Month: September 2019
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Lily Mae Avant, 10, Contracts Brain-Eating Amoeba After Swim In Brazos River
Days after swimming in the Brazos River and contracting a brain-eating amoeba, a Central Texas girl is battling for her life.
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Woman’s 50-foot waterfall plunge caught on camera
Heather Friesen, 26, fell more than 50 feet down a waterfall in Hawaii and suffered a collapsed lung, ten broken ribs and a fractured scapula.
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Endurance athlete attempts to swim between Caribbean islands
Endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy will attempt an unprecedented 150km swim from Barbados to St Lucia on Friday in an effort to complete the longest ocean swim in history. The attempt, which is dependent on ocean currents and the weather, has been hastily arranged after he had to abandon a planned 166km swim from Cuba to…
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Bhopal: Boat capsizes during Ganesh immersion, 11 dead
In a freak accident, at least 11 people drowned when a boat capsized during Ganesh immersion on the Khatlapura ghat in Bhopal on Friday morning. Officials said that 5 people were rescued. The incident happened around 4:30 am on Friday. Professional swimmers and State Disaster Relief Force personnel were deployed in the rescue operation. Chief…