Wild Wadi joins record breaking attempt for world's largest swimming lesson

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Wild Wadi joins record-breaking attempt for world’s largest swimming lesson. Wild Wadi Water Park hosts Dubai session of swimming lessons simultaneously taking place in other aquatic facilities around the world. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The Wild Wadi Waterpark hosted a Dubai session for the world's largest swimming lesson, which

00:13is a worldwide initiative that teaches millions of children and adults how to swim.

00:17The yearly global event simultaneously took place in other aquatic facilities around the

00:21world and also aimed to break the Guinness World Record.

00:25This is an event that was brought to us by the World Waterpark Association and this is

00:28their sixth year having it.

00:30We join parks around the world, not only waterparks, but swimming pools and other aquatic facilities

00:35to talk about swimming safety and to teach kids about swimming.

00:38This year we have over 900 facilities that are assigned up to do this.

00:42They're happening in 43 different states and 24 different countries, so it really is an

00:46initiative that's worldwide and something that we take pride in and we'll do no matter

00:50what time of the year, whether it's really hot outside or Ramadan, we're going to make

00:54sure that we commit ourselves to teaching safety to our children.

00:57The 30-minute swimming lesson gathered around 100 students who braved the scorching heat

01:02to help set the world record.

01:04The kids here today range from age 7 to 11, and they're part of the demographic that we're

01:08really worried about making sure that they know about swimming safety when they're with

01:12their friends, when they're at their homes, so that we don't have any kind of issues in

01:16this region and around the world by driving this safety message.

01:21The swimming lessons were taught by qualified instructors.

01:24Irish Iden Bilyaza for Golf News.

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