Quote Originally Posted by Marius Dynamite View Post
Surely when you were young you would have went to swim once in a while?
Why would they? They've got no reason to go running about in the water. Quite likely many of the officers could swim, but lets not forget that slavery never took off in England itself because we were too busy treating our own people like slaves, the common man, woman and child in British Empire England was scum. No-one would have had the time, inclination, or probably even the fitness to do something as frivolous to them as learning to swim. And they'd probably catch a waterbourne disease while doing it too.