However you can’t swim.”
So learn.
They taught a lot of unathletic nerds to swim and be safe in the water.
Why, swimming has nothing to do with engineering or any other academic endeavor. It’s a completely arbitrary requirement. Why not require everybody to become a chess master, it’s about as relevant. By your logic Stephen Hawkings couldn’t graduate because he can’t swim. What was Isaac Newton’s swimming skill level? When you’re about to have surgery, do you inquire about the surgeon’s ability to swim. Learning to swim is a good thing, however it has no business being a requirement for a professional degree. Save it for the “Studies” majors.