deanwells, (and the rest of you folks.)
In regard to these swim classes, that I keep seeing mentioned. Two or so weeks seems to be the average length of said course. Besides the fact, that is nowhere near ENOUGH. What are these swim lessons or training all about? Is it all pool, maybe an open water swim, once or twice? If there is any open water training, where? Lake, pond, quarry, ocean, river? What is taught in these classes? How to do the perfect Australian crawl? The perfect breast stroke? I was on the HS and college swim team. I never used that stuff while I was in SF or when I worked as a commercial diver. Just wondering. Any training or practice best include negotiating heavy surf, waves or swells. Day or night. There may also be times the Dry and or Wet suit is not available. Usually that means you get to freeze your ass off. Best get the infil done quickly in the cold water.
Then there are the currents and tides in any given location in one's AO. There is a reason for not trying a swim infil against a one knot current. It can be done by strong swimmers, but it's on the edge of the envelope. Add cold water and perhaps no rubber 'Dr Dentons' it gets a tad tougher.
Like anything else. It merely comes down to the MIND. Some can ruck, some can run, some can swim....... forever. Why? Is there some obscure reason, some mental thang that holds people back from being able to all of it? Hmmmmm.... That may have been one of those rhetorical questions.
I would also suggest to any of you folks headed to SF........ take a SCUBA course.............
