I love to swim at the Blanchard Park YMCA outdoor pool during the warm weather months. The pool has an “L” shape. The long part of the “L” has seven lanes for swimming --six lanes for lap swimming and the last lane which includes the base of the “L” is reserved for “recreational swimming”. The lap swimming lanes begin with a depth of four feet and gradually increase to six feet at the end. The base of the “L” has three steps leading into the water running along the outer edge and is only three feet deep. This is the area where young children play.
Above you see the first paragraph of the essay. The essay continues to describe how I save a young girl, about 5 years old, from drowining. This moment is especially important to me because of an event that happened to me when I was a child involving the near-drowning of another child.
