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  2. Make a Splash - Wikipedia

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    Make a Splash. Make A Splash is a child-focused water safety initiative created by the USA Swimming Foundation. The goal of the foundation is to prevent drownings by teaching every child in the United States how to swim. [1] Make A Splash works by providing free swimming lessons to underprivileged children at their partner institutions.

  3. Swimming - Wikipedia

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    Swimming is the self- propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that results in directional motion. Humans can hold their breath underwater and undertake rudimentary ...

  4. Tameside - Wikipedia

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    Tameside is currently undergoing redevelopment through the Vision Tameside project which should be completed by 2018. Vision Tameside – a partnership between Tameside council and Tameside College – is a redevelopment strategy. Three "advanced learning centres" are being built in central Ashton town and at the college's Beaufort Road home.

  5. Swimming lessons - Wikipedia

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    Swimming lessons are the process of learning to swim. In most countries there is a definition of a number of swimming levels that are reached in the process of the curriculum. The respective certificates of swimming tests are required for further training in aquatic abilities. Many countries have defined a minimum swimming level that children ...

  6. Infant swimming - Wikipedia

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    Infant swimming is the phenomenon of human babies and toddlers reflexively moving themselves through water and changing their rate of respiration and heart rate in response to being submerged. The slowing of heart rate and breathing is called the bradycardic response. [1] It is not true that babies are born with the ability to swim, though they ...

  7. History of swimming - Wikipedia

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    The Osborne Swimming Club from Manchester beat club teams from Belgium, France and Germany quite easily. The Trudgen stroke was improved by Australian-born Richmond Cavill. Cavill, whose father Frederick Cavill narrowly failed to swim the English Channel, is credited with developing the stroke after observing a young boy from the Solomon Islands.

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