Everyone can learn to swim Comfort comes first You can float vertically Overcoming fear IS learning to swim Having fun is the best way to learn Feel safe all the time Overcome fear without feeling afraid Go at your own pace Learn with your swimming people It’s amazing what 5 days can do Correct information does wonders!

Deep Water Play

Who Takes Deep Water Play?

After you can rest peacefully in water over your head, you may want to become proficient in the water.

To be eligible, you must be peaceful in the middle of deep water in a pool for at least 10 minutes and a graduate of our Essentials 1 (formerly Beginning) course. Most likely you’ll also be a graduate of the Essentials 2 (formerly Next Step) course. It’s okay to re-take Essentials 2 to get ready. Or, reach comfort with with our Tether.

This third course in our series of Core Courses brings you to freedom in any pool, completing our series to achieve Pool Competency.

What Is the Course?

When you’ve mastered your safety in the deep end of the pool and you can “hang out” there as long as you want, there’s one more level of competency to win: proficiency.

Gain control of doing exactly what you want, when you want to do it. Learn to use the water and your body to pick up the keys you dropped in the deep, find a nose clip, play games, swim along the bottom, do stunts. Go up, down, forward and backward at will. This includes mastering your air and your nose. The combination of this course plus Jump Off the Boat produced a class of graduates who can tread water for half an hour in the ocean: they had gotten to know the water and were free.

Where and How?

Sarasota, Florida
15 hours/3.5 days
$895
Thursday 1:30 p.m. to Sunday 11 a.m.

September 8-11, 2022

This course is taught outdoors with social distancing mindfully observed.

Register for the Deep Water Play Course