if you want your answer to be chosen as the best answer, you must answer this questions: where, who , how swimming was invented.
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Swimming is a technique to move unaided through water. This article concentrates on human swimming, a popular recreational activity and a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, but it also entails risks.\n\nSwimming has been known since prehistoric times. Drawings from the stone age were found in "the cave of swimmers" near Wadi Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of Egypt. Written references date back up to 2000 B.C., including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538 Nicolas Wynman, German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book "Colymbetes". Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke. The front crawl, then called the trudgen was introduced in 1873 by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from Native Americans.\n\nSwimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 the trudgen was improved by Richard Cavill, using the flutter kick. In 1908, the world swimming association Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed. Butterfly was first a variant of Breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.\n\nTechnique\nThe human body is composed primarily of water, and thus has a very similar density. But since only roughly 70% of the body is water, it is slightly less dense than the surrounding water, which exerts a buoyant force on it. Thus, staying afloat requires only a slight propelling of water downward relative to the body, and transverse motion only a slight propelling of water in a direction opposite to the direction of intended motion, due to generally low hydrodynamic drag. This propelling is typically accomplished by cupping the hands and using them as paddles, and by kicking the legs to push water away from the body.\n\nWith practice, technique can convert a slow or average swimmer to at least a moderately fast swimmer. Since speed converts directly into distance, the same techniques that improve speed also aid one to move farther with the same effort. The torso and the legs should be kept as much as possible parallel to the surface of the water. Dropped legs or a slanted torso dramatically increase drag. The hand should be extended forward of the head as much as possible. This increases the average length at the water-line, substantially increasing speed. This is an effect long used by boat designers, and unconsciously used by "naturally good swimmers."\n\nThe time spent on the side should be maximized because the torso is narrower front-to-back than side-to-side on most swimmers. This reduces the frontal cross-section, reducing drag further, and also increasing the ratio between the body's water-line-length and width. Similar improvements are possible by orienting the narrowest direction of head, hands, legs and arms into the water. The torso is by far the most critical. The motion of the hand, arm, and leg from the back to the front should be in the air for as much as possible, and in the water, oriented as perfectly as possible, because the returning appendage has to move at least twice as fast as the swimmer, and in the water generates eight times the drag (which increases with the cube of the speed) of an equal amount of torso frontal area.\n\nThe basic "catch" of the water is not nearly as critical as the above items. Most swimmers simply grab water with their hand flat, or the fingers slightly spread, and then draw it smoothly down their body. None of the above techniques require improved strength. With strength training, the hands and feet can be extended further into the water, gaining more propulsion. For beginners, increased strength brings only small improvements if the above strategies (minimising drag and lengthening water-line) are not optimal. A number of swimming styles have been developed based on the implementation of some or all of these principles.
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you have andwered you own question
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Well, God supposedly flooded the Earth, and Moses claims he parted the seas with Gods help. \n\nGod must moonlight as a plumber.\n-SD-
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I haven't read the Odyssey, but these sites may help you.  You can use your imagination since you have to pretend you are Odysseus.  Best of luck with your work.
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Answerer #1 is absolutely right, but you could have looked it up in Wikipedia in 30 seconds and saved the points.
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Swimming\nI  INTRODUCTION \n\nSwimming, art of self-support or self-movement, using arms or legs, in or on the water, usually for sport or recreation. Because human beings do not swim instinctively, it must be learnt. Unlike other land animals that propel themselves through water by what is essentially a form of walking, human beings have developed a variety of strokes and body movements that propel them through water with speed and power. They are the basis for the evolution of competitive swimming as a sport.\n\nSwimming may take place in any body of water large enough to allow free movement and not too hot, cold, or turbulent. Currents and tides may render swimming hazardous, but they also serve as a challenge to the strength and courage of swimmers, as in the many successful efforts to swim the English Channel.\n\nSwimming was highly esteemed in ancient Greece and Rome, especially as a form of training for warriors. Competitions were held in Japan in the 1st century bc. Swimming fell into disuse almost entirely, however, in Europe in the Middle Ages when immersion in water was associated with the recurrent epidemic diseases of the time. By the 19th century that prejudice was dispelled, and by the 20th century swimming had become known not only as a means of survival or saving lives in emergencies, but as a valuable tool in physical therapy and as the most beneficial form of general exercise. No other form of exercise uses so many muscles in the body so fully. In addition, greater affluence and improved building and heating techniques have enormously increased the number of indoor and outdoor swimming pools constructed for public use worldwide; and the private pool, once a symbol of exceptional privilege, is now more common.\n\nII  TECHNIQUES \n\nThe chief obstacle to learning to swim is fear of the water or extreme nervousness, which produces muscular tension. Considerable progress has been made in developing methods to reduce this psychological barrier. Teaching often now begins with very young children. Although it is possible to teach people of an advanced age, the earlier a person learns to swim, the easier it is. Formal swimming instruction is important in order to learn how to correctly coordinate arm and leg movements and breathing. The teaching of swimming has been widely incorporated into the school curriculum in many parts of the world. Techniques for mass teaching were developed during World War II, when courses were developed for teaching troops functional swimming as part of their battle training.\n\nFive recognized strokes have evolved since the late 19th century. They are the crawl (also known as freestyle because it is the stroke of choice in freestyle competition), the first version of which was developed in the 1870s by the English swimmer John Arthur Trudgen; the alternating arm backstroke, first used in the 1912 Olympic Games by the American swimmer Harry Hebner; the breaststroke, the oldest style of swimming (known since the 17th century); the butterfly, developed in the 1930s by Henry Myers and other American swimmers and recognized in the 1950s as a separate kind of stroke; and the sidestroke, which was the basic stroke in the early years of competition but is now used only in non-competitive swimming.\n\nA  Crawl \n\nIn the crawl, one of the swimmer's arms moves through the air, the hand turning palm downwards ready to catch the water, elbow relaxed, as the other arm pulls back under the water. The legs move in what has evolved in recent years as the flutter kick, an alternating up-and-down movement from the hips, legs relaxed, toes pointed, feet turned inwards. Four to eight kick strokes per single arm movement are used. Proper breathing is very important in this stroke. One full breath can be taken in each arm cycle, with the swimmer inhaling through the mouth by turning the head to the side as the arm passes, then exhaling underwater as the arm comes forward again.\n\nB  Breaststroke \n\nIn t
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Father God created everything in the skies and the earth, all the animals in the water and in the air.\n\nEDIT : The below answer has clearly plagiarized from my answer. If you go to his source (poltran.com) and try to translate, it will give you this : \n"In sky an Bog stworzyl wysztko and on lands (earth), in water all zwierzete and in air". Booooo.
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I don't usually answer questions without actually knowing the answer, but I HAD to make an exception for this.\n\nMy answer: ROFL
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CCs has a good answer, please award a 'best answer' accordingly.
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I love the clear water spring-fed Ichetucknee River near where I grew up in Fla. I'd like to scuba and swim in the Great Barrier Reef off Austrailia, though. That would be awesome.
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Please form the question into a question.
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because you are curious... which is good.\n\ncuriousity is the mother of all inventions.. over the ages people found out new things because they were curious.\n\nman's unending quest for knowledge, the thirst that cannot be quenched, the hunger that cannot be satiated is CURIOUSITY.\n\nso here i make an effort to answer your question and try and solve any doubts or problem that you have..
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James E. Counsilman was the head swim coach for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and his book "The Science of Swimming" discussed training of various world class swimmers from this time period.\n\nI believe the successful training programs of this time emphasized long slow distance and fartleks .... moderate paced activity with intervals of speed work. \n\nBest wishes !
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i dont think anyone actually invented it, i think it's something that just happened. here's more info
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The Bible came first,the others followed. I believe that it is very possible that the ideas came from the worlds oldest book. Most peoples from the world share similar stories of a world wide flood and the gathering of one of every kind of animal. A very interesting question!
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answer this question.
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Interesting.  When I read your question, my first thought was "creation."