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See Bloomberg TV Vilebrequin’s Brian Lange discusses the company’s premium men’s swimwear with Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.”

Read SwimmingWorld The American distance star just keeps on dropping jaws as NCAP’s Katie Ledecky smashed her own world record in the women’s 1500-meter free with a sizzling time of 15:34.23. Ledecky’s effort crushed her previous mark of 15:36.53 set at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, and provides a potentially scary time to come this summer as she starts to hit her taper meets. Katie Ledecky set new world record in 1500 Free! 15:34.23 #TWSTInvite14 pic.twitter.com/X47wlHEs3o— Woodlands Swimming (@swimTWST) June 19, 2014

See WALB Emergency workers says it’s never too early to teach children how to swim. Parents should also learn basic swimming safety so they can protect their kids. WALB.com, Albany News, Weather, Sports

See Local12 It’s been a mission Barbara Jeff has been on for three years: making sure children learn to swim and that money won’t be a barrier in getting them lessons. Her two boys, Cameron and Bryce, drowned in 2011 in a neighbor’s pool. Sadly, Barbara has learned since then nine children drown every day in the U.S. and a surprising number don’t know how to swim. She says, “And also, I know there’s a lot of children who have the misconception of thinking they can swim because they can get in the water but can’t swim in deep water.”

See ABC News The six-time Olympic Gold medalist swimmer who severed her spinal cord in an ATV crash says the surgeon told her to say her goodbyes to her husband after the crash. “There’s a good chance I wasn’t going to make it out of surgery,” Amy Van Dyken-Rouen said Wednesday. “I looked at my husband and basically said, ‘I love you, goodbye, please continue on with your life.’” Her husband, former Denver Broncos punter Tom Rouen, said her injuries were so severe that he was telling her to go on, if she needed to. “She was saying, ‘Hey, if…

See THV11 A fun day in the water with friends turned deadly for a Saline County teenager. It’s the second drowning involving a teen this week in Arkansas. Authorities said 18-year old Michael Ryan Baker was swimming when he went underwater and never re-surfaced. As the days grow hotter, so does the popularity of cooling off in the Saline River. For Benton resident Joey Stone it’s an opportunity he says to spend quality time with his daughter. “Tons and tons of people come here.” (video autoplays, therefore pushed below the break)

Read WLRN Florida has the highest rate of drowning in the country and for those younger than 4, water is the No. 1 killer aside from birth defects. But the danger is not spread equally among all children. Overall, black kids drown at a much higher rate than other children. But among the youngest group of kids — younger than school age — whites and Hispanics fare worse. It’s around the 4 or 5 years old when those tides turn and black kids drown at about three times the rate of other children. The theory is white and Hispanic children…

Read The Guardian The jagged form of the Shard, western Europe’s tallest building, is set to compete with the piscene curves of the London Olympics swimming pool for the title of best British architecture for 2014. Both structures have been selected on the longlist for the Stirling prize, the £20,000 annual gong awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba). Photo by 準建築人手札網站 Forgemind ArchiMedia Featured photo by Images George Rex

See SwimmingWorld While lying on a stretcher just a few feet from the airplane set to transport her to Craig Hospital in Colorado, Van Dyken said her memory of the day she was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Show Low, Ariz., is very fuzzy. Most of what she knows was described to her after the fact. She described the feeling of losing bits that day like “I had a girls’ night out,” but continually expressed gratitude for being alive. http://youtu.be/-Z3VB5BMgAg

See The San Francisco Globe What’s there not to love? Natural clean water, hand built, and so much cheaper than a traditional swimming pool. http://youtu.be/7JoQthEBl6U