Comment on Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool?

solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  most Western people will float above the bottom of their nose

  Is that true of salt and fresh water? I’m pretty comfortable floating around in salt water but have grown paranoid with age about fresh water.

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  • solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on how fat, and how salty, but generally the difference is less than 5% by mass.

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My grandfather was an old-skool, wiry, dirt-farmer. He was unable to float above the surface in Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

      I aspire to be that compactly muscular.

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      • solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That … That’s baller. I’m “doughy” at best, and its all I’ll ever be.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That stroke where you breathe out down and time your arms to breathe in to the side: I hate it. I don’t like the feeling of water on my face while I try to take a quick breath. That’s my secret: I’m always uncomfortable in the water…

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