can fishermen swim?????

Fitzg

Can fishermen swim?

orourkeda

who cares?

G_R

yes cause they are all the same, not individuals or anything like

Ruu_Old

They swim better, I heard they have webbed feet.

pikachucheeks

I'd imagine most of them can, but a lot of them seem to go fishing on boats without wearing life-jackets, which is incredibly stupid.

Fitzg

dannym08 wrote: »

yes cause they are all the same, not individuals or anything like

oooh touchy........ are you one of them???????
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Sofiztikated

No!!!!!!!!

Yes!!!!!!!

Overload of punctuation?!?!?!?

Maybe......

Fitzg

you're drowning me......

mikemac

Having attended some heritage centre out Whest, and seen the currachs it was explained to me it's bad luck for a fisherman to learn to swim
Or at least it used to be.

Currachs are long gone, now it's those Spanish trawlers off the Irish coast :mad:

Whosbetter?

A lot of them can't.

They can be a superstitious bunch.

Aparently, the ability to swim would indicate that your boat would sink someday.

Also, they don't want to survive too long if a boat does sink.

G_R

Fitzg wrote: »

oooh touchy........ are you one of them???????
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

no, i just hate stupid posts.

and over use of smileys:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

browneire

mikemac wrote: »

Having attended some heritage centre out Whest, and seen the currachs it was explained to me it's bad luck for a fisherman to learn to swim
Or at least it used to be.

Currachs are long gone, now it's those Spanish trawlers off the Irish coast :mad:

It was also seen as prolonging death when you fell in. If you took a straw poll today, my guess would be about 40% could swim.

pikachucheeks

Whosbetter? wrote: »

They can be a superstitious bunch.

Aparently, the ability to swim would indicate that your boat would sink someday.

I've heard that given as the reason they don't wear life-jackets as well.

It's ridiculous, in my opinion, not learning to swim or protect yourself with a life-jacket if you're spending a lot of your time at sea. Accidents happen all the time.

mikemac

True, of all the jobs around these days, fishermen are probably the most superstitious around

But it's a tough and dangerous job and up there with construction and farming for fatalities.
No excuse for not learning to swim but I'd imagine most fishermen comes from families that had generations at sea. So they are only following the tradition

mickdw

They generally cannot swim. Bad luck they all say.

As an Ex Seaman.

"Sh!t Floats."

Though, one off the many requirements for sea fearing, is sea survival, where swimming believe it or not isn't much off an issue, hence the statement above.

Kirnsy

nope not one single one of them. cute eh?