A few months back I wrote about a 9 year old who had fallen out of his kayuka (spanish for canoe) and died. We came home late one evening to find his father wailing on our front steps. After asking around, we were shocked to find that many of the children who ride to school in canoes alone, and live on the water do not know how to swim. After talking with the parents, we realized a lot of the parents did not know how to swim. So when the YWAM DTS from Panama City contacted us about doing part of their outreach with us we were overjoyed to find out they had several certified swimming instructors. So it was with great fun that the kids jumped off our dock and got their first swimming lessons. I laughed, because the teachers come to the school very dressed up and neither of them knew how to swim. So as the kids practiced their strokes in the water, the teachers practiced theirs in the shade of our boat.