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  • Eamon Sullivan targeting Rio Olympics

    Eamon Sullivan targeting Rio Olympics

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    See news.com.au Eamon Sullivan aims to have one last crack at Olympic gold at 2016 Rio Olympics before he calls it quits, with the three-time Olympian currently preparing for the Glasgow Commonwealth games.

  • Chronic pain sufferer Katie Pumphrey completes 15-mile open water swim

    Chronic pain sufferer Katie Pumphrey completes 15-mile open water swim

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    See The Washington Post For the ensuing eight hours and 45 minutes, Pumphrey, 26, would fight fatigue and nausea in the water, pain in her back and, perhaps most difficult, the mental strain of trying to propel herself across the river and back. When she finished, she said, she stood on the beach and cried.…

  • Learning To Swim

    Learning To Swim

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    See keloland.com The Elmen Center offers the “Learn to Swim” program for children. While they have spots available for the sessions, enrollment has been steady with families wanting to teach their children how to swim. “We have parents call all the time — especially in the summer — just so their kids can learn the…

  • Learning to Swim Can Save A Life

    Learning to Swim Can Save A Life

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    See WALB10 With summer here, more of us are looking to cool off by getting in the water. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta says minorities are most at risk for drowning. One Albany group is helping to bridge that gap by teaching all kids how to swim. Drowning is the number one cause…

  • Why You Don’t Shoot the Wedding Party on a Flimsy Dock

    Why You Don’t Shoot the Wedding Party on a Flimsy Dock

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    See PetaPixel Consider this a friendly reminder for any wedding photographers who haven’t already heard it or maybe even forgot the tip when we shared it almost exactly a year ago. http://youtu.be/oaHi82yRjaw

  • Gator found in Gulfport Swimming Pool

    Gator found in Gulfport Swimming Pool

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    See wjtv.com A Gulfport resident got a big surprise in backyard on Monday when she found a gator in her swimming pool. Officials say the 5-foot-alligator that took up a residence in a backyard swimming pool is on its way to a new home and Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks officials plucked it from the water.…

  • Baton Rouge YMCA offering free swimming lessons

    Baton Rouge YMCA offering free swimming lessons

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    See WAFB Swimming lessons have started at the YMCA off Howell Road. Head Start kids were learning the basics. The first lesson was jumping in the pool. What’s unique about this swim program is it’s free. The program is fully funded by Exxon Mobil. Executive Director Ron Smith said these are very important lessons for…

  • Deputy recovering after swimming out into surf to save teen

    Deputy recovering after swimming out into surf to save teen

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    Read kval.com A sheriff’s deputy who swam out into the surf to help a 14-year-old boy caught in a rip current was in critical condition after 45 minutes in the water but is expected to recover, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office said. “He basically saved that boy’s life,” Sheriff John Bishop told the Curry Coastal Pilot…

  • John Cheever Reads “The Swimmer,” His Famous Short Story (1977)

    John Cheever Reads “The Swimmer,” His Famous Short Story (1977)

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    See Open Culture The Stories of John Cheever, a collection of 61 stories chronicling the lives of “the greatest generation,” was first published in 1978 with much fanfare. The critics liked it. The weighty, 700-page book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979. The people liked it too. […] The collection features some of Cheever’s best-known stories: “The…