swim instruction

Why I’ve Made Swim Instruction My Life’s Work
Curt Straub is passionate about aquatic safety. Having spent five decades working in the pool industry, his focus on keeping swimmers, and particularly kids, safe when they’re in and around the water is all about making swimming instruction part of their lives, first at school, then everywhere else. ...
Long Live the Sundlaugs
As an admitted word geek devoted to writing about all things aquatic, it's always exciting to learn a new term or phrase. I recently read a great story from bbc.com about Icelanders' love or even obsession with public swimming pools, which in the Icelandic language are known as "Sundlaugs."  The story chronicled the day that public pools reopened in Iceland after two months of shutdown due the current pandemic. At midnight on that Sunday, throughout the
Three Year-End Smiles
Three news stories caught my eye as I began thinking about the completion of another year's set of WaterShapes World blogs.  These aren't the usual holiday-oriented/feel-good items, as you'll see. The first comes from the web site of the