Category: Safety
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3rd Grade swimmer suffers from stroke
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32-year-old Nicholas Mevoli dies in Bahamas free diving contest
Read for instance AP and AIDA‘s statement: It is with great sadness that I inform you that Nicholas Mevoli, of the United States, passed away today after a dive at the 2013 Vertical Blue Competition. Nick had performed a constant weight no fins dive to 72m, reached depth, and swam back to the surface successfully.…
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How (Not) to Empty a Portable Swimming Pool
Whoops http://youtu.be/t91KoQzAky4 You might remember this one also http://youtu.be/Ts8zOtdcAWk
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Swimmer rescued off Beverly’s Mingo Beach
A swimmer, who was treading water off the coast of Beverly for more than an hour, was rescued Sunday morning.
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CC photo #677: Lifeguard test
Yesterday. Me about to try that manual inline stabilization rescue technique with neck and chin support, see for instance American Red Cross. Daughters in the background. We passed, hope to never need this stuff.
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Kiwi swim scheme makes waves
Read The New Zealand Herald Thousands of Auckland children are becoming more confident in the water, thanks to a city-wide project teaching them how to swim. The Greater Auckland Aquatic Action Plan has had up to 60,000 children from around the region taking up swimming lessons in the past two years. Up to 200 primary…
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Scottish swimming instructor Craig Brown secretly filmed women
Read BBC A swimming instructor has been found guilty of secretly filming women in schools and leisure centres across eastern Scotland. 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. Sentence…
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Man who jumped into freezing cold sea ‘probably saved by beers’
Oh no, crazy British news that will probably make a lot of us drink beer, ‘just in case’ A man left close to death after leaping from the Herne Bay pier into the sea may have been saved by the eight beers he drank before jumping. He and a pal stripped to their underwear and…
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Swimmer Died After Being Trapped At Tilly Whim Caves
Read BBC A woman has died after becoming trapped in a sea cave off the Dorset coast. A coastguard rescue team was called to Tilly Whim Caves in Durlston, near Swanage, on Saturday afternoon, after a man swimming with her raised the alarm. He was winched to safety but the woman, aged 30, had become…