Category: Safety

It’s been a month since a cellphone with videos of students changing was found in the locker room of the women’s swimming and diving team at Towson University, and members of the team are upset that the university still hasn’t given them an explanation of the situation. https://youtu.be/ENjP8iRcwU4

Towson University pulls out from an upcoming swim meet amid anger over a recording device found in a locker room. The cell phone was discovered last month by members of the women’s swim team. At least 10 women were in the Burdick Hall locker room when a cell phone was discovered, allegedly recording the athletes…

Life took this Spanish sailor in a different direction than planned, but it put him in a position to serve his country and save lives in the process. Now he is serving as part of Trident Juncture, the largest NATO exercise since 2002.

How to save yourself from drowning: Amazing video shows marine turning his TROUSERS into a life-jacket. https://youtu.be/6tKI5RTr6M8

Wearing a life jacket is important even if you’re a strong a swimmer. Rivers aren’t as smooth like most boaters think. As friends go out on a raft for a fun adventure on the river, they suddenly find themselves in the cold, frigid, rough waters. The raft flips over and tragically, they lose a friend…

Two Tel Aviv residents were rushed to Ichilov’s emergency room earlier this week after a swim in one the city’s beaches left them with a serious infection in their legs and bloodstreams – which tests later revealed was caused by a type of bacteria found on fish scales. The swimmers claim they were bitten by…

Brampton is becoming the first municipality in Canada to offer Swim to Survive 14+ – a free, three-lesson drowning prevention program for local adults and teens that could save their lives. The program offers three one-hour lessons that will teach adults and teens how to survive an accidental fall into water. It will be offered…

The Honolulu Fire Dept. reports that a visitor died after being found in waters off Spitting Caves. The call came in at 2:51 p.m. Saturday of a swimmer in distress. Five males went swimming and one of them was having trouble in the water. The 21-year-old man from Washington state apparently was underwater for more than a…

A man swimming near the shores of Hawaii has shared a seemingly miraculous story of survival, detailing his fight against a shark that attacked him over the weekend, and the extreme lengths to which he went in order to survive. Tony Lee was swimming off the coast of Lanikai when he encountered the shark last…