Melon DashMelon Dash began has taught afraid-in-water adults full time nonstop for forty years and is a nationally ranked masters swimmer. She founded Miracle Swimming School for Adults in 1983 in Berkeley, California and launched an instructor training progra in 2004. Her innovations have influenced water safety worldwide. Her books, podcast, video and patent--The Learn to Swim Float Bar & Tether--were developed to help adult learn-to-swim students and instructors realize the goal of learning to swim in the shortest possible time by solving the biggest problem: fear. She has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NBC's Today Show, CNN's Headline News, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Tampa Bay Times, and dozens more. She resides in Sarasota, Florida and swims many days a week. Her goal is to change the way beginning swimming is taught, especially to adults. She sees the day when drowning is a rarity., Read More Read Less