Category: Safety
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Michael Phelps teaches Valley kids to swim
The most decorated Olympian is on a mission to get kids swimming. He says the main issue is making sure the kids aren’t scared of the water.
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Learning How to Swim as an Adult
Are you an adult that can’t swim but want to learn? Water…you waiting for?!
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Start To Talk
Sexual abuse happens in sport too. It is hard for children to talk. Video clip to call public authorities and the sport movement to give children a voice and stop child sexual abuse in sport. Produced by the Council of Europe with the support of the European Union in the framework of ProSafeSport . starttotalk.org
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Mosul girls learn to swim a year after city’s liberation from IS group
It’s been just over a year since the Iraqi city of Mosul was liberated from the Islamic State group. Some 870,000 people have since returned to their hometown in a bid to rebuild their lives. Some are doing things that would have been unimaginable a year ago. One of them is Omar Ibrahim, a swimming…
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Man drowns in pool trying to teach himself to swim: Peel police
Peel Regional police say a man has drowned at his apartment building pool in Mississauga, Ont., while teaching himself to swim. A police spokesperson told Global News officers were called to Queen Frederica Drive with reports of a drowning around 4 p.m. The spokesperson said paramedics transported a 29-year-old man to hospital, where he was pronounced…
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Woman survives 10 hours in open water after cruise ship fall
A British woman fell from the deck of a cruise ship and spent a harrowing 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia before being rescued on Saturday.
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Man who tried to save swimmers speaks out
One person died and another person is in critical condition after they got caught in a rip current in Seabrook.
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Never too late to learn how to swim
A ceremony celebrating a very special accomplishment: dozens of people in our area are now going to be safer around water because now.. they can swim!