Category: Safety
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Austrian swimming pool off-limits to ‘unaccompanied refugees’ amid child rape outrage
The alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by an Iraqi refugee in Vienna has sparked mixed reactions: while locals feel unsafe and blame the government, pro-immigration campaigners claim such cases should not be the basis for “general mistrust.†After the boy was allegedly brutally raped in southwestern Vienna by a 20-year-old refugee in the…
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Dirigo Stories: Classmates help immigrant students learn to swim
On a cold day in Portland, the water’s warm at the YMCA. It’s great news for the group of Casco Bay High School students taking their swim test. “Swimming is a life skill. It’s a life-saving skill, and it’s essential,” said Grant Gerber, a junior on the swim team at Husson University. Gerber returned to…
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Swimming Education In Finland in the 1960s
Filmed by my father, Bengt Lagus in the 1960´s, I have edited the material. The water temperature was something between 15-18 degrees Celsius this day and it felt really cold for the children, also the air temperature was below 20 C.. The swimming “school” was in Luvia (Verkkoranta) Finland. I have also in the early…
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Cullen Jones and the cultural barriers preventing minorities from the sport of swimming
Four-time Olympic Medalist and USA Swimming Foundation Ambassador, Cullen Jones, discusses the cultural barriers that influence the lack of African-American involvement in the sport of swimming. He shares his thoughts on the evolution of the sport and the necessary steps to make the sport more inclusive.
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Tragedy on the water at Raglan
Tributes are flowing for a teenager who tragically died after jumping from a bridge – and popular swimming spot – in Raglan today. The 16-year-old, who is yet to be named by authorities, was among a group of teenagers jumping from Te Kopua Bridge. Friends and family members have begun paying tribute to the young…
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Leopard enters Bengaluru school, swimming pool, injures six
A suburban school in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru had an unexpected visit from a male leopard on Sunday morning. Since it was a holiday, there were no children in the school, but the ten-hour-long effort to capture the animal left six people injured. Read Mashable https://youtu.be/qCc4TUy51T0
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Iraqi refugee ‘raped 10-year-old boy at Austrian swimming pool’
A 10-year-old boy has been raped at a public swimming pool in Vienna, according to local media reports. Local newspaper Kronen Zeitung described the assailant as a 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was arrested at the scene of the incident in late December. It was reported that the child was taken to hospital for treatment over “severe” injuries. Austrian…
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Plano inventor dreams of stopping drownings with drones over troubled water
Sporting bare feet and a shiny necktie, Rujing Tang sat in his dining room and wandered back in time. When he was 10, about the age of his fresh-faced fifth-grade daughter, one of his childhood friends went out to swim in a small river in his birthplace of Shanghai. He never came back. That haunting…
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Matt Welsh, Austswim urge water safety education this summer
Paramedics treated nine people in one day last week for swimming-related injuries, including one near drowning in the Yarra River. According to Ambulance Victoria four adults, four teenagers and a child were taken to hospital after separate incidents at various beaches and the Yarra on Sunday, January 17. The incidents follow a warning from peak…