Could you swim a mile to save your life?

[bigpauly]

[laurieluvsit]

Yes, I have advanced swimming and life saving credentials and am part of a Search and Rescue Team in California.

One of the most dangerous rescues you can attempt is to rescue someone who is drowning, which takes advanced training to accomplish.

Children can, and should, be taught to swim right out of the womb.

[bigpauly]

Oh that’s real cool

[ChiTown33]

Not sure. I was on the high school swim team. We swam this EASILY every other day. Not sure if I could do it now. I would think yeah. Because you don't have to do it all in one go. Bodies float. So I could do in increments. Question is how much I would cramp not being used to that, as well as water temp and whether there's a current. These would be factors.

[MelvinGeek]

I once rode a bike to work, which was a 1.2 mile trip... and it still felt like a long trip.

Assuming we are swimming in the ocean, I can definitely see myself having the drive to survive and attempting to swim, non-stop. And provided I'm not first nipped by a shark or quickly lose stamina due to rapid dehydration... I think I might make it.

[Aerissa_Jade]

That depends on what kind of water if you mean upstream from a fast-moving water heading to a huge waterfall... nope, I'm going over unless I can make it to the edge to grab something.

If you mean across a lake with waves during a storm, maybe... but if you mean a mile across calm open water, then sure, I can do that.

[DizzyDesii]

I’ve only ever swam from one end of a long inground pool to the center and back. The water got too deep (the center was deeper) and it got hard to breath. But if something is after me, i guarantee i can swim to survive. Just likely not a mile 😂

[Smoke-n-Growls]

If I'm allowed to doggy paddle, frog stroke, and backstroke, sure thing.

Front crawl? I'll drown before I get halfway. XD

[bigpauly]

Whatever it takes

[NamerOfStars]

Easily- perk of being fat; we float VERY well.

[bigpauly]

Interesting angle

[douride2]

Give me a few weeks to recover from this heart attack & I will let you know.

[bigpauly]

You had a heart attack? 😨

[douride2]

A week ago now.

[bigpauly]

Omg. I hope you are having a speedy recovery!

[douride2]

@bigpauly it can happen to any one at any age.

[douride2]

I'm feeling better but still off work.

[bigpauly]

Yes. Scary to think. I hope you are ok

[Bluemax]

I wish for you a speedy and healthy recovery.

[douride2]

@Bluemax Thankyou.

[exitseven]

@douride2 holy crap. I an really sorry to hear that, I hope you can make a full recovery. I know it can happen to anyone. I was about your age when I had a DVT blood clot. Do what the doc says and tske care of yourself. X-7

[dustybiker]

@douride2 Yikes. So glad you’re feeling better! Hope they aren’t putting you on the cardboard diet they did my mother, and in recovery give fried you chicken. 🤪

[MCheetah]

@douride2
Damn! Hope you feel better!

[douride2]

@MCheetah It's coming. I hope to be back at work in another week or 2.

[Sour-rose]

Ha ha ha... i would say i'm dead. :)

Buut seeing as I'm pushing enough as it is to get the hell out of this town that I'm willing to take a chance even if it seems like not the best... i think i would.

[dustybiker]

Normally, heck yes. Today, I would drown. 🫧

[bigpauly]

I’d never let you

[dustybiker]

🛟 MightyPauly to the rescue!!! Thanks ☺️

[bigpauly]

💪💪😎

[dustybiker]

Hero of GaG. Always knew you are a good man to know.

[bigpauly]

Well I don’t like to brag but yes you speak a lot of truth. 😌😂

[dustybiker]

@bigpauly 🤓

[Blackcosmo]

What other threat? I'd die from drowning cause I can't swim. I'm such a rebel.

[bigpauly]

I hadn’t considered that

[Blackcosmo]

I could sue you for that.

[bigpauly]

I’m bankrupt 👀

[Blackcosmo]

Hehe

[Andres77]

Side stroke all day. They dumped us off the boats at 3,000 meters and told us to start. “Equipment appreciation swim” they called it…dicks.

[bigpauly]

Was this the navy or something?

[Andres77]

Army diver

[Lionman95]

No not under normal circumstance. The longest I´ve swum currently was 1250m which is about 0,78miles. I might finish a mile though depending on how tired I am and how much andrenalin is in my body.

[RosieMelts]

I mean to save my life I could certainly try!

maybe float half the ways.

if people can get pulled on in rip tidal currents then surely I could swim a mile to save my life

[NathanDavis]

to save my life, yes...

to save someone else, absolutely...

with no emergency at all happening, I don't even get in a pool if I do not need to, lol

[DizzyDesii]

What stops you from getting in a pool regularly? I want to so badly but we dont own one anymore and im not gonna use a public one unless its like a hotel/waterpark. I last got in a pool when I went to Vegas and before that, dang prob not since HS

[NathanDavis]

@DizzyDesii because I don't have one of my own... haha

and I would never EVER trust a public one, I know what people do in there... lmfao

[DizzyDesii]

When i build a home, i def want the rectangular above ground one just for exercise purposes. But i dont blame you abot the public stuff. people usedto pee in the waterpark pools just to watch it turn blue

[NathanDavis]

@DizzyDesii lmao.. to be honest, I would be way more interested on building one myself at my place than actually having a pool, lol

[DizzyDesii]

Building it yourself? Well damn

[NathanDavis]

@DizzyDesii yep... my kind of "workout"

[Wade12345]

I can swim a mile even up stream In a Louisiana river. Depending on what I was trying to escape, it might not be fast enough to save my life though.

[Oliviaarkansas]

i nthink so. i think if i wanted to i could but i think almost for sure if it was my life at steak i could totally do it

[dynamicyandere]

My leg would probably cramp up and then I’d die. 😂


Haha, or maybe I’d be able to do it if I’m careful and I take my sweet time. 🙃

[Chazmatazz269]

Almost certainly, depending upon currents and waves. In fact, i think i could double that for the sake of survival.

[jennifer_bloom]

Yeah I could I think but never tried it in an ocean or lake. I have treaded water for over an hour at swimming pools during vacations.

[Msputiton]

Yes, won't be smooth looking but i could do it

[saffoler]

Probably, I am a good swimmer; and I used to run long distance in track. Also I probably have enough body fat to float in both fresh and salt waters.

[BlueScorpio]

Probably not but I could try. After a while I would float once I got tired.

[EmmaMary]

Probably not... However adrenaline can sometimes do remarkable things!

[DryGermanGuy]

I could. It's not that hard. Just be smart how you divide your strength.

[Rania05]

If my life was at stake, I'll even swim for 5 miles

[Ezra_lila]

I can't swim. So I need someone to rescue me when I'm drowning

[slatyb]

Unlikely. Especially here in Seattle, where all open water is quite cold.

[Fireguy17]

yes, not quickly but slow and steady and I will get there.

[Avicenna]

Yeah, absolutely, but it would be a lot easier for me to run a mile instead!

[FilmGuy93]

I could, yeah. I'm actually a pretty solid swimmer.

[kataang]

No, I can’t swim at all and I hate water in my eyes/ears.

[JosyJosy]

No problem. I like swimming. Especially now.

[Mangospacho]

I mean, eventually, I will swim a mile. It might take several days but it’s to save a life so I would keep at it no matter how long it takes.

[Shamalien]

I’ve gotten a lot better at swimming since I put on a little fat haha I could definitely do it to save my life

[Still-alive]

While i can swim, my stamina sucks right now so yeah i'd likely drown after maybe half a mile. :/

[MrJMM]

Oh, yeah easy. I didn't win swimming competitions for all the training to go to waste.

[Rangers]

I think I could but I wouldn't want to, I'd rather just stay and die

[Exterminatore]

I’ve swam over a mile before. Not to save my life. Not sure if I could do it today.

[Redstang88]

I used to be able to, pretty sure I could still pull it off

[abc--123]

Probably. I rarely go swimming but I can swim so I think if my life depended on it I could swim for a mile

[maximumpower]

Could at one time.
Now would have to be swim some, float some...
Current would probably get me.

[Apple1996]

I can't swim so nah I'd die

[bigpauly]

Oh no! I’d throw you a life vest or something

[Jay3344]

Definitely but it would be a slow breast stroke side stroke mile

[TroyDT]

I live at the beach and have surfed since I was 6. I hope so.

[Blueeyes81]

Not even close. I can barley swim as is. 100 ft maybe.

[zagor]

If there was no current, maybe. I'd likely have to stop and just float occasionally for rest.

[Pinay_ako]

🤣 I’ll just drown. I’m tired 🥱

[bigpauly]

Nooo I’ll throw you a life jacket and some floaties!

[Pinay_ako]

Yay I know you were gonna say that. 🥰

[bigpauly]

Well yea you’re too awesome to just lose to the waves.

And one of the few adults I don’t have to crank my neck up to look at

[Pinay_ako]

🤣 yass

[berwise13]

While I was on active duty in the marine Corp we would get in helicopters fly 2 or 3 miles over ocean & jump then swim to shore.

[WhiteBoyChill]

That’s fcking terrifying shit!

[WhiteBoyChill]

I would literally have a panic attack

[sirderpsalot123]

I'll doggy paddle my way to safety.

[bigpauly]

I’ll just throw you a raft

[sirderpsalot123]

You're the man! 👏

[bigpauly]

*takes a bow

[DizzyDesii]

When i was younger, i swam like a mermaid. I’d legit put one hand over he other. Clothes my legs tightly together and swim like a dolphin. I’d like to get in a pool again to see if i still swim like that haha

[sirderpsalot123]

Impressive 😂

I can't even recall the last time I went swimming, lol.

[shortster]

Depends on how cold the water is. >60°F, yes. <50°F, no. 50-60°F, maybe.

[SwimmerMuscle2000]

Absolutely!!! I’m a great swimmer! As long as the current isn’t too strong I’ll be good

[CuriousMufuxka]

No. Instead I could tread and spot the horizon enough to track land.

[Anonymous]

If I had to, yes. Of course it depends on the conditions—rough water, rain, storms etc.

[BLP11520]

Not now, maybe years ago. I walk over 40 miles a week just at work. Swim? scary thought

[LazerBean]

If speed is not a concern then definitely.

[moonpie89]

I'd drown 😭 🤧 😩

[bigpauly]

Just grab on and I’ll take us to shore

[moonpie89]

Aww you're the best 👌 👍

[Ms_Facesitter]

I can but it'll be at a slow pace.

[MCheetah]

LMAO! I'm literally picturing the huge boobs getting in the way while trying to swim!

[FreyaRed]

yes, if hypothermia isn't a problem

[MemeSupreme]

sleeping sounds more comfortable

[Dalisay409]

Yes, but it would take me a very long time!

[Lynx122]

Yes definitely.

[MCheetah]

Nope. Swimming is for rich people (in America).

[Fuentes]

You never went swimming as a kid? When we use to go that shit was cracking outside the pool was Hella fights one dude even got his eye sliced when I was 11. Infact I rmbr their was this pervert couple having aex in the pool in our apt pool in the hood and they got evicted they were some voyeur freaks. Ain't no rich around us hahaha! They stayed far far far away

[MCheetah]

@Fuentes
You either have to live by the beach (expensive AF real estate), know someone who was rich enough to have their own pool behind their house, or afford a $200 a month membership to some place that had a swimming pool. I hear YMCA clubs had a pool, but there weren't any in the city I grew up in!

So while it's only a little bit of an exaggeration. I stand by my point: You have to be rich in order to live near the beach, know someone with their own pool, or pay for an indoor pool. Though maybe places like California are the exception, since the whole state is beachside.

[Fuentes]

Lol I ain't grow up in Cali I was born there but I'm raised in the shitty northwest hahaha bro in Philly that's the case but Philly ain't all of the US. That's just one ghetto city haha their are pools all over the place you get in for FRee and apartment projects in housing all have pools lol don't believe me look it up bro haha why u think niggas rap about fighting in the pool Pitt when it wasn't the summer hahaha? U gotta see the rest of the US u don't gotta be rich to get in a pool. It was cracking ain't no money needed to be spent to get in haha

[MCheetah]

@Fuentes
I've never heard of any free swimming pools before, even in other places. I've seen stuff on TV like Malcolm in the Middle and certain YMCA's having pools, but even those weren't free or cheap.

[Fuentes]

We had a place called friendship park in the Kane and Hillyard pool I ain't been there in a whole decade and over some but I rmbr friendship park got packed up from dirt cause heroine needles all over the place and hillyard pool Norte turf now so I could never ever go around there cause they enemies haha but that shit was cracking in the summer and we ain't pay shit to get in. We just walked in. And every housing shifty ass apartment I lived in had a pool lol but it was barely open cause people was dirty and doing weird shit and the city would shut it down lol so moat the time it was empty and the pool Pitt was thunder dome haha I think Philly deprived y'all of a pool cause that's fucked up every kid should swim and experience being kicked out of pools haha cause people shitnin it and pissed and diapers were floating everywhere hahaa

[BeMuse]

I'd do it or die trying.