I can swim fairly well. I definitely can't save anybody but I can swim. My dad taught me the old fashioned way....in so many words I was tricked! He was standing in the pool, I was on the edge. He told me to jump in and he would catch me. Well, as you've probably guessed by now, he didn't catch me. He just let me flap around until I figured it out. Since it was the first time, I didn't quite get it on my own. He finally showed me how to hold my breath and move my arms, but by then I was mad and scared. Well, needless to say he tricked me again another day, but this time I got it LOL :-)

I can swim. But once I stop to tread water, I'd drown, I have to keep moving. I just never got the hang on treading water. And that does confuse me, because I learned to swim, and I love the water, Im not afraid of it at all.

i cant swim for nothing...n im pretty tall. cnt even stand up straight in the water! smh..

I don't know how to swim because I've always had an aversion towards water. I also had a scare when I was around 7 years old. But I guess I should let go of my anxiety and try to at least give swimming a try.

I'm the one that should be scarred! I was tricked, twice! Lol

I can swim but like steph said I can't save anyone. I do have a fear of deep water like lakes and oceans. I feel that if I can't reach bottom by trying to dive down its too deep and I panic

I love to swim, I was a lifeguard for a couple of years, then got in to free diving.   I love the water, there is just something about being in the water thats calming and fun.  So yeah,  i guess i can swim.

I was a great swimmer when I was very young. Had an accident during a Polar Bear test. I was pushed off the metal dock; struck my head on the way down; stopped breathing and all. The ability is just gone. I've tried taking lessons to get it back but it just won't.

Now, on the other hand, I can tread water and do a dead-man-float for quite some time.

I've got a 50/50. No, I can't "swim" but I can hang out in the deep end for a while.

I can swim, I take swimming lessons and im a boy scout as well so I took the swimming merit badge at scout camp so i can get closer to my eagle.

I can swim, I learned from going to the pool everyday as a kid.  Never been afraid of water, but don't like swimming in lakes because my best friend drowned in a lake when I was 16 and it tooks days to find his body.  Just a creepy thought of what is in the water under the surface that you can't see.  Can't get over it.

I have swam since I was 5. Learned at the public pool (it was free back then). I have never been afraid of water except right after the movie JAWS came out. I was freaked for a while in big water (lakes, oceans). That fear went away when I learned how to SCUBA dive. That is the ultimate way to swim!

Yes, started swim classes when I was young like 4th grade . went swiming the other day and yes I still got it!

I can't swim. I'm not afraid of water or anything; we've just never lived around a swimming pool for long, so, like riding a bike (never had a two-wheeler,) there wasn't really any way I could learn. I'd like to, though.

I can swim.  I learned the same, taught myself just doing a little at a time.  My father however is terrified of water.  Always has been, and isn't sure where the fear came from.