become triathletes,” said Ann Svenson, registrar for the Adirondack Masters. Author and producer Laughlin's first book “Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster and Easier”, was published in 1996 by Simon & Schuster, and has sold more than 275,000 copies as an e-book and trade paperback. Trainer Christopher Drozd described the book as "gold" in a review at SportFit.com, "Just as there is more to weightlifting than pushing some iron from point A to point B, swimming is a subtle and complex endeavor. A potentially dry (no pun intended) subject – learning to swim – becomes an entertaining journey through hydrodynamics and physics. Laughlin also authored "Extraordinary Swimming For Every Body - a Total Immersion instructional", "Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming", "Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Any Swimmer to Achieve Fluency, Ease, and Speed in Any Stroke" and "Swimming Made Easy". He also produced numerous instructional videos, swimming in many of them. His most popular video "Total Immersion Freestyle Swimming Demonstration" has accumulated more than 2.2 million YouTube views. "He was on a mission to change how swimming was taught all over the globe – the business was a byproduct of that passion. Terry stood tall in stature and influence, and to some he appeared larger than life. But those who knew him well were struck by his child-like curiosity about the world, and the optimism with which he confronted life’s challenges and rewards," wrote Laughlin's friend and business associate Keith Woodburn. Death Before prostate cancer claimed him at age 66, Laughlin was swimming better than he had ever done before, winning championships and setting records. According to his blog, he completed a Corsica-to-Sardinia swim of nearly ten miles in four hours, 31 minutes, with two friends in 2015. “After living with metastatic prostate cancer for two years (about which he blogged widely), Terry passed away on Friday, October 20th, 2017, of complications related to his condition. He displayed his characteristic optimism, wit, and passion for life—and swimming—until the very end," wrote his wife Alice and daughters Fiona, Carrie and Betsy, in a news release carried by Slow Twitch.com. Following his death The Economist wrote that Terry Laughlin's Total Immersion "has become a bestselling book, a much-watched series of videos, a coaching business and a catchphrase among hydrophiles the world over. It turned even the most