Category: Safety
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UCSB Student Dies During Swim Practice at Santa Barbara High School
Read Santa Barbara Independent and see KEYT Nicholas Johnson, a 19-year-old UCSB freshman athlete, was swimming laps at the time during a joint practice with the high school’s swim team. It’s unclear what caused Johnson to lose consciousness, and police and coroner’s officials say they continue to investigate the incident.
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Preparing Your Child to Swim Safe this Summer
See kiiitv.com Accidents are the leading cause of death in children under the age of 14, and each year, nearly 1,000 of those deaths around the country are due to drowning. Most of those drownings happen at the family pool. KiiiTV.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend
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Missing Castaic Boy Found in Swimming Pool; Pronounced Dead
See KTLA A 4-year-old boy died after walking away from his home and being found in a pool in Castaic on Friday afternoon, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Rick Chambers reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on Friday, March 21, 2014. (video autoplays, therefore pushed below the break)
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IU football player Isaac Griffith walks for first time since swimming incident
See The Indy Channel Isaac Griffith has walked for the first time since being swept away by a rip current at Siesta Beach near Sarasota. Doctors also moved him out of the intensive care unit Friday. The Indiana University football player was on spring break when currents swept him into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.…
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Indiana Hoosiers’ Isaac Griffith in coma after swim accident
See ESPN Indiana wide receiver Isaac Griffith is in a medically-induced coma following a swimming accidenton Monday in Florida. Griffith’s father, Shannon, the football coach at Division III Manchester University,tweeted Tuesday morning that his son remains in critical condition after an incident involving a rip current. Isaac Griffith is on a ventilator to “allow his lungs to heal,” according…
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Bodyboarder injured when dolphin hit him ‘like a bulldozer’
Read The Australian and see 7News The 27-year-old man was surfing at Bawley Point, 250 kilometres south of Sydney, when the collision occurred. “He has come over a wave and as he did so, a dolphin has come through and hit him in the pelvic area,’’ New South Wales Ambulance duty operations manager Wayne Dunlop…
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London Bridge suicide jumper rescue saves second man from drowning
See London24, via Arbroath A man threatening to leap into the Thames from London Bridge last night inadvertently saved a stranger from drowning. Lifeboat crew were called out around 11pm yesterday evening, and were stood down when police on the bridge talked down the distressed man. 1) 23:00 called to London Bridge to reports of…
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Swimming Saves Lives Foundation Announces ‘Adult Learn-to-Swim Month’
See USMS According to the Centers for Disease Control, 37 percent of American adults can’t swim the length of a pool, which puts them at risk of being one of the 10 people who drown every day in the United States. The Swimming Saves Lives Foundation, U.S. Masters Swimming’s charitable arm, has declared the month…
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Learning to Swim at UCSB
Santa Barbara-area third-graders learn to swim, and learn a lot about a college education, in an annual session sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Early Academic Outreach Program. Learning to Swim at UCSB from UC Santa Barbara on Vimeo.