Admitting you can't swim in a nation girt by sea can be embarrassing. Learning to swim as an adult is difficult, but it's far ...

"Learning to swim as an adult is much harder than [as] a child ... begin with breaststroke. "The reason we teach freestyle first is so that you can get the breathing pattern going," Love explains.

A shortage of qualified instructors has made adult swimming lessons harder to find despite a rise in drownings.

"Some will avoid [swimming] because they don't have the ... it's predominantly 16 to 24-year-olds and [teaching adults] can be daunting," he said. "Their [aquatic] programs might not have adult ...

E came home from her first swim class in gym and her takeaway was, “I can’t believe how many people don’t know how to swim.” The sad thing is that we do live in a community where ...