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by Infidel » Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:37 pm
Anyone on here tried it? Maybe with a club or group?
I'm not on about paddling around in a river for 5 minutes - I'm on about proper swimming where you get into a lake or the sea and spend some time in the water.
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by Bluestreak » Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:03 pm
I have a 25 yards breast stroke certificate achieved at Dykey skool baths.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck it is probably a duck!
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by Snowy » Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:43 pm
Infidel wrote:Anyone on here tried it? Maybe with a club or group?
I'm not on about paddling around in a river for 5 minutes - I'm on about proper swimming where you get into a lake or the sea and spend some time in the water.
Why…I got wet for a living years ago and thought it a pain in the arse….water proofs were never sea water proof.

It’s what he does….. he’s a terrier.
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by Bluestreak » Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:45 pm
Snowy wrote:Infidel wrote:Anyone on here tried it? Maybe with a club or group?
I'm not on about paddling around in a river for 5 minutes - I'm on about proper swimming where you get into a lake or the sea and spend some time in the water.
Why…I got wet for a living years ago and thought it a pain in the arse….water proofs were never sea water proof.

Were you in the film the "Cruel Sea" with Jack Hawkins?

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by Snowy » Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:49 pm
Felt like it some times.

..however anyone on a Flower Class corvette would need a medal just for stepping down the gang plank …never mind leaving port.

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by accrington fan » Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:15 am
just find water being too wet for me.
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by Infidel » Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:20 am
Yup, water is wet. If you go into wild water it’s cold too.
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by accrington fan » Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:49 am
with a lot of nasties living in it having sex and s hitting.
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by Snowy » Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:28 pm
I once came within six feet of a great Whit Dhark.
Then our lass turned the telly over

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by Sussex UK » Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:44 pm
I remember swimming down broken scar on the outskirts of a Darlo as a kid when Jungle and the rest of Hells Angels from the town turned up for a dip..they went in fully clothed

.. funny enough you'd never get bothered by older youths down there when they were about.
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by loan_star » Tue Jul 15, 2025 3:06 pm
A mate of mine runs a wild swimming club, usually in rivers or areas with waterfalls. He’s a qualified life guard which is a must for this sort of event, plenty dont bother!
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