Welcome to Swim School
Welcome to Divers Supply's Swim School, the premiere aquatic education program! Our instructors have been teaching SCUBA diving and swimming since 1969. Over 16,000 students have been safely trained in our programs. Because your children retain learned skills best in a year-round schedule, we offer year-round lessons. You and your child will find yourselves surrounded by a staff dedicated to making this swim lesson experience one of your child’s fondest memories!
Some Shocking Statistics
Drowning is the 2nd leading cause of accidental death in the U.S. among children under 14 and leading cause of accidental death for children age 5 and under.
– American Institute for Preventive Medicine.
A child can drown in the time it takes to answer the phone.
– U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Of all preschoolers who drown, 70% are in the care of one or both parents and 75% are missing from sight five minutes or less
– National Center for Injury Prevention & Control
For children under four years of age, a swimming pool is more dangerous than an automobile. In fact, children this age are 14 times as likely to drown in a pool than be killed in a motor vehicle accident. In Louisiana, 30 children less than 15-years old drowned in 1999, and almost half (47%) of those were less than five years of age.
- Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health
65% of preschooler drownings occur in the child’s home pool
and 33% at the homes of friends, neighbors or relatives
– U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
These Statistics really do speak for themselves. Your child's safety as well as your safety is our number one concern.
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