All ages should learn to swim 

By Ivy Fleming
November 12 2012 - 9:30pm
Instructor Erin Faricy guides University of Wollongong student Jichao "Jimmy" Zhang. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Instructor Erin Faricy guides University of Wollongong student Jichao "Jimmy" Zhang. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Instructor Erin Faricy guides University of Wollongong student Jichao "Jimmy" Zhang, who is improving his freestyle swimming. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Instructor Erin Faricy guides University of Wollongong student Jichao "Jimmy" Zhang, who is improving his freestyle swimming. Picture: ROBERT PEET

Some people are so unfamiliar with water that it may take them weeks of lessons before they no longer panic when they are under water, says Stuart Gadd, the assistant aquatics manager at the University of Wollongong Swim School.

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