Year: 2015
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Body found during search for missing swimmer near blowhole
Honolulu fire rescue crews recovered a body Tuesday morning after resuming their search for a teen missing near the Halona Blowhole. The medical examiner identified the body as 19-year-old Tajhee Williams of Port Jervis, New York. See KITV
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Man spends US$2 million on luxury swimming pool, gains new friends
The pool in question is called “The Mountain” and it cost US$2 million (NZ$3.17 million) to construct. This man-made aquatic paradise in Springville, Utah, has a grand total of five waterfalls. Here you can not only swim and jump off the mountain top (with a backflip, if you’re game) but you can also scuba dive,…
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Ike Papke’s attempt to swim from the Faralleon Islands to San Francisco
Ike Papke’s attempt to swim from the Faralleon Islands to San Francisco in 1966.
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Bosom Buddies underwater dart tournament
A local family wants help raising awareness to fight breast cancer. They’re looking for people to play darts the weekend of Sept. 25. But there’s a catch, people have to play darts underwater as part of a tournament. It’s at central coast dive over the weekend and people can still sign up. They don’t even…
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Stanford Women’s Swimming – Maui 2015 Pre-season Training Camp
Highlight video of our Pre-season training/bonding trip to Maui. Video credits to the one and only Lia Neal. Check out our preseason video courtesy of @LiaNeal #Maui2015 https://t.co/qa9ssw0DdX — Stanford W. Swimming (@stanfordwswim) September 23, 2015
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Rio 2016 urges NOCs to seek “non-traditional” accommodation as shortage looms
Rio 2016 have urged National Olympic Committees to seek “non-traditional” forms of accommodation during next year’s Olympics and Paralympics, such as rented apartments through their partnership with Airbnb. […] Speaking to delegates during last week’s OCA General Assembly in Ashgabat, Rio 2016 NOC Relations Department continental manager for Asia and Oceania Sarah Paterson admitted there…
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Swim in College: Watch Your Social Media
Former college swimmer Kaitlin Frehling has an important message for you wannabe college athletes – watch your social media posting!
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Canton’s Allison Schmitt speaks candidly about post-Olympic depression
Michigan’s own Allison Schmitt is known as the swimmer with a smile, the happy one by the pool. The Olympic freestyler will tell you now that the smile was real, but she was also secretly struggling. Schmitt won five Olympic medals during the 2012 summer games in London. Three were gold medals in the 200-meter freestyle race,…
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Raleigh company creates technology to guard against drownings
A Triangle company that guards against drownings is making a big splash as the summer comes to an end. SEAL Innovation, Inc., a company we previewed in a “What’s Next†segment two years ago, just received word the YMCA in Raleigh will be using their SwimSafe technology. “The problem is people don’t know their child…