One of the highest potential places for a swimmer to disqualify themselves can be the turns in Breaststroke and Butterfly. Why you ask? The word simultaneous is used in the rule defining a legal turn. Swimmers are required to touch the wall with both hands simultaneously; at, above or below the surface of the water. The High School rule book adds in the clarification that they do not have to be in the same plane. That means one hand could be above the water, one could be under the water. The important part is that both hands must touch the wall at the same time.
Many young swimmers start out grabbing the wall to make their turn. As they age, some start trying to touch with one hand and grab with the other hand. Swimmers also start trying to execute their turns faster. Both these gradual changes to the wall touch can lead to a poor or misinterpreted wall touch.
Speed aside, I would stress that swimmers accentuate the obviousness of their two handed touch to avoid the appearance of an asynchronous touch and the subsequent disqualification.
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