Author: rokur

We take the bikes, meet up with friends and dive into the Danube in Vienna. https://youtu.be/kLdUUYxxDIw

First responders from across the country came to Houston to help rescue people from rising floodwaters, including a coast guard team from Massachusetts involved in one of the most dramatic stories from the storm. One rescue swimmer said he’ll never forget a woman giving him a Tupperware container. He thought it was luggage and told her the chopper couldn’t carry it, but he couldn’t believe what happened next. “She was like, ‘My baby’s in there!’ The top was snapped down, so I didn’t know what she was talking about. I said ‘What are you talking about?’ So I opened it…

The National leader says he would swim in the river, one of the South Island’s largest. Ian Telfer went to check it out. https://youtu.be/3397UdUf0dU

Nova Scotia may be known as Canada’s Ocean Playground, but the moniker hardly applies to Halifax harbour. Almost 10 years after the city spent $333 million to clean up its massive, infamously polluted harbour, the two public beaches near its downtown remain strangely quiet — even on hot, sunny days. Despite monitoring that shows the crystal-clear saltwater is fit to swim in, the city decided this year not to post lifeguards at the Black Rock and Dingle beaches, saying there were so few swimmers last year it didn’t make sense to hire rescuers. “There hasn’t been an appetite for swimming,”…

Marine Officers work to protect swimmers and boaters on Labor Day. https://youtu.be/GY2xlDaq9iQ

On September 16, 2017 the swimming community of the tri-state area will come together again at Belmar Beach, NJ in the largest open swim on the New Jersey Coast to honor the memory of a fellow swimmer, The College of New Jersey’s Michael Heaney and support victims of Traumatic Brain Injury by swimming 1500 Meters for Mike. https://youtu.be/jd8taIzexec

Snorkelers in Belize flock to a shark and stingray sanctuary called Shark Ray Alley. They are given the rare opportunity to swim among a large group of hungry nurse sharks. These 10 foot beasts appear ferocious but they are really gentle and curious and they will allow swimmers to join them as they compete for scraps of fish that are dropped from the boat. Although they are capable of biting, like any shark, their mouths are not designed for the same kind of flesh ripping and tearing as some of their more aggressive cousins. These sharks have skin that feels…

‘Official video report from the fourth stage of X-Waters – the international open water swimming series.’ https://youtu.be/T51MSmgmS5s

Lightning concerns cancel rec swim at Paul Nelson Aquatic Center https://youtu.be/JZHTlR2gMjE

Keeping young children away from perceived risky activities such as wild outdoor swimming is damaging, according to education expert Dr Sandra Leaton Gray (UCL Institute of Education). Writing in her book ‘Invisibly Blighted: the digital erosion of childhood’ Leaton Gray says, “Heavily supervised young children of today may simply be more likely to drown as youths because they don’t go swimming very often and their water safety awareness is low, compared to that of children who swim frequently under less supervision.” There were 17 deaths by drowning of young people aged 10 to 19 in outside waters (including lakes, ponds…