'Infant Survival Resources': Instructors Training Babies To Swim In Effort To Reduce Child Drownings

Highly-trained swimming instructors are starting early with infants to help reduce the number of children that drown in the United States every year. News on 6's Stacia Knight shared more, at 4 p.m.

Monday, July 24th 2023, 5:05 pm

By: News On 6


The Children's Safety Network says 945 children drown in the U.S. every year.

Nearly half of them are under the age of four and are most likely to drown in swimming pools at home.

Highly-trained instructors are working to change that, with survival swimming classes that begin in infancy.


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