Territorial dispute in swimming pool

How does one fail basic comprehension?
It's not uncommon for a swimmer to not notice someone else then take evasive action when they do.
I suspect that's what happened here, but hey, trying to get inside the poor man's head is apparently more fun.

Perhaps they both prefer that lane, for some reason. It's a non-story because he moved over and let her keep her 'territory'. ✌️

How does one manage to swim under a person they haven't even noticed?

No, he got in the pool after her and having a clear view of the pool situation.

He knew exactly what he was doing.

It's a shared lane in a shared pool.
It's nobody's ground, and she was the one who had a problem with someone else being there so.....someone who might not have even seen her to start with, and who quickly moved across....

Why should two swimmers be navigating against each other in a shared lane when they are literally the only two swimmers in the pool and three other lanes are left unused?

It’s like someone trying to work in sets in between your sets on a piece of gym equipment when there are three other pieces of the same gym equipment free.

But thankfully she stood her ground instead of letting the penis owner intimidate her into giving him what he wanted and thought he was entitled to take.

OP was welcome to move too, if she found the presence of another person in what might also be their preferred lane that bothersome.
Sharing a lane is normal in lane swimming, especially if it's a popular lane.

That's the whole point. Apart from the two of them it was an empty pool, and he, after initially swimming in Lane 1 on his own, then moved into her lane. Why would you do that? It's like someone in an empty train carriage or in an empty cinema choosing the seat next to you. Man or woman, that's a dick move. It's allowed but nobody would do that; it's a power play

You know what would be even further away?

Swimming in your own damn lane like someone with actual social skills.

Again, it's perfectly OK.
In a deep pool swimming under someone may be further away than swimming past them on the surface.
HTH

Nobody said that though, another example of drawing ridiculous conclusions. Folk who swim lots do tend to understand how to share lanes though.

It's not normal behaviour to swim under someone.

It's arguably rude behaviour even when the pool is chock-a-block.

When the pool is almost empty it's the behaviour of a sociopath.

I didn't say I did it.
I'd say expecting someone to change perfectly normal behaviour is more rude.

I might also want to ignore someone who insists I'm a man. Tschüss.

It's not rude.
It's normal.
HTH

You might want to have a look at the pic posted above by the OP. He definitely knew what he was doing.

I get it OP. I remember swimming in a lane once at a local pool. I was in the slowest lane. A man got it my lane and was a faster swimmer than me. The other lanes had more people in whereas I was the only one in the slow lane. After a while he said maybe I should practise my swimming a bit more before swimming in the lanes. Such a knob. I ignored him

I've swam loads.
As a female I often find fellow females more annoying than males.

You can think I'm male all you like but
I'm not male.
I also stand up for women when men actually do something wrong, but I honestly don't think he really did anything horrible here.

YANBU! A few months back I decided to go for an early morning swim at my local gym. Thinking it would be quiet (HAHAHAH!!) I got there for 6:15am not realising the pool doesn’t actually open until 6:30am. I noticed a gaggle of ladies in reception in their dry robes but as I have a membership pass I just went straight down to the changing rooms. No one was there. At 6:30am on the DOT the changing room doors opened and the group of women came in. One of them had a right go at me about coming into the changing room before 6:30am, “why do you think we were all waiting upstairs”. I calmly stated I hadn’t realised, the door was unlocked so I came in. She then loudly declared that “people like me” coming in early will mean they lock the doors.

I didn’t want to engage so I just went pool side. They all lined up in front of the slow and medium lanes. Absolutely no one lined up for the fast lane. Fine I thought I’ll just go in the fast lane. No one gets in. After a few moments two young life guards appear and grant permission to enter the pool! I’m just thinking, this is so bloody weird.

Within a few moments I realise why no one was in the fast lane. Four other women who all looked exceptionally athletic appear, notice me in “their” lane. At this point I just think sod it, I’m in and not going to be bullied by this lot- i have every right to be here. I swam the fastest (breast stroke 😂) I have ever swum in my life.

Never have I encountered a bitchier and cliquier group of women. I was just left dumbfounded honestly - I’m a mum of young kids just trying to fit in some exercise before work!

Finally, someone talking sense!

A lot of entitled behaviour goes on in public swimming pools.

There were a couple of women swimming lengths last week at the family fun session.
There were two empty lanes and the rest of the pool was families with inflatables and balls and things.
Instead of going in the empty lanes they swam next to each other slowly, just swimming straight at people and tutting and huffing when kids didn't move out of their way quick enough.
Just weird and twatish.