06-11-2019, 10:41 AM
One does not necessarily need to know how to swim if you know how to (easily) tread water. In this case, if they had known how, I say they would of survived. Hell, in my 20's I could of treaded water for hours and likely still could. That water is not Bearing Sea cold, it would take awhile to succumb to hypothermia, if at all.