Category: Safety
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Swim instructors prepare for summer of teaching
See KTTC School may be out for summer, but for many children and teens there are more lessons to learn in the pool. Participants in the Water Safety Instructor class at Rochester Recreation Center are completing a six month course in water safety and instruction. The student instructors are diving in to the fundamentals of…
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Shreveport swimmer nearly drowns, sparks pool safety awareness
See KSLA After a Shreveport teenager almost drowned this past weekend, The Swim School in Shreveport-Bossier City offered some safety tips to make sure summer fun is also safe. Facility Manager Elaine Durbin said the first thing to remember is something simple but important. “You definitely need to enroll in swim lessons for sure,” she…
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Lake Superior Swimming Risky as Beach House Opens
See WDIO A beautiful day across the Northland Tuesday, but down by Lake Superior a cool breeze is fueled by even cooler water. It’s creating dangerous conditions for swimmers. “Hypothermia is a big risk,” Cheryl Vander Heyden, with the Duluth YMCA, said. “It’s always a risk in Lake Superior because it never gets very warm,…
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Swimming pool crash suspect may have been drunk at the time
See WFSB A man police said was behind the wheel of a serious crash that ended in a swimming pool in Ledyard had a blood alcohol level almost four times the legal limit. Police said 25-year-old Marcus Harvin, of New Britain, was charged in the Memorial Day weekend crash where he was driving down Route…
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Pools can be silent killer for kids
See WRDW YMCA Aquatics Director Chris Pinto says that it only takes 10 to 20 seconds for a child to get in trouble in the water. “When you’re not 100 percent vigilant on your swimmers, then they need to get out of the pool and wait for you to get back,” Pinto said. Chris says…
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People Still Swimming Despite Sharks
See WKRG A rare double flag warning is up near Alabama Point at Orange Beach for a dangerously high volume of sharks in the area, but that hasn’t stopped people from swimming.
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With last words, man tells wife ‘swim’
See woodtv.com The wife of a man who died after going under the water in a northern Kent County lake said that in his final moments, he urged her to swim to safety. Charles Cooley and his wife Deborah often spent their weekends on the water in the Chain Lakes in Oakfield Township, southwest of…
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Local swim programs combat drowning statistics
See WDBJ7 The Virginia Gators Swim Club wants to remind parents how important it is to teach their children how to swim, after startling drowning statistics were released. Every day, about 10 people die from unintentional drowning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Out of those deaths, two are children. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo…
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Woman dies after being pulled from waters near ‘Spitting Caves’ in East Oahu, Hawaii
See KHON2 and KITV A Sunday afternoon turned tragic at a popular spot in East Oahu. Emergency officials responded to a swimmer in distress at “Spitting Caves†just before 2 p.m. “A female in the water that had difficulty in the water. Two of her friends went in to try to assist her and unfortunately,…