Swimming

Ultimately, it depends on what contacts you use and what your optometrist recommends.

For most people with soft contacts (hard contacts are now rarely used and offered up), swimming is fine. However, the user should not attempt to open his eyes under the water as the contacts would then easily slip beyond the eye and be forever lost.

When in the water, close your eyes when coming into contact with the water (i.e. going underneath the water, swimming across, splashing, etc.) to prevent the contacts from slipping out.

When doing vigorous activity in the water (i.e. intense swimming, diving, etc.) where one comes into heavy contact with the water, using goggles would be the safest bet. The pressure of the water could easily push the contacts out.

She has not died. However her brother died when she was only 13.

There are four main strokes in swimming. There is Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle.

In the water, you could get some small toys (that will sink) and chuck them in the pool. Wait a few seconds, so they can sink to the floor. Then put on some goggles and try and dive or swim donw to reach them.

For men the World record for 50m freestyle is under 21 seconds, while a reasonable club swimmer should be able to swim 50m freestyle in around 25 seconds. A good time for an average non-club swimmer should be around the 30 second mark

you go to a store and get a swimming suit. make sure you try it on before you purchase.

In 1933, Jack Siege and his swim coach invented the butterfly. The stroke was invented at the University of Iowa.

An Olympic Length pool is 50 meters. To convert any meter to feet, you multiply by 3.28084, so an Olympic Length pool should be 164.02 feet or 54.68 yards.

addendum: for extra trivia - an Olympic pool is 25 meters wide and 2 meters deep. Use the same conversion factor as mentioned above.

Pools are typically in 25yd, 25m, and 50m lengths, but in the case of a 33m pool,

there are 1609 meters in a mile, and 1609/ 33 = 48.75

So, 49 laps in a 33m pool would bring you a little over a mile.

Yes - but your eyes will probably be a bit more sensitive to the chlorine and any other chemicals in the water. If it's daytime it will be tough to protect your eyes from bright sunlight while swimming. Also, since your vision will probably be blurred, you will be at a bit more risk of accidents so it might be wiser to wait a bit until it clears up.

It depends on the length of the pool. In a 25m pool, it is 6 lengths.

No, absolutely not .. no way!! Doing so exposes other swimmers to any infection that may be present in the wound. A contaminated pool may require a complete draining of all its water and a thorough scouring of the pool interior, a very very expensive project, and lots of upset people in the meantime. Don't even consider it. No!

No depth of water is "safe" to jump into from a height of 100 feet. Ignoring air resistance, after a fall of that distance you will be traveling 80 feet per second, or about 55 miles per hour. Landing at the wrong angle could cause serious injury or death.

I've looked for guidelines relating minimum water depth to dive height (assuming a trained diver who knows how to hit the water and how to convert downward momentum into lateral motion), but they generally tend to concentrate on the sort of distances used in competition diving, which are closer to 30 feet than 100.

In the show "O" in Las Vegas that features a high-diving segment, the divers dive from 60 feet and the water depth is about 25 feet.

Trained high divers roll once they hit water both because that helps produce a clean entry and to minimize the depth to which they penetrate. If you don't do that but just continue to glide straight down, you will go significantly deeper.

The type of bandage this is dangerous if it is stretched to tight but is the easiest to use is called what?

This occurs due to the upthrust of water. Water exerts an upward force on the body. It is also called buoyancy.

Well, you could basically swim anywhere you want...as long as you have enough space and water to swim. You could swim whenever you want. If you have a little free time, you could go swimming! You could do competitive swimming, or you could just swim for fun.

Pretty much the whole body is used for swimming, that is why it is such a good therapy sport. You will often hear physical theripists tell their athletic, or non-athletic patients to swim because it helps to relax all of the muscles as well as keep the patient in decent physical condition.

Bones when swimming are only used to keep the body shape, very little stress is put on the bones, if the only excercise you do is swimming and your elderly it is possible you will lose bone density !

The operative word here is "high" dive. 8' is the normal depth for an average pool with or without a dive board. With most dive boards in residential pools the depth would be closer to 9' or 10'. I am not certain as to the depth of a high dive platform but my thinking would be in the range of 20' deep. There are specific engineering figures on Olymmpic type pool measurements.

In diving events the highest diving platform is 10 metres high, the water is at least 16 feet deep, even at that depth I go all the way down to the bottom of the pool.

It really depends on how fast you swim, and how much you weigh. As a general example, a 110 lb person burns around 7.7 calories/minute swimming at a 50/yard per minute pace. There are 1760 yards in a mile, 1650 yards in an official swim mile. So our 110 pounder will burn 271 calories at the above mentioned pace. Meanwhile, a larger swimmer, say 200 lbs at the same pace will burn 14.2 calories/minute. This equates to around 500 calories burned in the mile.

Contrary to popular belief, divers do not shower between each dive because of bacteria. Divers shower in warm water (or even soak in a hot tub) to keep their muscles warm and loose. This is also why gymnasts put on warm-ups, or pants and jackets, after each event. Some divers believe that if they go into the water while wet they can enter with a smaller splash, however most dry off with a towel.

For the long course the world record is 23.97 seconds by Libby Trickett of Australia set on March 29, 2008. For the short course the record is 23.25 seconds by Marleen Veldhuis of The Netherlands set on April 13, 2008.