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Otter Sports Lab: play as you learn

Swimming lessons in Singapore

Goggles on. Big breath. Go.

Otter Sports Lab is Coach Lee's swim school. Your child builds water confidence, works through the SwimSafer stages and can go on to train with the OSL Swimming team.

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Five OSL swimmers in black and yellow team tees with their coach at the poolside, goggles pushed up, one giving a thumbs up.
After class, team tees on.

What your child learns

Children learn fastest when they are enjoying themselves. So skills arrive through games, challenges and plenty of time in the water.

  • Learn to swim

    Water confidence

    Getting in and out safely, breathing, floating and moving through the water. First skills arrive through play, at your child's pace.

  • SwimSafer

    SwimSafer certification

    Every swimmer works toward the next SwimSafer stage, from Stage 1 to Gold. Each stage marks real water safety and swimming skills.

  • OSL Swimming

    Stroke development and squad

    Stronger, tidier strokes for swimmers who want more, coached by a trained competitive swimming teacher. Squad swimmers wear the orange tee.

Six stages, one lane at a time

SwimSafer is Singapore's national water safety programme, led by Sport Singapore. Children work through six stages, and each one is assessed before the next begins.

  1. Stage 1

    Introduction to water skills

    Confidence and independence in the water: safe entries and exits, and moving forwards and backwards.

  2. Stage 2

    Fundamental water skills

    Stepping in unassisted, sculling and feet-first surface dives. The goal is 25 metres without stopping.

  3. Stage 3

    Personal and stroke developmental skills

    Personal survival and basic rescue skills, with strokes taking shape. The goal is 50 metres without stopping.

  4. Bronze

    Personal water survival and stroke improvement

    Stronger stroke technique and coordinated breathing in deep water, over 100 metres.

  5. Silver

    Intermediate water survival and stroke refinement

    The fundamentals of diving, more advanced survival and rescue skills, and efficient strokes over 200 metres.

  6. Gold

    Advanced water survival and swimming proficiency

    Smooth, powerful strokes over 400 metres, a standing dive and lifesaving readiness.

Not sure where your child fits? Tell Coach Lee what they can do in the water today.

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OSL swimmers in black and yellow team tees standing at the pool edge with their coach kneeling beside them.
The OSL Swimming team at the poolside.

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Meet Coach Lee

Coach Lee has been a registered swimming coach in Singapore since 2009, and has led Otter Sports Lab as Head Coach since 2019.

Coach Lee trained as a teacher of swimming, water safety and competitive strokes with two aims: to keep children safe in the water, and to nurture the swimmers of tomorrow.

  1. 2009

    National Registry of Coaches

    Registered with CoachSG, Sport Singapore.

  2. 2019

    Head Coach, Otter Sports Lab

    Leading OSL lessons and the OSL Swimming team.

  3. 2021

    American Swimming Coaches Association

    Coach with ASCA.

  4. 2025

    Singapore Aquatics

    Member and coach.

  • AUSTSWIM-trained teacher of swimming, water safety and competitive strokes
  • Head Coach, Daryl Peterson International

At the pool

Real OSL swimmers at real sessions. Wet hair, goggles up, big smiles.

  • Four OSL swimmers in team tees smiling and making peace signs beside the pool.
  • Squad swimmers in orange tees with a coach in the white coach tee, pool behind.
  • Squad swimmers in orange tees crowd into a selfie, one giving a salute.
  • Squad swimmers in orange tees wave at the camera in a poolside selfie with their coach.
  • Young squad swimmers in orange tees with goggles on, grinning at the camera.
  • Three squad swimmers in orange tees and goggles in front of the pool.
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