I’m still trying to figure out where this stigma may have originated. Deep set fear of water based on ancient religious ideology? Such as Hammurabi casting the accused into the water to determine innocence or guilt, sink guilty/float innocent? Or the account of Jesus walking on water in the bible creating the assumption that no one knew how to swim before that time? I wonder where the assumption that early man could never have floated truly originate?
Because, the ability to go places by water destroys the nice, orderly, slow, gradual, Replacement racial superiority model for the human settlement of the Earth. It may also speak to a deep-seated insecurity in the home of Chuck Darwin (he's a distant cousin, btw) about the fallacy of insularity. Everyone in Britain is descended from someone who arrived by boat, IOW, isolationist dogma (in the US, it takes the form of Clovis-First-and-Only) is invalid.