He said they could not swim on their backs because their disability prevented their backs from making the arch needed to swim.

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He said his son could not swim and was terrified of water.

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He asked the girl if she could swim to him.

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Even more incredible, he actually built a mechanical duck that could swim in the water, quack, and even take food, chew it, and excrete it!

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"They used to say Lebanon was the country where you could ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon, " he says.

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He died trying to nurse his stricken Beaufighter towards land, as his navigator, Sgt Ted Walsh, could not swim.

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