I was a stronger swimmer when I was younger for some reason. As a teenager I occasionally went to the pool and swam 200 laps for fun. As youngsters me, my sister and my cousins used to swim across the local lake and back (about 3km) with my grandmother, who was a lifeguard in her youth, and my aunt who was ... er ... naturally very buoyant. I tried swimming across a lake in France on vacation last year with my daughter, who is a good swimmer, but we swam into a school of about 1000 little bass about 10cm lang and when my daughter felt them touching her she screamed so loud that I thought they were going to send a boat to rescue us.... for some reason swimming across lakes seemed like more fun when I was young. 
I answered "confident" on the poll. My technique is reasonably ok but I'm slow. In terms of translating that to scuba diving... I'm very comfortable in the water.... Always have been. I often sort of "forget" that I'm under water when I'm diving (that surely can't be good) and I've had enough things happen under water that I'm pretty sure that if some major malfunction happened while I was diving I wouldn't feel panic about it until about 2 seconds before the white light hit my eyes.
As I said, as a swimmer I'm slow.... I've had the odd competitive swimmer in my OW course and one in particular, a young woman who I'll never forget, was SO INCREDIBLE that she left a bow-wave in the water while swimming. I literally had no idea that a human being could swim so fast. When she got out of the water I turned her around and she said, "what are you doing". I said, "looking for the propeller!" LOL.
If you've never seen Olympic level swimming before then get to a meet and watch them them live... on the TV it all seems so slow but once you see it live you'll never look at swimming the same again.
R..
I answered "confident" on the poll. My technique is reasonably ok but I'm slow. In terms of translating that to scuba diving... I'm very comfortable in the water.... Always have been. I often sort of "forget" that I'm under water when I'm diving (that surely can't be good) and I've had enough things happen under water that I'm pretty sure that if some major malfunction happened while I was diving I wouldn't feel panic about it until about 2 seconds before the white light hit my eyes.
As I said, as a swimmer I'm slow.... I've had the odd competitive swimmer in my OW course and one in particular, a young woman who I'll never forget, was SO INCREDIBLE that she left a bow-wave in the water while swimming. I literally had no idea that a human being could swim so fast. When she got out of the water I turned her around and she said, "what are you doing". I said, "looking for the propeller!" LOL.
If you've never seen Olympic level swimming before then get to a meet and watch them them live... on the TV it all seems so slow but once you see it live you'll never look at swimming the same again.
R..
