SwimTastic CEO: Mark Bone says kids having missed lessons is worrying

Confidence in the water may have taken a Covid-induced hit. Swim schools are concerned kids have missed out on more than three months of lessons, due to Auckland's lockdown.  SwimTastic CEO Mark Bone told Tim Dower statistics show swimming lessons between the ages of one and four, can reduce drownings in New Zealand by 88 per cent. “With all of the fact of Covid and the closures of swimming lessons, it is really a very disconcerting and concerning time for people going out there now and enjoying what we are loving here in New Zealand.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.