Category: Safety
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Like Water: Why Lifeguards in Hawaii Shouldn’t Be Sued for Saving Your Life – The Inertia
The Hawaiian lifeguards risk their lives every day to save ours. It’s about time we return the favor. Watch The Inertia’s new film made in partnership with OluKai, Like Water. Starring Mark Healey, Brian Keaulana, Mark Cunningham, Archie Kalepa, and Hawaii’s elite waterman, Like Water pays homage to the bravery of the Hawaiian lifeguards despite…
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Baby Otter Swim School offers 5-day program in effort to eliminate child drownings
Baby Otter Swim School is a traveling swim program providing services to prevent child drowning.
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Pastors learn to swim for good cause
Nearly 80 percent of children in low-income households, either don’t know how to swim or can’t swim very well.
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10 Places You Should Never Ever Swim
If there’s a river or a lake near your house, then you probably know that certain places aren’t suitable for you to swim. Well, for example, if there are some hidden rocks or, according to some legend, a terrible monster. But there are places where not only you’re not supposed to swim, but you shouldn’t…
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Atlanta Swim 1922 Clinic with Lia Neal
Lia Neal shares her experience from the Swim 1922 Clinic that took place as part of the TYR Pro Swim Series at Atlanta.
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We Should Have Seen the USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Allegations Coming
As someone who competed for 11 years at the national level, I can tell you that as much as I loved swimming, I also hated it. Nearly every coach I came across with a reputation for being one of the best was also incredibly mean. Not just “makes you swim hard†mean, but yelling, cursing,…
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Top USA Swimming officials under fire for alleged culture of abuse
Top USA Swimming officials are under fire for what critics say was a culture of sexual abuse that was allowed to persist for decades unchecked. A stunning new investigative report first published in the Orange County Register found that since 1997, more than 250 coaches and officials were either arrested, charged or disciplined by USA…
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An Indiana program is teaching kids to swim safely in Vietnam: BTN LiveBIG
Despite an abundance of waterways, Vietnam has the world’s 2nd highest rate of youth drowning. To help reverse this trend, Indiana University’s Aquatic Institute has partnered with Swim for Life Vietnam to teach the basics of swimming and water safety to over 72,000 children and instructors across the nation.
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Young Athletes Accuse USA Swimming Coaches Of Sexual Harrassment
Young athletes of USA swim team claim they were preyed upon by trusted members of their teams. Katie Neilsen tells us one of the accused is from Los Gatos.