They were quite close to shore when I was on the beach yesterday, they actually formed some sort of barrier between the swimmers and those arseholes on jetskis. I'm surprised at how few people have been caned in the head by those guys. So they did achieve something.

Username Taken wrote: And, they're all top blokes and top sheilas.

I thought this thread was serious until I read this....

just sayin'

cheers


Bertros

[quote="prahkeitouj"]I can't swim. Many friends and bf tried to teach me but they gave up on teaching me. maybe it is better to learn from a coache.




[quote="rozzieoz"]A swimming coach would be much better.



I'll volunteer for that job, if I can take some photos .

Duncan wrote:

prahkeitouj wrote:I can't swim. Many friends and bf tried to teach me but they gave up on teaching me. maybe it is better to learn from a coache.

rozzieoz wrote:A swimming coach would be much better.



I'll volunteer for that job, if I can take some photos .

you prefer the boys or girls....?


just askin'


Bertros

There is swimming and then there is rescue swimming. These are two different things. You go to rescue a drowning person and they can take you down with them. With the coastline, surfing and a big population on the coast(s) there should be some Australians here that have had some kind of swimming/rescue instruction.

I see the guys in the boat(s) in full uniforms that would become heavy if they jumped in the water. In the pictures I see no kind of rescue ladder and no suited rescue swimmer. One picture shows all the guys in the boat except the driver on one side of a tippy speedboat. With a rescue ladder, one rescuer can bring a person aboard the boat. I don't see any kind of life ring or paddle board that can be thrown to a drowning person instead of grabbing you and taking you under with them.

I like the idea of them fending off the as*holes on the jetski's, but when these guys go away the jetskis' come back. The only real answer is an exclusion zone around the swimming beach's with enforcement, fines and confiscation of the water craft, but that won't happen as just look at the way the traffic police enforce the laws (Not!)

Some jets skis now carry life rings on the rear and have been do so for a few months, I think after the last spate of unfortunate drownings.

Bertros wrote:

Duncan wrote:

prahkeitouj wrote:I can't swim. Many friends and bf tried to teach me but they gave up on teaching me. maybe it is better to learn from a coache.

rozzieoz wrote:A swimming coach would be much better.



I'll volunteer for that job, if I can take some photos .

you prefer the boys or girls....?


just askin'


Bertros


There's no need for me to check, but I'm pretty sure prahkeitouj is a girl.

prahkeitouj wrote:

rozzieoz wrote:A swimming coach would be much better.


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Yes, but way expensive... 7$ per hour and 5$ for entry to club per time.

you should take a bus instead it would be cheaper

Duncan wrote:

Bertros wrote:

Duncan wrote:

prahkeitouj wrote:I can't swim. Many friends and bf tried to teach me but they gave up on teaching me. maybe it is better to learn from a coache.

rozzieoz wrote:A swimming coach would be much better.



I'll volunteer for that job, if I can take some photos .

you prefer the boys or girls....?


just askin'


Bertros


There's no need for me to check, but I'm pretty sure prahkeitouj is a girl.

fair enough. but how do you know it was really, 'prahkeitouj' that posted that? there is no "last active date" on that profile when I checked.
there is one on mine and yours....

maybe a poltergeist then?

perhaps a 'ghost in the machine'?

curious anyways. yeah those things bother me.

curiouser and curiouser

just sayin'

cheers

Bertros

first time I ever did this....