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Originally Posted by etsys
And diving, actually, with the BCD, you don't need to even know to swim .. the BCD will help you to float or sink .. 
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Ha ha, true but as a license diver I have seen a few equipment failures in my days, so always a bit safer to at least know how to swim so just in case all hell happens (that one in a million chance) then could still drop the equipment and float to surface and wait for help. The so called "buddy" system works great only if going 1 on 1 with another experience diver or instructor but usually 1st timers or amateurs go in a big group with only a few experience diver/instructors to monitor everyone. Easy for a mishap to happen (like that famous case in Australia about 10yrs ago when a group went diving and upon returning to the boat they notice a couple (man and woman) missing. They were never found.