Swimming Skills Acquisition Among Aquatically Inexperienced College Students: Deep vs Shallow Swimming Pool.

Swimming skills are significant for physical and mental health as well as personal safety. Swimming illiteracy and inexperienced assistance are dominant in low-income and water-scarce countries due to limited resources for skill development, for instance, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (HKJ). Therefore, the current research aims to compare swimming skills acquisition between deep-water swimming pools (DSP) and shallow-water swimming pools (SSP) among students. The study employs a comparative analysis with 288 registered students in a swimming course distributed into deep-water swimming pool (DSP) (186 students from Yarmouk University) and shallow-water swimming pool (SSP) (102 from Al-Albayt University). The swimming pool was designed with semi-Olympic in size (25m x12.5m), comprised of SSP (0.9m x 1.85m) and DSP (1.5m x 4.5m). Students? performance was evaluated with grading system through parametric measures including body position (BP), head position (HP), breathing (Br), leg kicks (LK), arm stroke & recovery (AS&R), and fluency & synchronization (F&S). Subsequently, SPSS was used to analyze the comparison between SSP and DSP groups. The findings revealed a significant difference between the two groups, although the SSP group outperformed that facilitates minimum financial demands than the DSP group. The findings indicated that students with no previous swimming experience had more potential benefits of swimming skill acquisition through SSP than DSP. Future studies should accentuate deep and shallow pool depths with diverse regional areas and maximum sample sizes for the swimming learning method. Stakeholders should incorporate swimming courses with innovative and effective learning strategies for swimming skill development.