Gordon not only knows how to swim but can and has done so in what is effectively a suit of light power armor, weighted down with a ridiculous number of guns, often in substances that can only just barely be classified as 'water'.
Adrian learned how to swim in the Cheat River and finds swimming pools a little weird, but yeah, he's good.
Ray can swim, although he's nothing spectacular at it and prefers jumping off the diving board and paddling around to actual swimming.
Ellen can, despite growing up in a resource-restricted Vault. There's a quest in the Rivet City area where you have to either be God of Picking Locks or else able to swim in order to get anywhere, and she didn't get 100 in Lockpick skill (which was necessary to open the door on dry land) until near the very end of that playthrough. I handwaved that Vault 101 had a very small 'endless pool' that was justified as therapeutic rehabilitation equipment for people with broken limbs or various illnesses, and that she'd learned to swim using that.
Arcade is a companion NPC and can follow the PC anywhere, including into Lake Mead or the Colorado River. He does not, however, follow the PC in three dimensions; I have only ever seen him and Rex on the surface. Therefore I'm millicanoning it that he can swim, and that he learned to do so in the course of his travels (he and his mother spent a lot of time moving from place to place when he was young), but that he is not very good at it.
Medic can swim. So can anybody else in Team Fortress 2. I'm more impressed by the fact that he can swim effectively with his clothes on, including the lab coat.
Mordin's people are amphibians. I'm reasonably certain he can still swim.
Hektor can swim although he has never done so in any man-made facilities. He would assume a swimming pool was the world's most grotesquely extravagant bathtub and start looking for the house-women who tended it- or possibly ask to hire the man who designed it and laid all the tile.
I don't think either Zira or Varric can swim. Zira's fiance' Cornelius probably can, but it doesn't seem like something Zira would have stopped to learn, and as for Varric, Kirkwall harbor is kind of a nasty place to try to learn- not to mention that he's a dwarf and I assume they're denser muscled and boned than humans. (Plus the meta factor of 'Bioware absolutely positively will not let you go anywhere other than a very tightly defined corridor on any given map, and water IS NOT PART OF THAT, EVER'.)
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Adrian learned how to swim in the Cheat River and finds swimming pools a little weird, but yeah, he's good.
Ray can swim, although he's nothing spectacular at it and prefers jumping off the diving board and paddling around to actual swimming.
Ellen can, despite growing up in a resource-restricted Vault. There's a quest in the Rivet City area where you have to either be God of Picking Locks or else able to swim in order to get anywhere, and she didn't get 100 in Lockpick skill (which was necessary to open the door on dry land) until near the very end of that playthrough. I handwaved that Vault 101 had a very small 'endless pool' that was justified as therapeutic rehabilitation equipment for people with broken limbs or various illnesses, and that she'd learned to swim using that.
Arcade is a companion NPC and can follow the PC anywhere, including into Lake Mead or the Colorado River. He does not, however, follow the PC in three dimensions; I have only ever seen him and Rex on the surface. Therefore I'm millicanoning it that he can swim, and that he learned to do so in the course of his travels (he and his mother spent a lot of time moving from place to place when he was young), but that he is not very good at it.
Medic can swim. So can anybody else in Team Fortress 2. I'm more impressed by the fact that he can swim effectively with his clothes on, including the lab coat.
Mordin's people are amphibians. I'm reasonably certain he can still swim.
Hektor can swim although he has never done so in any man-made facilities. He would assume a swimming pool was the world's most grotesquely extravagant bathtub and start looking for the house-women who tended it- or possibly ask to hire the man who designed it and laid all the tile.
I don't think either Zira or Varric can swim. Zira's fiance' Cornelius probably can, but it doesn't seem like something Zira would have stopped to learn, and as for Varric, Kirkwall harbor is kind of a nasty place to try to learn- not to mention that he's a dwarf and I assume they're denser muscled and boned than humans. (Plus the meta factor of 'Bioware absolutely positively will not let you go anywhere other than a very tightly defined corridor on any given map, and water IS NOT PART OF THAT, EVER'.)