Category: Safety
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Swim Smart – Labor’s plan to keep our kids safe in the water
Learning to swim is an important life skill. Only a Shorten Labor Government will make sure kids have access to swimming and water safety lessons in primary school with our $46m Swim Smart program. https://youtu.be/s3wGkjEIfwg
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Crews rescue swimmer from high surf in Encinitas
Despite a break between storms, dangerous surf conditions continue through the day in San Diego.
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How Migrants Learn to Love the Sea They Once Feared
In Messina, a seaside town in Sicily, Italy, water is a constant companion and a way of life. But for the thousands of migrants who arrive from Africa and the Middle East by boat, the sea is a perilous means to an end and a villain who has taken lives right before their eyes. To…
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Surfers Save Swimmers In Distress At Marin County Beach
A couple were struggling in a rip current at Rodeo Beach in Marin County when a pair of good Samaritan surfers sprang into action. Emily Turner reports. (1/7/19)
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Ian Thorpe was groomed to be a champion… but not at swimming
I don’t understand the title, but the message is strong :-) “Keep an eye on them.”
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Israeli AI Device ‘Watches’ Swimming Pools to Prevent Drowning Accidents
As winter gradually gives way to spring in the coming months, Israeli families with private swimming pools will slowly start dreaming of enjoying a refreshing splash once again. While for the vast majority, pools provide a way to cool off from the summer sun, 2018 was overshadowed by the tragic increase of children and adults who…
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Family keep vigil as police call off shoreline search for teen swimmer at dangerous Auckland beach
Police have called off their second day of searching the shoreline for a 16-year-old who is believed to have drowned yesterday at a West Auckland beach where his family was camping. https://youtu.be/CHI5nUL8UmQ
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These children have to travel by plane to get to their swimming lessons
Three children have to take a flight from a remote Scottish island so they can learn to swim. Freyja Parnaby, six, Grace Parnaby, nine, and Lewis Wright-Stanners, nine, regularly travel from the Fair Isle to Shetland for their lessons. Each time they face the potential that their flight home may be cancelled due to adverse weather,…
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Apple Watch saves the life of woman trapped in a submerged car
A 20-year-old Florida woman discovered the health benefits of owning an Apple Watch when it indirectly saved her life as her flipped car was filling with water. Amanda Antonio told first responders in Hillsborough County, Fla., that she used her Apple Watch to locate her iPhone to call 9-1-1 after her car rolled in a…