Swimming

[SFgirl]

I It didn't help anything that my experience in water was pretty much limited to tubing down the Guadalupe river in college.

Well if you were drinking a lot of LoneStar at the time that might help with your bouyancy...

 

[WannaBEaP3gal]

Swim practice for Saturday: Go to Jax beach, get caught in swells from hurricane, and try to swim out of them... j/k

 

[Zoltan04]

just tie some cinder blocks to your feet and jump into water that is way over your head. It'll help your endurance.

 

[jacksonwt2g]

Is any of the swim stuff timed and graded, or just pass/fail? Does it affect api grades?

 

[Bevo16]

Is any of the swim stuff timed and graded, or just pass/fail? Does it affect api grades?

No. The only things that have a time involved are events like treading water in full gear, and the mile swim. There is either a max time that you have to do it for or a minimum time that the event has to be completed in. None of the swim events or PRT count toward API grades. API grades don't count for anything once you leave API anyway, just pass everything and don't get a pink sheet.

 

[Sabre170]

How long do you have to tread water in full gear?

 

[Bevo16]

How long do you have to tread water in full gear?

I don't remember, but it seemed like forever. I managed to pass on my first try, but I puked and passed out as soon as I got out of the pool. I have never been all that good in the water, and I did not have a good body for it (205 pounds and about 5% body fat). I want to say that the time for treading water is 2 minutes, but that may not be right. I am sure that someone will correct me if that is wrong.

 

[jacksonwt2g]

No sweat: stuff your pants with arm floaties.

 

[usnmerritt]

No sweat: stuff your pants with arm floaties.

Haha, I was actually watching this thing on Disc. Times channel last night about Marine boot camp. They did a swim test and some dude tried to stuff one of the lifeguard buoys in his BDU! The DI walked up to him and just stared at his abnormally bulging chest and then ripped it out from him, making this guy do about a billion pushups for trying it.

I thought it was funny as crap because of all things to stuff in your clothes, he picked the biggest, most conspicuous floatation device in the whole complex. Apparently water must really scare some people into stupidity!

 

[rare21]

I remember hearing a story like that from API where a guy tried to use floats or something in his flightsuit or in the pockets. He was found out and kicked out due to unofficer like qualities.

 

[jacksonwt2g]

harsh, but probably a good call. I can't believe how many people in the navy can't swim. When I went to bootcamp, they allowed half of us to have life jackets for the swim survival portion and when they asked who couldn't swim and needed one, about 3/4 of my division raised their hands. I am all for helping out my shipmates, but I never swam so fast in my life getting away from that death trap. 50 grown men flailing about in the pool in unison looking for something buoyant to latch onto. I sure as hell wasn't going to let it be me.

 

[Sabre170]

Again, how long do we need to tread water? One person thinks it was two minutes... (No offence) but is that all, or is it really hard to treat in full gear?

 

[jacksonwt2g]

I heard it was eighty-two and a half hours

 

[Sabre170]

now why would you post something as useless as that to a legit question?

 

[flashypants]

Again, how long do we need to tread water? One person thinks it was two minutes... (No offence) but is that all, or is it really hard to treat in full gear?

It's two minutes. Don't sweat the swim stuff at all. It's a welcome break from class/studying/testing. If you have a problem, the guys at the pool will fix it. No sweat.