SEE THE ABOVE VIDEO. VOTE FOR HIS CHARITY at NASCAR:
http://www.nascar.com/award
And Duncan has long written to us about how he brought his Uncle Pete Kuracheck - honed swimming teaching to Camp Sunshine kids. For over thirty years:
Duncan Dobie writes us, on 7-4-2012:
For the past two weeks I’ve been teaching swimming lessons to teenagers at Camp Sunshine, the children’s cancer camp in Georgia. It, it was our 30th year celebration and my 30th year as a volunteer. Over the years, I’ve taught dozens of kids to swim, using the tried and true techniques we were all taught by our unforgettable mentor in Saltaire so long ago. You better believe I told some of those kids about my “Seal Team 6” training by Uncle Pete and I always reinact our “life-saving” technique that Uncle Pete branded into our brains. If you didn’t go underwater and swim behind him he would engulf you with his Hulk-like body, wrap his arms around you and pull you under with no mercy. Little kids usually have almost no fear of the water and they learn very quickly. But you get a 15 year old who has never been around water and they’re terrified to put their heads under. I had one girl who was a “sinker.” I remember Uncle Pete talking about sinkers and floaters. As I remember, I think he taught us that about 10 percent of the people are sinkers, that is, they cannot float at all, even in salt water. Every time this girl got in the water and tried to swim she went down like the Titanic. Just think, thanks to Uncle Pete all of us could have been heroes in the Seals, Special Forces, Forced Recon, FBI HRT and others, but apparently none of us took advantage of that one-of-kind training.
PS: BELOW ARE SOME more OF DUNCAN'S contributions to Saltaire38.
Give him a vote. For his charity.
http://saltaire38.blogspot.com/search?q=duncan
(JO'H)
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