Aquatics Resources
Welcome to ARPD Aquatics Resources! Whether you are learning to swim, looking for a workout, searching for local swimming opportunities, or teaching your family about water safety, these trusted resources can help.
Explore swimming, water safety, drowning prevention, children's activities, printable resources, and local Alameda aquatic organizations below.
Water Safety for Families & Parents
Water safety is important for everyone. These trusted organizations provide information for parents, caregivers, swimmers, and families about staying safer in, on, and around the water.
American Red Cross Water Safety
Swimming safety, water safety education, CPR information, and resources for parents and caregivers.
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CDC Drowning Prevention
Learn about drowning risks and important layers of protection, including supervision, swimming skills, life jackets, barriers, and CPR.
Explore CDC Drowning Prevention
CDC Healthy Swimming
Information for families about staying healthy and safe at pools, splash pads, beaches, and other recreational water locations.
Explore Healthy Swimming
Pool Safely
A national water safety campaign from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission with pool and spa safety resources for families and children.
Explore Pool Safely
Safe Kids Worldwide – Water Safety
Practical information for parents and caregivers about water safety at home, pools, beaches, and while boating.
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Water Safety USA
National water safety information developed through collaboration among aquatic, health, safety, and government organizations.
Visit Water Safety USA
HealthyChildren.org – Water Safety
Water safety information for parents and caregivers from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Explore Family Water Safety
Colin's Hope
Drowning-prevention education, water safety information, and family resources designed to help keep children safer around water.
Explore Colin's Hope
BoatUS Foundation
Boating safety, life jacket education, clean-water information, and resources for safer recreation on the water.
Explore BoatUS Safety Resources
U.S. Coast Guard Boating Safety
Learn about life jackets, recreational boating safety, emergency preparedness, and staying safer on America's waterways.
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Kids' Water Safety Zone
Learning about water safety can be fun! Explore activities, videos, coloring sheets, games, and printable resources designed especially for children and families.
Red Cross WHALE Tales
Free water safety lessons, videos, activities, and printable materials that teach children important rules for staying safer around water.
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Open Water Safety
Learn about additional hazards children may encounter at beaches, lakes, rivers, and other natural bodies of water.
Lesson 6: Open Water Safety
Think So You Don't Sink
Water safety education that helps children understand what to do during unexpected situations in the water.
Lesson 7: Think So You Don't Sink
Reach or Throw, Don't Go
Teach children that they should not enter the water to rescue someone and should instead get help and use safer rescue techniques.
Lesson 8: Reach or Throw, Don't Go
Pool Safely Kids' Corner
Games, activities, videos, and educational materials that help make learning about pool safety fun.
Visit the Kids' Corner
Colin's Hope Water Safety Activities
Family-friendly activities and resources that reinforce important drowning-prevention messages.
Explore Water Safety Activities
Printable Water Safety Resources
Looking for activities to use at home, school, camp, or the pool? These resources include printable lessons, activity sheets, and family water safety information.
Safe Kids Water Safety Resources
Printable safety tips and educational information for families.
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Pool Safely Educational Materials
Download and explore educational materials for parents, caregivers, children, and community organizations.
Find Pool Safely Resources
Swim Local – Alameda Aquatics Community
Alameda has many opportunities to learn to swim, exercise, join a team, and enjoy the water. Explore local aquatic programs and organizations.
ARPD Aquatics
Explore City of Alameda swim lessons, family swim, fitness swim, aquatic fitness, camps, events, and year-round aquatic programs.
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Encinal Swim Center
Home of ARPD Aquatics programs, including swim lessons, fitness swimming, family swim, aquatic classes, camps, and special events.
Encinal Swim Center Information
Alameda Aquatic Masters
An adult Masters swimming organization based at Encinal Swim Center for swimmers interested in coached workouts, fitness, and the swimming community.
Visit Alameda Aquatic Masters
Alameda Gators Swim Team
A year-round competitive swim team serving Alameda swimmers and providing stroke instruction, training, teamwork, and competitive swimming opportunities.
Visit Alameda Gators
Alameda Swimming Pool Association – ASPA
A volunteer-run nonprofit serving Alameda families through Franklin Park Pool and Lincoln Park Pool, with swimming programs, lessons, family swim, and lap swimming.
Visit ASPA
Franklin Park Pool
One of Alameda Swimming Pool Association's community pools offering seasonal swimming programs for Alameda families.
Franklin Park Pool Information
Lincoln Park Pool
An Alameda Swimming Pool Association community pool providing swimming opportunities and programs for local families.
Lincoln Park Pool Information
MEMO Masters Swim Team
Marcia's Enthusiastic Masters of Oakland is an adult Masters swimming program serving swimmers in the East Bay, including practices in Alameda.
Find MEMO Through U.S. Masters Swimming
Harbor Bay Club Aquatics
Year-round aquatics in Alameda, including lap swimming, family swimming, swim lessons, Masters swimming, and aquatic fitness.
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Alameda Fitness & Spa
Formerly Mariner Square Athletic Club, Alameda Fitness & Spa offers an indoor lap pool and aquatic fitness opportunities at Mariner Square.
Visit Alameda Fitness & Spa
AquaTech Swim – Alameda
A year-round indoor swim school at Mariner Square offering lessons for babies, children, and teens, as well as recreational family swimming.
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Alameda Water Polo Club
Youth water polo programming focused on developing aquatic skills, teamwork, sportsmanship, and a love of the sport.
Visit Alameda Water Polo Club
Swimming, Fitness & Training
Looking for a new workout or ways to improve your swimming? Explore these resources for adult fitness, competitive swimming, stroke development, dryland exercise, and aquatic sports.
U.S. Masters Swimming
Swimming workouts, technique information, fitness resources, and opportunities for adult swimmers of different experience levels.
Visit U.S. Masters Swimming
Find a U.S. Masters Swimming Club
Search for Masters swimming clubs and workout groups in Alameda, the East Bay, and throughout the country.
Find a Masters Swimming Club
Dryland Workouts for Swimmers
Exercises swimmers can do outside the pool to support strength, mobility, and overall fitness.
View Dryland Workouts
USA Swimming
The national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States, with resources for swimmers, parents, coaches, officials, and clubs.
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USA Swimming – Learn to Swim
Information for families looking to help children develop swimming ability, confidence, and water safety skills.
Explore Learn to Swim Resources
World Aquatics
Explore international swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming, and other aquatic sports.
Visit World Aquatics
Five Water Safety Reminders
1. Actively Supervise
Give children your full attention whenever they are in or around water. Avoid distractions while supervising swimmers.
2. Learn to Swim
Swimming lessons and water competency skills are important layers of drowning prevention for children and adults.
3. Wear a Life Jacket
Use a properly fitted, U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket whenever appropriate, especially around open water and while boating.
4. Swim With a Buddy
Never swim alone. Even experienced swimmers should swim with another person and follow posted facility and lifeguard rules.
5. Learn CPR
Parents, caregivers, coaches, and other adults who spend time around water are encouraged to learn CPR and basic emergency response skills.
Remember: Swimming lessons, life jackets, and flotation devices are important safety tools, but no single safety measure can prevent every emergency. Use multiple layers of protection and provide active adult supervision whenever children are around water.
Make a Splash Safely!
Swimming is a lifelong skill that supports safety, health, fitness, recreation, and fun. ARPD encourages everyone in our island community to build water confidence, learn swimming skills, understand water safety, and enjoy Alameda's aquatic opportunities.
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