Category: Safety
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‘Don’t Stop Believin” Motivates 3 Men To Swim To Shore After Boat Capsizes In Hawaii
Last Sunday night, a powerful wave capsized Zack Romanak’s boat off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Romanak, his 10-year-old son Noah, and Brad Warren, a tourist from California they had met earlier that day, clung to the boat for nearly four hours in dark waters. The impact of the wave had snapped…
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Dr. Rhonda Milner on Preventing Shallow Water Blackout
In this video interview from last week’s American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic, Milner talked about the tragic death of her son from shallow water blackout that prompted her to createShallowWaterBlackoutPrevention.org to educate people on the dangers of hypoxic training and why many don’t often see the danger until it’s too late. See SwimmingWorld
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Woman sexually abused by swim coach Chris Huott as a child speaks out
A 2013 sex abuse case involving a D.C.-area swim coach triggered something in Danielle Bostick. It brought back memories of the pain she suffered at the hands of a man who coached her at Fairland Aquatics Center decades ago; she could no longer keep it all in. In 1984, Bostick was a 7-year-old swimmer in…
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Shark attack kills British expat at popular Australia beach
Paul Wilcox, a 50-year-old British expatriate, was killed by a shark during a beach swim in Australia at Byron Bay, the popular tourist destination in Australia, while his wife looked on from the shore. The Warwickshire-born former IT worker had gone for a mid-morning swim in gentle clear surf and was not far from the…
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Swimming now barred where Oregon family drowned
The area of an Oregon lake where four members of a family drowned last month has been closed to swimming for the rest of the year. Washington County sheriff’s deputies put crime-scene tape along that dangerous spot of Henry Hagg Lake on Monday, and temporary signs are being posted by the Parks Department. The action…
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Swimmer dies after Waikiki Roughwater Swim; other man collapses
A man who was hospitalized after nearly drowning in the 45th annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim event has died. Race director Kaia Hedlund tells KHON a lifeguard spotted the 49-year-old unresponsive in the water at Kaimana Beach just before 10 a.m. Monday. He was brought back to shore where CPR was administered until paramedics arrived. Hedlund…
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Pennsylvania Boy Killed by Lightning Strike While Swimming
A teenage boy was killed and another boy was injured by lightning strikes in Pennsylvania on Sunday night, according to officials. The boys were swimming with a third boy in a creek in Lancaster County when they were struck, according to LancasterOnline. The boys were transferred to the hospital, but one did not survive. Source…
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A Liquid Fear – New Yorker Faces His Aquaphobia, One Stroke at a Time
On the morning before he was to report to the pool, Attis Clopton sat in a storefront breakfast spot near his Brooklyn apartment munching a glazed doughnut. He was worrying. It was a glorious day, blue sky and hot. The kind when they say the only sensible place to be is in the water. But,…
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9-year-old boy fights off alligator while swimming in Florida
A young boy who survived a terrifying gator attack is now talking about that ordeal. James Barney, 9, was still recovering from surgery when he was wheeled into a news conference at Orlando’s Arnold Palmer Hospital. “It was a pretty big tooth,” he said. “They said the alligator was about 9 foot.” See 7online.com