Swim in the sea or in a swimming pool?

[thegreenyogi]

[lightbulb27]

I ask you, how many great white and tiger and bull sharks are there in my local swimming pool? Yep... zero, the life guards make sure of it. I got a freakin' life guard 10ft away all the time, and eventhough they are teenager probably dreaming about some hot chick, it's somethin', ya know? swimming pool any day of the week!

https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/

For a variety of reasons... it's not "safe" to go in the water.. that includes rivers..., anymore than it is safe to go strolling in Africa through a wildlife refuge... without a weapon. "oh honey, I'll be ok... I'm just going through a walk in the woods, there shouldn't be any lions out there, very low % of people killed." lol...

Article missing... but govt has been intentionally increasing shark populations, they are hungry since there's less food sources (over fishing). That leaves tasty humans to try.. they look like seals sometimes too, and wear flashy colors and splash around, like wounded fish! stupid... There will be... I 100% guarantee it, shark bites, fatalities starting very soon on spring break. Already had 3 this year.

And it's a frightful death.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/great-white-decapitates-diver-in-first-fatal-shark-attack-of-2023-report/

But to each his own... ya know?

[Adam1978]

A lake or other slow moving water body.

[jennifer_bloom]

The sea is better cause salt is good for your skin and you get more exposure to natural life which has a calming effect.

[Aerissa_Jade]

I'll take a refreshing mountain lake over both, freshwater, no salt and no chlorine.

[Iron_Man]

I do love fresh spring water

[MidnightOwl57]

Beautiful pic! Where is that?

[Aerissa_Jade]

@MidnightOwl57 Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moraine_Lake

[Adventurer23]

@aerissa_jade Heck yeah! Although, the glacial waters of Moraine Lake might be a bit cold. lol 🥶

[Aerissa_Jade]

@Adventurer23 Of course, I know how that is... as in my area, I live around 7300 or so feet, all the snow melt fills up mountains lakes. They can be cold even when it is 80 in July, however the smaller mountain lakes are warmer. Usually by August or so... be careful of giant ones they never really warm up.

[Adventurer23]

@aerissa_jade Cool... literally. lol While I may not live near any mountains, I do live on the Great Lakes where the water can be very cold during any month of the year. Because they are such massive bodies of water, it's usually too cold to swim in them until sometime in June and it may not be warm-ish until mid-July through mid-September. But if there's an off-shore wind (blowing away from the shore) for a day or more it can blow all of the warm surface water away and it can get replaced with gin clear frigid water as cold as the 30 degree range. I have seen it where the air temperature is 30C/86F but the water is in the high 30s and literally painful to walk in for more than 45 seconds due to how cold it is. Mostly, the water gets into the 70F+ range during the summer, but it very much depends on the wind direction.

[Aerissa_Jade]

@Adventurer23 You hit that one on the spot, people like to link air temp to water temp. They aren't the same.

I've been to a lake that was 60 degrees, when it was over a 100 in air temp. Yet the same lake was nice and warm in September, when it was 50 degrees in air temp, as it had all summer long to warm up.

It was very nice and warm to be in the water but very cold to get out.

[Backwood1988]

Love the mountains

[Adventurer23]

@aerissa_jade Oh, for sure. The two temps can't be conflated at all. Air temps can vary wildly from day to day and even from hour to hour, but water temps can take days, weeks or even months to catch up. Also, dark, stained water warms up much, much faster than crystal clear water, which is a factor as well.

It's the same thing here on the Great Lakes too though. Where I am, our warmest month is July where the air temp averages 81F (most days during summer vary between 75-90F+), but the warmest water temps occur during August and into early September, simply because the lakes are such massive, deep and (mostly) clear bodies of water, and they take months for them to warm up to their warmest temps.

It's very common during fall for the water temps to be warmer than the air temps, which also helps keep the air temps near the lake warmer than they normally would too. There's also another phenomenon during fall where the lake water "flips" when the surface water cools and becomes more dense than the water below it, which can cause thick fog as well.

The Great Lakes are so huge that we also get a "marine layer" effect, similar to the kind you hear about on the Pacific coast, which is a layer of dense, humid air that can also have an affect on air temps as well... and even how well a baseball is able to be hit for a home run (due to the density of the air), in the case of professional baseball. lol...

[Adventurer23]

... The cold water of spring can greatly affect the air temperatures at times too. There are times when surrounding areas may be getting 75F air temps, but if there's a wind coming off the lake the air can be as much as 10-20+ degrees cooler and many areas closer to the lake have air temps that can be affected, simply by the wind direction. So, in fall and right through winter these areas are typically warmer than areas farther away from the lake, because the warmer water acts like a "heat sink", as the water is warmer than the air temp.

Anywayyyyyy, I've gone on way too long, so I digress. I don't mean to bore you with the minutia of Great Lakes weather stuff. 😂 It's an interesting place to live though, with a ton of fascinating and even unique weather phenomena due to the waters of the Great Lakes, from the dangerous to the beautiful.

[abc3643]

In the summer of 1975, I saw "Jaws".
My beach-swimming days were pretty much over after that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg-HlHMhthY

[Kori1236]

I watched jaws as a kid and felt bad for the shark 😅

[Kori1236]

Sea! I love snorkeling and free diving. Interacted with several species of sharks and it was honestly an incredible experience. Open ocean and I’m going to be a little more apprehensive; but coastal and alone the shoreline I love.

[MidnightOwl57]

Sea, because I love to free dive and it is easier to freedive in the sea. Plus pools contain chlorine and chemicals, that people shouldn't be exposed to, unless absolutely necessary. Unless the pool has a saltwater system.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Definitely swim in the sea & last Saturday I did & as for this weekend I’ll go for another swim.

[MidnightOwl57]

Awesome! Winter swimmer?

[Guy13]

In the pool unless Thailand whee on can swim a number of reefs with the fish etc below and see to the clear white sand

[Adventurer23]

Sea, lake, river, creek, pond, etc. I much prefer to swim in natural water instead of chlorinated water.

[rachel776]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sqvbCWfgUi4

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[Leopard23]

Largely depends. North Atlantic is freezing in the winter.

Nothing as good as swimming in the sea on a warm day.

[DizzyDesii]

A pool. I dont see myself swimming in a large dirty body of water (lakes, rivers, oceans) with sea creatures

[SnowedIn]

I love swimming in the ocean but orders of magnitude love swimming in pools even more.

[Iron_Man]

The ocean is the best but there’s a little bit of nervousness everybody thinks about it you know what I’m talking about Jaws 🦈

[MidnightOwl57]

But there are 🐬 too

[Iron_Man]

Yes very true they can beat up the sharks

[Iron_Man]

Dolphins are so kind to humans

[MidnightOwl57]

Is the myth that they have saved human lives true?

[Iron_Man]

Dolphins 🐬

[Iron_Man]

I believe they have by shark attacks

[MidnightOwl57]

Interesting
Yeah they're very cool 😊

[Iron_Man]

They are the best in the ocean

[Iron_Man]

Why do you think the Miami dolphins NFL Football 🏈 team name themselves after the dolphins 🐬

[MidnightOwl57]

Lol don't know, who had this idea. Miami dolphins are losers 👎

[Iron_Man]

No way they’re winners, world champions, the only undefeated NFL team in history

[Guardian45]

While I enjoy the idea of swimming in the sea to look at all the fish, I have a serious fear of sharks, so I prefer a pool.😂

[Guardian45]

How about you?

[thegreenyogi]

I love swimming in both!! I swim in the Mediterranean Sea and there aren't any sharks. Especially when it's completely calm and I can see all the way to the bottom and I can just glide in the water!! It's highly therapeutic!!

[Guardian45]

Please be careful:

www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/great-whites-in-the-med

[Christoff92]

Do both get the best potential exercises as ever 😀

[Backwood1988]

It all depends on how I am swimming and wearing but the pool

[Fudgeinmycreampie]

I’m. A sea. Lover the only things that scare. Me is brinicles and the hypericon shark

[purplepoppy]

The sea, hurry up summer.

[slatyb]

Nothing better than swimming in warm ocean.

[serious]

Swimming pool. Always.

[whereismyjohnny]

Definitely in the sea.

[LittleSally]

Always the sea.

[EmmaMary]

Both, but preferably a pool.

[Capricornunicorn92]

There's nothing like the ocean.

[RavVid]

swimming pool at my most adventurous moments.

[KostasKouvalis]

Sea is better

[Freyke]

Pool. Less jellyfish.

[bolverk]

Both, & Lakes/Rivers.

[Fuentes]

The pool doesn't have sharks lol

[Iron_Man]

Lol haha 😂

[Nikki1989]

Swimming pool

[Anonymous]

Swim with the sharks.

[LavLavLuv]

swimming pool

[TrillXHippy]

The pool

[cootjuhh]

naked in the pool

[iSensei]

Definitely sea..

[daskapitalllll]

of course sea