Uncle Dale is a genius!
Yesterday, I had my fourth contained water dive.
But before that, we had to do a ten minute survival swim. As mentioned earlier, I don’t remember much about floating.
In a fret, I looked up some basics (mainly on teaching children to float) and generally prayed that the float test wouldn’t happen.
It did.
I got in the water, kicked back, breathed deep, and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
I was floating…easily! I could have went 20 minutes as opposed to the regular ten.
This may have been due to my natural bouyancy or my quick re-education on-line, but because I believe people don’t generally get a “muscle memory” exercise entirely correct on the first try, I have to believe that part of it was retained information from years ago.
And so I say thanks to Uncle Dale, for teaching me. I remember being pretty sloppy back then, but I’ve got it figured now.