Water Safety First
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04/11/2026
This week I had multiple students unable to enter the water for their lesson, (for various reasons), so we did dry lessons instead!
Did you know 911 is the primary number to call if you need to access emergency services in Canada 🇨🇦? I’m sure you did, but did you know that not all regions in Canada use this number? Nunavut, and some other rural areas require a 10 digit number to be called! If you’re travelling to another country, you should educate yourself about their local emergency numbers (in London, 🇬🇧UK the number to call is 999)!
Do your kids know your cell phone numbers? If not, start teaching them now, in the event of an emergency and you get separated. My girls knew their home address and my cell number by the age of 3. 😎
Do your kids know how to respond to someone who has fallen into deep water and is drowning? They should know!
1. Call for help! Use your voice!
2. Find something that floats and throw it to them
3. Never enter the water to rescue them, because they might pull you under and then you’d both be in danger.
This is butterfly- the hardest stroke to swim (in my opinion). It was removed from the Canadian Red Cross Learn to Swim program years ago because so many people couldn’t swim it properly, and it was hard to find instructors who could swim it, let alone teach it!
The Lifesaving Society’s Learn to Swim program also chose to omit this stroke and focus more on survival swimming strokes- if you’re stranded in the middle of the ocean or lake, butterfly would be the last stroke you’d resort to swim to safety! 🤪
Every once and awhile I do get requested to teach butterfly, and although it’s not part of the program, I can give some pointers on how to look more graceful. 😎🤗 That’s the beauty of private lessons- we can work with your individual learning goals/needs and are open to thinking outside the box.
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