For emergency situations, it's necessary to be able to swim with your regular clothes on. It must be much harder. Is open water the only place where this can be trained?
Maybe if you're wearing heavy boots, but how much water is a close fitting shoe really going to fill with? My gut feeling is you should keep your shoes on if the water is below 70 degrees unless they really seem to be pulling you down.
Maybe if you're wearing heavy boots, but how much water is a close fitting shoe really going to fill with? My gut feeling is you should keep your shoes on if the water is below 70 degrees unless they really seem to be pulling you down.
