If that swimmer is really the chef, based on that pool footage, he won’t win any “form” awards, but he can swim well enough to save himself, unless he panicked. Many people who can swim lose their heads when faced with a sudden or tricky water problem, and they easily forget to just flip over and float when they’re tired or panicked. Having said that, the odds are good that he was murdered because he knew or saw something TPTB didn’t want known or seen. They have so many ugly secrets, and place so little value on lives other than their own that they think nothing of solving their problems with a little murder.
Good find!
I have been swimming since before I can remember, was on the swim team starting age 6 through college, and now in my 50s still swim 3-4 times a week. My short workout is about 37 minutes and I do about 44 laps (1,100 meters) in that amount of time, with about 5 minutes of rest since that is my HIIT (short sprints with 1minute rest between) workout. So that’s for comparison, and I am SLOW. In my 30s, I was doing that same workout in about 28 minutes.
The other thing I noticed is that he never breathes to the side, but rather flips onto his back to breathe. JUST THIS PAST SUNDAY, I observed this in a little kid about 5 years old! At my pool, they require kids to prove they can swim unassisted a full 25 meters to earn a wristband that means a parent doesn’t have to be with them in the water. I let them use my lane to do the test and watched the little guy do a combination dog paddle, freestyle and backstroke so that he never had to put his face in the water and thought to myself “They need to get little man some lessons to teach him strokes and breathing.” He made it the full length, but barely, and got real tired at the end.
My point being, the chef looks new to swimming, does not know how to breathe to the side, and is also using fins in the pool, which, while a great training tool for heart rate (I use short fins for sprints to get my heart rate up the 80 max) and easing strain on the rotator cuffs in the water, they can create false balance in the water (swimming is ALL about balance), so I would not recommend them for beginners until they are ready to do certain training techniques.
And I agree with Linda…once you find yourself in a lake, pond, river or ocean, everything changes. I know that my swim skills drop by about 50 percent when I’m in dark water because I’m rarely in it.