Swim safety is front and center this Memorial Day Weekend, kicking off the unofficial start of summer. Swim instructor Miren Oca says you can make your pool safer by putting up proper barriers between your pool and your home like locks and alarms plus a fence. She says an adult water watcher should be tapped to watch children at all times with no distractions, since drownings are often silent and occur within seconds. South Florida leads the state in a state that leads the country in the number of drownings that occur in children under the age of 5.