So... This week, I've been taking my wife and daughter to the local pool to teach them to swim. My wife floats like she's filled with helium. (I suspect her big issue has been simple lack of coordination when it comes to her stroke/breathing. That, and probably not wanting to get her perm messed up. ) But my daughter simply isn't buoyant! She's not afraid of the water at all... and she propels herself through the water fairly well. But in a relaxed state, while she bobs very near the top of the water from the torso up, from the torso down she sinks like a rock!

I'd hoped she wouldn't have this problem. While I can swim, I experience the same issue. I truly only stay afloat from the torso down when I flutter kick, and I've never been able to tread water without real work.

We are all quite lean (we've even been called "skinny"), but while my daughter and I have quite muscular lower halves, my wife's got a big, round butt and... well... girl curves. I've read that fat is far more buoyant than lean muscle. Does this mean my daughter very likely will have the trouble I do in floating until she hits puberty and fills out like my wife?

Do any of you -- especially the org ladies -- have similar problems? And what about when you were younger?
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I can't float. Never could. I have to self propel to keep up top

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

And you're darned lean. My findings hold so far.

I float.

My ex used to joke that I would have survived the titanic thanks to my curves.

"How'd you survive ma'am?"

"I dont know...I just started floating away!"

I float. I can't swim though.

never ever in my life have I been lean and have always been able to float
my daughter on the other hand is very lean and has never been able to float, so you may have a point

My older brother used to be alot slimmer than he is now, and when I tried to teach him to swim he sunk like a rock everytime he attempted to float

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Let's keep this a clean thread OK?

Women do float better than men,generally, it is just biology, it is to do with how sub cutaneous fat is stored. Not to say that she has too much but some of the skinniest female divers i know have to distribute their weight packs on ankles and wrists to make themselves sink easier because of how the female body distributes fat.

mdiver said:

Doesn't it suck having your spouse on the ORG sometimes....such a simple observation as above yet you have to back-track and expain what you meant so you won't offend.

Sowhat said:

I was more worried about implying Lamma's missus was lardy Mine is 115lbs wringing wet and was only 118lbs at 11 weeks preggers, not an ounce on her .....not that she believes me when i say that

Sowhat said:

He is lucky that I float well. Hmmm maybe it means I am too fat.

shanti0608 said:

See

mdiver said:

I have always been good at floating. I guess it is because I am not a big fan of swimming under that water...unless there is a turtle to see while snorkeling.

mdiver said:

.....sorry.

I really didn't mean to start anything.....I was just trying to be funny.








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shanti0608 said:

Break out the honeymoon photos

Sowhat said:

Hehe I am the queen of sarcasm. I live with a Brit.


No worries.

Sowhat said:

Yes, I float

Sowhat said:

MM

mdiver said:

No worries. I've already gotten myself into trouble there simply by invoking her and the word "fat" in the same discussion.
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thekidsgirl said:

Can he float any better now?

Lammastide said:

We're going to find out this summer

He's gained about 40 pounds in this past year

I'm so fat I don't just float, I take flight.

Any object or woman, wholly or partly immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object

Lammastide said:

DUDE!.....Surely you know better than that

JustErin said:

Shut up hoe-bag

JustErin said:

I can come see people take rides on you in Gatineau next fall, eh?

Lammastide said:

That sounded nasty.

Lammastide said:

Are you coming here??