Category: Safety
-
Aquatic Therapy for Children on the Autism Spectrum, Customer Testimonial Texas Swim Academy
Texas Swim Academy is an infant, child and adult swim lesson facility. The academy strives to introduce children to water at an early age through infant aquatics, and to fully develop their swim stroke abilities through adulthood through stroke development. Children are taught life saving swim safety skills and have the option to prepare for…
-
Racine crews rescue teens stuck on floating ice
Rescue crews from Racine responded to Lake Michigan after two men called saying they were floating away on a piece of ice.
-
GB Farallon Swim: Extreme sea survival training at the RNLI
The Great British Farallon team are taught to respect the water by the experts at the RNLI.
-
-
Danes find half of kids can’t swim, launch major learn-to-swim campaign
The Danish Swimming Federation today announced the results of a nationwide survey, revealing among other things that despite of 91% of adult Danes saying that swimming ability is important or highly important, every third adult and half of kids aged 7-14 cannot complete 200 meters, Â which is the Nordic definition of swimming ability. – We…
-
Teenager dies while free diving in Queensland
A teenager has drowned off the coast of Moreton Island while free diving. The 19-year-old man was with a group of friends who tried desperately to rescue their unconscious mate. The man’s body was ferried to shore on a water police vessel. “It’s a tragic time for the boys involved and their families. They’ve lost…
-
Nature Watch: Shallow water blackout poses a danger to swimmers
One reason for my love of underwater swimming was my failure on the surface. My college roommate, Cromwell Anderson, was captain of the swim team, but I was simply a flop at the crawl or backstroke. I could, however, swim farther underwater than he could. I was able to make it twice the length of…
-
Teen Swimming in Sweatpants Drowns in Apartment Complex Pool
A 17-year-old boy who had been swimming in an apartment complex’s Olympic-size indoor pool while wearing sweatpants drowned on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Ibrahim Iqbal, of New York City, had been swimming for some time in the pool at the Crystal Village Apartments in Attleboro, where he had been staying with relatives, and his cousin was…
-
Statue planned for Newport Beach lifeguard who died rescuing swimmer
A life-size statue commemorating fallen lifeguard Ben Carlson could soon be keeping watch over the Newport Beach coastline. City leaders, along with members of the Ben Carlson Memorial and Scholarship Foundation, are currently determining whether the Newport Pier or the Balboa Pier will be home to a 9-foot tall sculpture of the late lifeguard. The…