[PUMBI]

Originally Posted by M.F.D.B. ↗

Then why did he distinctly put his feet up and kick himself away towards the end?

Why get in if you knew you couldn't swim

[PUMBI]

Originally Posted by M.F.D.B. ↗

Then why did he distinctly put his feet up and kick himself away towards the end?

Why get in if you knew you couldn't swim

[hal_24]

Black folk are a lot leaner than us chunker caucasians. We take being more bouyant in water for granted. Might be easy for us to lean back and idly float around, but for them, they'll just sink.

Originally Posted by booboo2718 ↗

I don't understand why you jump into water if you don't know how to swim especially if you're his age and old enough to know better. Maybe he once knew how but had forgotten or was out of shape or the water was cold? I was 15 years old before I learned to swim which is pretty old but at least I finally learned. One of the first and most basic things they teach you is how to "dog paddle". You won't travel far but you'll keep your head above water. And when you run out of energy you learn to turn over on your back, tilt your head back and move your arms and hand back and forth from side to side and kick your legs calmly to stay afloat and catch your breath. It takes almost no energy. You can do it for hours.

[Qberth]

There must have been some underwater currents that pulled him away from the shore. He was surely trying to get to the shore. and apparently knew the basic concept of swimming.

[SimoneFlen']

His body being recovered:

[Yanni]

it will always blow my mind that some people can't manage just to simply keep their heads above water. for me i actually have to actively try to go below the surface.
i think non-swimmers must be mentally retarded.

[heartsong]

The most important thing to learn is floating and treading water or dog paddle. When I was first adopted and had a family my new mama took me immediately for swim lessons. I would have been 5 years I think. I never unlearned how to swim, which I thought I might after so many years unused. I hated the butterfly stroke and like the frontward crawl. Anyway to this day I remember the fear and alarm when I was first trying to tread water, I just kept going under. Then suddenly it clicked! If only he could have dog paddled that could have saved him for a little longer. We can't know what was going on there fully but what on earth was the other adult doing, why didn't daughter seek help, was he trying not to scare her? A medical issue? Drowning videos always get me because its so so sudden.

[Tyrantus]

Originally Posted by dystopian ↗

Unless you’ve got better data to refute it the finding stands. No intelligent intellectually honest person who’s actually paying attention could deny the numerous morphological differences between those of sub-Saharan African and those of Northern European ancestry…

Full disclosure, I didn't actually read past what I quoted. I don't want to give the impression I'm emotionally invested in this dialouge.

No "intelligent intellectually" honest person is going to look at an obscure study from the 90s that has a sample size of 26 people and take it seriously. Anyone who has taken a psychology or statistics class in grade school knows you need a sample size of at least 1000 people if you're looking for an accurate representation of a population.

You can believe whatever you want, but maybe you should look into what it takes for a pharmaceutical company to put a new drug on the market. Specifically what it takes to even get to the human trial phase.

[texastea]

I vote fake.

Maybe yes. Maybe no.

A tik-tok special performance.

[Tyrantus]

Originally Posted by Simone ↗

His body being recovered:

Nice find! Have you been able to find out where this happened? I can't make out the language they're speaking.