Focus on survival skills or cancel school swim classes: Quebec coroner

A Quebec coroner has ruled that the drowning death of 14-year-old Blessing Claude Moukoko in Montreal last winter was violent but accidental. But Dr. Louis Normandin is calling for an overhaul of how schools teach their students how to swim, and recommends swimming instruction in schools be immediately suspended until that overhaul takes place.
Moukoko died last Feb. 21, six days after being found at the deep end of a swimming pool at the Centre Père Marquette.
In his report, Normandin no