Category: Safety
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Shallow Water Blackout PSA Featuring Bob Bowman and Michael Phelps
In this PSA, Bob Bowman, CEO/Head Coach of North Baltimore Aquatic Club, discusses the very serious topic of Shallow Water Blackout. Even experienced athletes can become a victim of this tragic phenomenon where oxygen is deprived from a swimmer’s system during practice which can lead to drowning. This PSA can help to prepare even highly…
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Swim safely this summer
Laurie Lawrence goes through the five rules for safe swimming as Summer begins. http://youtu.be/JO50QpmWgV8
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How dangerous is sea swimming in cold weather?
On Christmas Day 1885 a few hardy souls hobbled across Brighton’s pebbly beach and into the chilly English Channel. That first Brighton Christmas Day swim has become a much-copied ritual around the world. But this year it’s been called off. And it seems unlikely the event, which has always been run by the Brighton Swimming…
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Brighton Christmas Day Swim called off amid fears for tipsy swimmers
The Christmas Day swim on Brighton beach, a tradition for 150 years, is cancelled over health and safety fears. A traditional Christmas Day swim on Brighton beach has been cancelled over health and safety fears, following increasing levels of drunkenness in recent years. In the past, the “Santa swim†has been called off due to…
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Missy Franklin Learning to Swim – Touch The Wall
In anticipation of the film’s opening at the Starz Denver Film Festival tomorrow, Touch The Wall has released this clip of the movie where D.A. and Dick Franklin talk about Missy Franklin learning to swim during her early development as a swimmer. The footage includes a lot of home movie clips, showing that Missy was…
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Holyoke swim coach accused of rape, petition reveals nation-wide abuse
A Westfield mother is taking her daughter’s story of rape public. Monica Strzempko’s daughter, Anna, alleges she was raped for two and a half years at the hands of a local swim coach. But Anna’s story of alleged sexual abuse is just part of what appears to be a nation-wide problem in the world of…
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Primary schools that fail to teach pupils to swim ‘should be named and shamed’
Campaigners have called on Ofsted to name and shame primary schools that fail to teach pupils to swim after figures showed almost half leave at 11 without being able to complete a length in the pool. Under the national curriculum, schools are required to teach pupils to swim confidently over a distance of at least…
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Cyprus beach tragedy: Tourist ‘suffers fatal heart attack’ while giving CPR to swimmer
Two British tourists have died in Cyprus after one of them got into trouble in the sea and the other dived in to help. Police said Harry Bernard, 61, from London, jumped into the water in Paphos to help Christine Sugarhood, 66. After pulling her out and performing CPR, Mr Bernard suffered a suspected heart…
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Swimmer survives surfing on dead whale surrounded by hungry sharks
A swimmer in Australia pulled off an incredibly dangerous stunt involving the floating carcass of a dead whale and two hungry great white sharks, and lived to tell the tale. A 26-year-old man risked his life by jumping into the water and climbing on the whale while two sharks were gorging themselves on its flesh.…