Earn your swimming and water safety instructor certification. Find out how the Red Cross can help you teach people of all ages enjoy the water safely.

Read our buying guide on Instructor Kits offered at the Red Cross Store for our First Aid/CPR/AED, Basic Life Support (BLS), Lifeguard, CPRO or other courses.

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Help make your community safer in and around water by teaching water safety outreach!

Find downloadable brochures and pamphlets for the various Red Cross Aquatics & Water Safety training courses.

For 100 years, American Red Cross has been helping millions of kids, teens and adults learn how to swim and become lifeguards and instructors.

Learn about lesson 1, Do Your Part, Be Water Smart, from Longfellow WHALE Tales by the American Red Cross.

Learn about Longfellow’s WHALE Tales Closing Ceremony by the American Red Cross.

Find Longfellow WHALE Tales resources online from the American Red Cross to help teach awareness of safe behavior in, on and around the water.

Learn about lesson 2, Swim as a Pair with a Lifeguard There, from Longfellow WHALE Tales by the American Red Cross.