How can I swim and stay on the surface?

[Pwned]

Sometimes I manage to keep swimming on the surface withiot sinking down. Now im trying to do the same but I cant even without anything equiped on my hands. How did I manage to swim before?

[Goddess Ilias]

empty your hands and press space, you cant swim with something equipped

[Pwned]

Originally posted by Cirno:

empty your hands and press space, you cant swim with something equipped

Like I wrote I tried doing that. Every time I want to go up something keeps pushing me down back in to the water

[Pwned]

Am I too heavy or something?

[Anthony]

Is your jetpack on?

EDIT-
Make sure it isn't

Tap space until the O2 symbol lights up in the lower right.

If you "jump" out of water, will have to restart process.

Jetpack makes this much harder.

PS: Swimming mechanic needs a little tweakin'