I was an injured runner, so I got some (nylon) speedos and started swimming.
I swam until I could complete 100 lengths, 3000m and do 50m underwater.
I took a Lifesaving Course and earned a Royal Lifesaving Society Bronze Medallion.
My first casualty had collapsed in the street, he wasn't breathing, I couldn't find a pulse. I opened his airway and got got him breathing again although I lost him 6 times before the ambulance arrived.
Since then I've saved several lives, one was a water rescue when I was wearing speedos, another time I stopped a suicide from a river bridge, I was wearing lycra cycle shorts.
The speedo board may look dead but we can still stimulate some life back into it, don't give up until the paramedics arrive.
Someone who reads this that enjoys swimming in something brief and skintight may choice to learn lifesaving skills and help save a few lives.
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