It’s never to late to learn to swim

It’s never to late to learn to swim

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More than a third of American adults canรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt swim the length of a 25-yard pool, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If youรขโ‚ฌโ„ขre among the 37 percent of adults who canรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt, youรขโ‚ฌโ„ขre at greater risk for becoming one of the nearly 10 people who drown each day, on average. Inability to swim is the No. 1 รขโ‚ฌล“risk factorรขโ‚ฌย for drowning, the CDC says.

Nearly 80 percent of drowning victims are male; 70 percent are adults. Black children are three times more likely to be drowning victims than are white children.

The good news is if you donรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt know how to swim, it isnรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt too late to learn รขโ‚ฌโ€œ no matter how old you are, says the Swimming Saves Lives Foundation, the charitable arm of U.S. Masters Swimming.

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