3 Tweet Tuesday Thursday

People tweet 20 million times per hour. Here are my 3 swimming gems of the week...💎💎💎

💎#3

Kyle Chalmers' worn race cap collection is <insert adjective>. 

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The International Swimming Hall of Fame pool in Ft. Lauderdale is open and it is ridiculously gorgeous. If you're a diver, you gotta be foaming at the mouth to get up on that tower. 

If you aren't a recurring donor to the ISHOF, please think about becoming one. We need to protect the history of our sport and Ft. Lauderdale is our Cooperstown.

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Full Disclosure: we donate every month. $10 a month is like skipping Starbucks once a month. 

💎#1

If you've followed me for any amount of time you know how passionate I am about water safety both globally and locally. 

Learning how to swim in America, unfortunately, is very much a financial decision. Nothing against private swim lesson companies making a profit teaching kids how to swim. But they are teaching rich kids to swim not poor kids. 

Locally in Virginia Beach, private swim schools are about $400 for 10 lessons or about 5 hours of pool time. If you are reading this, you understand swimming. An 8 year old child that has never learned how to swim needs more than 10 lessons to become a competent swimmer. How many hours do they need before they are comfortable and can tread water for a reasonable amount of time so they do not drown? 

5 hours? 10 hours? 20 hours? More? Reply back to this email and let us know what your experience is as I am interested to hear your perspective. 

Bottom line is, swim lessons should be taught in PUBLIC school for free so that every American can be safe in and around water. We would have far less drownings, more Navy SEALs of color, and no lifeguard shortages. 

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