Category: Safety
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Swimming instructor Craig Brown two years in jail for filming women
Read for instance BBC Craig Brown, 31, also admitted having child pornography at his Dundee home. Brown admitted using his mobile phone to covertly take pictures and make videos of unsuspecting women in at least five locations. Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Brown he had committed a “significant breach of trust” and jailed him for two…
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Some Competitors Say Freediving Needs A Safety Sea Change
Read and listen to NPR Free-divers, who take a breath, swim as deep into the ocean as possible and then come back up, come to Dahab from across the world to compete. But a diver’s death in November has raised questions about the safety of the sport, with some divers saying too little has been…
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Children evacuated from swimming pool after prosthetic leg mistaken for paedophile
Read The Independent An entire class of children was evacuated from a swimming pool after a prosthetic leg was mistaken for a paedophile. Teachers from Kings Hill Primary School in Kent spotted the leg poking out from a cubicle whilst taking their class of year 4 children swimming at Larkfield Leisure Centre. They believed it…
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Chicago Park District Dec. 2013: Learn to Swim
The Chicago Park District is expanding opportunities for Chicago children to learn to swim. In addition to increasing Sunday hours at select pool locations, the District will offer the first ten-week session of instruction free for children, ages 6 to 17 at pools citywide. Beginning Dec. 2, patrons registering for the winter 2014 session can…
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“This Baby’s Going To Be An Olympic Champion”
Just you wait until she can climb up on the start block herself Video text hints that this is a girl named Arabel at the Aura Keskus waterpark in Tartu, Estonia. http://youtu.be/ie3ZSrggJ9A
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Becky’s SwimStars vision!
Take a look at the video to see Becky’s insight into the SwimStars programme and to see what some of our Syon Park SwimStars think of the programme! Becky’s SwimStars vision! from Total Swimming on Vimeo.
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Amazing video shows underwater rescue of Nigerian cook Harrison Okene
See for instance The Daily Caller, and the story from back in June A new video on LiveLeak.com shows the amazing underwater rescue of a Nigerian man stuck nearly three days in an air pocket 100 feet underneath the Atlantic Ocean. Harrison Okene was on a tugboat off the Nigerian coast last June when a heavy…
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Teaching a Syrian Warlord to Swim
See The Daily Beast Photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie, who was recently held captive in Syria for 81 days, recounts the surreal story of being forced to teach a Hawaiian swimsuit-clad local militia leader how to swim. ‘I was holding him like a baby for an hour,’ says Alpeyrie, ‘but by the end he could swim.’ http://youtu.be/XHsOrE2Ossg