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Swimming Safari In this episode, Joani Maskell discusses the importance of learning how to swim. Joani started teaching lessons in her own backyard, helping neighborhood children learn to swim. She also taught swimming while in college where she earned her B.A. and M.A. in Elementary Education and Special Education. Post-college she started working as a teacher, then it began all over again when her child needed a lifeguard for her troop. Joani went back and got her lifeguarding certificate and decided to start teaching swim lessons again. Eventually, Joani bought a place to teach lessons out of and hires her own instructors from the University of North Florida. No matter where you live, there is always water around, so it is super important to learn! Seventy-six percent of all drowning deaths in the United States are kids under the age of five.  Swimming Safari lessons start at four months of age, and it really is more to educate the parents. Parents are in the water with the children until they are two