Swimming Pool Safety Tips

• Know the shape of the pool bottom and water depth before diving or sliding head first
• Plan your path to avoid submerged obstacles, surface objects, or other swimmers
• When diving, keep your arms fully extended over your head, hold your head and hands up, steer with your hands
• Never dive into an above-ground pool
• Never dive into the shallow end of an in-ground pool
• Never dive off the side of a diving board, dive straight ahead
• Never dive from retaining walls, ladders, slides, or other pool equipment
• Never dive head first at, or through, floating objects such as inner-tubes
• Never dive head first into unfamiliar bodies of water; learn the depth first
• Never swim or dive alone