"My daughter Elise used to say that chlorine was her perfume. She was a competitive swimmer who could swim a mile in under 20 minutes. Elise drowned at 13 in a public pool — eight feet from an empty lifeguard chair. There were lifeguards at all of her other practices, just not that one. When her swimming team found her, they pulled her out off the bottom of the water, which was seven feet deep. After Elise fatally drowned, it was hard to understand how a strong swimmer could still drown. None of her teammates were prepared for an in-water emergency. They didn't even know what drowning looked like. I needed to learn everything I could about drowning and how to prevent it. So, I went to the Red Cross and said, 'I've got to learn.' I wanted to learn and understand. I really truly thought that once a person could swim, they were safe in the water. I had no idea there were still risks involved. The week that my daughter passed away, there were a lot of swim meets. The kids were taking ...