Do you think it is important or even necessary to learn to swim?

It is one good thing to know how to swim but I don't think it's that important or even necessary. However, if one lives near the beach, river or lake, I do agree that swimming is an important things one has to learn. Imagine living near these bodies of water and you can not enjoy them with your siblings and friends because you don't know how to swim. The invention of floats and other life saving devices somehow reduces the necessity of learning how to swim. Some people their own life jacket when boarding a water vessel.

Yes I believe that it is a very important skill that should be taught to those physically able at a young age.

Hi, Flowfire! It is important to learn how to swim. Because you never know when you may be faced in a situation whre you will have no choice but to learn how to. I can't swim either. And I was thinking about this the other day. Maybe I do need to learn, but it will take me some time to learn. I don't like to go near any heavy waters because of my fear for drowning. At the age of 11 is a great time to learn.

I think it is very important for us to learn to swim because it is the best form of exercise.it even relaxes our whole body.everybody fears for the first time. you just keep your head under the water for sometime and your fear will go away. try it sometime. Good luck!

Hi Flowfire, nice discussion. To me, i can swim, but i have a problem, i can't swim good when i am on the nature water. Meaning rivers, sea, lakes. Because of the fear. I can swim pretty good in the swimming pool, becasue i feel safe when i can use my feet to touch the base of the swimming pool. I think all the fears that i have might be because i was almost drown when i was 8 years old in the nature pool. I am then scare of all the nature waters. But still, i like wakeboarding, i like going to the beaches, so i think knowing how to swim is very important.

NO..in the poor country many people fell that swim not important to learn. there is more important than learn to swim. their life so complicated, full of hardwork,challange to survive.

I think that it is very important to learn to live. It could save your life someday. I learned to swim when I was very young. As a child there was a pond on our propery and I would swim in it all summer long. That Is how I learned to swim. I pretty much tought myself.

Yes, I can swim and I think swimming is one of the things you need to learn to do in your lifetime, you just don't know when you need it the most and if you're not really banned from doing so, then why not try it? You can try learning by enrolling at a local swimming class session. It would be best to do that and not to learn alone. Good luck!

in act swimming is my hobby...i have taken swimming as a sport..i learnt swimming at the age of 14...i swim once a week, mostly in the week ends..i can do all forms of swimming as well as diving...swimming is very important that every human being should learn..swimming not only a safety measure for our life when we are under waters, its also a good exercise to keep our body fit and strong...swimming leads to have a very clear mind and body every time we swim... happy to post...happy mylotting..

Hi flowfire...Absolutely!..I think its very important that we all learn to swim. ALthough we live on land, we never know when we may need to know how to swim. We could be on a boat that capsizes or caught in a flood. I think everyone should learn to swim at a young age. It is great exercise and for some people, the only one they can do. Also its nice to be able to enjoy the water and beaches with our friends who do swim. Personally I am a very good swimmer and have been able to swim since I was very young. I love the water and have no fear at all. When I was younger, I swam competitively and took all the courses for a lifeguard. All 4 of my children also were brought up around water and they all love to swim too.

i think that it is an excellent thing to know. i didn't learn until i was a teen and i made sure that my children learned very early. i think you feel more secure around water if you know how to swim and i wanted my kids to have that security. as an adult i can swim but not well and now i have too much fear to tackle learning things like diving.

yes ,i think so.

Yes , I think so. If you can swim ,you can enjoy swiming and have a relax.Also,you can protect yourself and save other people.

Hi well at the age of 7 i learned how to swim it would come in handy if i needed it to help myself or to help someone else but i don,t like the water i like looking at it but try and stay away from it your right where made to be on land.

I learned to swim when I was five. Sure it's important and necessary. I surely do not want to drown if I fall into a body of water that it would be easy to swim out of!

Swimming is good health. We get good exercise if swim everyday. I went to swimming classes when i was 12 years but i really can't swim in rivers i can swim only in pools built specially for swimming.

I think swimming is an important skill and it's a very healthy activity. But even if you'll never go near a pool, you might be on a boat or ship that sinks.

Yes it is really important these days to know swimming. I don't know swimming but I am really keen to learn it but I am not able to get descent time to learn. Hope I will learn it soon. At fews occasions I was feeling that hope I could know to swim. When I went Water Kingdom and when I went to some beach location, I realized that swimming is necessary in these days.

Yes it is important that we know how to swim. Here in the Philippines we are surrounded by the body of water so we need to learn to swim for our survival because we experienced a lot of water accidents. I learned to swim when I was studying in college but I can't say I swim well. Sometimes I told my father why he don't teach us to swim when we are younger. Right now I don't if I can still swim because I'm no longer practice swimming anywhere.

yes it is very important to learn to swim because you newer know what would happen to you any time. you might fall into a deep water or any of your friend falls into a deep water then whom would you expect to save you? ghost?