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As an Aussie I remember meeting foreigners when I was a youngster, and just being totally bewildered that they couldn't swim. To me, it was as if they had said they never learnt to run, or how to open a door.
My next lesson came when I took a foreign friend who could swim to the beach. I swam out past the breakers and bobbed around wondering where they were... Turns out that not everyone grew up around waves, and they didn't know you could dive under them. So they were still back by the beach, waist deep, just getting smashed around constantly.