Month: June 2020
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Body Recovered After Swimmer Goes Missing In Delanco, New Jersey
The man’s identity has not been released.
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Dramatic video shows West Haven police officers diving into L.I. Sound to rescue swimmer
The officers didn’t want their names released, because they were ‘just doing their job’ and ‘any one of them would have done the same thing.’
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Demand For Backyard Swimming Pools Leads To Backlog, Shortages
Some states are now allowing public pools to reopen, but many people dove into buying pools for their homes during stay-at-home orders. The rush of orders for backyard pools when the pandemic hit led to backlog. The Donohoe family in New York got a new pool finished just in time for the hot weather. Anne…
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Twin Falls man missing after plans to swim near Pillar Falls
A Twin Falls man well known in the local BASE jumping community has gone missing, friends say. Austin Carey was last seen Thursday afternoon. Friends said he was planning to swim across the Snake River near Pillar Falls. Search and rescue searched the area above and in the canyon. Searchers have asked that no one…
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Teen suffers shark bite swimming on the Outer Banks
A 16-year-old boy suffered a non-life-threatening injury Thursday from a shark off Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The bite occurred about 4 p.m. Local authorities notified Cape Hatteras National Seashore park rangers that the teen from Oak Ridge, N.C. was being treated at a medical facility in Nags Head for an…
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Record-breaking Masters swimmer Gina Heyn’s lockdown training
Record-breaking Masters swimmer Gina Heyn has revealed how a 10kg bag of rice has helped her keep fit during lockdown.
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Illinois Swimming and Diving Gets Creative With Training
With public swimming pools closed during the pandemic, Illinois swimmers are getting creative with their training. Under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan, public pools won’t be open until Phase Four, so in the meantime, the Illini have turned to alternatives for their off-season training.
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2020 Midwinter subzero swim
After weeks of living without the sun, expeditioners at Australia’s Antarctic stations are celebrating midwinter’s day with a subzero swim through a hole cut in the sea ice! Brrrrr!!!