The Vancouver park board spent Wednesday teaching hundreds of children how to survive a fall into deep water.
Eleven-year-old Samantha Whitmore was one of the kids who took the class.
“Its actually quite scary if you just fall in from a boat,” said Samantha, who said she knew how to swim, but took the class nevertheless.
The event is part of national Drowning Prevention Week, put on by Lifesaving Society Canada.
The organization says nearly 500 people die each year in preventable water-related incidents.
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