re: Please Teach Your Children to Swim

Nearly half of adults can't swim well enough to save themselves Only 56% of adults can perform the five basic skills needed to swim and exit the water safely.

OP was basically right. While 80 percent claim to know how to swim, only 56 percent claim the below skills:

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Those skills are: floating or treading for 1 minute, jumping into deep water and coming up for air, spinning around in the water and then finding a way out, getting out of a pool without a ladder and swimming one pool length without stopping.

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I would say if you don’t have those skills, then you can’t swim,