Category: Life Saving
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The Queen Recounts Her Own Experience of Being Awarded Life Saving Honour
The Queen has recollected becoming the first young person in the Commonwealth to receive a junior lifesaving award from the Royal Life Saving Society.
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ILS Welcomes UN Resolution on Drowning Prevention
The first-ever United Nations (UN) Resolution on Global Drowning Prevention (A/75/L.76) has been passed at the UN General Assembly’s 75th Seventy-fifth session on Wednesday 28th April. This is a historic occasion and a sign that the UN is deeply concerned that drowning has been the cause of over 2.5 million preventable deaths in the past…
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Rainbow Sea Swim Challenge 2021
Organized by Rainbow Swimming, in partnership with Sri Lanka Life Saving, the event was held on the 13th of March at the Sri Lanka Life Saving Head Office in Mount Lavinia.
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Rip Currents │ Swim Between The Flags | Water Safety Ireland
Rip currents generally emerge in an area of darker water. Often the surface of the water is unsettled and if there are waves, they will be breaking on either side, but not directly in the rip. People can be swept out to sea extremely quickly in a rip current and will quickly find themselves out…
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A Gold Coast Lifesaver’s Been Charged With Rape | 7NEWS
A Gold Coast lifesaver’s been charged with rape. The 22-year-old is accused of assaulting a 21-year-old woman last September.
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IlS Reschedules 2020 Lifesaving World Championships to 2022, Elective General Assembly to 2021
Following the decision on 19 March 2020 to postpone LWC2020 due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the ILS has discussed alternative solutions with the Italian Lifesaving Federation (FIN) and with the host of the LWC 2022. Both agreed with the proposed plan, which is to move the LWC 2020 to 2022, to keep the LWC…
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ILS Postpones 2020 Lifesaving World Championship (LWC) until 2021 or 2022
The ILS has considered the worsening position in Italy, Europe and around the world which has deepened considerably in recent days. In the interests of the health and well-being of all participants of our events, the ILS has decided that the Lifesaving World Championships 2020 will not take place in September 2020 and will be postponed until…
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