Author: rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

This past June, the Beautiful Destinations team ventured to Iceland and met up with the inspirational Kiki Bosch. We followed her through the frozen waters of the Glacier Lagoon, capturing her emotions, and learning the importance of determination. She openly and courageously discussed past trauma and how she learned to reconnect with herself through free diving in extreme conditions. https://youtu.be/muEMtIdhIv8

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Meet Olive and her mom Karen, as they tell us the story of Olive learning to swim here at the YMCA. Every year thousands of kids learn how to be safe around the water and avoid the tragedy of drowning with the help of our Y swim instructors. Check us out at ymcafoothills.org/swim-lessons https://youtu.be/6qtjctXokY4

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A woman who suffered a spinal injury as a teen received a multi-million-dollar award in a case revisiting the decades-old debate about starting blocks and water depth. It also serves as a wake-up call to those who own aging facilities, reminding them that grandfather clauses might not hold up in court. In October, jurors held the University of Regina, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, negligent in a diving accident that rendered Miranda Biletski paraplegic. She was 16 at the time and an aspiring Olympic swimmer. She trained with the Regina Piranhas Swim Club, which rented the pool from the…

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