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Since the 15 minute tread was mentioned, consider this--I, too am very negartively buoyant, especially legs. I used "drown-proofing" and it was a piece of cake-could have gone an hour. You take a breath and let your face,head go under, but your lungs float you, then come up for another breath. Perfectly legal for the test (unless your instructor forbids it for some reason). The 2 minutes hands out was only marginally harder, but still real easy--you tend to spin around. There is no way I could ever do the hands out thing without drown proofing, regardless of type of kicking ("eggbeater", etc.) or if I had been 20 and an olympian. Now you've got a 5 on one of the tests with really no physical effort at all--and you're floating, which is the objective.