Category: Safety
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Crews recover body of missing swimmer
The day’s major news events, business reports, sports updates, Charleston area weather information and tomorrow’s forecast are presented by the News 2 Team.
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Local swim school is now offering free virtual swim lessons
As temperatures heat up and summer swim lessons and public pools get canceled until further notice, a local swim school is offering free virtual swim lessons.
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Sew others may live: Coast Guard swimmers makes masks for healthcare workers
Rescue Swimmers at Sector North Bend wear two hats as helicopter rescue swimmers and survival technicians. But even with multiple hats, Ansley says there’s a lesser-known skill every Rescue Swimmer in the Coast Guard has. “We have 13 swimmers here and along with that, we have some sewing skills that we’ve been taught and we…
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Gulf Coast State College Aquatics Center tips on learning how to swim
Coordinator of Aquatics Carl Kleinschmidt and Aquatics Specialist Sharon T. Yarbrough go over tips for learning how to swim.
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Missing 18-year-old swimmer’s body found in Guadalupe River
The body of a swimmer missing in the Guadalupe River was recovered Thursday morning. The swimmer was identified as Adrian Mares.
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Woman drowns after petting alligator
The AP’s Jeffrey Collins reports a story that gets stranger with each sentence: a woman in South Carolina who was doing someone’s nails, went outside after spotting an alligator, petted it, then got pulled into the water and drowned while saying “I guess I won’t do this again.†Read BoingBoing
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Untold Story Of Armenian Swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan
In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian swimmer, had just completed a 12-mile run with his brother when they saw a trolley bus crash into a dam reservoir. The trolley bus sank 80 feet offshore at a depth of 33 feet. Shavarsh immediately dove in and swam to the bus and despite zero visibility, managed to…
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Crews Recover Swimmer’s Body After Not Resurfacing From Water at Muleshoe Bend Park | Kvue
ATCEMS said it responded to 0 Muleshoe Bend Dr., where it was initially reported an adult was swimming, went underwater and did not resurface.