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Originally Posted by jrc
Sounds like both of these incidents involved swimming from an unanchored boat in deep water. I've never done this but I see many people doing it safely. I guess I've indirectly done this as part of tubing or skiing, but the swimmer always had a PFD.
What precautions do people use when swimming like this? When we swim from an anchored boat in deep water (anything over my head) we usually have floats to hang on and sometimes we tie a line to the boat so we don't float too far. But these incidents have me thinking.
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The precaution we use when swimming off the boat is to always keep one person (adult or older teenager) in the boat. This of course allows that person to bring the boat back should it drift away and/or to toss extra life vests, lines, floats, etc. into the water.