Do you know how to swim?

[empressjamila]

I’ve always wondered how we come from a coastal country yet most people can’t swim well.

I’m thankful my parents put me in swimming lessons from a young age. Knowing how to swim is a very important life skill. So many people have died from not knowing how to

 

[Basra]

Yes u should be thankful. We were sheltered growing up. We were children of aristocrats who were sickly and fragile.

 

[Molotoff]

Of course I do. My father taught me when I was a kid by throwing me into deep waters.

 

[Bille]

I learned swimming before I could ride a bicycle. But then again I was born in Somalia.

 

[exposedmeat]

I’ve always wondered how we come from a coastal country yet most people can’t swim well.

I’m thankful my parents put me in swimming lessons from a young age. Knowing how to swim is a very important life skill. So many people have died from not knowing how to

not all of us lived on the coast but I learned it in wabi in Somalia but my swimming improved in school

 

[orangeskys]

Learned as a kid but open water still makes me nervous because of how erratic it can be.

 

[THE SOMALI POLYGLOT]

Yes, I learned it when a fucking jeer chased me when i was swimming in the juba when I was young

 

[4head]

Yes.
I had a complicated story with water,
at first we survived a flood back in Djibouti, as early as 2000s, around 2004.
I got traumatized from it for years until a girl taught me how to swim, at school, we were just 11 years olds.

Swimming is great and fun, we would just go in groups, with my friends and family (but I was afraid of going too far from the beaches), and this, every friday (morning to afternoon, camping n shiet with foods and drinks)

 

[THE SOMALI POLYGLOT]

Yes.
I had a complicated story with water,
at first we survived a flood back in Djibouti, as early as 2000s, around 2004.
I got traumatized from it for years until a girl taught me how to swim, at school, we were just 11 years olds.

Swimming is great and fun, we would just go in groups, with my friends and family (but I was afraid of going too far from the beaches), and this, every friday (morning to afternoon, camping n shiet with foods and drinks)

The 26 december 2004 tsunami

 

[SadioMane]

I’ve always wondered how we come from a coastal country yet most people can’t swim well.

I’m thankful my parents put me in swimming lessons from a young age. Knowing how to swim is a very important life skill. So many people have died from not knowing how to

I prefer the sea to dry land. My ancestors were nomads who obviously preferred following geels on dry land.

I wonder where I inherited this from?

 

[4head]

The 26 december 2004 tsunami

That was Katrina.

Djibouti suffered periodically from flood, prior to 1994 and another one hit the country in 2004.

 

[trucel]

I learnt as a child , but i havent been in a pool for over a decade so if i was thrown into a river i'd be seeing the angels soon.

 

[THE SOMALI POLYGLOT]

That was Katrina.

Djibouti suffered periodically from flood, prior to 1994 and another one hit the country in 2004.

I'm talking about the tsunami that hurt all of the indian ocean coastal countries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

 

[4head]

I'm talking about the tsunami that hurt all of the indian ocean coastal countries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

Ik.
It was Katrina and it killed over 220,000 people in South-East Asia.

 

[J-Rasta]

When I was alot younger , I was scared of swimming in the Jubba river , alx my siblings taught me how to swim , the first time I stepped into the water a crocodile almost killed me.

 

[J-Rasta]

Swimming in the coast is different than the river, I learnt that in Tanzania before tahriib , we left Mtwara for Mozambique at night but instead our boat got capsized, we almost drowned , we started peddling with our hands , very cold , we got tired so we stayed afloat we were adrift since the morning and found ourselves washed in Comoros.

So I learnt swimming which saved my life.

 

[J-Rasta]

Here in the Cape , we rarely get to the beach , only times was during Eid but yeah it's too cold to swim at many times.
Muizenberg and Camps Bay are decently warmer but nowhere in comparison to the xeebta liido in Kismayo.
The Indian Ocean is something else tbh.

Somalis should learn to swim nonetheless , What's the point of having the second longest coastline if you can't fish or swim on it.