The Aquarium

Orientation

Sophie and Oliver do have an orientation swim before the main excursions take place. This is normal practice on an open water swimming holiday but given the swimmers’ abilities and speed would already be known as they are members of the same swim club, it is a little superfluous. Sophie and Oliver are being a bit cheeky here by counting it as one of the official swims thus making the holiday look more content-full than it actually is. They can just about get away with it because Ben is new to the group and they are going to film everyone so as to assess their swim technique.

Debbie doesn’t want to be filmed. It’s never fully disclosed why, there could be a number of reasons: she doesn’t feel her technique is good enough and doesn’t want that exposed or analysed. She might think it will give Claire another reason to roll her eyes at her in exasperation. Maybe, like a lot of women, she feels self-conscious about her body-type and doesn’t want others to scrutinise it on screen, or indeed look at herself. Or, she could be telling the truth about the reason she gives, that Alan is the swimmer in the family and she’s not bothered about improving.

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