A Times dispatch from East Hampton about a surfing rabbi includes the following passage:
Marilyn Milanaik, a member of the Hampton Synagogue, the only Orthodox congregation in the area, looked to the Torah for guidance. "It says in the Torah that children must know how to swim. It's a paraphrase for knowing how to save your own life," she said.
The passage is inaccurate in at least two respects. First, there's another Orthodox synagogue out there, Chabad Lubavitch of the Hamptons. Second, it doesn't say in the Torah that children must know how to swim. The passage that Ms. Milanaik is reaching for is almost certainly not from the Torah, but from the Talmud, Kiddushin 29a, which says that a father much teach his son Torah, teach him a craft or a trade, "and there are some who say he must also teach him how to swim." It's the Talmud not the Torah, and it's not "children must know how to swim," but just reporting an additional opinion: "there are some who say he must also teach him how to swim."
Update: A reader-watchdog-community member-content co-creator-participant points out that the Talmud is also known as the oral Torah, so that may be why Ms. Milanaik used the word Torah. But it's still a leap over the distinction from "there are some who say" to "it says...that children must."