Have you taken swimming lessons only to be taught strokes as though you were ready to learn them? Strokes are not the beginning of learning to swim. Being comfortable in water is. Comfort, including comfort in deep water, requires obscure information and small, simple, common-sense steps that aren't found in traditional swimming instruction or books.

You were born a swimmer. You can learn if you start at the beginning and skip no steps. Everyone can. If something isn't comfortable and fun, it's not time to do it. But it can be fun once you know the steps that lead up to it.

All the information necessary to understand the water and reach complete calm in water over your head—no matter how terrified you are and even if you're just a bit fearful—are in this book. Strokes are not mentioned.

"Your book is amazing. I have made progress in swimming. I've had a lifelong fear. Thank you!" -Reader in Arizona

Author Dash has taught one course exclusively full-time for forty years—Swimming for Adults Afraid in Water. Her students go from terror to astonishment in days. Some go on to SCUBA diving and triathlons. She knows better than anyone how people became afraid, why they are not to be blamed, what they've tried in the past to learn to swim and why it didn't work. Six thousand graduates have transformed their relationship with water, going at their own pace, and are safe or safer in and around water now. As a competitive swimmer, she has had national top-ten rankings in her three main events.

Follow the gentle, sensible steps in the book and astonish yourself. You can be calm and comfortable in deep water without struggle.

"This book began a monumental improvement in the world of safer swimming instruction because Melon was so doggedly unafraid to ask, honour and support how learners really feel. She will not tell you to squash your feelings and relax!"

—Andie Andrews
Aquatic Specialist
United Kingdom
Board Member, Lifesaving Foundation