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Why didn't salior's learn to swim?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Many sailors felt that if their boat sank they would drown anyway and swimming would just postpone their deaths. I full cousin of mine, a fisherman on the Isle of Skye, drowned at age 42 not too long ago. He did not swim, I once asked him why, and he gave the answer above.

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13y ago

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