Category: Safety
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Brave Swede Water Rescues Cat Stuck Under Ferry
Read The Local The cat had got stuck under the HSC Gotlandia II, which operates in Visby on the island of Gotland, and the crew were spurred into action after hearing strange noises coming from the vessel. “We heard the cat meowing when we were getting on to work, it had probably fallen into the…
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Midmar Mile swimmer drowned
Read iol A post-mortem carried out on Midmar Mile swimmer Herman “Thabo†van Straten, who died competing in the race on February 8, has shown he drowned. Police spokesman Captain Lolly Moodley said on Thursday there were no injuries to his body. Van Straten, a 43-year-old businessman from Joburg, disappeared while swimming in the race’s…
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Texas firefighters rescue escaped bull from swimming pool
A team of firefighters have rescued a bull from a swimming pool in Texas after it escaped from a local ranch. The bull wandered into the back garden of a residential home in San Antonio and fell backwards into a covered swimming pool. Members of the San Antonio Fire Department and Animal Control were on…
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Sports Illustrated Model Chrissy Teigen Reveals She Can’t Swim
See MailOnline She has just landed the highly prestigious cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. But Chrissy Teigen has revealed she is no natural bikini model – as she can’t even swim. ‘Well I can’t swim and I actually hate sand,’ she tells chatshow host Bethenny Frankel on Tuesday’s edition of her show.
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Morocco-Spain Border Incident Leaves 15 Dead As Police Fire Rubber Bullets At Swimmers
Read for instance Reuters Spain said on Thursday border police had fired rubber bullets in an attempt to turn back around 200 migrants who tried to cross the frontier between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave Ceuta on February 6. Several migrants from the group drowned in the Mediterranean trying to swim around a man-made breakwater…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Ad Says Don’t Wait Too Long
I say “you go, big boy !!” :-) BCBS Swimming 30 from Colin Quinn on Vimeo.
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Rebecca Adlington: Why are we closing swimming pools?
Read BBC As British swimmers leapt from the London 2012 starting blocks, they should have been doing so in full confidence. But their performance was one of the few lowlights of 2012, with the team securing three medals instead of UK Sport’s target of at least five. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves,”…
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Swim program helps children with special needs
On Saturday mornings, the swimming pool at the France A. Cordova Recreational Center splashes with the sound of children learning to swim, but that sound also helps parents with children in the Special Needs Aquatic Program breathe a sigh of relief.
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Body of missing Boynton Beach swimmer found, identified as Billy Jeudi, 23
See WPTV The body of the swimmer that went missing on Thursday morning near Boynton Beach Inlet has been found and identified, says Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The body of Billy Jeudi, 23, was found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway along the 7000 block of Dixie Highway and Hypoluxo…