Can the Titans swim?


I have only seen the anime and haven't read the manga, but a question came to
me:

**Can the titans swim?**

We know that they are abnormally light and strong for their size. However, the
fact that they evaporate after dying kind of suggests that they are formed of
some sort of compact water vapor, so should we expect them to melt when they
come into contact with water? It's not like they disappear when it rains... Or
maybe they can't swim because they're too stupid

Because, if they can't, this place in Paris could've been a possibility for
humanity.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l3plj.jpg)

From <http://www.parisetudiant.com/etudiant/sortie/l-ile-seguin-et-les-berges-
de-la-seine-boulogne-billancourt.html>




If you take a look at the official closing theme of Season 2 of Attack on
Titan you see the following:

> Titan emerging from the water. [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZpJZ2.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZpJZ2.jpg)

But the way that they emerge it suggests

> that they actually don't swim but cross bodies of water by walking along the
> bottom.

Also from the scene we can derive that

> if titans can walk along the bottom of bodies of water this implies that
> they either have no lungs or do not require oxygen for survival which is
> something that was actually discussed on Anime Stack before.

And finally we can see that

> water does not harm them in any way whatsoever.

