Synchronized Swimming Team Show Perils of 'Drinking and Diving'
The Swedish synchronized team wanted to warn against swimming while drunk.
— -- A champion Swedish synchronized swimming team put on a very special show earlier this year to warn people against "drinking and diving" was a way to underscore the dangers of entering the water while drunk.
In the video, the members of Stockholm Konstsim Herr, the world champions of synchronized swimming, get extremely drunk before trying to perform one of their routines.
Singing in unison, the men have beers and shots while shouting "down the hatch it goes!" At the end of their drinking session, each person uses a breathalyzer to assure they are properly inebriated.
All the joking and the cheering gives way to a more serious scene when the men enter the pool. The routine that won them a championship now looks clumsy as the men struggle to move through the water.
The video ends with the line "Don't drink and dive."
The video was created by the Swedish insurance company Trygg-Hansa to raise awareness about preventable drownings. According to the video, more Swedish people died by drowning in 2014 than any other year during the last decade.
In the U.S., an average of 3,868 people drown each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
