened involving four adults in Idaho two weeks ago.
Aug 18 2010 11:48PM
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styley.
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samezies
Aug 18 2010 11:50PM
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pomme-de-terre
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dude, i work at a water park and i see people EVERY SINGLE DAY who come to a water park, a place where the number one attraction is WATER, and they cant swim. and by "see" i mean "pull them out of the water" every time its always "sorry, i just never learned how to swim"
Aug 18 2010 11:52PM
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ROOS.
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haha all of my extended family is from shreveport, knowing the area im not surprised
Aug 19 2010 12:04AM
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HIT
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This has to be one of the strangest death stories I have ever read. Condolences to the families of course, but

Why in hell would they have a swimming party when NONE OF THEM could swim?
Aug 19 2010 12:07AM
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thugaim
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I don't get why black people can't swim.
Aug 19 2010 12:09AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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just the way it is i guess haha
Aug 19 2010 12:09AM
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AElot
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bunch of morons. having a "swimming party" where nobody can swim????? pretty much asking for something bad to happen.
Aug 19 2010 12:12AM
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Parrish
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I for one Don't know how to swim, well at least. If I really Had to I could maybe save myself.

But I'm still not dumb to do what they did.
Aug 19 2010 12:12AM
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.Ben
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was the water churning in the sinkhole pulling people under? or did they really just not know how to swim? And to the kid saying only certified professionals should rescue people under water, you are right I almost drowned saving some retard last summer he started pulling me down and I barely got loose by kicking him.
Aug 19 2010 12:15AM
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inb4_UMAD
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this, but either way it's horrible news
Aug 19 2010 12:22AM
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inb4_UMAD
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this, but either way it's horrible news
Aug 19 2010 12:31AM
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selkirks
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From my understanding, they were on a shallow part of the river about ten feet out from shore that dropped off farther out. When the group started heading back in, one fell off the drop off and started active drowning. That's when the rest went after him.
Aug 19 2010 12:40AM
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soulskier
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I swim a mile every Monday, after a little while you realize your not going to sink and it all works out
Aug 19 2010 12:42AM
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Parrish
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I can't even swim a length...
Aug 19 2010 12:47AM
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Shadows
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this can also be covered under CYA. cover your ass. dont add to the victims.
Aug 19 2010 1:05AM
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Schlop
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No hate, I'm seriously wondering how you could not know how? I find myself in either an inside pool or an outside pool at least once a month just dicking around with friends, did you just never get around to going out and doing it?

Aug 19 2010 1:10AM
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twin-tip-hero
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the weight of their huge dicks brings them down under the water, causing them to sink and not be able to stay above.
Aug 19 2010 1:21AM
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Parrish
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I took a bunch of swim lessons as a kid. I am a fucking skinny kid so my buoyancy is all fucked up. I'm pretty afraid of the water cause I can't float worth a shit. If I had any skills, not swimming in over 5 feet of water in years has taken them all away.
Aug 19 2010 1:23AM
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Jibbidy
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Yeah in my town a middle-aged Chinese tourist drowned at the drop-off in the lake, where there's a huge fucking sign buoy with the picture of a drop-off.
A) Learn to fucking swim, you've only had all your life.
B) Use your head at the beach.
C) See that huge fucking sign?

Aug 19 2010 1:28AM
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DJohnson
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holy shit...
Aug 19 2010 1:33AM
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Schlop
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Not being able to swim is alright. It happens and it's not a big deal.

Not being able to swim and going swimming and going off a clearly marked deep end and drowning is another. Lern2life.



Andrew, I understand and it's a pretty shitty situation but it's probably easy enough to live with. If there's anything I can say it would to just go swimming a lot this winter, the local inside pool is a great place on these cold rainy school nights.
Aug 19 2010 1:38AM
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no_steeze
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not knowing how to swim is just setting yourself up to be a casualty of natural selection
Aug 19 2010 1:40AM
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MACAQUE
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Haha same man. I just can't float for shit.
Aug 19 2010 1:40AM
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owned
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Aug 19 2010 1:46AM
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Parrish
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And the instructors were always like to me "Just lean back and you'll float." It never happened and they got mad at me about it.
Aug 19 2010 1:48AM
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chacharlie
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thats a terrible excuse. look at your average swim team. how many of them are good swimmers cause they're big fat fatties?
Aug 19 2010 2:56AM
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1337
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lrn2lrn2 noob
Aug 19 2010 2:57AM
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NS=NeverSucks
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Probably a repost and heard this like last month on The Today Show.
Aug 19 2010 3:01AM
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nkmo.
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Rationalizing not being able to swim because youre skinny, is rediculous. I was like 6'2 150 when i got my life guard cert. Shit, michael phelps is 6'2 and probably has zero body fat and he's the best swimmer in the world. Fear of water I can kind of understand, but just not being able to swim is a joke. I can throw a dog in the water and it'll figure it out in seconds.
Aug 19 2010 3:06AM
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Downtofilm
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wow... thats fucked. my pool is 15 feet deep. the only time were i get scared in water is when someone like falls on top of me and i get freaked out and feels like im about to drown
Aug 19 2010 3:18AM
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meth_time
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Aug 19 2010 3:25AM
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TOUCHE
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haha, its been said now but we were all thinking it
Aug 19 2010 6:23AM
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