

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>


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Can the Titans swim?


Well, we know that all of humanity has been wiped out, except for the people
living inside the walls.

Seeing as much of mankind lives on islands (such as the Japanese), it's safe
to assume that Titans are able to cross water somehow. Presumably, they're
able to float due to the previously mentioned attribute of their abnormally
light weight.

There's also a river going through Shiganshina District that appears to be
used for transporting cargo, so mankind is not oblivious to manmade bodies of
water.


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The answer is we don't know. We have not seen (I think) a titan crossing a
body of water.

  1. We don't know if any other cities or islands used water to protect themselves from titans, but none seemed to be known to the populace. The massive size of the walls means that at least one of them should probably be near to the ocean. I expect that they would know if individuals on boats were safe. If moats were more effective than walls, they would be implemented in some capacity at the (reportedly) more important locations. It is highly possible, though, that they don't border the ocean. There definitely isn't an ocean within the outer set of walls, so one has not been accessible for years.
  2. I have not seen it rains on titans. Ergo, I don't know if rain water would dissolve them. If it had been the case, we would have already seen it in use. I would be surprised if they did not try those experiments, but the "discoveries" of the military regarding their physiology still seem ridiculously mundane for having studied them for so many years.
  3. Titans are light compared to their size. Their density is low enough they should float on the top of the ocean. They are probably, however, not light enough that the reasonably large ones would not touch the bottom when walking across the rivers of the size that have been shown in the series so far. Do not forget that while a material with density lower than water will float in water, it will still touch the bottom if the water is shallow enough that their body is not sufficiently submerged to cause a large enough buoyancy. Regardless, whether they float or walk across them, I don't think moats could prevent them from crossing. 


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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.


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Some titans can climb. So it is a possibility that they can swim like this
guy:[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SKg2t.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SKg2t.png)

i know he's a shifter but in season 2 when they try to trap the female titan a
titan tries to climb and then falls. so some titans may be able to swim.


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