according to the American Red Cross, more than half of Americans either can't swim at all or lack the basic water skills to swim safely. That's a startling plummet from the 93% of men and 74% of women who said they knew how to swim in a 1991 survey published by the American Journal of Public Health. Fewer swimmers means fewer prospective lifeguards. And this problem feeds on itself: A lot of Americans can't swim because of poor access to public swimming facilities and lessons, and those training opportunities get harder to find thanks to the shortage of qualified lifeguards.
Very sad..
