Drowning or Play?

[Parts]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking 

[Squidusa]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking 

They really should teach things like that to kids , swimming and water safety should be made compulsory during P.E IMO.

(Over here P.E is Physical Education , you probably have a different name for it over there  )

[Semicolon]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking 

They really should teach things like that to kids , swimming and water safety should be made compulsory during P.E IMO.

(Over here P.E is Physical Education , you probably have a different name for it over there  )

We don't.

[Squidusa]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking 

They really should teach things like that to kids , swimming and water safety should be made compulsory during P.E IMO.

(Over here P.E is Physical Education , you probably have a different name for it over there  )

We don't.

At last you've dropped the compulsive need to change our words 

But anyway, P.E should have more important sports (like swimming) made compulsory , I mean , soccer / football are ok but it's not going to save your life.
(unless in certain situations)

[Parts]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking 

They really should teach things like that to kids , swimming and water safety should be made compulsory during P.E IMO.

(Over here P.E is Physical Education , you probably have a different name for it over there  )

It was PE in Florida where I grew up but mention PE here in Ct and all you get are blank stares.  I agree with you 100%.  In Florida they don't have it but what they do have at least where I lived was mandatory first aid and emergency care grades 7-9 in PE class which I feel in very important

[Semicolon]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking  

They really should teach things like that to kids , swimming and water safety should be made compulsory during P.E IMO.

(Over here P.E is Physical Education , you probably have a different name for it over there  )

We don't.

At last you've dropped the compulsive need to change our words  

But anyway, P.E should have more important sports (like swimming) made compulsory , I mean , soccer / football are ok but it's not going to save your life.
(unless in certain situations)

Be careful; you might be exiled to America for saying that there are more important sports than soccer.

[Squidusa]

We have an island about a mile off shore of out town that you can walk to at low tide from the state park and every year there is at least one person drowns near it.  It's not just the not being able to swim it's knowing what to do when caught in the currents and not panicking  

They really should teach things like that to kids , swimming and water safety should be made compulsory during P.E IMO.

(Over here P.E is Physical Education , you probably have a different name for it over there  )

We don't.

At last you've dropped the compulsive need to change our words  

But anyway, P.E should have more important sports (like swimming) made compulsory , I mean , soccer / football are ok but it's not going to save your life.
(unless in certain situations)

Be careful; you might be exiled to America for saying that there are more important sports than soccer.

We're not *all* obsessed with soccer. 

Just the weird ones like Soph and Benji

[midlifeaspie]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

[Al Swearegen]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

[midlifeaspie]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

But they aren't technically "in Australia" 

[Semicolon]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

But they aren't technically "in Australia" 

They're within Australia's territorial waters.

[Al Swearegen]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

But they aren't technically "in Australia" 

They're within Australia's territorial waters.

Yes they find it far easier feeding on Australians there

[midlifeaspie]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

But they aren't technically "in Australia" 

They're within Australia's territorial waters.

"Territorial waters" are a socio-political construct.  I was referring to "the continent of Australia" 

[Al Swearegen]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent 

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

But they aren't technically "in Australia" 

They're within Australia's territorial waters.

"Territorial waters" are a socio-political construct.  I was referring to "the continent of Australia" 

In that case the crocodiles, feral pigs, snakes, spiders and the drop bears.

[Semicolon]

Swimming is a big thing here because of our warm climate.

I don't like swimming much because I can't see very well without glasses. Used to go as a kid though, my vision was better back then.

Are there special precautions you have to take to go swimming in Australia? The entire continent of Australia is trying to kill you.

Swimming is safe, as you have left the continent  

No....so long as you can skirt the sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, Portuguese Man o' War, rips and so on, you should be fine.

But they aren't technically "in Australia"  

They're within Australia's territorial waters.

"Territorial waters" are a socio-political construct.  I was referring to "the continent of Australia"  

Geologically, the continent extends to the edge of the continental shelf, so the now-separate lands can still be considered a continent. Due to the spread of flora and fauna across the single Pleistocene landmass the separate lands have a related biota.

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