Category: Safety
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Game On! Vegas: Four swimmers, friends share a life-saving moment
Friends being at the right place, at the right time. The four swimmers used their skills to help a man that almost fell to his death. The close friendships, kinship, have a strong bond that will carry for a long time.
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Ghanaian footballer drowns and dies in Denmark
Ghanaian young striker Adom Ibrahim, 20, has been confirmed dead in Denmark after drowning in a swimming pool. Ibrahim who joined Hobro IK from third-tier Accra Sporting Club in January on a three-year deal was found unconscious in a swimming pool on Monday. Accra Sporting Club President Fiifi Parker Hanson is quoted by Mohammed Hafiz…
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Web Extra: Pandemic Drowning Concerns
With many families spending more time at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics is concerned there will be an increase in child drownings. Here are some tips to keep kids safe around water. See CBS Miami
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Swim Ireland Drowning Prevention Week | Be a Lifesaver – Help Your Child Learn to Swim
This doesn’t have to be you. Help your child Learn to Swim. Be a Lifesaver. Our Learn to Swim programme will empower and inspire your child to challenge themselves on their own personal journey of learning to swim. So if you want to be a lifesaver and give your child the gift of learning to…
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Local fire departments see increase in drownings, distress swimmer calls by the Potomac River
An increase in drownings in the Potomac River has led local fire departments to remind swimmers that it is not only dangerous but illegal to swim in certain areas. D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Vito Maggiolo said with pools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, more people are going to the river for a…
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Two Men Who Died While Swimming At Lake Pueblo Were Ft Carson Soldiers
The Pueblo County Coroner confirmed the identity of two men who died Friday at Lake Pueblo. The bodies of Zion Thomkins of Philadelphia and Michael Carter, hometown unspecified, were recovered by search crews about three hours after the first call to 9-1-1. Both men were 21 years of age. Read CBS Local https://youtu.be/hdQAO88cODk
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Hunt down sharks to protect surfers? The dilemma facing France’s Reunion Island
It is a sobering statistic: eleven deaths at sea in ten years. Along the coastline of France’s Reunion Island, surfers, but also swimmers, are regularly attacked and sometimes killed by sharks. For the island paradise, it’s a problem that’s causing major concern for the surfing community and the tourism sector. Our reporters Clovis Casali and Julien Sauvaget…