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#102 Twenty Minutes From the Sea — Chris Button on Why the Pool Doesn't Prepare You for Open Water (Part Two)
In Part Two of this milestone two-part conversation, Ian Renshaw continues talking with Professor Chris Button (University of Otago) — this time about water safety and drowning prevention. New Zealand has one of the worst per-capita drowning rates in the world, and Chris argues the reason isn't swimming ability: it's that people learn to swim in a pool, an environment that shares almost nothing with the open water that actually threatens them.
Chris walks through a study that puts the problem in miniature — taking swimmers out in a boat on calm water and asking them to judge the distance back…
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