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Message # 69253.1.1.1.1 Subject: You're thinking of safezone2, Gary Date: Sat 14/01/17 09:21:09 GMT Name: jollywetfellow |
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Formerly known as WetScape, I believe (though that was before I discovered online wetlook), or more prosaically as Steve. You can find him on both Flickr and youtube as safezone2:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33559727@N00 https://www.youtube.com/user/Safezone2/videos
I suspect that when Wetlooker2 refers to the swimschool saying "today you will learn to float with your clothes on to save energy and heat" this is what they are talking about. I remember being taught something like this in the Sea Scouts, though it was a waste of time because all the kids wore clothes too tight to do it lol
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In reply to Message (69253.1.1.1) Re:Here we go again....actually....
By Gary Kay - Sat 14/01/17 05:49:05 GMT Floating in full length clothing, skirts, long items is never a problem and when used correctly can provide enough flotation to easy keep anyone above water for hours, the real problem is swimming in long flowing garments. A long dress or skirt can make swimming, ie, paddling and kicking very difficult, not that I would know anything about that. Fluffing up the sleeves and skirt of a long dress can be great fun and there used to be a site devoted to that as well, can't remember the name but he LOVED GoldWing cycles. |
In reply to Message (69253.1.1) Here we go again.....!
By jollywetfellow - Fri 13/01/17 20:52:32 GMT Wet clothes feel heavy on land, because the water in them is heavier than the air around them. But when the clothes (and their wearer) are in the water, the water in the clothes is the same weight as the water around the clothes. Since the clothes themselves are lighter than water (when put into water on their own, they float) the clothes-plus-water combination is actually lighter than the water around them. The heavier water underneath them therefore tends to push the lighter clothes upwards; when you're in the water, clothes help you float (though only very slightly, since they're a very small proportion of your total weight), they don't weigh you down.
The caption to this Flickr pic shows what I mean. https://www.flickr.com/photos/slow_life_symposium/14142533739/in/dateposted/ This is a professional western swimming instructor, who normally swims in a western-style swimsuit, who is teaching Muslim women to swim. She wants to find out what it is like for her pupils, who are swimming in robes, trousers and headdress in approved Muslim fashion, so she borrows a set of robes to try swimming in them for herself. Notice that she does NOT mention any problem with the clothes being "heavy"; the headdress was clearly the main problem, the "main difficulty" associated with the other clothes was just "restriction when kicking". |
In reply to Message (69253.1) But wetlooker ...
By Anonymous - Fri 13/01/17 09:41:39 GMT It is not all heavy to swim with clothes ..... |
In reply to Message (69253) About clothes in the swedish swimschool
By Wetlooker2 - Thu 12/01/17 14:56:28 GMT Find on the swedish radio a short recording about about swimming with clothes in the swedish swimschool. Today you now will swim with clothes, today you will learn to float with your clothes on to save energy and heat.
But about wet clothes, i think it very good to learn hows the feel to have wet clothes on, how heavy it is to swim with it, but that is not that way they work today.
One day we will forgot how its feel to swim clothed, many places they not use clothes overall.
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