Learning to swim as the Man from Atlantis

For over ten YEARS (1974 to 1991) I developed for my elementary students a learning progression for learn-as their FIRST METHOD OF SWIMMING - swimming the Man from Atlantis.
Huge educational productivity.

Rapid decrease of all apprehensions of water. Top waterline crawl and backstroke. etc etc ....

It began with "frog leaps" in parts of the basin shallow and eventually crossing the width of the pool "under water" ......