Save a life! Learn to recognize and care for a variety of first aid breathing and cardiac emergencies involving adults, children and infants. This class is taught in-person in an interactive classroom setting. Upon successful completion, participants receive a valid 2-year digital Red Cross certificate for Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. Open to everyone ages 12+. Discounts are available for WaterStrong volunteers, EcoSwim participant families and Next Adventure staff. Delivered at Next Adventure Paddle Sports Center on the 2d Saturday and 4th Friday of every month. Register here

Share your love for the water. EcoSwim clinics are delivered in partnership with mission-aligned organizations to reach underserved families. With low instructor:participant ratios, we build a foundation in the essentials of safety around water, survival swimming, and water-based environmental education. Volunteers receive a WaterStrong t-shirt, swim cap, gift card of appreciation, and a light meal. Email to volunteer for the 3/9 EcoSwim clinic

Please join WaterStrong for a facilitated conversation about how being in, near, around or under water can make you happier, healthier, more connected and better at what you do.  In our first ever WaterStrong Rainy Days Book Club, we are reading Blue Mind by Wallace Nichols. 

Please join a facilitated conversation about the book and the human experience of water on World Water Day, March 22nd, from 5-6:30p via Teams.

Here's a little teaser to entice you to join the discussion:

A Texan named Bobby Lane came to Operation Surf to cross surfing off his bucket list; after returning home from the camp he planned to kill himself. Lane, twenty-seven years old, suffered a traumatic brain injury while serving in the US Marine Corps in Iraq. Back home, like so many other he battled PTSD and couldn’t sleep due to incessant nightmares. He says Operation Surf not only changed his life, it saved his life. Surfing also allowed him to get his first good night’s sleep in years. Dreams about water replaced his midnight terrors, Blue Mind at its most potent. “Giving up on life isn’t an option,” he says. Now, as I see it, if life gets too hard, there’s always the ocean. (p.171)

Read as much of the book as you can, and log in for a friendly conversation.

Email for a link to join the conversation

Share your love for the water. EcoSwim clinics are delivered in partnership with mission-aligned organizations to reach underserved families. With low instructor:participant ratios, we build a foundation in the essentials of safety around water, survival swimming, and water-based environmental education. Volunteers needed. Volunteers receive a WaterStrong t-shirt, swim cap, gift card of appreciation, and a light meal. Email to volunteer for the 4/6 EcoSwim clinic

Join WaterStrong and Earth Day celebrants everywhere in a beach cleanup. Details TBD

WalkingRivers is a worldwide call to walk along your favorite river for at least 5-7km dressed in blue, to show that rivers are awesome and worth being taken care of. It is more than an event; it’s a movement to remind us of our shared responsibility to cherish and safeguard the waterbodies that unite us.  

Rivers weave through landscapes, communities, and cultures connecting us through uncountable stories and memories. In 2024, Walking Rivers celebrated the first-ever event with over 2,000 participants across five continents from across the globe who all believed that rivers are worth enjoying and protecting.

WaterStrong is thrilled to join the global WalkingRivers movement, a project organized through our friends at Fundacion Botin in Madrid, Spain.

Find out more here

Share your love for the water. EcoSwim clinics are delivered in partnership with mission-aligned organizations to reach underserved families. With low instructor:participant ratios, we build a foundation in the essentials of safety around water, survival swimming, and water-based environmental education. Volunteers receive a WaterStrong t-shirt, swim cap, gift card of appreciation, and a light meal. Email to volunteer at the 5/18 EcoSwim clinic

Share your love for the water. EcoSwim clinics are delivered in partnership with mission-aligned organizations to reach underserved families. With low instructor:participant ratios, we build a foundation in the essentials of safety around water, survival swimming, and water-based environmental education. Volunteers needed. Volunteers receive a WaterStrong t-shirt, swim cap, gift card of appreciation, and a light meal. Email to volunteer for the 6/15 EcoSwim clinic.