Name: The Sun Moon Lake Swim, Taiwan's Swimming Carnival
Uploaded: 2020-07-23T11:01:32.000Z
Duration: 2 min 54 s
Description: Every year, 20,000 people gather at Taiwan’s largest lake and attempt to swim across 2 miles of water.Learn the English Usage: swim,taiwan,swimming,carnival,lake,fear,proficiency,coastline,wade,restricted,mainland,ranked,invasion,objective,water,consistently,mile,cap,annual,device,moon,required,island,largest,chinese,official,event,due,sun,percent,massive,wear,people,body,reason,000...

And every year, once a year, for the last 35 years,

a third of whom don't really know how to swim at all,

This is Taiwan's annual swimming carnival.

The event is a 2-mile swim with only one objective.

For an island, Taiwan has ranked consistently low

In 2009, only 42 percent of students said they could swim.

The fear of water dates back to the 1940s,

due to fear of mainland Chinese invasion.

And for that reason, everyone is required to swim in teams,

People get really into it and bring things like balloons,