Man who drowned in a Virginia creek identified as US Navy sailor Walter Torres

[basquebromance]

Man who drowned in a Virginia creek identified as US Navy sailor

it's a tragedy of epic proportions! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[ABikerSailor]

Not all sailors are good swimmers. Saw a couple of them when I went through boot camp.

And, he could have been dragged under by an undertow. I know that on my first command, there were three guys painting the side of the ship, when a tugboat pulled alongside and the wake generated by the boat flipped the barge they were on. Two of them survived, but a friend of mine named Tony got dragged under the boat and drowned. Took 2 days to find his body, which was 2 piers down from the ship.

 

[skye]

Not all sailors are good swimmers. Saw a couple of them when I went through boot camp.

That's strange. I'd have imagined sailors know how to swim. It's kind of logic isn't it?

But..........there you have it ...

 

[ABikerSailor]

Not all sailors are good swimmers. Saw a couple of them when I went through boot camp.

That's strange. I'd have imagined sailors know how to swim. It's kind of logic isn't it?

But..........there you have it ...

Some of them had to go through remedial swim training to pass boot camp. And, to tell the truth, the swimming requirements aren't that hard IMHO, but I grew up swimming in lakes and ponds in Montana. Some of the city boys in our company had never even seen a lake or pond, and had never swam at a pool either. Those guys had a hard time.

I think the requirements were that you had to be able to float and tread water for 5 min, as well as swim the length of the pool using any stroke you wanted. Kinda hard to remember back to 1982.

 

[whitehall]

Epic proportions?