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What you said about people bear hugging you underwater reminds me of when I was on a swim team and we played a game called "Sharks and Minnows." The lone shark
by gcanyon 16y ago
What you said about people bear hugging you underwater reminds me of when I was on a swim team and we played a game called "Sharks and Minnows."
The lone shark starts at one end of a 25 meter pool, all the minnows at the other. The coach blows the whistle and all the minnows have to try to reach the other end without getting caught at the surface. Any minnows caught at the surface immediately become sharks. Repeat until there are no minnows.
I wasn't the fastest swimmer, but I could easily hold my breath from one end of the pool to the other, including wrestling underwater with sharks. If Sharks and Minnows were an Olympic sport I would have been competitive. Of course, that was when I was twelve ;-) At this point, I think I'd carefully consider how to approach an obviously drowning person.
- warfangle 16y agoI remember playing that. My strategy was to breast-stroke as fast as I could while not quite scraping the bottom of the pool with my chest. I usually came out pretty well in the end :) We would also do exercises in the diving pool of treading water for a half hour+ at a time. Good times. (I was also around 12)
- AndyKelley 16y agoI absolutely love the mechanics of that game. First of all it's a blast. But the cool part is that the game mechanics themselves ensure that everybody is safe. The minnows want to stay underwater to win the game, which is a secondary goal to wanting to breathe. And the sharks want to get the minnows to the surface to win the game. So fight it out as much as you want, but the minnows have to TRY to not breathe.