Knowing how to swim is one of the best ways to prevent drowning. Something like a quarter of death by drowning are from kids who knew how to swim or people who known how to swim. There are plenty of programs now, thankfully,. And even when i was life guarding, you know, a thousand years ago, um, plenty of programs s to try and give, uh, reduced rate or free swimming lessons in communities like that.
Hundreds of thousands of people drown around the world every year, and yet it can be easily prevented and is widely misunderstood – like how you can officially drown but live to tell the tale, or how you can drown but die days later. Learn all about it in this classic episode.
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