Year: 2014
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Bergen Swim Festival 23 – 25 May 2014
“Scandinavia’s Coolest Swim Meet“, still short course meters in Sentralbadet in Bergen, Norway. This year featuring Daniel Gyurta and Katinka Hosszu (HUN), Cameron van der Burgh (RSA), Rikke Møller Pedersen and Jeanette Ottesen (DEN), Jennie Johansson and Simon Sjödin (SWE), Pál Joensen (FAR) and others. Invitation, Schedule, Start Lists and Live Timing on medley.no
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Watch This Guy Swim And Feed And Even Mouth-Feed Gators
See Wide Open Spaces Uploaded to Facebook by a person who was on the tour, this video shows the bravery (or insanity) of this gentleman who, for some reason, seems to look at ease with this gigantic predatory reptiles. We’d never make assumptions about someone’s mental capacity, but we’d also never get into the water…
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Survey Finds Half Of Americans Can’t Swim
See NBC News Red Cross survey finds half of Americans can’t swim well enough to get out of a body of water if they find themselves in over their head. Erika Edwards reports.
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It’s Never Too Late To Learn To Swim
See Keloland Sioux Falls City pools will be opening to the public this Memorial Day weekend. But not everyone will be ready. According to a new study from the Red Cross, many adults don’t know basic swimming skills and that could be dangerous. Of the adults who know how to swim, only 56 percent can…
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Swimming pools: how do you know they’re safe?
See WNCT With warmer weather arriving, many people across the East will be heading to pools. But how do you know they’re safe to swim in. Keith Jernigan is with the Craven County Health Department. He says this time of the year is extremely busy as seasonal pools ask to be inspected so they can…
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Swimmer “on her last legs” dramatically rescued by RNLI
Read Plymouth Herald A swimmer “on her last legs” was dramatically rescued by lifeguards this afternoon. The exhausted woman was heard screaing for help after she got into difficulty off Tregonhawke beach in Whitsand Bay at around noon. RNLI lifeguards patrolling the beach and the Looe lifeboat crew quickly sprung into action. […] “As I…
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FINA Swimming World Cup 2014 Series to use the Backstroke Start Device
Memo from FINA Due to the fact that this device will be available in the end of May 2014 only and, in order to ensure that a maximum number of swimmers have access to it for testing and practising, under the supervision of the FINA TSC Delegate present at the event, the FINA TSC Commission…
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55-year-old dies while swimming to boat floating away from shore
Read channel3000 A 55-year-old man drowned in Lake Camelot when he jumped in the water and tried to swim after his pontoon boat that was floating away from shore, police said. The Rome Police Department responded to the Lake Camelot Property Owner’s Association boat landing in the 300 block of Eighth Avenue for a report…
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Many swimmers come up short in water-safety skills
Read USA Today and see NBC Only 56% of adults who say they can swim can perform five critical water-safety skills that could save their lives, according to a new American Red Cross survey. (video autoplays, therefore pushed below the break)