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tinleyjunction.com News<br />
The tinley junction | June 14, 2018 | 3<br />
Swimmers, teachers and parents ready for attempt<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
Officials at the Tinley<br />
Park-Park District would<br />
like to be included in an<br />
event that will end up in a<br />
book that also features men<br />
who cram hundreds of cigarettes<br />
in their mouths, eightfoot<br />
giants and those who<br />
reach four digits in weight.<br />
The <strong>TP</strong>PD’s White Water<br />
Canyon Water Park will join<br />
water parks from all over<br />
the world to try to break a<br />
Guinness World Record in<br />
the World’s Largest Swimming<br />
Lesson at 10:30 a.m.<br />
on Thursday, June 21.<br />
Registration begins at<br />
9:15 a.m. at the front gate of<br />
the park, 8221 E. 171st. St.<br />
Parents are invited to be in<br />
the water with their children<br />
for this half hour event.<br />
The current record is<br />
36,564 participants set in<br />
2014 in an event in which<br />
swimmers and instructors<br />
from 22 countries participated.<br />
The largest lesson at<br />
a single venue was set in<br />
2013, when Sun-N-Fun in<br />
Naples, Flordia, drew 1,308.<br />
Is this just one big publicity<br />
stunt?<br />
Is sure looks like it. But the<br />
publicity is for a good cause<br />
as it brings out the awareness<br />
in childhood drownings.<br />
WLSL officials say<br />
that research shows the risk<br />
of drowning can be reduced<br />
by 88 percent if children participate<br />
in formal swimming<br />
lessons before they turn five.<br />
The group hopes to get its<br />
message across to a billion<br />
people worldwide.<br />
More than 236,000 children<br />
and adults have participated<br />
in WLSL events<br />
generating more than a half<br />
a billion media impressions<br />
about the vital importance of<br />
learning to swim.<br />
Forty-four countries having<br />
participated since the event<br />
began in 2010: Argentina,<br />
Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain,<br />
Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil,<br />
Canada, Cayman Islands,<br />
Chile, Colombia, Cyprus,<br />
Ecuador, Falkland Islands,<br />
Germany, Ghana, Hungary,<br />
India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan,<br />
Lebanon, Lithuania, Marshall<br />
Islands, Mexico, Panama,<br />
Peru, Philippines, Poland,<br />
Portugal, Puerto Rico, South<br />
Africa, South Korea, Spain,<br />
Sudan, Switzerland, Uganda,<br />
Ukraine, UAE, United Kingdom,<br />
United States, Uruguay<br />
and Zimbabwe.<br />
Tinley Park’s White Water Canyon Water Park is one of the hosts for the world-wide<br />
World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on Thursday, June 21. 22ND CENTURY MEDIA FILE PHOTO<br />
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