Thursday morning, 72 children and adults will jump in a pool in Eagle to try and help break the Guinness record for the world’s largest swimming lesson. The old record, set last year, was 20-thousand swimmers.
This year Shannon Hamrick hopes to break the record. She owns FLOW Aquatics swim school in Meridian. Hamrick says the event includes a very important message. “To promote the importance of swimming lessons and obviously drowning prevention since it’s such a huge issue with children, especially here in Idaho with the irrigation ditches.”
Swimmers at more than 500 locations in 24 countries will take part in the simultaneous swimming lesson. Hamrick says swimmers from age 3 to 60 will take to the pool at 9 this morning at the Idaho Athletic Club in Eagle. The same lesson will be taught for 45 minutes all over the world.
