Mariel Segarra
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1,146 appearances
26 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Mariel Segarra’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first is you should be comfortable with submerging your whole body, including your head, under the water.
The second is you should be able to return to the surface and float or tread water for one minute.
Cullen Jones is a former Olympic swimmer, and it's his mission now to make sure people know how to swim.
The third skill is if you're in a pool, you should be able to turn around in a full circle and find an exit.
And the fourth is you should be able to swim 25 yards to that exit without stopping.
Lastly, you should be able to get out of the water without using a ladder.
Colin says you can think elbow, elbow, tummy, knee, knee.
If you don't have these skills or you're not a confident swimmer, take a swim class.
It's never too late to start.
You can go to usaswimming.org forward slash make a splash to find a class near you.
And if you have kids in your life, there's even more to consider here because drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages one to four in the United States.
The American Association of Pediatrics recommends swim classes for kids and says you can start when they're as young as one year old.
Beyond that, takeaway two, if your kids are near a body of water, whether that's the pool, a lake, the ocean, designate an adult water watcher, someone who knows it's their job to watch the water and the kids in it.
Shazik Sunoda is the founder and executive director of the drowning prevention nonprofit No More Under.
Often these tragedies happen because someone thinks someone else is watching.
Someone thinks that someone else has an eye on the kids or on the pool.
And so really being focused on watching the water.
I often say that the amount of time it takes to read and answer a text message is the amount of time it takes a child to drown.
She says water watchers should be sober and alert and have their phone nearby in case they need to call 911.
I don't want to be a killjoy and say, hey, don't go drinking at pool parties.
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