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Sarasota News Leader "You say, 'We lost it,'" Dash adds. In Dash's system, there is only one place to be: in the first circle. "This is what we're going to be working on — whatever it takes to stay here," she tells the two women. "The first cir- cle is the key to everything." CONVINCING THE CONGRESS Having successfully taught swimming and wa- ter-related activities all over the world, Dash is hopeful she can convince the attendees at the congress in Norfolk that her system works. October 5, 2012 Page 76 Other people, she points out, "teach with the premise that learning how to survive is learn- ing strokes. … We teach the opposite of that." She frets, too, that so little emphasis nation- ally is placed on teaching adults. So many parents can't swim or don't like be- ing in the water, but "[they] don't let their kids know they're afraid." They need to know how to swim as much as their children do, she points out, "for their whole family's safety." A mother stands at the water's edge while her son plays in the surf on Siesta Public Beach. Photo by Ra- chel Hackney