What: The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson, an annual event first launched in 2010, to raise awareness about water safety and the vital importance of teaching children to swim.
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Where: WLSL is taking place at more than 700 locations including most major markets in 45 states in the U.S. and 24 countries around the globe.
Parents and guests are asked to sign in at the water park 30 minutes prior to the start of the lesson. Admission for the event is free. The 2015 WLSL event included 38,170 participants in 22 countries. “Participating in this event will help bring much-needed awareness and skills that children and adults need to safely enjoy swimming this summer”.
The swim lesson is free for children 7 and under.
Join tens of thousands of kids and families at aquatic facilities and waterparks around the globe for The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson™ on Friday, June 24.
This is an worldwide event which will take place over the course of 24 hours Friday at an estimated 500 locations in more than 20 different countries.
“We’ll go over safety, safe entry into the water, breathing and submergence, front and back floating, basic locomotion and strokes, how to glide and breathing and kicking”, Dawson said of what the lesson will include.
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Among those one year old to fourteen years old, drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death behind auto crashes.
