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Originally Posted by The Reaper
That is not where the swim test is conducted anymore, Papa Smurf. 
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Sir, that smarts!
Never the swim test, but the river crossing... and back in the days of the dinosaurs (IIRC, you were either a course before or a course after me, thus firmly in the T-Rex family) weather didn't matter - the crossings were made if the 38* water  was nice (June-September) evil (November-March) or a combination of both (April-June, October) dependent on the ambient temperature. No matter when, the shrinkage factor and pucker factor were forces to be reckoned with. 
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