A video that's gone viral over the Internet showing a baby paddling its way out of danger in a pool has parents around the country clamoring to know more.

In Colorado, the need for water safety training is great, with drowning among the top 5 causes of accidental deaths for kids.

KKTV 11 News Anchor Shannon Brinias recently attended several sessions to find out how the Infant Swimming Resource program prevents child drownings.

At the Highlands Ranch Eastridge Recreation Facility, you can spot children as young as one-year-old floating on their own in the water. While sceptics might wonder how kids so young can be taught such skills, they are living examples of infant swim success.

Kids under age 3 floating in 4 feet of water, water that to an untrained child, would almost certainly be dangerous, potentially deadly.

Parent Traci Danna first enrolled her daughters after a pool scare on a trip to Florida. Danna says, “The best intentions, you turn around for just a second and they're out of your sight and you don't know what happened.”

Her 16-month old daughter, Milana's enrolled. Her teacher guides her in the signature moves, of flipping, and back-floating, that are part of this innovative program.

Instructor Jan Orwick has been teaching the techniques for 18 years. Explains Orwick, “Even though kids might cry and complain initially, once they become skilled, there's no reason to complain, the emotions calm down, and they love to swim and float.”

Orwick says it's all to do with sensory motor skills. Just as toddlers learn to walk and run, Orwick says kids as young as 6-months-old can be taught to do this.

She says, “It takes a lot to keep children safe in the environment. This is just one additional layer of protection we can give children. “

With a ten-minute lesson, held every day for 6 weeks, toddlers are taught through repetition to float on their backs for just a few seconds, long enough to breath, flipping over only to look and reach for the edge and safety. Air is their reward and reinforcement.

Lamont Dailey’s son, Tiernan, is in the program. He says, “The first time he got into the water he was scared, but now he's a little swimmer. He knows how to float he knows how to look for the wall or the corner.”

Instructors thought through the most minute detail of this program, from the length of time the children are in the water, to the fact that they go in often in clothing, to more closely mirror what they'll experience in real life. Even transitions at the pool's edge are straight into towels and parents' hugs.

Parent Kristin Haas says, “My biggest concern was making sure (daughter) Addison was safe. " Haas weighed the pros and cons of this course, against more traditional swimming classes, in preparation for a lake vacation.

Explains Haas, “At the beginning it was definitely about survival… You want to feel like you're always there with them, but there are always those moments that you turn your head.”

Instructors say the more these kids learn, the more what they're doing becomes all about swimming, not just surviving.

Since its inception in the 1960's, thousands of youngsters have graduated an ISR course, and hundreds have rescued themselves from water accidents in documented cases. Orwick says no graduate has drowned.

Currently, the closest classes to Colorado Springs are offered in Highlands Ranch. But on the ISR website, parents can sign up to be on a waiting list, that might help to bring a certified instructor to Southern Colorado.

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