Swimming/Holding Your Breath, Please?

[Nathan Brazil]

One thing I do not see in the Beta or in the previous CRB. How fast can a standard human swim or hold one's breath. I know Athletics was used for examples rolls, but the examples never mentioned how fast a person could swim or how long one could stay underwater without breathing equipment. I winged it for a Bond-esque Thunderball adventure. Also useful in those thrown out the airlock into tainted/thin atmospheres. Any thoughts?

 

[Reynard]

For simplicity, hold breath for 30 seconds (5 combat rounds) per point of Endurance (round down). I used to hold my breath for 5 minutes (we timed it) at a time free diving so it's not unreasonable. Treat swimming as moving in difficult terrain.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

As I said, I winged and used the Aquatic/Amphibian Alien Trait as a basis, but I was requesting specific notation in the new ruleset for two things which were not specifically addressed for we non-Amphibians.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Holding your breath underwater is treated like Suffocation.

Swimming speed is 1/2 your normal movement rate (I THINK that is per standard rules).