Yes, as a matter of fact I was inspired by this thread.
I don’t float. My wife thinks everyone floats. I honestly do not float. If I need to stay alive I need to keep moving; lying on my back and simply floating is not an option.
[Howie Mandel] So. Float, or no float? [/HM]
Float.
I can float quite easily for a very long time… I love doing it. It’s so calming to just float on your back with your ears in the water, and all you hear is sound filtered through the water. I don’t have to put much effort into it… the occasional hand or foot wave, and I can do it with keeping my legs together and arms close to my torso, or more spread out. People say this is related to body-fat… I do have a few pounds to lose, and I’m not very muscular, so I guess that helps.
It is partly related to fat. I float all too well these days, but my kids, who are both very trim, have to struggle at it.
I float easily, my husband does not float at all. I used to think everyone floats, then I met Jim. It’s like he’s made of concrete; he hardly even seems buoyant in water. He’s not much of a swimmer, either - he describes swimming as “swimming for my life.”
If I’m on my back and breathing deeply, I can keep my upper body floating, but it’s simply impossible to keep everything from my waist down from sinking. I need my lungs full to counteract all the weight of the muscle, I guess. Treading water is usually okay, though a bit tiring. I took swim lessons when I was a kid and managed to not sink through sheer force of will and strength more than buoyancy. There’s some fat on my belly which I hate, but not enough anywhere else to turn me into a flotation device.
I just had my body fat tested, and it came back an astonishing 44%. (I’m big but I’m not morbidly obese.) I have concluded that the reason I don’t do well in high heat is that I am made of butter.
Yep, I float. In fact, I should change my name to Bob.
I can float, but it’s somewhat of a struggle. My wife, on the other hand, can float in a bathtub. Water is for fish, IMO, and I leave it to them.
I sink like a stone. Or a piece of metal, except when it’s a needle or old fashioned razor blade carefully laid on the surface of the water just so.
It depends on if I’m inhaling or exhaling.
Once I’ve exhaled, if I don’t inhale quickly then no, I don’t float.
I have neutral buoyancy with my lungs about half full.
What she said. Except probably with more pounds to lose.
I walk on the bottom of pools, and won’t get into a boat unless I can find 2 life preservers.
With a deep breath, I’ll float at about eye level. Which is not very helpful for breathing.
FWIW, I’m about 225lbs with around 12% body fat.
Add me to the list of copying this one – exactly the same as me.
Nope, not a floater.
Like a cork. I could probably fall asleep and not sink.
Huh…I know they say that fat = float, and no fat = sink, but I’ve always been a floating, even as a scrawny little kid. And I mean scrawny! I had visible ribs just standing around, not sucking in my gut or anything. Yet I still floated with ease during all my swim lessons (which I took six years of.)
Now, being scrawny, I obviously didn’t have much muscle either. I guess I was mostly bone and organs…so I guess they’re buoyant?
I float. Of course, I am a slightly chubby man and fat floats I am told.
Me too. Made it impossible for me to get that damn Lifesaving merit badge as a kid. I had to work so damn hard to get myself to the bottom of the pool that I had nothing left to swim the damn brick to the surface again.
I have to make an effort to float on my back. If left to its own devices, my body would sink.
My husband used to have a really weird perception that all pregnant women float. Sadly, I wasn’t too into having him see me in a swim suit when I was pregnant with our son, or I would have happily proven him wrong, too.
We all float here…