Month: July 2020
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22-year-old man dead after drowning in Catawba River
Police say the victim was swimming with another person when he went under and never came back up.
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Rescuers Recover Body Of Man Who Drowned At Bear Lake
A difficult time for a Logan family as deputies in Bear Lake County announced they recovered the body of a missing 27-year-old man.
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19-year-old visiting from Mississippi drowned helping 2 children at McKinley Beach
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office and family on Sunday, July 19 identified a 19-year-old man who drowned in Lake Michigan Saturday night while trying to save two children. Family said Jvarius Bankhead was in town from Mississippi to visit his father, and a trip to the beach turned tragic. See FOX6
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Grand Haven police chief on search for missing swimmer
Police in Grand Haven give details after a 14-year-old boy went missing while swimming in Lake Michigan Sunday.
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Turtle Island and back in a day: swimmer sets new record
Lin Chia-he, an endurance swimmer, completed the first single-day round-trip Turtle Island swim. From Yilan”s Wushih Harbor to the shores of Turtle Island and back is roughly 20 kilometers and takes a motorized boat about one hour. The feat took nearly 13 hours in the water with only a 40 minute rest on the island.
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Alligator Attacks Kayaker
While kayaking on the Waccamaw River in North Carolina, Peter Joyce was suddenly charged by a submerged alligator. At the 0:50 mark in the above video, the gator rammed the kayak and flipped Joyce over for a few seconds before he was able to right himself. See Neatorama
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Why do rescue efforts end in tragedy for swimmers?
Most adults who drown in open water “knew how to swim and exceeded or overestimated their swimming abilities,” said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which recently reported an upsurge of deaths at lake and river projects managed by the agency. “Most people learn to swim in a pool where they can easily reach the…