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Swimming
a vital life skill
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Swimming
is a vital life skill and all children must
be taught to swim from a young age. It has
been said that kids between the ages of
4years and 5 years are the highest risk
of drowning.
Drownings can take place in an inch or 2
of water never leave your kids unattended
at all times near water. Kids can be taught
to be "water safe" between 6 months - 3
years thereafter they can be taught to swim
strokes.
Drownings occur in:-
• Bathtubs even with supporting ring
devices
• Buckets of water (dogs water bowls)
• Toilets
• Hot tubs, spa's and whirlpools
• Irrigation ditches and wells
• Fish ponds and fountains
• Rivers, dams and the sea
It can take between 45 seconds - 1 minute
30 seconds for someone to drown and by approximately
3 minutes the possibility of brain damage
may have occur or death. Even when someone
is unconscious the quicker CPR can be performed
the chances are good to recover if done
immediately racing to a hospital or doctor
may be too late. Water temperature that
are cold may give one a few more seconds
to survive than those falling into warm
water.
All "learn to swim" instructors have to
be affiliated to swim SA and WP Aquatics
and to be registered you must have done
a First Aid Course.
Anybody requiring more info where the nearest
instructor can be found in your area you
can look into the WP Aquatics website: www.wpaquatics.co.za
click on LTS
Courtesy of Denise Askevold, Barracuda Swim
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