Keep your family safe.
Give your child the competence, confidence, and aquatic safety skills with ISR Self-Rescue. Sea Star ISR proudly serves Fort Collins, Colorado and the surrounding areas.
What is ISR?
Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) is the safest and most effective provider of survival swimming lessons worldwide, teaching ISR Self-Rescue skills to children ages 6 months to 6 years old. With more than 55 years of research and experience, and the highest safety standards in the industry, ISR is able to deliver the best survival swimming instruction in the world today. The result? Over 19 million safe and effective lessons delivered, providing children with a foundation for safety and a lifetime of fun in and around the water.
Today, our mission, “Not One More Child Drowns,” is the foundation of everything we do. ISR believes in multiple layers of protection against aquatic accidents, which include pool fences, alarms, and active adult supervision. However, traditional lines of defense break down, and the over 4,000 drowning deaths per year bear a grim testament to the fact that traditional approaches are missing a key component: the child. ISR’s core conviction is that the child is essential to a drowning prevention strategy. Our over 450,000 ISR graduates and hundreds of documented survival stories prove that children can and do save themselves. Children are curious, capable, and have an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles like pool fences; at ISR, we take that ability and teach them skills to potentially save themselves if they find themselves in the water alone.
Meet Your Instructor
My ISR journey started when our oldest son completed the ISR Self-Rescue program. At just 10 months old, our son learned to roll back and float in seconds after submersion and save his own life in the water. I told everyone about ISR and how excited I was for our son to have these life-saving skills! There was a need in my community that I was compelled to fill and become part of ISR's mission of “Not One More Child Drowns.” Drowning is the leading cause of injury death among children under age 5. I want to do everything I can to equip children with the survival skills they need should they find themselves in the water alone.
I taught for three seasons in South Florida and taught more than 80 local children. It was the biggest blessing to spread water safety awareness and give local children the gift of ISR Self-Rescue.
My family and I relocated from Florida to Fort Collins in 2022. We are thrilled to be here and expand ISR’s presence in Northern Colorado.
– Erika Wilson, Certified ISR Instructor, Owner of Sea Star ISR
It only takes a second...
A moment's inattention should not cost a child their life. Children are capable of learning to save their own lives if the need were to arise.
“ISR’s core conviction is that the child is the most important part of a drowning prevention strategy.”
— JoAnn Barnett, ISR SMI, President & CEO of Infant Swimming Resource