Learn to swim

Hey it's Splash again! Today, my dad told me something that I thought was horrible. Some of you might have heard about this on the news though.  Earlier this week a 13 year old boy was at a pool party in Bloomington, Illinois. There were 46 boys and girls at this party. Yet there was only 1 lifeguard. So this teenage boy didn't know how to swim but jumped into the deep end of the pool. The lifeguard didn't realize that the boy was drowning until after it happened. The boy had been at the bottom of the pool for 5 minutes until someone found him. See this is why everyone needs to learn how to swim. My 8 year old brother knew how to swim when he was 5 and so did I. That way we didn't risk taking chances of drowning because we learned early. According to the Department of Public Heath in Illinois, if you have 100 kids in the pool you only need 1 lifeguard! Do you feel safe letting your kids in that pool? What if more than 1 person drowns, what would they do?! Now, I feel bad about this loss and I want to warn you all that you should always learn how to swim early so this doesn't happen. Thanks for reading and keep safe around pools!

-Splash