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Floating equips a person with the ability to roll to their back and stay at the water's surface, placing them in an ideal position to BREATHE and LIVE.
Floating helps the swimmer conserve energy, which reduces the chances of drowning from physical fatigue.
Floating uses less Energy than Swimming and Life Saving
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Non-Swimmers can Float
- The ability to float depends on body density
- Fat is less dense than muscle and bones, so fat floats more easily than muscle.
- Bones and muscle are heavier than water, while blood, fat and lungs filled with air are lighter than water.
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Swimmers need to remember when to float
- An experienced swimmer can become exhausted, catch a muscle spasm or cramp. Whatever the emergency, remember to float like a boat.
- Great swimmers have been known to save others in water-based emergencies but then fail to save themselves due to exhaustion.
Known Actor and Swimmer drowns from exhaustion after saving her 4-year-old son (July 2020)
Let's Learn How to Float Like a Boat
