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  • Swimmer’s Ear

    Swimmer’s Ear

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    “Swimmers ear is an infection of your ear canal. Not using q tips and keeping your ear canal dry can help prevent these infections. Do not put things in your delicate ear canal that will strip out the protective wax.”

  • Public swimming pools just as dirty as Lake Erie

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    See wkyc The Centers for Disease Control tested a number of public pools and found that 58 percent were positive for E. coli, bacteria normally found in the human gut and feces. Other bacteria that can cause skin rashes was found in 59 percent. Pools don’t put up signs warning of water advisories. Lake Erie’s…

  • Jenna hits up swim class with Dara Torres

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    See Today “Doctors say that swimming is one of the best forms of exercise that women can do while they’re pregnant, but as Jenna found out, sometimes the stakes can be pretty high in those prenatal swimming classes. The solution? A private refresher course with Olympian Dara Torres. TODAY’s Jenna Wolfe reports.” Visit NBCNews.com for…

  • CPR is now simply Hands Only to the beat of ‘Staying Alive’

    CPR is now simply Hands Only to the beat of ‘Staying Alive’

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    See for instance the American Heart Association and the British Heart Foundation. We have posted the Vinnie Jones video before, but it is definitely worth a re-share. And there are other examples And you know what? - It might even work ! A grandfather who suffered a massive heart attack on a bus has told how he…

  • Learn to Swim as an Adult

    Learn to Swim as an Adult

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    Atlanta Swimming very own Matt Murphy and Friend of Atlanta Swimming Brenda Tran sat down with Tacoma Perry of Fox 5 Atlanta to talk about why it is never to late for every adult to learn to swim.

  • Record Day for Swim Across America

    Record Day for Swim Across America

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    See It’s Relevant Saturday marked seven years for Swim Across America’s Stamford swim — and lucky seven it was. Saturday the swim set a new bar, raising over $475,000 for cancer research. “[We’re swimming for] good friends — one who passed away, and another who has cancer,” said Ed Linekin of Ridgefield.

  • Adults find out it’s never too late to learn how to swim

    Adults find out it’s never too late to learn how to swim

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    Read Lancaster Online Wanda Gregg is 56 years old, and she is learning how to swim. The Lancaster woman never learned the skill as a kid. Now she has two grandsons and she wants to be able to be in the pool with them. “We started with breathing, blowing bubbles — the basic stuff. That’s…

  • Toxic ‘Blue Lagoon’ quarry pool dyed black to deter swimmers

    Toxic ‘Blue Lagoon’ quarry pool dyed black to deter swimmers

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    Read for instance MailOnline, Derby Telegraph, BBC A pool at a disused Derbyshire quarry, known locally as the Blue Lagoon, has been dyed black in a bid to deter people from swimming in it. Despite the water at the quarry at Harpur Hill, near Buxton, having a pH level of 11.3 dozens of people still swim there.…

  • Study shows Swimming Kids are Smarter Kids

    Study shows Swimming Kids are Smarter Kids

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    See Swim Australia and Griffith University Griffith Institute for Educational Research, recently revealed children who had learned how to swim from a young age, reached many developmental milestones earlier than other children the same age, who had not. Some of these milestones included visual-motor skills such as cutting paper, colouring-in and drawing lines and shapes;…