Category: Safety
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It’s Never Too Late To Learn To Swim
See Keloland Sioux Falls City pools will be opening to the public this Memorial Day weekend. But not everyone will be ready. According to a new study from the Red Cross, many adults don’t know basic swimming skills and that could be dangerous. Of the adults who know how to swim, only 56 percent can…
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Swimming pools: how do you know they’re safe?
See WNCT With warmer weather arriving, many people across the East will be heading to pools. But how do you know they’re safe to swim in. Keith Jernigan is with the Craven County Health Department. He says this time of the year is extremely busy as seasonal pools ask to be inspected so they can…
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Swimmer “on her last legs” dramatically rescued by RNLI
Read Plymouth Herald A swimmer “on her last legs” was dramatically rescued by lifeguards this afternoon. The exhausted woman was heard screaing for help after she got into difficulty off Tregonhawke beach in Whitsand Bay at around noon. RNLI lifeguards patrolling the beach and the Looe lifeboat crew quickly sprung into action. […] “As I…
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55-year-old dies while swimming to boat floating away from shore
Read channel3000 A 55-year-old man drowned in Lake Camelot when he jumped in the water and tried to swim after his pontoon boat that was floating away from shore, police said. The Rome Police Department responded to the Lake Camelot Property Owner’s Association boat landing in the 300 block of Eighth Avenue for a report…
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Many swimmers come up short in water-safety skills
Read USA Today and see NBC Only 56% of adults who say they can swim can perform five critical water-safety skills that could save their lives, according to a new American Red Cross survey. (video autoplays, therefore pushed below the break)
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Swim coach Joseph Michael Diaz arrested again as more victims step forward
Read Alachua Today As the investigation of a High Springs Community School behavioral resource teacher for kindergarten through fourth grade and part-time swim coach continues, investigators have determined that seven young boys so far have fallen prey to sexual overtures by their coach. More victims have been rumored, but Gainesville Police Department (GPD) investigators will…
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Thai fisherman rescued by Malaysian oil rig worker after seven-hour swim
See malaymailonline A Thai fisherman was rescued by a Malaysian oil rig worker following a seven-hour swim after falling off a boat early on Saturday morning. The man fell into the water around 130 kilometres off the coast of Kuala Terengganu in northern Malaysia. The victim, identified as Tok Saphon Samechit, 32, is believed to…
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Dad charged with abuse after throwing toddler into pool to teach her a lesson
Read for instance news.com.au A father has been charged with child abuse after he chucked his two-year-old daughter into a swimming pool to teach her a lesson. Corey McCarthy’s actions were picked by a surveillance camera at the pool inPhoenix, Arizona, reported AZFamily.com. McCarthy reportedly told police that he threw his daughter Mia into the pool…
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Black Kids Can’t Swim, But It’s Not Because They’re Black
Read RYOT Swimming pools are a much greater danger to black children and teens than they are to other kids, a new government study shows. Black children ages 5 to 19 drown in swimming pools at a rate more than five times that of white children, the research found. That suggests a lot of blacks…