If you can find one-on-one swimming lessons where the instructor has access to a pool already, I think that would suit your aims quite well. Most reasonably fi

If you can find one-on-one swimming lessons where the instructor has access to a pool already, I think that would suit your aims quite well. Most reasonably fit adults can get to the point of "not drowning" in still water in a single half hour lesson. Two tops. Learn to float, tread, then swim, then jump in and transition to swimming. I did this once with a 60 year old woman who was initially quite scared, and I hadn't taught in years before this so I was certainly not as good as any paid teacher.