Is it true that until the last few centuries people couldn't swim?
>>1302496
there are people in african cave paintings swimming that are about 5-10k years old in what is now the sahara.
black folks been swimming for awhile.
>>1302496
The Gemara in Brachot has a rabbinical argument whether or not teaching your kids to swim is part of the minimum requirement of parental care owed to offspring.
I'm guessing no.
No.
>>1303371
Looks more like monkeys drowning.
Not even trying to be racist.
It just didn't make sense to reach sailors when you didn't have to means to save them. Cruelty for kindness.
>>1303395
Not him, but not it doesn't.