World’s Largest Swimming Lesson | City of Tampa

The City of Tampa’s Parks and Recreation Department is providing free swimming classes right this moment as a part of the seventeenth annual World’s Largest Swimming Lesson.

Lessons will happen at two City of Tampa swimming pools starting at 10:00 A.M. Last 12 months, greater than 400 Tampa Bay space youngsters took swimming classes at this occasion. And with all of the exercise in and round swimming pools and our bodies of water, the teachings come at an important time.

The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson is a worldwide drowning-prevention occasion launched by the World Waterpark Association in 2010. 
“The World’s Largest Swim Lesson puts water safety education front and center, especially in communities like ours where drowning remains a leading cause of preventable death,” Aquatics Team Supervisor Louis Campanello stated. “Knowing how to swim is a lifesaver. Every child in Florida should be prepared for water.”

Swimming is a life-saving ability for youngsters and an important instrument to stop drowning, the No. 1 explanation for dying for United States youngsters ages 1-4, and second-leading trigger for ages 5-14.

From 2013-22, there have been 235 unintentional drowning deaths in Hillsborough County. In that very same 10-year span, there have been 4,244 unintentional downing deaths statewide (knowledge from www.flhealthcharts.gov).

The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson is happening at two City of Tampa swimming pools:

• Copeland Pool, 11001 N fifteenth St. (media web site)
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pool, 2200 N Oregon Ave.

Research from the American Academy of Pediatrics exhibits threat of drowning will be decreased by 88% if youngsters take part in formal swimming classes between the ages of 1-4. But a survey carried out by the American Red Cross in 2020 discovered that 56% of Americans both cannot swim or haven’t got the required primary swimming abilities.