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Default Can you swim?

On 2009-08-24, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Aug 22, 3:22*pm, "brooklyn1" > wrote:


>> Humans can swim instinctively at birth (what do you think they do inside
>> their mother)....

>
> Oh please!! That's not swimming!


He's quite right, you know. Put a week old baby in a pool and it will
hold its breath and swim like a seal. It's instinctive. The longer
the time from birth, the more of this instinct the infant will lose.

nb