Why is it important to learn to swim?

Why is it important to learn to swim?

New Zealand is an island in the pacific ocean with 15,000 km of coastline and over 700 beaches. In 2017 there were 92 people who have died from drowning in NZ. It is important to swim because when you're out in the ocean with no swimming experiences, you don't have any confidence and you can’t find land, you're basically dead. But if you do have the confidence, you can swim, you can find land by swimming.

Swimming is actually a cool activity/sport to do! For example you can swim for competitions, you can swim for fun, you can swim for strength, etc. Swimming can also help with muscles and weight for example it's a good sport to get in shape. You don't know you could be the next best swimmer.

Swimming it's very easy to learn too! Children do it all the time. Some people can't learn how to swim because the swimming lessons might be too expensive, they might have Aquaphobia [a fear of swimming], etc.  (I have not finished, but ok.)